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chetty: <mircea_popescu> so you know, the day i can bribe
a mexican official to shoot
a federal agent for sport...//by then it wont matter
HeySteve: orlov has
a lot to say about the failure of imperial USA, he's not the only one to predict balkanization
mircea_popescu: so you know, the day i can bribe
a mexican official to shoot
a federal agent for sport...
mircea_popescu: california was and will be happy to continue as
a province of mexico city.
dub: but
a spring in the sense of populace uprising, nah
DreadKnight: dub, communism is not freedom; china made own linux distro and imposed it, for
a fee, in internet-caffee places and other businesses, kicking microsoft in the nuts and finally taking over
dub: china is not exactly
a shining example of freedom
DreadKnight: college students had
a protest, they were shot by government / military
DreadKnight: I like that btc got mentioned quite
a few times in
a sci-fi / futuristic show called "Almost Human"
DreadKnight: hah, there are
a lot of re-branded pharmaceutical drugs nowadays, basically the same thing as aspiring or other common stuff, just at way higher prices
xmj_: there's
a way around every law; loopholes are built-in by default anyway.
chetty: pass
a law, it shall not rain until after sundown
FabianB: <+mircea_popescu> FabianB: isn't on bbet either, often bets with 0.1 on yes and 10 btc on no << that's not so often is it ? <-- no, just saw
a few
xmj_: someone banning bitcoin would be the best thing ever, as it's much like
a hydra.
mircea_popescu: it's not merely "more fish in the pond". that's the easy part. "more swimming fishes, that are doing fine in spite of
a laundry list of <deffects> you may imagine"
DreadKnight: so it was just
a matter of time; mining difficulty keeps increasing
DreadKnight: asciilifeform, well, after GPU mining was redundant on btc,
a lot of people switched to ltc, but pretty much no coin is worth mining with GPU anymore now
DreadKnight: it's not very likely any time soon that all humans will only use
a coin, same goes for languages;
a lot of people benefit from conversions / exchanges
DreadKnight: they're kinda like branches of software, so
a bit of experimentation is good to be done in "test areas" rather than on the popular blockchain everybody is using
DreadKnight: there are only
a few coins that actually bring something new to the table
DreadKnight: altcoins are kinda like linux distros nowadays,
a lot of people making yet another one for no apparent reason (trying to get rich with not much work), just to change the name and such, hoping they might get lucky
DreadKnight: benkay, took my quite
a bit to remember that MPEx thing and figure out what part of it names stand for, still not sure about the full name; it's an acronym; anyway, stock related stuff is usually named using acronyms and rather obscure compared to regular brands
benkay: i suppose if they're undifferentiable from other chicom-originating crap, DreadKnight. otherwise, there's value provided that
a brand has nothing to do with.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: 46k-spent-mining-hardware-final-reckoning << that'd have been
a much better post if it actually included numbers. you know, paid this, then, made back this much so far etc.
DreadKnight: there's
a lot of psychology in branding, can even make or break the products themselves
DreadKnight: mircea_popescu, very common names can give companies or product
a huge boost regarding making those finances
mircea_popescu: DreadKnight no, mainly you're turrning yourself into
a problem because you keep beating that dead horse discussion while we're talking finance, which is the overriding topic here.
DreadKnight: benkay, first that I hear that word, guess it's
a location xD
benkay: DreadKnight: and yet i'm
a baron of la serenissima, and most people are not never will nor ever could.
DreadKnight: mircea_popescu, mainly I have
a problem with Apple and who allowed it to have that name
mircea_popescu: benkay well he has
a serious problem with
a bunch of kids that wish to be made rich by bitcoin through nothing more than just that.
kuzetsa: aww, you got me in
a quote? whatever :(
benkay: jurov et al
a huge issue in btc finance right now is the lack of long term plays and the fixation on returns! now!
kuzetsa: DreadKnight: when I hear "apple" I think of the company and feel
a little sick
DreadKnight: benkay, most people when they hear "apple" get
a little more spit in their mouth, it's how psychology works, you have involuntary reflexes which you can't control properly
mircea_popescu: but this is
a sidepoint anyway, im more interested in the f.* impossible to liquidate thing
mircea_popescu: unrelatedly : anyone wanna do some alpha testing of
a brand new service ?
mircea_popescu: jurov: that's the point, i expect f.* to be impossible to liquidate, unless there is
a leak or "leak" << how do you mean ?
mircea_popescu: basically, if it's not one of the things they misrepresent, it looks like
a pig w/o
a lipstick.
DreadKnight: benkay, but yeah, sometimes ambiguity helps making associations and remembering is all about that, plus some brain exercising is not bad, but I thought it's what you had against those people wanting to make
a coin called "bacon" or "bacoin"
mircea_popescu: pigeons: no there is
a lot of truth to that << there' sa lot of truth to this : there IS NO OTHER SIDE. it's just words on the web.
mircea_popescu: whether it will or whether it wont fundamentally hinges on whether the vc economy is as relevant for bitcoin as mpoe is. which is
a point i can't hardly help i dont think
mircea_popescu: jurov: and if situation gets interesting, mp can pull asks, leaving me unable to add something to other side << i shouldn't be the only person in that market. provided anyone gives
a shit about the derps themselves or their general market, enough to actually spend the usd they CLAIM to have received in investment, then that market should easily compete with s.mpoe.
mircea_popescu: jurov from what i gather you're looking for
a product marketable to the retail investor. that'd likely be mpif. it makes about 1% or so.
benkay: <DreadKnight> <benkay> if these people inhabited
a space i would commission nukes and glass them <-- I hate words with multiple meanings, because they tend to complicate things, so I really hate Apple for having that name, should be illegal imo *sigh*
kuzetsa: well I tried: "transcvasimultiultra" on bing, and apparently mircea_popescu is
a multicultural marketing agent or something
mircea_popescu: if i happen to have formed
a wrong idea it is my god given right as
a transcvasimultiultra and so forth to stick to it and nobody can criticize me!
kuzetsa: ok, that counts
a "close enough" to the safeword **unties**
kuzetsa: yeah uhm... they're kinda designed for pushing out noisy funny shaped crotchfruit the weight of
a bowling ball
kuzetsa: punkman: not sure what you mean about
a lever O_O ... they're designed so the muscles can get
a good grip and gspot stim and whatnot
mircea_popescu: took
a while for things to switch because the strapon seems so intuitive.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it is. there's
a lumpy thing lodges inside the vagina and
a proby thing going upfront.
mircea_popescu: kuzetsa anyway, i appreciate the girl's shaved and trimmed. clearly she'd make
a decent fuck toy.
DreadKnight: <benkay> if these people inhabited
a space i would commission nukes and glass them <-- I hate words with multiple meanings, because they tend to complicate things, so I really hate Apple for having that name, should be illegal imo *sigh*
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform why can't it produce
a fucking radio set ?
mircea_popescu: (that country is so mercenary it even does spying as
a service)
fluffypony: punkman: yeah, you can buy the real spices from
a bunch of places in the EU, and there are expats that know how to make biltong, but I think the local beef + conditions in the parts of the Western Cape that are home to speciality producers outweigh anything produced overseas
punkman: kuzetsa: well yeah, it's
a cut of meat, not like processed jerky
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so basically you're saying, "if meta-nsa exists, it's
a mirror of b-
a"
mircea_popescu: i mean, obviously valuable scientific research doesn't happen in the govt pen. this is hardly surprising. for that matter, europe has
a lrge number of "incubators" for start-ups, even timisoara has one, london thinks it dominates this field
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know, between the meta-nsa nd the petrified forest you got
a very dissonant thing going. how about the petrified-nsa and the meta-forest ?
fluffypony: punkman: I'll have to see how well I have to hermetically seal it to take it in my hand luggage, then I'll take
a few kgs with me and just run the risk of it getting confiscated
mircea_popescu: just because
a buncha muricans pretend to be scientists shouldn't sour one on science,
benkay: if these people inhabited
a space i would commission nukes and glass them
DreadKnight: I'm starting to not get mad about religious people anymore and actually get
a laugh or two, finally
mircea_popescu: but anyway : i can't get to the letter, because i can't read the "official oppinions" of accountants who wrote
a book called redeeming christ.
mircea_popescu: i try to compensate by being
a quite public asshole about it, tho. should work.
fluffypony: that's the Sean King thing? I quite enjoyed his letter, though, I thought he put things in
a way that was nicely digestible to the non-technical types
mircea_popescu: READ MY BOOK: "REDEEMING CHRIST" I've decided to serialize and publish on this blog
a book that I've been working on for some time
mircea_popescu: "I am an attorney and Certified Public Accountant with
a Master's Degree in Accounting. "
DreadKnight: mircea_popescu, haha, "afro american" or something; star trek maintained
a bit of diversity to seem non racist
decimation: asciilifeform yeah I think that's the most economic way to get
a big screen
mircea_popescu: benkay i am
a calophile. that's one who takes great enjoyment in callousness.
mircea_popescu: benkay ud helpfully neglects to mention it's
a gay problem.
mircea_popescu: chetty: II 5. France took Algeria, hoping for
a country to eat cassoulet and instead France is now eating couscous. << this is what happens when small penis messes with big penis.
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