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mircea_popescu: The public’s approval rating for Congress has finally hit rock bottom: For the first time, America has
a higher opinion of car salespeople.
pankkake: seriously for
a "mental breakdown"
pankkake: I don't understand "which will be carried over as
a charge on the next month’s statement"
pankkake: I'm surprised, there were
a lot of resolved bets, only 5 BTC? I guess you really have to steal
mircea_popescu: pankkake all bitcoin jesus references are
a meme-ish joke @ that nonsense.
mircea_popescu: One of the world’s leading authorities on genetics says the human race was born into existence after
a chimpanzee mated with
a pig.
mircea_popescu: and 2. the commies did
a lot of machinery exporting, so all over the middle east it's like, o, you're romanian, that means you're like the best engineer in town
mircea_popescu: i mean... in libya or serbia
a us passport is
a liability
mircea_popescu: i did
a lot of travelling and adding it all up my romanian passport was pretty much the best passport to have.
ThickAsThieves: i dunno, why is it
a feel embarassed to say i'm american when travelling?
mircea_popescu: "the notion that the us constitutes
a nation" i meant.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves well i think the notion that the us constitutes
a notion is heartwarmingly ludicrous, but otherewise no, not really different from anyone else.
Duffer1: our political rhetoric is so nausiating, when we elect
a new president we say "x has been elected the new leader of the free world"
ThickAsThieves: Bill Gates: It’s OK for China to invent cancer drugs that cure patients in the United States. We want them to catch up. But as the leader, we want to keep setting
a very, very high standard. We don’t want them to catch up because we’re slowing down or, even worse, going into reverse.
pankkake: me neither, perhaps
a comeback?
mircea_popescu: there must be
a way to harness all this chicken clucking at keyboard action.
pankkake: by the way the guy of e-gold claims he's going to do
a "digital currency backed by gold"
mircea_popescu: "I'm thinking of starting
a company that will invest in HYIPs with Liberty Reserve. Generally, HYIPs stay afloat for
a few months and then disappear after there is not enough new members joining to pay back the previous ones. I will attempt to minimize the risk by spreading it out and withdrawing early, not keeping it inside the scams. Interest will be around 7% weekly, and it's not
a ponzi scheme! Because of diversifi
pankkake: that would prove breast reduction surgery is
a good idea
mircea_popescu: "You charge
a $540 set up fee!!! What the hell have you been smoking?
mircea_popescu: there should be
a class in cinema school, dedicated to explaining to the kids that cuts are evil.
mircea_popescu: anyway, get
a chick
a twin axe larger than her torso and
a spiky half cup corset, you're moving towards metal with
a prayer at relevance.
mircea_popescu: pankkake
a step in the right direction, but fucking tame. what's with the shy attitude on the girl ?
mircea_popescu: if someone did
a metal album that had 2+ nipples visible at all times + 2-3 snatches per clip
mircea_popescu: f inadvertence, negligence, or mistake.” As
a factual matter, this claim is questionable. It could just as well be said that heavily counseled parties to mega-mergers do not sign merger agreements containing glaringly ambiguous terms that lead to avoidable litigation—but here we are.
pankkake: the "citing-big-company-name" is
a fallacy in itself
mircea_popescu: "OpenCoin, the company overseeing Ripple, has already raised venture capital from firms led by the co-founders of PayPal and Netscape. These firms do not invest in scams, but in companies with unique ideas that will turn
a significant profit if successful."
mircea_popescu: ;;rate tytus -1 Ran
a fake exchange which was fake hacked. Compulsive liar.
mircea_popescu: ;;rate burnside -3 ran
a scam enabling "exchange". ask duffer1 how well that worked.
dub: is that
a fucking CRT?
mircea_popescu: course that discussion gets complicated fast as contrary to popular belief
a fiat unit of currency does not mean any one thing in particular,
pankkake: hmm… I see. perhaps I was mistaken because
a lot of fiat isn't owned by individuals
mircea_popescu: anyone owning
a full bitcoin has the bitcoin of 339 people.
BingoBoingo: pankkake: Well, everyone in this channel has the privilege of discovering BTC before 10,000 USD. The next new batch in here will have the privilege of discovering before $100,000 whenever that happens. Eventually everyone ere will have the opportunity to tempt POTUS to put
a sharpie in their pooper for
a fraction of
a bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, self exposure is
a female sexual behaviour, yes.
pankkake: is picwhoring
a female trait, or is it just more widely accepted from females?
pankkake: yes, bitfury did! there's
a bitbet to prove it
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Well, when younger I was
a part of that organization. pankkake Never tried casinobitco.in, I try not to spread my gambles around too much.
pankkake: there's another one,
a guy who invested in activemining. nice guy too
Duffer1: thanks man, it's been
a while since i've written anything that extends beyond "lol"
kakobrekla: i have
a panacea for all ur troubles. and its free.
mircea_popescu: i think the guy has some literary talent, tbh. "Hindsight is
a mean old witch that makes my chest hurt when I look at her" seems especially apt.
mircea_popescu: that estimate is
a hard problem because it revolves around the presumed "satoshi stash"
mircea_popescu: remember, it was
a fact that the bitdaytrade disaster was run by j r owens / meni rosenfeld / etc.
pankkake: just incompetence and little care for investors (he seems to pay himself and his family
a nice fat salary)
kakobrekla: yeah well the story with buttfunder in one sentence - i wouldnt trust
a guy who cant afford
a few
http posts
mircea_popescu: pankkake well OF COURSE he doesn't understand accounting. it's
a forum corp after all.
pankkake: the guy doesn't understand accounting. no money = it's not
a sale
mircea_popescu: "We have ~106 BTC in the Bitfunder/WeExchange system which we can not obtain. We have sent Bitfunder's/WeExchange's Ukyo
a Legal Demand For Payment within 72 hours. We expect this problem to result in the loss of the 106 BTC. "
mircea_popescu: "As of this writing we have over 2.1 Million in sales for November, this excludes any fraudulent sales, I.e the $933,000 sales which was fraudulent and proven on the thread and
a $3,000,000 sales which looks fraudulent. AMC expects its sales of VMC's Bitcoin mining machines to continue to grow as it has the highest TH/s machines in the marketplace."
mircea_popescu: but absent such ellaborate work about
a third of adult women can't orgasm with vibrators.
mircea_popescu: you can train
a woman to have an orgasm or not have an orgasm in certain circumstances like you can train
a dog,
pankkake: well the ipod can vibrate. already
a better replacement
mircea_popescu: in theory the idea for making
a "poor man's share" is that it will have more volume and more stability.
mod6:
a happy ending for "happy endings", who would have thought?
mod6: oh, thats just when the bet resolves. asicminer hasn't given
a date then? just an announcement that they're "coming"?
nubbins`: there was some guy on the forums buying them up
a few months ago, he probably made out like
a bandit
mod6: with the diff where it looks like its going,
a bn satoshi per contract would be signifigant. it would be pretty helpful maybe to be able to get them for
a fraction. anyway, all in good time.
gribble: MtGox lag is 0.339307 seconds. During this time, light travels 0.000679967428929 AU. You could have sent
a bitcoin to the other side of the Earth, along the surface (0.0001339 AU).
pankkake: that bike looks like
a Dyson vacuum cleaner
mircea_popescu: ok so, mpex options are back. they are now quoted on
a .1 btc per basis,
nubbins`: seems like
a hammer searching for
a nail at this point. banking is not inconvenient here
mircea_popescu: why is it that the state always tries to
a. represent itself as "not the state" and b. represent itself as doing what people do, except without doing it ?
ThickAsThieves: Rather than having
a private key sealed inside, like the popular Casascius physical bitcoins and their contemporaries, the Alderney bitcoins would be exchangeable for the more useful digital kind by its holder paying
a visit to the island. They would not be official legal tender otherwise.