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mircea_popescu: pigeons i grew up with a one lb bottle of liquid ether in my chemistry lab. tru story.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: if any of them took the trouble to write something interesting (e.g. system analogous to the original btc but of proper, rather than 'power ranger' quality) and resisted the temptation of premine shenanigans, etc. - but no. <<< quite.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves i was chuckling at the buttcoin treatment earlier, "let's look at things from the position that popularity matters and then get all aggitated when nothing makes sense".
mircea_popescu: pigeons: hey mircea_popescu I havent followed, but i saw you are selling eth foward contract or similar. I wanted to suggest putting something similar on mpex, i think that would do well << i asked, people lol'd. which is why it's in otc.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves: Sexy Saffron better not tell reddit she's an mp employee << that's okay, the only thing that's keeping derppit from a collective headexploy is all the shit their collective dumbass doesn't know.
mircea_popescu: this is the major advantage for the fucktarded socialists : once la revolucion starts it fucks up things so badly people want a revolution.
mircea_popescu: after 8 years of "we can do it" and "change nao" i doubt you can find any broad group that's of the oppinion things can continue as they are.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves the way the us is going, anything's better than sameness.
mircea_popescu: a) how the fuck are conservatives going to make electoral gains in populist times and b) who the fuck do the republicans even represent anymore, they've lost the teaparty.
mircea_popescu: startin' all the way to the good ol' boys of glbse and so on.
mircea_popescu: and it's an audience that hates mp, soooo, fat chance << you know how many of these there've been, over the years ? and how painfully and mean-ly they've been humiliated ?
mircea_popescu: now it's quite clear they';re recycling some borrowed btc as "investments".
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves: i think the best part about the offer is it's potential to disrupt the live offering << no, the best part is pulling the rug from under the scammer's feet quite unexplectedly.
mircea_popescu: course no institutionals would have bought any anyway, but as a point of principle.
mircea_popescu: (basically it ensures that no institutionals will be holding eth today for the purpose of satysfying a mid or long term goal, is all)
mircea_popescu: it does allow you to go into a technical short, by buying the future and selling your spot, if you hold any.
mircea_popescu: benkay: or is that not actually a text file? << hasn't been a texrfile for all of two years.
mircea_popescu: chetty just, cheaper for the govt to print em than for the independent crooks
mircea_popescu: mthreat they're printing like crazy for sure, tho. usually i get ~40% new bills, but the last few buys i got 80-100% new bills.
mircea_popescu: pankkake: and in multiple bitcoin clients << i never bothered to get a client myself so there's that.
mircea_popescu: also it never touched 12.x in march, talking out of ass these ppls.
mircea_popescu: chetty for the record, the peso was trading 12.2 - 12.7 yesterday
mircea_popescu: nubbins`:"i live in a place with stylish young people, independent women, and those who care about our natural environment. it's a real drag." << i can see it.
mircea_popescu: nubbins`: mthreat: do yourself a favor and stop drinking charbucks << talking to ex-us-mil guy, "i'll tell you what starbucks is. back in the force, they'd make these largish tanks of coffee at the crack of down, keep them on reheat, throw them out at night. starbucks is pretty much like a drink out of that tank right before it getting thrown out. which is why they put all the cream and crap into it : gotta try and mas
mircea_popescu: Pierre_Rochard:mircea_popescu: permission to republish? << well, no. an article is one thing, but wholesale copying of trilema serves little purpose. put up an adnotated article list if you want, that seems to serve your purpose better, or if not do commentary on the individual articles
mircea_popescu: had some pretty good, not much of a coffee drinker myself, but i mean... they prolly import their shit.
mircea_popescu: mthreat i've never paid more than about 25 or so for coffee myself, and never had a bad cup yet.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves: Sexy Saffron appears to be parlaying it up << the sign of a smart girl. you only need give a little push.
mircea_popescu: <pankkake> well, he has the private key, but I have it too. not smart :p << omg BingoBoingo WHAT HAVE YOU DUN NAO
mircea_popescu: nothing lulzier than watching teh propaganda machine trying to spin utter failure into being chic, hip, and what these blasted youngsters want.
mircea_popescu: pankkake: mainstream media prepping the general public for inflation << precisely.
mircea_popescu: i go through it one ;line at a time and comment. sometimes this results in redundancy
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform how about this btw ? when confronted with the logs, i naturally settled on parsing rather than compiling. is this because im stupid or is this beause parsing is better ?
mircea_popescu: a nm jurov said so. sorry, im parsing the logs rather than compiling them.
mircea_popescu: it's signed itself (there's a link to the pgp sks infrastructure with my signature on it)
mircea_popescu: Pierre_Rochard the SA reddit subsection thinks you suck nao.
mircea_popescu: davout: was the new mpex key advertised anywhere ? << in faq and linked here.
mircea_popescu: trying to fix a problem with the town through marriage is not unlike trying to fix poor reception by holding the antenna in certain ways or a malfunctioning computer by running the tap nearby.
mircea_popescu: afaik it goes like this : pick a girl, pick a date, party.
mircea_popescu: mike_c how do you know the date if you don';t have other things (presumably, the girl ?) figured out ?
mircea_popescu: "A verbose and condescending essay written by a child who has never encountered true malice or been hungry in his whole life." << o, "you've never been hungry thus what you have to say is unimportant". because yeah, that's true value : to find out from the frequently hungry how they dun it!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there you go. it was not stalin's fault. the people wanted, nay, the people needed it. all of it.
mircea_popescu: "Dear lord this is absolutely fucking grade-A insane. I had to read that first paragraph 4 times just because I just couldn't believe somebody would ever intentionally write something so convoluted. And it doesn't improve as the paper continues. In all seriousness, this reads almost exactly like the deranged manifestos that are left behind by school shooters, that is the vibe I get from whatever the fuck you want to ca
mircea_popescu: translation : "that asshole mp is putting pressure on our liquidity providers (what, you didn't think we OWNED the btc we're presenting as having been invested by third parties ?!) and so we won't be able to keep the charade up without recirculating some capital. sorry!"
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: "- We reserve the right to use up to 5000 BTC from the pre-sale while the pre-sale is running in order to speed up development." << funny they didn't reserve it before the fucking thing started.
mircea_popescu: chetty yeah, the guys asked for permission to republish
mircea_popescu: here's nobody doing nothing, and he has like... opinions on bitcoin and issues with tone and whatnot ?
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron: i sent Jick a message for him to answer on his podcast, telling him he should accept BTC for Mr. A's; he shot it down and mostly focused on the "tone" i used << incredible the gall of these fuckwits.
mircea_popescu: benkay: this is what happens when you let the wimmins manage projects without oversight << word, seriously. and you should see what happens when you let them manage kids w/o oversight.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron: << if it's anything like the counterparty burn for xcp << supposedly this is not a burn, they intend to spend it.
mircea_popescu: that thing's probably worth more than the whole us atm.
mircea_popescu: benkay: hey have you guys heard about this ICBC auto insurance monopoly in BC? << kinda why i was so lulzed out at the entire "icbc is in pink sheets" nyse debacle.