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lippoper: No one really knew what
a vag looked like thanks to all the bush
nubbins`: and no, before you ask, i'm not
a doctor
nubbins`: "do you want
a vag birth or
a c-section?"
pankkake: yet no one noticed gribble being offline for
a few hours
nubbins`: written accents indicate
a massive failure
nubbins`: what, we can't just pick random mots and use them dans
a phrase?!
pankkake: I'm too much of
a scrooge to ever pay for those things
mircea_popescu: some scams are fun. you go to vegas and drop
a coupla grand, whatever, it's an amusement park.
mircea_popescu: well, my next question was, ever been with
a hooker you didn't mind paying.
nubbins`: brings me back to
a heated grade-school argument over "better" vs "bettor" to describe one who bets
nubbins`: as an aside, i find "scammor" to be
a pleasant, if unintentional, spelling
mircea_popescu: i suppose when people localise shit how it sounds in english is not
a consideration.
mircea_popescu: actually... perversely enough that bet depends on there not being
a lot of power thrown in early.
mircea_popescu: it's best showing on the battlefiled for
a long... long time.
mircea_popescu: perhaps
a very tall, slender student perfectly capable to suck
a golfball through
a garden hose.
mircea_popescu: actually, if there's any merit in the theory of history repeating itself, we could guess that the largest bubble for the next ~3 centuries will be the result of
a RoB corporation being granted the priviledge to trade one ships' worth of drugs in the us as
a result of
a defeatr of the us in battle.
mircea_popescu: "You really are
a fucking idiot and have no idea what you are talking about. The project I am working on will be more successful than twitter within
a year. When I sell the project for 40 million dollars I will ignore any emails from you begging to be
a part of it and will send you
a postcard from my yaght."
ozbot: ROG-O-MATIC:
A Belligerent Expert System
mircea_popescu: thermos is now taking goat's coin ? how much difference does
a year make when you're 25, i swear.
mircea_popescu: "Everyone that is saying that I have some kind of gambling addiction is
a douche and they can go and die in hell. I have never had and I will never had
a fucking gambling problem."
mircea_popescu: ima give him
a bitcent, cause you gotta encourage kids. give him some altcoin too neh ?
pankkake: I've read
a designer blog or something, yeah… I don't envy them
mircea_popescu: pankkake it's
a step up from designerhell's commonplace "i can't pay you but you should do it for fun anyway".
pankkake: maybe
a coingen.io providing an exchange and bootstrap nodes could work better
mircea_popescu: well point out to the guy it might not be the worst of ideas to store that at creation just as
a convenience.
mircea_popescu: fact is, they failed to publish. who needs
a sob story ?
mircea_popescu: "
A lot of people in government think you should be closed down."
Duffer1: ya you teach those files
a lesson
ThickAsThieves: “It's the possibility of having
a dream come true that makes life interesting.”
ThickAsThieves: “Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen
a third time.”
mircea_popescu: meanwhile in english, "Good money must have an intrinsic value. The United States of America cannot make its shadow legal tender for debts payable in money without ultimately bringing upon their foreign commerce and their home industry
a catastrophe, which will be the more overwhelming the longer the day of wrath puts off its coming. Our federal constitution was designed to end forever the emission of bills of credit
a mircea_popescu: Professor Bernanke is just that -
a professor. He is
a specialist in
a framework invented to employ specialists. Computer science is full of these research empires, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. Detaching your little subfield from reality is the easiest thing in the world. Reconnecting is almost impossible. First, you'd have to admit on your grant application that you'd been studying something other than
mircea_popescu: "
a country of laws, not of men" ye wanted, such
a country ye now have.
mircea_popescu: "No one observing the Western governments today can fail to be struck by
a massive sense of sleepwalking. There is no unified consciousness or purpose behind their actions. Each of their decisions is an atom unto itself, made through an almost ritualized process by
a large number of very intelligent, talented and ambitious people, whose abilities tend to cancel each other almost perfectly, leaving nothing but
a chillin
mircea_popescu: btw, you two, that guy's post is
a good checklist of what to do. see if you can match all his links
mircea_popescu: it's what you get in exchange for
a classics education, you can entertain yourself with any string of text.
mircea_popescu: The prison had
a debriefing room, where Mohammed, who saw himself as something of
a professor, held "office hours," as he told CIA officers. While chained to the floor, Mohammed would lecture the CIA officers on his path to jihad, his childhood and family. Tea and cookies were served.
mircea_popescu: famous words of
a guy with
a degree. in Exercise and Sport Science
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves i tell you, if #bitcoin-assets trollcoin made on
a lark ends up disloging doge, you will have SO MUCH angry wanna-be financial darklord butthurt on your hands
mircea_popescu: and nobody can understand why anyone thought seinfeld was
a big deal in 1995
mircea_popescu: this is
a well documented phenomenon in movies/entertainment, where
a show that pioneers
a lot of new devices that are then amply copied, when seen by later generations seems "stale" and "uninteresting"
mircea_popescu: "Unbelievable as it may sound, the US economy today is
a shadow of what it was in the '70s."
mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic it's not necessarily true. if you won't live in
a world without cunt, and right this second i turn all women's crotch into angels' how long would it be before you realise i did it ?
mircea_popescu: pankkake it could be "altcoin difficulty will be
a power of 4 by bitcoin block X"
pankkake: I guess the bet could be "altcoin difficulty to be exactly X", but I don't know what could be
a good number
mircea_popescu: they have
a set of worlds they'll live in, and
a set of worlds they won't.
mircea_popescu: pankkake make
a bitbet bet as to how many 4s you get ?
decimation: At least James Turk is smart enough to recognize
a good thing when he sees it. Hopefully he will get his bitcoin exchange running at some point.
mircea_popescu: so i can understand why
a 50 something guy with
a bunch of gold bars and no functioning linux distro is fucking pissed at bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: to have, within their lifetime, their cookie stolen by
a newcomer...
mircea_popescu: he does get
a lot of mileage in wordcount out of restating the banal, but he does so in
a pleasant form and this is
a good thing,
chetty: You can pass such
a law, they pass unenforceable law all the time
mircea_popescu: bitcoin is immune to human agency, which means you can't pass
a law to hinder it's fungibility.
ThickAsThieves: I actually know
a guy that manages contract negotiations between governments and mines
mircea_popescu: whereas you have
a positive incentive to mine bitcoin.
decimation: Indeed. Gold in the ground as ore is just as good as gold in the ground as
a bar.
mircea_popescu: in short :
a land deed on
a gold field is as good as gold itself. you have
a negative incentive to actually mine it.