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gribble: Error: 'for' is not
a valid price input.
thickasthieves: itd at least be
a fun way to piss them off and fuck up their ipo
a bit
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Well atm during their pre-sale they price their coins off of
a timer, with 1 BTC buying less coins as the timer increments. Haven't seen the details.
mircea_popescu: i guess i can make
a 3 month future too, if enough demand.
BingoBoingo: If ethereum manages to ship this winter I doubt it's market cap will survive at
a size greater than ATC's through April next year
Pierre_Rochard: BingoBoingo: my favorite part “This document is not
a solicitation for investment and does not pertain in any way to an offering of securities in any jurisdiction.”
BingoBoingo: "People interested in acquiring ether to build and distribute decentralized applications, or to pay for their usage, are able to do so in the Genesis Sale using bitcoin, thereby locking-in their supply at
a known price. This sale will help us fund the continued development of the software platform, scheduled for release in the winter of 2014/2015." << Preorder on
a BFL window. Thing could waterialize winter 2014 or winter 2015
thickasthieves: "I am
a fan of making volume obsolete as an indicator" ~bitcoin trader
gribble: You rated user gmaxwell on Sun Apr 8 12:54:19 2012, with
a rating of -10, and supplied these additional notes: hypocritical idiot..
mircea_popescu:
A Black Hat spokeswoman told Reuters that the talk had been canceled at the request of lawyers for Carnegie-Mellon University, where the speakers work as researchers. <<< this is why scientists of today are in no sense the scientists of 1914, and even less the scientists of 1814.
danielpbarron: ken ham is
a false teacher that leads many to hell
assbot: Well find
a new earth within 20 years | Around the World with Ken Ham
mircea_popescu: ^ my fav exercise is, "calculate the pound weight of
a cubic mile of water"
mircea_popescu: <thickasthieves> 12 inches is
a foot? 3'
a yard? wtf is going on here?
BingoBoingo: danielpbarron: Well, that's why the most important part of reading
a WoT is asking
a rater about their ratings
gribble: Error: 'Religious' is not
a valid integer.
jurov: <gmaxwell> danielpbarron: owner of mpex is unsafe to do business with, he does things like put surprising terms in the fine print of his contracts and then gloats about how you deserved to get ripped off and what
a moron you are when you get caught out.
danielpbarron got banned from #bitcoin again; gmaxwell is
a dick.
thickasthieves: well shit itll be
a month before i go, but i want teh rainz
mike_c: now is actually the time to go. it actually only rains nine months
a year. summers are beautiful.
thickasthieves: "Dude, they called you elfin, when you are very clearly
a satyr." lol
thickasthieves: "The federal judge that presided over my case is not an African-American. She is
a nigger."
mike_c: that is
a common and misleading yardstick
gribble: Error: "laser" is not
a valid command.
gribble: Error: "laser" is not
a valid command.
thickasthieves: that's one way to get people outta your airspace for
a while
chetty: thickasthieves, uhoh now I have
a coffeed keyboard
Mats_cd03: and, there is an ACPI table exclusively for telling Windows not to apply fixes for buggy hardware because its in
a VM, and VMM emulation of the hardware doesn't include said bugs.
☟︎☟︎ assbot: Well find
a new earth within 20 years | Around the World with Ken Ham
thickasthieves: itd be funny if this was
a major reason why US is bad at math, fukt measurements
mircea_popescu: imagine all the bills of goods that had either
a small smidgeon added or removed by accident
benkay: <mircea_popescu> bitbet. giving the bitcoin population the sort of graphs it wants to see. since 2012. // i want
a shirt that has
a bunch of zig-zaggy up-and-to-the-right arrows patterned across it
mircea_popescu: he is the exact central case that benefits from
a rec corp.
fluffypony: so hopefully the stuff he releases after this will be indie and not with
a record company
mircea_popescu: but i tell you by the time you're
a decade or so in business that itch's well scratched.
mircea_popescu: i mean everyone gets as
a kid this urge to write their name on things,
mircea_popescu: think : most people will live their entire lives without ever having such
a fat wallet
mircea_popescu: soo... i just found
a wallet i had forgotten all about. like 20 btcv and change in there.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony btw, ever put her in tall campaign boots and with
a cute little uniform ?
thickasthieves: on the open market is irrelevant, as all currencies (evne
a fiat currency) are subject to the market's whims."
thickasthieves: pando: @Bitcoin_Assets "If you're going to make
a statement like that, you really should back it up by pointing out what I said wrong. Mining difficulty? Anyone with
a PC can mine bitcoin. The amount that can be created per CPU cycle is arbitrarily set by an algorithm (sounds like fiat), and not the state, but it still has no intrinsic value, just like dollars. The value it fetches
benkay: princessnell: it's
a setup for another zappa reference.
mircea_popescu:
A horny little Jewish Princess With
a garlic aroma that could level Tacoma Lonely inside Well, she can swallow my pride
mircea_popescu: princessnell> this is true. but they are still fun. << wait, wut ? you dare speak of like your sexual experience ? as
a woman among men ? on the interwebs ?
bitstein: princessnell is actually
a conglomeration of 14000 people
pankkake: I know I have
a jewish antisemite ancestor, but I don't know how much jew is left
assbot: Le happy merchant has
a blast - YouTube
mircea_popescu: pankkake they don't have to be lying. they could just be stupid. or you know, trained into superficial stupidity by
a website dedicated to doing exactly that
pankkake: it's just bad faith, the article is praising hoarding which is the jew stereotype; the image is
a popular meme; it's an obvious joke and anyone claiming to be offended is lying
Pierre_Rochard: mircea_popescu: yes, it’s
a deep cover psyop run by the rothschilds and queen of england
Pierre_Rochard: mircea_popescu: it’s
a glorious portrait of our dear leader bitstein, but dats racist
mircea_popescu: the op however i GAINING
a lot more from this than the cost to you.
pankkake: TF isn't claiming he's
a Trusted Member yet, otherwise it's textbook goat
mircea_popescu: this business where one scams
a buvncha people, lays low for half
a year-ish etc was patented by goat. he did it like 3-4 times to date.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: if this was twitter I'd hashtag that with #delusional << is the tradefortress character pulling
a goat ?
mircea_popescu: chetty wait, what trachery is this ? first govt cuts
a deal with states then federal courts get it off the hook for its part of the deal ?
chetty:
A U.S. appeals court has struck down subsidies for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act in states that use federal marketplaces to buy coverage.
thickasthieves: "
A pine tree planted in 2004 in
a Los Angeles park in memory of former Beatle George Harrison has died after being infested by beetles."
nubbins`: he did the stations of the cross in
a rural newfoundland kind of style too
chetty: mircea_popescu,
a cheap, affordable copy that misses all the details which made it worth the while//I thought that was modern china
mircea_popescu: (and yes the raphael is unsurpassed, mostly because the christian church stands with learned antiquity roughly in the position american contemporaneity stands with the learned europe of last century.
a cheap, affordable copy that misses all the details which made it worth the while)
nubbins`: mp that reminds me of something you'd see painted on
a wall in belfast
chetty: of course thats one way con games work too, suck people in for
a while with small 'investments'
punkman: this is quite common: if C trusts the B->
A connection, but
A doesn't trust B->C, then C will often "send first" as to eliminate risk for
A at his expense.
chetty: fluffypony,
a lot of trust is built like that, in small steps
punkman: if the due diligence doesn't get you anywhere, then you still have other tools. The fidelity bond is
a good one, insurance another... any other good examples?
chetty: exactly, and the crux is the 'good enough',
a judgment call
punkman: he could escrow
a fidelity bond
xmj: sure, that's from the perspective of
A. think of it from B's perspective!
xmj:
A <trust> B <trust> C. how does B leverage his bonds between B<>
A and B<>C to make
A <trust> C appear/
xmj:
A tells me they trust B, which makes me trust B through
A's proxying (conditional on my estimation of
A)
xmj: Lucky for me there's
a whole subfield of Game theory.
chetty: (btw this is
a discussion worth having imo, just in case there is
a solution)
pankkake:
a good example would be those btc lending sites
chetty: xmj: it does seem like in non-formal contexts iterative interaction history is the common way xmj: there has to be
a better deal// seriously trust is pretty much
a function that can not be delegated
xmj: there has to be
a better deal.
xmj: there was
a lot of drinking involved yesterday.