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asciilifeform: depending on the locale, one needn't go to australia to be eaten by a pack of dogs.
mircea_popescu: wolf hunts like a sane canide (carotid section)
pankkake: being shat on by the elephant would be (and this is a darwin award story btw)
mircea_popescu: being successfuly hunted by a dingo
mircea_popescu: no no she has a point, they have a stupid glue thing they use for fake lashes
mircea_popescu: so maybe the blonde had a hidraulic press
asciilifeform: you'd need a hydraulic press.
jurov: once there was a blonde around here that arrived on emergency
nubbins`: now there's a definition i can work with
nubbins`: apparently i'm considered a senior millennial
nubbins`: a month ago, sharf thought bitcoin was worth $1300
ozbot: Bitcoin Gets Valued: Bank Of America Puts A Price Target On The Virtual Tender - Forbes
nubbins`: http://www.forbes.com/sites/samanthasharf/2013/12/05/bitcoin-gets-valued-bank-of-america-puts-a-price-on-the-virtual-tender/
nubbins`: i'm not sure what a millennial is, offhand
mircea_popescu: samantha sharf is a good name for a stripper
asciilifeform: the famous 'Yellow Mama' electric chair in the wash. dc. museum seems to have a shit pan
mircea_popescu: subquestion : did the elctric chair include a buttelectrode ?
asciilifeform: high time for a forbes-fueled Shannonizer
mircea_popescu: i wonder what'd happen if you replaced the wsj's experts with seventeen magazine's experts for a week
mircea_popescu: it seemed to suddenly add up to a lot more dough than normally.
Neil: Quite surprised there haven't been a few BTC on No recently on the 2bn diff bet
ozbot: Product / Part Number: 13247489-03 - DISK DRIVE UNIT by GENERAL DYNAMICS C4 SYSTEMS INC. - 4LEK3 - A
asciilifeform: this is, apparently, a military disk drive.
the20year: 2% increase in just a few hours...nice
TomServo: Yeah, that would be tough. Been a looong time since I used irssi/bitchx so it wasn't too bad for me.
mircea_popescu: guy's been running a node off the same ip he's spamming here ?
punkman: there's a BTC stock
jurov: perchance, isn't there a company with ticker like BTC or MPEX ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, i dun see the big deal. if this wasn;'t a problem we wouldn't need trademarks
the20year: And even though many of the assets 'weren't in fiat' they seemed to suffer a good deal from fiat's decline in value relative to BTC
mike_c: yes, stocks that aren't tied to a fiat income stream.
rattaTATpow: mike thatsnot a reason
mircea_popescu: there's value in this "theory / practice" approach anyway. for one thing mpex contracts even allow assets to skip a month entirely
mircea_popescu: you do have a point there.
mike_c: i didn't want to force it though. start arbitrarily applying divs to certain months. because like, what about when a div is paid wrong? do I "fix" it? it does need to be more clear.
mircea_popescu: mike_c oh i c. maybe make a note somewhere or who knows
the20year: It's a very clean looking site
mike_c: as a matter of fact there is :) http://www.btcalpha.com/mpex/stocks/s-mpoe/
the20year: Is there a longer-term chart for it?
mike_c: no. the stock price went up a lot last year, so the div. yield is pretty small.
mircea_popescu: it does also save you from making a fool of yourself thinking hemingway invented donne, but that's i suppose a minor point, especially if you are careful to live among people who won't laugh to your face for it.
mircea_popescu: or in other words, any fuckwit can "roll their eyes" pointlessly. actually reading a book takes some effort.
mircea_popescu: being what you call a nerd takes some sweat.
truffles: anyone could be a nerd
mircea_popescu: read a book instead. same effort, moar results.
mircea_popescu: he's not a nerd, you're scum, that's all.
mircea_popescu: didn't you just call the guy a nerd for not being as stupid as you'd like people to be generally ?
mircea_popescu: you're also a weasel, but whatever.
mircea_popescu: course there are those less fortunate who rarely get such a chance, but you're basically arguing that they should be opressed moar just to keep it up.
KRS1: maybe..but idk today is a new day and age..ppl suprise me from time to time.
truffles: ure a nerd though
KRS1: They make time to read what they are looking for, as long as its delivered to them in a way they can digest it, I suppose. For instance, I read the Wall St. Journal primarily for the Marktplace section. I get and enjoy information from other parts as a side benefit.
KRS1: I see twitter as a different type of tool than a blog, not more or less important.
KRS1: In many cases it gives the visitor a doggie bag or a sample of knowledge or data that they may be able to use. Sometimes closing the deal on sales or further investment of your idea or product.
VanCleef: twitter is more important than a blog
KRS1: for me, personally, it has been the realization that people need more meat and potatoes so to speak than just a flashy website that just gets the point across..it provides a substantial base of information that compliments and validates your site or your image.
ozbot: A conceit, or the importance of blogging pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2014/a-conceit-or-the-importance-of-blogging/
nubbins`: i don't even get this far unless i add "nomodeset" to startup params. without that, the screen just turns off after a point
BingoBoingo: nubbins`: Do you have a model number and such info?
nubbins`: occasionally it halts at a different step -- like right now, at "Stopping log initial device creation [OK]"
nubbins`: managed to boot into a liveusb install ONCE, have been unable to replicate this feat
nubbins`: bit outta my element here, been a while since i've had to dick around like this
nubbins`: this is a brand new netbook, i suspect display driver issues
mircea_popescu: most populations were unable to acquire a few pounds of iron,
decimation: for instance, the gasenwagen picture supplied by ascii. It's amazing to me that someone with the mechanical competence to assemble such a contraption would be unable to buy a few gallons of fuel
nubbins`: the referendum to join canada was passed with a scant 52% voting yes
asciilifeform: i'm told there are a few in finland that still work. perhaps reptilia owns one
decimation: anyway, to mp's original point about change, I think there is a fundamental truth about human nature. Humans require suffering to calibrate their joy
asciilifeform: gasenwagen - russian corruption of 'gaswagen' - in actuality, merely a truck powered by coal gas (wood stove bolted on the back, pumps out CO, which you can just barely run an engine on.)
nubbins`: fun fact, my grandmother was born a british citizen, never left her hometown, and died a canadian citizen
asciilifeform: where banking today is a little more like trusting mtgox with it
mircea_popescu: in the 1800s the us was a bit player, fighting with mexico over the silver export to china
mircea_popescu: this didn't always and didn't necessarily result in a default
mircea_popescu: decimation that's a subset of "how can public companies be worth more than 20mn btc. they can."
asciilifeform: seems almost certain that the days in which you needed to corner somebody in the flesh to collect a tax, will come back.
decimation: how can a government promise to pay more bitcoin than exists for instance?
decimation: heh. If someone were to steal all the btc from mtgox and distribute them to the last 1,000 addresses that mined at least one block would be considered a hero
asciilifeform: far more likely is the traditional hypothesis (bait), or a simple laundry.
asciilifeform: dollars to doughnuts, the receiver for these broadcasts doesn't implement a full node
asciilifeform: this is also a handy way to store bits in the chain that will never, under any conceivable scheme, get 'pruned.'
mircea_popescu: it can say whatever the hell it wants. every time you make a payment a fraction is sent to a wholly new address
asciilifeform: 'don't show these. this is a chumpnet artist'
asciilifeform: someone with a perfectly 'organic' usage pattern.
asciilifeform: the tx needs to be algorithmically indistinguishable from a 'civilian' tx
mircea_popescu: obviously you use a valid address
asciilifeform: but with a useful pattern
nubbins`: maybe. a few of the sends ended up on casascius rounds
asciilifeform: these may well be commands for a chumpnet.
asciilifeform: i recall some joker sent out a mountain of coin, a few satoshi at a time, to see where it gets consolidated
mircea_popescu: i can send you a bitcoin whether you wish to accept it or not, and whether you know or not
mircea_popescu: well... for a pulse anyway
BingoBoingo: decimation: That seems like a wallet I wouldn't want to use.
decimation: what if one were to use a deterministic wallet address derived from retina features for instance
BingoBoingo: This sounds like the sort of case where BitBet could replace the court as a solution and to the laundering. Step one. Take positions on a Difficulty bet paying out to addresses with publicized different owners as well as addresses with unknown owners.
asciilifeform: it is entirely true, and a good point, that the blockchain can be used by a skilled conniver to point blame at some random third party.
mircea_popescu: in which case we're back to your problems being widely abusable power, which is not a bitcoin thing.
mircea_popescu: and coinbullion claims you're a haxxor ?
asciilifeform: or buy a shipping container of whatever strange.
mircea_popescu: address A sends back to mtgox for credit ? the same bitcoin ?