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assbot: Logged on 20-05-2015 10:08:38;
mircea_popescu: i prefer to not communicate lol. do your job, report the methodology and results once you're done. you got a blog ?
mircea_popescu: !v assbot:
mircea_popescu.rate.Drhelmut.1:6d6dc0f4b800d51f6f275f4a001247e02f9e809fbfc19fcc7bc78cceb76dff3a
williamdunne:
mircea_popescu: Some teamspeak thing for price speculators
williamdunne:
mircea_popescu: Bid/Ask of same value and with positive quantity
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: competing with 16yos is how you end up fucking 16yos << hence why i said 'home turf'
ascii_field: it is absolutely relevant unless you are
mircea_popescu, flyer of atomic dirigible
assbot: Logged on 21-09-2014 16:28:55; asciilifeform:
mircea_popescu: what's he to do in argentina? teach the pampas cats and ocelots common lisp ?
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: the conjecture was based on an old thread re: naggum
assbot: Logged on 22-06-2015 14:33:29; asciilifeform: i can already picture
mircea_popescu's 'recipe': 'naggum should've moved to argentina' 'me: with what' 'mircea: with shirt on his back' 'me: doing what' 'mircea: sharpening knives while living in dumpster' 'me: betcha he knew this, and didn't care for it'
ascii_field: so when will
mircea_popescu be getting on the u.s. prison plane ?
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: we had elevators. which didn't work. fun on 15th floor
ascii_field re: yeast laugh: graps that
mircea_popescu is speaking the basic frustration of every polymath on planet 3 when confronting numbskulls
mod6: <+
mircea_popescu> something about the lock not being bsd or what was it << lol :D
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu might be a fan of the famous heinlein quote re: specialization ?
ascii_field: lucky then, that
mircea_popescu did not need a doctor.
ascii_field: likewise, when
mircea_popescu has occasion to visit a doctor, does he visit an 'obsolete' specialist, or just some fella who had a 'general sense of sanity' and decided, on a weekend lark, to open an anatomy book for an hour or two ?
ascii_field: then i ask
mircea_popescu, as best proof of this conjecture, to supply two people who know arse from elbow re: therealbitcoin from this pool
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: he was not ever, afaik, a puffer fish, either
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: do you presently have a system where the thing builds ?
assbot: Logged on 22-06-2015 07:30:48;
mircea_popescu: otherwise, they WILL scam you more than you scam them, and you end up with a hole in your gut. one should not visit the anthill unless one's either an anteater or equipped as one.
assbot: Logged on 22-06-2015 07:28:36;
mircea_popescu: he was an idiot for not understanding he is going into it, and for not acting accordingly, but most of all for misrepresenting the sordid state of affairs as a) civilised and b) a fact of life.
assbot: Logged on 22-06-2015 07:28:09;
mircea_popescu: naggum could not keep up WITH THIS. with the threadmill of sublimated violence that is the bezzle.
assbot: Logged on 22-06-2015 07:16:41;
mircea_popescu: what supply lines, are you fucking kidding me ? the orcs fought the war in borrowed pants.
assbot: Logged on 22-06-2015 06:05:32;
mircea_popescu: so what's the idea, "using the bus instead of owning a car is a killer security feature, because a) if someone wants to piss in your seat they don't know which seat you will take (you're of course still open to sitting in a pool of urine that nobody intended for you particularly) and if the ny dept of idiocy decides to make the seats smaller and affix dongs, you get smaller seats and a dong up your a
assbot: Logged on 22-06-2015 04:13:34; pete_dushenski:
mircea_popescu: nice job ? y'know i'm taller than that guy ;) though i can see the similarity
assbot: Logged on 09-06-2015 16:53:02;
mircea_popescu: ascii_field the problem of child-herding, so far unresolved, is that women care too much and men don't understand wtf is in the box.
ben_vulpes:
mircea_popescu: lemme know if i can answer anything for ya
mircea_popescu: <pete_dushenski> asciilifeform: i dunno torvalds well, but he doesn't seem to have 1/10
mircea_popescu's ambition << eh let's not exagerate, guy's been dealing with linux for two decades.
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: i dunno torvalds well, but he doesn't seem to have 1/10
mircea_popescu's ambition
assbot: Logged on 18-02-2015 16:36:33;
mircea_popescu: it's not so much a "i want those guys back" as it is "i want the situaiton where being 20 and into computers was more distinctive than any other thing - and you could spot a govt mole from a mile away"
pete_dushenski:
mircea_popescu: nice job ? y'know i'm taller than that guy ;) though i can see the similarity
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 22-06-2015 02:05:08;
mircea_popescu: chrome is seriously taking over the internets.
ben_vulpes:
mircea_popescu: sorry, unclear. scripts for crawling/pinging nodes.
cazalla:
mircea_popescu, but how many skinny girls have D+ cups? (natural not implants with a gap larger than my front fucking teeth)
cazalla:
mircea_popescu, i like em thick but maybe not that big (i'd still hit it)
ben_vulpes: <
mircea_popescu> "i thought i killed it a year ago!"
assbot: Logged on 21-06-2015 21:21:49;
mircea_popescu: ITS IN BOOST
assbot: Logged on 21-06-2015 01:43:37; asciilifeform: ben_vulpes, mod6,
mircea_popescu, et al: you now have homework. it being, to read & actually grok the sequence of 4 'dns thermonuke' patches.
williamdunne:
mircea_popescu: I know your policy on MPEX is only to support bitcoin denominated businesses, but whats your opinion on exchanges? IMO while fiat is involved, revenue is almost entirely pegged to bitcoin
williamdunne:
mircea_popescu: Hmm okay, makes sense. But in UK you have dividend tax which sucks
williamdunne:
mircea_popescu: how did you get 3% RO tax rate?
ben_vulpes:
mircea_popescu: it's a subtle kind of malevolence wherein needless complexity is all of a sudden necessary because of a subtle misunderstanding of the bedrock
mod6: <+
mircea_popescu> mod6 we've not yet put the entire that change in yet, apparently, because one per. << makes sense. just wanted to "voice" that concern.
mod6: <+
mircea_popescu> ben_vulpes would the foundation spin up an aws and run this ? << I can test this with my aws, sure. unless you guys are proposing something else i.e. spinning up our own ircd
ben_vulpes:
mircea_popescu: if you're willing to donate the cost, why not run it through the bitcoin host?
ben_vulpes: wouldn't be the foundation
mircea_popescu so much as my personal account
ben_vulpes: <
mircea_popescu> yes, it is better to be smart and active than it is to be stupid and active. << balanced against that "impotent activity"
assbot: Logged on 21-06-2015 00:20:25;
mircea_popescu: you recall, i traveled the polace by bus ? hung out with black dudes in the back of greyhounds ?
cazalla:
mircea_popescu, lol so is the contined "x is doing something interesting"
assbot: Logged on 29-08-2014 00:38:19;
mircea_popescu: "This should be reason enough for anyone to avoid taking up cudgels on behalf of either."
mircea_popescu: hence "<
mircea_popescu> yes well, the understandings of the crowd as to the justification of rules is made for the comprehension needs of the crowd, not for the expressive needs of the rules."