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thestringpuller: how does fucking correlate
to knowledge of female psychology if you don't mind?
mircea_popescu: i always
thought
that for someone who barely fucked, he had an extremely keen understanding of female fringe psychology.
mircea_popescu: "Secret Service Agent Shaun Bridges on an unrelated matter, but I
think we all know what happened with him" yeah, it... happened. it happened ~with~.
mircea_popescu: well...
the few sitcoms i knew came out in a brief one-two year interval around 1990.
thestringpuller: it's just a rehash of
the simpsons at
this point just with more juvenile humor.
mircea_popescu: which were
these,
the derp who was supposedly married
to patricia heaton and who's
the other one ?
mircea_popescu: "OMG I just died laughing at
this profile, stupidly hilarious! I'm so dead I'm writing
this from
the grave motherfucker. It's like Family Guy meets Frasier, BRAVO!"
mircea_popescu: compared
to
this,
the ineffectual, ineffective and brief anglo
tradition of "originality" is both forced and sad.
mircea_popescu: ailing miserably at producing art
through
this process.
assbot: Logged on 16-01-2016 05:57:11; copypaste: pete_dushenski: i've changed my opinion about you because you drive a very nice car. keep up
the good work
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-01-2016#1371985 <<
the other consideration is
that europe is chock full of bad copies of
the classical masters. and
they all suck, except
the few
that don't. such as for instance rubens, who learned
to paint by doing a poor job of copying at first. or michelangelo, or anyone else. because yes, everyone
that ever was a master painter learned his craft by
trying humbly
to copy and f
☝︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: dude what a badass looking
truck. how
the fuck could
the ammo churning,
tailgate partying,
truck racing subculture not buy
this
through
the roof is well beyond me. but
then again... i'll
take
the newton defense.
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 16-01-2016 05:52:12; pete_dushenski:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=15-01-2016#1371076 << i just remembered
that 'international' made pretty much exactly
this house-towing, sidewalk-shredding, lamppost-buckling "pick-up" from 2004 - 2008. called
the 'cxt' and priced right at $100k.
though it weighed 7
tonnes (15k lbs), it had a 7.6l diesel engine with 220hp and 540 lb. ft. of
torque and was capable of hauling or
towing up
to 6
tonn
assbot: Understanding Argentina’s Coming Default, For Real
This
Time on
Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... (
http://bit.ly/1SodZML )
thestringpuller: OMG. "The network is broken because it
takes longer for payments
to get confirmed. Who would wait 60 minutes or 14 hours for a payment?!?" Holy fuck-wits, people eat
this shit up? Why are
these people so stupid? :(
mircea_popescu: but
these are particularly confounded since
the introduction of
the printing press and
the legal profession.
mircea_popescu: it's complicated. for
the
true believer (not everyone who reads
the books gives a shit, you realise,
though many do) faith is a major factor, as measured in
two
things : uniques (on
the
theory
that hey, god wouldn't allow
the flock
to scatter) and miracles (on
the
theory
that nature is a whore, and whoever she picks is king).
☟︎ PeterL: I guess you could also say
that nobodies don't get
to name
themselves
mircea_popescu: most people resolve
the problem by declaring
that
there's no paters past ~500ish ad and
that's
that.
mircea_popescu: it's a category in patristics, sorta like you know,
the weird corner of
the library.
the
TRULY weird corner.
mircea_popescu: PeterL ianaeasnps, but i
think
technically
the name'd be wesleyanism
mircea_popescu: well
the difference between
the
two is
that one has an extra peritoneal hole
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: well
the
toomims are calling your bluff, but Gavin in his recent article realizes
the uphill struggle and just knows
that "hey it's probably not going
to work out but worth a shot", sometimes I wonder about
that d00d. Eats glue but rather conscious of
the actual situation.
PeterL: why do we need
to call it anything?
PeterL: how about we just study
the Gospel of
Thomas and be nice
to people?
mircea_popescu: (the irish weren't exactly regarded as clever or scholarly in english at
the
time ;
the english in
turn didn't make much court at rome)
mircea_popescu: there's at least nine
thousand "denim-inations"
the sum
total of whose intellectual production adds up
to half a
tract of an obscure irish preacher from 1840.
mircea_popescu: very american
this process, "we forked xtianity" "oh yeah ? what did you add ?" "the name!" "do you know
the faith ?" "wut ?"
mircea_popescu: it's gonna run out of names, end up like
the neoprotestant "churches" in
the us. "the
true universal international church" and blabla.
shinohai: yup, set
to private. Gotta keep it locked while we make moar vaporware.
shinohai: I forgot
to check if anyone reserved r/bitcoinclassic yet
mircea_popescu: apparently
the crazies can't really
thrive
together, need
to splinter into smaller cjs.
mircea_popescu: shinohai i looked
through
that
thing yest, went "hmm, reddit went very weird ?"
then realised
that it's not r/bitcoin, nor r/buttcoin nor r/bitcoinxt but YET ANOTHER subreddit.
PeterL: I have never seen anything worthwhile on reddit, seems like a place for idiots
to gather and waste
time/energy
PeterL: Hearnia is an idiot, and whoever
this apologist is,
they are an even bigger idiot
shinohai: No other Bitcoin subreddit makes my head hurt more
than r/btc lately
PeterL: I don't get it, how could anybody compare
them?
thestringpuller: someone just compared Hearnia
to Batman/Bruce Wayne. As a batman
true believer, I was hihgly insulted.
copypaste: It doesn't get more honest
than
that.
copypaste: POS is
the perfect name for what it is. Piece of shit.
cazalla: ;;later
tell mircea_popescu sorry
to read about chetty :\
☟︎ punkman: "Augur has also contributed $20,000
to an R&D project
to transition
the Ethereum network from a proof of work (POW)
to a proof of stake (POS) system so it can operate at higher speeds, handle more
transactions and
thereby become more competitive"
punkman: "sold all but 1,000 BTC and 100,000 ETH via over
the counter (OTC)
trades" "opened up a brokerage account
to secure a portion of our funds in relatively secure, short
term US
Treasury bonds,
to earn some return above bank rate interest"
cazalla: augur 2.0 must be in
the works i'd imagine
cazalla: sounds like pokeman cards
to me, augur investors handed over
their money for some ultra rare pokemans
punkman: they could have paid
themselves in btc, wanted dollars instead
op_null2: converting 50%
to fiat is smart
op_null2: better
than holding it and it drops in half -- like ethereum did
punkman: "Augur hedged a significant portion of its holdings (13,500 BTC). Via itBit, Augur sold at an average of US$227 per BTC with $10/coin borrowing cost, netting
the Project $217 per BTC." geniuses
BingoBoingo: Any urgent corrections I should make
to latest qntra post before
trying
to sleep?
punkman: "The crowd is smart. Use its expertise
to beat
the experts with... Stunningly Accurate Predictions"
topkek
cazalla: didn't augur scam
the early investers anyway? changed it from investor
to donations or something later on
op_null2: cazalla: I do lots of
things. Like consulting for people when
they're making bad decisions
☟︎ op_null2: cazalla: $9 million in Augur from
thousands of users.
They'll use it.
cazalla: all
these
things mircea_popescu could've done, how about what you could've done op_null2 ? nothing at all eh?
cazalla: kingking190, i
tried
that
trading game in early 2013, didn't work out for me, much better approach has been
to buy and just hold bitcoin
op_null2: He could have done
the same
thing with MPEX -- could have been a huge altcoin
trading site and made 1000's BTC in fees. he was an early mover.... I guess he alrady had
too much BTC and didnt care about making more lol
☟︎ kingking190: cazalla, plus
the market could
turn bad really fast one big market goes offline
than Bang market drops ( well i will buy more but) still like shit!
cazalla: no-one is gonna use
that op_null2
op_null2: He should port bitbet.us
to Ethereum -- Groupgnosis and Augur will proabbly be more popular when launched
☟︎ kingking190: cazalla, i have done
the math and everything. but i just hope i am not wrong by some dumb luck
op_null2: lack of
trust, i suppose. "if its
too good
to be
true..."
☟︎ cazalla: why didn't you bet
then op_null2 ?
op_null2: interesting. I
thought it was a joke. seemed like he was giving himself bad odds
punkman: there were some bitbet bets
too
BingoBoingo: op_null2: One person
took it and never returned with a private key
to claim it
cazalla: kingking190, hoping litecoin goes up doesn't seem like a sound strategy
that's all i'm saying
op_null2: so nobody
took him up on
the bet?
cazalla: op_null2, none of you cunts put your money where your mouth is, at least until after
the fact like now
op_null2: What ever happened
to mircea_popescu 's bet
that Ethereum wouldn't launch?
cazalla: why are you relegated
to hope
then kingking190 ?
BingoBoingo: ;;later
tell fluffypony one of your fans is visiting