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mircea_popescu: kasa32 your sentiment is appreciated, but had you heard of me before last week ?
mircea_popescu: aye
mircea_popescu: (comp took out some plastic stoppers to save on costs)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform do you know the story of the irradiation accidents with medical equipment cause of this problem ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform just add a bit of plastic foam!!!
mircea_popescu: kasa32 are we trying to write a block buster movie script here ?
mircea_popescu: which is why mpex is really such manna from heavens.
mircea_popescu: bounce the curse of regulators, in all times and places, is that they can't afford to hire the sort of brainpower they need.
mircea_popescu: once done with that pile it may be sensible to examine wtf is what.
mircea_popescu: there's a thousand to go that i and anyone else with a shred of sanity left would readily agree are prosecutable
mircea_popescu: bounce i don't think that discussion is yet ripe. so far they've prosecuted one guy.
mircea_popescu: than go all out with idiocy that'll never work a la us congress.
mircea_popescu: tg2 i'd rather build organically on proved-to-work infrastructure developed in small steps
mircea_popescu: bounce i guess not.
mircea_popescu: kanzure which is why i am trying to get a specific out of you.
mircea_popescu: tg2 exact analogue does not exist.
mircea_popescu: kanzure ok but to make what ?
mircea_popescu: kasa32 i mean because there's no such thing as an arrest in civil proceedings, and i never heard of an arrested witness yet and so on and so forth.
mircea_popescu: kanzure ok, but the way to go WHERE
mircea_popescu: kasa32 you have many distinct categories all confused up here.
mircea_popescu: kanzure no no, with the 10micron channels and other stupid hard problems
mircea_popescu: kanzure so what are you actually trying to make ?
mircea_popescu: kasa32 you must have missed the part where i told you this is a civil matter.
mircea_popescu: gotta save that one for when anyone asks what's in my fridge.
mircea_popescu: "come to -assets. only a coupla hundred people here, but you probably have friends in common"
mircea_popescu: lol
mircea_popescu: well iirc this guy had some sort of cancer, so you might get your wish
mircea_popescu: a bryan bishop fellow.
mircea_popescu: kanzure you the comedy central guy ?
mircea_popescu: benkay if they're not dockers, they're just pants.
mircea_popescu: kasa32 these are civil proceedings.
mircea_popescu: i wonder if there actually exists an irc client w/o autocompletion
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i wouldn't want it in my memory anyway.
mircea_popescu: you need a client for it tho
mircea_popescu: for instance right now to have it spit out velacreations i type out vel and hit tab
mircea_popescu: kasa32 the whole thing's published, http://trilema.com/2014/interacting-with-fiat-institution-a-guide/
mircea_popescu: store btc as a service, if done right (like say bc.info used to do it) has its places. you go to trade some btc in ny central park, you take a blockchain url with you.
mircea_popescu: this already means you're using SOMETHING to remember your key, yes ?
mircea_popescu: aha! BUT!
mircea_popescu: i can't remember my key, what are you on about. 4096 bits, srsly ?
mircea_popescu: velacreations irc highlights people when you mention their name, no need for @s and stuff.
mircea_popescu: o the reuters gal.
mircea_popescu: who was it that said she had called but then nobody picked up ?
mircea_popescu: let's not be splitting the nets.
mircea_popescu: such web. much 2.0.
mircea_popescu: must suck to be stuck on the shittier platform, eh ?
mircea_popescu: lol@forum doing irc liveblogging
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know, just like true love reduces to you waiting ouside the door while they do it.
mircea_popescu: that's the problem, they can't really.
mircea_popescu: benkay cyprus uses the euro. there's no such distinction really.
mircea_popescu: hehe that you did
mircea_popescu: "try to" is not an actual service
mircea_popescu: no, he didn't, but he was asked.
mircea_popescu: frenchie kasa32 this is in the log.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform itd be a pretty korean thing to do, you know ? buy a mountain, sculpt the faces of great bitcoin jesuses all around, have a light at the top to represent satoshi...
mircea_popescu: wait no that's not how it went
mircea_popescu: mike_c aaa, but was it built from the ground up with a cock in mind ?
mircea_popescu: it's just big enough to fit in a mountain.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform mostly, their head.
mircea_popescu: like this fellow : https://twitter.com/Mircea_Popescu/status/449558141525827584
mircea_popescu: mike_c which means some eager young fellow full of hope and good intentions is about to show up
mircea_popescu: you know, like coloring books, nobody says they shouldn't exist, just, they should exist in a much more fucking responseible fashion
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's easy.
mircea_popescu: seems a dubious consolation.
mircea_popescu: daugthers, idem
mircea_popescu: "how hard is it to just sit on that cock!!1"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform question of mothers towards their young sons that got a girl pregnant, since forever :
mircea_popescu: seemed so fucking weird lol
mircea_popescu: i see what you actually meant nao
mircea_popescu: "<benkay> would you clearsign a statement that I can host please" read to me that you want him to permit you to host it in writing lol.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform stuff is hard.
mircea_popescu: benkay no i get that part, but once he signs a gpg statement what do you need permission to host it for ?
mircea_popescu: benkay i am! what!
mircea_popescu: artifexd i sort-of suspect he'd have said it by now if he perceived he could.
mircea_popescu: you mean the chan log ?!
mircea_popescu: benkay you can host what ?!
mircea_popescu: i see it.
mircea_popescu: velacreations this chan is the gazette of record of all bitcoin asset matters, but that aside i agree it's not convenient for various investors etc to not get info in whatever channels and forms they prefer.
mircea_popescu: ;;ident ThickAsThieves
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves can't hurt anything
mircea_popescu: velacreations well, apparently he just has notified it.
mircea_popescu: i suppose in this case, since it's stopped trading anyway it's kind-of moot.
mircea_popescu: yes well as general practice, the underwriter of a stock can't just quit, they have to leave the stock to be shepherded by someone else.
mircea_popescu: neilol who are ye ?
mircea_popescu: basically what happened here, the cfo ran off with a block of shares ?
mircea_popescu: so wait... neobee asked havelock to halt trading because *neobee* suspects there's insider trading going on ?
mircea_popescu: mike_c that's the asicminer stuff neh ?
mircea_popescu: higher admin effort.
mircea_popescu: benkay has it basically. skim while fools flock, delist once it goes to shit, the glbse v2.0
mircea_popescu: wait what ?!
mircea_popescu: kids wanna accounting-fraud their own books (which they don't keep anyway) and woe unto anyone getting in their way. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: busy... elsewhere ?
mircea_popescu: somehow nobody goes to conferences tro say "hay! we're so fucking retarded, you wouldn't believe!"
mircea_popescu: only in bitcoin
mircea_popescu: how the fuck some "company" slash "ceo" that can spend enough to mediabuy a small mediteranean island can't get their corp comms in working order is beyond comprehension.
mircea_popescu: not looking terribly good.
mircea_popescu: NSAnalButtLion
mircea_popescu: what the hell is this, havelockism ?!
mircea_popescu: and why arent you announcing you're no longer running it and who is now running it, if you aren't.
mircea_popescu: so, you were running an asset. why aren;'t you announcing it stopped trading, if it did