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BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I have WoT! as some people from other channels might suggest...
mircea_popescu: sadly the guy has a bitcoin address as a coinbase wallet and a pgp but no wot. wtf.
abathingape: http://connect.customer.mheducation.com/wp-content/themes/mhc/a/i/more-As-and-Bs-Lower_w_Numbers-72dpi.png
BingoBoingo: Back then it didn't much matter what people called their own things as those labels were rarely accurate
mircea_popescu: "The Bitcoin community is not just overwhelmingly larger but of overwhelmingly better quality as well. Bitcoin is surrounded by real entrepreneurs working hard to create new and useful services for Bitcoin. Altcoins are surrounded by loud-mouthed pretenders with irrational hopes of duplicating Nakamoto's success."
mircea_popescu: "Your content isn't worth much to begin with if it goes down in value as it gets shared." this is an interesting concept.
asciilifeform had some very entertaining conversations with the fellow about peculiarities of american law, as practiced
asciilifeform: herr handle, incidentally, is employed as (not a secret) a lawyer.
ThickAsThieves: my cat just brought my wife's sports bra to me from across the house, waddling its front legs as it dragged in front in its mouth
asciilifeform: economic reasons >> so long as the slaves get the right kind of marching powder (i.e., with the requisite proportion of meth to opium) - what economic reasons ?
mircea_popescu: THAT WAS MOSTLY NOT ACCEPTED AS DATA at the time.
decimation: "on the basis of holy data" << oglaf's princeling is searching for holy data to generalize upon as well :)
mircea_popescu: on the basis of the holy data, as such.
asciilifeform: busy as a bee << funny that they show an idiot sow scrubbing, and not, e.g, paul erdos crapping out theorems ☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎
mircea_popescu: ;;google look at me, busy as a bee
mircea_popescu: looks like genetic on that basis. you gotta be really unlucky as a guy
asciilifeform misread as 'non-euclidean geometry for babes'
BingoBoingo: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1480203246/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1480203246&linkCode=as2&tag=natdee-20
assbot: Logged on 09-07-2014 00:04:59; asciilifeform: pierce << ideal example of the animal described on one of mircea_popescu's essays - he could be packed into prison for life, any time, based on what's in his file. so he does as instructed.
mircea_popescu: gets to run a piece of shit "resource" that everyone pushes as if it were useful.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform to be perfectly fair, the guy wasn't keeping his finances in the best of orders (according to you know, the criteria required so you don't get called "a cult leader" by teh cult leadership). nevertheless, nothing nearly as bad as what the childfucker jimbo wales did in his day
asciilifeform: he confuses the shoddy nature of modern computers with bitcoin as a technology, which can and will exist independently from today's crap-o-soft << this.
xmj: berlin is not in the space of permissible answers as defined in the question.
decimation: the book comes off as a combination of "listen to the wisdom of your elders" and "get off my lawn"
decimation: in the case of bitcoin, I think he confuses the shoddy nature of modern computers with bitcoin as a technology, which can and will exist independently from today's crap-o-soft
decimation: themselves. However, as in everything else, instead of coming to the ineluctable reactionary conclusions, they try to talk about it in ways that they hope it will get them status points and sympathy from progressives."
X-Rob: shortly as in 'in a few hours'
RagnarDanneskjol: sorry, I thought you ran the pool as well - I meant pool software
hanbot: mircea_popescu that looks just about right. not too often a bizarre facet of human behavior looks exactly as one'd imagined.
mircea_popescu: or by the other side as "that desperate, harrowing last ditch effort"
mircea_popescu: this will be forever known as the war of the 500s,
assbot: The woes of Altcoin, or why there is no such thing as “cryptocurrencies” pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
TheInterocitor: http://trilema.com/2014/the-woes-of-altcoin-or-why-there-is-no-such-thing-as-cryptocurrencies
TheInterocitor: btw mircea_popescu I used one of your blog posts as a STFU in an argument the other day
TheInterocitor: As they should be
mircea_popescu: well no, it wasn't, because "chicago" as such dun exist.
mircea_popescu: well we all got our stories as to "what really happened". i was merely illustrating the vastness of that area.
mircea_popescu: two decades later, the whole thing's ruined, as it will never get out of an ever increasing black hole of moral hazard
mircea_popescu: every now and again a smarmy da walks into a smart judge's chambers with something about "a standard deal" and the judge tells him there's no such thing as "standard deals"
nubbins`: "i want the best price" as you head to the dollar store to buy the fifth set of pliers
mircea_popescu: as it is, i'm content to merely look like one.
mircea_popescu: and with otherwise-flavoured fanta sold as beer
mircea_popescu: that's how you ended up with "books" being the shittiest thing people will still take as a book, in a neat little package
mircea_popescu: the thrift is actually the historical point here. economy started its life as an attempt to waste less.
BlueMeanie4: well for as long as you lack the features i describe, these contracts will have a very limited market
mircea_popescu: we happen to be here to reverse all of it and more, but it's irrelevant which way it goes really. obviously the cock going in hurts about as much as it hurts going out, so to speak.
mircea_popescu: BlueMeanie4 pretend you're some exponent of the iroquis. everything you said works just as well.
BlueMeanie4: you system as far as i udnerstand it does not allwo for the transfer of obligations
mircea_popescu: these "financial markets" aren't a single thing, and they only work as you describe them when they don't actually work.
mircea_popescu: so look : you can sit in a car, and derive from the experiene of sitting there some idea as to how the car works.
BlueMeanie4: well i dont really bear the burden of proof, these are facts of financial markets as they exist
mircea_popescu: the argument as presented is purely semantical.
asciilifeform: and does this mean 'everything lame as hell' ?
BlueMeanie4: seems everything is lame as hell
asciilifeform -oid << has long recognized the existence of 'womanoids', who bear the same relationship to 'woman' as spheroid to sphere.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform architectural style. << this is such a lol, because yes they do it, it's almost as if trying to copy own glory moments resulting in cheap tourist shop replicas. just... why!
asciilifeform: (as pictured in film 'brazil')
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> any folks here living in u.s. colonies (read: nato) are welcome to comment re: whether such brutalist monstrosities blot your landscape as well. << Scattered throughout the towns on the West side of Scott Airforce base in the Metro east are low rise versions of this
Apocalyptic: BlueMeanie4, why do you say that ? it is, as long as you have something interesting to say people will !up you
danielpbarron: nothing is off-topic as long as it's well said
asciilifeform: any folks here living in u.s. colonies (read: nato) are welcome to comment re: whether such brutalist monstrosities blot your landscape as well.
mircea_popescu: But the poor little runt was engulfed in her cunt and re-born as the twin of his son.
fluffypony: meh - I've just written human leadership off as flawed and unworkable
HeySteve: there's a few I'd trust to ensure basic infrastructure is maintained and expanded as necessary
mircea_popescu: xmj i was talking the mob as in cosa nostra, not the mob as in mobile vulgus.
chetty: <mircea_popescu> take the us as a fine example. the black ~~~minority~~~ there STILL thinks it's your fault.// holder recently talked about how horrid it was when he got stopped and searched, the fail is that whites get stopped to but thats 'normal', blacks are only stopped because they are black ...
mircea_popescu: take the us as a fine example. the black ~~~minority~~~ there STILL thinks it's your fault.
fluffypony: because they had a shit childhood as a direct or indirect result
fluffypony: lol Vexual - as opposed to NZ where all you can hope to do is swim?
assbot: As South Africa Reels From Unexpected Bailout, One Bank Has A Modest Proposal: Give Us Your Gold | Zero Hedge
usagi: It's a real shame that stuff like buddhism is regarded as esoteric
mircea_popescu: not quite the same as the title.
BingoBoingo: It wasn't one of the muppets doing something useless and taking it on that the foundation was forced to highlight, but Bluematt introducing an if you can mine this helps, but otherwise things are as they always have been
SuchWow: and as far as irc is concerned, it's really not a bad tactic
SuchWow: BingoBoingo: i get it. and as it seems, it ensures proper conversation is taking place
SuchWow: as i've asked for weeks now
BingoBoingo: I have to auth with gribble and pm assbot as everyone else does
BingoBoingo: I have to wonder if part of the current downturn is hanbot not acting as MPOE-PR and being the Nystatin that keeps mold from ruining the Da Vinci http://trilema.com/2013/of-mice-and-men-revisited/#footnote_2_46944
BingoBoingo: Both Americans who caught Ebola walked out of the hospital this week thanks to some expensive ass monoclonal antibodies. That Liberians can't can them means what? Sure it was an experimental drug, but as far as experimental drugs do they don't get much safer.
BingoBoingo: Other than as a spark that warms the tinder.
BingoBoingo remembers the "Mall" as a place full of the Jaundiced and Juiced
BingoBoingo: You see outside of the pits that were Tactics and the playstation first person shooter, but Fallout 3 as the worst of the rest of the games had plenty of redeeming lulz in its chosen setting
BingoBoingo: Not as Yarvin says, as poor Jimmy from Fallout 3 says
decimation: as Mr. Yarvin says, perhaps one day the mighty Patomack will once again flow unvexed into the Chesapeake
The20YearIRCloud: Florida is also leaps and bounds better than the liberal states, and they're large as well
mircea_popescu: inasmuch as there's a public treasury somewhere, there's going to be a troop of people forcing it open.
mircea_popescu: youtubetard: more complexity is the nature of all things in the long term. So the rise of many many many micro states is very likely. People see Liechtenstein's success << this is actually a solid point, as unexpected and tenuous as it may seem.
mircea_popescu: bats_cd03 and take THEM as virgins
mircea_popescu: mike_c: and as an aside, it is embarrassing for this channel that tweets are scraped and repeated from links but not references to the log! << yeah srsly.
BingoBoingo: Size as in population + walk to the next border
youtubetard: size as in geo+ population
BingoBoingo: Split could run as far south as I-64 and I'd be happy
The20YearIRCloud: I'd be more worried about making the right decisions as a state than religious preferences
youtubetard: especially with the use of crypto tech such as btc and being able to generate more free flowing economies
youtubetard: ahh ok ok. Makes sense. I am reading up more so I don't come off as a troll lol
BingoBoingo: as long as you act like a human being generally people are happy to voice you until you establish youself in the WoT and can voice yourself
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pete_dushenski: ;;later tell ben_vulpes have you seen john wayne as zjchinghis? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHt0Pb8rkXU
BingoBoingo: http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/canadian-television-journalist-arrested-under-order-of-capt-johnson/article_55b5825d-85d0-5265-bc62-5576cfcf1899.html << Ferguson may not be as calm as they the news would have us inclined to believe this week
ben_vulpes: "bike as though you've a million dollar bounty on your head and a neon jersey proclaiming such", as the aforementioned stephenson wrote somewhere sometime