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mircea_popescu:
a flatline the next. I covered most of the deficit from the hack on the
nefario: some1 from south afica wt
a gun
mircea_popescu: "I read and dismissed Ayn Rand in the late 1970's. She codified and packaged selfishness and boorishness in such
a nice way that it resonated with selfish boors."
dub: sadly I suspect there will just be
a show
mircea_popescu: Founded in July 2010, the Organization has already played
a major role in the development of cutting-edge financial services and promotional campaigns
dub: its like
a roll call at
a special school
assbot: Requesting data from GLBSE (might take
a while).
assbot: Requesting data from GLBSE (might take
a while).
usagi: Well it's hardly
a secret, I mean it isn't like they don't have
a website.
usagi: Well it's
a big secret but it won't be if he doesn't pay
copumpkin: when people take an obscure math concept, read for about two minutes, and then write
a long blog post explaining it, completely wrong
copumpkin: usagi: isn't there that dude in
a top hat? is he your financial mentor?
copumpkin: Lyspooner: it's
a pissing contest, really
Lyspooner: i was told this was
a channel concerning bitcoin assets?
usagi: online courses have come
a long way
copumpkin: usagi: it's just
a general site for running online courses, but the course is starting today
usagi: copumpkin is that
a good site?
mircea_popescu: so let's cut this fish then. usagi, pick
a couple of stochastic processes of your choosing and demonstrate ito calculus.
copumpkin: everyone on the internet is
a pornstar
usagi: Everyone here is
a trader mircea that isn't something special
usagi: [06:12:20] <mircea_popescu> da fuck is that. like
a riemann ?
rg: definitely
a good move, on my part, cause i rule
rg: and i have
a bunchof shit to do
rg: someone has been syncing
a bitcoind after i told them not to
dub: I forget who but
a reasonably big news outfit did
a sting buy of chinese collagen which tested as human derived
mircea_popescu: they had
a layered cake of conventions, deals and dealings
a mile tall.
mircea_popescu: i mean, i read the logs. zhou was "not getting
a salary" ?
mircea_popescu: i only knew
a handful of chinese people, and never been there
dub: its
a cultural aspect of china
dub: thing is its
a perfectly reasonable story to
a chinaman
mircea_popescu: dub it's such
a stupid story tho... who the fuck knows anymore.
mircea_popescu: well the story is that someone connected to
a server through which they connected to the server where they held unencrypted pws of the wallet.
usagi: Bitcoins are
a way to drag hackers and techies kicking and screaming into the real world; the wot trust model doesn't work
mircea_popescu: if we turn this into
a paranoid xenophobia we will just wither and die.
copumpkin: nefario: more importantly, banishment doesn't work because you can create
a new identity
nefario: I think there is limits to
a WOT and OTC where there is no enforcement of contracts beyond banishment from the community
mircea_popescu: take the taming of the shrew as
a fine example. servant and master switch roles. everyone knows there is
a master, but nobody knows WHO exactly it is. except his own father.
mircea_popescu: why do you think ? because the entire economy was run as
a pseudonymous wot.
assbot: [GLBSE] [NYAN.
A] 1 @ 1.01 BTC [+]
mircea_popescu: well, our hope is that historically
a wot is what created capitalist economy. the hansa was one huge wot. the lombard trade was one huge wot
nefario: once it grows past
a certain size
usagi: At this point is has become obvious Mircea is
a poor troll... I'm out guys. Got work to do.
mircea_popescu: lonely loser how made
a penny << how isn't used like that either.
EskimoBob: mircea_popescu you are lonely loser how made
a penny more than your beggar neighbour and now you think you are something special. No, you are not :)
usagi: Yeah you're
a troll.
usagi: I said, "otc is
a nice idea but it needs to be institutionalized." and in response to your blatant troll, "No it does not always mean that, Mircea..."
mircea_popescu: i'm
a liar because you're
a teacher who aspires to be something more than
a teacher ?
usagi: You're basically
a liar.
mircea_popescu: so you're
a non native speaker public worker on the lowest possible pay braket
usagi: 2. Place or keep (someone) in
a residential institution.
usagi: 1. Establish (something, typically
a practice or activity) as
a convention or norm in an organization or culture.
usagi: the meaning you quoted is
a secondary meaning
EskimoBob: "are worthy of" - you talk like
a scammer
usagi: Turned into
a credit agency.
usagi: otc is
a nice idea but it needs to be institutionalized.
coingenuity: if we're all throwing shit at one another in
a tiny room, everyone ends up covered in shit
coingenuity: on
a serious note though, lets try to keep it civil.... we're all peers in
a tiny community so we should try to get along
EskimoBob: what
a loser you are mircea_popescu
mircea_popescu: coingenuity well it started from dmc and ended up
a general discussion on things
JWU_42: your site is
a turd, mining bonds are truds
JWU_42: EskimoBob has
a thing for feces
EskimoBob: you are
a porn peddling turd. Your "exchange" is also
a host for porn
EskimoBob: mircea_popescu: longer you talk, bigger fool you look. You are
a loser. What part of this you do not understand?
mircea_popescu: you say that like
a douche that has no ideea what logs are.
usagi: Well I want
a peanut butter sandwich.
EskimoBob: mircea_popescu: you are
a loser. Period. You bragging here just makes you even bigger loser. There is nothing you can really do about it except just fuck off.
copumpkin: I hear glenn beck murdered
a hooker
usagi: It's
a running joke, mpex hosts porn
mircea_popescu: i have bigger guns is the point, my safety isn't your mousy safety, let's be anon and hope we're never
a target.
mircea_popescu: "it just makes me
a target". i've been
a target. for
a long while. do you understand this ?
usagi: Like i said it's just
a business. It just makes you
a target
mircea_popescu: usagi if you thought things through for
a second, you'd realise you're safer with someone that has been hosting
a 4chan for years