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pete_dushenski: or better yet, 'civil gentlemen who don't do
things like betting'
mircea_popescu: punkman so i guess now we find out
that "those were fictive" ^H^H^H^H^H^H ppls really believe in
teh
technologee.
pete_dushenski: so anyone crazy enough
to have plunked down 150 btc on ethereum's pre-sale would
take home ~1`100 btc + whatever chunk of
the bitbet
they so desired before closing it out
assbot: Logged on 23-09-2015 13:54:22; punkman: was just looking at poloniex. you could sell ~300k eth
to hit 0.1 now (and you'd
take home ~1100 btc)
mircea_popescu: and
this is not (one of
the)
tor deanonymization
tricks.
assbot: Logged on 23-09-2015 01:36:58; asciilifeform: also usg giveth, usg
taketh away. a 'pharma ceo' has so much as one cent purely by
the good graces of hitler - who helpfully keeps penny-a-pill indian generics mostly out of u.s. market
mircea_popescu: yes, were
that
to be
the case it would easy
to be confused.
mircea_popescu: anyway. it just amused me as a case of "bug shaped man confused
that
the future doesn't seem
to belong
to him."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform one of
the people killed in my recent drawing.
shinohai: I am seeing a correlation here
though. You are practically giving away btc
to artists
that are doing it anyway, but most are
too lazy
to open a webchat and come
to irc.
shinohai: I'd put it in coinbr, but I didn't know of
this place in 2013
shinohai: Think what could have happened for a few of
them with just a little research. Mighta found a way
to invest said bitcoin into many
times
that by now :/
mircea_popescu: it would seem
the "popular mechanics" interpretation of
the internet in
the common mind (which is what everyone no matter how brilliant in selected fields reverts
to anwyay, in a process we call "the memory hole effect") is something like "the internet is an implementation of god - and a god
that cares at
that".
shinohai: 1 whole BTC yet,
thats pretty generous
shinohai: I've never seen strippers
turn down *free fucking money* mircea_popescu
punkman: was just looking at poloniex. you could sell ~300k eth
to hit 0.1 now (and you'd
take home ~1100 btc)
☟︎ shinohai: "Who knew giving away stuff
to strippers is going
to
turn into some sort of criminal case, seriously now." <<< Love hanbot
shinohai: Still
the same, casting a lot but no bites :/
assbot: All
the 'Happy Birthday' song copyright claims are invalid, federal judge rules - LA
Times ... (
http://bit.ly/1V9gfKg )
gribble: Bitfinex BTCUSD
ticker | Best bid: 230.45, Best ask: 230.59, Bid-ask spread: 0.14000, Last
trade: 230.4, 24 hour volume: 13586.41889803, 24 hour low: 225.9, 24 hour high: 233.95, 24 hour vwap: None
mircea_popescu: mkay, /me has had enough of
this poorly sourcing of material. srsly, buncha quotes
to
tardipedia ? none
to actual source material ? mmmkay.
mircea_popescu: "Getting
the Good Authority In
the old days, competition kept Authorities in line. For example, in
The Merchant of Venice, Shylock is
trying
to get a contract enforced by an Authority:" << heh, look at
that.
assbot: The woes of Altcoin, or why
there is no such
thing as "cryptocurrencies" on
Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... (
http://bit.ly/1j8LgNl )
mircea_popescu: "Ultimately, as Bitcoin
takes over
the internet, all non-Bitcoin projects (of any kind) will be
treated with
the ridicule afforded a US resident who
tries
to pay for his milk with Japanese yen. Eventually, interest in using a non-Bitcoin will fall
to zero. Altcoins, even somehow-useful ones, don’t have a future." << and
the proper link for
this is, of course,
http://trilema.com/2014/the-woes-of-altcoin-or-why-there-i mircea_popescu: anyway,
the amusing
thing if one actually reads
the above linked
thing is
that
the proponent of
truthcoin objects
that ethereum bets won't work because
they're not bitbet. which is a correct point, but leaves him in
the lurch.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: as
to liquidity, hot damn if i don't see it now. only 6 hours into
this yom kippur fast and i'm always
too slow.
mircea_popescu: what if hollywood never existed altogether and i wouldn't have
to explain
to sane people from
the future why
the fuck exactly is it
that every woman in every film has a permanently affixed bedspread righ above her
tits for some reason ?
mircea_popescu: what of all good films
that never happened because
that shit existed, and who pays for
the damage britney spears did
to music ?
mircea_popescu: what if we don't fucking want
to buy bullshit lucas crap at any price, and what if we would gladly pay for
that crap
to not even have
the possibiklity
to exist ?
mircea_popescu: similarly, all sorts of derps on "bitfinex" and assorted scum are currently booking imaginary bitcoins
they "will get in
the future". except
they don't, but
their losses aren't of bitcoin,
they're losses of "bitcoin",
mircea_popescu: and
the "MtGox-failure, a failure
that itself resulted in
the loss of 6% of
the circulating Bitcoin money supply." verbiage is particularly ill advised.
the bitcoin mtgox lost never circulated for
the most part, in
that
they were imaginary.
mircea_popescu: ;;later
tell psztorc "BetsOfBitcoin Also old, yet closed Mysteriously. Funds stolen or missing. " << nothing mysterious about it. back in 2012 inaba was pushing
the bfl scam, had a deal with
the various "bet site operators"
to allow bets on bfl delivery and
then anull if it doesn't deliver. betsofbitcoin went for it, got called out for it, was dead after
that.
https://bitbet.us/bet/7/bfl-will-deliver-asic-devices-befor pete_dushenski: who knew
that canada was
the cultural mecca of
the americas ?
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski> and even after
that
they're unlikely
to lead a project << maybe we'll allow your argument re civilised places. but in
the us specifically, none of
the stuff you discuss ever happens.
cazalla: totally
to be expected as well, which is probably why
they did it
to begin with
cazalla: pete_dushenski, nope but
that is lulzy
pete_dushenski: it's an old, hierarchical industry. architecture moves incredibly slowly. and quite rightly so as its products ~have~
to last decades, if not centuries.
psztorc: Well,
this has been fun but it is getting
to be past my bedtime.
pete_dushenski: and even after
that
they're unlikely
to lead a project
pete_dushenski: without understanding
the way buildings are,
there's really no architecture.
pete_dushenski: 'modernisations', 'reskinning', and other forms of revamping
that rely on
the existing bones of a building are what keep cities alive and allow neighbourhoods
to go
through multiple phases of waxing and waning
pete_dushenski: ultimately, architecture
takes place in and around other architecture
pete_dushenski: architecture is as far more about existing buildings,
topographies, and spaces as 'the new stuff'
pete_dushenski: in alberta, sure,
this is often
the case, but
this is
the overwhelming exception
assbot: Logged on 22-09-2015 13:57:38; mircea_popescu: (which happens
to be
true, architects know a lot about how buildings may be, and for
this reason nothing about buildings
that are)
pete_dushenski: psztorc: btw, even 'lines' change y'know. so... not static. so...
time for a new definition !
mircea_popescu: "For millennia,
there was suffering and misery. Can you imagine a world without music, or eyeglasses, or DayQuil?" << wut is dayquil ?
pete_dushenski: mebbe psztorc is american and is used
to 'betting lines' ?
psztorc: Stole from me and in
the process of being poisoned.
psztorc: Yeah, I couldn't convince
that guy
that markets aren't gambling.