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mircea_popescu: but the various hedge funds operating as colleges don't want to lose money on the deal... so they're pushing to reduce the curricula further.
BingoBoingo: That Toledo is still exactly as American as Raven Rock and NORAD...
BingoBoingo: I didn't fail so much as the Instructor was insufferable and I knocked over my king so I could expend more effort on lava lamp divination or pussy or something.
mircea_popescu: i think the least i ever got would translate as a b or something
BingoBoingo: TheNewDeal: As an Undergrad I took... Astronomy...
kakobrekla: as for the thermodynamic aspect of it, you will be warmer if you cover yourself with it.
BingoBoingo surprised loper lacks adbox considering it competes with trilema as most read blog.bitcoin-assets.com
asciilifeform: as it spews glass
asciilifeform: 'rolling coal' << the funny part is that, very soon, all vehicles in usa will. as in, these: http://krisdedecker.typepad.com/.a/6a00e0099229e88833012876d498a2970c-500wi
BingoBoingo: kakobrekla TheNewDeal: SASL seems to avoid the issue as you auth with nickserve as you connect
asciilifeform back from buying a back-breaking 21-inch 'trinitron', missed, as usual, all the goodstuff
mike_c: it killed mpoe options as well. POWER
BingoBoingo: The absurd thing is a shotgun seems like the right tools as it is the standard for similarly sized flying objects (i.e. Birds)
pete_dushenski: commenter: "currently the people most likely to end up as the new aristocracy would be the likes of Zuckerberg, people with nary a clue but lots of money, thus influence, and a strong incentive to please their backers, which inevitably ends up selling out the plebs. I don’t think I would particularly like to end up stagnant in such a pool. There is very little benevolent about mob rule, no matter the kind of mob."
pete_dushenski: we went as a family, including grandparents who hadn't been back since 1960's, in 2005
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski well i wouldn't go as far as fear
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> i already live five blocks down from it, im already taking the sophomores out for a ride... mgith as well. pretty much everyone's a lawyer here anyway. << WHy not, one needs hobbies
mircea_popescu: as in what, a nose job ?
mircea_popescu: right, so if they double gas price people just pay 2x as much for gas.
ben_vulpes: well hang on if the company prices goods in inflating usd they can adjust pricing to match inflation. bonds, as the revered B sez, are a bad bad thing in inflationary situations 'cause paying a price now for money in the future that will be worth less. so confus.
mircea_popescu: you mean people, as in joe blow ?
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu:http://trilema.com/2014/the-pseudo-bitcoinsphere-feels-just-as-squishy-poo-as-the-romanian-pseudo-blogosphere-felt-five-years-or-so-ago/#comment-104157 << i get a kick out of the "no hipsters allowed" sign. mostly, it's implied consideration of ergonomics
decimation: which is why they are willing to work for no pay in 'internships', etc as long as they are working to overturn some heirarchy somewhere
mircea_popescu: it was probably "affordable housing" as part of some development or w/e
mircea_popescu: re:mount on roof : the house is the shitty vinyl siding crap they do in the us. there was no place to attach it to the wall, as the thing has no walls.
mircea_popescu: i already live five blocks down from it, im already taking the sophomores out for a ride... mgith as well. pretty much everyone's a lawyer here anyway.
punkman: enthusiasts buying Oculus bought a product, just not as good as they imagined
decimation: I suspect it's the same reason the subject in question paid more than $75k to go to Loyla to get... a pr degree... and was unable to get a job in pr as a twentysomething non-ugly chick
mircea_popescu: it's as if they somehow inhabit some imaginary sort of world where they're somehow important or something.
assbot: The euro as a precursor to Bitcoin | FT Alphaville
los_pantalones: http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2014/08/05/1916382/the-euro-as-a-precursor-to-bitcoin/?
TomServo: I mean as far as the options market goes.
TomServo: mircea_popescu: On that topic, I've been meaning to ask for a while... I thought Gox was deemed to be of ill-repute well before the shutdown. So why was still seen as a viable price indicator until it's bitter end?
thickasthieves: incl as many exhcngaes as you like, volweight and convert
mircea_popescu: let me tell you something : 1950s romanian fiction about the life of romanian peastants cca 1900 includes malaria as a common disease.
mircea_popescu: in fact, it COULD be that aids-as part of genome is what makes niggers niggers. as unpleasant at that sounds, it's at least possible, scientifically. yet none of the speculative fiction folk with an axe to grind are using it.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> and like last year something that works as a pre-emptor. << Truvada is the trade name, but this pre-exposure prophylaxis thing has been common for exposed medical workers for years. The new thing is someone let the secret out of the bag.
mircea_popescu: and like last year something that works as a pre-emptor.
assbot: The pseudo-Bitcoinsphere feels just as squishy-poo as the Romanian pseudo-blogosphere felt five years or so ago. pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
mircea_popescu: pankkake http://trilema.com/2014/the-pseudo-bitcoinsphere-feels-just-as-squishy-poo-as-the-romanian-pseudo-blogosphere-felt-five-years-or-so-ago/#comment-104167 << :D
gribble: Nick 'mircea_popescu', with hostmask 'mircea_popescu!~Mircea@pdpc/supporter/silver/mircea-popescu', is identified as user 'mircea_popescu', with GPG key id 8A736F0E2FB7B452, key fingerprint 6160E1CAC8A3C52966FD76998A736F0E2FB7B452, and bitcoin address None
punkman: SEC sure as hell don't
assbot: The pseudo-Bitcoinsphere feels just as squishy-poo as the Romanian pseudo-blogosphere felt five years or so ago. pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2014/the-pseudo-bitcoinsphere-feels-just-as-squishy-poo-as-the-romanian-pseudo-blogosphere-felt-five-years-or-so-ago/#comment-104157
BingoBoingo: ThickAsThieves: I think the best move is to always refer to the Altcoin equivalent of satoshis as something different in every conversation.
BingoBoingo: Maybe they should be called Durians as in the fruit
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu> wait. isn't a piece of armor made out of floor tile actually going to SHARPEN the blade on its way in ? << You forget 'Murican series with subsequent blindspot towards sharp objects as a thing to armor against.
asciilifeform: as far as i can tell, it was suggested against small arms
mircea_popescu: one exists as a private only thing, the other not updated since 2013
mircea_popescu: The malpid don't have to establish that criticism of them as wrong, because they will instead insist the criticism is mean. When their favored shiny object betrays them, they will insist the criticism could not have been right as it was mean and they were doomed by some nebulous concept; perhaps they invoke "events that transpired", maybe they invoke "people were mean and that destroyed confidence in out project", but
The20YearIRCloud: The refinance is prime + 2% as a commercial mortgage to our LLC, which is a pretty decent rate. The big benefit compared to just going out and refinancing all the properties at once is that the investors essentially won't see any decreases in the small dividends that they're getting now, only growth.
dignork: mircea_popescu: that pic should be used as CAPTCHA somewhere
thestringpuller: yes as they tell you about how they have to pick up their kids from school soon as you fuck them during guiding light
dignork: mircea_popescu: as an expert in nothing, the writing is "only xyz's cock" , xyz is probably a happy owner
ben_vulpes: this leads to an interesting problem for the btc-denominated tech company manager: how do i spend as little as possible on ongoing development while still keeping things up and moving forwards?
ben_vulpes: but that's what the world is supposed to look like. as in middle school, so in high school, college and so on and so forth.
dignork: i'm doing it for a friend, but all this spec looks overcomplicated as shit, and thus probably buggy exploitable
mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> http://www.muddywatersresearch.com/track-record/ << bitcoin scams don't even register. NASDAQ $23 -> $1.7 << fiat is not as well managed as bitcoin is.
asciilifeform: but that was thrown in there for the same reason as kardashian. almost like he's got a checklist of traditional american cultural markers.
ben_vulpes: probably not as many as you
ben_vulpes: "But the world changed again. And kept changing. So now you’ve got this degree that’s worth fuck-all, a house that’s worth more as scrap lumber than as a substantial investment, and you’re either going to lose your job or have to do the work of two people, because there’s a recession on. Except they keep saying the recession ended, so why are you still working twice as hard for the same amount of money?"
ben_vulpes: "Gen X talked a lot about the revolution, and then went and got themselves some venture capital and started laying into place the oversaturated, paranoid world we live in now. A lot of them tried to tell themselves they were still punk as fuck, but it’s hard to morally reconcile the thing where you listen to Fugazi on the way to your job where you help find new ways to trick people into giving up their data to advertisers. Most people
ben_vulpes: that's what all the ETFs are about as well, aren't they.
ben_vulpes: <ThickAsThieves> i saw this picture of a bunch of Canadian red/white maple leaf ATMs form Cavirtex, I wonder if maybe those stockholders from Havelock might get something something outta things in the end... << a) cavirtex is desperate for profit b) doubtful havelock holders are going to get anything as they've been delisted, right?
asciilifeform buys a nice little cnc vertical milling machine - next day, ebay account of vendor (in as far as can be told, reputable, old;) is cancelled. no recourse.
mircea_popescu: however, it WOULD be marked as a scam.
mircea_popescu: well inasmuch as they fell for a scam, neiher could the coinbase customers
pete_dushenski: decimation: as happens in societies without stable property rights. If you do this at all you can expect an immediately higher default premium which would make an economy undercapitalized." <<
pete_dushenski: as if they'll actually pay the "fine"
punkman1: as an individual you may have the power to not allow the state inspector count your pigs before you sell them
chetty: as I believe was once hte case actually
ThickAsThieves: i'm also unclear as to why a 'state' (in whatever adapted form) can't exist with bitcoin around
ThickAsThieves: i can rationalize a majority of what he's saying, but it's overconfident that everything would go exactly as he sees it
ThickAsThieves: "But as more and more businesses avoid paying more and more taxes, there is less money being left for the government. That means that extraction will become increasingly less effective and therefore allowing even more people to avoid taxation on even larger scale. This cycle would repeat until all government employees will run away to seek real jobs because their bosses wouldn’t be
fluffypony: no no no, we're making Words as a Service in the cloud
fluffypony: got to get someone to make a Greek wordlist, and wanted to make sure the rules we apply to the English one could be applied to Greek as well
fluffypony: but Greek letters in words are individual letters as they are with English, right?
fluffypony: EsteNuno: same EsteNuno as the one from BTCT?
mircea_popescu: armored in the styx as it were.
mircea_popescu: ". As far as intellectual whores can determine, the average female bitch has a rating system that works like this:." << look, the original reference is even preserved./
decimation: as happens in societies without stable property rights. If you do this at all you can expect an immediately higher default premium which would make an economy undercapitalized."
decimation: http://falkenblog.blogspot.com/2014/07/pikettys-terrifying-dystopia_27.html << " It's always been popular to think, maybe we should have a jubilee, get rid of those ledgers and start again as equals! Given the power law distribution of wealth at all times such a proposal is perennially popular to those ignorant of history. Yet, if you do this every period, capital isn't owned by any individual, and so would be completely mismanaged
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cazalla: i'd have to make new accounts as i get banned for shit posting so i lurk
assbot: Ebola terror at Gatwick as passenger collapses and dies getting off Sierra Leone flight - Mirror Online
mircea_popescu: how the fuck is this supposed to work ? GD is somehow not as good as GG in spite of the best genes being apparently.. GD-type ?
zillabtc: Yeah, duffer, i totally hear you and popescu on the topic, I do have to see it through though as it's not the only option for the final product. I hav another provider online that will definitely process with interac
gabriel_laddel: Vexual: Thank you. I'm registered with gribble, but don't have the neccecary level to voice myself. As such, I shall note publicly that if I've something to say, I will ping a member of the channel.
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mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves So ATC has more opportunity than RON? Welcome to the new world order! << lmao this is actually quite literally correct. as unbelievable as that may sound.
mircea_popescu: i mean obviously, why not. add the shit you make to anything as if it were a good thing, put hfcs in drinks, whatever.
dignork: mircea_popescu: it opens "run" input, which is as good as shell
mircea_popescu: cazalla nah that comes out as an uninterpreted bitstream to me.
decimation: I have a friend who took all the exams to be qualified as an actuary. It took him a decade to qualify
ben_vulpes: "At some point, you may wish to delete private keys from a wallet.dat file but as of version v0.6.0 of Bitcoin-QT/bitcoind, there is no RPC method available for this purpose." << assholes.
asciilifeform: chetty: the notion was, evil keyboard disguised as whatever usb gizmo you normally buy (flash drive, mouse, etc.)
asciilifeform: dignork: as i pointed out ages ago to ninjaspamgun, it is the responsibility of operating system to enumerate, e.g. only usb dildo on a given port, and not keyboard or whatnot ☟︎
moiety: you canb have them as pets?! he looks really happy too!
BingoBoingo: For anyone seeking lulzy 'Murican Libturd fail, Doomsday Preppers S03E07 ... Apparent Redditor imagining self as a raider
mircea_popescu: <decimation> granted, it's a mistake to think of that as another golden age too - there's a reason they all left Germany after all << that reason is population pressure.