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thestringpuller: That's what I'd figure you'd say, and I expect you to be the only one in the nursing home flirting at 95...
mircea_popescu: you think if i get alzhimers' when im 95 that'll change the 2013 articles on trilema in any way ?
VanCleef: i'm just watching a bunch of mark cuban interviews
VanCleef: i read mircea's blog sometimes does anyone have any other handy reading material or youtube videos, doesn't have to be about bitcoin just something along the lines of investing
kakobrekla: fuck what have i brought on myself
kakobrekla: ofc he wont, i phrased it wrong
mike_c: but but, last I read everything was going great and they were picking up their hardware! i haven't followed the thread recently i guess :)
Apocalyptic: I remember that big miner mining at Eligius praising vircurex and recommending it for trading NMC
knotwork: Yeah I heard they covered the losses with money from investors. Maybe the investors didnt like that and now want to drive away all customers so the place gets no business and has to shut down
Apocalyptic: <mircea_popescu> [16:51:46] aren;'t these the guys that stole the "investors" equity to cover for the previous time they got owned ? I believe they are
mircea_popescu: (and the 1960s vera miles version i hope?)
MisterE: I'd forgotten a lot
mircea_popescu: o, that was my only one time in that chain, i have no idea what they serve
MisterE: thats they one I used to get man Dennys that takes me back
mircea_popescu: anyway, it was funny, i was wearing a suit, struck up a conversation with a band in a bar,
ThickAsThieves: well not at the time you published, i think it was older
mircea_popescu: well i lost the pointer
ThickAsThieves: shit i dunno, i made some guesses at the time in here
mircea_popescu: MisterE the fact that i spent a week doing nothing but champagne on the riverwalk may well have colored that impression :p
artifexd: Ah. I was up in the north east. More north east than Dallas. Damn near Arkansas.
MisterE: artifexd: I did a stretch in Denton and SA
mircea_popescu: artifexd well maybe. i am no expert :p
artifexd: "ain't" is black vernacular? I thought it was southern venacular. Source: I grew up in Texas.
mircea_popescu: but i happen to think some bits of black vernacular are expressive. i use ain't all the time.
mircea_popescu: ow shit, i just gave bill cosby a problem huh ?
MisterE: it's tropical here so I wear as little as possible and there's no style there heh
ThickAsThieves: i went to see Gwar
mircea_popescu: i can't even recall wtf it was called.
mircea_popescu: i... hm. i produced a few bands / concerts ?
mircea_popescu: i've never wore a band tshirt
ThickAsThieves: hehe i'm wearing a band tshirt and all black right now, i guess i should shut up
mircea_popescu: i seem to remember some acrimony
VanCleef: did they go to shit? lol i think they just got old
mircea_popescu: i forget
mircea_popescu: this is the furthers out case of musical and generally artistic ownage i know of
ThickAsThieves: i was referring to smith
ThickAsThieves: i dont now much about the man
mircea_popescu: i'll never forget how he owned those clowny kids
ThickAsThieves: i also happen to think Johnny Cash is pretty cool
ThickAsThieves: i'm overdue for new wardrobe though
ThickAsThieves: if it looks like i might wear it, i buy it
ThickAsThieves: i dont look at labels much
ThickAsThieves: i just would wear black every day probly though
ThickAsThieves: i'm not even morbid
mircea_popescu: o shi i worked ha ime
ThickAsThieves: generally i already do wear the same thing every day already
mircea_popescu: don' discriminae me because i got a broken mister
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves the "under $50" part i find the most objectionable.
ThickAsThieves: artifexd, mostly that'd be design or funding, not sure what other relevant skills i might have to an atcdice
nubbins`: i think you guys hang around normals too much
artifexd: <ThickAsThieves> lemme know if you need help of any of the kinds i might be able to provide << I missed that. My response: Thanks! I will.
MisterE: guess I dont get out much
ThickAsThieves: i'd wear the same thing every day if people stopped fixating on that being weird
ThickAsThieves: i'm no one to talk though
ThickAsThieves: i'm sure there are plenty people with style still
ThickAsThieves: i guess if it aint nude, it's stylish
ThickAsThieves: really i have nothing against his clothes
nubbins`: i've seen frank & oak ads
ThickAsThieves: god knows what i bought on online to deserve that
MisterE: oh I'm pretty sure the SEC's network blocks the applet
mircea_popescu: and i think there's more.
VanCleef: i just found it a few days ago, made a portfolio, its pretty neat
ThickAsThieves: as useful as any google search i guess
pankkake: if you make it I'll merge your genesis block/checkpoints
artifexd: I may have to just reset the genesis block and remove the checkpoints and start mining it myself.
ThickAsThieves: lemme know if you need help of any of the kinds i might be able to provide
pankkake: artifexd: I don't think there ever was a altcoin testnet. if it's configured in the code, you can start it yourself I guess!
ThickAsThieves: artifexd, may I ask whatcha working on?
pankkake: I'll be more available in a few days
kakobreklaa: i take it back.
pankkake: I am alive
mircea_popescu: oh nm me i completely misread.
mircea_popescu: i'll send you some atc if you can't work it out ah
artifexd: I don't want bitcoin testnet. I want altcoin testnet.
mircea_popescu: no but srsly, i can't believe they'd have stopped the testnet
artifexd: I do say!
artifexd: I guess I get to test code in production, as it were.
ThickAsThieves: i dont think anyone runs one
artifexd: ThickAsThieves Do you know anyone running the altcoin testnet that I can connect to?
MisterE: I dont go on bitcointalk forum much such a time sink
mircea_popescu: anyway, turns out this was obviously not a serious piece, so i guess teaches me to protest before finishing an article.
mircea_popescu: i suppose properly bezzle should be traced back to gailbrath, cca 1929
mircea_popescu: and i don't think orlov even uses the latter, just, a current russian expression ascii explained in english at some point
Duffer1: i see
mircea_popescu: and no, i don't mention him, other people keep mentioning him, like herbi and ascii. i thnk he's mostly clueless and generally vain.
MisterE: And I mean the "milking the n00bs" coment tongue in cheek
MisterE: not calling the whole LTC on Huobi thing a scam just very heavily manipulated but all markets are manipulated so... The writing was on the wall for me luckily I guess.
Neil: I'm sure they're spending more not less.
mircea_popescu: i recall recently seeing the us budget, and it was 100ish
Neil: mircea_popescu: Judging from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_United_States and adding 3 yrs of inflation I think we're closer to 10 ** 12.
Neil: But I'll still log on to bitcoin-assets from said sunny island, I promise!
Neil: If it gets to $76k I'm long retired on a sunny island
mircea_popescu: what'd i do this time ?
mircea_popescu: i don't think anyone cares about the spot
Neil: mircea_popescu: And prices are down 50%. I'd have expected that to be a damper.
mircea_popescu: that's why the throwing money isn't stopping, i'd guess.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell heysteve2 "I believe every caller on talk radio, just like I believe every story on zh." << there you go. it's like playboy forum by now.
mircea_popescu: MisterE except the only exchange owner we know is me, and so i guess you can use trilema for that purpose.
chetty: ugh, and I just finished my tax return
MisterE: Either way you're screwed in the US, this pretty much sums it up: http://i.imgur.com/PPzfayh.jpg