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asciilifeform: one can try to play 'whack-a-mole' (playing as the mole) with the customs, and some people do.
asciilifeform: a photo will be added to the handy binder customs officials keep
asciilifeform: if you try to bring a crate of these to u.s., germany, etc. it will be confiscated at customs.
BingoBoingo: decimation: For a couple of weeks that was allowable, but only as a "most charitable reading which would still leave them insolvent"
BingoBoingo: I can't try to read a part in this god damned score without singing it to proofread my alterations.
asciilifeform: the fact that the bits on a disk belong to the fellow with the keys to the room is somehow lost on them.
asciilifeform: decimation: what kind of fool would believe... << quite a few people. ask them, not me.
decimation: although that's a neat how-to manual
BingoBoingo: Seriously ##mtgox-statement is quite a lulzmine
the20year: I know it doesn't make a difference to any of you, but I managed to come up with a mobile lighting solution for doing video inside the dumps we're buying
BingoBoingo: He only does this maybe twice a week, let him rest.
BingoBoingo: circle is a vaporware
diametric: I'm waiting for Mark is actually a reptilian alien
diametric: and that he tried to slip that message in the IRC interview by posting a 9gag image and specifically mentioning 9gag when he linked the url
diametric: the latest trend is that Mark is under a gag order
asciilifeform: diametric: is there a public log?
BingoBoingo: So ##mtgox-statement is a lulzy channel of the moment
asciilifeform: and you needn't be a magician.
BingoBoingo: Yalta actually seems like a really nice place to have a summer house
cazalla: i was going to buy a toyota 86 but decided to keep driving my shit box until it goes no more
cazalla: you really want a lambo?
BingoBoingo: I think I found something much more fun to spend BTC on than a Lambo http://arstechnica.com/science/2014/02/the-exosuit-a-wearable-submarine-for-visiting-deep-water/
Chris_Sabian: i found a solution to the stcuk transcation in bitcoinqt : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=483564.msg5328360#msg5328360
Chris_Sabian: I have a transcation that I sent out almost 5 hours ago and it is still unconfirmed. broadcast through 99 nodes. miners fee of 0.0005 sent. any idea of why it is taking so long?
BingoBoingo: That is a very good question ThickAsThieves
kakobrekla: ( someone did a redirect to kraken.com )
nubbins`: mircea_popescu, by calling it a buigina
mircea_popescu: well... that'd be them being a man.
ThickAsThieves: you tap a card to attack or use its tap ability
nubbins`: you know that's not a japanese starbucks, yes?
greenspan_fan: but "being a man" is totally begging the question
mircea_popescu: greenspan_fan you know, being a man.
mircea_popescu: mebbe you presume a little there :)
mircea_popescu: lol, now there's some revolutionizng and disrupting in a tang package
mircea_popescu: i suppose to some degree, at the level of a challenge, as in, some schmuck pulls a gun and i blow his head off
greenspan_fan: this reasoning includes a sort of meta-level reasoning about whether or not the stock selection process is likely to be correct
greenspan_fan: I realize I have a typo in the above: "process might be IMperfect" **
mircea_popescu: anyway : you'll never be able to have both a) agency and b) rationality.
greenspan_fan: the argument was, I think, that even if he were a brain in a vat (or being tortured by demons, whatever), he could still claim to exist
mircea_popescu: these days it's used as a sort of chip-n-dip
greenspan_fan: consciousness is an illusion is a possibility
mircea_popescu: i'm a great fan of descartes, just, not ready to marry him.
mircea_popescu: it's a fiction, this. "i think". pray tell, what do you think.
greenspan_fan: not a fan of descartes?
greenspan_fan: but at some point it gets back to a sort of cogito ergo sum being the only axiom you can trust
mircea_popescu: what, you're a romanian orphan too ?!
mircea_popescu: you perceive a distinction between this meta-modelling and your mommy ? what would it be ?
greenspan_fan: no, there's a bit of meta-modelling here
asciilifeform: (there was a great robert sheckley story about folks who were paid to be knocked out and put on a nosediving plane, sinking ship, etc. and filmed as they try to wiggle their way out of odd situations)
greenspan_fan: just that since 100% certainty is provably impossible, there's a point at which acting according to my understanding of the scenario is better then not
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: should you find yourself alone with... doesn't even - horror of horrors - speak your language << might as well put him alone on a nuke sub with overheating reactor
mircea_popescu: should you find yourself alone with a cunt that's not properly bred according to the customs of your class
mircea_popescu: pirate can pay 7% a week untill he falls over.
thestringpuller: it has to give him a few blowjobs, tell him he's pretty
greenspan_fan: if I have reasons to believe it will increase day over day by a certain percent
mircea_popescu: suppose there's S.LAUGHING, a stock.
mircea_popescu: and further a cognate of quite catholic notions of divinity.
mircea_popescu: which is a cognate of both why regulation can't resolve market problems and why "self enforcing contracts" are nonsense.
thestringpuller: if you operate on noise you're just a lemming
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu saw the symptoms and made a diagnosis
greenspan_fan: then your prediction was based on matching a pattern of red flags which have historically had certain outcomes
thestringpuller: i think it's more of how a doctor operates
mircea_popescu: this is in fact a perfect embodiment of your problem for your convenience :
mircea_popescu: "I’m sure a lot of people would like free icecream, too. And free coffee, even to the degree of queing for an hour to get it. And whatever else. So what of it ?"
mircea_popescu: "Any actual evidence that they have this magic “unlimited selftrading account”? I’m sure a lot of people would like to see it if it does indeed exist.."
greenspan_fan: you made a prediction that incompetence will lead to failure
mircea_popescu: @twobitidiot honestly believes he's a sort of snowden, having leaked important mtgox shit
mircea_popescu: as far as a sufficiently entrenched glbse "investor" idiot is concerned, i just got lucky
mircea_popescu: sure, a group will be described by a power law. and in that group a subgroup will pretend identification with the power law's peak.
mircea_popescu: well what is a prediction ?
mircea_popescu: you still don't have that sort of privileged relationship with reality that'd allow you to turn an is into a should.
mircea_popescu: this is a little rich.
mircea_popescu: sure, you may model a power law, which will be correct
mircea_popescu: you could probably have portia de rossi meet jesus if you strain a little.
mircea_popescu: right. the foremost fallacy bred into children by a slappy introduction of the scientific method
mircea_popescu: she will fuck you for a cause, whatever it may be, even if it is drunkedness or desperation.
greenspan_fan: mircea_popescu one's a prediction, one's a post-hoc explanation?
greenspan_fan: But of course Napoleon won because he was an extremely effective leader of a particularly important part of society
mircea_popescu: greenspan_fan you could make a list of 1k names, but the point remains, the king's cousin was actually placed well enough to displace the monarchy.
Duffer1: define success - he successfully scammed a lot of people, TaT didn't
greenspan_fan: to a first approximation, more or less
greenspan_fan: and in fact, it's a decent enough model
greenspan_fan: to bring it back to my understanding of TLP's point, it's that society's "power" (in some loosely defined sense) is distributed according to a power law
mircea_popescu: "suppose this brick is a boat. obviously actual boats actually float, but nevertheless.
mircea_popescu: well it's a degeneratology at best.
mircea_popescu: because particles are a piss poor stand-in for people.
greenspan_fan: (to make an analogy w/ physics once again) leadership is like a drift velocity for particles undergoing brownian motion
mircea_popescu: and predicate a retrospective causality that never existed.
mircea_popescu: l expost facto call it "a revolution"
greenspan_fan: so what I'm saying is that having 1000 people who listened to leaders was a necessary (but not sufficient) condition to launch some revolutions
mircea_popescu: sure, but a different "there"
greenspan_fan: the matrices, as a form of description
mircea_popescu: "if you have 1000 average people [...] take over a small county "
mircea_popescu: "agency" is a term of art.
greenspan_fan: just saying that if you have 1000 average people who listen to you, but no money, you'd still be able to run a business or take over a small county with them
mircea_popescu: the coal mined is not a stakeholder in the coal mine.
greenspan_fan: "Everyone who gives himself a master was born to have one"
mircea_popescu: do you mean add up to something in terms of resources, like a lot of coal or plankton adds up to something more than less coal or plankton ?
greenspan_fan: mircea_popescu because if the self-appointed "bitcoin community" listens to you (even if they're on average <0.1 btc holders) then you might either get lucky and a) influence someone who actually matters or b) the huddled masses still might add up to something
asciilifeform: for all i care, tlp is a martian.