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BingoBoingo: Vexual: The way the car is now, I might give myself epilipsy trying that.
BingoBoingo: greenspan_fan: I suspect more just Mark has a touch of downs and imagines he can hug away his scams
Vexual: i wonder if they even know how much they double spent
greenspan_fan: no, I mean, if you're able to buy from them and subsequently transfer from them
greenspan_fan: I am assuming it's hugely profitable for those who have been keeping track
greenspan_fan: hey, I was wondering: is there anyone keeping track of mt. gox's inflows/outflows? or are those too hard to identify/untangle?
decimation: speaking of which I must sleep or my mind will be useless
mircea_popescu: how the fuck am i going to read anything, im stuck here with you guise,
mircea_popescu: i have not.
mircea_popescu: the old plans (from ww1) i mean
decimation: I've no doubt that Stalin had the motive and opportunity
mircea_popescu: "i decide not to fly to mars"
greenspan_fan: I wanted to avoid vietnam and associated regions because that's a debate quagmire
mircea_popescu: which is how i took it you meant it.
mircea_popescu: i asked you to qualify well run strictly in the context of our discussion.
greenspan_fan: sort of-- you asked me to qualify "well-run" re: nixon. Who I had used as an example of executive quality impacting projection of power via strategic considerations
mircea_popescu: greenspan_fan i thought we were discussing projection of power.
mircea_popescu: " I was pretty amazed that he went for it. He flat out said that he wants his film to be funded and wasn't sure if it'd be possible after all of his, and I replied that it realistically wasn't going to happen without the say-so of someone like me, and I wasn't inclined to give some producer the nod on this. "
mircea_popescu: arguably clinton was a lot better than the lot of them, but hey. he didn;t in the end have the balls to come out and say "i am the president. i fuck whoever i want whenever i want in whatever manner i feel like. get lost twerps"
mircea_popescu: i don't see this exceptionalism of bush you propose.
mircea_popescu: not sure that's the read i'd put on luteranism
greenspan_fan: i'd still say that the u.s. could project more power but doesn't because the world is too complicated. Something might be a good idea tactically but terrible strategically, etc.
asciilifeform: chechen: 'nice house.' russian: 'it's mine. wanna buy?' chechen: 'i'll talk it over with my chums, we'll see you at 0400 hrs for a chat' next day: chechens in house, pigs eat well
mircea_popescu: i suppose one could take the parliamentary wars in england too
mircea_popescu: and i nthe local whorehouse
mircea_popescu: wait, was it the soviets ? i think it was.
mircea_popescu: haha where did i hear that last
greenspan_fan: I think they do, but it would be politically complicated to actually deploy it.
mircea_popescu: i sitll have my doubts tho.
mircea_popescu: o i thought re exits
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i believe that to be a lie. would you say i'm not personally an example of in the open etc ?
decimation: I like to experience the fifth stage when I play dayz
greenspan_fan: yeah, I sort of wonder how it will all play out
mircea_popescu: you're nuts, i rode in elevators with all sorts of people, what
decimation: I suspect that merely attempting to enter the same confined room with him would be considered a 'microagression'
mircea_popescu: after which i'll gladly answer if you need further answering
mircea_popescu: decimation dunno how far i'd take that always and everywhere, i like say nigger and shit.
greenspan_fan: mircea_popescu: I don't understand-- why more benefits? why unsustainable?
greenspan_fan: I mean, if the true scope of the gulf between the average and someone in the 0.001% was really appreciable, the average person has so much less to lose
mircea_popescu: i imagine tin foil'd make pretty good trade goods
mircea_popescu: i think one major point people fail to properly consider is just how unwarrantedly equalitarian society today is.
BingoBoingo: Moar nao can fit on a microsd card. I'd like to feel that.
mircea_popescu: i wonder what one could have bought with a denarius or two back then
BingoBoingo: I only learned of this yesterday. That BFL has a 10 GH/s miner sold through warehouse stores.
BingoBoingo: I'd also like to remind nubbins' Namworld and truffles of http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-02-2014#510761 ☝︎
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Well, I think when herbi was trying to sculpt an orderbook I pointed out that in fiat world the cheapest part is the money. Maybe this week a trailer park sells for $200, maybe next for $200,000
decimation: I bought one of the knc miner neptunes, thinking they would deliver. In retrospect, it was a dumb idea. Now they want to deliver me rights to their "datacenter" that will mine for me
mircea_popescu: i doubt miss williams wants to play a scrappy player from romania.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: If she matches up against WIlliam soon I'm going to make so much money and maybe kill a sportsbook.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I did indeed
BingoBoingo: So, I've bet on slovenia to beat Sweden in Olympic hockey to multiply my bet by 20
ThickAsThieves: maybe i'll even remember that
mircea_popescu: (they spell the ligature i as a j for some god forsaken reason)
greenspan_fan: mircea_popescu hi, I've been reading your blog and thought I'd check out the chat
BingoBoingo: Is kakobrekla Slovenia or Slovakia, I forget.
decimation: this is why I find the "oh noes, the deflation" objection to bitcoin hilarious
decimation: it's cheaper, I presume?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i think i may prove a metastability re neutronsa
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I mean we can add some crypto to gold teleportation, but at that point the gold may as well be superfluous
decimation: what if I teleported all the gold on Jupiter?
decimation: I was watching Top Gear last sunday and they were driving a Dacia sedan
asciilifeform: i doubt this is a surprise to anyone
mircea_popescu: i don't know the guy well enough to discern da fuck he's thinking under n layers of public communication bs
mircea_popescu: possibly the most imporant articles i ever published but the shit's fucking abstruse.
mircea_popescu: i have a set of three articles in romanian laying the foundation for understanding this and many other bullshits.
asciilifeform: i think these folks literally have to see a gold coin, albeit a cartoon gold coin
decimation: taught me a lesson I will never forget
decimation: unfortunately I lost a much bigger stash a few years ago when my hard drive died
BingoBoingo: I think I'm going to try sealwithclubs, been about 9 months since I've been there. Maybe I can make a profit or two.
decimation: heh. I doubled my money with btct and asicminer, but then I heeded the warnings of mpoe-pr and bailed
mircea_popescu: i wonder how this even translates to chinese.
mircea_popescu: i doubt they have the concept of allodial
decimation: I wonder if there is the same itch in China to try to gain alludial rights, like the English moving to New England
BingoBoingo: When aircraft carriers are a tenth of a BTC, I might pick one up and start an ocean voyaging farm
mircea_popescu: may i remind you that at all points of human history the chinese hel;d the upper hand.
mircea_popescu: (i'm not nearly that well informed in azn matters)
mircea_popescu: i guess so yeah
mircea_popescu: decimation something in that sense. i dunno that it could be readily reducible to any other form.
BingoBoingo: Well, I guess this makes a case for chemistry as being a somewhat acceptable surrogate for food.
BingoBoingo: I'm still lol'ing at decades of nutrition made soldier outgrow the chinese army's tanks
mircea_popescu: decimation it's not even the bureaucracy. i despise their 5000 years of dumbass comme-il-faut-confucianism
asciilifeform: the chinese, as i understand, got stuck in a certain 'thermodynamic' trap
decimation: that's what I was about to ask
asciilifeform: point being, if that piece were written by a demented martian, i should like to learn martian.
mircea_popescu: i did learn english because shakespeare is good.
mircea_popescu: i've not learned chinese yet mostly because i know of no noteworthy intellectual achievement in their classics.
mircea_popescu: but yes, this is the major criterion i employ to guide me linguistically.
asciilifeform: ('russian i would learn, simply because, it was spoken by lenin') ☟︎
mircea_popescu: i am guessing you'll be meeting her.
asciilifeform: if i recall, it was mpoe-pr
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: That author is from what I understand an expatriate Californian
asciilifeform: the author, about whom i know virtually nothing else - is a titan.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I'm juggling 8 tasks, but is there a bounty on the post key apocolypse novel?
decimation: I'm some guy livin' in the US
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I imagine Breaking Bad takes place in an Alternate universe where Erdos had to cook his own amphetamines.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I might lean towards thinking the proof is valid, but could come in at hundreds of KB if only enough Aspies were locked in an attic with some meth.
decimation: I think guys like him and Vint Cerf see what the Internet has become and are sad
BingoBoingo: I remember when half of the failed grocers and restauranteurs tried to set up competing dial up ISPs
decimation: I always wondered how they would deal with constrained nodes
asciilifeform: even now i can get the modems to pass garbage from one end of the town to another.