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gribble: Nick 'thestringpuller', with hostmask 'thestringpuller!~leflor@99-39-97-12.lightspeed.tukrga.sbcglobal.net', is identified
as user 'thestringpuller', with GPG key id 0FF2943DA179E169, key fingerprint 6ACE36E786F39A4ADC4506DE0FF2943DA179E169, and bitcoin address None
fluffypony:
as if that's a bastion of legitimacy :-P
mircea_popescu: i know women who won't use a male gyn, to their detriment,
as male gyns are usually better. but hey, her lyf, her call.
mircea_popescu: ends up generally misrepresented
as "well the problem is he propositioned her". nonsense. the problem is he apparently has the discernment of a five year old.
cazalla: i went to a walk in medical centre with issues about my neck
as I couldn't get an appointment at my usual GP, the GP at the walk in just assumed I was after pain meds and wrote a script for endone (oxycodone) without any hesitation to get me the fuck out of there
☟︎ cazalla: difficult to find a good GP in Australia, the older doctors are few and far between but will allow you adequate time, the younger GP's are usually found in medical centres where the aim is to get you in and out ASAP to bulk bill medicare
as much
as possible
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: It's what he refers to his urologist office mate
as mircea_popescu: someone's in business with a partner known
as... pissy ?!
fluffypony: ;;later tell duffer1 well when you can't decide whether your name is "Timothy" or "Jimmy" it's unsurprising that you'd self-identify
as an "investor" despite never really invested in anything:-P
fluffypony: for eg. the first dividend was paid on 26-05-12 and is listed
as the May 2012 dividend
mircea_popescu: schizopathically & antisocially i seem to count myself
as an institution.
Apocalyptic:
as it's in solely your authority to decide the outcome
kakobrekla: scambot you say? might
as well just call it max keiser then
mircea_popescu: quite snugly fit on the scam stock exchange mo. bitcoin
as a bonus i guess.
mod6: Let me know if you'd like that
as well.
mod6: Ok, will do. It has the ability to broadcast x-bt atc/btc trades
as well, its not turned on by default.
benkay: wouldja be so kind
as to clearsign that comment?
ThickAsThieves: "
as much
as 69 percent of extra virgin olive oil in the US is substandard"
ozbot: VIX and More: The Correction
As Seen in the ETP Landscape
mircea_popescu: dub claw his way north, aye, but not
as far
as he feels like.
dub: it doesnt hurt me but it puts him in the same bucket
as ukyo
mircea_popescu: just
as long
as he's not "sharing" or w/e bullshit the bovines engage in.
fluffypony: On Friday, the Ohio Department of Public Safety ruled that "Bitcoin cannot be accepted
as payment for alcohol in the State of Ohio."
Naphex:
as well
as gpg otp for withdrawals
benkay: am i going to have to give you an email
as well?
jurov:
as i computed above, whole fiber will weight only grams.
artifexd: I would think that the minimum diameter (given similar materials) would determine the breaking point, not whether the diameter of this cross section is the same
as the cross section 100 ft away.
jurov:
as even hair fiber can carry ridiculous power and shpuld be able to carry 100km of itself
mircea_popescu: meaning any info you upload to them, such
as bank acct numbers, id scans, etc, is now held by the usg and by all the hacker groups.
mircea_popescu: kinda why regressive tax is actually the only way for national/polis stability. it acts
as a de facto offer.
mircea_popescu: also known
as the view that locations have to make you offers, rather than vice-versa.
mircea_popescu: the whatsapp had "users", airbnb is "a success", coindesk is being pumped by gigaom
as "relevant" and coindesk has a lot of users and etc.
fluffypony: I was hoping for a submarine inside it
as I was scrolling
mircea_popescu: but the entire roman republic, pre empire, can be correctly summarized
as a set of benches somewhere, and people vying for position on the best bench.
mircea_popescu: "A lot more men than women choose to do seemingly irrational things such
as become petty criminals, fly homebuilt helicopters, play video games, and keep tropical fish
as pets (98 percent of the attendees at the American Cichlid Association convention that I last attended were male). Should we be surprised that it is mostly men who spend 10 years banging their heads against an equation-filled blackboard in hopes of lan
benkay: happy weekend to yourself
as well
moiety: benkay: yeah, i have to stop responding
as i am reading. i saw the biting bit after. happy weekend btw!
danielpbarron: 11:51:45 <+mircea_popescu> i will go
as far
as to say that no person that has spent one year diligently (4hrs/day) reading this logs can be stupid. << I have been doing exactly that ever since I found this place.
prestonbanks: bingbiongo; i have some experience with registering and using IRC channels so i think that will be no problem
as soon
as i figured out a new nick
ThickAsThieves: i dont write much, and
as i read my writing it feels very "What I Did Last Summer", so I'm also open to constructive criticisms
prestonbanks: i hate those foldable manuals that are
as big
as a roadmap
mircea_popescu: ‘When we show a film which our non-white girls are not allowed to see, they usher patrons with a torch and watch the floor,’ he said. ‘We discussed the matter with the Department of Labour and I raised this point with them.
As a precautionary measure — since non-whites are not allowed to see some films restricted to whites only — we decided that they should not look at the screen.”
mircea_popescu: 7. “Coloured girls can now work
as usherettes in white cinemas — provided they do not look at the screen, Mr John Redman, general manager of Kinekor’s theatre division, told me this week.
fluffypony: I think it's
as mircea_popescu suggests - fake traffic with fake referrers
mircea_popescu: "buy traffic, set X domain
as referer, hope noob webmaster actually links it somewhere"
mircea_popescu: some guy on twitter, " The amount of web traffic that is driven to those site links are the equivalent of Gold to these companies. In a digital world SEO is king. On top of this, the CoinDesk price index is what the foundation uses to charge it’s members and is generally accepted
as the price by mainstream media."
HeySteve: I mention bitcoin-assets in there
as a good place to test ideas and such
HeySteve: it's not the same
as the country becoming independent, it's a holiday about the victory of one faction over another which is used to bolster support for the current ruling party
fluffypony:
as you said - freedom is not absolute, but there are enough extremes on both sides that they can be described
as having achieved a state of relative freedom from 1994
fluffypony: HeySteve:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pass_laws <- I think that alone, which was only repealed in 1986, qualifies
as such a severe restriction of freedom that it would not be untoward to say that the abolishment of Apartheid brought freedom to certain groups
thestringpuller: It's akin to being a spy in war time no? You technically can't exist,
as a spy, thus you parade around like a normal individual.
mircea_popescu: i will go
as far
as to say that no person that has spent one year diligently (4hrs/day) reading this logs can be stupid.
fluffypony: it's gotten better - the BEE rules have relaxed, and black people have received the same education
as whites since the mid 1990s when Model C schools became the norm
mircea_popescu: fluffypony
as you describe it, the only business i'd consider running in south africa would be something like kidnapping young women to be transported for sex work or somesuch.
fluffypony: decimation: nothing - which is why they've been heavily criticised over the years
as creating a "reverse Apartheid"
fluffypony: he took his gardener on
as a business partner
bounce: "rent a gun", where you rent (officership in) "gun #n llc" and get the gun
as a perquisite
ThickAsThieves: SatoshiJack.com Casino link added to therealaltcoin.org, thread updated
as well!
decimation: Therefore in the US corporations are priviledged to share guns
as they see fit, people are not
mircea_popescu: fluffypony but how much of the caught fish is caught by their little tug boats,
as a % ?
mircea_popescu: “If we nationalise it, then the people on the ground will benefit, not capitalists. These big companies come to Cape Town and they fish
as much
as they want and then when a normal or poor person goes to do the same, they are given a quota.
fluffypony: moiety:
as long
as you don't shit bricks it's fine
SatoshiJack: no prob... there is free play
as well --- give me an atc addy and I'll loan anyone 5K to play right now :)
ozbot: Newnote Financial: pioneering crypto-currency transactions
as online currencies set to change the fa
mircea_popescu: new block (64 bytes in length) depends on all the previous blocks.
As a result a hypothetical “memory-saver” should increase his calculation speed exponentially."
mircea_popescu: "We propose a new memory-bound algorithm for the proof-of-work pricing function. It relies on random access to a slow memory and emphasizes latency dependence.
As opposed to scrypt every
mircea_popescu: A: "An open-source technology and concepts for the cryptocurrencies of the future"
as stated on the website. Also, CN developers state it clearly that they are not a coin itself, but rather a technological concept that allows creation of new cryptocurrencies.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: "Much like .nobody knows how to make movies. was generally true in Hollywood, .nobody knows how to make Bitcoin businesses. is generally true in Bitcoin." << I wish designers weren't
as "uppity" these days. It's surprising that a designer straight out of school thinks they know how to "change the world" better than their predecessors who have been doing it for decades, yet these baby designers ha
fluffypony: I love my iPhone. but then again, I primarily use it
as a phone. I do a bit of browsing and play games and have a bunch of apps of various utility, but I don't use it for anything I would consider sensitive
danielpbarron: if the BTC guy tried to grab the headphones, it would look
as if HE were the theif
HeySteve: well, any recording where cash is clearly handed over will have some value
as evidence, the contract being the evidence of bitcoin transferral
mircea_popescu: want a fiat stock exchange
as clean
as mpex, gotta put in
as much work
as mpex does.
HeySteve: I had an idea to improve security of f2f trades: beforehand buyer signs a contract stating his receiving address. if the buyer gets the coins but doesn't pay (
as per security cam), theft is on record
mircea_popescu: between the "you gotta break your lease to use our site" and the "you can't talk to your customers
as per our rules", the whole thing should be illegal.
BingoBoingo: A kind of mini conference for those of us awaiting the gasenwagen
as asciilifeform says.
thestringpuller: yea but
as you can see I just re read the AirBnb one and commented on my recent experience
decimation: mircea_popescu: "anyway, this constant tendency to abstract people out of life is a sickness by now." << I suspect
as least 90% of USG spending is put toward programs who have the goal of treating people
as if they were automatons
benkay: i go out, i meet a chick
as part of my gadding about the local scene. she's an acceptably well-practiced and hardworking programmer. i like her, we fuck. i can't hire her now basically.
mircea_popescu: sex without people is masturbation. finance without people is also known
as crisis.
mircea_popescu: a sort more palatable to the modern religious mind, which
as you stated, works on the " Grand Designers will come up with Cool Shit" faith
mircea_popescu: yeah, this is exactly the problem we're discussing. you don't understand the subject, but you do have convictions
as to what works and how, and what the future will bring.
benkay: distributed systems
as a term of art in the industry (
as i'd expect you to know, fluffypony) does not refer to these blockchain applications