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Aquent_: I wanna, can I lurk in here tho?
BingoBoingo: Aquent_: I'm curious, where is your bubble?
gribble: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=erm | I word used commonly to fill awkward space in conversations.
Aquent_: I was last here when erm you made this blog post about erm
gribble: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=quent | quent. A gentlemanly way of saying cunt! Example Usage: "I kindly ask you to refrain from using my wife's ass in that impertinent manner, you quent!". by stumow ...
asciilifeform: r when we talk with customers and I squirm when I see their confusion...'
asciilifeform: 'Dear Zelda, Hardly a day passes in which I don't receive an email, usually one that's widely distributed and from a more senior member of our community, using the pronoun 'myself' incorrectly. It's my own pet peeve, but I imagine our 5-Eyes partners questioning our reliability when they see our seniors making this basic mistake. Furthermore, my boss regularly misuses a relatively common word. It hangs in the ai
mircea_popescu: but anyway, i fail to see the logic. so two herps with five bux to their name objhect to what exactly ? to big figures ? that's a consequence of the fed, not of anyone in the real economy.
mircea_popescu: i don't get the slate article. first off, who are these two schmucks ? Josh Levin and Jeremy Stahl ?
mircea_popescu: give rakim a good job, i'll even return the nuke subs.
mircea_popescu: this is what i want for my birthday. a less stereotypical and discriminatory against young people and their intelligence/fresh knowledge nsa.
asciilifeform: 'Dear Zelda, (U) I'm new to the agency and I'm also a young employee (in my late 20s). I have noticed that the older managers/supervisors think that we don't have the skills/knowledge/potential to run this agency in the near future. I heard them saying that. They tend to stereotype/discriminate without knowing our intelligence and fresh knowledge. What can we do to make them think differently? Thanks, Younger Sk
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo "Incoming Deposits for Mining Expenses: 0.44 BTC" << i actually paid .24 for the first batch, to make the whole set 2.0 rather than 1.98
thestringpuller: I'm not one for opening NSFW links in an office.
punkman: I thought Sam was a chick all this while
mircea_popescu: i forget their lingo. what are "partners" again ?
asciilifeform: i.e., we get to pay to have a particular batch of losers expelled and de-startupped
mircea_popescu: possibly the only yc thing i'd pay money for.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, i'd buy a YC Swimwear Founder Babe 2015 Calendar
mircea_popescu: "i'm waiting for the figs to dry... when everything is nakedly... when everything's stark, keeps us from the dark reee-alityyy"
mircea_popescu: i think i may be turning into an old man.
mircea_popescu: so reviewing my books i find that last month alone i ate no less than 11 lbs of dried plums.
mircea_popescu: i always used truthiness as a sort of "beliveability"
mircea_popescu: this is more like... "let me tell you what i think about astrophysics. i think there's a painted cardboard box around the earth"
mircea_popescu: i get pissy at the various us media "bitcoin experts", but really... that's the whole model. their climatology experts are no better, their political/financial analysts are no better, it';s just what it is. pay a monkey in sandwiches to be on tv.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony fucking hysterical. i was just reading teh romanian online press. their leads are epic, "our article x, read over 4k times!" "this poll yields a 85% result towards so and so". it's an online poll with a total of ~700 votes.
punkman: I told assbot !up half an hour ago
mircea_popescu: i see it in the list ?
TomServo: BingoBoingo: I always thought it had something to do with the aversion to diesel.
BingoBoingo: TomServo: Well I'd speculate that in the US it is easy enough to sell disposable consumer motor vehicles, so durability may not be much of a selling point
TomServo: BingoBoingo: I wonder the same. If you have a theory, I'd love to hear it.
TomServo: she said "I knew it." ... wtf.
cazalla: i wonder if that's more common than you think
punkman: mircea_popescu: yeah I don't really follow his blog. but he's written a bunch on the topic
mircea_popescu: if i cast this wide a net i might as well import phantomcircuit.lib and email @internet
mircea_popescu: maybe i fundamentally misunderstand something. such as perhaps the market hates reading.
mircea_popescu: uh i think i actually met this guy
mircea_popescu: "o i know, let's get all the disadvantages of skateboards, bikes and vans into a nice tight package. tight enough to keep all the advantages at bay"
mike_c: although i think he recently fucked himself up in an atv accidant
mircea_popescu: to paraphrase a famous assbot saying, i've never been as handicapped by my ignorance as when i started a betting site.
mircea_popescu: mike_c ascii. nothing has changed, i promote the same things, work with the same kinds of people...
mike_c: if you're looking for somebody smart i'd try to reach out to phil laak. he's a famous poker player who is really into prop bets and has a very smart/analytical mind.
kakobrekla: i doubt is cd
mike_c: i.e. are you looking for coindesk or ascii?
mircea_popescu: i want more clicks like i want more warts.
mircea_popescu: and besides, i'd rather pay bloggers to write than spend money on "advertising".
mircea_popescu: mike_c tbh i don't care for fit past betting, inasmuch as bitcoin is the bottleneck anyway
mircea_popescu: i wanted to have a few reputed voices look over the berkshire bet for their audience.
mircea_popescu: i blame lazy thinking.
mircea_popescu: yeah, i don't want to buy their products myself, but i'd rather be long than short knc i think.
thestringpuller: i can't wait until bitbet is big enough for bookies
TheNewDeal: Talking about bets on both sides of course. But I'm done speculating here
mircea_popescu: today i learned there's like cool chicks in canada.
mircea_popescu: i don't think there ever were 4.
nubbins`: next best thing i can do, the cat with a bunch of shit on top of her
mircea_popescu: so i'm reading up on the darien scheme. while i always suspected the scottish people to be by and large a bunch of useless louts more or less on par with romanians,
mircea_popescu: i am surprised and appalled at the shocking lack of rabbits with this package on their head.
nubbins`: it was hard to take pictures of me hitting the edges and corners on things, as i don't yet have a selfie wand
nubbins`: chair was a bend-test, i don't keep other packages on the deck so i had to make do with what was around 8)
nubbins`: the stairs one, that's how it landed when i threw it :(
mircea_popescu: i confess i do not understand all these tests.
nubbins`: nod, i squeezed my url in between the quit and join
kakobrekla: yeah i bounced him back ?
kakobrekla: i thought that killed assbot
mircea_popescu: i'll put money against .7
mircea_popescu: nah, i see where this is headed.
nubbins`: chetty i think it's earth hour now
nubbins`: i made one kid come back and pick his trash up after he tried to walk away when i started swearing
kakobrekla: eh i mean married. i always mix up the two.
BingoBoingo: I dun really know?
mircea_popescu: i wonder what the eventual result will be with that culwick fellow
cazalla: reason i ask is that australian listed company digital btc is developing a wallet soon to come out of beta and this site uses it as part of their valuation http://thesophisticatedinvestor.com.au/coverage-video/?filter=digital-BTC&report=initiation-report-september-2014 but i assume there is little money to be made in consumer styled wallets unless you plan to just rob the users
RagnarDanneskjol: if I had to guess, would say between 10-15% of btc in circulation
decimation: I wish I could put a computer in my computer so I can run programs while they are running.
asciilifeform: mercifully i've little need for this kind of thing in recent times.
asciilifeform: slowest day since i came here, lol.
kuzetsa: [17:42:40] <+cazalla> kuzetsa, are you playing project 99? << oh sorry, I was ingame (everquest... and no, I don't even know what project 99 is)
thestringpuller: i just wanna go home and learn to play dwarf fortress
Azelphur: I haven't really played with contacts yet
thestringpuller: acutally I wouldn't have even been a sperm
thestringpuller: i would have been a sperm
kuzetsa: also, I didn't know how to type very well yet at that age (or even spell)
kuzetsa: thestringpuller: that was way before my time, I would've been like four
gribble: What do you think I am, a shell?
kuzetsa: http://i.imgur.com/35lSTcU.jpg <-- yes, really (that's an old magazine advert for it)
kuzetsa: the 1992 one I linked was "$1.80 per hour
kuzetsa: thestringpuller: how do you figure? wasn't ultima online 1997? the thing I linked was 1992
chetty: haha I played everquest some looong ago. There were MMORPG before it, just not 3d
kuzetsa: oh... maybe not -- this one was around first, and you had to use a dial-up modem to directly connect to it because basically nobody had interent connections in 1992 ---> http://i.imgur.com/35lSTcU.jpg
kuzetsa: which I believe is like... the original MMORPG ever or something like that
kuzetsa: this time, as a test I tried a nearby vendor (no crash) then went back to the one I had problems with and it was reproducable & crashed yet again
pete_on_the_balt: gotta run for nao, hopefully i'll be back again before long :)
thestringpuller: I'd rather just go into Cryofreeze and wake up in the year 3000
pete_on_the_balt: i dunno, if you beat cancer once or twice, i'm sure you'll be there
thestringpuller: lol in 2030 i'll probably be dead
pete_on_the_balt: forgive me if i start quoting shit that's 3 days past prime
artifexd: ;;later tell nubbins` Flat pack it. Shall I send the extra to the same address?
jurov: ;;later tell Azelphur did you see http://explo.yt/post/2014/08/23/First-impressions-from-ownCloud ? i have serious issues with both calendar and contacts
mircea_popescu: i had nfi digital ocean was a small startup.
BingoBoingo: <Azelphur> BingoBoingo: haha, small world, I know Raydiation in person :) << Let them know it isn't about them. It is Microsoft.