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phf: also great investment for
those shtf preppers
punkman: JuliaTourianski_: just
the maxfield.me/blog/ link
punkman: ah, maybe
tell
the guy
to put a note in
the ads, I was confused
punkman: I like
the Kialara coins, certainly different
than all
the other crap coins. but why would I buy one signed by Ricky Allman or JuliaTourianski? did you do
the art on
the back side?
JuliaTourianski_: im writing a post called "It's not
that
there's no jobs, it's
that your standards are
too high. "
mircea_popescu: splendid bit in
there, right in
the final sketch, de funes is
this breton dude. "ils m'ont liquide!"
mircea_popescu: they're valuable in
themselves plus
they make a good investment. furs ftw.
JuliaTourianski_: regarding
the kialaras...
they're pretty pieces of art (which by wilde's definition is valuable in it of itself) plus
they have
the btc behind
them, so
they're an investment.
mircea_popescu: what's
that, women
that never queef and dudes
that don't go bald ?
mircea_popescu: all
they need is some sluts in furs smoking out of hookas or some shit.
mircea_popescu: look at
the item in question, it's faintly cog-like, and mysteriously made of parts bla bla. same exact play, for same exact reason.
mircea_popescu: not in 1820 when it was kicking pensylvania's
teeth in.
mircea_popescu: hence new york was elegant in 1920, by
the
time it was just starting
to no longer matter,
mircea_popescu: elegance is specifically
the scent of early putrefaction.
mircea_popescu: and
this is EXACTLY what elegance is. no fucking farmer in
the midwest, building an empire and about
to kick
the fuherer's
teeth in can POSSIBLY be elegant.
mircea_popescu: fact of
the matter is, when it comes
to
technology we're all bums. nobody can make a fucking car he'd want
to drive.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and
they're not pitching
to people who could buy
the damned cars, but
to
twentysomething derps in college.
mircea_popescu: there's a naked woman in a fur and a shot of some shiny cogs working
together.
mircea_popescu: look at "european cars",
they've been selling
the same damned
thing for 30 years now. you ever watch one of
their ads ?
mircea_popescu: note
that i picked
the bum specifically. for derps in "secure neighbourhoods", showing off
to
the neighbour is arguably a +ev move. who knows, maybe neighbour's daughter comes
to do your house work in
the nude or something. as faint as it may be - you're not going
to get in fucking
trouble for being an asshole. not so for bum. for bum, veblen goods are suicide goods.
danielpbarron: it sorta works with cacasius coins --
the ones
that ~he~ loaded. But if each identical looking
token is supposed
to be loaded by a different entity,
there can be no illusion of fungibility between
them
mircea_popescu: for one
thing - who
the fuck is he going
to call ? for
the other - how is he going
to even get it
to work ? for yet another, it matters not so much if
the
thing even works in
the first place.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but
the value of
the phone for
the bum is unrelated
to its utility.
punkman: danielpbarron: bitcoin can never exist strictly as a physical
token;
there needs
to be some sort of bank-like entity
to put a name on it <<
the keys are always stored on physical
tokens. unless you have a brainwallet (and
the mind-reading machine has not been invented yet).
mircea_popescu: let's go at it
this way : ever seen how much bums value cell phones ?
mircea_popescu: phf no, it's
the porsche for a new generation.
tho i'm unsure whether anyone here understands or cares
to
think about what
those
things ~are~.
☟︎ phf: seems like it would appeal
to
the same "commemorative" crowd as in fiat
mircea_popescu: seems
to me rather obvious
these are intended as decorative accessories.
danielpbarron: bitcoin can never exist strictly as a physical
token;
there needs
to be some sort of bank-like entity
to put a name on it
danielpbarron: although i'm with nubbins` on
the whole gpg chain of ownership method
danielpbarron: the
thing with "load your own key" physicals is it defeats at least some of
the purpose
assbot: You rated user JuliaTourianski_ on 22-Sep-2014, with a rating of 1, and supplied
these additional notes: Manages
the beer for a family owned Russian bathouse with handmage sausages in Mississauga..
mircea_popescu: i never cared, myself. nubbins` is
the resident expert really.
phf: the one on second ave has pretty good food, but it's really just one guy cooking it.
this wallstreetspa place seems like
they might have a cook
danielpbarron: got
to
the point i built a
tracker so big i could scan
the whole map using binary substitution, and just collected and sold coordinates
to other people
danielpbarron: i pulled off some pretty cool raids on
that minecraft server;
the guy who made it coded
this
thing you could build out of expensive parts
that would like you
track down where people were if
they stood in one place
too long (usually building
their big stupid elaborate base)
phf: interesting, i've not been
to
that one
mircea_popescu: weren't ppls bitching
that purse.io went scam or was
that a different
thing
danielpbarron: i used
to play on a hardcore pvp server
that had a decent economy (for minecraft) and
they would have
to periodically reset
the whole world
JuliaTourianski_: am i masculine cuz i was addicted
to minecraft or feminine because i built a kitchen
phf: i've noticed
that,
there's a place right between
the sophia and blue mosque,
that's all
turist.
mircea_popescu: the girl/boy ratio in eulora is starting
to skew
the wrong way!
mircea_popescu: JuliaTourianski_ did you get
that gaming system made ?
JuliaTourianski_: the general rule is...the more expensive a bathhouse is,
the less authentic cuz only white
tourists would pay
that much
to bathe...
phf: is
that
the one
that's few blocks away from hagia sophia?
JuliaTourianski_: in
turkey, we were walking round hoping
to go
to a hamam
the next day..when we saw steam rising from one of
the buildings...we inquired
to find
the oldest haman of
turkey! it was amazing.
they scrubbed me down so hard. and
they giggled at my shyness.
phf: i prefer contrast baths, hot bath, cold plunge, but yeah i've been
to all kinds
assbot: Logged on 21-02-2016 19:08:14; phf: as soon as i can move again, i'm going
to make it
to russian&turkish baths in nyc.
they don't really do saunas on
the east coast, but
that baths place is awesome
JuliaTourianski_: my mother got a call
the other day with some guy asking her if we have glory holes. she had no idea what he meant.
mircea_popescu: so... how about you pay
the fine establishment a visit phf ?
mircea_popescu: hey, were you running a russian bath
thing or am i completely delusional ?
assbot: Logged on 21-02-2016 22:49:39; phf: aah, i'll ask him when he's around, but
that's west coast.
they have great saunas
there
mod6: anyway, i
the latest, we just pulled
that out for
the
time being.
mod6: anyway, not sure how i ever mixed
that up.
mod6: yah. i realized
that lastnight. i
think it also has
to do with
that i was using a derp version of gnupg
too
assbot: Logged on 21-02-2016 02:30:15; assbot: Logged on 20-02-2016 20:41:35; ben_vulpes: mod6: i am *still* getting
this with build-bitcoin-v99995.sh: gpg: WARNING: not a detached signature; file 'buildroot-2015.05.tar.gz' was NOT verified!
trinque: <ben_vulpes> yo hey yo hey << looks like my bouncer
took a crap while I was out for
the weekend. sup!
phf: tinyscheme can't read strings longer
then #define STRBUFFSIZE 256, hmm
mircea_popescu: even ended up in some slashdotty-like
thing w/e it was
mircea_popescu: amusingly bitbet is
the largest pool on
that
topic on
the whole internets, nobody seems
to be aware of
the situation.
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