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ascii_modem: mircea_popescu:asciilifeform: the confucian kingdoms breathe plagiarism like air. <<< "plagiarism", much like "sins of the flesh", is
a construction intended to work as
a tool for
a very peculiar purpose. <<< i spent years working with folks some of whom fit the pattern: 'yes i got phd for washing glassware for advisor, who let me crib, who in turn cribbed from dr xxxxx himself, of the academy of turdiences'
ascii_modem: asciilifeform wait, so your SO is
a black girl ? <<< nein. but from usa. customized though.
mircea_popescu: decimation: re: costco & amex << I suspect amex gives costco
a deal (pays them) to force
a large percentage of the upper-crust customer-base to have an amex card in their wallet << pretty much how that racket goes yes.
☟︎☟︎ BingoBoingo: And yet gasoline is now under $2
a gallon here.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller: cazalla: "I helped run plenty of conferences." << no, he has
a point. that's exactly how that racket works.
mircea_popescu: what are bitcoin people supposed to be,
a sort of ferguson negroes, "hey, nothing will happen because reasons, but here, have this tupperware container to scream in."
mircea_popescu: "We think that
a Q&
A period, moderated by someone you choose, will provide the proper forum for people to make their voices heard. We think that this layout, instead of
a speech, is the appropriate forum."
mircea_popescu: decimation: I would like to put in
a good word for KnC miner. << so it actually works out to them booking
a nominal loss because of spot movement ?
Naphex: pings them and stuff and keeps em in
a list
adlai: blocks=230000 is
a little worrying >_>
mircea_popescu: "rights = just like freedom, except when you might need them or wish to use them. then they're like
a cock up your ass."
mircea_popescu: it's actually
a very good idea, and i'd still like to see it done.
mircea_popescu: xanthyos: thestringpuller: what if we created
a #bitcoin-assets pokerstars home game club and had
a way that every account generated was tied to
a gribble-authed account, and use it as both
a gaming platform as well as
a record-keeping ledger for off-blockchain track of wins and losses <<< check it out kakobrekla
mircea_popescu: "we have
a billion bitcoins, can't afford advertising, here's
a link you have to c/p"
fluffypony: mircea_popescu:
a street criminal can be smart, not the same as being visionary or being clever :)
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: cazalla: Gordhan is
a smart man, but they're doing exactly as expected - they're just going to copy what everyone else is doing << your definition of smartness is very tolerant.
assbot: The hits keep coming. Now /CNN is quoting
a parody Twitter account without any kind of fact checking whatsoever.
http://t.co/67dFklxBEL mircea_popescu: why not ? maybe he's
a gimp slaveboi. he certainly looks it. heck, maybe i put it all on weekly powerpoints.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo incidentally, qntra ever cover the btcexchange thing ? << In
a couple shorter bits. Waiting for another point of lulz inflection to do much more.
mircea_popescu: such as, the womenz. maybe he ran into
a few adolescent bosniac sluts on his recon visit
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: Why does my brother pretend he has not the slightest bit of racism in him yet when he moves to the city chooses
a Bosnian neighborhood over
a black neighborhood? <<< i can see
a few reasons right off.
mircea_popescu: "I learned
a valuable lesson here though. Don’t trust .gitignores and gems like Firago for keeping your data safe,"
adlai: emacs is useful for
a few things, terrible for most others
mircea_popescu: was
a funny exercise in "so i shouldn't make emacs easier to use for the people already using it because this will lower the barrier to entry for idiots and ruin the party ? what are you, insane ?"
mircea_popescu: in which case at most we can't say whether it's
a good or bad idea, and shouldn't bother with it at all ?
mircea_popescu: i can readily construct
a scenario where it harms, if it helps.
adlai: my thinking is along the lines of
a society/economy not having all its eggs in one basket. it doesn't have to have one egg per basket, with daily redistributions;
a "fit economy still has strong inequality, but it's not skewed all the way to either side of the spectrum
kakobrekla: i havent used any exchange with api for over
a year
mircea_popescu: generally, people tend to hurl as insults/bombs/damage to others what they're most afraid of themselves. there's
a very good reason color revolutions exist, and it has nothing to do with ukraine or gaddafi.
mircea_popescu: (and generally, moral thought proceeds quite strictly : 1) is this
a good thing or
a bad thing ; 2) how much of it ? there's no overalpping these stages)
kakobrekla: what is
a small account ? 0.1 ? 1? 10? 100 ?
adlai: well, i do think that an oligarchy is better than
a monarchy, if that's what the question is
mircea_popescu: let's put it in more general terms. you're proposing to lower the bar of what constitutes
a qualified investor.
adlai: you could point out that i've fallen short of pure greed by not accepting investment, paying dividends, and retaining some fee as
a personal profit
adlai: right. if i get
a well-capitalized account profiting from this, what's morally wrong with that?
mircea_popescu: i don't per se care what yu do, it's
a moral discussion.
mircea_popescu: there's
a reason capitalism historically flows towards enriching nodes, not elevating the graph.
mircea_popescu: the logical approach to that is to increase your bankroll, not to spread among
a bunch of idiots.
adlai: not everybody, there are plenty of other places to put money; but it's reached the stage where more people are interested in using this than i'd like to hand-hold through the -entire- setup. (this is
a very low number of people, i'm not good at customer support...)
adlai: requiring my magic touch is
a sort of "job security", but i'd rather get paid to write new code than configure old apps
mircea_popescu: if they were merely offered
a fair salary for their work they wouldn't take it because "it's not enough to live on". as if "living" is somehow fixed and god ordered that black guy in missouri must live better than black guy in senegal.
mircea_popescu: just like slag goes with burning coal for power, buncha idiots thinking they were "robbed of making it big like everyone else" goes with "we don't pay you but maybe you get
a promotion"
mircea_popescu: undata: everybody in america thinks they were somehow robbed of making it big like everyone else did <<< the necessary byproduct of the entire "hero" thing graham & co promote. "work hard and we'll pay one in
a million ten thousand times
a salary, maybe you'll be him!"
adlai: at some point it'll be
a good idea to make this thing usable to people who don't speak lisp, some sorta local webserver or rpc thingy
cazalla: 4am and finally
a yawn, night night..
adlai: no, i'm just improving its abstractions to accomodate new exchanges' quirks; and i did this
a little carelessly, crashing the one bot. so i'm trying to setup methods in the other bot so it updates to the new code cleanly
adlai is
a little lost, also trying to extinguish fires in
a running bot
adlai: well there's
a huge prejudice against germany the nation and german the language, even among people my age who don't have any family who suffered in the holocaust - but they just inherited the prejudice because it's so pervasive
adlai: (sounds like
a stretch, too, israel has/d plenty of german- and yiddish-speaking immigrants)
adlai: wasn't it going to be 20
a few days ago?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: iirc, it was designed by
a woman. i won't psychiatrize on this point, but let's see what mircea makes of it! << i dun get it, so what if
a woman designed it ?
adlai: how so? there's
a market, and these "industries" each squabble over their potential market
adlai: we could replace the term with "commons", to remind the participants that by shitting in the reservoir, they sully their own soup too. eg, "garza is
a prominent scammer in the bitcoin commons", "bitcoin is causing
a power shift in the pornography commons", etc
mircea_popescu: (tpg = thumbnail preview gallery, at the time an innovation that consisted of putting eight, then six, then four then three pics in
a row and filling pages with such rows. each pic ideally linked to the material (more pics of the same set). then that evolved into the skim, where some pics are linked to whatever junk being sold etc.)
mircea_popescu: then, the porn people picked it up. it was
a very tongue in cheek sort of thing, originally, like
a mockery of hollywood.
mircea_popescu: "(2) Can you provide evidence that GAW actually mined (
a) any blocks, and (b) anything like the number you claimed you were mining?"
cazalla: damn, that's
a lot of porn
mircea_popescu: also
a pile of assorted laptops, batteries, various cards and processors
mircea_popescu: "o gosh jolly, wouldn't you rather take
a blowjob instead ?"
thestringpuller: The mexican's will have
a field day when they figure it out.
thestringpuller: Kidnap someone with money, deliver ransom note, "pay in bitcoin or ELSE." You don't even have to have
a drop point.
cazalla: zomg thestringpuller, it was clearly stated it was
a hypothetical!
mircea_popescu: no, if i go there's going to be
a bunch of ninja vamps suddenly very rich.
cazalla: maybe i got
a little bit too much oxygen while walking, i unno
mircea_popescu: right, louder. i guess not being
a total redneck retard helps internet scamming.
kakobrekla: every 10 dorra slip is about
a year of living
Vexual: i wonder if linda evangalista still gets 10k
a day?
adlai: mp still on vacation, i see - replies to
a week's worth of logs, then vanishes by the time i'm awake
cazalla: but you can't know that for sure? if you turn around and strangle him, at least you know with good certainity his coins would never be moved and in
a practical sense, are now lost
cazalla: whilst out walking, i got to thinking - as the amount of bitcoin lost to theft decrease, at what point does it become
a game of simply killing people who are known to be large holders resulting in no-one knowing the private key as to reduce the supply and increase the value of ones own holding occur?
BingoBoingo: lulzy shit from their forum "I was just making the point that engagement with the wider crypto community was of little value to GAW, and here Reddit goes and makes
a prime example for me."
Fun: mainly to get some info about cme fx options :D or find
a channel for it
mircea_popescu: that it still constitutes
a majority of the cultural festooning of the colonies to this day... well... nobody forces the mt obe stupid.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: the confucian kingdoms breathe plagiarism like air. <<< "plagiarism", much like "sins of the flesh", is
a construction intended to work as
a tool for
a very peculiar purpose.
mircea_popescu: ahh this was
a great walk in the past, thanks for asking fluff.
mircea_popescu: In addition, McFarland is
a BitcoinTalk forum moderator."
mircea_popescu: "22. Patrick McFarland (@Diablo-D3) McFarland is the creator of DiabloMiner,
a Java GPU bitcoin miner that uses the OpenCL framework to quickly perform the hashing computations.
mircea_popescu: "Strateman is
a bitcoin developer, best known for co-founding Intersango and the Python bitcoin implementation." no, actually strateman is best know for being one of the scammers involved in the bitcoinica fraud, and before that for being theidiot that emailed the entire list the emails of the entire list,
mircea_popescu: these guys are 100 to 1000x as productive as
a "normal american", so the stuff they write is not necessarily comprehensible to ordinary mortals.
ascii_modem: in not entirely unrelated news, i found that
a vacuum cleaner i recently bought runs - i shit thee not - 'qnx'.
mircea_popescu: this is pretty much the only good argument for why it's better to be an intellectual than
a labourer. this unique priviledge.