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BingoBoingo: Maybe he works as
a "convenient highlighter"
mircea_popescu: be that as it may, he's
a reasonably useful tool, and in
a utilitarian world his idiocy does not define him as his utility does.
mircea_popescu: but that aside, the relative success of b-
a as compared to every other dickless-shithead run channel on freenode and beyond speaks directly to the superior cultural achievements and ability of the structured society.
mircea_popescu: fuck off, the only reason you can even have
a decent meal in new york is the fucking mob.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I am astounded by that post, the structure and foundation of his argument, and his conclusions. Applying Subcontinental templates onto Us society with the readiness
a programmer might call some javascript data structures to be used in python
dignork: in any case, through his writings I was searching for
a better model, but he forgot to provide one, so it was fun to read, but nothing more
mircea_popescu: if this were the true case he wouldn't have been out there trying to make
a bitcoin-killer-ap six weeks after it became obvious to him bitcoin is the killer ap.
dignork: mircea_popescu: he is consistent, moldbag is proposing
a model of "better" government, when current one crashes, for whatever reason.
mircea_popescu: this because back at reality ranch, the only way to win the game is to constantly attack all the way to the king. there's no prizes for having lost the game but "successfully sieged
a rook".
mircea_popescu: the whole thing works, intentionally or no, as
a fine work of mr o'brien. only
a fucking imbecile would imagine that THAT is the book of the insurgency.
mircea_popescu: that reminds me BingoBoingo : i was gonna say i don't like curtis yarvin / mencius moldbug for the following very specific reason - he sounds exactly like
a propaganda job for smart people.
mircea_popescu: On Friday, the peso recovered
a smidgen, and the reported “blue dollar” rate dipped below 14 ARS/USD, after the central bank had reportedly blown $10 million of its foreign exchange reserves to prop it up. << to put this in perspective : the argentine natl bank foreign reserves went up 2.5 bn in the interval since i wrote im supporting them and the reporting cutoff for q2. (ie, early august)
BingoBoingo: I imagine MP reading these logs off of
a projection onto
a girl's back as she's bent over
ben_vulpes: now i have this image of mp sitting watching trilema logs scroll by on slow days in #b-
a WoT-Hater: just
a good citizen clicking
a link on the internet, sir
mircea_popescu: i guess it's really
a comission of idiots, but anyway.
ben_vulpes: "you must have an iq of less than 115 to actually pass the tests and be
a cop"
BingoBoingo:
http://www.bnd.com/2014/08/27/3370370/lawsuit-deputies-coerced-confession.html << Yates, who has diminished cognitive ability, was repeatedly told that they knew he was involved in the robbery and that he could avoid being put into jail by confessing, the lawsuit states.
A visibly shaken Yates eventually agreed to admit to the crime to end the psychologically brutal interrogation, his attorneys said. The defendants had to repeated
mircea_popescu: xanthyos: TheNewDeal: the site has
a profit motive in having big showdowns. in cash games it increases rake taken on the hand. << it's not just that. most poker players are idiots. they like to see the pretty pictures. makes them feel better about themselves.
mircea_popescu: to put it another way :
a century ago, back when university professors had the common decency to die aged 60ish, kids ended up with assistant professroships aged 20something, not 30+.
mircea_popescu: in fact, any half-sane investor would back out once this mess is brought to their attention, seeing how the only thing coming out of it is
a decade of litigation on his money.
mircea_popescu: nubbins`: in making the election to accept $20 for
a cab ride home, you will be deemed to not have been drugged and assaulted at my house last night << sounds legit.
mircea_popescu: dub:
a bartender can't legally serve someone thats already drunk as fuck,
a bank only has its own criteria << actualkly
a bank also can't lend to the bankrupt, so...
mircea_popescu: RagnarDanneskjol: blaming banks for bubble is like blaming bartenders for alcoholism << this has
a lengthy tradition in the puritan world.
mircea_popescu: confucius sez : one is not
a millionaire by day what is
a million at night.
ben_vulpes: well with all this drama i should be
a millionaire any day
assbot: mike_hearn comments on getutxos:
a convenient way to crash bitcoind
mircea_popescu: the problem with reddit is that
a fucktarded audience gives incentive for fucktarded arguments from people who would otherwise shut up.
mircea_popescu: fucking hell ?
a) STILL with the "satoshi hairball" bs ? 5 years later ? b) it's not "Reasonable" ? it';s fucking mandatory.
mircea_popescu: "Satoshi created
a hairball. It takes years sometimes to cleanup
a codebase that has accumulated
a lot of technical debt. It's not reasonable to just stop all feature development in the meantime."
mircea_popescu: cazalla: is price-to-income
a good way of evaluating
a housing bubble? << it's an indicator. tho it also reflects the center/periphery balance (ie, in any realm, the capital is cheapest and the fringes most expensive. that's where mining happens or w/e, higher risk adventuring. easier money, less boring people, higher risk so many explanations for larger rents)
assbot: justusranvier comments on getutxos:
a convenient way to crash bitcoind
gribble: Error: I am not seeing this user on IRC. If you want information about
a registered gpg user, try the 'gpg info' command instead.
mircea_popescu: "Mike's response to that concern included the idea that "the community" would "just" decide to delete UTXOs - that is freeze funds - by creating
a chain fork. Not the first time he's suggesting freezing funds; I think he's being
a bit tone deaf here..."
assbot: nullc comments on getutxos:
a convenient way to crash bitcoind
TheNewDeal: I'm mostly afraid of
a sibyl vane attack
punkman: ben_vulpes: but is btcd
a good idea if they are compatible with the newest, bestest derpfeatures from bitcoind?
xanthyos: "no true scammer would take
a .scam domain, they MUST be honest."
xanthyos: TheNewDeal: the site has
a profit motive in having big showdowns. in cash games it increases rake taken on the hand. in tournaments it accelerates the rate at which people are eliminated, thus reducing server load
punkman: " in Washington state, N.P.R. found, offenders even “get charged
a fee for
a jury trial — with
a 12-person jury costing $250, twice the fee for
a six-person jury.”"
ThickAsThieves: this reminds me, wasnt there
a dude repeatedly doing FUD on Cavirtex in the mos before delisting?
ThickAsThieves: please post
a link to the original prospectus i gave you in the thread too
ThickAsThieves: "In the case where VirtEx is bought out by another company or VirtEx pays
a dividend to its shareholders, Bitcoin shareholders will get paid in Bitcoin at the Canadian dollar equivalent rate using the best market prices at the time"
ThickAsThieves: "his is NOT
a separate fund; this is the fund that represents real equity ownership in VirtEx!"
kakobrekla: >NastyFans aren't taking any kind of
a loss, it is all positive ROI for them. There are no costs associated with NastyFans and hashrate is all
a win for them, so taking
a loss is actually impossible with our structure.
ThickAsThieves: i remember when someone was unloading coinbase shares before they became
a thing
dvsdude: joe daveies should have known not to trust
a guy with two first names
nubbins`: i like how their buyback offer has
a fixed btc/cad exchange rate too
xanthyos: flop
a nut royal with the cards in descending order
nubbins`: imagine you own cavirtex. wouldn't you do anything in your power to eat up all profits and never pay
a dividend?
ThickAsThieves: i ask about the value because you might have some workarounds if you dont qualify as
a qualified invetsor
dvsdude: hate to say what
a chump i'am but started to buy them in 2011
nubbins`: in making the election to accept $20 for
a cab ride home, you will be deemed to not have been drugged and assaulted at my house last night
nubbins`: "in making the election to accept the Offer, you will be deemed to have never been
a shareholder"
ThickAsThieves: dvsdude, do you qualify as
a proper invetsor or whatever canada calls it?
nubbins`: or did they open it up again afterwards, to scoop up
a ton of shares on the cheap?
dvsdude: i want to give them back but i'm taking
a hit
nubbins`: do you think the buyback offer is at
a fair price?
Vexual: it's like the closest thing to
a culture we have
dub: what is?
a loan to value ratio..
dub:
a bartender can't legally serve someone thats already drunk as fuck,
a bank only has its own criteria
RagnarDanneskjol: well, i beg to differ. pretty sure Australian banks require more paperwork for
a loan than
a bartender requires to serve
a drink
RagnarDanneskjol: ok, was making
a more general comparison. both have tight governance around when & who can be served. whats your point?
dub: there is tight governance around when and who
a bartender can serve
dub: thats
a pretty stupid thing to say
RagnarDanneskjol: re: is it
a good way of evaluating? it is
a descent indicator - if compared to historical data in the same area/demographic (as opposed some arbitrary comparison to
a region on the opposite end of the planet)
dub: Sydney is
a pretty livably city compared to those shitholes
cazalla: is price-to-income
a good way of evaluating
a housing bubble?
mircea_popescu: "107 Four former ministers accused of plotting against General Mobutu were hanged in Leopoldville's Grand Square before
a Wembley-sized "gate" of 100,000 after being condemned at
a 90-minute open-air "trial". No evidence was presented, no prosecution case made, there were no witnesses and the defendants had no counsel. There were also no protest marches in London, no sermon in St. Paul's, no letters to The Times, no de
mircea_popescu: That Rhodesian Africans actually assist their "oppressors" in hunting down terrorist would-be "liberators" refutes the lie that this is
a land of turmoil and strife. There has, in fact, been more racial disturbance and bloodshed in Chicago or Los Angeles in
a week than in Rhodesia in
a year.
mircea_popescu: After
a year of pressures, scorn, sanctions and diatribe, Rhodesia emerged more resolute in her will to survive, and with
a more stable, stronger, and more dignified image (192) —an image gratuitously, though unintentionally, created for her by the failure of her would-be detractors. Mainspring of her stability lies in the deep reservoir of inter-racial goodwill.
mircea_popescu: The "talks" were resumed. Elsewhere in Africa things were about normal—for Africa. There was
a coup here and there (140), Zambia committed transport hara-kiri (137), some lively Somali border skirmishing produced its quota of casualties, summary "justice" was administered in the Congo (107), and about 1,000 Ugandans were bumped off by Premier Obote (119)—nothing really serious enough to warrant the attention of
a