289800+ entries in 0.067s
mircea_popescu: <punkman> why is anyone buying at .0075 instead of waiting until after IPO? << or even having waited for a day BEFORE the ipo ?
mircea_popescu: peterl> would letting a 2-yo type be a good random generator? << nah.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> vinyl record wallet << good art project, << tis the art project that caught my eye
mircea_popescu: <ThickAsThieves> "VC's will write $10M checks after 3 weeks of knowing someone, and there is 0% legit fraud there." << what's ilegit fraud ? fraudy-fraud ?
mircea_popescu: <ThickAsThieves> buttcoin isnt even insulting you properly <<
mircea_popescu: but yes, the reviewer's comment about "sharp around the edges" suggests it's number-powered
mircea_popescu: it's really badly titled which is what threw me off originally. it's really the counterpart to my economic theory piece, it should be "a complete theory of sociology"
mircea_popescu: fluffypony i was thinking, "prolly fluff, he uses all the weird things" but then i was like, give the guy a break, don't say anything
mircea_popescu: someone with a forum account please to tell klech guy he's cool and to drop by.
mircea_popescu: “This record was hand shaped and individually cut in real time using a vintage 1940s Presto 75A recording lathe. It is a unique piece. It is not the same as a traditional pressed record. It was not made in a factory. It was hand carved from an 8ft sheet of polycarbonate plastic, shaped, sanded, waxed and cut in real time by one person.”
mircea_popescu: anyway i recall something more like 200k or w/e, back in spring.
mircea_popescu: someone should figure out how that projector works lol
mircea_popescu: i vaguely recall their published btc sales figures were piddly, but w/e
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves what do you mean weathered the selloff ? you mean they had a stock selloff or what ?
mircea_popescu: kids, just won't stay out of the fire for the life of them.
mircea_popescu: ouch. well this chick's overbite... here's the problem : before now when her pretentiousness flopped, it would have been just a young woman being naive. but now, with 4% of overstock REVENUE, if the thing flops she's just a failure.
mircea_popescu: punkman sure, but no guarantee is made both their mother and grandmother was heavy bosomed.
mircea_popescu: this is pretty much the only good way to pander to your readership, and yes they can tell.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo "I've at this point given up at editing any of the text at all. " << this is often a clue the whole thing is not worth publishing, as painful as may be. ie, if one guy can't be bothered to spend an extra minute on the strength of the material, there's cause to believe a thousand readers shouldn't be asked to spend that one second it takes them to decide they don't want it.
mircea_popescu: course the sub should qualify the homo not the preposition. subhominem addack or something.
mircea_popescu: punkman: some quotes I saved: "actually tbh i would make people money except i cant be bothered, i dont really wanna make anyone rich to get more money myself, id rather just chill in my room and drink cider and think up new ideas" <<< i'm saving this one for the next time some derp comes up with "a billionaire dude would never hang out in irc with us rubes"
mircea_popescu: there's not just one, female inherited factor. there's at least three, of which at least one skips a generation.
mircea_popescu: punkman: close, 3 have big tits << depends on whether we accept some particular notions as to the genetics that cause big tits dunnit ?
mircea_popescu: let the kid choke once in a while, let the woman have her own life once in a while.
mircea_popescu: well the part of their growth style may be to be clingy, but it's supposed to not work.
mircea_popescu: the famous uncanny valley of mixed race matrimony : the least seen it is, the more acceptable, and vice-versa.
mircea_popescu: in other news : aggregate advertising and dating data seems to show that a 50% increase in mixed race fantasy couples being displayed over 5 eyars corresponds to a 50% increase in the affinity for white women for white men, and reciprocal, and further a decrease for both black men -> white women and black wome -> white men and reciprocal.
mircea_popescu: "Women voting. A free and independent society. Choose one. The choice between the two is rarely so obvious as this, though." an' stuff.
mircea_popescu: so apparently scottish women are 58% for uk, 42% for independence, and the gap is widening
mircea_popescu: i can just conveniently cherrypick and laugh at the people working in the muck of it
mircea_popescu: thankfully i dun have the job to make the sort of unpleasant call
mircea_popescu: pedophilia isn't being attracted to young women, they have to be children.
mircea_popescu: i don't see the problem, she could just as well be 16 or w/e
mircea_popescu: well the problem may also be that there's like 2 of him and 200 of those other guys.
mircea_popescu: i left a comment on the blog he's arguing with. kinda curious if it gets published.
mircea_popescu: mike_c tax year is actually april the nth or some bs in the us.
mircea_popescu: dub i dun think this morsel actually ever ended up in public.
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal try and see, this is like a totally real virtual reality.
mircea_popescu: it does have some heavy variation, but anyway, 50ish for 3 days seems more or less a good estimate
mircea_popescu: 442 in august, 543 july, 251 june, 449 may, 217 april, 1659 march etc
mircea_popescu waits for the "and july isn't really 31 days plus today should really be sept 3rd" discussion
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal you can specify them by block height and have a reasonable but outside resolve date
mircea_popescu: mike_c actually about 20ish btc a day is the secular average for bitbet. 50 or so over 3 days is about avg neh ?
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal in principle one could propose and seed bets for each retarget
mircea_popescu: <mike_c> last 48 hours have been busiest two days for bitbet this month.. right after btcalpha launched the analyzer. coincidence? << :)
mircea_popescu: gee whiz look at that. just like south africa over there.
mircea_popescu: and i thought wtf, pundits are supposed to be all angry and glum, not gay