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adlai: "if they'd let me have my way I could've flayed them into shape // but my hands were tied, the bleeding hearts and artists..."
mircea_popescu: fine. i blame them, their stupid fathers & bovine mothers, the fucking gooses masquerading as "educators" in a ten mile radius
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: i blame to school systems :P
mircea_popescu: davout personally, i blame their parents.
mircea_popescu: i wonder how many of the online derps got their start/education on camwhore sites
mircea_popescu: enough? Do you feel you got your due? That you were able to violate my privacy and dignity enough to feel I'm worthy of ten pathetic dollars? Less than a damned movie and popcorn?"
mircea_popescu: nsparent do you want it? Do you want to know that one of the reasons I am very private about connecting my pen names is because the man who raped me enjoys making fake profiles and friending me every few years, just to get off on sending me a message and getting blocked? Do you want to hear how I shake all over and panic and relive everything he did to me when that happens? Does that do it for you? Is that transparent
mircea_popescu: "4. You don't deserve to know any of that. It's none of your business. I invited my readers to chip in on a project--or not. I did not invite you to worm your nose into every aspect of my life, hunt down pictures of my home, call me names, or tell me I was worthless, arrogant, greedy, and undeserving. But you want to rip me bare and expose how awful you're sure I am. I get it, you want me transparent. How much more tra ☟︎
davout: that's the case i was thinking about, therefore not seeing a direct link to semi-conductors
mircea_popescu: i meant, your directional, or message-aware or otherwise "airgap" is a semiconductor in the flux
mircea_popescu: not what i meant
kakobrekla: i call it 'the gaper' as a tribute to ass gapes.
jurov: davout i assume it has a display and "ack" button that transmits the message, and nak button
davout: yeah, well the questions i'm thinking about are
davout: jurov: i'm trying to figure out exactly what the desirable properties of such an apparatus are
davout: mircea_popescu: if i don't know how it works and how i take it apart i ain't buying it :D
mircea_popescu: i don't mean no straws or nuttin.
mircea_popescu: soo... i go to see my private banker, her office's like four blocks down. and as i walk on the street, i see a thing that's still with me.
pete_dushenski: that's all the ammo i've got for this round. laters!
thestringpuller: And that's very much what I think this war comes down to. Not block size or anything else. Just the simple fact: You are either for changing bitcoin for YOUR needs, or you are willing to adapt to bitcoin.
thestringpuller: pete_dushenski: ya know. I was thinking about Bitcoin in the car today from THE Foundations point of view. "We change for bitcoin, our ways change for bitcoin not the other way around."
pete_dushenski: o now i get it
pete_dushenski: i don't know if you grew up in compton, monaco, or rural shanghai
pete_dushenski: bitcoin_charlie:Couple of people from the Bitcoin space << as meaningless as "a couple of people from the neighbourhood where i grew up"
pete_dushenski: not bad i guess
pete_dushenski: i used to be "bitcoinpete" before individuating ;)
bitcoin_charlie: Its the handle I use for everything
bitcoin_charlie: I came to talk to Mircea about a project Im working on
pete_dushenski: i never know man, i never know
kakobrekla: wtf did i do now.
assbot: Be careful about impostors, I only IRC/Reddit under the nick 'Bitcoin_Charlie'
assbot: Be careful about impostors, I only IRC/Reddit under the nick 'Bitcoin_Charlie'
bitcoin_charlie: I launched a side project last month
bitcoin_charlie: I will have email
bitcoin_charlie: So I get some time served
kakobrekla: i forgot where i read that but at some time in some place you could send someone else to serve your sentence if you could find such person. it wasnt a problem probably.
bitcoin_charlie: I planon teaching Bitcoin and economics while inside
bitcoin_charlie: I didnt win at trial, but hopefully Ill only serve less than a year
bitcoin_charlie: I spent 6 figures on lawyer fees, the government wanted to send me away for 30 years.
bitcoin_charlie: I understand, but look where I was coming from
bitcoin_charlie: He told me that some people were pissed I tweeted that
bitcoin_charlie: Ahh, no I spoke to someone on the phone about it today
bitcoin_charlie: Im saying, I tweeted that Dec 19th
bitcoin_charlie: Instead, I got 2 years.
bitcoin_charlie: If I had become, I could have gotten 0 jail time
bitcoin_charlie: I took a plea deal to avoid a trial, but if you read it, I declined to become a cooperating wittness.
bitcoin_charlie: I had tweeted that about 10 minutes from walking out of the court room
pete_dushenski: so i'm on the bablogs but not the scoopbot...
ben_vulpes: artifexd: i'm going to hazard that was shrem.
mircea_popescu: if i want to talk to preet, i can talk to preet directly.
mircea_popescu: i can see it through like dozens of locations ?
decimation: At any rate, I'm traveling, will comment later.
mircea_popescu: heck, if i can stop reading shit online for five minutes maybe i do it this month. or whatever.
mircea_popescu: i have servers i shoud probably turn off that i was too lazy to turn off that cost more than that
mircea_popescu: "And as anyone in indie romance knows, the waters are getting crowded, the competition is getting fierce, and I have to hustle my ass off to move books that sold themselves a year ago. I work twelve hours a day with promo, writing, and ad planning--sometimes more."
decimation: I guess it depends to what degree of certainty you wish to have that the recipient got your message
mircea_popescu: i really should read it more often.
mircea_popescu: y own problems. "It's not my fault that I didn't pursue a romantic relationship with her, she's just a friendzoning bitch." This projection would then just grow and grow to encompass all women.
mircea_popescu: ationships. I've had crushes, sure, but whenever the thought of actually forming a romantic relationship with that person would come up, I instantly shot myself down. Through shooting myself down, however, I also shot down that person. "She's shallow," I'd say, "she only wants hot jocks and douchebags. She's not worth my time." I would project all of my self-hatred onto this woman so I could avoid actually working on m
mircea_popescu: e a "fat fucking faggot" while I was walking home from the grocery store. I know he was probably drunk and not necessarily in the best state of mind, but fuck that shit hurts. Because of that bullying, I really don't have much confidence at all outside of my own work. The first thing I think of when I meet a new person is "I wonder how disgusted he is with me." And because of that self-hatred, I've never sought out rel
mircea_popescu: Up to probably three or four years ago, I would absolutely be that self-hating nerd Chu is talking about. Generally, I'm not that good looking. I'm fat in a bunch of weird places, tall, and pretty much just strange to look at. For most of my life, I was bullied, and even at 23 years old, I still experience a bit of bullying, and I internalize every insult I hear. Just a few days ago, a random guy in the street called m
mircea_popescu: Discussing the role of the hype man in the book How to Rap, Royce da 5'9" describes how a hype man can contribute to a live performance: "a lot of my verses be so constant with the flow [that] I'd need somebody to help me."[4] Lateef adds: "You're gonna have to have somebody say something somewhere to give you a breath... usually it's just a matter of getting somebody to hit some line or some word in a line - that's al
thestringpuller: mah gold chain so heavy i can't stand up straight
mircea_popescu: oh. i thought either one of those gold chains or else cocaine
davout: mircea_popescu: hah yeah, forgot about that, notice how i mentioned an 'entity', not a 'company' :p
davout: kakobrekla: i think they're bulgarian
mircea_popescu: i recall, with the novacoin first premine scam thing
mircea_popescu: well dare i ask what the fraction of startups NOT ON EXPONENTIAL GROWTH CURVE that fail is ?
thestringpuller: davout: i can see the current leadership of bitpay being removed as a condition of VC investing more capital
thestringpuller: I was thinking more of the confused retarded kid who mistakingly got an inheritance.
mircea_popescu: "I thought the Bitrush team was crazy for offering free bitcoins... until they actually showed up in my Blockchain wallet. These guys are nuts. Take advantage of it before they come to their senses!"
mircea_popescu: "A friend told me Bitrush was giving away bitcoins and I thought, "What the hell!" I gave them my email and verified my account. Within 12 hours I received my first payout and have received many more since. Pretty nice of them and they even called me to make sure everything was going good for me. No one from any Bitcoin related company has ever called me before and I was amazed at the level of service for spending noth
thestringpuller: glad I did the cookie method and not ip :P
mircea_popescu: you clever boy you thestringpuller. i was just writing as to the stupidity of that.
thestringpuller: We want both. And there's no reason we can't have both. << i want to be rich and poor
thestringpuller: i think the layoffs article has started a witch hunt tho, which is never really healthy.
mircea_popescu: http://i.imgur.com/HvfIFjs.png this sorta lulz.
mircea_popescu: i guess the url makes my poitn for me.
fluffypony: I have nfi
punkman: http://i.imgur.com/50ls5oG.jpg
davout: fuck, i used to think retardation was somewhat limited to the bitcoin sub reddit, looks like i was dead wrong http://i.imgur.com/tIfVOzL.jpg
davout: ah yeah, i recall hearing of that, don't know much about it tho
davout: if i was in a playful mood i'd hop over there and troll them with the payments i received for being a mod there
davout: cazalla: i liked this one
cazalla: if only they stumbled across one of the first trilema's i came across.. boy and the tree which turns into a stump for the old man to sit on at the end
punkman: "So I make over a million dollars, use this on things which are clearly intended to benefit the forum and the Bitcoin community instead of myself (even if you think the money could be better used elsewhere), and I get constantly attacked for it..."
mircea_popescu: " I think Theymos has done an awesome service for the community in turning the forum into something of an institution rather than not just pocking hte funds."
BingoBoingo: I wonder if there is an MP is Thermos conspiracy brewing https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2s3ij2/investigation_about_theymos/
mircea_popescu: i own everything.
mircea_popescu: and be heard because i was there to make the points, and the name calling.
undata: but yeah as mentioned above I use Press on android so I don't see the styles
undata: davout: minimal is fine but I otherwise disagree; that one can go mad with CSS doesn't necessitate doing so
mircea_popescu: i just don' tsee how i'd use a browser w/o that
davout: on mobile i mean gosh
davout: my point is that i'm interested in the content, so as long as html is used sanely it should display in a meaningful way
mircea_popescu: i butchered it as far as everything but the imagery is concerned.
undata: mircea_popescu: beautiful imagery in english; I'm sure the sound of it matches in romanian
thestringpuller: not until home alone I suppose
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: don't get abducted. you say such amusing things. (No you don't amuse me like a clown. I do not view you as Joe Pesci)
mircea_popescu: shit, i'm translating this, it's just too good.