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mircea_popescu: wouldn'
t make anyone too interested in programming would it
nubbins`: well, wimpy kids watching cartoons don'
t want the mean guy to win, y'know?
mircea_popescu: i get it, the socialist mind wants this to be the case. yet... shiut doesn'
t work that way.
mircea_popescu: don'
t tell me you're a fan of the cartoon dorkage of the 80s
nubbins`: so shady they don'
t wear sunblock on hot days
nubbins`: but that aside, i can'
t see myself running a free-for-all forum
nubbins`: i'd be nervous with 100btc on a DICE SITE even if it wasn'
t down
ThickAsThieves: "I don'
t want the next big job creating discovery, the research and technology, to be in Germany, or China, or Japan," the president said
nubbins`: not being american nor a stock broker, can'
t say that i have
mircea_popescu: the notion that the imperial household is in any way limited wasn'
t doing too well over there anyway.
ThickAsThieves: "OK guys, everyone processed these stellar news? Let's be optimistic that the driest patch is over, esp. communications-wise. Keep in mind though, the dividends won'
t rise until April and there still may be weeks of silence where friedcat fixes the last problems"
mircea_popescu: the part dealing with why technology can'
t help the police)
mircea_popescu: tho it's a huge task, you can'
t even read all the deluge of today
davout: wouldn'
t "forecasting" be a better match?
mircea_popescu: if you don'
t have the greenest grass wtf are you doing
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves it gets way better. "They're not hidden, they're on a shelf. Obviously you're going to say my design isn'
t very good so you can justify charging to redesign it. Everyone who has seen the current brochure has said it is amazing. Ive got a degree in fine arts and I've done an advanced course in Adobe. I probably know more indesign than you do. Art is subjective. I branded it to appeal to our customers, the
ozbot: "Dropshadows lift the type off the page as if they are 3D. You probably don'
t even know how to do th
mircea_popescu: if you can'
t wait a week or w/e it takes pay someone who already did it, if you don'
t like paying wait, whatevs.
mircea_popescu: as presented your statement readily reduces to "that which people do which isn'
t reducible to our own idiocy and our own idiocy don'
t mix", which further reduces to nonA is disjunct from A. which it is. whoop.
mircea_popescu: herbijudlestoids you don'
t need a mpex acct to read the feed im sure.
BingoBoingo: I'm starting to get kind of interesting in this idea of poaching talent from places that aren'
t East St Louis.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I guess I'll practice this salesmanship thing. Shame I couldn'
t be practicing it at this new work circus. I mean seriously public speaking and reading shit verbatim?
mircea_popescu: so he wouldn'
t work for me because whatever, nor for anyone else for entirely different reasons.
mircea_popescu: truffles no, make them an effort they certainly can'
t refuse, but won'
t.
mircea_popescu: no, that's the beauty of it. i won'
t need a joe pesci.
mircea_popescu: so that this thing may ruin the faces and lives of people i don'
t like.
mircea_popescu: because i don'
t wish to destroy, i wish to exist. bitcoin is essential to this, and so here i am doing things i don'
t particularly wish to do on their own,
mircea_popescu: because i'd have to have a bank do it for me, and i'd have to impose they interface btc, which they don;'
t wish to do etc.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves yes, but i can'
t do that while random fuckwits keep smoking pot and getting arrested.
mircea_popescu: i don'
t have a book. anyone has/knows someone with a large old style book ?
mircea_popescu: bitbet actually PAYS 100 dollars for every bet made, yet people don'
t make sports bets.
mircea_popescu: hft bots aren'
t a magic amulet, like "bitcoin makes me anon so i can buy drugz"
Duffer1: i wouldn'
t know, just a thought ^.^
Duffer1: bets not being created doesn'
t necessarily mean lack of interest in betting with bitcoin, if there was a specific section dedicated to live odds sports book it just might attract more people
mircea_popescu: however, it may also be that SPORTS BETTING isn'
t central. or in other words : the focus on advertising, scandal and bullshit, as wel las changing social mores and expectations have pretty much killed that model.
mircea_popescu: the obvious explanation, and perhaps the likely one, is that bitbet just isn'
t particularly central in the betting space.
BingoBoingo: I am sad to announce that I don'
t want to bet on this superbowl. When the most interesting player is the fucking underdog's cornerback... I'm out.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Basically some group had a religious objection to a form (they were nuns) . They pretested the need to complete the form in court. The court said well, you don'
t need to do that form, but you can fill out this identical form we imagineered or produce your own identical form. (the form relating to some Obamacar Birth Control thing)
mircea_popescu: are they saying "we don'
t have to sign something we don'
t want to sign because jesus" ? is it mopre like "we don'
t want to say anything definite about abortion in writing because we can'
t grok the consequences" ?
mircea_popescu: i mean... i don'
t get it, i consider myself educated and so forth but i can'
t come to a conclusion
punkman: you could take a vinyl body suit and cut some holes, wouldn'
t be very comfortable to tan in
mircea_popescu: and speaking of ideas, i can'
t believe nobody invented the spots solarium yet.
nubbins`: you're downright amicable. don'
t kid yourself
nubbins`: "where did this $9t go?" "we currently don'
t have that information until we finish our review" etc
mircea_popescu: the test cheating mentality : they aren'
t trying to deliver, they just try to hack into your measures and make it seem like they do.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo amazing how if you don'
t offer people any way to change their account they'll be unhappy.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Prollu because this time she isn'
t shitting of their favored scams?
BingoBoingo: I don'
t even know how he can talk about immigration reform without rescinding airport rape stations.
BingoBoingo: Here's a hint, Americans who work in solar and whose jobs can'
t be outsourced operate squeegees
BingoBoingo: Poor isn'
t necessarily the greatest problem maybe. Probably desperation might be bigger.
BingoBoingo: My big complaint about these hearings is that the only thing close to "I don'
t know how your assumptions could be so broken that you describe reality with such retarded lenses" seems to be coming out of the fucking regulators on the dias.
BingoBoingo: I would like to advance at one of these hearings the position that "bitcoin doesn'
t much care about you"
mike_c: yeah, but i couldn'
t see the video because it was on edgecast. on a different connection now and it works. thanks for the link.
mike_c: i hope you weren'
t saying you didn'
t enjoy boiler room. granted, it's not good film, but it is enjoyable.
mike_c: pigs i can'
t help with.
mircea_popescu: because it couldn'
t produce a total figure for porcines in the country
BingoBoingo: punkman: A number of the AMD Thinkpads don'
t or at least shouldn'
t have that (May lack that and possess something else). I think the X140e is the newest of that bunch.
ThickAsThieves: hmm Gmail won'
t let me be in two accounts if I use Opera now
Dimsler_: well i jus tdon'
t like how gavin has that bitcoind sourceforge key
azi`: its probably the same way with software if you don'
t put debugging capability in your code
mircea_popescu: i am surprised fixing your own iphone isn'
t against the tos.
ThickAsThieves: another possibility for blockchain's logo is their internal pm didn'
t take the advice of said hired pro
ThickAsThieves: davout, it's poor ability to scale and questionable typography are signs they didn'
t hire a quality pro
the20year: I really didn'
t think a 30pg biz plan/prosectus would be too long with what we're posting on HL
mircea_popescu: that country is still governable strictly because most of the population doesn'
t know how shitty its life is as compared to poor people in the third world.
mircea_popescu: giving us citizens more reasons to travel abroad isn'
t such a bad idea.
mike_c: can'
t access edgecast servers.
mircea_popescu: i blame pestalozzi, personally. if every nine year old girl was given the choice of losing a finger a week or learning math like a pro we wouldn'
t have these problems
mircea_popescu: see, that i posit is not my fault, but the resistance of the medium. i tried to give strippers 1 btc for free. they wouldn'
t take it.
nubbins`: "pay us to submit a photo so you don'
t get stuck with a turd mugshot"
nubbins`: their defense in legal proceedings was essentially "no we didn'
t"
nubbins`: "actually i've been relaying all this to my wife, and she can'
t breathe for laughing"
mircea_popescu: conceivably forbes wanted to say that you can'
t short bitcoin as a support for "it's a bubble" or w/e "editorial policy" they had
mike_c: wasn'
t that coindesk's problem with mpex shorting? that you still end up with bitcoins.