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BTC-Mining: Seeing as all you probably see around bitcointalk and scam drama, you might be interested in
a quality book about greed.
mircea_popescu: well... i dunno. seems
a really basic / general knowlesge thing. like everyone heard of laocoon and his snakes/
mircea_popescu: wakes up wonders if maybe he's
a butterfly that sleeps and dreams he's master.
mircea_popescu: it's
a koan reference. master sleeps and dreams he was
a butterfly
BTC-Mining: Wondering if I'm either of
a retarted investor or
a retarded scammer =/
BTC-Mining: It was not
a business, it was interest bearing deposits... like at the bank...
mircea_popescu: "I wouldn't sell any of my personal assets to cover any bitcoin losses. This is
a business, it has failed. When businesses fail they shut down and usually nobody gets anything."
mircea_popescu: BTC-Mining seems to me he'll hve
a ton of pirate debt anyway, from the ppts
Diablo-D3: unless nefario decided to fuck shareholders, there was like
a few thousand
Diablo-D3: BTC-Mining: er, quite
a few people?
mircea_popescu: JWU42 i'd guess his ito integral calculus wasn't finished yet
a few days ago
JWU42: he argued this fact with me
a few days back
JWU42: funny to see usagi finally understand that DMC is
a POS and Diablo has fscked over his investors
BTC-Mining: strange that price hasn't moved much (even downward since end of august where it was at 15 USD
a piece
mircea_popescu: the future worth of all mining bonds is 0 on
a long enough timeline
mircea_popescu: it's odd that people'd value the future worth of
a mining bond
BTC-Mining: <BTC-Mining> I do already own
a subtanstial portion of BTC-MINING
BTC-Mining: Don't you know to specify what you're talking about when you change context to
a related situation?
mircea_popescu: there was
a massive selloff yest, maybe you weren't here.
BTC-Mining: I do already own
a subtanstial portion of BTC-MINING
assbot: [GLBSE] [PPT.
A] 2 @ 0.32 = 0.64 BTC [+]
mircea_popescu: BTC-Mining lol it is
a sucky feeling to sit here and watch ppl sell you off huh
OneMiner: Like I'd rather upgrade the ol' CPU. But it's going to take
a new mobo and RAM too. I fret over this too much. :|
OneMiner: Ugh, I need so many other things before I can buy
a HDD>
PsychoticBoy: it is really not
a good system for desktops, use win 7 64 instead or
a linux version
Bane_Capital: You know, nobody ever really asked for
a touch screen on their devices
OneMiner: Ya, I hear it's metro thingy isn't fun. It'll get patched. But
a review said that games ran
a bit faster.
Bane_Capital: OneMiner: You can thank Windows 8 for being
a complete joke
nefario: ask me when I work in
a central bank
Diablo-D3: I downloaded the doom I shareware off
a bbs
nefario: and stallman was like:wait
a minute I'm speaking to this person
nefario: the stuff arrived in
a box
nefario: there was
a stuffed animal
nefario: he turned out to be
a girl
nefario: I met someone who used to troll me on the forums over
a year ago
Bane_Capital: mircea_popescu: Maintaining
a stable culture can make all the difference in the world.
mircea_popescu: greeks today are about as similar to greeks as you're to
a monkey. the classical greek is tall, curly, blond and blue eyed
mircea_popescu: you have some spare cash, you can give it to
a good govt cause.
mircea_popescu: so then let them work for the govt, they're lucky to have
a job in the first place.
mircea_popescu: Bane_Capital i seriously fail to see how the us would be more akin
a british colony if there was
a queen representative governing it outright.
Bane_Capital: mircea_popescu: The tax rates we would suffer as
a long-term colony would not be fun.
copumpkin: anyway, I might need to reassert my americanness after being so european on IRC, so I'm gonna go get
a burger
copumpkin: Bane_Capital: not really, but you can point out the sources of one's inadequate opinion and urge people to strive to diversify
a bit
Bane_Capital: copumpkin: Then why bother attempting to have
a discussion? Is the point not to share information?
Bugpowder: It was
a once in
a lifetime opportunity
copumpkin: what else is
a european stereotype?
nefario: Bane_Capital: "Europe" is not
a country
copumpkin: and I take it you make
a point of seeking out articles from sources that might not necessarily reflect your political leanings and preconceived notions, right?
copumpkin: so you were fully aware of that aspect of "european culture" while you were visting,
a long time ago?
Bane_Capital: One day people will be calling me
a troll and an idiot.
Bane_Capital: I get
a lot of mixed messages from this community.
assbot: [GLBSE] [PPT.
A] 42 @ 0.32 = 13.44 BTC [+]
BTC-Mining: Make it
a menu with those four colors from the bootstrap buttons, using the smallest format
nefario: That was kind of
a rush job
BTC-Mining: How about styling those tabs at the top? There's the thin white/red/blue/black buttons you could make into
a bar.
PsychoticBoy: I would have gone but I am racing
a 24h race in spa-francorchamps
BTC-Mining: Arf, I need to find
a good deal somewhere
copumpkin: so you either need to have too much BRK-
A, or too little
copumpkin: say you have some criterion for picking an optimal portfolio, and the optimal portfolio wants 1.3 shares of BRK-
A mircea_popescu: albeit on
a scale more adequate to the failure that is glbbq, which is to say 100th
mircea_popescu: lettuce point out to the anonymous yet random idiot that
a second ago that dubious tyger-p-whatever DID THE EXACT SAME THING
copumpkin: mircea_popescu: does MPEX report
a separate trade for all orders crossed?
copumpkin: it's pretty standard practice to make
a ladder of orders
mircea_popescu: ya this is the problem of btc really. both of you have
a point.
smickles: Diablo-D3: you really think 6 btc is too much? bean counting is
a professional service
mircea_popescu: people kept asking for reports, not getting them, eventually it turned into
a lynch mob.
Diablo-D3: mircea_popescu: btw, you missed that I was telling
a joke
mircea_popescu: right. had
a bunch of scammy/failed stocks, made version 2.0. in due time this got filled with scammy/failed stocks so now makes colors
smickles: whatever reason? it's
a fixed hash 'bond' isn't it?
smickles: what would
a 1kbtc sell do to giga?
smickles: and well over
a hundred btc until that even gets touched
smickles: well, there's
a good hard-looking wall at .00035 it seems
smickles: i.e.,
a chain of sub-0.01 trades totalling less than 1btc
smickles: naw, mpoeetf still has all the shares it had
a moment ago