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decimation: but
I suspect that everyone in that house considers themselves to be "rich"
decimation: lol
I like that the only brick structure is the random chimney sticking through the middle of the roof in a random spot
decimation:
I don't dispute your point,
I just find the irony amusing
mircea_popescu: <decimation> re: kickstarter :
I think the real product is an illusionist's trick:
I'm a somebody because
I'm an investor, even though
I'm investing chump change for the chumpatron << you're quite correct, in that. it's reddit except expensive.
mircea_popescu: "At the beginning of May, my team and
I were assigned to an exploratory project. Typically summer is the off-season and most of the projects are time fillers that result in a few papers/presentations and are then archived and never heard of again. This project was different. We were given a direct research assignment from the Board of Governors a few hours after the conclusion of their May 29th closed meeting."
ben_vulpes:
i say "student of power" when people ask.
mircea_popescu: besides,
i miss being able to answer teh "occupation" query with "student"
ben_vulpes:
i just want to read the reports about the derpage.
mircea_popescu:
i already live five blocks down from it, im already taking the sophomores out for a ride... mgith as well. pretty much everyone's a lawyer here anyway.
mircea_popescu: so what does the group think, should
i go to argentine law school ?
punkman: decimation:
I think it's more fanboys and omg!gadgets! than "investors"
decimation: re: kickstarter :
I think the real product is an illusionist's trick:
I'm a somebody because
I'm an investor, even though
I'm investing chump change for the chumpatron
decimation:
I suspect it's the same reason the subject in question paid more than $75k to go to Loyla to get... a pr degree... and was unable to get a job in pr as a twentysomething non-ugly chick
mircea_popescu: <thickasthieves> they are making accounts to buy what? <<
i think most people involved with mpex have a different outlook than most people involved with costco.
assbot: Game Changer: Bitcoin research at the Federal Reserve and how
I've lost my job : Bitcoin
TomServo: mircea_popescu: Seems fair, my mistake for conflating the two.
I probably should've re-read before mentioning, but the timing worked so well. :P
thickasthieves:
i dont think there's been any notable volume outside of mpoe
thickasthieves: partly
i ask about options due to the new accounts being purchased at mpex
thickasthieves: oh
i recall, you wanted to cover your ass and discovered that wasnt so easy
mircea_popescu: moreover, you gotta read the article in question,
i'm not going to do random interpretations off the cuff at any random point it may happen to be discussed. at no point in there is it said "closing options because of mtgox's poor repute".
TomServo:
I mean as far as the options market goes.
thickasthieves: if
i recall,
i think mp thought they had removed gox, though that wasnt til close to the end
TomServo: mircea_popescu: On that topic,
I've been meaning to ask for a while...
I thought Gox was deemed to be of ill-repute well before the shutdown. So why was still seen as a viable price indicator until it's bitter end?
pankkake:
I thought it was the lack of reputable exchanges
mircea_popescu: assbot: Damon Casarez photographs young adults who’ve moved back in with their parents. <<
i hope he photographs them with their clothes on in their own house. which is to say naked in the yard.
mircea_popescu:
i mean, the trope itself, "eschatological contagion" is like what, 1/3 of all of it ?
mircea_popescu: newton got hit in the head by a falling apple... "hmm how could
i turn this bump into a research grant"
mircea_popescu: yet
i have no idea who even came up with those things.
mircea_popescu:
i think the biggest problem bar none of modern society is that average derp can name a dozen "puas" or "important feminists" or whatever th fuck
ben_vulpes: (<Pilate> .hiv pre-registration up this morning... apparently
i reserved spread.hiv, spreads.hiv, super.hiv, and selling.hiv)
mircea_popescu: actually, im glad
i got you pinned here bb, cause
i wanna run this by you see what you think.
mircea_popescu: tbh
i think this throws a monkey wrench in the future viability of "big pandemic" scenarios.
ben_vulpes: and here
i was hoping for a new global pandemic
chetty: BingoBoingo, yeah it actually sounds pretty yucky, but
I suppose if you are about to die of ebola ...
chetty:
I like the big ones better
mircea_popescu:
i am having the cutest avocado in the whole world. roughly the size of an ovary.
mircea_popescu: well aaactually that's part of what
i was going to announce.
mircea_popescu: and actually speaking of it : making a collision for 4 byte short ids is not that hard.
i hope you check against fingerprints ?
BingoBoingo: What,
I tied of seeing the default van ads while compulsively reloading MPIF tracker
mircea_popescu: actually
i was going to make some announcements but IVE BEEN TOO BUSY SLEEPING AND WITH PERSONAL MATTERS
pankkake: if you provide me with a CSS (or even a full template, venus, the thing used to generate the planet, has templates),
I'll enable it
pankkake: so, removing it for now.
I might enable it on some domains only
pankkake: for the lulz, though
I've had enough lulz after a few years
mircea_popescu:
i mean, so they're hipsters. we don't take them to bed. you won't even sell them liquour now ?
pankkake: sometimes
I think of banning all macs and all chromes, or removing the thing
fluffypony: so
I think he's convinced enough people that he holds the key to the future
fluffypony: BingoBoingo:
I'm pretty sure this isn't like MaidSafe - Vitalik does the tour circuit, and he's been building up to this for a while
assbot: Coinbase | Why do
I have to provide extra informati...
fluffypony: punkman:
I think he has EXTREMELY good hand-waving ability
Apocalyptic:
I somehow lost track about how is Ethereum doing lately
assbot: Coinbase | Why do
I have to provide extra informati...
ThickAsThieves:
i'm currently lolling to 27bslash6 posts ive already read 3 times in the past
BingoBoingo: ThickAsThieves:
I think the best move is to always refer to the Altcoin equivalent of satoshis as something different in every conversation.
ThickAsThieves:
I flirted with calling ATC "satoshis" altcoins and ditching the decimal, but that would require reliable programmers for hire to fill my fleeting whims when
i have them
cazalla: that's useful for keeping a log, almost a month since
i had a few
Vexual:
i dunno wha benks definition of tight is
Vexual:
i understand if you can't comment
Vexual:
i was asking about feels
Vexual: bb:
i was thinking tit for tat
Vexual:
i wonder if the models were paid?
ben_vulpes: the best
i've come up with isn't even complete
mircea_popescu: right, because if
i gotta kill some idiots on a hallway somewhere im going to take an anti tank missile launcher
mircea_popescu:
i know
i sometimes crack a tile to make a sharpener if in a pinch
mircea_popescu: today
i went through the logs. guess how many of these blogs sitll exist today ?
mircea_popescu: so about... well just about five years ago
i did this thing where
i gave a free domain + free cpanel hosting to a bunch of romanian bloggers that seemed more or less okay.
BingoBoingo: With all of these tools,
I have to wonder what the hell is on order for the second product
mircea_popescu: "
I'm not surprised you get along well with all the other neighbours. If you put fifty children with Down's syndrome in a room there is going to be a lot of hugging." << hawthorne should be quoted more often.
mthreat: mircea_popescu: if
I can make it,
i'll be there. Ya, just working in the afternoons right now, for a month test
The20YearIRCloud: Let it be known -
I tried to explain company concepts to a bot
mthreat: mircea_popescu: oh, hmm not sure.
i'm actually working for a local startup.
I'm a working stiff again.