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mircea_popescu: bitcoinpete i had the same problem earlier today
decimation: I don't think the usg hides this stuff either, it just gets pushed into statistics that no one reads. The usg has a compulsion to account for itself (in its own crazy way)
decimation: I suspect fewer per capita
decimation: I guess I don't see it, I don't think us gov't agents are dying that often, why bother killing them anyway?
mircea_popescu: i think she has to actually be in the race
chetty: doesnt jet get into the primaries count? Warren will be there I bet
mircea_popescu: i mean warren isn;'t getting a nomination for instance.
asciilifeform: as i understand, the customs inspectors who understand that certain trucks are not to be fucked with, certain hours they should take a smoke break and look away, etc. - are still alive.
asciilifeform: i.e. were they plugged because they insisted on following the 'letter of the law' re: their duties, with complicity of their own brass
asciilifeform: if i recall, last words were 'enemy is at the gates. they've opened fire, oh shi....' ☟︎
decimation: I thought he was playing eve online
asciilifeform: i vaguely recall his tale, that one of the casualties was on irc, chronicling his last hours
chetty: decimation, I used to think that, but they dont need to keep secrets, just keep waving flags at more important stuff
decimation: I'm not sure that usg is capable of keeping the deaths of its employees secret
chetty: <mircea_popescu> so you know, the day i can bribe a mexican official to shoot a federal agent for sport...//by then it wont matter
decimation: if the power of usg wanes to that degree, I think you will see the power return to the localities/states
assbot: Public Enemy - By The Time I Get To Arizona - YouTube
mircea_popescu: so you know, the day i can bribe a mexican official to shoot a federal agent for sport...
chetty: I thought they were in Chicago
dub: hey if I had my way it would be under 50
mircea_popescu: dub i'll bet you us population will be under 200mn by 2050.
mircea_popescu: i had internet in egypt.
dub: iraq is the most recent example I'm aware of, but pick anywhere the 'arab spring' reared up
DreadKnight: I like that btc got mentioned quite a few times in a sci-fi / futuristic show called "Almost Human"
DreadKnight: punkman, I'm aware, good point as well :) I guess it's were all the banks and money related problems started appearing... and inflation!
DreadKnight: mircea_popescu, yeah good point, but I see ltc as the "next missile in line to fire", just in case
benkay: <DreadKnight> some try to improve stuff under the hood, but I don't have the technical expertise to figure out if those changes are really improvements // if the improvement isn't plain as the nose on my kike face it and everyone behind it are going to get glassed
asciilifeform: DreadKnight: i'd argue that ltc is an experiment ('let's banish asic') that failed.
DreadKnight: some try to improve stuff under the hood, but I don't have the technical expertise to figure out if those changes are really improvements
benkay: i suppose if they're undifferentiable from other chicom-originating crap, DreadKnight. otherwise, there's value provided that a brand has nothing to do with.
mircea_popescu: and i guess if it weren't on coindesk. which two are problly synonymous anywaqy.
DreadKnight: benkay, first that I hear that word, guess it's a location xD
benkay: DreadKnight: and yet i'm a baron of la serenissima, and most people are not never will nor ever could.
DreadKnight: mircea_popescu, mainly I have a problem with Apple and who allowed it to have that name
jurov: i mean, if i wanted to liquidate s.nsa, i'd have to sell for 90% and still wait till it gets filled
mircea_popescu: which... yeah, i can see it'd be a problem.
benkay: DreadKnight: i am not most people.
kuzetsa: then again, I'm not "most peolpe"
kuzetsa: DreadKnight: when I hear "apple" I think of the company and feel a little sick
benkay: DreadKnight: i care zero whits about most people.
mircea_popescu: obviously the price and time correlate, i'd think
jurov: i have multiple past experiences that one has to wait months for such asks to be sold
jurov: like i wrote on s.nsa example, no one will put bids till there's some news
mircea_popescu: jurov punkman i don't follow the logic here. explain to me like i was 5 ?
benkay: DreadKnight: i have no idea where you're getting food. oh - bacon? where's the AAPL connection?
punkman: leak of IPO information, and I think he meant d.*
mircea_popescu: jurov: that's the point, i expect f.* to be impossible to liquidate, unless there is a leak or "leak" << how do you mean ?
DreadKnight: benkay, anyway, associating psychologically something (digital in this case) with food is strange, which I don't like regarding Apple
mircea_popescu: glbse idiots didn't move to mpex after i ruined the various "mining" crap. but they DID stop doing it on glbse, and that was that.
DreadKnight: benkay, but yeah, sometimes ambiguity helps making associations and remembering is all about that, plus some brain exercising is not bad, but I thought it's what you had against those people wanting to make a coin called "bacon" or "bacoin"
mircea_popescu: i got tons of commends and invitations to discuss and socially groom on the topic of eth. meanwhile, the scammers cycled 5k btc or w/e, at 2k, and i got exactly 0 btc at 5k.
DreadKnight: benkay, I quoted you, so don't ask me what you meant,lol I just considered you meant to kill them (nuke them) xD
mircea_popescu: whether it will or whether it wont fundamentally hinges on whether the vc economy is as relevant for bitcoin as mpoe is. which is a point i can't hardly help i dont think
mircea_popescu: jurov: and if situation gets interesting, mp can pull asks, leaving me unable to add something to other side << i shouldn't be the only person in that market. provided anyone gives a shit about the derps themselves or their general market, enough to actually spend the usd they CLAIM to have received in investment, then that market should easily compete with s.mpoe.
mircea_popescu: jurov from what i gather you're looking for a product marketable to the retail investor. that'd likely be mpif. it makes about 1% or so.
benkay: <DreadKnight> <benkay> if these people inhabited a space i would commission nukes and glass them <-- I hate words with multiple meanings, because they tend to complicate things, so I really hate Apple for having that name, should be illegal imo *sigh*
mircea_popescu: bitcoinpete: mircea_popescu: there's very little doubt in my mind that if i were in the sort of situation most folk over there enjoy, i'd simply be shooting people. << and yet taleb survives in nyc just fine << yes, he's not in the sort of situation. he's got teh dough.
kuzetsa: I wonder if maybe that unrecognized-by-bing type word was part romanian or something?
kuzetsa: I should know better than to trust bing :(
kuzetsa: wait, is bing thinking that's transgender related? I'm so confused now :(
mircea_popescu: i just make up words a lot.
kuzetsa: well I tried: "transcvasimultiultra" on bing, and apparently mircea_popescu is a multicultural marketing agent or something
HeySteve: hmm I thought figging was done to horses, to make them run faster in races
mircea_popescu: if i happen to have formed a wrong idea it is my god given right as a transcvasimultiultra and so forth to stick to it and nobody can criticize me!
kuzetsa: punkman: I though figging was generally considered anal ginger play
kuzetsa: come to think of it, I think I saw some pegging porn on my tumblr dash in the past week :)
punkman: I have some idea!
mircea_popescu: kuzetsa anyway, i appreciate the girl's shaved and trimmed. clearly she'd make a decent fuck toy.
DreadKnight: <benkay> if these people inhabited a space i would commission nukes and glass them <-- I hate words with multiple meanings, because they tend to complicate things, so I really hate Apple for having that name, should be illegal imo *sigh*
mircea_popescu: kuzetsa ah i think you gotta pay kako for access to that ? ☟︎
decimation: I wonder if anyone from meta-nsa lurks here?
fluffypony: punkman: yeah, you can buy the real spices from a bunch of places in the EU, and there are expats that know how to make biltong, but I think the local beef + conditions in the parts of the Western Cape that are home to speciality producers outweigh anything produced overseas
mircea_popescu: i mean, obviously valuable scientific research doesn't happen in the govt pen. this is hardly surprising. for that matter, europe has a lrge number of "incubators" for start-ups, even timisoara has one, london thinks it dominates this field
punkman: fluffypony, I've only tried imitations made in EU, I imagine the real thing will be even better
mircea_popescu: ah. well i dunno, i dun follow it much.
benkay: not claiming it doesn't exist, just that i'm ignorant.
mircea_popescu: i don't have to.
fluffypony: punkman: I'll have to see how well I have to hermetically seal it to take it in my hand luggage, then I'll take a few kgs with me and just run the risk of it getting confiscated
benkay: all i know is fakery!
benkay: mircea_popescu: i only know the modern scientists, whose sole job is to do worthless "science" on government-allocated capital. which is crimes all over on so many levels.
mircea_popescu: you recall, i'm the gadfly. i said the boboo about coders too, like finance people, heresies pile one.
fluffypony: punkman: I can try, the sniffer dogs are pretty hardcore with that
benkay: <mircea_popescu> i suspek you're just trying an underhanded approach to introduce the supremacy of engineers over theoretical physicitsts :D // this needs introduction?
mircea_popescu: personally, i blame stand-up "comedians"
benkay: if these people inhabited a space i would commission nukes and glass them
DreadKnight: I'm starting to not get mad about religious people anymore and actually get a laugh or two, finally
DreadKnight: every time I hear that book title it really craps me up :D
mircea_popescu: but anyway : i can't get to the letter, because i can't read the "official oppinions" of accountants who wrote a book called redeeming christ.
mircea_popescu: i try to compensate by being a quite public asshole about it, tho. should work.
fluffypony: that's the Sean King thing? I quite enjoyed his letter, though, I thought he put things in a way that was nicely digestible to the non-technical types
benkay: * asciilifeform wonders if any american state has tried bumping off convicts with cocaine // i appreciated this pun
DreadKnight: I was thinking about it as well xD
mircea_popescu: READ MY BOOK: "REDEEMING CHRIST" I've decided to serialize and publish on this blog a book that I've been working on for some time
mircea_popescu: "I am an attorney and Certified Public Accountant with a Master's Degree in Accounting. "
mircea_popescu: DreadKnight i didn't notice his skin tone.
decimation: asciilifeform yeah I think that's the most economic way to get a big screen
mircea_popescu: benkay i am a calophile. that's one who takes great enjoyment in callousness.
mircea_popescu: i was thinking of people, not women.
gribble: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=shart | shart. a small, unintended defecation that occurs when one relaxes the anal sphincter to fart (blend of "shit" and "fart"). I sharted at the party last night and
mircea_popescu: hm i coulda sworn i saw it b4