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assbot: This is it | The Whet
mircea_popescu: lmao how do you make it in here without wanting to bash people's heads in ?
xanthyos: i'm one of the entitled socialist dregs that bitcoin is going to weed out
kakobrekla: being a test subject
xanthyos: the ocd and borderline personality disorder are the truly disabling things
thestringpuller: xanthyos: one of my closest friends has schizoaffective disorder. there was a point when he was having tons of episodes everyday that he couldn't really leave the house. But he's doing better now because better treatment is out. Just stick with it mang.
thickasthieves: maybe in addition to the shrink
mircea_popescu: honestly i'd rather go to some full contact sport thing than a shrink if the problem is violence.
thickasthieves: get someone to help you with motivating and taking care of yourself to do what you need to do
mircea_popescu: it's not "impulse control", once she hands you your ass twice a week for a month
bounce: plenty help with all sorts of things. good of you to know where (some of) your weaknesses are. doing something about it is the next step.
xanthyos: have one, but missed my most recent appointment due to anxiety
bounce: get a gf that could hit you right back, and will if you mope
xanthyos: ti's not a sadomasochistic thing
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: No, he was too stupid and the stingray too wily
xanthyos: i dont' like to do it
mircea_popescu: so get one that likes it.
xanthyos: how's that for honest?
xanthyos: because i'm too afraid if i got a girlfriend i'd just end up BEATING her like the last one
mircea_popescu: how about steve irvin, BingoBoingo ? that dude was too crazy to live.
BingoBoingo: <xanthyos> i'm too crazy to live << No such thing.
mircea_popescu: and that without even considering the part where you were born before he got it.
kakobrekla: x<xanthyos> maybe danielpbarron is right when he says i'm brain damaged and i can't trust my own judgment < its good you figured this before buying a bottle of vodka and walking into the woods. just listen to us.
BingoBoingo: vodka and the woods sounds like a fun way to get a hangover.
mircea_popescu: i never heard of any man's post pancreatic lung cancer giving their offspring braindamage
xanthyos: i might buy a bottle of vodka and walk into the woods
xanthyos: maybe danielpbarron is right when he says i'm brain damaged and i can't trust my own judgment
mircea_popescu: xanthyos this too shall pass eh.
xanthyos: i'm too crazy to live
xanthyos: so i think that deserves a negative assbot rating
xanthyos: and i have been stuck in the chapel perilous in some schizoaffective bullshit for 8 days unable to leave the house or bed
mircea_popescu: trust is a feeling! investing is a +ev activity for the amateur, just like people make a profit growing tomatoes on their windowsil. sticks and stones could break your bones but words is what really matters. etc.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla you don't understand how the world works.
gribble: WARNING: Currently not authenticated. Trust relationship from user mike_c to user tapeke: Level 1: 0, Level 2: 0 via 0 connections. Graph: http://b-otc.com/stg?source=mike_c&dest=tapeke | WoT data: http://b-otc.com/vrd?nick=tapeke | Rated since: never
mike_c: ;;gettrust tapeke
assbot: Logged on 08-10-2014 22:01:06; Quinn_: Yeah i think i'll stick to working with trustworthy people like Tapeke and blockchain! Seeya!
assbot: Logged on 08-10-2014 03:44:52; mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: i really trust him with 6 but motherfucker is already leading. << bwahahaha WAY AHEAD
mircea_popescu: so much shit on people's eyes getting in the way of their finding a loaf of bread
gribble: wyrdmantis was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 2 weeks, 5 days, 12 hours, 10 minutes, and 57 seconds ago: <wyrdmantis> Alibaba IPO? Totally unrelated to this downmove?
mike_c: there was this woman around looking for work who was a writer, but i think she disappeared.
gribble: Bitstamp BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 353.67, Best ask: 353.85, Bid-ask spread: 0.18000, Last trade: 353.67, 24 hour volume: 27768.82024727, 24 hour low: 326.93, 24 hour high: 355.0, 24 hour vwap: 342.040137856
mike_c: my once-a-month pace already strains my time for writing. i don't think i'm the right fit for a newsroom.
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BingoBoingo: mike_c: I dunno. It's all about the burn rate.
mircea_popescu: mike_c i don't think he was proceeding very calculatedly tbh.
mike_c: his time must be worth more given he just turned down a weekly video job.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the sad part here is that 15k youtube views took $300 * 3 * 4.2 = 3800 dollars' worth of this guy's time.
thestringpuller: Yeah i think i'll stick to working with trustworthy people like Tapeke and blockchain! << blockchain is trustworthy nao?
mircea_popescu: Tapeke is the first personal finance application specifically designed for Bitcoin. We help Bitcoiners to keep track of their Bitcoin expenses and incomes and ..." << you couldn't possibly mean that ?!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform http://i.imgur.com/onmJiHN.gif << am i putting this in the next s.nsa report ?
mircea_popescu: who the fucke is tapeke
Quinn_: Yeah i think i'll stick to working with trustworthy people like Tapeke and blockchain! Seeya! ☟︎
hanbot: mircea_popescu: how's slotful lust ? asciilifeform: you of all people should know << ahahaha, this convo....
mircea_popescu: i was a producer for a bunch shots, but that was back in the 90s.
mircea_popescu: this is an interesting point tho. i guess for the vast majority of the public, bitcoin is this "cool tech", nobody stops to think bitcoin is actually a bunch of saudi princes.
Quinn_: Not to seem rude, but there;s hundreds or people who claim to be bitcoin millionaires on reddit and such.
mircea_popescu: bitcoin created what, 50bn worth of value out of the ether. didja think it all went into the usg budget or something ?
BingoBoingo: He's at least a plural hundreds of Millionaire though, provably.
BingoBoingo: Quinn_: At the time he was provably a Billionaire. Now He's mysteriously maybe so. Bitcoin be volatile.
assbot: Romanian Bitcoin baron 'stumps up $20k to keep OpenBSD's lights on' The Register
Quinn_: other than one article citing you as a romanian billionaire which doesn't exactly sound in any way legit.
Quinn_: I did it in my spare time between commissions, since it wasn't a source of income so around 3 months
mircea_popescu: so how long did this video in question take you ?
mircea_popescu: hm, irc chats are actually the pinnacle of trustworthy, you just don't know about how it all works yet.
Quinn_: The amount of work and time dedicated all depends on price. e.g a $300 video that's 30 seconds long will take a week.
mircea_popescu: Quinn_ how long does it take you to make one of these ? could you in principle bang out one a week if scripts were availabe ?
Quinn_: I don't arrange commissioned work through irc chats, not very trustworthy.
mircea_popescu: you can contact me through here and we can discuss it further.
mircea_popescu: that's the point, actually.
mircea_popescu: i'm not going to.
Quinn_: Contact me through my site and we can discuss this further! :)
bounce: that's not-invented-here.gov, dunno about their political or historic revisionism inclinations
mircea_popescu: i mean sure, it all fits neatly, "prior to the soviet state and everywhere outside of it kids had it rough and didn't even get any icecream"
mircea_popescu: Quinn_ no, not yet. but if you're amenable to work on one i think we can probably come up with something.
bounce: ``The Mexican natives in the encomienda system were treated as virtual slaves, were poorly fed and clothed, and were greatly overworked as farm and mine laborers. This harsh treatment appears to have left them particularly vulnerable to epidemic disease.'' -- worked to death, illness finished it
mircea_popescu: but i'm preselected, i already seen the cartoon you made, so we're going with that type.
Quinn_: well I don't know what type of cartoons you want, so i can't tell you if i can agree to it or not.
ben_vulpes: though the causal relationship is a little murky to me
mircea_popescu: Quinn_ how does it depend on the content ?
Quinn_: Depends on the content, i have a site which is better to contact me through. www.zenithquinn.com/#!commissions/c171x
asciilifeform: chetty: in usa we fear unemployment literally more than bloody death of obola.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: prior, iirc. the context of the remark was that the sultan (subject of the chapter) began to address the plagues that had routinely decimated the capital with european medical techniques. this was, iirc, one of the last three to rule before the sultanate was brought to an end by the young turks et al.
Quinn_: I created the bitcoin users in a nutshell cartoon.
BingoBoingo: Hanta is apparently a creature of the desert.
Quinn_: mircea, i was told you wanted to talk to me?
mircea_popescu: they eat the squirels. same deal.
chetty: BingoBoingo, thats a point, with all the drought that should have broken out, haven't seen anything about it
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Hanta, still endemic to the America southwest. Goes through dormant, emergent cycles
chetty: <asciilifeform> chetty: they want to eat.// helps to be alive to do that
mircea_popescu: teh mexicans had an ebola-ish thing at some point.
gribble: Megadrought and Megadeath in 16th Century Mexico: <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2730237/>; Cocoliztli - Evidence Detail :: US History: <http://www.dhr.history.vt.edu/modules/us/mod01_pop/evidence_detail_11.html>; Cocoliztli or Cocolitzli? - Indigenous Hemorrhagic Fever and The ...: <http://earthmatrix.com/linguistic/cocoliztli.html>
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Most cattle here lack the cardiovascular endurance to really... Stampede... McDonalds et al
asciilifeform: chetty: they want to eat.
chetty: on the not shutting down flights, whats wrong with those pilots and aircrews, they can and should shut it down
mircea_popescu: it's the cattle.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i wouldn't credit them with that.
chetty: I don't think they even need actual disease now, the fear may be enough
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: The scariest zombies are always the kind that die. I've never much feared undeath.
asciilifeform: these folks are pro at exactly one thing: keeping the cattle from stampede.