mircea_popescu: there was also a ruby one but i dont recall right off what.

mircea_popescu: are you running it on a linux box ?

mircea_popescu: a cool

mircea_popescu: he could probably make more begging where he lives, and being a professional beggar would actually be much more respectable and honorable than being bitcoin's 5th column.

mircea_popescu: "Gavin Andresen's salary as the full time lead developer of the entire bitcoin protocol is $209k a year."

mircea_popescu: just like they decided a decade ago to randomly use she instead of the canonical pronoun,

mircea_popescu: or is the us so poor these days that a plurality of shirts is verbally inconceivable ?

mircea_popescu: is that like a parody ?

mircea_popescu: incidentally, am i the only one that finds it just a little amusing that torproject.org actively promotes the use of pdfs to encapsulate information that otherwise should be in a textfile or simple post ?

mircea_popescu: the "satoshi costume" is just a start, he'll wear a dead deer if it comes to it.

mircea_popescu: "You'll find the core developers are detached and very different to their users. As a developer of software myself I would find it disheartening if the bulk of my users were jerks like /r/bitcoin."

mircea_popescu: CHA lol. teh buttfuck foundation! it's a thing.

mircea_popescu: i dunno how banned it'd be if the city closed down a major street for it.

mircea_popescu: they closed off a major street downtown (rivadavia) and put a scene up and everything in front of the cogress building

mircea_popescu: "Recently it was announced that a coalition of government agencies took control of many Tor hidden services. We were as surprised as most of you."

mircea_popescu: im sure most of the cattle that i'm going to eat in my lifetime has also lived a pretty happy life,

mircea_popescu: i suppose the one true source of trolling is exactly that. ironically enough, pankake was orignally selling himself as a troll for hire iirc.

mircea_popescu: it's not a matter of why or wherefore. i just do not wish to.

mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal: did not feel the need to argue the point that no on in their right mind wants to stock shelves at the Canadian superstore at 2am <<< why should they get a choice ?

mircea_popescu: because no, i don't credit for a minute this theory whereby the 20yo male is the be-all end-all hope-and-pride of humanity.

mircea_popescu: in any case : i do not exactly believe b-a is intended for the workaday people. let them put a decade in, build themselve financially to the position where they can participate in a start-up, and intellectually to the position where they actually aren't quite AS fucktarded as the average 20something.

mircea_popescu: they probably sold it, of course, but if they did not, they have a lot more liquid btc than say goat.

mircea_popescu: plenty of people took out 100 btc in one month. back then this was you know, a few hundred bucks, "wage".

mircea_popescu: "wage labour" on fain, on a voluntary basis (internet work, add links, vote on links, comments -> collect points -> take out btc) had average monthly payments well over 1 btc. AVERAGE.

mircea_popescu: punkman put 1024 keys together with the irc nicks so i can send them a later tell ?

mircea_popescu: however, ben himself wants a tower of hydrocarbons.

mircea_popescu: ife is the end of want, having a wife and a house in the amerca!!!

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: The whole idea that anything can be so "shared" as to have no value in itself is not a problem if the rest of the world ensures that nobody _is_ starving or needing money. <<< this is nonsense anyway. money is always needed, this is a scaling problem. average rat living in a hole in the middle east linking his pretenses to humanity to his possesion of an old cellphone someone lost may think ben_vulpes' l

mircea_popescu: Anduck therewas also an unrelated issue discovered, regarding first character on a line, so tyvm.

mircea_popescu: of inadvertence, negligence, or mistake.” As a factual matter, this claim is questionable. It could just as well be said that heavily counseled parties to mega-mergers do not sign merger agreements containing glaringly ambiguous terms that lead to avoidable litigation—but here we are."

mircea_popescu: this is not a trivial problem in any sense : http://trilema.com/2013/our-emperor-deliver-us/

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: this may also explain the disappearance of moiety and a few other folks. <<< it's not a bad theory in any sense. got any policy proposals based on it ?

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: is there, somewhere, a smoky bar where they down hard drinks and tell anyone who'll listen how 'it was all a sham11!1!' ? << not afaik, tho i'd like to have a hard drink myself. tho i imagine that'd ruin it huh.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: what was his project (mentioned in the comment) ? <<< you perhaps recall i said at conference i want two things made, an advertising service and a jobs board. we had some initial discussions about it, we ran into a bunch of conceptual difficulties about how exactly to handle the job descriptions/contractual enforcement, which turned out a much more complex task than originally imagined, last was "we

mircea_popescu: ;;rate theymos -10 defrauded the tardstalk community by throwing ~half a million dollars worth of BTC at some obscure service provider for kickbacks. a lenghty history of fraudulent behaviour, http://trilema.com/2012/scammer-tag-nefario-theymos-others-known-and-unknown/

mircea_popescu: - Expenses: 1505 (1257 Slickage, the rest mostly mods) << according to theymos, tardstalk has spent half a million dollars to one million this year.