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mircea_popescu: it's a term of art.
mircea_popescu: ok
mircea_popescu: turns out it wasn't pointless!
mircea_popescu: disqus is nullrouted onthis system
mircea_popescu: i bet you we will have a major breakthrough in homomorphisms before we have one in quantum computing.
mircea_popescu: ha, fu, same principle.
mircea_popescu: unlikely cause BingoBoingo seems asleep
mircea_popescu: ok, so then you missed what github is.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves nouveau arte forestiere.
mircea_popescu: chipug what do you do for a living ?
mircea_popescu: "and then he said, I MUST EXPLAIN!!1" and I closed the pull request.
mircea_popescu: hire jerry springer.
mircea_popescu: they really should run drama contests, like a pageant.
mircea_popescu: i wonder what the best github drama to date was
mircea_popescu: owning a bitcoin simply means 1/12mn or w/e
mircea_popescu: that's... bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: all the problems of bitcoin, resolved!
mircea_popescu: "it's either that or we're bankrupt"
mircea_popescu: "for the good of the country everyone's gold must be confiscated"
mircea_popescu: palmer knows what he's doing.
mircea_popescu: lol
mircea_popescu: plz to tip him a doge.
mircea_popescu: herbijudlestoids waitwhat ?!
mircea_popescu: chipug they even allow brunettes in scotland ?
mircea_popescu: doge can has fractions ?!
mircea_popescu: see the topic eh ?
mircea_popescu: it's just... kids that grew up without any limits having psychological issues.
mircea_popescu: as if the total heat differential i nthe universe weren't ALSO fixed.
mircea_popescu: herbijudlestoids they really go over the deep end with this "fixed" bs.
mircea_popescu: there's no iq.
mircea_popescu: herbijudlestoids HOW do you adjust for average iq
mircea_popescu: bash.bitcoin-assets.com ye heretic
mircea_popescu: i swear the proportion of good to retarded quotes i read can not be explained away statistically.
mircea_popescu: there's a Department of Retarded Quotes somewhere, fucking shit up.
mircea_popescu: except vexual actually comes up with pretty good shit now and again
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform chetty is actually a girl too, the eulora chief of tech
mircea_popescu: haha i wouldn't say that,
mircea_popescu: i didn't even know girls were allowed here.
mircea_popescu: well good for you
mircea_popescu: wait, you're a chick ?
mircea_popescu: jborkl mining huh. that great timewaster.
mircea_popescu: found any good ones ?
mircea_popescu: lol
mircea_popescu: nttawwt.
mircea_popescu: herbijudlestoids you know like i was saying to diametric the other day, this article gets a lot of wordcount mileage out of the banal
mircea_popescu: hehe. took a break there for a few, did you ?
mircea_popescu: there you go ;)
mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2014/people-have-made-blogs/#comment-97937
mircea_popescu: hm, is it down ?
mircea_popescu: You tried to visit bcoinews.com, which is not loading.
mircea_popescu: i didn't. let's fix.
mircea_popescu: hey, did i get you on the blogs list ?
mircea_popescu: ah
mircea_popescu: jborkl which one you mean ?
mircea_popescu: this is inflationary thinking.
mircea_popescu: lmao
mircea_popescu: why not ?
mircea_popescu: well so good for you
mircea_popescu: but srsly. they're not that related.
mircea_popescu: at least within some margins...
mircea_popescu: i mean to some very general degree this'd perhaps be true...
mircea_popescu: nubbins` do you think on average bigger cars are faster ?
mircea_popescu: herbijudlestoids so invite him
mircea_popescu: ok, but this is a very naive approach
mircea_popescu: i mean wtf, how did you end up pinning the world on the currency ?
mircea_popescu: maybe the one yearly boat taking apples from d to h sunk that year
mircea_popescu: maybe derpland has a bumper apple crop and herpfields a shortage.
mircea_popescu: for that matter, how do you know it's the currency ?
mircea_popescu: why do you expect they do anything to any one apple ?
mircea_popescu: these are macro discussions
mircea_popescu: wait what ?!
mircea_popescu: nubbins` what's wrong with just saying "herpcoins has increased ppp and derpd's has decreased ppp ?"
mircea_popescu: as opposed to another ?
mircea_popescu: purchasing power in what sense ?
mircea_popescu: well you're reading business insider then
mircea_popescu: people say it all the time, but what of it.
mircea_popescu: prices aren't a reference point for inflation tho, this is like saying she's a good lay cause she's a redhead.
mircea_popescu: of the monetary base.
mircea_popescu: (perhaps in the cakes, i guess)
mircea_popescu: this does not mean there's been inflation in the currency
mircea_popescu: if tomorrow i invent a new way to make cakes, and cake prices drop 95%
mircea_popescu: inflation is a discussion of monetary base.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` inflation has nothing to do with price.
mircea_popescu: kay.
mircea_popescu: aha k.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` did you dyslexia there ?
mircea_popescu: but i'm still kinda clueless.
mircea_popescu: i've looked into it since mostly to try and understand wtf is with these people
mircea_popescu: believe it or not, my sum total interest for metals (precious and industrial) pre 2010 was pretty much nil.
mircea_popescu: now we see where you get your bad examples
mircea_popescu: oh.
mircea_popescu: what's a fofoa ?
mircea_popescu: just tip them to people.
mircea_popescu: Nadia_Comaneci du-te tu ?
mircea_popescu: in short, the medium of exchange function of the currency is a minor.
mircea_popescu: as long as you redeem them for btc... they're as good as anything
mircea_popescu: you can make vanity money with your face on them
mircea_popescu: what diff does it make.
mircea_popescu: right, sure. but some other scrip
mircea_popescu: i like going aboutg with a wad of cash. works fine.