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princessnell: a) race is a degree of genetic relatedness. as such there is no limit to the number of categories you can create (alternatively no maximum that bounds it). wade painstakingly explains his use of "three races" heuristic and provides ample genetic evidence to support.
mircea_popescu: princessnell you will notice that this wasn't on my list of three things. i discarded it as stupid anyway
jborkl_: so in 18 months they will be broke, sounds exactly correct as far as vc logic goes
mircea_popescu: i suppose you can inadvertently show two addresses as being in the same wallet, this way. except a) why would you not keep multiple wallets if you want this and b) why wouldn't you fake it just to mess with the tracer
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: notice that every single time they try a 'wrecker,' he's dumb as a brick.
kakobrekla: not a scam as such.
assbot: BNP Paribas Risks Client Flight as Ban on Transfers Looms - Businessweek
cgcardona: yea I'm not thinking of moving from btc to gold as an investment. the bulk of my assets are in btc and will remain there. i was more thinking getting some precious metals just as collectors items.
rithm: the metal loses value as a function of time and the bitcoin does not?
HeySteve: I just got a press release, cgcardona, no link as yet
kakobrekla: the only thing you want to do with TBF is to run, as fast and as far as you can.
artifexd: "Furthermore, putting bitcoins on your phone is probably the goddamn stupidest thing that I've ever heard of. Bitcoins are going to be the world's reserve currency4, and as such fated to rise to prices per coin that dwarf even the outlandish Winklevoss' most media-hungry "predictions". To leave such a precious commodity within reach of anyone with a USB
BingoBoingo: I haven't dug into bitcoind that much. I just run it as a dumb node, making sure it plays nice with the network and then largely letting it be.
Duffer1: sounds about as legit as the first one
assbot: BitBet - Bitcoin to surpass Berkshire as an investment :: 1120.86 B (86%) on Yes, 186.18 B (14%) on No | closing in 8 months 4 weeks | weight: 80`354 (100`000 to 1)
punkman: or bet here http://bitbet.us/bet/786/bitcoin-to-surpass-berkshire-as-an-investment/
gribble: Nick 'moiety', with hostmask 'moiety!~moiety@unaffiliated/moiety', is identified as user 'moiety', with GPG key id 6DF881D6696B6111, key fingerprint E64F1CD74C9F7F955A892A646DF881D6696B6111, and bitcoin address None
fluffypony: for the casual observer such as myself
fluffypony: and it can turn on them just as quickly as succeed
mircea_popescu: the only reason it doesn't happen, as long as it doesn't, is that they don't actually have access to it.
mircea_popescu: which was in fact truth, plain as day, for as long as the state was weak and the hansa and its successor guilds ruled supreme.
mircea_popescu: even as it is they have a hard time.
mircea_popescu: pankkake: TradeFortress is now known as "Free hugs! ♥" on scamtalk << why is it always the scammers that push the purely formal "be nice to people" angle ? o wait! because that's how mimicry works, and that's what they are!
fluffypony: and put "aka Tradefortress" as his description
pankkake: TradeFortress is now known as "Free hugs! ♥" on scamtalk
bitcoinpete: "For the 13 months he spent at Allenwood Federal Correctional Complex and the span he spent before then awaiting trial, Auernheimer is asking the government to pay his current market-determined rate of 1 BTC an hour, amounting to 28,296 bitcoins, or $13,200,000 USD as of this writing."
assbot: 66% of Dutch want old currency the Guilder back. Mere 26% supports status quo of Netherlands as member of EU. http://t.co/rlboTfPV16
[]bot: Bet placed: 50 BTC for Yes on "Bitcoin to surpass Berkshire as an investment (http://bitbet.us/bet/786/)". Odds: 86(Y):14(N) by coin, 87(Y):13(N) by weight. Total bet: 1307.03879007 BTC. Current weight: 80,465.
mircea_popescu: "And while I’m setting the record straight, the original (TECO-based) Emacs was created and designed by Guy L. Steele Jr. and David Moon. After they had it working, and it had become established as the standard text editor at the AI lab, Stallman took over its maintenance."
mircea_popescu: " We at Symbolics were slow to acknowledge this. We believed our own “dogma” even as it became less true. It was embedded in our corporate culture. If you disputed it, your co-workers felt that you “just didn’t get it” and weren’t a member of the clan, so to speak. This stifled objective analysis. (This is a very easy problem to fall into — don’t let it happen to you!)"
mircea_popescu: nor do they have any sort of a clue as to how and why and what and so on
asciilifeform: the problem is made somewhat more dire by the fact that the folks traditionally interested in the subject ('library sciences' types) - as i understand - didn't make the jump to electronics really
asciilifeform: naggum's material comes to mind as one example
artifexd: Any recommendations for what to ask them? I mean, what are things that are in question when one company acquires another? For example, it didn't even occur to me that my salary would change, as mentioned by dignork
artifexd: Goal number 1: As much money in a lump payment as possible.
mircea_popescu: In the first two weeks, I was served legal papers a total of seven times and was in contact with the FBI every other day. (This was the period a prosecutor would later characterize as my "period of silence".)
mike_c: yeah, they sold 175 btc worth at 75. as soon as market trading opened up it dropped into the 60s
mike_c: rent did their 2po at 75. as soon as market trading started again it sank.
pankkake: Something, such as a material object or a nonsexual part of the body, that arouses sexual desire and may become necessary for sexual gratification.
danielpbarron: bitcoinpete, > That era was plagued with security issues as development was mostly someone incompetent bankrolled by the foundation
pankkake: but I thought the law wasn't as insane as the mediatic crap
pankkake: I thought you could do anything to a minor, as long as she did not spend the night (which is the détournement)
mircea_popescu: "One of the friends was Denise Joseph, who was engaged to D'Souza while he was still married to another woman. D'Souza resigned as president of King's College, a small Christian school in New York City, after the media revealed his relationship with Joseph in 2012."
thestringpuller: as it's been said, looks like you stumbled into a busines ;)
moiety: ok application in, cross everything and pray to Manul and try to panic as little as possible now is all i can do. thank you BB.
bitcoinpete: chetty: it pretty much is, as with the cloud. security doesn't enter the equation
fluffypony: bitcoinpete: the IPO can include the patents and trademark registration, plus a strong "merchant adoption strategy" and "dynamic userbase growth path", as well as "a drive to be included in all modern dictionaries and encyclopaedias (eg. wikipedia, wiktionary)". We can call it S.SAUCE
kakobrekla: but thanks to all the altcoins btc can no longer be classified as micro, not enough space in that cat.
assbot: https://t.co/RmxEbCTLR3 Throwback to the old days of /hashtag/Bitcoin?src=hash when /phantomcircuit counted as competent and /AmirTaaki as well spoken.
mircea_popescu: as the various pretend exchanges they were invested in croaked
gribble: Luke-Jr was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 2 days, 4 hours, 48 minutes, and 54 seconds ago: <Luke-Jr> but then we realised it'd be about as big a project as Bitcoin, so dropped it and went back to Bitcoin code ;P
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BingoBoingo: American Healthcare is like bitcointalk. Outcomes aren't as important as pissing money away.
mircea_popescu: as best as anyone can discern they're unrelated tho
BingoBoingo: Oh, we love throwing antipsychotics as OCD and aspies here.
BingoBoingo: Doesn't read as subclinical, reads like a candidate for http://www.crazymeds.us/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Meds/Risperdal
mircea_popescu: either getting help, being medicated out of his mind, being used as a cumrag in some us prison or else you know... writing the new bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: "I'll keep this short and simple, and no, I'm not asking for any help, assistance or anything, because I fucking (profanity used as implication of seriousness if it can even be evaluated as such) despise greed..."
BingoBoingo: Ah, yeah. I'm just looking at this Bob Beck guy's stuff. That tweet just made me realize how unsaveble he is as a "fundraiser"
Naphex: as logged in
Naphex: just shows me as a different guy
Naphex: in preferences it shows my email set as prrdublin, although no such address is even alowed access
Naphex: also shows my change history as prrdublin@gmail.com
Naphex: or they are mitming me, this is awkward as hell. i'm logged in with my usermail, yet in google adwords it shows me logged as prrdublin@gmail.com
punkman: as MP said, UK is a shithole
moiety: the place ive seen is the same rent as current flat but it somuch nicer.. and has heating. just because its not in the city
moiety: my deposit from here is probably gone, i don't care about that. just as long as i sort out a new roof, i'll be happy
moiety: i have very little as everything got destroyed at my last place, but i really don't want to lose the stuff i've gathered over the past year, or the cats
moiety: oh yeah that too. same as the first months rent, so like 2 months in advance. im getting help with that bit though
moiety: thanks, that's awful kind but it was more a character reference as on paper im not working. you know? i'm not quite sure what to do. i have a friend that owns a company but hes off in london atm
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[]bot: Bet placed: 55 BTC for Yes on "Bitcoin to surpass Berkshire as an investment (http://bitbet.us/bet/786/)". Odds: 86(Y):14(N) by coin, 88(Y):12(N) by weight. Total bet: 1234.10869404 BTC. Current weight: 80,792.
mircea_popescu: In a C-Span interview that aired Sunday, Federal Housing Finance Agency director Mel Watt said it isn’t his job to worry about shareholders of the two companies, for which his agency acts as conservator.
TheNewDeal: I was on coinmarketcap yesterday, and it said the amount of darkcoins transferred were on the same magnitude as bitcoins
chetty: I wonder if they give the cops a list of what counts as a 'swear' word? And can the cops read it?
bitcoinpete: "But while we may see the Bitcoin ecosystem consolidate to a few dominant firms eager to satisfy regulators, this is no reason to despair." << or consolidate as shit gets shucked
bitcoinpete: mircea_popescu: apparently the mental illness of religious people has been found. some sort of epilepsy << at least according to thomas hobbes, the jooz took epilepsy as a possession to spirits.
thestringpuller: bitcoinpete: mod6 got me into freebsd, it's much more stable than most OS's I use but it was hard as fuck for me to set up
punkman: "MLK Coin is absolutely not a racist coin, it is a coin that carries with it the same dream of a co-mingled society not divided by tribes of skin color, but united as a single family of human beings.  A small pre-mine percentage is intended for distribution to the black community, but the majority (90%) is not.  It is open to miners, investors, and traders of any race, gender, orientation, or other classifications."
kakobrekla: >Alt-bitcoin is a cryptocurrency like Bitcoin, as its special name is.Bitcoin is the only coin that has the highest acceptance and we are lost in the massive altcoins.Everyone loves Bitcoin!!But it is is too expensive for us, we can store this coin named Alt-bitcoin instead. Now we can say: we have tons of bitcoin!! We are never, ever going to be poor again!!
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Apocalyptic: kako, the question is does that apply to bitcoin jesus as well ?
mircea_popescu: every particle, you must take seriously, as if it were the entire fucking world, and one particle is enough to disprove an entire theory, in physics. sure.
mircea_popescu: bias here is exactly contrarily : taking random joe blow seriously as if he were a human being.
mircea_popescu: de Baskerville, devoid of any faith but roughly interestred in the paraphenalia such as the libraries would say such things
mircea_popescu: goethe has a coupla aphorisms on the topic as well if memory serves
mircea_popescu: bounce that is your flaw, and the flaw of the society you live in generally. you reflect each other. the problem is that "precision strikes" as you call the category work amazingly well in technology. as the most technologically successful group of people ever, contemporary whites have come to worship it.
mircea_popescu: "crassus ipo. as the richest man in all the history of the roman empire, and perhaps the world, definitely i can repay you"
mircea_popescu: punkman it occurs to me, someone should make an ipo as a pretend-historical character.
mircea_popescu: the innocents exist, as a category, for the slaughter.
mircea_popescu: this is a subtler point, but probably the best way in is through considering the "nothing sinks a good startup as well as bad revenue early on" observation
mircea_popescu: Mircea Popescu @Mircea_Popescu · 7s @kendo451 @kLee1977 And for that matter, #bitcoin doesn't present itself "as" anything. What you perceive it as is your own issue.
mircea_popescu: Ken Griffith @kendo451 · 5m @Mircea_Popescu @kLee1977 My wife doesn't present herself as a monetary unit. Point is, Bitcoins are limited, yet cryptocurrencies are not. Hide conversation 
mircea_popescu: Ken Griffith @kendo451 · 2h The primary weakness with Bitcoin as a store of value (money) is that it is easily copied with "altcoins" resulting in unlimited supply.
mircea_popescu: bounce the idea that there is such a thing as "messiser than necessary" is how the problem started and spread.
bounce would settle for less idjits in politics and striking lots and lots of laws from the books, as it's pressure group induced and a hard reboot would be rather messier than strictly necessary
mircea_popescu: bounce no but see, in order to support research and the free and fair interchange of ideas, as well as the scientific development required by modern society, only one of about five megacorps is allowed to file for a state-enforced monopoly on select chemical processes.
assbot: The primary weakness with Bitcoin as a store of value (money) is that it is easily copied with "altcoins" resulting in unlimited supply.
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