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BingoBoingo: mircea
_popescu: Well, you have been seasoned as a strategic consultant.
ozbot: Twitter / Mircea
_Popescu: @Falkvinge @kLee1977 I'll bet ...
mircea_popescu: greenspan
_fan well, it's like in any socialist state : some people go along because they hope to get something from it,
BingoBoingo: greenspan
_fan: To my knowledge they process applications in batches. Kind of like the Army except without the filtering to keep bona fide retards out of camp.
mircea_popescu: greenspan
_fan the self-perception of importance is pretty much the whole of the compensation.
BingoBoingo: mircea
_popescu: The gawker rag Valleyway (the one with hedgec0k) has been running some lulzy bitcoin stuff you should probably have one of the girls archive.
ozbot: Twitter / krtek
_net: Mtgox is sorting orders, waiiting ...
chetty: greenspan
_fan, eulora, mmorpg
greenspan_fan: mircea
_popescu you're right, it does seem to beg the question...
mircea_popescu: greenspan
_fan this seems to me a completely unwarranted generalisation that actrually breaks logic.
mircea_popescu: greenspan
_fan well presumably whatever suspends btc suspends all btc-likes
benkay: greenspan
_fan: you don't need credits for comments.
greenspan_fan: mircea
_popescu as you say, not a problem for reasonably wealthy individuals, but it means that if you don't already have a lot of fiat currency, you can't rely on bitcoin
greenspan_fan: mircea
_popescu worth how? I have less than 100 000 btc, for example
mircea_popescu: greenspan
_fan "adoption" means something strictly different from pageviews
Bugpowder: mircea
_popescu: That was made by the former
Bugpowder: mircea
_popescu: I played that game quite a bit in grad school.
benkay: mike
_c: the basic gist is that you can't spend it when btc price is going up 'cause derp, but then when you don't spend it in time you get a reaming from investors.
benkay: mike
_c: did you see mircea
_popescu's point a few days ago about the flipside of "you can raise it but you can't spend it"?
benkay: mike
_c: you're still serving directly from highcharts.
moiety: i was just reading the income page - nice page mike
_c
benkay: i think the assettes crashed your server, mike
_c.
moiety: that's very nice mike
_c :)
benkay: talking about the scoop, mike
_c :0
benkay: this is no secret to me, mircea
_popescu
lnovy: mircea
_popescu: :)
benkay: hey mircea
_popescu where's the essay in which you explain why proles can't afford privacy?
cads: mircea
_popescu: I dunno, maybe I could do a situation with agents that act under various ignorance or misinformation constraints.
cads: mircea
_popescu: I'm not sure where I'd start to be honest
cads: mircea
_popescu: instragram is photography for hipsters and hiphop kids
benkay: mike
_c: throwaway pun of the day ;)
BingoBoingo: mike
_c: I've found bitbook.biz reliable, but who knows if they will continue to be reliable.
diametric: greenspan
_fan: whether or not its CF
diametric: greenspan
_fan: no benefit, any FDM style printer is still going to suffer from a weakness on the layers
diametric: greenspan
_fan: theres CF infused PLA already
nubbins`: mircea
_popescu, story of my life
diametric: mircea
_popescu: yes its probably wise
mircea_popescu: mike
_c the eyes don't mind all that much just as long as you don't go all spinoza on them
BingoBoingo: mircea
_popescu: You didn't get him in channel though.
davout: mircea
_popescu: the proof is that they manage to survive in africa
lnovy: mircea
_popescu: I'm reading that, but I guess I'm not that schooled in the terminology, therefore I'm asking for layman terms...
BingoBoingo: mircea
_popescu: Idaho is potatos. Ohio is shitpits.
BingoBoingo: mircea
_popescu: The Doge article where he wrote about only retweeting women. It would have been a Bit article if only it wouldn't insult Bit, hence Doge article.
BingoBoingo: mircea
_popescu: I read the Doge article on the retweets before. Name was unnotable though.
BingoBoingo: mircea
_popescu: It is almost as good as the Variety Speak. We need John Taffer in this channel.
BingoBoingo: mircea
_popescu: I need maybe 20 minutes to see what kind of Nobody though.
BingoBoingo: mircea
_popescu: I have to see who this Dash guy is
BingoBoingo: mircea
_popescu: Give me time for a glass of OJ and some more thought on those odds.
ozbot: Twitter / Mircea
_Popescu: @anildash Your self-absorbed ...
davout: mircea
_popescu: "what's the inernet gonna do? blog about it?" <<< made me lol and looks relevant here
greenspan_fan: mircea
_popescu happens in practice, still kinda gross
mircea_popescu: greenspan
_fan imo that's like perfume supplanting washing.