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nubbins`: (not
to his face, he could likely kick me
to death)
nubbins`: i've
taken
to calling him cock swap
nubbins`: there's a spin instructor at
the gym named dick barter
mircea_popescu: that minded his own business, was kinda friendly, and so everyone he knew suggested he do one
thing for his future
mircea_popescu: lol. nah. he was
this guy about fifty, not particularly bight, in fact closer
to high functioning retardation
mircea_popescu: nubbins` by
the way, know
the story of old john cocksucker and his namechange ?
nubbins`: the best stories are succinct, yet moving, and oddly
telling
nubbins`: i know a woman with
the last name Smellie,
true story
mircea_popescu: o, right! because it's a stupid idea! well... nevermind
then.
mircea_popescu: i wonder why all
the people with shitty names don't get
together and make
their own country.
mircea_popescu: yeah,
totally. im sure
the price for his penis is over 300 bux.
fluffypony: And if it wast dead
the price wouldn't go
that low
fluffypony: About how Bitcoin is dead because
the price went so low
nubbins`: if you're ninjashogun, expect
the reverse in a moment
mircea_popescu: we have not, because we did last
time and well, it just seems
to encourage
this sort of
thing
mircea_popescu: and how many random bits are overinterpreted in
the quest for
the former
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform incidentally, i am curious how many of
the references and injokes are actually observable from outside
the work
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller listen, you actually shipping
those cookies ?
mircea_popescu: and bingo you're doing a bangass job over
there! everyone else links
the pdf, you put in
the
text. brownie points.
nubbins`: i
think
they black out
their mirrors
mircea_popescu: how do
these people even get out of bed in
the morning ?
mircea_popescu: the law requires someone asking for his rights
to be protected
to say how his rights were infringed
nubbins`: let
them be henceforth known as
The Enemies
mircea_popescu: i should probably say "the enemies of a free world, liberty, happiness and generally humanity", but it's kinda lengthy
to give
these people all
their proper
titles and indignities.
mircea_popescu: ;;later
tell bingoboingo cazalla heh check out
the furry of attention your little project is getting from our enemies. methinks we;ve struck oil here.
bounce: ah,
the link between
the videos is
the
tune
assbot: 'I've made a
terrible mistake' - YouTube
nubbins`: ben_vulpes why is
this a 35s video instead of a 3s gif?
bounce: didn't get one of
those, but I have a lot of ad-y
things blocked here.
nubbins`: luckily
this video has an unskippable ad at
the start
bounce: it's blue. snazzy
tune
though. didn't
think it had it in it.
assbot: Radioactive emission of Uranium visible
to naked eye in a cloud chamber! - YouTube
assbot: Logged on 07-10-2014 04:02:22; WolfGoethe: I code web mostly. many platforms. had a few startups. did
the napster of Ringtones in 2000. and a few social networking sites. and now working on some bitcoin stuff.
mircea_popescu: i'm sorry, i mean, still have no idea
that
they wolfgoethe
nubbins`: but wait dude, you don't understand, he also did
that one of
the mandelbrot set
nubbins`: could make 60 of
these a second
mircea_popescu: i'm like... dude i used
to make
that stuff, in basic, on a z80
nubbins`: boils some poor heel's life down
to
this shitty little nugget of wasted effort
nubbins`: websites like
that make me sad
nubbins`: also
turns out i'm gonna be printing
the writers' alliance quarterly journal
nubbins`: <+nubbins`> i found a piece of paper yesterday
that said "1:30pm
tuesday oct 7" and i can't remember if i'm supposed
to be meeting someone here or not
bounce: what, you don't know? currency codes use
the iso3166
two letter country code plus one letter for
the currency. so BTC is really "bhutan coin". exceptions are
the X codes, XAU, XPT, XAG and so on.
chetty: I wouldnt go
too much by localbitcoins listings, plenty of places
trading in btc not listed
PeterL: thickasthieves: yes, but it can be a different individual at each end of
the
transfer, unlike now where you have
the same company at both ends
PeterL: yeah, not yet, but certainly moving
that direction
dignork: PeterL | you don't need remittances anymore << in
theory you are right, but for now you have whopping 5 buyers listed on localbitcoins in Mexico. Seems we are not
there yet.
PeterL: maybe
that is why USgov wants
the price low, so it is harder
to move large quantities of money outside
their system without permission?
PeterL: didn't MP once refer
to local currency as "food vouchers"?
PeterL: you don't need remittances anymore, just a local
trader at each end
to convert
to/from local currency
dignork: thickasthieves: in "send money home" scenario, no arbitrage/insurance is required, unless we are
talking about hedging volatility risk. Any btc buyer or seller migh assume himself in "remittance business", which means unrestricted lower bound for margin.
that's why i
think remittance as a business will disappear. It will just
turn into a corner case of btc<->whatever
trade.
thickasthieves: just because bitcoin lets people do
things for
themselves doesnt mean
that all of sudden people will start doing
things for
themselves
thickasthieves: dignork
thats what remittance is, paying a fee
to
transport money via a 3rd party
los_pantalones: ever seen someone exchange .00001% of
their home for a piece of pie ?
dignork: thickasthieves: if it's
trivial
to find buyer here, and seller
there, it won't be remittance anymore, just exchage fees on both sides of
trade
thickasthieves: Well i
think businesses will still provide
the service
los_pantalones: thickasthieves why do ppl
think you should exchange a provably finite asset for something like a ham sandwich
thickasthieves: dignork i assume you mean be
taken over by crypto, not disappear
thickasthieves: by closed loop i mean getting people
to
transact in bitcoin and not convert
to fiat
nubbins`: i found a piece of paper yesterday
that said "1:30pm
tuesday oct 7" and i can't remember if i'm supposed
to be meeting someone here or not
thickasthieves: generally i subscribe
to
the belief
that all extremes and ideals are only achievable for a moment at best, and
that a robust/sustainable approach
to
theory and design is better
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] [PAID] 5.10594672 BTC
to 1`149`988 shares, 444 satoshi per share
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] [PAID] 1.11813156 BTC
to 15`414 shares, 7254 satoshi per share
thickasthieves: i'm just
thinking out loud here, waiting for someont
to bring me
to earth
thickasthieves: closing
the loop is probably an anti-goal because changing
the value of bitcoin dramatically would also change
the costs of goods dramatically
thickasthieves: which is not
totally possible, but probably
the natural point bitcoin
trends
towards
thickasthieves: this is also why you get guys
talking about "closing
the loop"