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asciilifeform: currency can survive about five minutes with a dead usg << more complicated. reichsmark outlived reich by a few years (until occupying armies got their shit together)
decimation: came new in box, sealed package. this version has a built-in DDS, probably cost well over $2000 new a few years ago
mircea_popescu: what else ? a stash of gold is not "govt gives you permission" ? 300 bucks in a wallet ?
decimation: dead usg << I find it amusing that folks like the20year think that owning some raw land is a defense against such cataclysms
mircea_popescu: assbot: American Bitcoin exchange CEO, 28, researched suicide methods before jumping from a Singapore highrise due to 'work and personal issues' | Daily Mail Online <<< they forgot to mention what he read. it was http://trilema.com/2010/viata-suge-cum-ne-omoram/
mircea_popescu: ugs can survive a coupla weeks with a dead currency ; currency can survive about five minutes with a dead usg on whose faith and credit it is based.
mircea_popescu: mats_cd03: its okay, i have faith the usg will mismanage itself into oblivion long before the dollar fails from due course << this is like hoping the heart will cease functioning long before the liver gives in. in reality, they're so interconnected their demise is a cvasi-simultaneous event willy-nilly.
peterl: you can't buy it all, the rest of us want a share too
mircea_popescu: decimation: if you find a mob who is all derping the same thing, is it a conspiracy or organic knowledge discovery? <<< it's the internet :D
mircea_popescu: mats_cd03:it just occurred to me how much of a fight btc is going to be in for with the usd over the next decade < duh :)
mike_c: to put a different way, is all that brk money going out as divs this month? :)
decimation: ah interesting. I tried the 'german' overlay but I just found it really annoying ('tis a QWERTZ layout')
mats_cd03: a cry for help
asciilifeform: it being a tendril of the octopus in good standing (whatever appearances to the contrary) - why susprised.
decimation: "On February 10, Radtke posted a link to an essay entitled 'The Psychological Price of Entrepreneurship' and commented obliquely that 'Everything has it's price'. In comments posted on the day her death was announced, her friend Krystal Choo, who founded the online travel firm ZipTrip, said that 'This exact post has been killing me."
kakobrekla: o wait, its a she
assbot: American Bitcoin exchange CEO, 28, researched suicide methods before jumping from a Singapore highrise due to 'work and personal issues' | Daily Mail Online
decimation: if you find a mob who is all derping the same thing, is it a conspiracy or organic knowledge discovery?
mats_cd03: 22:12:52 <+asciilifeform> buy while its cheap << go try and buy. << not a problem for anyone thats not american, i suppose.
asciilifeform: decimation: right. why place 'fritz chip' as a distinct physical bugger, where it is both apparent and easily manipulated.
mats_cd03: it just occurred to me how much of a fight btc is going to be in for with the usd over the next decade
asciilifeform: in such a way that the turd would interfere with proper operation unless fed the correct magic
asciilifeform: so then final lock was placed as a turd in the fissile core (in fusion nukes, fissile initiator, almost same)
asciilifeform: this was a threadbare solution, for obvious reasons - easy to spot where 'the goods' sit; know where to 'hotwire.'
asciilifeform: when (americans - afaik, no one else) felt a desire for locks, the first such took the form of little 'safes', modules similar to car ignition boxes of the time.
asciilifeform: fritz chip carries on as a diversion only, not an honest effort. the folks in usg with remaining working neurons realized after 'clipper' that a plainly labelled bull's eye - is dumb.
mircea_popescu: should idiocy a la tcg actually arrive to critical mass
mircea_popescu: roughly the same as following marker iodine through a body.
decimation: There is indeed a relationship between the Microsoft Trustworthy Computer Group and the Trusted Computing Group http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/trusted-computing-conference-announces-microsoft-trusted-computing-group-wave-systems-1824245.htm
asciilifeform: a la egyptians
asciilifeform: http://www.ljplus.ru/img4/d/a/dargot/_eres.jpg
mircea_popescu: us chick in a car with a stud that outruns the cops, she has something to bitch about.
mircea_popescu: web wallets are such a winningful idea.
BingoBoingo: I'm off for a bit. If I'm not back by Monday... maybe worry I've been captured.
mircea_popescu: i remember seeing films which thought 1mn dollars was a fabulous reward
tatonaplane: I thought unwashed reading bitcoinmagazine for a sec
BingoBoingo: Dude, you are on a plane
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> bfl assets seized << all pointers seem to indicate the forum post is a prank.
ben_vulpes: that is then shipped to S.A. for their "high grade" ethanol
mircea_popescu: i thought it was a crypto for black kids.
mircea_popescu: you just did a poor job of arguing against them :)
mircea_popescu: well it was a time of great art.
mircea_popescu: BlueMeanie4 it would put a lot of pressure on coallescing lordships
BlueMeanie4: therefore if you dont have a high life-value rating, you shouldnt express your opinions
rithm: mod6 accidentally a word
mircea_popescu: los_pantalones well cause it's still cheaper to kill a guy than to annimate a corpse.
los_pantalones: why is that a real danger ?
los_pantalones: mircea_popescu brk-a splits and you win ?
BlueMeanie4: per share? what if theres a split?
mircea_popescu: you need a wot account and then a rating from someone in assbot's trust list to be able to self voice.
los_pantalones: ;;rate mircea_popescu 1 fearless prognosticator and champion whack-a-mole'r
gribble: Error: 'fearless' is not a valid integer.
los_pantalones: ;;rate 1 fearless prognosticator and champion whack-a-mole'r
los_pantalones: mircea_popescu 1 fearless prognosticator and champion whack-a-mole'r
los_pantalones: ;;rate mircea_popescu 1 fearless prognasticator and champion whack-a-mole'r
bounce: .oO( pot & kettle sitting in a tree... )
los_pantalones: i'll do now, i'm a selfish person
jurov: that's cuz i made a testing tx
BlueMeanie4: hmm im a bit confused
Nick___: just glad you run a stand up site
mircea_popescu: Nick___ seems a tx failed to propagate properly. sorry for the inconvenience. will be rebroadcast presently. thanks for reporting.
mike_c: Nick___: which bet was yours? hover over the 'time' column to get a link to the bet.
mircea_popescu: mike_c that's not even half of it. even 1k on either side wil probably draw reaction. i'd guess if you drop 5k on a side you'll get more volume on the other just on general principle.
mircea_popescu: if he wrote brk-a puts and he somehoiw has a default bitcoin put by some reason (say, the reason being large holdings) then this is a +ev move
mircea_popescu: this could be a structured deal
mircea_popescu: actually, maybe he's shorting brk-a and looking for cheap insurance.
los_pantalones: or lookin for cheap brk-a exposure
mike_c: berkshire is a constant
mike_c: but the story is hot now. 1500 BTC bet short on bitcoin sounds like a juicy headline.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the adonis-number needs a footnote probably
los_pantalones: larger bets in vegas they make you walk up to the window to get a special quote
mircea_popescu: where else can you drop 50k on a side and not appreciably swing the odds.
mike_c: if i ran the chamber of commerce i likely have already written a dozen articles about bitbet :)
mats_cd03: that sounds like an interesting enterprise i'd like to be a part of.
mike_c: man, if i ran a site called bitcoin news i would be knocking down bitbet's door to get an interview about this huge bet going on.
thestringpuller: interesting note. recently i realized brk-a has less market cap than AAPL
thestringpuller: to see btc / brk-a
thestringpuller: los_pantalones: i was just doing some basic arithemetic against the BRK-A bet
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: the more annoying you are to larger groups of people, the less advisable it is to go into a fucking ravine. stick to the town, everyone's annoying there. << or why jooz are avowed urbanites.
ThickAsThieves: i do believe there is a certain phenomenon about hating your own traits in other people
xmj: ThickAsThieves: play rubberduck debugging for a second here
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: so you make a commitment to a house that exceeds the commitment you make to the woman in question. seems a bad equity play. << it's a terrible equity play. but plebs don't think in terms of +ev, only in the emotional "nao"
xmj: ThickAsThieves: basically an alpha without a drive to LEAD people and with a drive to be left alone.
ThickAsThieves: it's funny i was literally trying to thnk of a name for this 20 min ago
thestringpuller: a woman teaching you is different than a man
thestringpuller: there is always a maternal component to a field
mod6: ima reset this bot, got a fix for the pools output
ThickAsThieves: xmj, but what is not clear is whether that is a good thing
xmj: you can have a virtual dick. or be a physical mangina.
ThickAsThieves: nah a man will get obsessive about any given hobby
pete_dushenski: in this fairy tale, a real man would therefore be one who is good at dishes and cooking?
ThickAsThieves: she's a "man"
pete_dushenski: ThickAsThieves: because a self-defined real woman is good at making money instead?
ThickAsThieves: a real woman as male-defined does
pete_dushenski: ben_vulpes: <decimation> 'owning' your home is partially renting from the government, partially speculation on mortgage bonds, and partially a 'ticket' to future 'wealth' << fucking bril << mhm.
ThickAsThieves: maybe it's a real woman, as self-defined, doesnt give good head
pete_dushenski: then again, maybe that was the point vis a vis the house ownership dealio
pete_dushenski: in my mind, it's sorta the mark of a real woman.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: decimation there used to be this thing that you're not a real woman if you give good head << missing a "don't" ?
kakobrekla: jurov the idea is that if you dont understand the interface, you wont understand the bet and translating bets in generally a bad idea.