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asciilifeform: this is why i simply don't get people who continue to think of their relationship with the u.s. court system in legal, rather than military, terms. ☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: (what's that? this - http://longstreet.typepad.com/thesciencebookstore/2010/11/propaganda-and-surrender-tickets-world-war-ii-1953-1945-part-i.html)
mircea_popescu: decimation it only indirectly results from a too long period of wealth and power. i know, for i've been wealthy and powerful my entire life. the trick is to not buy into comfort. that's the direct causation : once people become comfortable and think "i'm too wealthy and powerful to be here fucking with a wrench inside this engine on the side of a road".
danielpbarron: i know, right? i was cracking up reading it
chetty: I wonder, does the poor Mexican give a tinkers damn either?
mircea_popescu: i don't get what that coinsource thing is supposed to be.
decimation: yeah I agree, I had mined in 2010 and lost much of it unfortunately
mircea_popescu: decimation it's just... you know. pretty much everyone i know who's been mining in 2010 has actually lost the majority of bitcoin they ever mined. irrespective if they still mine or not.
mircea_popescu: decimation i am aware. it's not "his" estimation. there's been this thing pushed around since 2011ish, a meme equivalent to "who really is satoshi"
mircea_popescu: <decimation> quite. To be fair, satoshi still has his hand on the banana << i don't see it.
Duffer1: speaking of.. i haven't heard any ripple news in a while..
decimation: I guess it's one of these turing-complete contract bitcoin wanna-bes - I haven't seen any serious analysis of the codebase yet
decimation: kind of I guess https://www.ethereum.org/
mircea_popescu: obviously i'll be buying some once it comes out. if shit happens like on icbit , where your bids are simply ignored while it "sells" to lower bids... then it's not reputable.
Duffer1: i see
mircea_popescu: very fucking far that'll go, i'm sure.
decimation: I like his attitude toward meetings wrt powerpoint - he went the full Ed Tufte: http://www.philanthropydaily.com/jeff-bezos-powerpoint-prohibition/
mircea_popescu: actually tbh bezos may be the only guy in the derpeconomy of websites and whatnot that i actually like.
mircea_popescu: (i made some comments about buying traffic yest, now im innundated with people pitching their various traffic generating offerings. some are lulzy)
Vexual: i will
ThickAsThieves: i didnt know Portishead made a new album in 2008, it's actually good as the other stuff
Duffer1: nm i already stopped caring
kakobrekla: coindesk "hey i am spam in your email, want to give me money for an article" ☟︎
benkay: i'm starting to realize also that an engineering team that's blitting from one project to another is never going to be as effective as the same team focused on roadmap and cohesive set of business objectives.
mircea_popescu: http://www.utopiatemple.com/ << i used to play this 20 years ago
benkay: "optimizer of future degrees of freedom" is the closes i've come lately.
benkay: can't quite say what i am
benkay: http://trilema.com/2012/the-crime-of-being-american/ // i have WoT citizenship.
DreadKnight: so how come big companies like Apple and such don't buy back all the shares? I can think of a few possible reasons but maybe I'm missing something important...
btc111_: MP: ah, nevermind then -- i could see them being at least 6-8 months delayed
DreadKnight: if dealing with bitcoins, do I have to bother with taxes?
gribble: Why I nixed p2p, colored coins and all that jazz pe Trilema - Un blog ...: <http://trilema.com/2013/why-i-nixed-p2p-colored-coins-and-all-that-jazz/>; OP_CHECKCOLORVERIFY: soft-fork for native color coin support ...: <https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=253385.0>; Mixed Associations Aged With Precise Mystique - mactaggart jewelry: <http://www.mactaggartjewelry.com/2014/06 (1 more message)
mircea_popescu: ;;google why i nixed colored coins
mircea_popescu: people can hype all they want, i deflated the dogecoin hype just fine, what's so special about eth ?
mircea_popescu: i have more btc than what eth can ever be worth, ever.
RooK314: I highly doubt anyone would want to see my tits
RooK314: Well I finally get here and seakazoo leaves for the night
DreadKnight: thestringpuller, I see; you said the pub has arcades?
thestringpuller: DreadKnight: I live in the suburbs so there is either 1) speeding cars or 2) no cars
DreadKnight: I managed to bump into a parked car in a similar scenario
thestringpuller: I get nice and drunk, then step on my board - and voila - gravity takes me home.
mike_c: ;;later tell fluffypony i gave that guy your handle, he may come ask you about the job
mircea_popescu: i like it when my shit makes circles :D
mike_c: ah, i do remember that post
BingoBoingo: decimation> I would get the 7.62x39 with a suppressor (after all the ATF paperwork) << for delicate shit in missouri suppressors are a thing and most .22 lr semi autos have tons of accesories available
decimation: I would get the 7.62x39 with a suppressor (after all the ATF paperwork)
decimation: I wouldn't mind one of these: http://www.czub.cz/en/catalog/364-centerfire-rifles-cz/KL/CZ_527_CARBINE.aspx strikes me as well made and practical
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> BingoBoingo: my understanding is that this is virtually unheard of << Turned out all of the other patent people held .308 winchester rifles I was the long 7.62x54R party to this fight against the undead
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: but if it's an actual concern, i vaguely recall that a number of u.s. vendors offer titanium firing pins for just about anything short of a nambu
BingoBoingo: Ah usuausll I commect input to somgs of my people
asciilifeform: most of the time i don't even connect the input to anything
asciilifeform: if, say, monsanto - sold a set with an extra -5dB attenuation, made of reprocessed kittens and personally signed by obama, at 20x the cost - i'd buy it...
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform ashamed to admit, owns some bose hardware. mainly because nobody else comes close in plain old noise zapping. (tried many vendors.) << I feel that
asciilifeform: decimation: that's what i have. bose's. with antiphase.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ah i c.
asciilifeform: well yes i do now.
asciilifeform: in my simple orkish minds, anything i have to switch off a filter to see is spam. but hey, who has never spammed.
DreadKnight: last time I talked to him about 2-3 years ago, I recall his latest game with the zeppelin that he wanted me to try
mircea_popescu: i think he's still semi-active on his blog.
DreadKnight: I wonder why he hasn't sticked with making games, he had quite a few decent prototypes done in pretty much no time
DreadKnight: got the privilege to meet him back in the day I started getting into game development
DreadKnight: mircea_popescu, totally; still reading comments actually, I got a bit of nostalgia now :D nice to see lots of comments on your blog made by krossfire as well
thestringpuller: but the one I'm going to is a skateboard ride away. So I can get drunk as shit and skate home.
moiety: i wanna go to that pub!
thestringpuller: Will probably play video games while I intoxicate myself at the pub up the street.
thestringpuller: I'm very glad it is Friday.
thestringpuller: i don't think I've seen you in sex week moiety
mircea_popescu: DreadKnight i tried them, for half a day.
DreadKnight: mircea_popescu, will spend time learning more about shares / dividends and mpex s.mg and after that I'll probably drop a nice presentation / documentation link you way and see if we can figure something out that works for both of us
benkay: maybe i'm just trying to get you to explain it and ruin teh lulz
benkay: or i'm retarded, take your pick.
mircea_popescu: i guess this isn't my best joke.
benkay: right i'm with you
benkay: i still don't understand. strips = stockings and stars = negroes?
decimation: there's some truth to that mircea. I suspect that the nuclear family was probably a reaction to this very problem
benkay: "i'll die poor, what of it. let's have another pabst and talk about the latest pictures on instagram."
bitcoinpete: not that i disagree...
mircea_popescu: i need a card.
decimation: I wonder what percentage of households in say DC would be able to purchase their own home (assuming they didn't have their "house wealth)
mircea_popescu: "i wanna move to des moines" said nobody ever.
fluffypony: mike_c: tough to say - I'd be expecting the BTC equivalent of anything from $10 to $15 hourly
mike_c: ok, i will enquire. what's the range on pay
fluffypony: mike_c: it's up to what they can commit - I'm happy with a part time role as long as they stay commited and active
mike_c: fluffypony: i might know a student interested in that deal. you want 15 hrs or 40 hrs? cuz he wouldn't have 40.
benkay: i got mouths to feed
mike_c: i think it was thestringpuller that was always using calc for stuff like x / 100 :)
benkay: fluffypony: by junior junior i imagine you want sub 0.1 B/hr
fluffypony: benkay: rate is negotiable, but I'm expecting junior junior;) I'd expect a weekly commitment of 15 - 40 hours
benkay: mircea_popescu: i'm still confused about 'headship'. how is it a measure for pinchable assets? and how is fixing a pipe in a house you're paying the mortgage on a foolish thing?
mike_c: yes. just selling 1 btc for 0.9 btc always strikes me as nuts. i guess if you need the liquidity.
benkay: mike_c: yeah, i saw that.
jurov: since it was quite a sum, i proceeded to withdraw directly from mpex
mike_c: i get it now. i was like "there's a mpex undo button??"
mircea_popescu: i have nfi how that'd work lol.
mike_c: ah ah. i thought somebody was trying to back out of a trade (which is obviously silly)
mircea_popescu: mike_c i took it to mean that he wants deposits flushed.
benkay: i don't know anyone my age who seriously thinks they'll be buying a house anywhere anytime soon
mircea_popescu: it's a hedge i guess.
mircea_popescu: i guess schiff / macaskill can claim moar bet volume than bitbet on that one lol.
chetty: well I bet males give up passwords pretty easy too, just different incentives