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asciilifeform: i dunno that i've ever lived ~outside~ of such a thing, mircea_popescu
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the thing you witnessed in mass.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: how did the 'trying to exclude' work ?
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asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: dunno, here we have some mind-bogglingly bovine rich, and pretty clever poverty..?
asciilifeform: and mircea_popescu will still repeat that 'money is brain' or what.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: this implies you have one or more of'em in service ?!
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: box is worth maaaaybe 100 (minus the ssd, which is modern and cost 4x that)
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: ever have crapple 'a1181' lappy? i just swapped out hv (lamp) cable on one, for 2nd time in 7 yrs, what a piece of rubbish
phf: mircea_popescu: link to atkinson review?
BingoBoingo: lol https://github.com/bitbet/tools https://archive.is/r2W6q https://archive.is/r2W6q << attn pete_dushenski et al
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes hence the quotes.
thestringpuller: more ver-ified lulz: https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/4xj6uw/bitcoin_previously_had_all_the_properties_that/d6fw4ns ☟︎
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Well, history is its own asset class.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> kinda got nixed ; but if there's an artist in audience, mebbe i can get bb to reconsider. << Would also break Qntra's branding history. Perhaps if someone wanted to start an "Online Culture Magazine" it may have a place in the header of that as per http://trilema.com/the-boy-blog-network
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: try compress the gif, it takes eons to load
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'cleaving' did not start, and won't end, with asciilifeform , or even with engineers, folks cleaved dry from green wood to burn in fire, and tasty from rotten parts of mammonth, etc. and will cleave in future.
asciilifeform: and mircea_popescu , what, throws it in the air, the gurlz catch ?
asciilifeform: it will likely surprise no one if mircea_popescu tells also that he has never tied own shoes with own hands.
asciilifeform: incidentally, mircea_popescu's article with the 'brujula' (compass), i could not help but wonder, is this same root as 'bruja' (witch) ?
a111: Logged on 2016-08-13 12:54 mircea_popescu: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/student-takes-porn-star-cherry-7445540 << anyone know this dude ? should totally be in teh wot.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: they 'happened' to them during peter I
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the brits have ~nothing on usa: we have a whole supreme court judge here who is solidly suspected of illiteracy
a111: Logged on 2015-10-10 17:48 mircea_popescu: "here's the laws and and if you don't like it, you can leave" "i'll go join the people that'll fuck you up" "o wait you can't leave" "does that mean you admit your laws are dumb ?" "nope" "does that make you a hypocritical idiot ? " "no it doesnt!!1"
mircea_popescu: continuing the reporting of meatballs : http://66.media.tumblr.com/73b381e2224830142813a64385195d61/tumblr_mrdibgh98k1qea16ro1_500.jpg
mircea_popescu: and in other morning woods, http://66.media.tumblr.com/701d810f1637a939d18ab7be48978c5a/tumblr_mtwlruT11G1qkkvmmo1_400.gif
asciilifeform: who - as incidentally mircea_popescu did - shows the tx.
asciilifeform: next mircea_popescu will tell me that P(aids|shoots heroin) is not > P(aids|clean), etc.
asciilifeform: btw if mircea_popescu wants to do a shannon-style proof a la otp bits, i'm all ears.
asciilifeform: i get it, mircea_popescu has this 'if we pretend coin movement carries 0 bits of info to the enemy, mebbe it will become true' thing going.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-13 00:03 asciilifeform: if mr thief picks mircea_popescu 's pocket, goes to the races, wins, and put the money back, he is still a pickpocket
asciilifeform: and cash being fungible, mircea_popescu won't blink when he notices that his pocket had a hundie five minutes ago but now has 5 20s, right ?
asciilifeform: and mircea_popescu in the right to collect his balls
asciilifeform: if mr thief picks mircea_popescu 's pocket, goes to the races, wins, and put the money back, he is still a pickpocket ☟︎
a111: Logged on 2016-08-12 23:45 mircea_popescu: let me put it this way : the fact that we don't have a proper money market is much more the problem of "the community" than the problem of the misfortunate whoever that ran bitbet. whether he was a scammer or not, as a factual matter, as an idealised, theoretical construct the observation stands.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: What every Indiancandi has the same name or something?
a111: Logged on 2016-08-12 23:19 mircea_popescu: this is just another of those "sunk costs of mp's that we don't recognize nor compensate him for - just expect bitbet to magically work for free"
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-12#1520211 << did mircea_popescu ever say why he did not charge the full cost of bitbetronics? it was loss leader? or wat. ☝︎
covertress waves goodbye to mircea_popescu
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu gonna love the veery speshul seeeekrit rogervergerian offer!!
asciilifeform: but i do expect that if a phriend of mircea_popescu borrows his moneyz, and goes to gamble with it, and loses all, he will be made to pay with balls
covertress: mircea_popescu, I've meant to speak w you in private but, thought it rude to PM you.
asciilifeform: so jon corzine was an honest man per mircea_popescu's lights?
asciilifeform: what do you call it, mircea_popescu
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: whether 'can trace' or cannot, gambling with escrows == scamming
covertress waves hello to mircea_popescu
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu knows, as fact?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i have nfi why strausskahn went
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: german dude. hanged at nuremberg.
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: ever see j. streicher's cartoons?
a111: Logged on 2016-08-12 13:38 mircea_popescu: phf and this because kim totally fucking won the assculture war.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: tlp obviously went after this aspirational angle, even if he tripped over the patek philippe price points, as per http://www.contravex.com/2015/11/10/the-danger-of-unchecked-assumptions-or-the-surprising-depths-of-inequality/
a111: Logged on 2016-08-12 22:36 mircea_popescu: wait what happened ?
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: Maybe if they didn't want oppressed they would have kept the Ras Tafari Haille Sellaise alive?
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: Nah, I just caught that downthread you were talking about dudes.
pete_dushenski: http://qntra.net/2016/08/brexit-fallout-illiterate-british-justice-enacts-breach-of-european-declaration-of-human-rights-into-british-legal-precedent/#comment-67051 << mircea_popescu
BingoBoingo: <pete_dushenski> asciilifeform: there's no one better than chinese gymnasts atm. just watch the olympics.<< I thought black american hobbits were winning?
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Yeah, but not mockable News Roundup (TM)(R) marginal either. Next move prolly has a place.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what scarce resource would it exhaust in ar to have working clubs ? molybdenum ?
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: sorta like 'rich' people in, e.g., ukraine.
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: it will be fascinating to watch the gymnastics of chinese shills answerable to 'no one' on official paper, but to handlers in actual flesh, doing their 'independent' thing.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: their pile of zeros elongates at least as quickly as the price tag's
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski a guy by that name was active back in 2011-2012 ; he made some corrections to mpex faq verbiage ; we've not kept in touch hence nor have i heard anything of him for a few years.
asciilifeform: incidentally, pete_dushenski , it may well be physically possible to determine if bbet deposits went to shitfinex.
asciilifeform: well when pete_dushenski is done being curious and puts in the bullet, i'll sit and listen.
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: do you know how loss of state secrets was punished in su, and why..?
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: 'i spent escrowed coins to cure sick grandmother' == scamming.
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: by what conceivable means would bbet operator need 'bailout loan' ASIDE from having speculated with escrowed coin ?
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: oblig mr kako : http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-08-2016#1452474 ☝︎
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: bring it on
asciilifeform: so, supposing pete_dushenski did not dream this while on lsd, it ~was~ purchased by scammer.
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: recently ?
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: did the 'bbet payouts halted after shitfinex incident' thing resolve, btw ?
a111: Logged on 2014-03-26 00:23 mircea_popescu: "hey, what's this guy worth in trust ?"
a111: Logged on 2014-03-26 00:23 mircea_popescu: you don't know him, but know me. so you come to me
a111: Logged on 2014-03-26 00:22 mircea_popescu: TestingUnoDosTre suppose this guy comes to trade 5 with you.
pete_dushenski: http://btcbase.org/log/2014-03-26#581551 http://btcbase.org/log/2014-03-26#581552 http://btcbase.org/log/2014-03-26#581554 << go figure that the logs have covered most every situation imaginable, to which i'd like to ask mircea_popescu specifically about znort987 : how much trust is he (she?) worth ? ☝︎☝︎☝︎
asciilifeform: ( since gabriel_laddel thread i can never again be certain, whether typo is typo or deep barb of some sort )
asciilifeform: if mircea_popescu were awake, he might say sumthinglike 'nothing human is foreign to me', etc.
asciilifeform: see mega-thread with mircea_popescu and china.
trinque: certainly a mircea_popescutronic question
asciilifeform: nor do i expect to find out, unless mircea_popescu reveals tidbits.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-11 16:16 mircea_popescu: as it dislodges the meat robots from their comforts and forces them into towns.
a111: Logged on 2013-12-25 21:05 mircea_popescu: Itzhak is a respectable moneylender in the small neighbourhood of Fool's Crossing.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-12 19:03 mircea_popescu: "alf's idea of a think he has no sensation access nor cares to reasses to has remained unchanged over the interval the foregoing held"
asciilifeform: (as per mircea_popescu's article circa, iirc, 2010)
a111: Logged on 2016-08-12 16:40 mircea_popescu: kinda why you need more womenz to process that payload.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: any of, e.g., the notation threads. or the dope thread. or any ' mircea_popescu: this is worthless crapola used by posers to appear relevant . asciilifeform: no, i saw it used, and perhaps used personally, to palpable effect. mircea_popescu: bullshit, i can do same thing with shoestring and power of my mind. asciilifeform: ...'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu, i suspect, was originally allergic to the 'roman numerals' observation for approx same reason as in dope thread
asciilifeform: because he was not mircea_popescu and did not have any knife sharp enough to actually make a palpable mark on the wall.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: he had a blog.
asciilifeform: (or for that matter mircea_popescu's 'rural and urban' piece.)
asciilifeform: or the hammer-drill from mircea_popescu's latest piece.
asciilifeform: possibly because mircea_popescu misreads the meaning of the wordz.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: as you know, this is not how he solved 'mule'.
asciilifeform: and yes, triangular bits will drill mircea_popescu's square holes.
asciilifeform: to naggum, mircea_popescu is boss if he is paying.
asciilifeform: http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k106/jims_03/IMG_0007-1.jpg << like so.
trinque: mircea_popescu: Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing computadors is no basis for a system of computing!
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: have you ever met, e.g., mechanical engineer, who has never heard of alloys ?