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mircea_popescu: ryguy_` short version : guy retired his mpex issue. sec desperately wanted to purchase some relevance, so they tied some blown glbse/twitter offering he had with the mpex offering, and pretended like they scored some sort of victory.
mircea_popescu: ryguy_`> do you think high frequency trading or polling type strategies would or will be prominent ? < in a word, no.
mircea_popescu: well stateman is a respectable thing. not very many ones good at it left in teh west.
mircea_popescu: well in the sense stalin was the best option at the time, and hitler too.
mircea_popescu: in fact, a good quality nyse is less likely than no tax.
mircea_popescu: nobody ever wanted that except for bona fide merchants
mircea_popescu: anyone can send you w/e the shit they feel like. afaik that's how cryptome work
mircea_popescu: let people vent and rage about how much their employer suck
mircea_popescu: like, a "terrible company" clone for usg, especially the intel stuff...
mircea_popescu: not a bad idea. especially if you can get some wistleblown material.
mircea_popescu: the irony of the situation is that with enemies like these, btc really doesn't need any friends.
mircea_popescu: i deal with pdfs exactly like i deal with the tim swansons of the world. "who asked you anything and what gives you the impression you have something to answer with."
mircea_popescu: also, can it quote stuff like the wot, bitcoin assets and so on ?
mircea_popescu: so you love saas so much, platonically, that you;ll abandon your hyperion-freedom to become a mere mortal for its sake ?
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo pls to send 1500 atc to 1FUneWXoi6eqC2p1F2rDrEsrApawPa9wCx ty.
mircea_popescu: not sure what the policy is there, "blogs by assets ppl" ? or "blogs about btc" ?
mircea_popescu: im possibly one of the very few people not regretting not having started mining "earlier"
mircea_popescu: bitcoin difficulty august 2012 was... about hte same as atc difficulty august 2014.
mircea_popescu: Aug 11 23:50:49 <gribble>Current Blocks: 193432 | Current Difficulty: 2036671.0886933 | Next Difficulty At Block: 193535 | Next Difficulty In: 103 blocks | Next Difficulty In About: 15 hours, 40 minutes, and 44 seconds | Next Difficulty Estimate: 2183270.15599682 | Estimated Percent Change: 7.197974583
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves you never got around to getting that larger rig involved did you
mircea_popescu: make a guess : is the third the best or the worst of the group of 3 ?
mircea_popescu: there were 3 gs-14 under 24 in 1998. fifteen years later, two left, the third was promoted.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, check out the lone GS-15 under age 24 in 2013.
mircea_popescu: we're supposed to not know what astroturf means or something.
mircea_popescu: now try check out that acct. 100 followers, pixelated user pic...
mircea_popescu: speaking of spammer : "You can see closing trades for all Julian's long and short positions and track his long term performance via twitter: @JulianClose_MIC ."
mircea_popescu: well no. seppuku aims to open the large liver vein. apendectomy, oppositely, to not open it.
mircea_popescu: actually peritonitis resolves naturally in about 5ish percent of cases.
mircea_popescu: Antibiotics were administered directly into the peritoneal cavity << holy shit fucking soviets.
mircea_popescu: now im starting to suspect it may just be a case of romanians stealing a good story.
mircea_popescu: Duffer1: it was quite painful, and i refused pain meds until the ct scan results came back and the dr said "your appendix is all messed up, we're transfering you to a different hospital, ambulance is en route, take pain meds now" << there is this legendary romanian surgeon who supposedly sutured his own appendix. this may be apocryphal, in any sense i wouldn't try to undergo surgery w/o painkillers, tis nonsense.
mircea_popescu: Duffer1: my stomach isn't a basketball anymore << poor duff.
mircea_popescu: but so they're infertile and past the age of 16 or so, their breast tissue secretes copious lsd.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform imagine if you could genetically engineer human females
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not that kind, the useful kind. merely the current kind, ie, the resistant thing.
mircea_popescu: RagnarDanneskjol: be moar vigilant with teh monies << the problem with that article, as with all "studies" of its ilk, is that it makes the (generally reasonable, now not) herbi mistake, as detailed here :
http://trilema.com/2014/no-argument/ mircea_popescu: so people all over the intel community can laugh at you for yet another week, for yet another reason.
mircea_popescu: so you have to evacuate the whole shebang like crazed rabbits, and do a shit job of cleanup in the process
mircea_popescu: because if you give iraquis a ton of m16s they're not going to raid your embassy with them
mircea_popescu: if that goes away, the current usg-friendly columbia govt goes away.
mircea_popescu: the whole of the production control stragety in columbia is to helispray
mircea_popescu: Vexual: roundup resistant ganja? i think someones trolling << think more, roundup resistant coke.
mircea_popescu: you're not about to tell me someone put a 27 cubic meter thing in low earth orbit ?