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ThickAsThieves: am i a terrorist?
ThickAsThieves: "The one thing I would be careful with though is the decline in the unemployment rate, the decline in the unemployment rate was a function of the labour force falling by 806,000, that is gargantuan decline," he added.
ThickAsThieves: yeah that's true, when i was there 10 people might show up, but only 3 or 4 ever talked
ThickAsThieves: they won't remove me from their email list so i still see hints of it
ThickAsThieves: i think the asicminer board is in an ill state actually
mircea_popescu: i wonder if asicminer has figured out yet that it can probably make a decent penny selling such "board seats"
ThickAsThieves: but i'm known for overestimating the idiot
ThickAsThieves: i think itll get to 3.0 then go away
ThickAsThieves: i almost died
ThickAsThieves: i saw someone use ethereum and the like as a Web 3.0 reference
mircea_popescu: i love linking. and i still believe in the old concepts of the web, from back like 1999
mircea_popescu: actually i link a lot.
pankkake: I made friends by blogging!!
pankkake: but I rarely see this practice (linking to posts) nowadays, even though this probably gave the name to "blogosphere"
mircea_popescu: oh i see
pankkake: I'm susbscribed to trilema comments so I see the links, that's all
pankkake: though I actually read your first post thanks to a trilema pingback, so, it werks
ThickAsThieves: i'm just jelly!
mircea_popescu: well what are you gonna do, ban me ? DO NOT HATE ME BECAUSE I AM BEEEEAUTIFULH!
ThickAsThieves: i was more digging at bitcoinpete, mp's #1 fan
CheckDavid: I don't get why they are so skinny though
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves i like the coloring.
ozbot: In the Spirit of the Devil’s Advocate, I Wear What Suits You
ThickAsThieves: http://devilsadvocate.biz/i-wear-what-suits-you/
mircea_popescu: http://i.imgur.com/OGW3PJD.jpg << total fucking good law. i want this on my books.
mircea_popescu: http://i.imgur.com/wu3IRQW.jpg this isn't so bad. minus the plastic stench ;/
VanCleef: i'm not an asshole, pay me mircea :P
mircea_popescu: and ellison has had a few scripts optioned, so i guess he'd know.
VanCleef: i only wrote one script but i deleted it recently
mircea_popescu: i dunno dood, i don't even run a studio. chances are, it'll never get made anyway
mircea_popescu: i gave him some freedom implicit there, so his job doesn't suck
mircea_popescu: this is where i link that "all one" california soap nuttery
ThickAsThieves: i guess, in a way, my blog *is* your blog, since you sparked it
mircea_popescu: no but i mean, if he's going for the outrage value, at least go all the way.
mircea_popescu: (i had that typed out :D)
ThickAsThieves: i'm gonna make a post in MY blog about the new ending, cuz apparently it's all the rage these days, blogging on top of what mp says ;)
VanCleef: i wanted to do a homage to 80's action films and do one about the most powerful groups of people that run the world today and they all work in this underground sex trade where they only use women as currency
VanCleef: to be honest its a lil over my head, i hvave to read it a few times to fully understand it
mircea_popescu: i don't write for audiences.
CheckDavid: I wonder if one can get government funds to research and develop crypto currencies
mircea_popescu: i could. but i prefer to give someone the chance to write the script.
VanCleef: yeah i was thinking that when i read it
mircea_popescu: CheckDavid oh i see now what you meant.
ThickAsThieves: i wear what suits you
mircea_popescu: VanCleef indicated i nthe text by "This scene makes or breaks the whole film"
ThickAsThieves: nah i'm just the delusionist
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves that's why you're in the marbles and i'm in the furs, because you actually believe that :D
CheckDavid: Ok I will test myself if you don't want to answer
ThickAsThieves: it's the political statement i wish to make
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves i guess it does that. and yes they are. but it ain't the political statement i wish to make :)
CheckDavid: mircea_popescu: could I voice VanCleef in case he were not already voiced?
CheckDavid: Like I am overcomplicated
VanCleef: i think it would make a good tv show
CheckDavid: When I talk like that my friends
Naphex: i just got ident'd :p
ThickAsThieves: i propose a different ending for the movie mp
CheckDavid: I have nothing to say though
mircea_popescu: ;;rate artifexd 1 Best story of a nick I ever heard.
mircea_popescu: lol look what i've found
TestingUnoDosTre: anyways, I must ponder this over a nights rest
TestingUnoDosTre: if I could sustain any positive % earnings in BTC / unit of time, my wealth would be skyrocketing in some years time
TestingUnoDosTre: i like where you're going
TestingUnoDosTre: does anyone here catch a whiff of what I'm smoking?
BingoBoingo: Honestly given the type of site BitBet is, I would be more concerned with trying to win the bets outright instead of chasing a fixed return.
TestingUnoDosTre: I'm not saying you would for sure win these bets. I'm asking, if you did win these bets, what would be the answer for a BTC scenario
TestingUnoDosTre: what rate should I pursue (I realize I don't have a control in it), for the two returns to be "equal"
TestingUnoDosTre: I'll lay .5 btc on yes and no for bet 1 and bet 2
TestingUnoDosTre: lets say I'm betting both sides on two bets
benkay: or you can i suppose
fluffypony: punkman: I was *so close* to pulling the trigger on that Montrex watch when I saw it, but I couldn't find anything open an "open source Suisse" movement on the web so I figured something was awry...so glad I didn't go for it
TestingUnoDosTre: but what I am asking is, what is the cost of locking up a bitcoin for a period of time
TestingUnoDosTre: I did just read the article today
benkay: i think the bitbet return betting the house line is about 0.5%/mo
TestingUnoDosTre: and then I wait 4 months
TestingUnoDosTre: so If I'm going to buy a stock option that expires jan 1 2015 of company A
TestingUnoDosTre: haha well I shall continue
BingoBoingo: I'm not sure what you are trying to mean matters much.
TestingUnoDosTre: do you know what I mean?
TestingUnoDosTre: so lets say I want to put 1 btc down on a bet that resolves 1 august 2014
TestingUnoDosTre: how much interest (in btc) should I need for a bet that resolves in half the time, to compare equally
TestingUnoDosTre: say I want to invest 1 btc in a bitbet that will resolve jan 1 2015
fluffypony: and why am I holding all these cloves of garlic?
AgentSmurf: where am i? what is this strange place? what is this sound? my own voice? eh..
bitcoinpete: aaand i'm out. cheers
TheNewDeal: so I could have authed as TestingUnoDosTre while I am thenewdeal, just have to be less retarded?
TheNewDeal: if I go and register TheNewDeal_ under this nick, can I still ;;eauth as TheNewDeal?
TestingUnoDosTre: tried and it said key was already i use
benkay: i hate to suggest the obvious...
TestingUnoDosTre: I'm trying to rid myself of TestingUnoDosTre
TestingUnoDosTre: ok, slightly retarded here but... how do I register a new nick to an already registered gpgkey via gribble?
mod6: it's good, everytime I read it asciilifeform
asciilifeform: 'Having bits of the landscape disappear can be a rude surprise. One summer I arrived in St. Petersburg and found that a new scourge had descended on the land while I was gone: a lot of manhole covers were mysteriously missing. Nobody knew where they went or who profited from their removal. One guess was that the municipal workers, who hadn't been paid in months, took them home with them, to be returned once th
ozbot: I sent a Freedom of Information Act Request to the FBI over a year ago. They just responded today. :
ThickAsThieves: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/24himq/i_sent_a_freedom_of_information_act_request_to/
mircea_popescu: if i knew that i'd have some kickass locusts
asciilifeform: known, i think, even to u.s. schoolboys
mircea_popescu: btw, i don't know if you realise this, but we're fucking up most insects something fierce.
mircea_popescu: sometimes i entertain this vague notion where we're somehow all wrong and the nonsense somehow actually makes sense
TestingUnoDosTre: I'm going to go create a betting website, go advertise on bitbet, then create a bitbet that my site will last throughout the year, then bet on NO
decimation: yeah I agree "us -> india" is on the optimistic side