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mircea_popescu: <bitcoinpete> mircea_popescu: nubbins` canada looks scarier and scarier. <<how so?? << icebergs and shit
mircea_popescu: ok and with that im caught up with the 23rd. omfg you people talk A LOT
mircea_popescu: gravy train coming to an end, in a decade nobody will even remember who bezos was.
mircea_popescu: but perhaps... it's cheaper than a car and doesn't need your foot on the ground like a bike ?
mircea_popescu: "It has just been announced now that UTA, the union of bus drivers, will convoke a full strike for ALL buses(colectivos y micros , which means city and long distance buses) for this Wednesday, 28 May starting at 0000 in ALL OF ARGENTINA!."
mircea_popescu: anyway, the trick with suing is to make up your mind quick and let the papers fly the next day.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony, apparently diogenes kyon was perpetualloy both, is still remembered.
mircea_popescu: and you two as well as anyone interested is invited to a full debate of this matter, to take place statring 8pm today, my time. which is roughly in nine hours. then maybe we can get to the bottom of it
mircea_popescu: bitcoinpete: i would've thought he was the exact opposite << this, incidentally, is how you know you've buddha'd. various people reading your stuff come to exactly opposite conclusions on fundamental topics such as "what is the purpose of meaning"
mircea_popescu: princessnell: not exactly keep living, but maximize probability of the highest possible degree of genetic transmission. but you get my drift. << iget your drift, i just don't perceive any substance to it. can you prove your purpose is more to convey your own genetic material than to convey the genetic material of the e coli you're very comfortably keeping at a pleasant temperature deep inside, and strive to keep well
mircea_popescu: lol i c. so what did htey test, the secretaries' lower piping ?
mircea_popescu: capital doesn't belong with the idiots currently holding it. they don't know what to do with it, other than pay people to falsely claim they do know what to do with i.t
mircea_popescu: which is why the rape of the people with fiat by bitcoin is so fucking essential.
mircea_popescu: benkay: the people with the money to implement dumb crypto things are never going to select professional services people for execution who say things like "what you are trying to build is not possible to build". << pretty much exactly.
mircea_popescu: i wouldn't run a server on ubuntu, but if making a system for an ex windows person prolly still best choiuce,
mircea_popescu: gotta try around a little. as is typical of open source, diff things work for diff jobs.
mircea_popescu: artifexd: I was thinking about Ubuntu but apparently they suck for reasons that are unclear to me. <<< dependency hell and a bad case of code rot.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller: password is used in two places unfortunately two very important places << that was a pretty shitty password.
mircea_popescu: so you get mpex-audited float every time yoyu pay a dividend.
mircea_popescu: benkay: afaik there's no way to evaluate the float on mpex. you just gotta trust mircea_popescu. << no, this is why the dividend payments work the way they do. mpex will a) not let you pay fewer shares than there are and b) issue you a signed receipt which includes that number.
mircea_popescu: benkay:HeySteve: nonsense. << it's not nonsense in any way. naked shorts are the instrument of evil. women should be always naked, shorts always covered. the us is doing it exaclty backwards.
mircea_popescu: hl et all or else do half a bitcoin's trade out of 500 idjits.
mircea_popescu: benkay: I was thinking of starting a general shorting fund - sell shares that mimic shares in every way (pay same divs, buyback at vwap after X months). sell the shares at a discount to make them more appealing than real shares << mpex did this early on, but it was a political move to crush the idiots that thought they can make a glbse club. i doubt it'll be financially productive, you'll either fake volume a la btct
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, so now you finally get to sleep with your work ?
mircea_popescu: bitcoinpete: there honestly aren't enough hours in a day to document "all the scams" << he may well have a pooint.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, suggestion : move to istanbul for the week. free airfare if hyou got the miles, like 100 a night for downtown hotel
mircea_popescu: well in cr they never destroyed the pipes, what can ido
mircea_popescu: i couldn't guess why. i was fucking impressed, i mean of all the problems one could be ready to solve...
mircea_popescu: by evening my flushing was fine again. and yet somehow it's the centroamericans that have the reputation for laziness and inefficiency
mircea_popescu: turns out, an aligator was trying to traverse the sewage got himself stuck.
mircea_popescu: a special truck arives, there\'s like nine men in my house, all fighting with the bathroom
mircea_popescu: after a coupla hours the entire bathroom is taken apart, everyone's talking lively in phones
mircea_popescu: they got some metal wire tools and so forth. they go ait it
mircea_popescu: he tries some basic maneuvers of a slightly more elevated hardcoreness
mircea_popescu: the clearly "had been in prison" tough guy that owned the building.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, so one morning i go to bathroom, i flush when done, it won't drain. i call administratora, she calls her.... well not exactly husband.
mircea_popescu: someone should make a youtube app whereby the person inserts the metallic dongle up their butt
mircea_popescu: did i ever tell you the story of my clogged toilet in costa rica btw ?
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: davout i dont know, why you keep making trouble and asking us to solve it?! <<< werd!
mircea_popescu: jurov: asciilifeform: and when will the nonsatanic implementation ship? << for srs!
mircea_popescu: 37.6 BTC reward for information that leads to the arrest of the hacker that is trying to hack all my stuff at the moment. details to come! << lol so all the btc roger ver still has left come to 75.2 ?
mircea_popescu: |OgNasty: Any newly generated coins donated to nastyfans we can consider as NASTY MINING. I could identify these and maybe we vote to set policy that NASTY MINING always gets at least 25% of mined coins?"
mircea_popescu: this part is not negotiable, i don't give a shit how special anyone thinks anyone is. each and every last one sec comissioner, president or prime minister, everyone must, no matter what, getr in wot and so on.
mircea_popescu: but generally, if people want to be part of the future, they will HAVE TO come here, make friends, become one of us.
mircea_popescu: people can suggest blogs through adding them to their own feeds or w/e they do when they want to read blogs.
mircea_popescu: pankkake:I was wondering about blogs of non-asseters actually << if you do that ima stop reading it altogether.
mircea_popescu: these people, seriously. "o i am great and wonderful give me stuff". what in the living fuck.
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mircea_popescu: "f you're Indian and Muslim you're screwed . UKIP will be in power here, they gonna send you India, but Nazi Modi is in power there."