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mircea_popescu: buying a 1bn asset for 1bn does not change book value
mike_c: to rephrase: buying a $1b asset does not change market cap.
nubbins`: "what's a zero in roman noomerels?"
publio: since btc is being touted as a replacement for fiat, has anybody been following the btcusd:xauusd ratio?
nubbins`: i mean, i know london is far from L.A.
mircea_popescu: girly is like... well you ok to wait a little ? we gotta send someone to buy oranges.
mircea_popescu: so i go to this place where i normally have an orange juice "exprimido" which means freshly pressed with a two liter bottle, asked them to fill it
asciilifeform: benkay: i once worked with laboratory (-80C) units that didn't. a pump moved the cold air to reservoir when you turned the handle. room air pumped in, door opens. reverse when close hadle.
asciilifeform: '...the machine I would most like to develop is a pedal powered refrigerator and possibly freezer.'
chetty: uh isnt a ddos supposed ot make page load slow? fail
benkay: argentina had a chance to do the same before the Migration
ThickAsThieves: <+asciilifeform> 'Avarus, Inc. (“we”, “us”, “our”) was incorporated under the laws of the State of Delaware on September 20, 2010. The Company was originally organized as a “blank check” shell Company to investigate and acquire a target company or business seeking the perceived advantages of being a publicly held corporation.' << lol! /// The Havelock System
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Like with winnie the pooh do the Russians have a less jaundiced Simpsons?
assbot: Honey Boo Boo is a monster: What reality TV did to the pint-size pageant queen - Salon.com
BingoBoingo: 'Murica http://www.salon.com/2014/06/19/honey_boo_boo_is_a_monster_what_reality_tv_did_to_the_pint_size_pageant_queen/
BingoBoingo: Attacked my windshield, and then was made to comply with a standard
moiety: some people just make you wait on a letter which is just crap
HeySteve: yeah bitstein, seems russia are a move ahead again
bitcoinpete: "The company known for computer chips on Thursday plans to announce the availability of an app that lets people leave offbeat animated messages using smartphones. It exploits the device’s camera and microphone to capture a user’s facial movements and voice, which are used to control cartoon-like figures known as avatars in recorded sequences."
kakobrekla: he is off on a meeting or smth
mike_c: you add a bunch of A records in the DNS for active nodes. i'll let you know.
mike_c: sure, it's not a web page though, it's a DNS thing
HeySteve: a bet against "amazing companies" I guess
mircea_popescu: anyway, off to a meeting, will bbl.
kakobrekla: wear a helmet, i guess.
kakobrekla: coinapult is a gold sponsor of the fest
chetty: well thats a different breed of libtards, not lefties
mircea_popescu: what the fuck srsly, the vc circuit is reducing to a spam&scamfest
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron want a tshirt ?
mike_c: if that is true, it doesn't make a ton of sense to me. if Facebook pays the right amount for BitPay, market cap shouldn't move. Facebook will be -$1b in cash and +$1b in value due to bitpay.
kakobrekla: a.
Vexual: cat hasn't even done a vice cover yet
jurov: lol what pm i got <Vexual> ill take a 0 fee br acct
empyex: mircea_popescu: Want a bash? http://bash.bitcoin-assets.com/?quote=92 Or use a valid MPSIC!
asciilifeform: energy cost is a design parameter at the time of design - not now.
mircea_popescu: i was forcing a point !!1
asciilifeform wonders in what western country you can buy a fridge that runs for 50 years. for $500? 5000, 50,000 ?
mircea_popescu: a well.
mircea_popescu: what the fuck already. since when is war a disqualifier ?
mircea_popescu: a.s. neil is perhaps the dumbest guy i read this year
mircea_popescu: “No one is wise enough or good enough to mould the character of any child… An adult generation that has seen two great wars and seems about to launch a third should not be trusted to mould the character of a rat.”
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: ;;google site:trilema.com live to be a millionaire << shit i wrote that ?! in another decade trilema'll be new reading to me too ;/
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: the investors will make a KLIPPING << ahahaha
decimation: still, to me it seems like you need to get a few of these to "fail" so you can build up a war chest as a credible counterparty
decimation: I guess they are tickets to a show that never happened
decimation: what happens if bitpay dissolves as an entity before a b or c happen?
mircea_popescu: decimation not really. berkshire is not a shitstup
decimation: this is kind of a more open-ended version of your berkshire bet?
mircea_popescu: decimation actually im going to make a fund, so people can buy into it.
decimation: when the usians are trading golden yuan pieces in a few decades they will remember this bit of history
decimation: on Maui there is a statue to Sun Yet-Sen in an obscure park: http://gohawaii.about.com/od/mauisights/ig/sun_yat_sen_park/
asciilifeform: if you could build a singapore there, that's another matter.
asciilifeform: otherwise it's a pisshole. (try finding an industrial vendor who will even ship there)
decimation: it could easily outsingapore singapore with its location. but it won't, because it is a combination of bezzle playground and indian reservation
decimation: the us had something like that a few decades ago, still coasting on its output
asciilifeform: - that being, six generations of people willing to work into the grave for a cup of rice ☟︎
decimation: it's true that it's much easier to get nitric acid when the nitric acid factory has been pumping it out two states away for a few decades
asciilifeform: decimation: go build a MOSFET with... brainpower
decimation: my stupid vpn dropped me like a hot potato, thought conversation was over
mircea_popescu: and all day long they held syndicate meetings to criticise me for being a whore
mircea_popescu: for this purpose, they sequester one woman and two men for a week, then interview them,
asciilifeform: going back to russia/industry: according to 'hardcore' russian folks, the west deprived the nation of crucial natural resource - one still abundant in, e.g. china. of course they aren't talking about lanthanides, but... girls who will birth half a dozen kids and work in factory without toilet breaks
mircea_popescu: what kind is antonoderpulous ? does he have a contract on his head ? twitter says so.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: my understanding - fellow with a contract on his head should perhaps sleep with rifle. the one without contract - with girl. whether 4kw fridge, bk0010, etc. is batshit - or genius - depends on which box russia sits in
decimation: so it would seem that putin is also sending a message about women by caging them
mircea_popescu: but the thing still is what it is : nude chicks in a badly abused, utterly frigid, compulsively conservatory society.
decimation: I agree that the notions of puritanical modesty are hilarious. I was born in an old school Lutheran hospital (now closed) - my birth certificate's seal shows a doctor pulling a baby out of a vagina
decimation: good point. "white america" definitely has a negative birth rate
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform which is why im such a fan of things like pussy riot
mircea_popescu: nothing wrong with owning a rifle, in good condition, and being ready and able to use it
mircea_popescu: a siege mentality is not necessarily extreme.
asciilifeform: it's a siege mentality, necessarily extreme
asciilifeform: a surprising fraction of soviet economy reduced to - obscenely inefficient method of producing sovereignty-enforcement hardware
mircea_popescu: im a sovereign that doesn't even suck its own cock, how about that!
BingoBoingo: In a firesale I wonder if Iowa has more value as agriculture or uranium
mircea_popescu: so a bankruptcy was necessary
decimation: yeah when you have a traubant factory that employs 50,000 people things are not going to work out well in the long run
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if you ever have time, consider writing a piece about Ar circa '98-'02
decimation: the original text isn't. click on a link and see the original: http://don-colacho.blogspot.com/2011/02/2862.html
mircea_popescu: i've yet to have a problem with getting in the wot.
decimation: there is a point to that. If you could become legally "untouchable" for a few $100k in bribes to the right people, that's of significant value
mircea_popescu: think strategically. argentina is a dead end. hong kong is a center. is your business suited for which exactly ?
BingoBoingo: I like how Bitpay couldn't even sponsor a game in a stadium actually suited to the sport.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: consider benkay's point. if i have to wrap sample pcbs in benjamins to get them through customs, this ought to be considered a cost of doing business in Ar
mircea_popescu: today in the news, pretend you're a corp, pretend you've got 30mn investment, fail to have any pr whatsoever.
asciilifeform: don't know how to ask << makes a difference if this is a fixable condition (know who to pay off, etc) or more difficult (have the correct uncle)
mircea_popescu: much like, you want to pick up a chick. no go, because... passport the wrong color ? notrly.
asciilifeform: anything fucktarder muricans do gets stalled << whatever the reason - let's say benkay or i need to get a crate of strange through Ar door. no go, because passport is wrong color. or this is disinfo ?
mircea_popescu: decimation the problem with trying to promote a system of "laws not men" is that ONLY men can rule. and so under the guise of "laws not men" that keeps actual men away
decimation: oh yeah this isn't even a real court, just a commitee of government employees
decimation: yeah it's a civil case, as opposed to criminal
mircea_popescu: decimation this wasn't a law, to begin with
mircea_popescu: not to property (the so called process "in rem", eminent domain, a whole list)
decimation: what's the difference between making a law condeming joe to death, vs a law that condemns the redskins trademark to death?
decimation: I thought it was illeagal for a bill of attainder
asciilifeform: decimation: this is a more interesting event than appears at first. they just zapped 'stare decisis'
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Dying college town. Competing against a shortage of broke grad students
Mats_cd03: are you living in a fucking trap house
BingoBoingo: In the location I'm looking at $3.2 k/year rents a ten minute walk from work, no roomates, because they are horrible for opsec
asciilifeform: mr. spam can live in a roach-infested hovel and actually keep 90% of his bread crumbs