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asciilifeform: overhearing a conversation which appeared to him to have
asciilifeform: had joined the Spies, at nine he had been a troop leader. At
asciilifeform: six -- a year early, by a special relaxation of the rules -- he
asciilifeform: except a drum, a sub-machine gun, and a model helicopter. At
asciilifeform: style: a style at once military and pedantic, and, because of a
asciilifeform: Winston thought for a moment, then pulled the speakwrite
asciilifeform: and a couple of faked photographs would soon bring him into
asciilifeform: was no such person as Comrade Ogilvy, but a few lines of print
asciilifeform: as it were, the image of a certain Comrade Ogilvy, who had
asciilifeform: complicate the records too much. What was needed was a piece of
asciilifeform: obvious, while to invent a victory at the front, or some
asciilifeform: traitors and thought-criminals, but that was a little too
cads: once you buy that this could be possible the rest of the article does down like a glass of water :)
asciilifeform: cads: signing with a known satoshi addr key might be a good start.
BingoBoingo: A literal, rather than figurative fire fight http://www.ksdk.com/story/news/local/2014/03/06/st-libory-illinois-bike-apartment-fire-firefighter-attacked/6130449/
B007: http://bitbet.us/bet/635/1btc-10-000-usd/ someone needs to bet a bunch of bitcoin >1000
mircea_popescu: it simply means that you can't find a us bank that'' work with you.
mircea_popescu: This is what oppression often looks like. No one called from Moscow and told this guy to destroy Termen's work. But he didn't care to stick his neck out, and took a proactive approach."
mircea_popescu: "In the late 60's, Termen left spy work and got a university job doing acoustical research. One day a visiting Western journalist ran in to Termen, and unfortunately reported the fact that he was still alive in the New York Times.
nubbins`: ehh, not a fan of oatmean
mircea_popescu: pass through a colony of penguins."
BingoBoingo: Is S.MNKY hiring a futurist?
mircea_popescu: like a far seeing fart artist
mircea_popescu: or maybe a fartist
ThickAsThieves: or a presenist
nubbins`: second step is to call yourself a futurist instead of a wizard
ThickAsThieves: can i also be a pastist
nubbins`: first step is to become a wizard
ThickAsThieves: how do i become a futurisy?
Namworld: Well I hear government backing of a fiat currency gives value, but faith does not give innate value to a fiat like BTC. Apparently if I disagree and claim both are fiat, without innate value and purely faith based valuation, I don't know what I'm talking about.
ozbot: Rhythm is a dancer - YouTube
rithm: a
nubbins`: jcpham was a better nick
nubbins`: a barrel of fun?
gribble: (bcauth <nick>) -- Initiate authentication for user <nick>. You must have registered with the bot with a bitcoin address for this to work. You will be given a random passphrase to sign with your address, and submit to the bot with the 'bcverify' command. Your passphrase will expire within 10 minutes.
benkay`: the20year2: assume i have btc and can collateralize a position. are you willing to lend me shares?
benkay`: maybe i just want to do a bitbet
benkay`: how much of a selloff are you expecting, the20year2?
ThickAsThieves: dats a lotta AM
mircea_popescu: nor gives a shit about anything but how the story should read for maximal impact in the mouthbreather herd.
mircea_popescu: yeah. a mentor that's never talked to anyone who's not online.
ThickAsThieves: maybe he has a mentor, i dunno
mircea_popescu: "here's what some libertard that's been on the internet all her lyf thinks a guy who's not would say"
mircea_popescu: really badly written, too. "When I first responded to you, I didn't think that it would cause people to reach out to me and voice their opinions. I've never been on the internet in my life and I'm not fully aware of the social circles on the internet, so it was a surprise to receive reactions so quickly."
mircea_popescu: unless you're telling me an unemployable black kid that supplemented his dole payments with robbery somehow went to vassar while in a texas jail.
kakobrekla: >Safello announces a $600k investment round lead by prominent Bitcoin advocates Erik Voorhees and Roger Ver joined by Blockchain.info CEO Nicolas Cary and angel investors Victor & Victor. The Sweden based company also launches a complete redesign of their website to gear up for their European expansion as the safest way into Bitcoin.
ozbot: A Letter From Ray Jasper, Who Is About to Be Executed
ThickAsThieves: http://gawker.com/a-letter-from-ray-jasper-who-is-about-to-be-executed-1536073598
ozbot: Ass to Ass Loop - Requiem for a Dream - YouTube
ThickAsThieves: it's when you bump assholes with a guy, swapping anal cooties, making you asshole brothers
lnovy: mircea_popescu: that was just a quick to-be-funny reaction
ThickAsThieves: "MazaCoin is a fork of ZetaCoin and unlike Bitcoin, is inflationary, making it possible for new coins to be mined over time."
mircea_popescu: the theory that three's a charm is kind-of giving me goosebumps atm.
kakobrekla: the block was a week old
mircea_popescu: "Too funny. Despite the incoherence of his blog post, at least MP has finally stepped up and conceded the incompetence of his former approach to options market making. For finally admitting that and quitting the business of options market making without being adequately prepared, he deserves a positive acknowledgement."
nubbins`: "I respectfully disagree with your opinion that the 'cockpit,' (we now call it the flight deck as no cocks are required), is no place for a lady. In fact, there are no places that are not for ladies anymore."
kakobrekla: so it seems they have a prob with their own txes
nubbins`: back when i worked in a fabric-covered box, i walked past an office and overheard the woman inside talking about a "head count reduction"
nubbins`: reading an article about Staples closing 225 stores and there's a quote from some asshole about "right-sizing" their retail footprint
mircea_popescu: so is this coindesk basically a hand aggregator of the retarded press ?
ozbot: Could bars open until 6 a.m. be in Montreal's future? - Montreal - CBC News
nubbins`: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/could-bars-open-until-6-a-m-be-in-montreal-s-future-1.2562057
nubbins`: for about a minute
dexX7: was it a redeemed one?
nubbins`: well, that was more practicality than anything. nobody wants to spend $30 shipping on a $15 shirt
nubbins`: at least the month and a half of panicking is over. guy paid 6btc for the coin inside, via escrow
ThickAsThieves: i can't recall a better memorial idea
cazalla: that's quite a long time nubbins`
nubbins`: what a wait!
nubbins`: so i sent a coin to australia on january 14. it took nineteen days to get from here to vancouver, and finally arrived in australia today
mircea_popescu: actually this suggests a bet to me.
asciilifeform: or at least a fork.
mircea_popescu: SG: It has not been received well, many people are telling me to “leave Satoshi alone”. But when one starts having a huge impact on the world, one loses his right to anonymity.
mircea_popescu: SG: I think it’s very important to identify Satoshi at this point in Bitcoin’s history. The “agenda” behind Bitcoin, if there is any, cannot stay in the shadow if Bitcoin is to become a mainstream alternative currency, a challenge to the world’s monetary status quo. There has been speculation that Bitcoin may have been created by a government agency (the main employers of cryptographers of mathematicians) in
chetty: hmmmmm sounds like a great halloween costume :satoshidommes
asciilifeform: pLambert: how anyone can claim to know anything at all about s, is a mystery.
pLambert: do we know that Satoshi is a male?
asciilifeform: at some point you'll have to demonstrate a cyanide tooth to be even considered a proper candidate for satoshidom.
asciilifeform: 'skull of voltaire as a child'
chetty: well all the Satochies could get together and have a party
asciilifeform: i'd really have to be in the place of a fellow 'getting satoshied'
chetty: Crimea's parliament voted to join Russia on Thursday and its Moscow-backed government set a referendum within 10 days
MisterE: hmm maybe a pot fund
asciilifeform: some joker ought to fund a 'fields medal' for... spam.
chetty: but then he and O could make a club or sumthin
asciilifeform: chetty: and it won't be a nobel pederasteace prize, but a Lenin prize.
mircea_popescu: AND a wife ?
mircea_popescu: wait, you have a husband now ?
mircea_popescu: makes 0 sense on a digital system
mircea_popescu: MisterE it's really a leftover from typewriter days.
mircea_popescu: wherever a guy who "was deeply influenced by silicon valley" and also "uses prefix notation" could be found.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform actually there's already a dude claiming he's it
asciilifeform: the real fun starts when we get a 2nd, 3rd... лжеsatoshi.
asciilifeform: well, they're pushing a picture of a 'go away, i won't admit the deed' satoshi
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: that cup is referring to a cheap sf flick, 'children of men', where there's an apocalyptic degringolade, and pill in question is a bestseller.
mircea_popescu: "if there's a robbery don't do anything, call the robbery people"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "if there's a fire, don't do anything, call the fire people"
asciilifeform: ah, they just need to do it in a certified abbatoir.
MisterE: why mircea_popescu say Ukraine is not productive and that article says its where .ch wants to buy its land becouse produces a lot of wheat?
asciilifeform: MisterE: i posted here about this a few days ago, look in logs if you're interested.