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benkay: <mircea_popescu> <benkay> but if i make
a profitable thing, why list it on mpex? << nobody's holding
a gun to your head no ? // clearly. but why did bitbet list?
mircea_popescu: <benkay> but if i make
a profitable thing, why list it on mpex? << nobody's holding
a gun to your head no ?
mike_c: why does bitcoin price go up? "adoption" seems
a poor answer to me. to me it is because the value of the whole system actually increases. perhaps part of that value increase is due to having
a more vibrant financial ecosystem.
decimation: I think there's
a pent-up demand for bitcoin income
benkay: apologies, i didnt mean to imply that i was re-asking the question, more that i'd already guessed that was
a reason.
benkay: <benkay> is it
a generous donation to the ecosystem? "here i made this thing and by my grace you can partake of its profits"?
mike_c: liquidity for the owners is
a big reason
mike_c: bitbet does nothing with the money. it's
a zac
mike_c: i think of it more as
a playground.
peterl: so it looks like
a casino
mike_c: more like
a cryptocurrency playground
peterl: so it is acting as
a casino?
benkay: is it
a generous donation to the ecosystem? "here i made this thing and by my grace you can partake of its profits"?
benkay: but if i make
a profitable thing, why list it on mpex?
assbot: When you fuck
a stranger in the ass - YouTube
benkay: when does it make sense to do
a public offering? as in - why would i ever do that?
Azelphur: kakobrekla: breakup
a few months ago now :P
assbot:
A Real Shaggy Dog Story - YouTube
BingoBoingo: I'm
a lemon party truther. Lemon party is an Obama scheme to keep McCain out of the White House.
ThickAsThieves: <+mircea_popescu> well it's
a shitty movie, but i guess it makes this particular sidepoint well. /// everyone ive ever shown the movie too agrees with you, but it has this lingering impression
benkay: more reasonable assumption is
a bevy of local sluts.
benkay: (eternal september is also
a poor joke about the dates of the thing in question)
benkay: i did cart her off to burning man and then demanded
a dowry so you may be on to something there
benkay: yeah, sr. lady v's marbles are
a bit scattered
mircea_popescu: maybe your father in law is considering it's unfair you shoulda got the vixen, and wants to get
a replacement.
mircea_popescu: well it's
a shitty movie, but i guess it makes this particular sidepoint well.
benkay: <mircea_popescu>
a yes, magnolia. ever seen magnolia benkay ? // no sir
mircea_popescu: jesus what
a promising thing ted was, and what
a smoldering shitpile it turned into.
nubbins`: when i hear someone's
a rapper, i think of reggie watts ;(
mircea_popescu: huddled around two 386 hooked into
a dialup modem (cca 2004!), at the Luxor Center For Businessmen.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i confess when i hear someone's
a rapper, that kid is what i think about.
nubbins`: i was actually impressed by how much of
a douchebag tom cruise's character was in that movie
mircea_popescu: ends up involved with some cokehead, sister of tom cruise who's
a total dudebro
nubbins`: best way to keep this grease fire under control is to only let
a little bit of oxygen at it
mircea_popescu: they see
a cop, the underdevelop part of their brain that regulates behaviour gets
a jolt.
benkay: it's
a massive constabulary though, and needs
a massive mandate to keep it fat and busy.
benkay:
a reasonably sized constabulary could be had if its mandate were reasonable.
mike_c: i generally am disappointed when ninjashogun gets upped, but he is
a gold mine.
mircea_popescu: benkay no, it's not
a war. the way i see it, to keep
a police force going you gotta give it some niggers to pick on.
benkay: it's not
a 'war' on anything.
assbot: Guys get erections every morning, right? The concept of "morning" varies depending on where you live, with the "morning line" basically spinning around the earth infinitely, right? So does that mean that humanity has been doing
a "boner wave" around the earth for hundreds of thousands of years? : Showerthoughts
nubbins`: benkay: what's
a war on drugs but
a legislated range of feelings?
nubbins`: what else do you expect from
a generation that deals with problems by ignoring them
mircea_popescu: and holy shit year and
a half average relationships ?! what the fuck sense does that make, it's the uncanny valley of relationships. either
a few good fucks for
a coupla weeks or else years, who does this middle of the road bs ?
ThickAsThieves: Secret, one of the many anonymous social networks that’s risen to prominence over the past six months, today announced
a $25 million Series B round led by Index Ventures.
mircea_popescu: mostly because
a buncha cali fags and assorted antrepreneurs think it's chick.
Azelphur: and amusingly I derped my statistic, so I myself am
a plonker, it's 60% of people within 25 miles of me are plonkers.
mircea_popescu: seems they not only figured this out, but also have
a slightly better one. nuclear attack in certain light ?
mircea_popescu: "Sadly, this is the only question with
a meaningful correlation for women. For men there are
a few others" << now i like them again.
Azelphur: mircea_popescu: because they ask users 1) Would you consider sleeping with someone on
a first date, 2) What sex are you, 3) Do you like the taste of beer?
mircea_popescu: if you think
a buncha fratbros being in denial about how shitty budlight is makes
a good predictor for whether maryjane in sorority rush is likely to fuck you right now...
mircea_popescu: "The basic currency of the Internet is human ignorance, and, frankly, our database holds
a strong cash position!"
mircea_popescu: what you need is access to the inbox of
a few hundred of the hotter women,
Azelphur: mircea_popescu: hey, I didn't say it was much of
a clue.
Azelphur: mircea_popescu: I'm building
a SQL database of singles in my area...for science and such.
mircea_popescu: "Despite
a guilty plea, Taylor was given the death penalty. In 2010, Taylor tried to commit suicide by stuffing pens and pencils in his eye sockets, which only ended up blinding him. On August 14, 2013, Taylor hanged himself in his cell using his bedsheets."
mircea_popescu: Lundgren told jurors at his trial that he was
a prophet of God and “not worthy of the death penalty.” The jurors disagreed and sentenced him to death. In
a last-ditch appeal, Lundgren claimed he was too fat to be executed. The court shot down that appeal, too, and he was executed by lethal injection on October 24, 2006.
mircea_popescu: "The South Pacific's first native Anglican bishop, Sir George Ambo, was excommunicated after running off with
a nun, Sister Cora, with whom he set up
a visionary cult."
mircea_popescu: next one up, "Operating in Massachusetts in the late ’70s, the Fall Rivers Cult was led by 25-year-old Carl Drew. Drew was
a pimp who used Satanism to terrify the prostitutes who worked for him."
mircea_popescu: i wonder if there's
a weirdo-christian website paying women to have breastreduction.
Xplosionist: mircea_popescu: YEah, but if you could get
a whole lot of blowjobs from someone for
a couple hundred bucks toniation toward her plastic surgery, then.
mircea_popescu:
a blowjob is like $20.
a hotel stay, like $100. airfare say $500.
rithm: oooh
a search profile
mircea_popescu: usually the way this works is it misjudges itself, attacks
a rat, the rat bites it badly,