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Bugpowdurr: <
mircea_popescu> in the interval, he ran out of "investor's" money 3x Nothing personal. Just one of the scammers that hasn't been shut down yet.
KRS-One: I'd have to disagree with
mircea_popescu. I mean look at K-Mart it was bought by sears and nobody liked K-Mart.
kakobrekla: <
mircea_popescu> i mean this channel was fundamentally born out of some clueless noobs' inability to grok that intelligent discussion is more important than avoiding displays of cunt. < not really, was just to impress girls.
ThickAsThieves: <
mircea_popescu> lots of idiot tribes. // you owe Seth Godin royalties now
benkay:
mircea_popescu: that's what made me think about cold-calling DC intl law firms.
nubbins`:
mircea_popescu: any decent-sized city likely has a number of print shops that would happily churn out and slap up posters
nubbins`:
mircea_popescu:because i'd be interested in supporting a program of propaganda against us banking interests signed MPEx/BTC
cads:
mircea_popescu: no no, to the left and the right and the north and the south towered the enormous buildings of the billionaires
cads:
mircea_popescu: I'm mostly laughing at freicoin.
cads:
mircea_popescu: freicoin ain't going to inspire no greed, no sir!
benkay: except in bitcoin,
mircea_popescu cads:
mircea_popescu: did you ever hear of the 'Freicoin' demurage currency formulated by some of the occupy wallstreet people?
Bugpowder:
mircea_popescu: That's the way it is on Twitter
Bugpowder:
mircea_popescu: Nothing that I have seen. Just likes to blather on about theory of alt coins and bitcoins and VC shit. The whole Andressen Horowitz Twitter axis does it (Chris Dixon, Balaji Srinasivan, and Marc) Not a bad follow though
benkay: today in -assets,
mircea_popescu catches up to 2012
WillTablet:
mircea_popescu: so should I just play along?
benkay: yeah hey
mircea_popescu give the kid some atc
benkay:
mircea_popescu: you have recommendations?
benkay:
mircea_popescu: "bad rap"
benkay: doncha know
mircea_popescu cads:
mircea_popescu: I'm not sure what came first, the video game nerd or the egg.
nubbins`:
mircea_popescu, did you send those atc yet?
nubbins`:
mircea_popescu, that's the thing. they're not even trying to act
nubbins`: <
mircea_popescu> i cant believe after all you nuts picking on poor nubsy i came in and picked him off as new.
cazalla:
mircea_popescu: because it's jewish?
benkay: i don't imitate,
mircea_popescu i steap.
benkay: sottisier needs linking to bash.*,
mircea_popescu nubbins`:
mircea_popescu: if i wanted to highlight my weaknesses i'd just print a photo of myself
benkay:
mircea_popescu: why u no bikes? how ams evil?
nubbins`:
mircea_popescu: shh, don't tell the clients
nubbins`: benkay,
mircea_popescu: artistic license
benkay:
mircea_popescu: it's got awful js and css - that's how you know REAL PROGRAMMERS built it
nubbins`:
mircea_popescu: sure, send 'em to 1AltcoinSucksCocks<however many extra chars necessary to make length>
benkay:
mircea_popescu: funny man
nubbins`:
mircea_popescu, there comes a point where you have to turn it into an abstract
benkay:
mircea_popescu: did you see the part where i said "although..." trailing off while pondering the work/payoff function?
nubbins`: yeah last thing we heard from you was <
mircea_popescu> time to shave my beard so i'll know how long i've been asleep
nubbins`:
mircea_popescu, i've been inducted into the ranks of pmb/rubecoin pushers
nubbins`:
mircea_popescu: well, if little kids can shoot em...
cads:
mircea_popescu: because you're not sampled from the sample space of romanians. You're sampled from the sample space of humans. You need to be concerned about the average expected outcome of humans if only because that's essential to collaborative solutions to problems.
cads:
mircea_popescu: if I ever rape you in an alley one day you will limp back home, paste your asshole back together with some dabs of superglue and then tell no one and seek no revenge.
cads:
mircea_popescu: actually
cads:
mircea_popescu: they paid students to manually code the statements for sentiment
cazalla:
mircea_popescu: i keep a close eye on him, don't you worry about that
benkay: asciilifeform,
mircea_popescu: odds on the satoshi hoard moving to an unspendable address?
cads:
mircea_popescu: I did some reasearch about charlie bit me - turns out the advertising revenue (~$100K) let the father buy a new house.
mircea_popescu: <
mircea_popescu>buy a cozy and a ceramic bracelet on etzy while at it.
cads:
mircea_popescu: hey, cute pic, if I cross my eyes I can almost see her in 3d :D
cads:
mircea_popescu: I will remember that people can make you reject any economic theory simply by saying the word "feminism" 10 minutes before presenting it :D
cads: hehe
mircea_popescu you
cads: hehe, this is how
mircea_popescu and I say "I love you"
cads:
mircea_popescu: I'm merely saying one work has influenced far more human experience, thoughts, and ultimately economic action.
cads:
mircea_popescu: at some level I feel you are saying that it absolutely does not matter that people spent an estimated 34 million minutes looking at this single artist's work, if only because we can't trust those estimates at all.
cads:
mircea_popescu is not impressed, guys
cads:
mircea_popescu: Bahaha.
cads:
mircea_popescu: the idea is that an unpaid woman sits at a table and opens up a famous literary work she chose, begins to read a key passage, starts having and orgasm, continues trying to read, climaxes, and then closes the book and says "I'm ____ and this has been moby dick"
benkay:
mircea_popescu: you're missing out on all sorts of context not at least sampling videos
cads:
mircea_popescu: just acquaintances on irc.
cads:
mircea_popescu: sell some Coq nerds on the importance of implementing a formally verified blockchain algorithm and further specialization to a btc implementation :)
benkay:
mircea_popescu: cs departments are for research. mechanical and ee departments are apparently where you learn to actually weld shit together.
benkay:
mircea_popescu: it's a goddamn shame that everyone's leaving it to the self-taught hacks
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: Well so far it is at least two mistakes on Gox's part leading zeros and txid as database primary key.
cads:
mircea_popescu: I'm going to investigate the excuse don't worry :D
benkay:
mircea_popescu: stochastic simulations, generally? you'd know more than me...
benkay: no
mircea_popescu you see i have this model and it shows that if things were different things would be different
cads:
mircea_popescu: Haha you mean quantitative models don't magically reorganize reality into your will?
cads:
mircea_popescu: some economics and game theory
cads:
mircea_popescu: I'm looking for introductory materials in quantitative finance with focus on hedge funds and derivatives valuation. Any input in this direction?
nanotube:
mircea_popescu: bitcoincharts average got messed up one day, because anx.hk accidentally pushed dogecoin trade data in place of bitcoin - thus producing high volume at really low price, and screwing things up.
☟︎ TomServo:
mircea_popescu: I don't, sorry.
nanotube:
mircea_popescu: bitcoinaverage.com
Bugpowder:
mircea_popescu taps his keyboard of +3 plausibility.
benkay:
mircea_popescu's having software trubbles
davout:
mircea_popescu: if they removed gox from the index it'll probably still be taking into account data from before the removal
ThickAsThieves: <Bugpowder>
mircea_popescu: ty... Hoping to see MPOEbot make a triumphant return soon. /// unlikely til Gox reopens wd's
Bugpowder:
mircea_popescu: ty... Hoping to see MPOEbot make a triumphant return soon.