mircea_popescu: orly ? people are goinmg to BUY dollars because they're worthless ?

mircea_popescu: ""I've never seen such a drop in one go, it's huge. People will probably be buying euros, but also dollars and other currencies," said one UBS teller, after selling euros to a Russian client."

mircea_popescu: one shouldn't even try, but hey.

mircea_popescu: one can't maintain arbitrary caps like that.

mircea_popescu: SNB Chairman Thomas Jordan denied at a news conference that the move amounted to a "panic reaction", saying the cap had been scrapped because it was unsustainable. "If you decide to exit such a policy, you have to take the markets by surprise," Jordan said. << quite.

mircea_popescu: you know, the ironic bit here is that... ceausescu called his epic fail "epoca de aur". teh golden age of ballooning.

mircea_popescu: gtfo, you're a municipal council. stick to peeling chewinggum off the sidewalk and debating what uniform to put the parking meter chicks in.

mircea_popescu: this pretense that shit like "denmark" even have the power to legislate.

mircea_popescu: i dunno anymore than you do on the topic.

mircea_popescu: the alternative of "it dun work and i'm mia" pretty much the worst possible approach.

mircea_popescu: ivreally wish people were a LOT more open with the problems they have. if there's one time to be all over this place, it's then.

mircea_popescu: but if that doesn't woirk i guess it'll have to be replaced.

mircea_popescu: TomServo well ideally it'd have to be fixed,

mircea_popescu: davout shoulkd be there.

mircea_popescu: they're too well integrated with euro to actually care.

mircea_popescu: if you mean the swiss

mircea_popescu: lmao roger ver is such an exercise in tramp

mircea_popescu: "Roger Ver, another early bitcoin adopter, believes he was victimized by the same person the week before the Finney family was swatted. That’s when someone using the names Nitrous and Savaged hacked into Ver’s email accounts and demanded that he cough up 37 bitcoins"

mircea_popescu: ty for that made my head spin for a minute

mircea_popescu: wow. i thought i had read eulogies and everything

mircea_popescu: davout: kakobrekla: the question now is *what* is almost complete :D << wot capabilit yintegration into assbot!

mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel: I may have missed it in the logs, but is someone explicitly working on an assbot with gribble functionality or are we going to wait for wotnet / gossipd? << kakobrekla has been, for a while now

mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel: note however, the /average/ number of classes a year is 14. << i expect it's just a shortcut to pay them better.

mircea_popescu: srsly, twain was complaining of it.

mircea_popescu: a jury of honest, intelligent men who had not heard of the case they were called to try—but in our day of telegraphs and newspapers his plan compels us to swear in juries composed of fools and rascals, because the system rigidly excludes honest men and men of brains."

mircea_popescu: t would prove the most ingenious and infallible agency for defeating justice that human wisdom could contrive. For how could he imagine that we simpletons would go on using his jury plan after circumstances had stripped it of its usefulness, any more than he could imagine that we would go on using his candle-clock after we had invented chronometers? In his day news could not travel fast, and hence he could easily find

mircea_popescu: "The men who murdered Virginia's original twenty-six cemetery-occupants were never punished. Why? Because Alfred the Great, when he invented trial by jury and knew that he had admirably framed it to secure justice in his age of the world, was not aware that in the nineteenth century the condition of things would be so entirely changed that unless he rose from the grave and altered the jury plan to meet the emergency, i

mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski the fact that i can't tell if you're straight or sarcastic is telling

mircea_popescu: apparently one admin was actually undercover agent, the official story now goes

mircea_popescu: iirc saw that in teh logs.

mircea_popescu: this was immediately and universally applied to what was perceived as a silly and pompous notion of the minority in question.

mircea_popescu: the source of the double r in writing is that right at the time gypsies decided to yet again rename in the early 90s, there was circulating on romanian TV a reading of a caragiale novel (romani verzi) mocking a very nutty sort of nationalism current in his time, that was being read in a particularrrrr manerrrr by a certain comedian.

mircea_popescu: "Sometimes, rom and romani are spelled with a double r, i.e., rrom and rromani. In this case rr is used to represent the phoneme /ʀ/ (also written as ř and rh), which in some Romani dialects has remained different from the one written with a single r. " << actually, this is incorrect.

mircea_popescu: howrysheeit look at it! mom, i made the papers!

mircea_popescu: fluffypony they're more often fat than ugly, to put a... fine point on it.

mircea_popescu: well, rome, capital of the rroma people.

mircea_popescu: they probably just intend to pickpocket them.