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mircea_popescu: some derpage about how people living off gm in a city that exists because of gm are allowed to hate gm ?
bitcoinpete: i'm all "common people don't decide what's good and bad, shit all we can do about dude's personal affairs, racism isn't a thing, etc."
bitcoinpete: having a fun dm convo with my little bro about the clippers dude.
princess-nell: ya, i got a kick out of it
ThickAsThieves: i bet princess-nell loved this commenter "Thanks. Very impressive and insightful, especially coming from a woman. Libertarian chicks are always the hottest."
asciilifeform: also looks like that city has a law permitting landlords to revoke leases in order to sell the land
ThickAsThieves: such a joke
mircea_popescu: @anjiecast. http://theumlaut.com/2014/04/29/scenes-from-a-dying-imperial-city-the-export-import-bank/ this chick.
ThickAsThieves: i'm a somewhat superstitious guy with some things
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ever picked at a scab ?
ThickAsThieves: cuz i like amsterdam, wouldnt mind some offtime to write uo a bizplan, and i like putting people on the spor
princess-nell: hmm. probably not. everyone who isn't a coward has more important things to do.
mircea_popescu: a stupid reason as any other. well, anyway : who do you know that can rack muck ? can you get a team together ?
princess-nell: that's a good question
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform exactly. it's a fucking boxing match among cowards, blergh. i demand better show.
princess-nell: it's a silicon valley gossip blog thing
asciilifeform: it's a fight of the crowned gutless vs. the moneyed gutless
mike_c: mircea_popescu: he might only have 50mn, his wife is making a grab too :)
asciilifeform: dijkstra once read a lecture, and exclaimed 'how many bugs shall we tolerate?!' one wag stands up - '3!' ☟︎
mircea_popescu: like... you want a war ? you got a war. sue each and every single person involved at any level with the nba, independently.
asciilifeform: ThickAsThieves: supreme court << eh, i'd rather sit on a 'troika'
ThickAsThieves: he'd be a celeb for sure
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller it was a sudden hit at one point that made 90% of it tho
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: having two cellphones, now a criminal << quite a few people i know have 2+. 'human' and 'work' phone.
mircea_popescu: CheckDavid i just acquired a coupla, you seen the f.mpif ?
CheckDavid: Mircea. Do you have a slave auto trader?
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves i imagine it's a doozy.
mircea_popescu: and a decade later they can command their own regiment.
mircea_popescu: and yes when i say slavery i mean a very intimate and absolutey sexual thing.
ThickAsThieves: not as a habit, but i could see it being sexual
ThickAsThieves: so i get it a lil better then
ThickAsThieves: hmm maybe we made a silebnt leap i missed
mircea_popescu: point being, at least among sane people, it wouldn't come as a surprise
mircea_popescu: after 8 and a half hours trying to make you cum on her face.
mircea_popescu: you figure you'd have a pow wow with the girl about this ?
mircea_popescu: so then why'd it be a surprise, just one day... honey, whack!
mircea_popescu: so there's no connection whatsoever other than...well... she's got a cunt and you got a plug that fits ?
mircea_popescu: a you're married. well, suppose we're playing second life, and you're not you. so
mircea_popescu: jesus lol that's a weird idea.
ThickAsThieves: like you meet a girl, fuck her, she sticks around and you just start beating her one morning?
mircea_popescu: so ask a q.
mircea_popescu: Mircea Popescu @Mircea_Popescu @mattstate @libertydotfees I wrote a guide on how to beat women. In Romanian. http://trilema.com/2011/cum-se-bate-femeia/ How about you ?
mircea_popescu: i suppose not having a phone at all is the mark of the terrorist, isnt it.
mircea_popescu: having two cellphones, now a criminal indicia.
ThickAsThieves: i cheated on a girl. once.
mircea_popescu: well good, i hadn't been following it for ~20 years, and now i have a good answer if anyone asks me
asciilifeform: is there a single white man playing?
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves it's not that they "don't like him". it's that they just got a cock and would like me to be impressed.
asciilifeform: mr. mold once described the 'diversity quota' crap as 'there must be a Party member on every elevator ride.'
cazalla: mircea_popescu: "the average declared weight is 180.94 kgs" and i thought i was a chubby chaser
mircea_popescu: i own a girl who recounted the story of how the school administration made all the girls lift up their skirts to prove they actually were wearing panties or not be allowed inside the hs end party
ThickAsThieves: seems like a mess could blow up in NBA's face
fluffypony: asciilifeform: I jest about Fiddler on the Roof:) I think things like the Golden Gate and all those cathedrals with the semi-spherical towers (Saint Basil's being the obvious go-to for every movie set in Russia ever) are a sight to see. also Manshikof (sp?) tower and the Chelyabinsk opera house are on the list.
mike_c: "Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling has been banned for life by the NBA in response to racist comments the league says he made in a recorded conversation."
ozbot: BitBet - LA Clippers' Donald Sterling to take a hike
mike_c: http://bitbet.us/bet/816/la-clippers-donald-sterling-to-take-a-hike/ << that was fast.
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: don't get me wrong - I'm a huge opera buff, and I could get lost in the architecture of the ancient Greeks, but I love being in places that are so fundamentally different to my own frame of reference
asciilifeform: the thing that makes this a mega-lol is that lib.ru sold out to copyrasts years ago - charges for access to a number of things, incl. books by folks who never asked for this
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: I disagree - people have been living there for more than a few hundred years, which means they've developed not only a language, but art and architecture and even ways of thinking that differ from my own...which I think is the essence of "culture"
mike_c: a share of S.MG on havelock is worth 30% less than a share of smg on mpex. that is quite a discount.
Thelamarvelous1: This all seems like a lot to swallow for me in 1 nigbt.
asciilifeform: fluffypony: the only remaining actual law is - 'Не верь, не бойся, не проси' ("Don't Believe, Don't Fear and Don't Ask." russian prison maxim, at least a century old)
asciilifeform: fluffypony: setup mining operations in the US... rent it to someone outside << lol, you think 'rule of law' is a thing in the usa
mircea_popescu: Thelamarvelous1 other than teenagers, reading is the best way to spend a night.
jborkl_: I got a API to the site and working on a pubnub to stream in live trade data :)
kakobrekla: imma be a smartass
ThickAsThieves: the mining thing seems a little too obvious to be noteworthy imo
ThickAsThieves: all i have otherwise is a client server (all that's left of my mktg biz is the website hosting)
ThickAsThieves: <+mike_c> ThickAsThieves: thedevilwearsbitcoin is down. /// looks up to me, but that's the second downtime already... a testament to Namecheap's hosting service.
mircea_popescu: a fine example of educated idiocy.
mike_c: http://wiki.bitcoin-assets.com/ << a decent place to start.
Thelamarvelous1: I have a contact on here so i talk to him... but im real new here
mircea_popescu: it IS a great way to build an intellect in this space.
mircea_popescu: <fluffypony> so Havelock admitted to insider trading, of a sort? << no. they're just trying to make vague claims as to anything. that they're registered, should that seem desirable. that they're mp, should that appear a value. that anything and everything, no matter what it may be.
mircea_popescu: i'll have my horses graze on him. for he's a glenn, and they like glens.
benkay: either that or there are sensible people at the helm in some places. hard to believe, but a possibility.
JorgePasada: It's actually a sensible ruling though
fluffypony: make it a zero-sum game
fluffypony: well that seems a convenient work around
ThickAsThieves: well thats what happens when you try to fill a void
fluffypony: then Havelock say "We have been working with Mintspare closely during the past few months and they have a bright future ahead of them. They should and will start to post and respond to requests on this forum."
ThickAsThieves: <+fluffypony> so Havelock admitted to insider trading, of a sort? /// where?
fluffypony: JorgePasada: had a glass of wine?
fluffypony: so Havelock admitted to insider trading, of a sort?
moiety: might be a slightly wrong route to go, taking away from the manuls and all
benkay: "In the end, the Christian Democrats failed to secure a player and the Feminist Initiative player had to decline due to other commitments."
fluffypony: moiety: "niggaz" is the preferred colloquialism to a manul
mircea_popescu: basically this guy would like to be here, but he doesn't know that here exists, or how to get here. which, imo, speak to structural deffect. if he weren't a broken being he wouldn't have the problem.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the notion that andreessen is a source or has anything to say about bitcoin is laughable, but it's also so very cute
bitcoinpete: fluffypony: haha ya, that was a decent one
fluffypony: bitcoinpete: this is among my favourite of the things you've said - "There’s a baby, its bathwater, and Mastercoin. Let’s just throw out the latter two."
mod6: The Will to Power was put together by his sister after his death. Mainly a collection of papers and personal notes. It's good though.
benkay: there's already a connection between two machines sending btc protocol messages back and forth
JorgePasada: It's a network, there has to be points of entry
benkay: it's not a mistake.
benkay: "It’s almost a mistake that tracking today is possible." << not an alert human.
benkay: let's try something from princessnell: http://theumlaut.com/2014/04/29/scenes-from-a-dying-imperial-city-the-export-import-bank/
benkay: "It also glosses over theft. Because Bitcoin relies entirely on the private retention of secrets (private keys that prove ownership of given Bitcoins), a stolen Bitcoin is only traceable within the system to a certain extent, and thefts of millions and tens of millions of dollars have already occurred. Because committed transactions are irreversible, stolen Bitcoins are valuable and nearly laundered." << this is bananas.
JorgePasada: is a better way of stating it
JorgePasada: It's 100% guaranteed to be a net value add to the system as an aggregate