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fluffypony: they do it on a "murders per 100k people" basis
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "a particular flavour of inhumanity"
asciilifeform: basic soviet meaning, a fellow who's had no truck with human cultural achievements - literature, physics, philosophy, whatever
Apocalyptic: sounds like a slovak word
bounce spots a developing tvtropes addiction
robwhiz22: You kind of disappeared the other day. I'm hoping you had a chance to read what I'd written you earlier. If so could you tell me a decision please?
fluffypony: but you end up with a burnt hand afterwards
mircea_popescu: fluffypony making mistakes should be encouraged in a narrow field : that where we don't know what the mistakes are. in the fields where we already know, they should not be.
chetty: you would listen to a 'teacher' that wasn't worth it?
chetty: well there is a difference between having an opinon, and expressing it
mircea_popescu: whoa this is going to be a good argument, i disagree with everyone.
fluffypony: goonsamchi: where do you draw the line? if a wildly popular personality says that everyone should kill themselves, and then a bunch of people do, should the person who expressed their "opinion" be entitled to it?
mircea_popescu: seems to me allowing fuckwits to have "opinions" has turned the us of a into a monoculture of sheep who all think the same.
goonsamchi: not allowing people to be incorrect just leads to a monoculture of sheep who all think the same. even if they're right, there's still a lack of diversity
mircea_popescu: goonsamchi there's a difference between controlling your own life and having opinions tho.
fluffypony: goonsamchi: so you'd prefer they take their medical advice from a TV personality?
mircea_popescu: goonsamchi it's not a good idea to have "opinions" on matters you have not the authority to have opinions on.
goonsamchi: best to have diverse opinions, instead of a nation of sheep all taking the scientists' word for it, never considering the possibility that someone could be wrong
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benkay: risk, it would likely be considered a forward and be excluded from the
benkay: (and not their cash equivalent), and is being used by a party to manage price
benkay: Accordingly, to the extent a contract delivers bitcoins at a date after the sale
akstunt600: Just a fellow bitcoin persons
mircea_popescu: bounce nah a social studies bs
bounce: SSRN, wasn't that a class of antidepressants?
bounce: shh. lemme admire the sensibility a bit more.
mircea_popescu: benkay chick writing a paper about us ?!
mircea_popescu: we should have a drama department
mjr_: which is the same issue...you don't pick a name and then ISO standardizes
benkay: no man it's a waste of time
fluffypony: benkay: what about a backwards Euro symbol, then it looks kinda like a monkey butt
mjr_: phones can currently type the bitcoin symbol...i don't even know how you would convince apple or motorola to add a keyboard
benkay: i advocate we abandon the btc symbol all together and just use a capital b
mjr_: am I safe in assuming that everyone here thinks trying to change the bitcoin symbol is stupid and a waste of time?
mircea_popescu: this is a sad puppy
mircea_popescu: dignork i dunno, imo all of irc and a lot more is otc in this sense.
mircea_popescu: dignork otc as a concept. "over the counter"
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: we have a community here of < 500 people actively interested in Bitcoin, not just peripherally
fluffypony: I have a lot of people I know that prefer to buy from me instead of buying on the local exchange
mircea_popescu: so i guess the scammers get a whole new market now.
benkay`: there is a bit of a discount for magical bitcoins
mircea_popescu: they've painted themselves in a corner, basically. if all you wanna do is buy 20 bucks wortha btc to "have some", no way in fuck do you go through all the caudine forkland of "send us a pic with you holding a seal". odds are you don't even have a phone.
asciilifeform: we might be witnessing a bifurcation a la 'bezzle dollar'
mircea_popescu: is bbbj like a blowjob with three girls ?
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mike_c: i didn't realize what a honeypot mediawiki is.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves dvsdude benkay` what the shit, letterman was supposed to be a comic neh ? colbert is now funny ?
daybyter: but I want to use a strategy that is a lot more simple.
daybyter: I thought about a collab.
daybyter: looking for someone to make a pretty app.
nubbins`: i was briefly excited when i saw the "recent changes" page until i took a closer look :D
daybyter: interested in a trading app?
keonne: im a designer in general, focusing on UI, and I do a lot of android apps
keonne: The only coding I do is a very hobbyist hack job at python
keonne: train is a bit delayed
keonne: http://trilema.com/2014/filantropica/ god damn, this is a good article. I really want to see this movie even more now.
keonne: as always its been a pleasure
nubbins`: my money is on a chuckle
daybyter: I have a lib that should run on desktop and android.
nubbins`: ostensibly you're changing providers to get a better rate
keonne: without a canadian ID
keonne: i remmeber not even being able to get a sim card in canada
keonne: for £15 pay as you go a month
TomServo: nubbins`: I'm just saying, that is what makes it a "better deal" to some people.
keonne: i mean i havent had a contract in 3 years
TomServo: nubbins`: I think it depends on how much you value being able to switch carriers on a whim.
nubbins`: $700 straight-up or $200 on a two-year contract
nubbins`: let's say a new iphone
nubbins`: explain to me how buying the phone outright is a better deal in the long run
keonne: or not be on a train going into tunnels
nubbins`: well, that certainly answers a different question
keonne: well lets see, $500 phone you get for $250 because you sign a 2 year contract paying ~60-80 a month. 
nubbins`: suppose you save $500 by getting a subsidy. at the end of your two-year contract, you own your phone
nubbins`: might as well put a coca-cola logo on there
keonne: because it's a really bad deal
truffles: im pretty rough i need a case
nubbins`: if you drop your $500 phone so often that you need to put it in a case, maybe you shouldn't have one
keonne: but i also did make up a life story for you
fluffypony: nubbins`: want a wooden case for it? we have a bunch as gifts, but most of our customers are Android users, and the guy that makes them doesn't make Android cases
keonne: and im a simple wage slave
fluffypony: gizmodo is popular? I stopped reading there a long time ago
ozbot: Android handsets a poor man's iPhone, research claims | News | PC Pro
nubbins`: http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/362650/android-handsets-a-poor-mans-iphone-research-claims
fluffypony: nubbins`: so you're a Windows Phone user, then?
dignork: mircea_popescu, it's just a sensible default, which can be changed via weechat.look.paste_max_lines, same idea is implemented in some unixes by aliasing 'rm' to 'rm -i', just a default
keonne: since in my mind hes lounging in a pool flush with btc and pussy in the virgin islands
keonne: honestly my job doesnt feel like a job, so i guess im lucky there
nubbins`: what in the fuck is a job
keonne: keonne: #bitcoin-assets is like a second job << first job for most people here. i see that, at least im honest, maybe one day i will be able to afford the trading platform fee and have my mind warped enough to warrant a spot in the full time club
gribble: Error: "cal" is not a valid command.
gribble: Bitstamp | A market order to buy 23500 bitcoins right now would take 14785226.8837 USD and would take the last price up to 1299.9800 USD, resulting in an average price of 629.1586 USD/BTC. | Data vintage: 59.7878 seconds
gribble: Bitstamp | A market order to buy 22500 bitcoins right now would take 13607783.7198 USD and would take the last price up to 1075.0000 USD, resulting in an average price of 604.7904 USD/BTC. | Data vintage: 45.7563 seconds
gribble: Bitstamp | A market order to buy 20000 bitcoins right now would take 11195529.8825 USD and would take the last price up to 849.9800 USD, resulting in an average price of 559.7765 USD/BTC. | Data vintage: 25.9547 seconds
gribble: Bitstamp | A market order to buy 15000 bitcoins right now would take 7503392.7506 USD and would take the last price up to 655.6800 USD, resulting in an average price of 500.2262 USD/BTC. | Data vintage: 18.2787 seconds
gribble: Bitstamp | This order would exceed the size of the order book. You would buy 24098.515 bitcoins, for a total of 17899251.1321 USD and take the price to 99999.9900. | Data vintage: 0.0374 seconds
gribble: Bitstamp | A market order to buy 10000 bitcoins right now would take 4496710.4412 USD and would take the last price up to 520.0000 USD, resulting in an average price of 449.6710 USD/BTC. | Data vintage: 232.9129 seconds
danielpbarron: one-of-a-kind stupidity there
nubbins`: seriously. the senate. highest judicial body in the country. guy gets fired for being a shitbag, and the best job he can scrounge together after that is putting together the weekly schedule at the fuckin Bare Fax
kanzure: what's wrong with running a strip club?
kanzure: i'm making a collection of overly-enthusiastic claims about bitcoin