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mircea_popescu: and no, the avg working stiff is by no means richer than the average medieval iobag
mircea_popescu: " With Howard Stern, the salient feature is the success, and the relative status." god help us. that's the salient feature ?
mircea_popescu: sadly, in romanian. but apparently same problems exist in english too
mircea_popescu: moiety armor where the hair grows. it's how the greeks did it...
mircea_popescu: because we all know that's where armor is really needed.
mircea_popescu: maybe she could have mmorpg style armor : something to protect her pubic bone and something on her shoulders.
mircea_popescu: but what do i know, my interaction with typo design was limited to being the phb for a few years.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves well it also depends on the application imo
mircea_popescu: moiety would you ride around on it naked holding a spear ?
mircea_popescu: take sports : a sport that's popular is annoying because all the inept idiots insist to play it.
mircea_popescu: i dunno about that, tbh. if anything, it'll remove a lot of pressure to perform from the mishoden, dysfunctional male humans, which'll make it so much better for the healthy.
mircea_popescu: "even a blind toaster can pinch a careless nipple", or how did that russian proverb go
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform actually even since the japanese have been working on their female android women replacements, i've been thinking "they'll make cars out of that skin material just as soon as possible"
mircea_popescu: no car contains a flat surface of as much as a square inch
mircea_popescu: if anyone's seen cars in like rome etc... the even cheaper alternative would be "people stop giving a shit about scratches"
mircea_popescu: i never hear anyone propose abstinence on the grounds that fucking may become obligatory otherwise.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah well, the perennial possibility of idiots does not really constitute a counterargument.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no, you polarize the lasers, you use modulated radar, there's solutions
mircea_popescu: anyway, whosoever gets anywhere even near a deliverable with this tyhing is getting bought out in short order, and in the higher millions.
mircea_popescu: they've been toying with "assisted parking" for quite a while.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah, but i would imagine a better adjusted thing may be developed.
mircea_popescu: too quickly they think of it for them to not be doing it.
mircea_popescu: dexX7 you know, judging by the perpetual X is paid by MPEx "discoveries", "research" and so forth on the forum, im starting to suspect i may be the only one not doing this.
mircea_popescu: well technically better coverage i guess, since your power's your power.
mircea_popescu: that's the problem, the words taken disparate work, but somehow they've been put in a soup that fails to anything
mircea_popescu: "Yeah, come at me gobment bro! Ahm behind 7 proxies! MPEX got an anthrax email from NSA but he muxed it to double sideband at a lower baud rate and now he's in ur base, killing ur d00dz."
mircea_popescu: i need someone to translate the forum for the people who normally translate the forum for me ;/
mircea_popescu: anyway, im off to scream at people who are entitled to their own opinions (over my dead body). bbl.
mircea_popescu: "At the time of the order, on 1st October 2013, 1 BTC was worth around $126."
mircea_popescu: courts need to learn the limits of their jurisdiction, preferably.
mircea_popescu: any bitcoins received as specified by mpex will be fully credited to the depositor in any and all circumstances.
mircea_popescu: ok, i guess it's announcement time : mpex will not be honoring the forth worth court order, or any similar instrument drawn by any court.
mircea_popescu: The complaint, which has a Background section with the question “What the heck is a Bitcoin?” also contains an attachment of 30 pages of bitcointalk forum discussion detailing the history of the story from July-August 2013.
mircea_popescu: it's gotten to where i can no longer discern parody from reality.
mircea_popescu: math is only the bus ticket taking you to the concert.
mircea_popescu: economy may be a social science, but finance is totally an art.
mircea_popescu: first altcoin not premined, first altcoin not allowed to bubble, etc.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves indeed. this baby will do a bunch if firsts.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves yes, but why would they ? not worth it.
mircea_popescu: kinda the original thinking behind central banks at any rate
mircea_popescu: in general the best way to reduce irrational behaviour is to control volatility.
mircea_popescu: my own thinking is that if we keep a reasonable floor under it it'll never be productive