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mircea_popescu: dub oh gtfo. "sanity is a religion" bs, basically the internet has devolved to a sort of cracked-clone
BingoBoingo: And China doesn't have much of a barrier to get into mining, because they have plenty of companies producing ASICs to seize.
BingoBoingo: benkay: Some times a troll is just a troll. Sometimes it is planned. Other times it is serendipitous. Being a 'Murican whose education lacked training in taste, balls in unexpected contexts give me a chuckle...
benkay: " A good chunk of the recent hashpower is split roughly evenly between the Chinese and the US "
benkay: with enough practice and demonstrated competence in rearranging, one doesn't even need to gamble on whether a given whore is a trap or not.
benkay: and just computing hashes strikes me as a poor use of natural gas
benkay: and while one can extract a certain amount of value from turning a pile of well-ordered things into a pile of less-well ordered things, the art of business construction is largely that of building machines that work against the entropic gradient.
BingoBoingo: benkay: In a lot of ways though people and nature are adversaries.
benkay: once upon a time there were channels
BingoBoingo: benkay: Well, two different people. How was I to know the second was a trap though?
benkay: not a terrifically interesting deployment of capital
benkay: a trapman i see
BingoBoingo: Here's two: a halfsie http://i.imgur.com/yQ52mP7.jpg and a full one http://i.imgur.com/o08heoV.jpg
BingoBoingo: benkay: Maybe. I've been working actual troll pretty hard other venues. I've collected quite a few Buttcoins of my own though.
benkay: that's a pretty weak counter troll
BingoBoingo: nubbins`: Sounds like a pain.
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nubbins`: what a night. tenants called to say water was leaking through the downstairs ceiling. $600 and about 300 gallons of water later….
BingoBoingo: dub: Problem is it is a specific denomination. Like Lutherans, versus Methodists, versus Catholics. None of these groups care about broad goals. They just want their team to win.
dub: tl;dr political conservatism is a religion and like all religions, only stupid people subscribe to it
ozbot: The Tea Party As A Religion « The Dish
dub: http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2013/10/16/the-tea-party-as-a-religion/
BingoBoingo: Well, to be fair I seem to have received what seems a novel variant on the classic Nigerian Price scam. We'll see if they respond with photos: http://bitbin.it/fLFxpTl6
BingoBoingo: I personally feel the US is simply a failed state. America is basically Somalia only there is but one armed gang running the show at the moment.
benkay: dear mircea can you please give me a bit of background on what you mean by future automatic lifting of the US debt ceiling?
mircea_popescu: maybe as a cockring
ThickAsThieves: will S.NSA make a spy ring?
dub: clearly took a hit on the baller index
dub: of course pointing out that china's on the downward leg of a pump n dump anyway would detract from the sensationalism
mircea_popescu: this is true. kinda why the party is at best so-so for a while now.
asciilifeform: these particular lamers have been at the party for a rather long time.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the linux part in there is lulzy. lamers just don't get that by their showing up at a cool party they don't become cool
KRS-1: didnt you have like a -99 rating lol
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asciilifeform: nubbins`: shitcoin was a crackpot proposal of mine (http://www.loper-os.org/?p=988).
ThickAsThieves: so in 5 years clean coins will demand a premium price
mircea_popescu: there already was such a market, back when pirate was the rage.
ThickAsThieves: i wonder if there will be a market one day for "clean" coins
KRS-1: heard a remix of it the other night that was even better than his
ThickAsThieves: a couple times a year we are saved from the brink of total disaster!
KRS-1: I needed to read this again and i'm passing it on to a colleague.
mircea_popescu: i said that in a trilema comment most recently.
ozbot: Opening a Combo lock with a Shim - YouTube
nubbins`: that one's a bit hard to read
mircea_popescu: and a porny one or two might work, given that people get to choose for themselves.
nubbins`: yeah, she had a bit of tendonitis from work that slowed her down a lot at the end. would have liked to do a variety of shapes
mircea_popescu: but that can wait a year.
mircea_popescu: if i was going to make a bitch, is that all 6 shields are in the same exact shape
nubbins`: you can also use the original boar that we submitted, of course, so that's a total of 7 supports
mircea_popescu: ppl are struggling to get the autoupdater to work, it's currently a complete mess, gdm scrolling everywhere and so on
nubbins`: she wanted to add more cocks, but felt it would be a bit trite
mircea_popescu: to go through terrabytes of spam and mark the patters, make a study
mircea_popescu: one thing that'd be pretty cool, would be for someone in a physch dept somewhere with a good handle of awk
mircea_popescu: the Netherlands. There is a serious proposal about a bonded Account in SNS Bank i
nubbins`: "the first time I ever heard her speak was one time when I was waiting for the bus on Water Street. She was standing in a shop doorway a few doors down and she looked right at me and yelled "I'll cut your cock off!""
nubbins`: "she was on Duckworth Street politely asking people "Have ya got a quarter? Have ya got a quarter?" Then some guy walks by and it's "You tell your cocksuckin whore of a wife ta stop reading my goddamn mail, all RIGHT? It's an offence!", then without a beat she's back to the gentle "Have ya got a quarter?""
nubbins`: "she threw hot coffee on me once and called me a cunt"
nubbins`: hahaha there's a remembrance page for trixie, it's priceless
nubbins`: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/trixie-a-fixture-in-downtown-st-john-s-passes-away-1.2100650
pankkake: http://www.standard.co.uk/business/business-news/ubisoft-slumps-after-games-delay-forces-profit-warning-8883371.html −20% on a 1.4B market cap thingy
bitguy101: meh talking about new investments = scamming in panktrolls book get a life
pankkake: at least I'm not a scammer
pankkake: make the world a better place
bitguy101: Satoshi Poker just went public, thinking about buying a few shares.
Vexual: i should like toi freight you a bottle or two of aussie chapers
Vexual: worse wyas to lose 100 euro, i can think of a few
Vexual: and they sit you next to a texan oil widow
Vexual: now im imagining a polynesian woodey allen instead of a parisian waitress
Vexual: because a purgeot will kill less pedestrians on your way home from getting drunk
Vexual: or a crappy pergeot if you prefer
Vexual: and a three piece suit is derigeur if you pay for the full degustation
chsados: a dude or a woman - you decide (its pat!) http://www.youtube.com/attribution_link?a=9F_EDi-Yi4la8Iz18RQiKw&u=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dha7smLPz2GY%26feature%3Dshare
Vexual: i souyld have used a semicolon there
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Ah. mircea_popescu Give dude cop a skirt and it looks purely bronze age
mircea_popescu: x is usagi is sort of a running joke here
Vexual: i cant even get vanned coz ive got a van sized hole and a big fuckin excavator
Vexual: thats a sore winner
mircea_popescu: i don't think sore losers are as much a problem as stupid losers are.
mircea_popescu: so you fuck a girl in the small hole. next morning, ask her how she feels. "sore, it's nice."
Vexual: i see everything as a win, but im unstable
nubbins`: this may come as a surprise, but most people have no particular interest in leaving the place they were born and raised in
Vexual: theres a whole fantastic world out there
Vexual: yes, but he could have moved to belieze and got a lab in his shed if he wanted with the coin that site was making
nubbins`: have to put together a proof of a book tomorrow
nubbins`: brassy as a doorknob!
nubbins`: what a freak
BingoBoingo: I wonder how long it will take for McAffee to become a regular here if he doesn't relapse into the bath salts.
nubbins`: ah, i was making a mcaffee joke
mircea_popescu: i just paid her more. a lot more.
nubbins`: although it's nice to now have a much bigger say in what i get
Vexual: thats a good thing?
BingoBoingo: nubbins`: A good masochist is at the least going to have a solid sense of who to submit to.
Vexual: give me the general sector, ive got butterflies that make daenerys targaryen and her dragons look like a downs syndrome eating sand
nubbins`: no self-respecting science student would move in there, it's a dive
Vexual: ill have those cokeheads out and a tasty first year science student in there by two weeks
nubbins`: did you bury yourself in sand and place a box over your head when the da came to find his secretary?
Vexual: nubs you need a sorcerer? cokes heads are easy
Vexual: sounds like a mcafee story mp
Vexual: one is always at an advantage when ones counsel has a vested interest in your success by measure of their own quality of life
nubbins`: depends on whether it's a leap year too, i guess