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mircea_popescu: i dunno about the stupider angle. principal function of indian opium in chinese society was civilised (by their lights) old man gc.
mircea_popescu: there's 2 dozen in eggplant, also, and in everything else.
mircea_popescu: entirely possiobly. i never cared enough about pot to break out the thin layer cromatographs and shit.
mircea_popescu: but how hard is to break the mother mula conditioning, and always put hands on your tits under the shirt, rather than always try to remove same.
mircea_popescu: "oh, gotta get a real job". i'm sure she's rotting in some half-employment as we speak.
mircea_popescu: anyway, by all means, get an us toll free number, ima provide endpoint here later todayh.
mircea_popescu: they import german stuff i've never seen outside of germany.
mircea_popescu: strange notions of "essence" and "ousia" and what have you -- they're all euro reverberations of "middle earth got this perfume thing going!?!?!?!"
mircea_popescu: pretty much what got alchemy even started, iranians getting perfume extracted in dilute ethanol. TWENTY FIVE HUNDRED YEARS AGO
mircea_popescu: dude of course tincture works. it has worked for ~500 years.
mircea_popescu: (i suspect the whole reason us culture is so gender-awkward, btw, is that sometime (in the 1880s ?) older kids told younger kids "how hard it is" and it stuck as part of the culture in that culture-less place.)
mircea_popescu: but yes, he's also correct. most of the "difficulty" is forum-wank, whereby the kids that can ride a bike tell the kids underage watching in amazement what incredible skill it takes to ride a bike.
mircea_popescu: bout three or four years after they started giving monsanto columbia's tax money for no reason.
mircea_popescu: nobody's cancelled that, by the way. get out, you're wasting your life.
mircea_popescu: also very much what BingoBoingo says. coke's harder than wheat, weed's easier than thistle.
mircea_popescu: so it prolly doesn't even count as "a fifth of a pack", more like "a twelfth"
mircea_popescu: so in it being subunitary, it's properly called trivial.
mircea_popescu: you can;t get it packaged in less than lb, and usually kg, on intl market.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform he has a point, in that it's subpackaged.
mircea_popescu: certainly something the foundation could've been advertising itself as doing, lo these many years.
mircea_popescu: though honestly -- this might very well be a foundation item neh ?
mircea_popescu: imo we should have lookup version first and foremost. but if diana_coman has the time/inclination, implemnenting both isn't the end of world anyway.
mircea_popescu: we ~needed~ a republican crc32 anyway, it's useful and important, chapter head exactly like "we need a hash" or "we need a ffa", and i was aware extant code is not fit for pitching.
mircea_popescu: diana_coman nah, listen, just implement a crc32. it's very simple indeed, i quited the polynomial used, just divide by it and keep the change.
mircea_popescu: in other ideas : anyone wanna get a toll free us number & redirect it to here ? seems the better way to work that whole "or call xxx" angle.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well, that'll only last till new deedbot :D
mircea_popescu: lobbes you wanna do eulora-and-your-castle sorta thing ?
mircea_popescu: in point of fact this is a well oiled piece of machinery that we've fine tuned over year+ in the other hall.
mircea_popescu: hanbot do me a favour and add a wu thing for the fellows also. help the rocket along!
mircea_popescu: (for all the interested parties : lobbesbot announces the current slate of auctions hourly in #eulora, and privately on request. see the very useful manual lobbes wrote for it.)
mircea_popescu: i don't have a ready list of the many varieties of items therein sold, maybe lobbes keeps it as part of his eventual marketing efforts, but anyway. it's known diversity.
mircea_popescu: who the fuck ever closes anything, and if they do why;'d they open it.
mircea_popescu: heck, half the fucking reason we even did pizarro was to get this going, if yo urecall.
mircea_popescu: and besides, a forwards btc market can't hurt anything.
mircea_popescu: and i expect as the thing starts getting some history behind it, time intervals can narrow out, removing most of the fx unpleasantness.
mircea_popescu: mod6 i think that's very sensible, have some cash on hand jic.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i wouldn't go back on a deal. but the past is the past, what's to keep you from doing more for the future.
mircea_popescu: in any case to date danielpbarron 's been on the ball facilitating conversions also.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the only important magic number is the 10e9 ecu = 1 btc value. otherwise the whole thing's open, you can just say i dunno, "will only take BTC" as a comment in the next line, or w/e.
mircea_popescu: well i think part of the problem may be he himself didn't well understand this before right now.
mircea_popescu: mod6 maybe a lot of this isn't well understood, we got a situation of everything waiting for everything else.
mircea_popescu: symbolic, abstractly defined denominations, like the roman empire's solidus, or what have you. they don't even have to exist to be used.
mircea_popescu: ecu is an ~account currency~. you know what those are ?
mircea_popescu: traditionally settlement was offered indistinctly in either format.
mircea_popescu: because it'd run in the obvious -- "you don't like it, put some grease in, what's keeping you".
mircea_popescu: the great flexibility of this thing allows you to make your own symbols and so on, it's really well made.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform 1bn ecu = 1 btc. 168 is hours to live, here 1 week. "wFF" is a symbol i ad-hoc'd, "wired filthy fiats". explained in the next line. q0 is just a joke as to the poor quality of the fiats in question, has no bearing in this context.
mircea_popescu: to the undying shame (of the soi-dissant "banking system" foremost), that trade did not actually complete. but i daresay it did not complete because third parties idiocy, not because the auction mechanism.
mircea_popescu: "i have 8200 fiats which i'm willing to wire, will take at least 1 btc for it"
mircea_popescu: it's possibly not the best thing, and yes work to better it is underway, but you seem to me in the position of the fellow who is starving with cheese in hand for lack of steak.
mircea_popescu: but for some reason quite square heads stuck with a collection of balls.