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mircea_popescu: So FreeBSD which isn't associated with malcoins per se and is used in the PS4 vs. OpenBSD which is now smeared and tainted with btc's. Hmm, let me think:"
mircea_popescu: "In other words, a Romanian gypsy stepped in. Except gypsies quite smart really and trade in actual resources, so bitcoins would be beneath gypsies.
mircea_popescu: well i can, but that was in protestation to some guy losing it.
mircea_popescu: "The point is, there are no BUYERS. It will not happen. No one is going to pay $20k of REAL money for bitcoins."
mircea_popescu: ask the guy. inquiring ex-billionaire, currently entrepreneurial minds wish to know
mircea_popescu: did insanikatz manage to get himself into the lol-of-slashdot too, after being the lol-of-retardstalk ?
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo "I'm sure you'll fit in here just fine. Has anyone told you what happened to John Katz yet? Oh, yeah. We Don't Talk About That." um ?
mircea_popescu: ideal management is perhaps making battleships out of old ramen and spare cat hair
mircea_popescu: the fact that anything costs some money is a poor explanation for anything needing some money ?
mircea_popescu: "That sort of an electrical bill is a crap explanation in my opinion to support the development and deployment of OpenBSD developers and users.
mircea_popescu: herbijudlestoids contrary to what people thing, btc is very much the result of the aggregated thoughts of people. machines are abjectly voiceless.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo ahh, the lulzy days of a few years ago when people were importantly droning about how "you can't buy stuff!11"
mircea_popescu: what drives teh btc price in fiats ? ppl trying to get on mpex.
mircea_popescu: (and fail more or less miserably, painfully and expensively down the road)
mircea_popescu: you may be the first to actually tell me it rather than try anyway
mircea_popescu: herbijudlestoids you might not believe this, but you're by no means the first person in your situation
mircea_popescu: (i also choose to believe that the secret to both is to just not be doing it)
mircea_popescu: another good title, of course, would have been "openbsd gets 2/3 of a mpex account"
mircea_popescu: um notrly ? i just asked how to get in touch with teh ppl, someone gave me an email
mircea_popescu: interesting how news breaks here way before all teh other journos get a whiff of it.
mircea_popescu: and it pleases me to announce openbsd got itself sponsored.
mircea_popescu: little of this, little of that... sitting here talking to you...
mircea_popescu: just how ragingly uncultivated does one to be to be these days
mircea_popescu: there's 3-4 blocks within ten minutes, then half hour off, then again
mircea_popescu: (timisoara is teh first town in teh world to use electric lighting btw)
mircea_popescu: some haven't burned out/been broken in the more rural parts
mircea_popescu: incidentally, the idea with led lighting is to go for spots i think
mircea_popescu: "currently coal burning means x mercury released in atmosphere per hour. we take that x and split it : 40% goes to atmosphere, 60% goes to your own house. but we're only gonna talk ofg the 40%"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> the CFL thing is cynical bastards knowing exactly what they're doing, rather than mere ineptitude. << verily.
mircea_popescu: Jan 19 22:16:32 <mircea_popescu>how would i go about that ?
mircea_popescu: Jan 19 22:16:24 <woopstar>mircea_popescu: you need to contact Theo
mircea_popescu: Jan 19 22:14:04 <mircea_popescu>soo, who has the authority to make a deal so I can cover the 20k shortfall ?
mircea_popescu: so far we're at **** BEGIN LOGGING AT Sun Jan 19 22:13:01 2014