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ben_vulpes: what is
this,
torture hour in -assets?
ttnews_: i got
the charts right just panicked like a newb - if I were a little more patient I'd be doing great now...
undata: the solution is
to never gamble again.
undata: even on /r/bitcoin
there have been numerous, NUMEROUS horror stories about
this.
undata: "I've never shot a gun before. I got
this AR15; now my feet are gone. Guys, what do I do?"
ttnews_: yes - short squeeze.. i'm learning
the
terms. another
term i'm very knowledgable on: murphy's law
mircea_popescu: los_pantalones i guess you misses
that one
time when it went 400% in
two hours.
los_pantalones: also, you understand
this selloff is specifically
targeted
to squeeze ppl like you out of
the market?
los_pantalones: ttnews_ why would you
trade something
that drifts 5% overnight
mircea_popescu: cue
to
them sitting pensively around
the kitchen
table. after a while, wife : "i
think we shouldn't punish him..."
mircea_popescu: you know
the one where
two
traditional parents find some pretty heavy bdsm porny magazines in junior's room ?
mircea_popescu: ask your wife/gf/so
to give you 100 lashes
to
the bare buttocks while at it.
ttnews_: is
there any way i can salvage
the dmg caused so far. I lose everything at $321 but I'm
thinking it could bounce back and rise? fml...
mircea_popescu: reduce your holdings
to something comensurate with your means and go read up on bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: ttnews_ noobs have no business playing speculator with
their consumer savings.
ttnews_: I'm a newb made a big mistake and longed at 348. I read a website claiming it could go
to 320 or as low as 280. I don't wanna panic but
then again i get
the feeling like i should cut my losses
then short it since
the stock market did crappy
undata: ben_vulpes: you may enjoy
the game Machinarium
ben_vulpes: assets is now on a hallutropic interlude
ttnews_
ttnews_: any guess as
to how low bitcoin will go?
ben_vulpes: for some reason i
think asciilifeform would like
the above linked video
too
mircea_popescu: much more
talented, but... who cares. so he killed himself because picasso was way ahead.
assbot: Lumea nu-i de-ajuns pe
Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
mircea_popescu: this is
the
time when mediocre artists get
to become stars, simply for moving faster
than
the average "talented" idiot.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: ah, i see. well, i enjoy his animations but my
taste may not align with anyone else's.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes ah in
that sense. what i mean is,
there's plenty of
talent out
there. whether
the
talent is in
the wot or not about 1000x as much as a factor as how good stuff
they got in
their portofolio
jborkl_: excellent, picking up
the language pretty easy?
jborkl_: Mircea, how is Argentina
treating you?
jborkl_: getting into google news is
the last part, but I have done everything needed so it should be smooth
jborkl_: I even got it down
to one w3tc error. I have
to leave one just for
the hell of it
jborkl_: it would be easy now. I know what
to do
jborkl_: I am finally done with
the website. I have fixed all my known errors, except
the grammer :/
Those will never be fixed
kakobrekla: ben_vulpes cant reproduce, do you know whats
the problem or fix ?
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assbot: Fever
The Ghost - SOURCE (official music video) - YouTube
mircea_popescu: this is one of
the least understood parts, how all
this will work.
undata: mircea_popescu: one could imagine further
that a system of contracts among
those operating
the most important parts of
the economy might prevent
them from dealing with
the "marked"
assbot: Logged on 17-10-2014 23:29:04; mircea_popescu: you know
the story about how
they kidnapped
that chick, sent a ransom note,
mircea_popescu: my content is like my sluts : more expensive
to steal
than
to rent.
undata: and I could see being left outside being a pretty
terrible disincentive
undata: mircea_popescu: in
the future, should BTC engulf
the old
thing, I could see
that being a requirement
mircea_popescu: cazalla yes. most rapists aren't interested in women
that enjoy fucking in public.
cazalla: i would guess most rapists would prefer
the woman dressed
to begin with anyway
undata: vs
traditional law enforcement
mircea_popescu: you and i might not give a shit, but all
these fiat dorks have no choice and no option.
undata: mircea_popescu: I'm interested in your
thoughts on
the reputation destruction / exile angle.
cazalla: mircea_popescu: and
the fact
that a woman is naked does not give you license
to rape her. <<< sounds like
teach men not
to rape, don't
tell women what
to wear, andreas would be proud
nubbins`: undata
then
there's no problem. just ask
the GNU
team
mircea_popescu: because i like circumlocution, it's instructive
to
the audience.
undata: nubbins`: hm, what if all
the old code is replaced?
mircea_popescu: and if
their legal dept drops
the ball, all
the better, carnage.
mircea_popescu: im saying, it's extremely unlikely any of
the dead
trees publishers will come compete with you, because
their legal dept won't let
them.
nubbins`: undata, sure, but
the old code is still covered by its original license
undata: presumably
there will be new code with
the rewrite
nubbins`: you're saying replace
the existing license with a new one, and
then sue people who violate
the new license? o.O
jurov: asciilifeform: mailman will display gpg clearsigned attachment inline if you rename it
to .txt (and i don't ned
to diddle code
then)
mircea_popescu: maybe
the public splaying of assholes like addison wesley is worth a dime off my pocet.
undata: on
the bitcoin side I'd rather
these
things were handled by reputation destruction
bounce: if you have
the money and
time
to keep on litigating
mircea_popescu: bounce you make a claim,
they make a claim. it goes
to
trial. sometime.
mircea_popescu: all
the actual merits discussion aside, experience shows
that a judge will protect literally anything, just gotta find
the right judge.
bounce: he's not available
to contest it and
then you get into who has standing? (favourite usg
tactic
too. yes yes
that's highly illegal, but nobody with standing
to contest it.)
mircea_popescu: "satoshi's name" ? what, and we've been looking for a name all
these years because nobody read
the code ?
nubbins`: anyone with a 0.1 bundle able
to confirm?
undata: "his property was just sitting
there, unguarded by razor wire!"
nubbins`: bounce iirc
the original versions had satoshi's name
bounce: those copyright notices,
though. do
they have written consent from satoshi?
bounce: oh shush. you and your right
to rape, eh.
mircea_popescu: even should you imagine
the place she's naked at is public.
mircea_popescu: and
the fact
that a woman is naked does not give you license
to rape her.
bounce: what? it's public, apparenly publicised with
the consent of
the authors. no judge is going
to protect
these logs, no matter how much you spend on lawyers.
mircea_popescu: but
that does not mean random fiat corp can come by and get rich exploiting it.
nubbins`: well,
tell alf
to cut COPYING from
the book, i guess
mircea_popescu: sword cuts both ways. law abiding
types will be fighing injunctions for
twenty years before
they can as much as print a fucking page off
this log.
nubbins`: <+mircea_popescu> what, it's on
the interwebs, anyone can come publish it and sell
the book ? <<< "Permission is hereby granted, free of charge,
to any person obtaining a copy of
this software..."
mircea_popescu: not like aw is going
to move out of
the us just so
they can derp with bitcoin manual.
mircea_popescu: here's a
thought :
the sword cuts both ways.
the same asinine legal idiocy
that can be used
to hinder bitcoin exchanges can be used by sovereign bitcoin companies
to fuck everyone non-immune in
the ass.
mircea_popescu: what, it's on
the interwebs, anyone can come publish it and sell
the book ?