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decimation:
mircea_popescu: the reaction to bitcoin (by non-bitcoin holders) seems to fall into two camps: 1 - bitcoin sucks because I don't have any or 2. bitcoin sucks so I need to steal some
decimation:
mircea_popescu: maybe this ken guy knows mr. flood
assbot: Logged on 25-11-2014 04:00:03;
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if the rats set fire to the lab, what'd you expect they'd burn ? the cages or the files ?
decimation:
mircea_popescu: "all through 2015 we will be seeing a shitton of 50-somethings with so-so credentrials going all weirdo on bitcoin." << no they just realize that bitcoin == no free money for 'retirement'
☟︎ adlai: this is like me asking
mircea_popescu whether the reason that he talks so much about bitcoin is that he actually owns some himself
cazalla: unless perhaps trained in the
mircea_popescu school of disarming police officers
LURKERSGTFO:
mircea_popescu: yes i would like to share something
assbot: Logged on 14-11-2014 22:31:04;
mircea_popescu: can this be like, our god ?
Azelphur:
mircea_popescu: I'm British remember, our police don't suck.
Azelphur:
mircea_popescu: now now, maybe he lives in detroit.
bagels7: [07:53] <+
mircea_popescu> didja get 600 cc boob implants ? << No, it;s not in the plans
assbot: Logged on 26-11-2014 12:39:24;
mircea_popescu: adlai in romania it was outlawed because littering.
adlai:
mircea_popescu: freedom of "speech"... does this include the right to spend incredible wealth subsidizing propaganda rags that are killing the an already-dying business? (dead tree newspapers)
adlai:
mircea_popescu: well then, time to get serious, and demand of your personal media megaphone that it host denser content than mere snarky commentary :)
ben_vulpes:
mircea_popescu: well where are yours then?
ben_vulpes:
mircea_popescu: ah shit that was the am link
assbot: Logged on 03-07-2013 19:32:03;
mircea_popescu: the jig is up!
supay: thanks
mircea_popescu :)
fluffypony:
mircea_popescu: because the help is cheap :-P
ben_vulpes: <
mircea_popescu> (moreover my point was that growing shit is taking care of the small problem, most of your energetic needs aren't "what to eat") << so seaweed in giant nets?
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: How is it fail. They do porn. You get off. They try not porn at all, you recover, and then they do porn again.
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: I mean Betamax has more porn with white girls who want to do pron.
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: But the best videos are on Betamax
kakobrekla:
mircea_popescu it just has to do with the fact they are very over provisioned
punkman:
mircea_popescu: not really
punkman:
mircea_popescu: well someone could further inspect the supposedly "hacked" instance, can keep using that
ben_vulpes:
mircea_popescu lol shooting from the hip
punkman:
mircea_popescu: well the b/w logs etc supported the theory
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: Some spam asperzing site that wants to be BTC news is hosting "awards"
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: There's a utility to this though. There's a reason why men range counter tenor to contra bass and yet castrati are something else
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: Today cazalla found so many new incoming links from... actual other news sites
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: My take on it is if you connect to enough nodes, you can probably tell which one prodcasted a transaction first, sometimes.
cazalla:
mircea_popescu, yes but i would prefer that random value be on the lower side either tmw or after black friday
mircea_popescu: <undata>
mircea_popescu: I have no philosophical objection to burning gas <<< sure, but if you're on a barge you can't conceivably drill for oil. so ethanol's left.
ben_vulpes: <
mircea_popescu> <cazalla> bagels7: the beatings were way worse than any bdsm "master" i had <<< lol same << lol wait, bagels7 is into bdsm ? << the funny thing here is that *cazalla* is XD
ben_vulpes: <
mircea_popescu> and im pretty sure isis is the first place with a serenissima embassy, for that matter. << this exists in point of fact?
undata:
mircea_popescu: I have no philosophical objection to burning gas
decimation:
mircea_popescu: as to our conversation a few days ago about what King Louis XVI could have done about the socialist uprising, perhaps one answer is that actual people everywhere have an interest in damping the enthusiasm of this kind of mob
undata: asciilifeform:
mircea_popescu: I don't know, we'll see
Vexual:
mircea_popescu: If this was planes landing fast in gotham, I could understand the excitement
undata:
mircea_popescu: "now now now I know this is a complex and divisive issue..."
decimation:
mircea_popescu: generally only in retrospect
decimation:
mircea_popescu: yeah, generally people tend to appreciate people who upset their worldview
decimation:
mircea_popescu: yeah the rediculous helicopters are amusing
decimation:
mircea_popescu: that's 'fraternization'
decimation:
mircea_popescu: except legally those actions were 'not corrupt'
decimation:
mircea_popescu: I agree with you. one of the downfalls of the us is the large standing army of volunteers
thestringpuller:
mircea_popescu: i thought flies spawned and didn't actually fuck
decimation: but the point is the weakness isn't the crypto, it's probably all the other stuff
mircea_popescu + that paper mentioned
decimation:
mircea_popescu apparently has pill for aes
BingoBoingo: Maybe its recreational
mircea_popescu "disaster tourism"
decimation:
mircea_popescu: I've been trying to model a long distance version
bagels7:
mircea_popescu: It seems comon for agencies to take half
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: Well none of them think that. At least not the ones who go police. Because Hollywood and stuff.
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: And of course the last thing they might be considering is the outcome where the police lose.
bagels7:
mircea_popescu: what specifically
bagels7:
mircea_popescu: I started making shapes to originally deal with depression in the first place and originally i was just making drawings
undata:
mircea_popescu: er um, words. she said certain words that are apparently very dangerous
undata:
mircea_popescu: why is no one embarassed by this kind of thing?
cazalla:
mircea_popescu, cause i need another woman that can't cook or clean?
cazalla: <
mircea_popescu> cazalla well they prolly have a point <<< not that it matters at this point
bagels7: [18:30] <+
mircea_popescu> bagels7 so what do you do for a living anyway << I hardly make a living, I depend on people
cazalla:
mircea_popescu, what is that, a biscuit or something?
undata:
mircea_popescu: seems like poverty's the best option
undata:
mircea_popescu: at its self-licking task of chewing up the population