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mircea_popescu: Kiplinger's Personal Finance listed Xavier 70th among 100 private college and universities as
a "Best Value" for 2013.
mircea_popescu: what are the fucking odds, this noob
a) claims he started in 2012 b) is named garett c) holds cog
the20year: wonder why he didn't buy my stock? He's
a horu away from me
the20year: if i run
a capital management firm i REALLY want to make it in google sites
kakobrekla: now someone paste
a loglink in that thread, i cunt cause im banned from that shithole
Bones:
A blight upon humanity
mircea_popescu: "I currently work as
a Segway tour guide in downtown Cincinnati."
mircea_popescu: why the fuck would
a fund manager take votes from investors
mircea_popescu: "I'll be submitting
a vote to shareholders to decide which company the fund should start buying shares in next. "
ozbot: Duffer comments on I'm
a journalist. I want to be able to write about Bitcoin confidently and accura
BingoBoingo: ANd some people don't spank the wife enough to have
a line that simply read "porn"
mircea_popescu: which begs the question why even have
a brand at all, but i guess that'd be
a little facetious.
ozbot: MiG-31:
A fighter ahead of its time | Russia & India Report
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: It keeps branding, because I imagine it is in
a business where the customers don't need the brand to find you.
mircea_popescu: this is visible in sports, where
a top team needs to pay less
BingoBoingo: US special ops are still busy in deserts and mountains engaged in war against people who until 2003 had no idea there was
a United States or that they lived in Afghanistan
BingoBoingo: Of course, favorite quote: "Putin, who is the Supreme Commander of the Russian Armed Forces, has not yet ordered the deployment of
a “limited military contingent” in Ukraine"
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla he did do
a runner. this is the pretense of not having done
a runner
kakobrekla: <qwebirc420729> the reason I got all prickly was because benkay was acting like
a royal douche. kakobrekla was straightforward and helpful < this cant be, sure its not the other way round?
mircea_popescu: qwebirc420729 ya but i mean, what can anyone say. nobody gives
a shit about mmm, everyone's obsessed with faggotry.
qwebirc420729: the reason I got all prickly was because benkay was acting like
a royal douche. kakobrekla was straightforward and helpful
benkay: TestingUnoDosTre: you'll want to use
a computer computer.
TestingUnoDosTre: im using this webchat freenode on
a phone. is that still possible to view?
benkay: ;;later tell TestingUnoDosTre this will result in
a PM
benkay: well fuck you're using
a webchat client
benkay: shoulda opened
a bitbet that TestingUnoDosTre would hear the same thing from
a) everyone b) kako c) mp
TestingUnoDosTre: I I proposed
a bet that the share price of mmm divided by the bitstamp daily high would be above or equal to .2 on may 3rd. I opened with
a .5 btc wager, and it was rejected, citing that i needed to put down more btc due to the peculiarity of the bet. why isnt .5 btc substantial enough when many bets start with less than .1 btc
Duffer1:
a culture of zealous anti intellectualism probably isn't helping either..
mircea_popescu: lol i never gave
a shit, business expense. you never heard of patrick harnett BECAUSE i took him out
mircea_popescu: "Let me offer
a contrary position, unpalatable but worth considering: the only appropriate time to wear make up is to look attractive to men. Or women, depending on which genitals you want to lick, hopefully it's both. "Ugh, women are not objects." Then why are you painting them?"
Duffer1: Alex Jones was on mcxNOW yesterday, him and max have been having
a lot of conversations..
nubbins`: slaughter must have immediately bought
a $5,000 bottle of wine upon hearing of gox collapse
nubbins`: why the fuck would
a business owner -- of any size -- store funds in an exchange?
mircea_popescu: "When someone hates something that to outside observers looks exactly like themselves in every way, you should quickly consult
a French book to see if they don't have
a word for that phenomenon, and they do, it's called projection."
mircea_popescu: its
a noteworthy mark of the desperation of the media re bitcoin that they're reducing to putting forth the opinions of frat boys
kakobrekla: >If I were to encounter my bank's CEO on IRC, I would not think "how cool and edgy, lemme get
a screen cap, LOL," I'd put my money in
a mattress and short the bank's stock.
ThickAsThieves: "Bear in mind that , until December 5th 2013, Mark Williams had never mentioned Bitcoin at all. But since December 2013 he has written over 50 postings on Bitcoin , in
a little over two months, with only
a handful of his normal type of postings about banking risks"
nubbins`: "If one must pick
a cryptocurrency, the lowly dogecoin, of all things, is doing everything right."
nubbins`: maybe he runs mysql on
a FAT partition ;(
ozbot: Mark Karpeles blinking
a morse code : Bitcoin
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Well at least all of this "textual analysis" provides forumites
a distraction from the Szabo is Satoshi hypothesis
nubbins`: i guess he deleted it and started
a new one?
mircea_popescu:
a great win for public participation, decentralisation and crowd powa.
mircea_popescu: ""I had Christ in my mouth for over an hour!" was
a post funeral text from
a woman who... what? I'm not
a Catholic so it took me
a few minutes to piece together that this lunatic meant she had kept the Eucharist from the funeral mass in her mouth without swallowing it for an hour-- as if that meant something."
davout: nubbins`: it *is*
a criteria
ThickAsThieves: i mean this assumption that when someone asks
a question, there is
a context
nubbins`: someone asks you the time, you don't say "where?" unless you're an idiot or
a smartass
nubbins`: asking what you think is
a complete question, in the sense that asking the time is
a complete question
nubbins`: you taking offense didn't mean
a row of beans to him, unfortunately
ThickAsThieves: asking people what's on their mind is at least
a complete q
mircea_popescu: (btw, anyone noticed this ? all female faces look best with that distended jaw look of
a cock inserted)
mircea_popescu: ok, different approach : i'm thinking about why it is that your granddaughter looks best with
a cock in her mouth.
nubbins`: it was
a conversation starter!
nubbins`: (i used to date
a girl whose very rich grandfather would stroll around parties asking people what they thought. when responded to with "about what?", he would simply walk away)
ozbot: Bitcoin is creating
a whole new set of problems pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
CheckDavid: Isn't nakamoto sitting on
a million coins?
CheckDavid: I would become
a believer if I WA's an early miner. Such easy money
mircea_popescu:
a no. apparently there's some moral hazard embodied in zuckerberg's sister
ThickAsThieves: your own progeny is also interpreted as
a way to live posthumously. The whole conversation can be starkly scientific, or frustatingly philosophical. intraductibillamawhatsit i guess.
ThickAsThieves: <mircea_popescu> all i'm sayin' is that by your reasoning, the farmer shouldn't plow the field /// It's
a lizard brain thing - the most innate thing we're here to do is reproduce, so i'd assume
a man's desire to bare his own blood is not only natural, but reinforced by male social roles. Of course this is becoming quite distorted, as you point out about betas feigning alpha. Having
mircea_popescu: the thingwith snackman, as i recall it, is that he sent
a wager on an already known bet
cazalla: which was suggested to avoid becoming
a snackman
mircea_popescu: kinda the miracle of bitbet : because peoplke generally are so bad at evaluating opportunity, it's
a fucking gold mine.
mircea_popescu: it was
a year old when mtgox finally entered its last stages of decomposition
cazalla: except for
a small amount to play with
mircea_popescu: dignork nah, it's
a problem of how the compiler translates the code do machine and how the processor runs it then
mircea_popescu: so bitcoin wouldn't really display the behaviour, we'd just end up with
a fork
cazalla: i went to
a bad public school