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mircea_popescu:
<funkenstein_> the notion that britney spears did damage to music might be compared to the idea that Garza did damage to bitcoin
<< still, i'd pay a little for it not being possible for britney to exist. and garza idem.
pete_dushenski: while you ALSO say "'do what he means not what he says'
<< just the opposite"
pete_dushenski: wywialm: well, catholic church teaches that he received some from his predecessors :)
<< doesn't add up with >> also, he is bound by what has been signed by them
thestringpuller: Random L0L: I'm Charlie Shrem, Bitcoin Pioneer currently in Federal Prison.
<< I'm tempted to ask, "Is your butthole still tight?"
assbot: Logged on 23-09-2015 18:24:29; wywialm: is this another case of 'do what he means not what he says'
<< just the opposite
wywialm: is this another case of 'do what he means not what he says'
<< just the opposite
☟︎ lobbes: atruechurch.info
<< this one?
danielpbarron: > Paine rejected the teachings of "any church that I know of," including "the Roman church."
<< me too (with the exception of that one, which I found almost by accident through a mutual interest in the Ron Paul presidential campaign)
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo: "Because in spite of prices being involve,"
<< missing a letter here
ascii_field: 'In January 2009, USP Lewisburg began a mission change converting to a Special Management Unit (SMU) facility. Therefore, the information in this handbook is for the general population inmates only (Cadre Unit).'
<< this is worth explaining. SMU is a series of 'special prisons' where folks are held incommunicado. instituted under bush II
pete_dushenski: he thirst for power and possessions knows no limits. In this system, which tends to devour everything which stands in the way of increased profits, whatever is fragile, like the environment, is defenseless before the interests of a deified market, which become the only rule."
<< every socialist hashtag wrapped up in a single paragraph. no points for guessing who wrote.
ascii_field: 'Whem I'm released, the only restriction I have is travelling for the first few months. Other than that, Im allowed to use the internet. Im debating wether to buy the blackphone when I get out or just root an android '
<< win
assbot: Logged on 23-09-2015 04:55:31; pete_dushenski:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=18-09-2015#1278736 << turns out that i was off the mark here. to wit : "Emissions system and fuel economy testing is conducted while a vehicle is placed on a dynamometer—think of it as a two big rollers or a treadmill—rather than driving on the road. The vehicle has only its driving wheels rolling (the front ones, in the case of VW vehicles). But the rear tires
shinohai: "Who knew giving away stuff to strippers is going to turn into some sort of criminal case, seriously now."
<<< Love hanbot
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.
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: ;;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 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.
mircea_popescu: "For millennia, there was suffering and misery. Can you imagine a world without music, or eyeglasses, or DayQuil?"
<< wut is dayquil ?
assbot: Key F162C410 / "Paul Sztorc (Truthcoin)
<truthcoin@gmail.com>" successfully imported.
pete_dushenski:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=18-09-2015#1278736 << turns out that i was off the mark here. to wit : "Emissions system and fuel economy testing is conducted while a vehicle is placed on a dynamometer—think of it as a two big rollers or a treadmill—rather than driving on the road. The vehicle has only its driving wheels rolling (the front ones, in the case of VW vehicles). But the rear tires are station
☝︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: "Although Bitcoin does not solve our PM problems, it demonstrates that a blockchain can provide scalable, censorship-resistant, and trustless solutions. Blockchain solutions also generate efficiency by cutting out middlemen and avoiding overhead costs (no brick-and-mortar, compliance, administration, etc.)."
<< this is miserable. what exactly is "solutions" supposed to mean ? and more importantly : the blockchain settl
mircea_popescu: "Although businesses can prove their solvency, proof of future-solvency is impossible, and even solvent Bitcoin PM-businesses would be able to steal funds by trading on and then reporting incorrect prediction outcomes."
<< this is a feckless misstatement of the situation. a centralized business is predicated on the trustworthyness of its living owner. whose word is, to repurpose a JPM quote, "worth more than all the bo
mircea_popescu: "The Bitcoin businesses that oppose this intent by holding customer funds (for example the currency exchanges) lose those funds regularly."
<< except mpex never did. and bitbet never did. and so on.
mircea_popescu: "Bitcoin is P2P software. It was not ever designed for other people to store your money; it was designed for you to store your own money."
<< can you prove this ?
mircea_popescu: " Television has a gift for simplifying and communicating ideas"
<< o lordy.
mircea_popescu: info-sources in a way that is consistently and unanimously acceptable."
<< like that.
mircea_popescu: "The current market price of these tradable predictions can then be interpreted as the likelihood of the prediction coming true."
<< because, why ?
mircea_popescu: ""Whereas a stock market is a place to buy and sell shares of a corporation’s earnings, a Prediction Market (PM) is a place to buy and sell predictions. Valid predictions entitle their owner to $11""
<< this, foir the record, is horrible writing. do not mix things so far apart the abstraction scale, it confuses idiots and it gives smart people the impression your abstractor really has very little breadth.
mircea_popescu: "What if you had access to the combined intellectual powers of all mankind? It would be easier for you to make decisions."
<< you know, not only this does not follow, but the contrary is actually recorded as anecdotal observation by pretty much all sources. like say russell.
mircea_popescu:
<BingoBoingo> But even now those things are going from treatments for the rare and debilitating to treatments for the common and hammy
<< exactl;y, and these two go together. we're now at the point where "important" vaccines for purely imaginary conditions are being pushed out. srsly, some people get nonspecific pain from what may be a viral infection ?
mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> but the 'research' is not happening.
<< this is a point.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> why this particular schmuck was chosen as the whipping boy of the day
<< was in the news recently, '87 born catamite of "tiger fund" gonzo increased price of some shitty expired patent medicine nobody else was manufacturing because us is as springy as a dead halibut.
BingoBoingo:
<cazalla> punkman, aussie banks started this about 2 years ago and it's just the continuation of them closing accounts, not something new
<< This, someone had a slow news day and wanted to make a fuss
gribble: artifexd was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 21 weeks, 5 days, 23 hours, 5 minutes, and 13 seconds ago:
<artifexd> I'm comfortable calling it a review. Not just of what it is but what it was and how it got to where it is.
gribble: felipelalli was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 4 weeks, 0 days, 16 hours, 7 minutes, and 13 seconds ago:
<felipelalli> They setup 3500 nodes in few minutes, low blow.
BingoBoingo:
<jurov> wonder why noone sells them frozen. "prepare a jug of water. throw frozen larvae in. wait a week."
<< Hard to get the same level of repeat customers buying more every week
ascii_field: 'Black Flag also marketed a related insect trap, the "Flyport," designed to deal with unwanted flying insects like houseflies, with the tagline, "Lots of arrivals, but no departures!"'
<< l0l
ascii_field: ‘releasing node’. S generates a pair of public keys to encrypt the return data then inserts the public key into the routing information for each node...'
<< tor, snore.
ascii_field: 'Bitcoin did not respond to a request for comment about TRR.'
<< he died, motherfuckerz ! have el minimo respeto por los derpadores !!11
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> if it were not for 'autocad' none of the output ~would~ stand up, either.
<< When my youngest brother went on campus visits to engineering programs the Engineering College Dean joked that the architecture school was full of the Civil engineering program's failures