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kakobrekla: get a socket
mircea_popescu: well, it's not a matter that they feel. it's a matter of fact : if you pay more taxes than some other dude you're screwed
mircea_popescu: "In spite of controlling most of the financial assets and basically cornering the market on financial services, banks feel that the credit unions’ non-profit status does not allow banks to compete on a level playing field."
mircea_popescu: weirdly, i was just writing on the topic. published a minute ago : http://trilema.com/2013/were-you-misled-by-the-internet/
mircea_popescu: "lol. the idiot running the thread stuck my name in there in a retarded bid to make it sound like my criticism was actually interest. i addressed it, it's ongoing."
mircea_popescu: a a
jborkl: MPOE-PR is a club member for noobs
jborkl: reading a little more on that- LOL at PR for being a newbie
jborkl: WTF is that Solar wind shit mpoe-pr signed up to be a founding club member?
ThickAsThieves: or announces a shut down
dexX7: but you have a point
ThickAsThieves: if he thinks it's a scam
dexX7: obviously he can't froze trading and they "sorry, lab was a scam. you lost everything"
dexX7: what do you think would be a better approach in his position?
ThickAsThieves: on the labcoin security page on BTCT it says "WARNING -- There is a lot of controversy over the reliability of the operator of this asset. Please place your orders accordingly." at the top
pankkake: I think I have like a 19.5 year uptime on IRC, over 20 years, now
pankkake: dumbfounded would be a good translation I think
kakobrekla: >>"Wired profiles a homeless man who's supporting himself primarily through Bitcoin. Jesse Angle, a former network engineer, earns small amounts throughout the day by visiting various websites that pay him to look at ads. He then converts it to gift certificates and uses the certificates to buy food.
kakobrekla: in a problematic way
davout: in a special way?
kakobrekla: id like to work with you in a special way
kakobrekla: a bit
kleeck: Not if your work has a shower.
thestringpuller: lol that was a good article though
Rulother__: Someone needs to learn how to do a proper sig
Rulother__: It's a lot of mismanaged companies and Neo
kleeck: over a mil
Doctor_Andonuts: Yeah, I noticed that bitfunder has a ton of volume... hmm... choices!
VanCleef: especially if you're a new company starting out you dont want to ruin your reputation being assocated with mpex
jurov: CB.IDIFF-O November opened on BTCT, BF will be in a while.
pankkake: put up a buy at 0.0001, to have some as a souvenir?
kleeck: There's a sell.
knowitnothing: but do you actually believe in that experiment ? why a good research group would publish their findings in a journal of negative credibility ?
gribble: (gpg eauth <nick>) -- Initiate authentication for user <nick>. You must have registered a GPG key with the bot for this to work. You will be given a link to a page which contains a one time password encrypted with your key. Decrypt, and use the 'everify' command with it. Your passphrase will expire in 10 minutes.
dub: requiring a public bailout address
dexX7: i only get in for a very short time
dexX7: We would also like to take this opportunity to say that while we have remained as silent as possible on our simulations and only promised figures that we know we can meet. we will not down clock our chips to 400 we will release all our machines with the greatest hashing power we can. So yes the rumors are true Jupiter will be greater than 400 by a significant margin as a free gift from
dexX7: it's like this since more than a week :p
mircea_popescu: it's a very old one.
mircea_popescu: and also, cocksucker blues is NOT a new film.
mjr_: isn't a free hooker an oxymoron?
Duffer1: someone added a zero to their sell order? :P
Duffer1: zero news, lets dump a 150k shares!
ThickAsThieves: "Department of Defense office manages to find a new fax machine to accept FOIA requests"
ThickAsThieves: sounds like a mcdonalds burger
ThickAsThieves: i only see a box
gesell1: "B⃦ has been the standard currency sign for BTC for a long time." --https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Bitcoin_symbol What ass do people pull this shit from.
gesell1: but i am a hipster
cosmo: does bitfunders graph cause problems for other peoples browsers as well? everytime i try to change it it lags like hell then i get a stop script prompt from firefox
dub: cows have been disrupting tech for a while actually
mjr_: is that a new movie?
ThickAsThieves: are you a traitor yet?
mircea_popescu: i am of surprised nobody made a penis one
ThickAsThieves: socialism sounds a lot like the mining scene
mircea_popescu: "There’s a catch though : pretty much all this infernal machinery of doom depends upon the continual, endless and unavoidable debasement of the currency. If inflation is no longer a fact, if avoiding it becomes not common but even possible, nothing in the grand scheme of socialism works anymore. Nothing at all, everything depends on that."
mircea_popescu: i see a pig, the fixed portrait of jesus
ThickAsThieves: a horse penis
ThickAsThieves: a naked lady
ThickAsThieves: google image search for "mircea popescu on a horse" is pretty odd
ThickAsThieves: or mp on a horse meme
pankkake: moderated topic, can't do a "reserved" I guess
asciilifeform: a great many interesting things could be done (bring back the turing-complete 'script' engine, for one)
mircea_popescu: it's a schelling point exactly because it introduces hard binds on the system of everyrthing.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i still think that in the abstract it isn't, given that there's nothing magic about the code (quite a few people, myself included, have understood it)
mircea_popescu: this would be a step this way from what i recall your last position, which was that it isn't.
asciilifeform: i can't help but suspect that bitcoind-as-we-know-it is only a Schelling point b/c virtually no one understands the code
asciilifeform: if the chumps decamp en masse, btc might end up as a Hawala for a dozen people.
dub: lizzy ploshay is a CIA plant
mircea_popescu: this is why bitcoin destroys the welfare system : because it is a strictly bound system.
mircea_popescu: in a sense it's good that they follow the crud, self limiting disease on both ends.
mircea_popescu: jcpham yes. as long as you speak american, in order to be anything anywhere within the structure you have to be a talking head. that's the thing. thats why obama's not black, even if he is a nigger.
jcpham: and make "someone has a gun to your head" youtube videoa
jcpham: so if you want to be on the board you need to be a talking head
asciilifeform: ThickAsThieves: it publicly joined a traitorous 'NSA club'
ThickAsThieves: it's a shell org to act as catchall for for VC opportunities
ThickAsThieves: i'm probly late to this realization, but yesterday it occurred to me that the Bitcoin Foundation is worse than just being a bunch of cointreprenuers
pankkake: oh, it's not a sex slave market?
mircea_popescu: you know, not a single fuckable chick i ever talked to had a reddit.
ThickAsThieves: am both totally and totally not interested in this article http://www.riabiz.com/a/24063560/how-the-winklevoss-twins-presence-at-a-big-nyc-hedgie-event-cut-the-torpor-and-distracted-from-the-poor-job-most-hedge-funds-are-doing-for-clients
jcpham: i'm waiting on the price to drop to a few btc before i jump into solar
jcpham: i like the fact that I can buy a 6500k off the grid solar tie in kit for 48 bitcoins
ThickAsThieves: seems like that should be a collectible
jcpham: yeah my wife has a yahoo email address
pankkake: and the French have hotmail - thankfully a thing of the past but…
jcpham: microsoft needs to solve a need to become relevant again
jcpham: i guess if you aren't being like a technical innovator at life
mircea_popescu: ruining some companies is a public service
ThickAsThieves: "He'll be leading up Microsoft's expanded devices division when the acquisition is complete, but given that there's a recently vacated CEO position at Redmond there's the possibility of even greater rewards in Elop's future."
pankkake: the phallic resemblance can't be a coincidence
mircea_popescu: if anyone wonders how a stirling engine looks : http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b2/BetaStirlingTG4web.svg
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: glue a Stirling engine to the asic, convert heat to vibration...
mircea_popescu: benkay a that's what it iwas.
ThickAsThieves: its a areally bad everything
deizel: bitcoinsexchange.com (later a hyphen is added to clear things up, bitcoins-exchange.com)
mircea_popescu: is that a really badly done tattoo or am i just unexpert ?
pankkake: here's a bittramp stamp: https://lh3.ggpht.com/-NKixDgBe9dI/ThvMeY-Qo6I/AAAAAAAAAt4/kx985Qd3UZI/s640/bitcoin-tattoo-2.jpg
nubbins`: ok, ovens are heated up, gotta print a dozen shirts
mircea_popescu: actually big tits do have a ripple.
mircea_popescu: i am a coindom! you kidding me ?
nubbins`: my coindom for a horse