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mircea_popescu: then the ministry decided it won't ok a 18 student class. so they took a dozen the kids that had fallen through 3 normal classes, and had not found an alternative hs in the dozen or so top highschools around. and put them in.

mircea_popescu: so, when i went to hs, they made this special "suprareal" class. (in romanian, "real" means you do math, otherwise it's a chick hs doing languages, or a prole hs doing "skills"). they made the entrance so fucking hard tho that only about 18 kids out of the entire region made it. the remainder "fell through" to 3 normal "real" classes at this elite hs.

mircea_popescu: let me tell you a story, it'll perfectly well illustrate what i mean.

mircea_popescu: Pierre_Rochard the objection here isn't on the lines of business. she looks like she could raise a million dollars on the vegas strip np

Pierre_Rochard: at what point would you say she is a thing? If she is able to do enough work to raise money for her new organization, is that not a successful business?

mircea_popescu: otherwise, she's a ridiculous teenager, putting online a forum about "how to score chix"

Pierre_Rochard: fair enough, so the conclusion is that boring is a successful businessperson?

thickasthieves: wife met with a state senator today asking her to be on the board of a nonprofit that gives public school teachers funds for stuff the school won't pay for

mircea_popescu: what a socialite finds offensive is entirely her problem

Pierre_Rochard: well yes, the socialite buys social capital, I would call them a successful socialite, I wouldn’t normally call them a successful businessperson. they would find it offensive to compare their activities to commercial ones

thickasthieves: a system persisting is success

mircea_popescu: so if i spend capital to buy advertising im a bad businessman ?

Pierre_Rochard: a loss of capital. I disagree, capital does accumulate

mircea_popescu: if she's spending her own money to buy something, who are you to know better ? as long as she can keep doing it she's a businessman just like you.

mircea_popescu: Pierre_Rochard running a loss of what ?

thickasthieves: well they are called nonprofits for a reason

thickasthieves: they are a loss?

Pierre_Rochard: I wouldn’t describe the wealthy heiress who is very busy organizing charity galas to be a “business success” - however much she’s “doing things”. Her business is structurally running a loss

Pierre_Rochard: mircea_popescu I think that widens the definition of “business” a bit much. being the accountant that I am, I always look at that net income line. perhaps to my detriment

mircea_popescu: and whcd is just a little pork, take all these famished kids and serve them a proper meal once a year is the idea.

thickasthieves: a dame

thickasthieves: http://www.forbes.com/sites/perianneboring/ she looks like an actress for a cheesy cop show

mircea_popescu: she's a pretty girl, she's ambitious, she's for some reason chosen to fuck herself over the mocsny way.

thickasthieves: and is seed-round really in need of a hyphen?

thickasthieves: is it really called a "seed-round" if it's a non-profit?

thickasthieves: "The Chamber of Digital Commerce announced itself on Saturday at the North American Bitcoin Conference in Chicago. The group is registered as a 501(c)(6) nonprofit, which allows it to act as a lobbyist, and is being led by Perianne Boring, a former journalist and Congressional staffer. It has early backing from RRE Ventures and Tally Capital, which are leading a seed-round of fund

decimation: "Buffeting its load of tightly packed bodies, the gaily painted orange and blue truck drove on through the streets, passed a railway station and stopped at a crossroads. There, halted by a traffic-light, stood the dark-red car belonging to the Moscow correspondent of the Paris newspaper LIBERATION, on his way to a hockey match at the Dynamo Stadium. On the side of the van the correspondent read the words: MYACO. VIANDE. FLEISCH. MEAT. ☟︎☟︎

decimation: At the end of "the first circle", the prisoners are being removed from Mavrino in a vehicle disguised as a meat truck:

decimation: asciilifeform: re: linux on /dev/random "To me it sounds from your description that you may well be on the edge of "too anal". Real life _has_ to be taken into account, and not accepting entropy because of theoretical issues is _not_ a good idea"

Pierre_Rochard: Agreed, I suspect the people who respond to bloomberg surveys are a few layers below “financial elite”

Pierre_Rochard: 55% of the ‘financial elite’ believe Bitcoin is “Already a bubble”

asciilifeform: (before anyone asks - no, i have not the faintest idea whether norman yarvin is a relative of curtis)

asciilifeform: chetty: 'yarchive' is a gold mine.

princessnell: that's a good one

princessnell: they can't identify a maestro for a mendicant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM21gPmkDpI ☟︎

mircea_popescu: in general you can evaluate who's going to win a battle just by looking at piperquality.

princessnell: nah, i just read a lot

mircea_popescu: "as a creator of a google, I know what made google successful!"

mircea_popescu: i get more for .1 a tit for crying out loud. wasn't the usg supposed to be like rich and powerful and whatnot ?

mircea_popescu: princessnell: As the creator of a digital currency, I..." << derp's never ending quest for relevancy.

pankkake: a fiat currency will disappear in 27 years on average. So, if you live outside the US […] the currency you use in your daily life will likely go away in 27 years

fluffypony: and it has a fat premine for a "stabilisation fund"

fluffypony: he's a CNBC "contributor" (read: blogger)

fluffypony: thickasthieves: Brian Kelly is a fucktard

thickasthieves: <+princessnell> "As the creator of a digital currency, I..." /// wtf is this, major media shilling alts day?

asciilifeform: 'Since my body is a shell / I am going to take it off / and put on a glory that will never wear out.' (one mr. kenzo ishijima)

princessnell: "As the creator of a digital currency, I..."

mthreat: how about a haiku for #b-a

mircea_popescu: thickasthieves not entirely a bad idea.

bitcoinpete: mircea_popescu: hey everyone that is awake : please put in a list of five words that you'd estimate are the key terms for [your interest of] b-a << history, finance, philosophy, digital security, bitcoin

danielpbarron: "If you would like to purchase XCP for Bitcoins, we advise that you use a centralized exchange for the time being. We are in the process of developing features that will make the purchase of XCP on Counterwallet very simple, and expect these to be working soon. Thanks for your patience." via http://counterwallet.co/ #AmazingCompany

mircea_popescu: a life unpleasant is not worth surviving.

mircea_popescu: i know a few women i'm kinda tempted to eat with some regularity.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: unless i misunderstand, you're trying to say to a fellow in padded cell, 'stop banging head.' generally good advice - except that sex drive doesn't ship with an 'off' switch.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i think there's a space between arguing that nobody should bang head against wall and arguing everyone should be god.

asciilifeform: it was a nice 100 years.

asciilifeform: mike_c: i vaguely recall some joker who wrote a complete 386 pc emulator in about 1k of perl. that's the kind of thing being spoken of, i think.

mike_c: anybody can write a 10,000 line perl script. it's making it a 100 line script that's hard.

los_pantalones: thickasthieves we have a private one to our customers

asciilifeform: 'Do you also lecture people with Down's Syndrome on how they could learn to write 10,000 line Perl scripts if they just take it one step at a time? For some things there seems to be some minimum takeoff velocity.'

asciilifeform: the notion that every male of the species can turn into mircea_popescu by effort of will is, at the very least, misguided. i catch quite a bit of crap for insisting that virtually everyone can, e.g., learn mathematics - so i sympathize. but it's still mistake.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it's almost like you read a guide to survival in the arctic, and said 'wtf is this nonsense, just take compass and march south'

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i tell ye, if i perceived i HAD TO chat up women i'd be a fucking homicidal maniac, notwithstanding amazing success rates. even if i never left my own harem and so my success rate was forever 100%.

thickasthieves: "when a man has to chat up dozens of women"

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'a chicken also wants to live'

mircea_popescu: "I don't think an average man can pursue women effectively if he is primarily thinking about how good sex will feel when he gets it. That just isn't the right mindset when a man has to chat up dozens of women before he finds one with whom sex is a reasonable possibility." holy shit, with what woman is sex not a reasonable possibility ?!

chetty: <mircea_popescu> in short, it's not just the poor man's idea of what being rich is like that's wrong.//a lot of rich dont seem to have much of a clue either

mircea_popescu: "By the first time I had "sex" (depending on how you define it, since I took things in stages) I had already endured years of frustration and humiliation of an intensity that I don't think I can properly put into words." a ok. ☟︎

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: you're not in the market for a trambourghini, either, as i understand.

mircea_popescu: if sex robots were widely available today, i'd prolly still not use them. (for that matter, indiancandy is a sex robot, not terribly expensive - a good server costs more than what she would)

asciilifeform: drool, unfortunately, is the correct explanation for a number of things.

CoinFire: BBL Going to work on a few different things, I'll try and drop in often :)

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: as i understand, he was discussing why the robots are inevitable from a market standpoint (there are quite a few paupers, and they all want wheels. so we get trambourghini.)

mircea_popescu: those usually look like a raccoon trying to fight a truck.

mircea_popescu: there are very few fields where women / men competition doesn't look like a squirrel trying to fight a raccoon.

mircea_popescu: f women's sports, the greatest affirmative action program in existence (a woman can win a gold medal at the Olympics despite a performance that might not even qualify her for the men's event---but despite her inferior performance she wins the same medal as the men's winner)."

mircea_popescu: "The sporting press is awash in liberal themes these days: the "underrepresentation" of African-American head coaches in professional football (nobody seems to object to the astounding overrepresentation of African-American players); the terrible injustice of private golf clubs refusing to accept women as members (funny, it's not a problem if Lady Victory Fitness Centers exclude men); and of course the whole business o

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform kinda poorly researched tho you know ? the 5mn domain names that were finally abandoned recently were a failed exercise in exactly this

mthreat: it's a thing!

thickasthieves: well i didnt know it was actually a word

thickasthieves: ive read a few of Chuck's

asciilifeform: 'I ask him, Why sometimes not? “The way this works is we copyright every conceivable combination of words, Greek words, Latin, English, what-have-you. We get the legal rights to every conceivable word a pharmaceutical company might use to name a new product. For diabetes alone, we have an inventory of one hundred forty names,” he says. He hands me stapled-together pages from out of his briefcase in his lap.

thickasthieves: cointroduction really is a good for a dating site

asciilifeform: oducts that are still in development,” he says. “And that includes you.” ... “We’re a total concept marketing slash public relations organization,” he says. “Our job is to create the concept. You patent a drug. You copyright the name. As soon as someone else develops the product they come to us, sometimes by choice, sometimes not.”'

asciilifeform: '“Just name a disease,” he says, “and we have a cure ready for it.” ... The pills for AIDS look just like the pills for cancer look just like the pills for diabetes. I ask, So these things really aren’t invented? ... “Of course they’re real,” he says and plucks the first two bottles out of my hands. “They’re copyrighted. We have an inventory of almost fifteen thousand copyrighted names for pr

fluffypony: mircea_popescu: you can't do that unless you're also begging for a flight

kakobrekla: at some point ill +m the chan so we can all take a break.

CoinFire: I will be sure to get my keys and everything worked out this week as well :) Been working on a lot of stuff. It seems it never ends.

thickasthieves: it's a lot to read, but we generally take pride in not being reddites and slaying derpitude

thickasthieves: CoinFire we have a blog feed at http://blogs.bitcoin-assets.com/ if you wanna learn more about us, more resources are at bitcoin-assets.com, including logs, bash, wiki

fluffypony: you should hire a leggy blonde assistant

fluffypony: chetty: Google Web Fonts, I'm a big fan

pankkake: I'm a fan of just using the default browser font (just use "sans-serif"). assuming most platforms have one that is not ugly.

CoinFire: Then literally two days later, a church. I just head to shake my head.

CoinFire: Do people still even use Papyrus? That was something I asked myself recently then I saw a hair salon had it as a giant window sticker and was just like UGH

thickasthieves: raleway is one of those graphic designer trendy fonts from a couple years ago

thickasthieves: Cabin maybe a lil better for print

thickasthieves: yeah it's just too thin, well for google fonts, i recall Cabin being a good one

CoinFire: They've sent me some stuff and I've been waiting further confirmation from the insurance company. We will see how it plays out and if I learn more I will most certainly be updating things and posting a new entry for everyone :)

thickasthieves: (i still think your blog needs a new body font btw)