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mircea_popescu: HeySteve not really. i don't think the world has spawned yet such an asshole so as to be able to match with me.
ThickAsThieves: i dont think the btc startup bubble will be nearly as bad
HeySteve: so is to correct to F.DERP as a hedge fund?
mircea_popescu: HeySteve yes, as mentioned in the article. any corps that make bold claims in the future will go in there.
asciilifeform: 'bitpay' is to btc use is as 'wine' (winblows emulation gizmo) is to the use of linux.
mircea_popescu: btw i just got a message from the high council of the darkerati legolas of the something or the other, i forget (it was properly inside a dildo impaled in the cloaca of a messenger crow tho, so there's no doubt as to authenticity)
bitcoinpete: as long as it's hilariously italian lol
fluffypony: might as well just sit on your Bitcoin
fluffypony: rithm: as your GPG signed message proved :-P
Mats_cd03: fattening as fuck
assbot: Kerry presses Maliki as Iraq loses control of Syrian, Jordanian borders| Reuters
pankkake: oh, "to help ducks". I was reading it as "to help duck faces"
thestringpuller: as for the stats of the shirts?
thestringpuller: that's funny as fuck
Mats_cd03: as it is in heaven
benkay: chax is working on a bitcoin-api-as-a-service thinger
mircea_popescu: If a 12 year-old were to write 'I fink that Enid Blyton iz bettern than that Emily Bronte bint cos she has written loads more books' then one could reasonably excuse the spelling as reflective of the stupidity of the mind that produced the content.
mircea_popescu: moves can be used as a ticker
mircea_popescu: dents to learn this and many attended, including students who had attended a course incorporating logic programming the previous term. It was a battle to get the students to do this, not least because two senior lecturers criticised the exercise as presenting too much of a challenge to the students.
mircea_popescu: not as the all-crucial "he y'd you you n'd him"
mircea_popescu: yes but from what i've seen, as a sum
punkman: the bots only know past moves during the current round as it is
mircea_popescu: a bot that takes a betrayal against itself as badly as a betrayal against the world has average ego.
mircea_popescu: now, on this information, each both has an ego, defined as the balance between the weight they give their own history vs the collected world history
punkman: mircea_popescu: probably publishable as a paper if you can be bothered to run in that threadmill << not a big fan of academics, but I can blag it now
ThickAsThieves: i also wonder if age is a factor as well
ThickAsThieves: understood, i'm more pointing out that size is a factor, as in, it being closed isn't enough, it also can't be large
mircea_popescu: "democracy" as practiced among a hundred that know each other is no democracy anyway
mircea_popescu: decimation and so they have modified themselves. no man living with carlyle would regard the average existence of today's westerner as anything but the most abject imprisonment
asciilifeform: e.g. whore with aids might as well contract syphilis
asciilifeform: is ipmi one of those 'may as well hang for a sheep' affairs, where folks use intel cpu, etc and know they're already owned anyway
mthreat: mircea_popescu: yah you were correct. But as you said, your log has gaps, so hopefully Azelphur's logs are more complete.
mircea_popescu: what is this revolutionary scandalous licentiousness where a subject may be allowed to pass himself as moral agent equal to his sovereign ?
mircea_popescu: past days don't change anyway so you do once a day as it were ?
mircea_popescu: i'm not a professor because i find fucking and beating a few selected girls at a time a lot more effectual than merely speaking to an entire gaggle, who also cling to naive misrepresentations as of their "rights" and "freedoms".
mircea_popescu: (for the esl folk, a flap is an affectionate term for a prepubescent prostitute, also used for uppity, vivacious girls in general, as a testament to the traditional positive social view on tween prostitution)
mircea_popescu: it's almost as if being a scientist consisted entirely of beating the cheap boarding houses and asylums to select out of the pox ridden old hags "the paragons of beauty"
mircea_popescu: probably publishable as a paper if you can be bothered to run in that threadmill
mircea_popescu: as a matter of principle.
asciilifeform: dignork: whenever you see a field where it seems as if 'cryptography never happened' - answer is always a misallocation of 'skin in game'
mircea_popescu: yes, they have to be clinically brain injured, as you say. guess what ? they fucking are
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: there's no such thing as english language free press. << OMG Trilema's jig is up!!!
mircea_popescu: most of the stuff they write is practically chinese (ie, doesn't follow romanian topic conventions (as in most latin languages you can order the words either plainly or meaningfully in romanian), they layer an abundance of cultured reference in between common metaphor (which is a process of significating that goes one step further than the idiom, roughly used to be known in english as conceit back before the us was a t
bitcoinpete: "It is highly unlikely that most Americans feel the current rise in prices as noise. Inflation has a way of eating into every penny that you have especially when the market is flooded with debt."
mircea_popescu: benkay: <Vexual> not atc\ // i can't tell if this is the real Vexual or if his nick's been suborned by the most clever team to date << as opposed to what, before ?
mircea_popescu: (yes, it is my considered opinion that the one sine qua non condition for successful flirting is the device of analogy. anything else people insist upon, such as looking good, being funny, having money or w/e is piss)
mircea_popescu: there's no such thing as english language free press.
Vexual: fine as in accepable
Vexual: as the sun comes up over latvia
mircea_popescu: "They are beyond question the loveliest of all their sex...In the United States, of course, where natural selection has been going on, as elsewhere, and where, much more than elsewhere, that has been a great variety to choose from. The eventual American woman will be even more beautiful than the woman of to-day. Her claims to that distinction will result from a fine combination of the best points of all those many race
gribble: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Bronzing%20Up | "They smeared themselves with their own waste, but the protest (known in jails as bronzing up) proved futile when they were later told they were not required at ...
mircea_popescu: "Over time, as finance and commerce became more sophisticated, the concept of a unit of account emerge and gold generally became the default unit. Much has been written regarding why gold fell into this role, but for our purposes here it’s sufficient to note that it did." << seriously ?! what is this, insult the reader's intelligence club ?
mircea_popescu: justusranvier you know if you made a point of cutting out tired cliches such as "By now everyone has heard of" your writing'd benefit immensely.
bitcoinpete: man the world cup wouldn't be 1/10th as interesting w/o bitbet
gribble: CAUTION: irc nick differs from otc registered nick. Nick 'Vexual', with hostmask 'Vexual!~amnesia@gateway/tor-sasl/vexual', is identified as user 'muXne', with GPG key id None, key fingerprint None, and bitcoin address 1Badmofonny75kX7FrVHpCpNsRxMrmuXne
kanzure: might as well
asciilifeform: kanzure: get in wot so i can rate you as known human
asciilifeform: as in bitmaps
mircea_popescu: as in tables ?
benkay: i don't know that the women *can't* have kids so much as the men aren't interested in being fathers or even men
benkay: oh and not just trees - bike staples as well.
benkay: you'll see them down in bsas as well.
benkay: that's what i like about portland as well
benkay: relatedly, lady v and i were saying goodbyes at a dinner party last night, all of the girls with whom i'm friends with at this thing lined up for hugs and kisses - and then the new girl in the room gets up and right in line as well, demanding hers giggling and blushing all the while
mircea_popescu: publio had you self-voiced coincidentally just as moiety was derping ?
moiety: as an organiser, i find it rude telling me how to run things without a decent backup argument/reason and here are plenty that try. its just a hmnmo thx but i take note of the ideas
moiety: am i teling myself that as a delusional spinster?!
benkay: gotta say i ain't got no clue as to how nudity'd sell insurance.
decimation: I agree, but if you are going to eat turds they might as well have a good keyboard
benkay: but it sure as heck beats actual shit.
decimation: this is a pretty simple thought experiment, and the obvious conclusion is that computers (as they are now) are hopelessly insecure
mircea_popescu: the notion that derps imagining themselves involved and part of and etc still treat hearn as anything but vomit behind a bar is perhaps the best argument against democracy.
mircea_popescu: as if this were any kind of argument. as if crops don't fail exactly the same way. etc
mircea_popescu: as if bitcoin'd suffer from a complete ban on all the tard venues, or computers from a complete disappearance of bad software
benkay: i have no idea what rat fuck of code i'm taking on, and i'm sure as hell not taking responsibility for your untested ball of hair falling over because this private method is getting called by your SUPER IMPORTANT WEEKLY REPORTs.
benkay: so while best practices are a thing and brokers do get put to the coals, as with all regulated things only the dumb and most obviously rule-breaky are going to get their feet torched. i can't imagine it being any other way with programmering - the smart ones will shift the blame to the dumb ones, who will take the fall. age old story.
benkay: the people doing the sale failed to do it on their own at 900k, so this vulture swooped in, started ratcheting the price down and as all the buyers trickled in said something along the lines of "I know that this isn't really what you're looking for, but how about I give you a call sometime next week and I'll show you some houses that might fit your budget and expectations a little bit better".
benkay: <mircea_popescu> decimation: now, why do you suppose those who work in the bezzle economy are showered with special favors while those who work in the "real economy" are treated as serfs? <<< here's the thing : real estate agents are certified, and have to be bondend in many places, and have to follow best practices, and can and are put to the coals ifthey do not.
asciilifeform got a dual-converting ups as a gift from phriend not long ago. no more stabilizer 'bzzzzzz'
Cosmos: worst thing is as soon as this Cup fest is over
asciilifeform started crackpot career by reading at&t unix as described in 'lions book' and setting out to 'take out mistakes' - then noticed that result is... empty space
BingoBoingo: Isn't a tie as bad as losing?
mircea_popescu: i've never loved baba gnoush as much as i do here. i'm up for it brakfast lunch and dinner, it's crazy. these folkjs eat nothing but meat.
Cosmos: I have a billion 'flatfile' notes as you say, recorded in HDD, but this I just pulled out of my brain
mircea_popescu: it's only fair, as i can afford it.
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
assbot: RICH (Voice cracking) You look at me as though I were an enemy! MORE (Pu - Pastebin.com
nubbins`: fun fact, peruvians call their tongue "castellano" as well
Cosmos: I'm acutely aware of how appearing as a newbie & suddenly talking big about myself & donations & work etc makes me look at first glance, which is why I'm playing it up w/ it massively, for mutual entertainment
Cosmos: As long as she was mature for her age & was consenting
Cosmos: Given power, I will try my best to give as many deserving people as possible, better opportunities for improving their lives
mircea_popescu: <nubbins`> ;;echo not as bad as $randnick << shit i meant google not gribble.
gribble: not as bad as Mats_cd03
nubbins`: ;;echo not as bad as $randnick
Cosmos: just as a token of appreciation
Cosmos: I was born as Carl E. Sagan in Nov 9, 1934
mircea_popescu: besides, they count this rather mild 10ish degrees weather as vERY COLd
mircea_popescu: that didn't actually work as expected. how'd i make it return lines with both words ?
mircea_popescu: mthreat history, as in, list them by reverse-date
mircea_popescu: add history as an optional i say