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punkman: I wouldn't bet on it
HeySteve: I assume BitPay and BitGo (which I haven't heard of) are the relevant companies
kakobrekla: which i guess is as good as infinite
HeySteve: kakobrekla, I believe idiocy will eventually end in failure. sure there might be an initial boom while other idiots pile in but...
HeySteve: wish I'd gotten short on that wannabe pornstar guy who gambled all his investor's funds away
HeySteve: a bet against "amazing companies" I guess
HeySteve: mircea_popescu, I'd like to speak to you about it when you're back
kakobrekla: i doubt
kakobrekla: wear a helmet, i guess.
danielpbarron: i think aantonop is going to be there, among other "well known" idiots in the "bitcoin community"
danielpbarron: i recall some story of ver going to visit ian from free talk live and convincing them to accept BTC for selling ad space
danielpbarron: i've never been either; it's gonna be teeming with what MP refers to as "libertards"
mike_c: http://porcfest.com/ hmm, i don't think this is what you're talking about.
mircea_popescu: i never been, how they go ?
danielpbarron: yeah i plan in selling stuff for BTC; not interested in shorting it
danielpbarron: i don't think i'll go to any future porcfests; i kinda regret buying the ticket for this one but i might as well use it at this point
danielpbarron: I don't expect that to arrive before I leave
mircea_popescu: nah i was gonna buy you one :)
danielpbarron: I ordered one from nubbins` already; is there another shirt?
danielpbarron: I'm gonna be at porcfest next week; what can I do for the -assets community beyond generally promoting it in conversation?
mike_c: if i understand: BitPay get acquired by Facebook. D.BPAY holders are entitled to some share of the increase in facebook market cap.
fluffypony: http://i.imgur.com/4xJH4ui.jpg
Vexual: i call it red wine and dentures
Vexual: yeah i'll have to read up on that
Vexual: i'm ot sure i've got full title
jurov: lol what pm i got <Vexual> ill take a 0 fee br acct
jurov: they'll prolly need free coinbr account provided i'll sell their souls.. does anyone want them?
jurov: anyway i'd be surprised if schmucks who may buy D.* have mpex or at least coinbr accounts *and* whole bitcoins
jurov: mircea_popescu: can i open D.BBS and short my shares there?
BingoBoingo: I have no idea
mircea_popescu: i was forcing a point !!1
BingoBoingo: I'll assume he's already dead, at least on the inside
mircea_popescu: a.s. neil is perhaps the dumbest guy i read this year
mircea_popescu: yeah, with it here i remember it.
mircea_popescu: punkman i like it when people build things upon things.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: ;;google site:trilema.com live to be a millionaire << shit i wrote that ?! in another decade trilema'll be new reading to me too ;/
mircea_popescu: dude i think kako is like the funniest guy here.
assbot: I was considering bidding on the seized SR bitcoin, but I think I'll just wait for the US Marshals to tweet the private keys to the winners.
Mats_cd03: asks q then leaves while i type response
decimation: I like bitbet because it's extremely transparent that way
asciilifeform: war chest is there, to everyone's satisfaction, i imagine
decimation: I guess they are tickets to a show that never happened
decimation: I'm using "bank" to mean "pile of bitcoin"
decimation: I assume it's just you with your bitcoin bank right?
decimation: I'm confused about who the counterparty is
decimation: when visiting, I discovered that Sun Yat Sen went to the same school as... Obama
decimation: well, yes, today. but I would wager that if you exchanged the populations of hawaii and singapore, it wouldn't look that way for long
decimation: When I was in Hawaii last week I thought about this w.r.t. Hawaii. They own one of the most strategic islands on earth
asciilifeform: e.g. i can get pcbs made here. it just costs 35x what it does in shanghai.
decimation: the thing I don't understand ascii is that it's clear that russia has the brainpower to make alternatives
mircea_popescu: no but i mean, gimme something actionable as per the plan you laid out above.
mircea_popescu: so which kind am i ?
mircea_popescu: or who knows, maybe he's personally dumb on the score i guess.
mircea_popescu: decimation not what i meant. what i means was, the proposition that somehow girls naked in the street are tools of the us bezzle. it's ludicrous.
decimation: I agree that the notions of puritanical modesty are hilarious. I was born in an old school Lutheran hospital (now closed) - my birth certificate's seal shows a doctor pulling a baby out of a vagina
mircea_popescu: purest historical accident. i can understand why us-ians would believe it, because they love to believe themselves relevant
decimation: I guess they are pretty close to the Turkic Tajiks
asciilifeform: decimation: because last i checked, the entire place converts to tajikistan in <100yrs.
mircea_popescu: "i can't love you because what if you leave me"
mircea_popescu: i do understand it, but i am pointing out iot's not all that it's cracked up to be.
assbot: What I did in Russia Jeffrey Sachs
decimation: I blame this guy http://jeffsachs.org/2012/03/what-i-did-in-russia/
BingoBoingo: In a firesale I wonder if Iowa has more value as agriculture or uranium
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i don't quite see it. so far, they got 50 bn or so, not paying it back
decimation: I wonder if this has to do with the sudden uptick in acquisitions by the bezzle masters
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i can't rightfully say china is 'immovable object.' if you care to try 'irresistible force' there, we'll watch, cheer.
mircea_popescu: whoredom is heavily tilted in the direction of blondes, yet any girl i train can top any brothel she wants.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform everytrhing has its exceptions. what do i care what the statistics are ?
decimation: mircea, I suspect the sayings of don colacho would be an excellent way to brush up on spanish: http://don-colacho.blogspot.com/
mircea_popescu: i've yet to have a problem with getting in the wot.
mircea_popescu: that i doubt very much.
mircea_popescu: i can attest that when you can have their head, they're reasonable, fwtw.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Not at all. I guess Imma have to blog.
mircea_popescu: i keep trying to get this out for awhile nao
BingoBoingo: I like how Bitpay couldn't even sponsor a game in a stadium actually suited to the sport.
BingoBoingo: http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-ncaa-college-football-bowl-sponsorship-bitpay/ is closest I've found to Bitpay Pr so far.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: consider benkay's point. if i have to wrap sample pcbs in benjamins to get them through customs, this ought to be considered a cost of doing business in Ar
mircea_popescu: how people can be this stupid still amazes me. i mean sure, forum derps, okay, they're all by themselves.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I've been looking around slowly. Not found anything yet.
mircea_popescu: http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--1bXIe06V--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/w33uouiq516gt1btjhjt.jpg << lol they dug upo that old gallippi pic did they
mircea_popescu: instead of doing what i fucking tell them to do.
asciilifeform: anything fucktarder muricans do gets stalled << whatever the reason - let's say benkay or i need to get a crate of strange through Ar door. no go, because passport is wrong color. or this is disinfo ?
BingoBoingo: I'm still realling that the Bitpay bought one of the most expensive and lowest return forms of advertising.
mircea_popescu: benkay: the word i got was that large, tech-heavy equipment gets stalled at the border. << anything fucktarder muricans do gets stalled everywhgere.
mircea_popescu: the entire "attainder" thing is the result of internet fucktards opining on matters. i wouldn't repeat it.
decimation: I thought it was illeagal for a bill of attainder
Mats_cd03: i see
asciilifeform: at least where i live
decimation: what I would like an "economist" to explain to me is why we subject science and engineering to such high competition but professions like collecting welfare, teaching k-12, gov't employee, etc are subject to no pressure whatsoever
BingoBoingo: In the location I'm looking at $3.2 k/year rents a ten minute walk from work, no roomates, because they are horrible for opsec
asciilifeform: i often say to people, that they should calculate their salary per minute of doing-something-they'd-rather-not
BingoBoingo: If I get this bezzel job I don't plan to pay more than $300.month to rent
decimation: yeah, I was reading greenspun last night and I thought of you - his post about the low quality of rentals available to citizens
asciilifeform: i don't know him well. if you want to dispute his info, wake him up (he does - did? lurk here)
asciilifeform: decimation: kanzure is a friend of a good chum of mine. as i understand, he made 'fuck you money' in one of the last 'dotcom' bubbles and wanders around the world.
decimation: all the numbers I've see from the bay area companies show that senior engineers are making maybe $150k
decimation: Everyone at our school knows who Dylan is. He comes and goes to lessons as he pleases, habitually swears at teachers, and is an accomplished playground bully. ... I was surprised to hear Dylan?s name announced. He had collected one of the largest amounts of ?reward stickers? in year seven, and was due to collect a prize. Many teachers, it turned out, had taken to bribing him with these stickers in a desperate attempt to appease his
BingoBoingo: In about 12 hours I have an interview for a job in the bezzel economy, so pumped
decimation: oh yeah I forgot that guy - I think you sent the link before. I was amused by the Tcl
BingoBoingo: I kind of wonder what an asynchronous ASIC design would do to BTC mining