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the20year2: *possibly* dumb question, but would it be possible to request the listing of an asset on mpex via
a pre-existing account, or does it have to be done from
a brand new one?
mooninite: so it's
a level playing field, and if you want to farm and go out of your way to get the rarest items, you can -- but they will not immediately make you stronger than everyone else, it's just for looks
mooninite: at max level, everyone's gear stats hit the same ceiling. There's no quest for bigger and better loots. Some people dislike this fact, but I find it nice to be able to quit playing for
a few weeks, come back and not feel like everyone else progressed beyond me
mooninite: I played Rift, it was def
a step of from the likes of WoW. But GW2 is the epitome of "without the stupid shit"
mircea_popescu: "When Michael Jackson died they wanted to have
a party for him in motherfuckin’ Fort Greene Park and all of
a sudden the white people in Fort Greene said, 'Wait
a minute! We can’t have black people having
a party for Michael Jackson to celebrate his life. Who’s coming to the neighborhood?
mircea_popescu: you need
a whole of
a lot of progress to get people thinking they're better off in vermin infested shitholes today than they were in 1500
mircea_popescu: there's no such thing as
a right to one's code just because it exists or just because it's different.
mircea_popescu: kind-of why the key figures are reported
a certain way in fiat.
nubbins`: this presents
a problem to be solved if havelock wishes to display
a live count of the number of shares existing
ThickAsThieves: they arent included, but they are
a factor should they be rendered, no?
mircea_popescu: S.MG has
a total of 88`096`605 authorised shares outstanding
ThickAsThieves: surely James and Mircea can sort out
a way to reliably get
a count
benkay: sounds like
a thing havelock and the pt managers should really have thought about.
jcpham: i had
a need for
a shopify thingy
nubbins`: ;D was hoping that'd garner
a reaction
nubbins`: hope you're getting
a good price on your shirts :D
gribble: Error: "eli5" is not
a valid command.
gribble: Error: "explain" is not
a valid command.
TomServo: Yet there is
a difference between
a hill and
a big hill.
nubbins`: "she's right crooked" == "she is in
a very bad mood"
nubbins`: i.e. "right" as
a synonym for "Very"
mircea_popescu: Get on the go, Let's go (also,
a common euphemism for partying, on the go by itself can also refer to
a relationship - similar to
a dating stage, but more hazy.)
nubbins`: i think there's
a wikipedia article about that somewhere too
benkay: nigga
a different thing
mircea_popescu: i can't grok wtf is causing it, because i never heard of
a civilised country with begbugs before san francisco came along
mircea_popescu: nubbins` tbh large parts of the us are having
a SERIOUS infestation problem these days.
pankkake:
a hard skid is used to store data, but does not work well, and sometimes reverses bits
nubbins`: but i think skids is
a more widely known term
mircea_popescu: wait there's
A LOT of vids of cops shooting themselves in schools ?
Duffer1: have you seen the one with the black cop shoots himself in
a classroom during
a safety demo?
mircea_popescu: diametric but it is
a specific thing. it means "fucking" :D
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> Duffer1: cooling in space is
a bitch << this somehow never is directly obvious
Duffer1: can
a level of bureaucracy exist sufficient to regulate Bitcoin?
thestringpuller: lol operate
a bitcoin exchange from
a space station. no government there...
thestringpuller: PCI compliance is
a joke, yet it accounts for good chunk of the expense budget...that gets passed onto the customer. thus we have bitcoin. So what happens in 20 years big government regulates BTC and you need 10 licenses just to touch it in Country XYZ?
mircea_popescu: but as
a general principle actual finance does not belong in the mouth of pundits any more than science belongs in the mouths of politicos.
mircea_popescu: you just go about your business without making
a big deal of them and let the kids grow up with all their limbs
mircea_popescu: you don't make
a big secret out of the power sockets, or the power tools in the garage
mircea_popescu: the idea isn't to keep anything
a secret, god forbid, but basically i think we should be informed by the correct interraction with children in
a family.
Duffer1: seems like
a situation where they'd just rather forget
BingoBoingo: At this rate COindesk is headed into
a Max Kaiser like niche becoming
a noob ghetto
ThickAsThieves: <mircea_popescu> i have no idea why people continue doing it. must be
a mental disorder on the management side. /// marketeers are persuasive, it's their job
mircea_popescu: i have no idea why people continue doing it. must be
a mental disorder on the management side.
mircea_popescu: i don't even remember
a case where some popular site "improved"
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves he used to back before i ended up wearing his asshole as
a windshield decoration
ozbot: Scientists Discover
a New State of Matter in the Last Place You’d Ever Think to Look | TheBlaze.co
pankkake: I wonder if the UI is just
a photoshop thing for now
ThickAsThieves: "Having only one currency that can be used for betting makes bet-matching simpler and easier (and more likely). The currency for making bets cannot be BTC, because the Counterparty protocol cannot debit BTC from
a user’s address."
mircea_popescu: it's kind-of becoming
a fun sport these days tho, find agents twist their arms.
pankkake: "This is
a radical solution" lol
nubbins`: and vladivostok is
a LONG train ride from moscow & st petersburg
cazalla: lead to that after reading the CIA rumoured to have run
a bank here in Australia
Duffer1: mircea_popescu@Mircea_Popescu This is pretty well equally true of the US. >>> Cuba is
a great example to offer
mircea_popescu: like you know, having your idiocy made
a point of public mockery in the forum is immediate license to disengage and pretent like you were slighted
mircea_popescu: and now he's going to be upset because i called him
a weasel
mircea_popescu: @SpiegelPeter Is Syria
a neighbour of the US? You may want to re-read original Kennan quote.
mircea_popescu: like say the misadventures of those pretend-gambling guys mpoe-pr laid into
a week ago
mircea_popescu: i wonder generally how many people realise that stupendously stupid "pr" actually has
a marked negative cost
nubbins`: next thing ya know gox decides "well, now's as good
a time as any"
nubbins`: some anon blogger "is sent"
a doc, black-highlights
a bunch of gibberish math, makes
a reddit post
mircea_popescu: nubbins` point in case as to the "we don't deserve to run
a business" thing
nubbins`: why would you redact
a bunch of numbers on
a document about
a failing exchange --
a document that you're releasing
nubbins`: who's going to draft an internal memo that flatly states "we don't deserve to run
a business"?
nubbins`: just so happens that he faked the doc at
a time when everybody was ready to accept
a poor fake as legit
nubbins`: wanted to make
a name for himself, and it worked. associated press splashed his name across the globe
nubbins`: mildly surprised anyone believed that was
a legit doc