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chetty: <trinque>
mircea_popescu: do you know how long it takes to get the perfect ass crease in an office chair?!// longer than modern ones last
trinque:
mircea_popescu: do you know how long it takes to get the perfect ass crease in an office chair?!
assbot: Logged on 12-03-2015 17:15:40; asciilifeform:
mircea_popescu: 'unlike anywhere in the civilised world, the Argentines rent unfurnished.' << wai wat?! most rental pads where i live are unfurnished - just the way i like it (wtf to do with the incl. furniture if you have your own?)
assbot: Logged on 12-03-2015 17:10:37; asciilifeform:
mircea_popescu: 'Why would a property in a peso land be worth dollars ? Oh, because the peso is shit, they readily explain to you. Well, if the peso is shit, why do you imagine your real estate is worth anything at all ? ' << because if it were 10 usd, a beggar from calcutta would buy it and live in it; if it were 10K usd, i'd buy it; if it were 100K usd, american speculator corps. would buy it. so it
Aquent:
mircea_popescu if you did win the auction how much would have you paid per btc?
Aquent: did you buy 27k btc from the marshals
mircea_popescu ?
assbot: Logged on 11-03-2015 01:56:57; asciilifeform:
mircea_popescu: i still fucking hate that piece. the sheer mendacity of rich hickey in saying 'simplicity matters' while crapping all over lisp concept
mod6: <+
mircea_popescu> mod6: im glad we're all trying this now. << kinda the advantage of doing stuff here. << true enough :]
decimation:
mircea_popescu: it's common in the us for a usg employee to regard himself as 'apolitical' because he wasn't elected
decimation:
mircea_popescu: of course the french philosophes pretty much founded the 'revolutionary intellectual' archetype
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: separate problem is that, typically, none of these machines had decent battery run even when the cells were new...
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: i've bought 5 types or so, all crud
trinque:
mircea_popescu: LOL, that'll teach me to discuss my dreams here
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: you can get chinese replicas of any battery in large bulk << raw cells - yes. the charge controller, with its parameter rom calibrated to those cells for correct discharge curve - no.
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: bezzlacademia's hooked up and at full revv now
assbot: Logged on 11-03-2015 16:38:37; wangxinxi:
mircea_popescu it’s possible to hedge. but it seems not very liquid. so it’s a bit difficult in practice.
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: My bad :( fluffypony: Nope
wangxinxi:
mircea_popescu it’s possible to hedge. but it seems not very liquid. so it’s a bit difficult in practice.
☟︎ wangxinxi:
mircea_popescu that could be a good idea. can we calculate the delta of such a bet?
thestringpuller:
mircea_popescu: LOL. And you once said "Bitbet is just a toy"
wangxinxi:
mircea_popescu I don’t know. But can we relate it with volatility?
wangxinxi:
mircea_popescu that seems not an option. But it’s definitely quite exciting.
wangxinxi:
mircea_popescu: I don’t see that danielpbarron asked for binary options.
assbot: Logged on 06-02-2015 03:09:05;
mircea_popescu: "What is Social Security Number (SSN) Randomization? The project is a forward looking initiative of the Social Security Administration (SSA) to help protect the integrity of the SSN by establishing a new randomized assignment methodology. SSN Randomization will also extend the longevity of the nine-digit SSN nationwide."
xinxi:
mircea_popescu: you need to price a binary option before you buy or sell.
trinque:
mircea_popescu: is a bad idea?
trinque:
mircea_popescu: cazalla: you guys just tried to add a rando text file with a hash in it
dignork:
mircea_popescu: what is dx.com / << chinese online shop with cheap electrnic garbage, very popular in RU
nubbins`:
mircea_popescu i'd imagine there's just as many people using the phrase "long pig"
nubbins`:
mircea_popescu if not, they've posted WAY too many pictures of them
nubbins`:
mircea_popescu the only thing they have actual pictures of
nubbins`:
mircea_popescu the famous tokyo fish auctions have $2mn+ tunas being sold on the regular
assbot: Logged on 11-03-2015 03:33:45;
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron and actually, since im in a great mood : you get 100 bucks worth of bitcoin bet on any bitbet of your choice, lemme know what you want.
assbot: Logged on 11-03-2015 02:03:19;
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell gavinandresen
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-03-2015#1047857 << check it out, the shithead lies about imaginary consensus in december, then "is working" on building the consensus he lied about having, in march. get lost, fucksticks. your gig is up.
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: Been a while since you've seen an American built house...
assbot: Logged on 11-03-2015 00:12:42; cazalla: TIL danielpbarron is
mircea_popescu mod6: <+
mircea_popescu> now if ben_vulpes an' mod6 get this show off the ground, it'll be reheheheally fascinating in short order. << just wrapping up the regression of the static binary:
http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=ny9m6Q3R and after this, we just need to bundle up this thing and sign patches & tar ball. gettin close!
assbot: Logged on 11-03-2015 00:12:42; cazalla: TIL danielpbarron is
mircea_popescu assbot: Logged on 30-01-2015 05:51:36;
mircea_popescu: which is why i am not ever giving it up. the freedom to threaten is not merely my fundamental, unassailable sovereign property, but moreover essential for the construction of effectual instruments to squash the socialists and their golums.
assbot: Logged on 30-01-2015 05:49:56;
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: if you were planning to kill someone, would you helpfully tell him first ? << that's not the point. in a normal society, the threat is a fundamental tool to hierarchy building.
trinque:
mircea_popescu: yeh, in sqlite it's all still broken into parts; I might be able to hax that tonight
davout:
mircea_popescu: no worries, just poking at you
davout:
mircea_popescu: i noticed the decimals thing on mike_c's quote as well :)
davout:
mircea_popescu: ty for the quote
cazalla: ;;later tell
mircea_popescu lucy, u got some 'splain' to do!
assbot: Logged on 10-03-2015 00:04:10;
mircea_popescu: i can accept that SOME PEOPLE actually need their monitor to graphics. so make a gamestation. otherwise, we're fucking literate, we're not women, nothing beats text. ever.
davout: ;;later tell
mircea_popescu hory shet, i was just thinking about this, how every single bitcoin noob and nigger displays this particular feature, he has "found a problem", and "wants to fix it"