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BingoBoingo: The thing about science/bitcoin/whatever is people can believe whatever they want, while reality generally doesn't give
a shit.
benkay: showing
a baby picture to
a man is an aggressive act because it demands
a reaction, you showing him
a picture of your baby is entirely for your benefit and not at all for his, it is
a dare, in much the same way as
a woman on
a first date telling you she doesn't play games is
a dare,
a dare you shouldn't take, trust me on this, overpay the check in cash and run.
ThickAsThieves: so it's really
a lesson for scammers, quantity over quality
ThickAsThieves: if yer gonna support scammers, at least have
a big enough wallet for
a lawyer i guess
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, “We are part of
a transformation of Bitcoin mining,” said Hans Olsen, CEO of Alydian. “Alydian has developed an enterprise-scale Bitcoin
ThickAsThieves: "What I see is
a debtor that has absolutely zero existence," Judge Overstreet said. "I want to make sure that when we do this world-wide advertising [to promote an auction] we are not misrepresenting to the world what we have to sell, because the integrity of the bankruptcy process is at stake."
ThickAsThieves: "As
a fairly early Bitcoin adopter and institutional miner, the choice for mining hardware comes down to innovation. Who is going to have the experience and best technology going forward to keep me ahead of the curve? The fact that BFL has
a proven chip design, combined with their innovations in form factor and node size means that they will be hard to beat moving forward."
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla you know, all about how bfl is
a serious biznis that has the foundation's seal of approval.
mircea_popescu: bitcoin foundation come out with
a BFL statement yet ?
ThickAsThieves: do
a tell-all post about how we discovered what happened to Gox coins
mircea_popescu: incidentally : urda is
a muchly loved romanian soft cheese
mircea_popescu: kinda what pulp is, actually. "
a bad retelling of history"
mircea_popescu: like you're an alien from
a different herbertian space.
mircea_popescu: if you never meet such complexity you're not doing
a too good job of thnking
benkay: "mmm! this problem has
a lovely hint of complexity."
Jere_Jones: "
A complex thing that can not be translated"?
Jere_Jones: What does it mean? Best I can find is that it is
a french-ish word meaning "un-translate-able".
Jere_Jones: I'm having trouble with
a word in mp's pro-idiotas article. "intraductibility"
mircea_popescu: ubly interesting because calculus was invented to make hard work easier. "I just don't get math." Can't do math if you weren't taught to think logically, and logic is tough on kids' self esteems and makes them way less submissive, easier just to put on
a video.
mircea_popescu: However, not all women are the target demo of Randi's lip synching, the CEO of General Dynamics is
a woman, I think she has
a higher security clearance than the entire Senate, and I know for
a fact she builds alien spaceships, why not interview her about how she uses social media to promote her brand and make connections and break ceilings? Because there's no Like button for hard work or triple integrals, which is do
mircea_popescu: i put
a pot on her head and fucked her holding the handles.
mircea_popescu: judge's wife,
a tall beautiful woman is allegedly raped in
a phone booth
mircea_popescu: let's play "help evil ai MP infiltrate human society",
a society game.
benkay: to
a nation that favors the image over the substance maybe
benkay: 'babes' is just
a personal generic for wimmins
benkay: BingoBoingo: that url's going to need
a pastebin
nubbins`: see, the guy offering you
a joint is just trying to make you
a better writer
mircea_popescu: "The NFL's been handing out traumatic brain injuries for decades, but the moment Disney decided it needed the women that was the end of lockerroom hijinx. But until it completes the NFL's rebranding as
a kinder, bully-free, concussionless game, complete with engagement rings and Us Weekly's "Ten Hunkiest White Or Articulate Quarterbacks", it's going to have to keep broadcasting Nashville. "
nubbins`: yeah, he buys 2-3 pairs at
a time
nubbins`: it's funny, he actually takes
a marker and writes the date of first use on the back of the heels
mircea_popescu: if my passtimes required me to buy shoes 6 times
a year i'd be pretty distraught
nubbins`: i guess scuffers get less than two months out of
a pair
nubbins`: the roommate runs as
a pastime
nubbins`: "i don't scuff, so i'd say about two months
a pair"
mircea_popescu: "Of the many problems that poses, none is more serious than the fact that Omidyar now has the only two people with exclusive access to the complete Snowden NSA cache, Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras. Somehow, the same billionaire who co-financed the “coup” in Ukraine with USAID, also has exclusive access to the NSA secrets—and very few in the independent media dare voice
a skeptical word about it."
ThickAsThieves: “I must again confess that their investments outperformed mine. (Charlie says I should add “by
a lot.”) If such humiliating comparisons continue, I’ll have no choice but to cease talking about them.”
ThickAsThieves: “Woody Allen stated the general idea when he said: ‘The advantage of being bi-sexual is that it doubles your chances for
a date on Saturday night.’ Similarly, our appetite for either operating businesses or passive investments doubles our chances of finding sensible uses for our endless gusher of cash.”
nubbins`: so
a friend of mine listens to this corny christian radio station that plays classical music
nubbins`: it's not like he was
a CANADIAN SENATOR or anything :D
nubbins`: anyway, Dingwall turned the mint from
a black hole into
a very profitable endeavor
nubbins`: Dingwall's proclamation to
a parliamentary committee: "I am entitled to my entitlements!"
nubbins`: [Former Liberal cabinet minister David] Dingwall was defending his right to
a hefty severance package after stepping down from
a six-figure salary as head of the Canadian Mint. His departure, which some say was forced, came after revelations surfaced about ... questionable expense claims"
Duffer1: 30btc?! good lord you could probably bribe casc to do
a one off perfect replica for half that
nubbins`: mircea_popescu, we have
a nice mint and we're not afraid to use it :D
mircea_popescu: nubbins` didn't you canuk kooks make
a 1 ton gold coin too ?
mircea_popescu: i doubt you can make
a coin out of 60 dollars' worth of silver
peterl: that is
a heck of
a markup for
a coin
nubbins`: [13:28:15] <@Anduck> I'm selling
a 10BTC Casascius silver coin for 30 BTC. Pm me if you want to buy it.
peterl: maybe he should open
a forum thread, plenty of advise there ...
peterl: maybe you should respond with
a "I charge X btc for this type of advise"?
ozbot:
A deal can be anything. pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
ThickAsThieves: I tell him to get
a clue in kinder words, he replies "im sorry im
a bit confused are u saying if i have the business plan / interesting offering you can't help me or you can ?"
ThickAsThieves: I am looking to do
a fund raise for my business I would like to get your feedback on the best strategy to do so and the best way to reach the market.
ThickAsThieves: i wonder if this is the same guy who emailed me
a few days ago
nubbins`: "well so far i've spent
a hundred dollars"
nubbins`: you can kind of download
a joint
nubbins`: omg guise i've been selected for
a free cruise to the bahamas!
nubbins`: sounds like he needs
a new fan, not
a new macbook pro
nubbins`: as
a 9yo girl, i say i'm 9 and what is this
nubbins`: TBF some guy on the street offers me
a joint, i say yes
nubbins`: that said, this is
a ridiculous excuse of
a news story
nubbins`:
a particularly insightful comment: "another sensational story by the CBC over dramatising as usual .....and indeed scrapping the bottom of the barrel ...give us
a justin bieber story please"
ThickAsThieves: "This quote from your article aludes to plants having some sort of intelligence and
a brain. This is rather disturbing to me coming from such
a prestigious campus. This thinking must originate from some primitive caveman type of superstition. Otherwise this is
a wonderful article."
ThickAsThieves: "This is
a technology institute. I don't believe there are any communication courses here."
ozbot: Need
a water filter? Peel
a tree branch - MIT News Office
Namworld: Looks like
a lot of people bought huge amount of goxcoins at 60%-90%
mircea_popescu: unless you're in the habit of swallowing and do it 10 times
a week
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I think of it as reselling Trilema credits at
a markup
mircea_popescu: but anyway, there's going to be
a livinbg to be earned in summarizing and translating irc and stuff for vaiours needs.
ThickAsThieves: plus they need to get through the irc log as
a primer now to even hope to understand what's going on
mircea_popescu: i would say it's becoming
a major problem now that people keep trying to outmaneuver me intellectually, and whereas i'm very blunt, they ascribe wallstreet-esque depths of trachery to what i do