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pankkake: it's often working that way in the circles I know, tip or not
pankkake: lol to receiver "I am making the world better by facilitating conversations about diversity, inclusivity and social justice in the hopes of promoting empathy and equality within the tech community."
pankkake: I'd certainly like a bounty system for open source devs, but I'm not very convinced "tips" can work and reward the right people
the20year: I really didn't think a 30pg biz plan/prosectus would be too long with what we're posting on HL
kakobrekla: dafuq do i know
kakobrekla: i thought vitalik is onto that
mircea_popescu: i dunno, some guy's gonna help me fix bitcoinz ?
mike_c: i am curious how the havelock crowd will react to what is at least a good fiat investment.
ozbot: Twitter / AGlusskiy: @Mircea_Popescu I am sure that ...
kakobrekla: yeah well i do not expect 7000 exchanges in the us.
kakobrekla: i have seen this happen before.
mircea_popescu: i guess.
mircea_popescu: <kakobrekla> i wonder if btc will end up like weed in the us << there is no actual way to make bitcoin illegal. think about it.
kakobrekla: i wouldnt be surprised tbh
kakobrekla: i wonder if btc will end up like weed in the us
simlay: Was the first panel more interesting? I started ~10 minutes ago.
kakobrekla: "so i lauched, and people saw the value, so they started mining it... " and he forgots to add "then they saw doge, and saw value in that and went mining that."
mike_c: i wish i could watch. fking internet is broken today.
kakobrekla: well, not until i put them in my pocket
libbelol: then i just added a lol once on irc, because libbe was taken (after i had been using it on quakenet for like 4 years+)
libbelol: i wish mr litecoin ... knew more about how it all works? or even bothered to tell these clowns what they are talking about ?
jurov: from the mpex scientology thread: I wonder how the discussion would look like if there were no coinbr referrals.
mircea_popescu: lots of girls with three fingers around, i guess, but hey.
mircea_popescu: i blame pestalozzi, personally. if every nine year old girl was given the choice of losing a finger a week or learning math like a pro we wouldn't have these problems
mircea_popescu: i get you, just, generally speaking
Apocalyptic: well mircea, i thought here way more clueless
mircea_popescu: once i offered it for shoving things in painful places... takers, suddenly.
mircea_popescu: see, that i posit is not my fault, but the resistance of the medium. i tried to give strippers 1 btc for free. they wouldn't take it.
nubbins`: did i ever tell you guys that we once made a bespoke children's book for a single dad?
ThickAsThieves: what i mean is like if mp made a coin called Mircea Popescu
mircea_popescu: i wonder what her turds are called.
ThickAsThieves: i dunno, good coin names arent easy
nubbins`: i wonder when we'll see a celebrity come out with their own alt?
nubbins`: with a name like that, i bet they've got their own ubuntu release
mircea_popescu: http://i.imgur.com/IlTtW1m.jpg
nubbins`: "actually i've been relaying all this to my wife, and she can't breathe for laughing"
nubbins`: when i was freaking out at our last batch of tenants, one of them said -- no joke -- "you'll be single again soon if your wife ever finds out your true nature"
nubbins`: gotta say i like this silver-backed coins thing the mint is pushing
nubbins`: so i guess i've got a birthday gift on the way ;p
nubbins`: in the meantime, i just received an email receipt for that $100/$100 coin
mircea_popescu: some were but i suspect eventually got bored.
nubbins`: i have serious reservations about the future
mike_c: i love your posts, just not sure if they are universally admired
ThickAsThieves: i'm tempted to No
ozbot: BitBet - May I suggest 9B difficulty?
ThickAsThieves: http://bitbet.us/bet/740/may-i-suggest-9b-difficulty/
ThickAsThieves: that reminds of the rap i started writing back when we were starting an IRC band
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twizt: yo ThickAsThieves i heard ur making a game
twizt: if i had the money to short that fucker
ThickAsThieves: then when things seem to be too good for too long I sell em
twizt: i would short time warner cable
ThickAsThieves: mostly I get to know the companies over a long time
ThickAsThieves: i dont do it often
twizt: i dunno how to trade stocks ThickAsThieves
twizt: i got stops on
twizt: i hate this industry so much, but it pay sthe bills
ThickAsThieves: i entered TSLA on the recent dip
twizt: but i gotta make 10k to make 2k
twizt: i just wanna make 2k today
mircea_popescu: i was jus' tryin to channel. did it work ?
twizt: damn i hate having such a large emini spoos position on
mircea_popescu: i was gonna say, not necessarily a disqualifying point
nubbins`: nah i speak my mind too openly to be an ambassador
mircea_popescu: i'd be surprised if it's not my coinage tbh
Apocalyptic: i totally see obama agreeing to that
mircea_popescu: (not that i'd fly to the us without a handwritten note from the president saying that any usg personnel coming within five feet on me is to be shot on the spot)
mircea_popescu: i could see it, yes.
Apocalyptic: Barry Silbert i think
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves because i actually think what they do is a waste of time.
mircea_popescu: wait, i said something nice re teh scamdation sometime ?
nubbins`: i'd like to do a run of shirts mocking the foundation but there's almost no point
pankkake: I definitively like invite only systems
pankkake: I see. why not
pankkake: I hope so. any decentralized shipping would annoy the hell out of the power that be
nubbins`: it's my birthday on thursday, i think she was going for the element of surprise
nubbins`: i just gave her my pw and pretended to give myself amnesia ;(
nubbins`: she comes downstairs, "i tried to buy that fucking thing but i can't find it on the website"
nubbins`: aw, heh. i tell pascale about this sweet new coin, she gets all weird and disappears upstairs
mircea_popescu: i guess so.
nubbins`: i ask with all seriousness, why would anyone care?
gecko_x2: hey mp, i read on hackernews about your kind donation to the BSD project.. just wanted to say cheers, good going :D
pankkake: (and by stuff I mean food - at least)
mircea_popescu: not like i forced them to vote socialist.
nubbins`: well, i mean. speaking in generalities here
nubbins`: pankkake, i call bullshit on the "not that they can"
ThickAsThieves: i know i have no fight left in me for that place
mircea_popescu: i think this is a known property of free systems
mircea_popescu: "i suggest we just ban btc off btctalk and anyone who is sane. then we can finally be alt-happy and alt-successful"
pankkake: "I suggest we do an auto ban for 3 months for people with 50 ignores or more."
nubbins`: "turns out i still can't move home"
nubbins`: consider that i don't have what i'd consider a common name, but a google search turns up at least half a dozen people with it
mircea_popescu: this is roughly matching the luce irigaray levels of idiocy, so. i'm happy.
jurov: for twins, i mean
mircea_popescu: lol i like how into it kako gets
mircea_popescu: i had no idea there was one.
mircea_popescu: til "Kyriarchy". i like this word. i think i shall use it.
nubbins`: i'm honestly too selfish for it
deadweasel: nubbins`: it's always too soon for me to pop out kids, until it isn't. fortunately I've found my calling and I'm wrecking shop on it, currently.
nubbins`: i'm pleading canada's equivalent of the fifth amendment on this one