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mircea_popescu: The guy known as asciilifeform had a corny penile horn. Whomever he fucked was thoroughly plucked and no longer lukewarm to reform.
fluffypony: on the 'net lived a trader named Mike, whose charts would show both dip and spike, good advice he did give, as an investment sieve; with the proceeds he bought a new bike!
mike_c: as warren was fond of saying "a long string of big numbers times zero.."
fluffypony: won't have the same ring to it as megalomania :-P
mircea_popescu: A corpulent maiden named Kroll had a notion exceedingly droll: at a masquerade ball, dressed in nothing at all, she backed in as a Parker House roll.
mircea_popescu: http://media.nscdn.com/uploads/member/pictures/1299036080all-innocence-has-been-lost.jpg as a bonus.
fluffypony: and as we know mircea_popescu loves bitcoingirl
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the sad part about a life as a stoolie is this : that once mp blows your cover, your value to your owners decreases dramtically. and while you had been lured into the life with promises of superspydom, well... you gotta do the work such as it is. whether you think yourself better than that or not.
fluffypony: asciilifeform: he's revealing himself as the Bitcoin Devil to Ver's Jesus
the20year: I'm shocked that both IPOs went as well as they did, but through both of them at the $4/share range, it gave us sufficient capital to buy the 8 properties we wanted, and build the business to viability
mircea_popescu: that double price week of ipo thing you had going is definitely problematic, as far as these things go. but anyway, im too lazy to dig up the actual threads.
the20year: Your guess is as a good as mine , i guess they assume that him and I are both 100% fraudsters and want to prevent anyone from investing in either of us as the assumption is that we will take all their money
cr_zoidberg: Hello, I'm known as zoidberg and I'm a core developer of project Boolberry. I heard about this channel via Bitcrea and Matic Kocevar. We are currently searching for support opportunities for Boolberry. We are the most advanced anonymous cryptocurrency to date, a modified and improved version of CryptoNote. Here's a few presentations we recetly released:
mircea_popescu: as good as any social statistics anyway.
mircea_popescu: you see, the % they seek merely guides as to how much they'd have to make to break into relevancy.
mircea_popescu: essentially, turning the economy into "an economy of attention" was a fatal (if forced) mistake. without attention as a side channel organised work becomes impossible.
mircea_popescu: the20year: fell through, every thing that could have gone wrong to work with them fell through and i essentially took it as a sign not to do the deal << sensible.
mircea_popescu: just as much a part of redneck culture as nascar
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: presumably your employees are in 'the black' though. otherwise you'd refer to them as volunteers...
mircea_popescu: as dreadknight would inform you, "it depends where you live".
the20year: Well, i thought so, till they started poking around and started using statements i"ve made 3 months, 6 months, 10 years ago as 'proof' that i'm lying about things
the20year: So, as long as these guys don't do something stupid to shut us down on the btctalk thread we'll be ok
the20year: fell through, every thing that could have gone wrong to work with them fell through and i essentially took it as a sign not to do the deal
the20year: As far as give us lines of credit and mortgages
the20year: I met with the bank today and got very, very good news - The company has grown to the point (finally) that they want to take us on as a lending partner
ThickAsThieves: <+mike_c> TaT, you said we were in a bull channel and were going to pop to $700. you need to buy different tea :) /// if you look at the chart it calls for a down before the 700, grnated the chart didnt go as far down as today
gribble: About as likely as pigs flying.
gribble: About as likely as pigs flying.
DreadKnight: seem something strange as well... we got gypsies around which are pretty much black; yet they seen a black dude walking around (they're rather rare here) and the gypsies (3 women and a kid) where like constantly calling "nigger!" behind his black; I was like wtf
DreadKnight: actually I'm thinking about Diablo 3 overall; did too much HoMM3 in my life, not quite cutting it anymore as it should
cazalla: they may as well give you 1 man because i restart if i lose any mans let alone having 20 to spare or something like that
cazalla: finished as in finished did not concede a single point?
DreadKnight: had my share of td games, especially as custom maps in warcraft 3
DreadKnight: benkay, life as a baron not more exciting? :\
cazalla: DreadKnight, not really, missus wanted one for a while but i resisted, figured if i'm gonna die, may as well
DreadKnight: buy gold and bury it somewhere, treasure map it as a nice game
mircea_popescu: as cazalla points out, there's other schools of thought on the subject.
DreadKnight: some of the godfathers around add a name to the newborn as well, bitcoinpete
DreadKnight: bitcoinpete, I got experience with naming stuff; wouldn't mind being your godfather as well
bitcoinpete: benkay: fair enough. and i've been considering it privately… just haven't come up with a better url as much as anything
mircea_popescu: VanCleef btctalk is kinda looked down upon as a shitty venue
asciilifeform: as in, 19th c. state of the art.
RebeccaBitcoin: awesome, so I can chat now without having to as assbot for permission?
gribble: Error: Missing "]". You may want to quote your arguments with double quotes in order to prevent extra brackets from being evaluated as nested commands.
asciilifeform: decimation: interesting in so far as the detector (http://www.blitzortung.org/Webpages/index.php?lang=en&page=2) could be configured instead to detect... other things
DreadKnight: either as a college graduate with huge debts or being in jail
mircea_popescu: then as that sunk moved on to bizarre shilling of quantum computing and assorting other scams
asciilifeform: decimation: as with any professional-grade chumpatronic circuit.
gribble: About as likely as pigs flying.
RebeccaBitcoin: As for how is this place nerdy: you want me to upload GPG keys, talk to some robot named gribble... and use IRC
mircea_popescu: RebeccaBitcoin: I was hoping IRC wasn't going to be as nerdy as it was 10 years ago. Apparently I'm wrong. << how the fuck is this place nerdy
dub: not dereeted, struck me as a hilarious capitulation to truth
RebeccaBitcoin: I was hoping IRC wasn't going to be as nerdy as it was 10 years ago. Apparently I'm wrong.
decimation: just because you deal in a currency doesn't mean you view it as a savings vehicle
bitcoinpete: DreadKnight: ya i watched the show as a kid. wasn't terrible or scarring. so better than what's on today i guess
DreadKnight: bitcoinpete, sounds a bit gay hmm, I'm afraid; he showed up a bit in Big Bang Theory, impersonating himself as a washed up actor overall
bitcoinpete: DreadKnight: mircea_popescu, oh, La Forge, the black guy with visor << he's coming back to tv soon. as the reading rainbow guy!
decimation: as moldbug points out, most folks want to be published in the 'grey lady'
decimation: well, considering that in practice nearly everything can be construed as illegal in the us, that's probably true
asciilifeform: the reason why aztlan hypothesis strikes me as weak, is that it is not clear that the mexicans are one-sidedly thrusting unsolicited cock across the border
asciilifeform: as i understand, the customs inspectors who understand that certain trucks are not to be fucked with, certain hours they should take a smoke break and look away, etc. - are still alive.
mircea_popescu: it might as well have happened. whatever "the populace" did
mircea_popescu: california was and will be happy to continue as a province of mexico city.
mircea_popescu: dub it won't be identified or self-identify as "populace"
DreadKnight: hah, there are a lot of re-branded pharmaceutical drugs nowadays, basically the same thing as aspiring or other common stuff, just at way higher prices
DreadKnight: punkman, I'm aware, good point as well :) I guess it's were all the banks and money related problems started appearing... and inflation!
chetty: ban bitcoin? might as well try to ban the internet
DreadKnight: mircea_popescu, yeah good point, but I see ltc as the "next missile in line to fire", just in case
xmj_: someone banning bitcoin would be the best thing ever, as it's much like a hydra.
benkay: <DreadKnight> some try to improve stuff under the hood, but I don't have the technical expertise to figure out if those changes are really improvements // if the improvement isn't plain as the nose on my kike face it and everyone behind it are going to get glassed
mircea_popescu: whether it will or whether it wont fundamentally hinges on whether the vc economy is as relevant for bitcoin as mpoe is. which is a point i can't hardly help i dont think
mircea_popescu: if i happen to have formed a wrong idea it is my god given right as a transcvasimultiultra and so forth to stick to it and nobody can criticize me!
mircea_popescu: (that country is so mercenary it even does spying as a service)
mircea_popescu: benkay would you accept the fermat theorem as research ?
mircea_popescu: (amusingly, maddox was harping about beef jerky before teh mainstream picked it up as bacon)
DreadKnight: I was thinking about it as well xD
asciilifeform: decimation: if you buy a gizmo like this, get the roll screen, walls aren't nearly as reflective.
asciilifeform has been using this: http://imgur.com/9NX7eaX as a tv for some years. works great.
decimation: I guess I'm using "our" for "our time", in as much as anyone can 'own' an epoch
DreadKnight: even the PC was close to being dismissed as crap because of lack of vision from the business man taking a look at it
midnightmagic: "no new more fundamental particles as of X TeV in the LHC"
asciilifeform: this is not, as the particle smashers tell us, an accident.
mircea_popescu: obviously a large number of people who like to identify as physicists are in the situation of people who like to identify as rockstars.
mircea_popescu: so then ? you dispute it actually works as described ?
asciilifeform sees 20th c. physicists as largely imposters, who 'the good parts - not original, the original parts - not good'
DreadKnight: some people would get poor in no time anyway, as they originally were
asciilifeform: 'For social mobility to work, it needs to be a two-way highway, with a large number of pre-rich and an almost as large one of post-rich.' -- from the taleb link
HeySteve: DreadKnight, wasn't aware of that tradeoff, makes sense. that's the kind of mechanic I was suggesting, like you could use a lot of powerful unit abilities or summon a lot of creatures, but not both as a strategy
DreadKnight: HeySteve, well, no mana as there is no magic; there's plasma to protect Dark Priest (summoner) and also make units (so more / better units = less protection, it's a tradeoff); each unit has it's own energy stat, abilities require energy, there's also meditation to replenish that, but if an unit gets damaged in a round above a treshold (more than endurance stat), then the unit gets no regen it's next turn (regrowth for health and m
asciilifeform: HeySteve: traditional civilian execution in russia involves a single bullet (firing squad is seen as 'military', not befitting a common criminal)
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Cynide abandons the pretense of greater civilization by being explicitly a poison. This pretense only holds if it is a medical looking even. Also... cyanide is probably onjectionable to the executioner as it presents a risk to them.
assbot: Arizona's Execution Attempt Goes Horribly Wrong As Man Remains Alive Nearly 2 Hours After Injection | ThinkProgress
pigeons: the bankroll was not included as an asset for purposes of the share ownership. share ownership only gave you a claim to earnings
FabianB: as for s.nsa or s.bbet i agree it's a little odd that it's not traded more actively, and why ppl mostly buy at IPO and not later
jurov: or it will come but market won't react at all, as usual on mpex
FabianB: "jurov:it needs another s.dice" <- isn't s.bbet like it, just not as popular, less dividend but less risk?
DreadKnight: consider them as teachers :D
DreadKnight: benkay, need to spend a few more days learning about socks / dividends / shares / listing so I can talk the talk properly and write some documentation as well (which is long time due)
DreadKnight: I bought a hdd from an online store, a romanian ebay clone once and I got scammed as it was old and had bad sectors, was it the website's fault? my fault more likely, but there was a reputation system so I should had been more careful, also the used got banned quickly
benkay: this bit lending thing actively goes out of its way to promote itself as a safe place to do lending. it goes above and beyond the call of duty to enable scammers.