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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.
mircea_popescu: do they send out "mr schmukersson will impulsively fuck mrs schmukersson thursday, august 15th around 7:12 pm, your presence is kindly solicited" spam too ?
mircea_popescu: dub: this is an invite but i've had pre-invites before << wtf is this invite to invite, ask to ask, meta bullshit anyway ?
mircea_popescu: <dub> idk, I recall a theory that abnormally high iodine levels in the japanese contributes to their well above average longevity << fukushima makes sense nao.
mircea_popescu: <dub> not that I would want to go back << omg #bitcoin-extradition
mircea_popescu: "If this ASIC mambo jumbo goes forward then I think BTC is as "good" as PayPal or the Bank of England." (forum communitard, 2012).
mircea_popescu: btw, since i've been reading my old romanian bitcoin articles, landed on some gems. anyone remembers vladimir's asic ?
mircea_popescu: i happen to be party to the first and oldest actually executed short, incidentally. you ever saw it ?
mircea_popescu: the aliens might land five minutes later and declare that anyone can have super hot alien blowjobs for a eth each
mircea_popescu: if you buy a future and the thing fails there's many ways to put it, but they all boil down to "you're screwed".
mircea_popescu: in any case, one generally buys a future if they expect the thing to work well, not to fail.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, it'd be an explicit clause limiting such cases, obv.
mircea_popescu: justusranvier amusingly, in that case the contract'd be void.
mircea_popescu: canada hasn't had a good musician since cohen visited and the us...
mircea_popescu: im not sure if shitty contemporary bands should be given 10k in grants to derp quietly in a corner at their craft or just be medicated worth 10k for possesion.
mircea_popescu: mike_c stop opposing progress and an end to oppression.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` wow socialist utopia. was the album actually made ?
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo those kids go for mbas, new cars and bumps off teenage asscracks.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` anyway, the only way to do this is, make the whole studio, force-sign the bands, work them like slaves.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo there exist no indie bands which can afford a 10 btc expenditure on life saving surgery
mircea_popescu: the last existing top hat factory was destroyed in a family dispute coupla decades ago
mircea_popescu: nubbins` but srsly, if you can get a vynil press you can sell to all the hippies
mircea_popescu: nubbins` this is like, groupthink. no fresh perspectives allowed here.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla's idea goes a long way towards that. "3k, cause they're prepaid"
mircea_popescu: nubbins` ok, how many do you figure you'll make and on what basis do you so figure ?
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo seeing how well the current stuff works, they can just patent borax glass and give that to people.
mircea_popescu: psychoactive lithium is not complex enough. progress is complexity, to oppose complexification is to be antisocial and terrorist.
mircea_popescu: we're trying to build a great future here and you gotta throw simple element wrenches into the windows
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo stop opposing research and job creating funding in research and SCIENCE and global warming.