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kakobrekla: in
the words of Blake, "just lucky, i guess".
☟︎ punkman: ebay is not
that different
to amazon
these days
kakobrekla: last
time i had a dispute solved by paypal, i was overcompensated.
ascii_field: in
that
THERE IS NO ALT-PAYPAL because
THERE IS NO ALT-EBAY
ascii_field: this is actually
tangentially related
to
the market
thing earlier with ben_vulpes
ascii_field: phun phakt: in recent year or so, 'paypal' will simply sit on a
transaction for
three weeks, collecting interest from
the money.
☟︎ ascii_field: ben_vulpes gets oil for frying pan at
the farmer market ?
ben_vulpes: leastaways
that was a complaint i heard from you once.
ben_vulpes: there are enough reasonable sane people here
to make farmers markets within walking distance of my house 4/7 days of
the week financially viable.
ascii_field: wai wat - ben_vulpes does not see
this segmentation where he lives ?
assbot: Logged on 03-09-2015 02:43:53; asciilifeform:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-09-2015#1260662 << actually
this is
the one place where
the clean hand of marketronics seems
to me most apparent. reasonable sane people are not numerous enough here
to be a market segment even
to sell a paper clip.
assbot: Logged on 03-09-2015 01:37:31; asciilifeform:
the other interesting
thing is
that
the market is segmented in such a way
that anyone who doesn't want mcfood ends up paying for ~all~
the alt-crackpotteries, not merely
the logical ones
assbot: Logged on 03-09-2015 01:14:22; *:
trinque had unpasteurized milk recently;
there's a good farm for it nearby
BingoBoingo: jurov: I don't know exactly, but Maybe
the server is cranky?
BingoBoingo: <jurov> but mpex order/trade matching is hairy, errors are likely
to snowball << Maybe it is because MPEx skipped its summer vacation
this year?
assbot: Logged on 03-09-2015 16:26:26; mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-09-2015#1261457 << a) everywhere. literally. how dumbfucked usians are needs no further proof
than
this simple fact. you derps put up with charge for INCOMING, srsly ? heh. b) i have like a dozen+. disposable cellphone ftw.
mircea_popescu: and "potential new users" are going
to "leave ship". << lol davout
mircea_popescu: anyway,
the only good
thing coming out of
that parade (an event imbecile "world leaders" are not going
to - and should be hanged by
their constituencies for not having attended, if
those constituencies weren't made up of retards) is
that xi specifically mentioned discrimination as bad.
this is an improbable stance for china.
mircea_popescu: (this is also why socialism is so keen in inventing imaginary enemies.
the drain on resources faux "wars" with imagined boogaboos impose is bad, but not
terminal.
the advantage of an enemy
that can never actually come in and defeat you, for lack of existence, is unparalleled. and so it goes.)
mircea_popescu: or for
that matter
the numerous setbacks and defeats of
the us rebel army up
to and including valleyforge.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile if
the country is run by fit men, defeat only strengthens
the resolve. a fine example are
the early roman republican defeats, which merely served
to raise more army behind
the senate,
mircea_popescu: socialism doesn't
take defeat well
the same way crappy software doesn't
take failure well.
mircea_popescu: exactly
the same is
the situation in politics, which are
throughout software. if
the country is run by unfit men, which is
the very definition of socialism,
the fundamentals are ipso facto rotten. everyone knows
they are rotten.
the only reason
things carry on is because "well, it works", ie, it hasn't crashed yet. once it crashes,
that's it, off
to
the scrap heap.
mircea_popescu: thus a is a "minor bug" and b is a "we have
to refactor".
assbot: Logged on 20-08-2015 01:15:46; mircea_popescu: and it would seem
the us is all glass. much like hitler's socialist regime, or stalin's socialist regime,
the us socialism can not really
take defeat well. either
they
turn it around or
they go under,
there's no "occupied france" going on.
assbot: Logged on 03-09-2015 14:25:01; asciilifeform: where, exactly, can you get phone
that doesn't charge for incoming ?
fluffypony: the extraordinary joe, on
the other hand
mircea_popescu: "Will
there ever be a point in
time where bitcoin will be so easy
to use
that it won't be intimidating for
the average Joe?"
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller plox
to not import multiple versions of
the same stupid into ba
thx
assbot: Logged on 03-09-2015 11:35:05; shinohai: My "hacks" were mostly
to wiring and such. My mother, in her nasally Jewish voice, always swore I was going
to "burn myself alive in my car"
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller more or less in
the manner picostocks still exists.
mircea_popescu: Suppressing U.S.-mandated seat-belt warning
tone << holy shit
that rules.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller infinity, who would want
to use a private stock exchange
that has a proven
track record of everything.
mircea_popescu: "Features
that make CockroachDB unstoppable What a database needs in 2015" << fuck
that nonsense, what's
the year got
to do with anything.
mircea_popescu: "The fact is
that
the economic growth we had in
the last quarter was in line with expectations. Of course it bounces around from quarter
to quarter but it was in line with our overarching expectation." <<< bwahaha who is
this ignorant
twerp. he looks like an indigent and speaks like an indigent,
too!
assbot: Logged on 03-09-2015 10:59:18; pete_dushenski: "The reason was some of
the softest air currents in 40 years, cutting power sales from wind farms
to utilities"
trinque: thestringpuller:
there were a number of sensible
things in
the Confederate constitution as well
trinque: thestringpuller: because I want
Texas
to secede :)
trinque: I want
to put
that and
the
Texan flag in each back window of my station wagon on
the way home
davout: thestringpuller: "while i sleep" is
the important
tidbit
trinque: yeah but like, how is bitcoin going
to give me free college and corn products?
davout: reddit:
the place where philippinos vote-cancel other philippinos
thestringpuller: i should just create 500 reddit-bot accounts
to upvote our shit
assbot: Logged on 20-08-2015 01:13:47; mircea_popescu:
trinque>china for example builds its *first* aircraft carrier, and people
talk about
the chinese being a military
threat <<< you don't understand how
this works.
the aircraft carrier is irrelevant. china bet on
the winning strat (missile defense) and bet a lot more
than
the us can afford, and as a result now has unchallangeable area denial ability
throughout
the shores.
this means it can pursue its
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: I
thought
that bend was for when wife loses engagement ring while doing dishes...
davout: thestringpuller: bigger pipers == more
throughput for smell
to come back up
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: i'd rather have bigger pipes
to flush my shit down rather
than
the shit move away from my house faster.
davout: punkman:
then you have
the problems
that go with a new number
punkman: but no reason
to roam when you can buy another sim at
the airport when you land
punkman: I haven't been
to any eu countries
that charge for incoming calls/sms
assbot: Logged on 16-09-2014 13:47:32; mircea_popescu:
to me
too. and i got a 100 pesos samsung dumbphone. it's light, i couldn't care less if someone steals it.
assbot: Logged on 03-09-2015 07:06:40; *: mircea_popescu has just learned
that one can't in point of fact get a phone plan in
the us
that doesn't charge FOR INCOMING CALLS
jurov: thestringpuller: it goes like rm -rf /, set on fire, salt
the earth
shinohai: tbh I would need a
ton of research
to know where
to begin.
jurov: now you mean what?
the mermaid?
pete_dushenski: i should clarify
that 'well designed' means 'attractively designed' in
this instance. i nfi about
the hairball backend.
jurov: but mpex order/trade matching is hairy, errors are likely
to snowball
shinohai needs
to make
time
to investigate jurov 's site when it is back up.
pete_dushenski: jurov: hm. well,
thanks for
the update. mighta cost us a few shekels but nothing life changing. life goes on.
jurov: but really, my brain had meltdown
trying
to reconstruct what went down on mpex order book in
that
time :(
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pete_dushenski: whereas f1 only really works on
tv and nascar only works live