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mircea_popescu: it's basically bitcoinica minus the relic hunting.
mircea_popescu: hey opc0d3 come back! we weren't done!@
mircea_popescu: ten minutes later they're gone. how's one supposed to have fun ;/
mircea_popescu: the one problem with these kids is... they have no endurance.
mircea_popescu: btw pankkake you're doing a very small amount of parroting over here! i thought we had a deal!
mircea_popescu: by the sort of idle, pointless virgins that'd be interested in such crap.
mircea_popescu: instead phthisic "women" captive in the bodies of little boys like all the various utopian facets of socialism get tons of idyllic literature fashioned
mircea_popescu: :p
mircea_popescu: because the sort of men she loved and loved her back were too busy doing to harp about it.
mircea_popescu: it's like this supermistress of most accomplished lures which goes wholly forgotten and ignored to the grave,
mircea_popescu: the sad thing of money is that nobody really wrote of it well.
mircea_popescu: seeing how its entire appeal is constructed by ceaseless repeating
mircea_popescu: dubious proposition.
mircea_popescu: no but seriously, much more of an economist than a philosopher, for instance.
mircea_popescu: lmao.
mircea_popescu: as what, a main course meal ?
mircea_popescu: i'm lucky i'm not the only person reading these logs, it turns out. anyway, we're in the process of arguing about it.
mircea_popescu: it somehow never occured to me, this.
mircea_popescu: so for all they know i could be making shit up.
mircea_popescu: while the opex system works great in every aspect as it is, the underwriter has no actual way to verify when they were executed in fact.
mircea_popescu: mike_c by the way, you do have a point.
mircea_popescu: an approach which actually would make your life better in every aspect.
mircea_popescu: opc0d3 you know you could save yourself a lot of embarassment by reviewing the logs for a few days before blindly jumping in.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` from what i hear you weren't alone
mircea_popescu: read moar.
mircea_popescu: opc0d3 dude, every mayfly in the book has said the exact same thing about me.
mircea_popescu: it's nowhere near today.
mircea_popescu: it was, in 2001. maybe 2005.
mircea_popescu: was.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` except a fictitious exchange with no volume could be just as well run off dreamweaver.
mircea_popescu: it wasn't steve ballmer was it.
mircea_popescu: opc0d3 where have you learned to win friends and influence people ?
mircea_popescu: this is progressing nicely.
mircea_popescu: opc0d3 you don't have what to think i'm full of shit with.
mircea_popescu: benkay you're just angry because he's stealing your wot share.
mircea_popescu: if nothing else, because there's little doubt and even less uncertainity involved.
mircea_popescu: and to clarify, opc0d3 , you don't get to come in after a coupla years and call established fact "fud" and "bs".
mircea_popescu: last one was about 3 months or so. magically, his position was executed 10% under market.
mircea_popescu: benkay the article quoted, and there's periodic such reports on bitcointalk
mircea_popescu: dude.
mircea_popescu: unregulated markets have various advantages, among which the existence of such idiocy.
mircea_popescu: and again and again.
mircea_popescu: then they hire some five cent an hour muppets and are again alll sucess and bigger and bigger.
mircea_popescu: then they magically don't have the dough to pay the winners, and go into a cone of darkness for a half year
mircea_popescu: they get bigger and bigger each year.
mircea_popescu: the difference is that mpex uses actual figures, rather than running this thinly veiled scam you do.
mircea_popescu: opc0d3 mpex had months over 1mn btc nominal.
mircea_popescu: i love it when 4 month old muppets imagine their short lifespan compensates for 2year+ history.
mircea_popescu: sigh.
mircea_popescu: opc0d3 don't be an idiot. that article is older than your involvement in "finance".
mircea_popescu: you can't get another number four.
mircea_popescu: i suppose the entire "bitcoin is fiat" argument fails to comprehend that the only true scarcity is mathematical in nature.
mircea_popescu: start there.
mircea_popescu: opc0d3 http://trilema.com/2012/icbitse-the-bucket-shop/
mircea_popescu: da fuck is "bitcoin is fiat currency" supposed to mean ?
mircea_popescu: mebbe there's more to it ?
mircea_popescu: what you've said so far
mircea_popescu: so far.
mircea_popescu: like better masking for the impact of power.
mircea_popescu: burn the heretical unbeliever!
mircea_popescu: i been tryin to tell him
mircea_popescu: 3 is wholly insufficient.
mircea_popescu: ;;google 7 proxies
mircea_popescu: as enacted by trilema.
mircea_popescu: think about it : the first of your productions to be art,
mircea_popescu: actually i think it wasn't bad.
mircea_popescu: now you know how i feel.
mircea_popescu: jhahaha
mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2013/you-want-to-see-reactionary-ill-show-you-reactionary/
mircea_popescu: just in time!
mircea_popescu: gotta ask putin.
mircea_popescu: here you go.
mircea_popescu: ima add it to the article
mircea_popescu: cool, go for it!
mircea_popescu: wait till i publish it :)
mircea_popescu: bukkake like
mircea_popescu: whether you get some others to do the same in your general proximity is irrelevant, everyone's still doing it by himself.
mircea_popescu: if you wish to wallow in nonsense you're stuck doing it by yourself
mircea_popescu: lol no, you can't "Discuss" nonsense. to discuss a topic you have to renounce nonsense.
mircea_popescu: so if you don't really wish to discuss art, why are you ?
mircea_popescu: art is art. you disagree, you may be punished by your lord. end of story.
mircea_popescu: there can be no such debate.
mircea_popescu: any conclusion is available to the inconsistent set of premises.
mircea_popescu: well the advantage of holding nonsense views (which utopianisms are by definiton) is that anything can be derived from them.
mircea_popescu: if you insist to hold the utopian view.
mircea_popescu: if the shipwreck survivor found is a noble or a peasant, not if he owns a lot of farms and what havd you
mircea_popescu: audience has nothing to do with it. this is wholly a medieval-inspired problem of probatory.
mircea_popescu: it only matters once it becomes "an old da vinci has been discovered"
mircea_popescu: nobody goes "i found a 500 year old kinda cool painting"
mircea_popescu: think of an old painting being discovered in a stahs. what is the question first and foremost asked ? is it something as to the paionting itself or is it as to the pedigree of the owner ?
mircea_popescu: it exists in the sense of masturbation, or w/e the author does in his privacy.
mircea_popescu: but this sort of drawer novel, as it was known, doesn't exist in the sense of art.
mircea_popescu: you just put it on etsy ?
mircea_popescu: ah, and "art" is free,
mircea_popescu: that's it right there. i'm the guy who sez.
mircea_popescu: "so what's this idea ?" "it's nothing" "Then why am I watching it ?" "because it's on tv" "not yet."
mircea_popescu: you know that seinfeld episode when george is pitching to the network nubbins ?
mircea_popescu: the curse of this particular equalitarian-nominalism ogre is that it can't really make stateemnts.
mircea_popescu: lol.
mircea_popescu: i've shown the approach not to really work, we can move on