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nubbins`: brake? we're both doing donuts in
a parking lot
herbijudlestoids: i dun even know what im trying to convince you of really...its 4am and i paused the movie for
a sec and saw people talking about salvia
punkman1: I think most languages don't have
a word for "fun"
mircea_popescu: he confessed he learned
a valuable lesson from this experience :
mircea_popescu: herbijudlestoids lemme tell you
a story.
a freind of mine had
a dumbass father.
nubbins`: herbijudlestoids: well, it's just as easy to have
a bunch of fun than to learn something
herbijudlestoids: nubbins`: i think its very easy to not bring anything back to flatland...hard work to "bring something back"...to learn
a lesson
mircea_popescu: it'd be convenient if this could be stereotypically reduced to that, because you have
a lot of experience with that stereotype
nubbins`: this could just as well be
a conversation with
a mother saying "but gravy is really good, you should try it" and the kid saying "but i don't like it"
mircea_popescu: and if i feel like having sex i don't try to sneak into the sheets of
a couple that fucked overnight just as they leave for work, either.
herbijudlestoids: mircea_popescu: in australia, we got these things called doofs...its
a psytrance party in the bush...lots of the attendants match your description to
a tee...lots dont
Apocalyptic: <Skirmant> it was quite obvious that gox is
a shitty exchange and you should avoided at all costs
mircea_popescu: "i don't even have to be aspiring that much, and it's ok being
a miserable sack of shit"
nubbins`: i don't even think burroughs aspired that much, guy was
a miserable sack of shit
chetty: looking in the barrel of
a gun does the same thing nubbins
herbijudlestoids: nubbins`: you are doing
a poor job explaining something that needs be experienced
nubbins`: if you ask me,
a man isn't
a man until he's experienced complete ego death
mircea_popescu: i guess it is. unless it's
a girl showing it to me and the new color is some new shade of pink between her legs, i couldn't care less.
nubbins`: it's like being shown
a new color
nubbins`: i'm just trying to reconcile "i wish to be
a financial professional" with "i ran
a PMB" / "i created
a lelcoin"
mircea_popescu: but getting back to the point here : if some scammor is lieing through their teeth, usagi style, it's one thing to add
a rider to their crap that whoa, jesus, scam.
herbijudlestoids: complex of lysergic acid amides produced by
a fungal endophyte ;)
nubbins`: mike_c: the bleeding hearts would care, sure. that's
a given tho
mike_c: "if everyone who dug
a vein died, nobody'd care" << you need
a pretty strong soapbox to stand on that.
nubbins`: smoke that, you'll get
a headache
nubbins`: mircea_popescu: that's
a different salvia
Duffer1: this chan has higher quality soap boxes, they last
a while
mircea_popescu: it's still legal you kidding me ? i have
a bush in my garden
nubbins`: consider the case of salvia divinorum. powerful drug, blast you to hyperspace. was legal in most places until
a handful of years ago
nubbins`: if everyone who dug
a vein died, nobody'd care
nubbins`: or you don't arrest them because there aren't enough dope fiends to give
a fuck
nubbins`: no, you arrest random dope dealers because x number of people are dope fiends and it has
a net negative effect on the society in which the dope dealing takes place
mircea_popescu: " rnadom dope dealers because this guy was
a dope fiend"
mircea_popescu: hoffman's death is hoffman's problem, you can't be arresting rnadom dope dealers because this guy was
a dope fiend.
mircea_popescu: in
a more general sense : as tempting as it may be, you can't allocate responsibility to actions by the "effect" they have on people.
mircea_popescu: what's one to do ? the internet is
a contextless medium. i can put
a disclaimer in there, and i do. nevertheless, ihave to fit it in 140 chars and anyone is just as likely to "get it" as to get it.
nubbins`: my issue is with pumping out alts of no value whatsoever beyond providing
a venue for cons to fleece rubes
nubbins`: rubecoin-in-
a-box, on the other hand...
nubbins`: i don't have
a beef with alts at all!
nubbins`: ThickAsThieves: what makes you think i have
a beef with you? ;p
pLambert: over time, the block reward will go down, causing mining profit to decrease, and mining hardware efficiency will improve, so mining polution will never be
a huge problem.
KRS-One: if they dont want to do it there must be
a reason to not trust. !=trust
mircea_popescu: the advantages of living in
a country the size of oregon are so very marked.
mircea_popescu: apparently meanwhile forgets all about it, cause he just sent me
a spam comment linking to his site. so i... accepted it, replaced his seo-optimized user name with his own name, and put
a link to... the three year old article.
mircea_popescu: ah this is
a good story. so : three years ago i write
a scathing piece dropping dox on this romanian spammer guy. he gets really butthurt keeps calling my office to make btctalk-type legal threats and spends
a while "ruining my reputation" on social media venues. eventually simmers down.
random_cat: mircea_popescu: it only requires
a leader.... i am making no assertions as to number or quality of generals
ThickAsThieves: volume is mostly traders, they got bored and their TA told them
a correction was due
mircea_popescu: either someone was
a cp in
a deal that had to be unwound and they had to liquidate, or else someone somehow figured i'm in the shit.
random_cat: but that has been true for
a long time
random_cat: not privy to the internals, but my casual observation is that their broker pricing could make them
a fuckton of money
mircea_popescu: random_cat i daresay they know they got
a burn rate, and everything else is desperation
random_cat: i think they know they are
a broker in bitcoin, and everything else is pr
mircea_popescu: meanwhile back @stupid ranch, clueless journo working for obscure publication links to my article on cryptsy, calls me "
a commenter". i point out to him he's embarrasing himself.
random_cat: coinbase is
a wallet service, even if they do not advertise as such
mircea_popescu: herbijudlestoids so buy
a credit, what, are you george ? can't pay for parking ?
punkman1: "
A day after Jeff's second hack, Coinbase enabled two-factor authentication via email for anyone attempting to turn on the API key"
ozbot:
A string of thefts hit Bitcoin's most reputable wallet service | The Verge
truffles: want toknow how many ppl would make
a majority so i can confirm my guestimate that murrica dominant room
Apocalyptic: <Duffer1> mcxnow only closed for
a day or so // it closed for months..
Duffer1: mcxnow only closed for
a day or so
herbijudlestoids: ok well im off to watch
a movie, have
a wonderful day/evening fellows
truffles: i could look into
a system to find such an answer but it wouldnt be useful to me
herbijudlestoids: i must admit, in nov of last year when i randomly read
a thread on bitcointalk where someone was asking for projections of how fast difficulty would grow into 2014, i scoffed at someone suggesting it would simply continue at 30%/month
herbijudlestoids: would you like to have
a discussion about an unrelated matter truffles? politics perhaps? macrofinancial implications of energy resources in tajikistan? gardening or mycology?
ThickAsThieves: i think truffles is more implying that it's all
a bit to cultish for him
herbijudlestoids: ok..so basically im not allowed to enjoy the writings of
a blogger? because...he has enough people who also appreciate it?
herbijudlestoids: i dunno if the WoT will end up as the identifying force for the world, but its
a nice idea
herbijudlestoids: wow my weekly allowance of trilema articles finally showed up, mircea is
a very good writer imho
truffles: sounds like
a great job, cat videos 3>
herbijudlestoids: ThickAsThieves: at cex you can hop multiple alts from
a single convenient laundry interface :P
ThickAsThieves: 'I like to think that when I go to
a conference, Satoshi Nakamoto is there, and she is pretending to be one the audience' - Andreas Antonopoulos