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mircea_popescu: sooo... some noob made
a post suggesting btc.sx is/was in cahoots with gox and waning against it. that post is now deleted off forum
benkay: oh it'll turn into
a whole purpose of breeding niggers.txt thing
benkay: "Keybase.io is also
a Keybase client, however certain crypto actions (signing and decrypting) are limited to users who store client-encrypted copies of their private keys on the server, an optional feature we didn't mention above."
benkay: the garage comment came from
a carpenter and not
a silicon engineer.
the20year1: Property #6, this results in
a total unit pool of 11
benkay: on
a scale of "would buy from" to "utter scam", what is kncminer?
BingoBoingo: On that note Imma head over
a few hollers to pickle the liver. I am already considering at least 1 sponsorship offer for the blog, and I'll prolly contnue entertaining offers through Thursday.
BingoBoingo: So my location is in the middle of
a "Fire Weather Warning"
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell reutersemily "Shortly after that,
a bitcoin exchange known as bitfloor was shuttered after its US bank account was closed because it had not properly registered with regulators." << nah, bitfloor was run by shtylman, who either ran off with the coin or "lost" it.
radan: is this
a bad thing, or
mircea_popescu: "Fred Ehrsam,
a co-founder of the Bitcoin trading platform Coinbase, said his company took
a position early on that it would not fight regulators. Regulators have cited it as an example of how others should behave."
nubbins`: mircea_popescu: i've seen
a few wagers on bitbet that have "house bets" attached to them -- are there specific criteria for whether the house will throw down on
a bet, or is it left to mod discretion?
ozbot:
A Fundraiser, because this is way to young to have
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radan: in
a good bitcoin bank
Namworld: You said you knew how jews think. Jews have
a common religion. Everything else could be completly different. Although the religion might influence
a good portion into certain ideas, if you took jews and non jews mixed together and asked their point of view on various things that doesn't touch jews like Israel and such, you'd have
a hard time spotting them.
radan: "nba players are just like any other people, some of them can shoot
a basketball, some of them can't"
radan: saying "there's no similarities between individuals in
a group" is
a logical fallacy
radan: when you spend 7 hours
a day for four years with representatives of
a certain group
Namworld: You talk as if jews where
a single entity. One person with one mind.
Namworld: Knowing
a jew does not make you know how they all think.
radan: my roomate is
a jew
radan: I went to
a jewish high school
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the bug mafia band quoted earlier discusses, in
a song about cars, "sau vre-o torpila dunarita, la volan o fata, mai tata"
radan:
a merchant would've called me an anti-semite by now
radan: I think he's
a bit more perceptive than your average happy merchant
Namworld: No, from my point of view we're progressing toward less famine, poverty and sickness through technology, and better understanding of our nature as an animal. Which in turn decreases violence, torture, wars and hate, as
a side effect.
Namworld: So not really arbitrary as in
a random absolute rule set out without any reason.
radan: there's
a difference
radan: they can kill me, until then I'm
a free man.
radan: it's
a free world.
radan: there's no need to raise
a kid as
a father per se in obama's america
radan: the leaders of this country have implemented
a massive social security system
radan: in actuality, even if I get
a girl pregnant here
radan: all nationalism is
a variation on itself
radan: but I've thought about it
a lot longer than you have
Namworld: You say that there is no purpose other than spreading genes, yet you're obsessed with promoting an arbitrarily sized sample of people with similar genes. You could scale up or down with
a more specific or more generic group and call it promoting close genes all the same.
Namworld: It's more of
a question of individuality and who you are, which is not falling close to the average.
mircea_popescu: next you're going toi tell me you didn't know romania had
a warez scene and we can all go to bed.
radan: didn't know Romania had
a hip hop scene
mircea_popescu: of course romanian has, much like russian,
a very rich subtextrual register
Namworld: For one who said there is no purpose, you sure are quite obsessed with race. For one who said how being manly and fearless and getting girls is important, you sure seem afraid and lost as to how to act in
a modern society to get it. For one who said modern culture is dust, you sure seem eager to go away and adopt an old one almost not practicioned anymore. There's nothing wrong with
radan: I'll take
a listen
mircea_popescu: so while the difference exists and they themselves can tell it, it may be the case that for the rest of the world
a pigeon is
a pigeon.
Radi777: this guy saying every bulgarian he met looks turkish lol either have seen only gypsies or turkish bulgarians, no real turkish looks like
a real bulgarian..big difference
radan: whenever
a turk married
a bulgarian (or greek, or romanian, or serb etc.)
nubbins`: well, i have to say i'm questioning the wisdom of
a recipe that calls for 1/4 cup of soy sauce AND
a tablespoon of salt
radan: there was once
a time when herders crossed from the carpathians to the balkans at will
radan: which is
a cultural construct and thus irrelevant
radan: we're
a soulful people ^^
mircea_popescu: romanian has
a similar, but proprotionalyl reduced advantage.
nubbins`:
a good chunk of mine is actually in .epub format, but through the wondrous Calibre, conversion is but
a click away
BingoBoingo: So @bobmcmillan seems to be under the impression we had
a long DM conversation. Is he confusing me with mircea_popescu
nubbins`: asciilifeform, you're always pasting bits of interesting text. got
a reading list anywhere on your blog?
Duffer1: wouldn't work without also
a culture of shame
Namworld: So, what's your view on the topic, Mircea? Can
a parent decline responsibility for what their kids are?
radan: can feed
a family on 20 acres
radan:
a man can feed himself comfortably on 4 acres
radan: voronezh chernozem going for $250
a hectare!
radan: the countryside is completely empty in
a lot of the world