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ben_vulpes: much self-contradiction. it's
the lot of
the nearly-enlightened under
the USG.
thestringpuller: and also I am an asthmatic with bad allergies. i have a feeling when I step off
the plane I'll breathe like I've never breathed before!
thestringpuller: that shit is fucking dope
to me. i just love
the rain man, i dunno
thestringpuller: seattle is dope man. I love climates
that are rainy all
the fucking
time
thestringpuller: For some reason I
think
those
two slang
terms are related on some level.
ben_vulpes: close. whore for
the great satan at
the v. least.
ben_vulpes: "But
the world changed again. And kept changing. So now you’ve got
this degree
that’s worth fuck-all, a house
that’s worth more as scrap lumber
than as a substantial investment, and you’re either going
to lose your job or have
to do
the work of
two people, because
there’s a recession on. Except
they keep saying
the recession ended, so why are you still working
twice as hard for
the same amount of money?"
ben_vulpes: don’t even bother.
They just compartmentalize."
ben_vulpes: "Gen X
talked a lot about
the revolution, and
then went and got
themselves some venture capital and started laying into place
the oversaturated, paranoid world we live in now. A lot of
them
tried
to
tell
themselves
they were still punk as fuck, but it’s hard
to morally reconcile
the
thing where you listen
to Fugazi on
the way
to your job where you help find new ways
to
trick people into giving up
their data
to advertisers. Most people
ben_vulpes: honey if
the rest of
the world disagrees, who
the fuck are you again?
ben_vulpes: this whole article is an exercise in convincing
the writer
that her lifestyle is right and good and
that
the rest of
the world is Doing It Incorrectly.
ben_vulpes: "Other older men simply admit
they can’t get it off with
their own saggy, wrinkly peers. (This, by
the way, is simply nature's way of
telling
them
that it's
time
to stop breeding)."
ben_vulpes: "Where in
the world (outside of
Taliban-controlled parts of Afghanistan) do fifty-year old men routinely get
to mate with
twenty-year-old women? " oh gosh
ben_vulpes: spycraft's included putting a laser beam against a window and backing sound waves out of
that for a while now.
assbot: Algorithm recovers speech from vibrations of potato-chip bag filmed
through soundproof glass
punkman: "An 8-month, $50 million investigation into MW’s allegations by
TRE’s board of directors was inconclusive, largely because senior management lied
to investigators, who were not able
to verify a majority of
the company’s
timber assets."
assbot: Genome Biology | Full
text |
The Kardashian index: a measure of discrepant social media profile for scientists
joesmoe: pretty good, launching some more ATMs in
the very near future.
mike_c: that was quick.
they must read
the logs.
ben_vulpes: that's what all
the ETFs are about as well, aren't
they.
assbot: I Love
the Smell of Crony Capitalism in
the Morning
ben_vulpes: this is
the man who's
trying
to leverage himself into
the role of canadian bitcoin regulator, after all.
ben_vulpes: somehow i suspect david joseph
thinks
that money is his and he'll be extremely reluctant
to let any of it slip his grasp.
ben_vulpes: <ThickAsThieves> i saw
this picture of a bunch of Canadian red/white maple leaf ATMs form Cavirtex, I wonder if maybe
those stockholders from Havelock might get something something outta
things in
the end... << a) cavirtex is desperate for profit b) doubtful havelock holders are going
to get anything as
they've been delisted, right?
gribble: Bitstamp |
The weighted average price of BTC, 10000.0 coins up and down from
the spread, is 581.65632 USD. | Data vintage: 84.6930 seconds
BigBitz: small market is small
ThickAsThieves.
gribble: Bitstamp |
This order would exceed
the size of
the order book. You would buy 18913.613 bitcoins, for a
total of 18863721.0835 USD and
take
the price
to 99999.9900. | Data vintage: 0.0235 seconds
mike_c: who would have
thought spammers were selling milling machines?
ben_vulpes: ;;later
tell pete_dushenski <pete_dushenski> but we're losing our voices over here << leave it
to
the professionals :D :D :D :D
mircea_popescu: and by powerfull we mean in
this context.. pretend powerful.
mike_c: but germany (or other powerful entity) wouldn't get
their bitcoin from coinbase, so
this scam doesn't work for BTC.
mircea_popescu: random person with a coinbase wallet doesn't have all
the other wires
tied on germany has.
mircea_popescu: well inasmuch as
they fell for a scam, neiher could
the coinbase customers
mike_c: yeah. like right now germany is mad about
the US printing gold, but can't do much about it.
mircea_popescu: but anyway,
they can't really print b itcoin unless someone lets
them.
mike_c: ah,
that makes sense.
thanks.
the key difference being
that
they can fuck with
the gold price on a larger scale by "printing" gold. and
this is what justusranvier was saying about coinbase,
that maybe
they are printing bitcoin.
assbot: Let’s pretend… pe
Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
gribble: Bitstamp |
Total bids: 8580122 USD.
Total asks: 18670 BTC. Ratio: 459.54787 USD/BTC. | Data vintage: 75.6874 seconds
gribble: Bitstamp |
This order would exceed
the size of
the order book. You would buy 18670.792 bitcoins, for a
total of 18722522.1011 USD and
take
the price
to 99999.9900. | Data vintage: 0.0322 seconds
gribble: Bitstamp | A market order
to buy 10000 bitcoins right now would
take 6302846.6123 USD and would
take
the last price up
to 665.0500 USD, resulting in an average price of 630.2847 USD/BTC. | Data vintage: 118.0073 seconds
gribble: Bitstamp | A market order
to buy 1000 bitcoins right now would
take 597548.5269 USD and would
take
the last price up
to 598.8300 USD, resulting in an average price of 597.5485 USD/BTC. | Data vintage: 100.1576 seconds
gribble: Bitstamp |
There are currently 16281.08 bitcoins offered at or under 1000.0 USD, worth 11260010.2607 USD in
total. | Data vintage: 44.9684 seconds
gribble: (buy [--long] <amount> <thing> [at|@] <priceperunit> <otherthing> [<notes>]) -- Logs a buy order for <amount> units of <thing>, at a price of <price> per unit, in units of <otherthing>. Use
the optional <notes> field
to put in any special notes. <price> may include an arithmetical expression, and {(mtgox|bitstamp)(ask|bid|last|high|low|avg)}
to index price
to mtgox ask, bid, last, (1 more message)
gribble: Bitstamp |
There are currently 0 bitcoins demanded at or over 1000.0 USD, worth 0.0 USD in
total. | Data vintage: 0.0287 seconds
ThickAsThieves: i saw
this picture of a bunch of Canadian red/white maple leaf ATMs form Cavirtex, I wonder if maybe
those stockholders from Havelock might get something something outta
things in
the end...
mircea_popescu: anyone have handy
that link
to
the log chart of us warplane cost ?
mike_c: bitcoin deposits? coinbase doesn't hold fiat. not sure a bank would know what
to do with
them.
justusranvier: I don't either, actually. But
they are very interested in being bought out. Suppose
the company gets purchased by a bank. What will
the new owners be interested in doing with
that huge pile of customer deposits?
mike_c: justusranvier: i don't believe coinbase has a vested interest in large scale price manipulation. investor-mania would be great for
their customer acquisition.
justusranvier: mike_c: What if Coinbase doesn't actually have all
the Bitcoins
their customers believe
they have.
They
take in a great deal of USD, but how do we know
they aren't operating on a fractional reserve? Until people stop leaving
their coins in
third-party custody,
those kinds of price manipulation games are inevietable.
mike_c: i have a gut feel about why you are right, but I'd love
to hear you expound on it a bit. If nefarious forces are shoveling money at BTC
to suppress price, why will
this fail? bitcoin is currently small. you
think
they just won't be able
to keep it up and eventually price will explode?
mircea_popescu: but anyway, hruscev said
the same. soviet russia was in
the slump of all
time,
the dude was derping about how "according
to all indicators"
mircea_popescu: justusranvier sorry i just responded
to
teh last line. i see my error now :D
justusranvier: Of course
they are in reality, but
the "official unemployment rate" doesn't include
them.
justusranvier: Too many unemployed people? Stop counting
the people who've given up completely.
justusranvier: "Since I have come into office,
there’s almost no economic metric by which you couldn’t say
that
the US economy is better and
that corporate bottom lines are better, because we control
the metrics and we make
them say whatever we want"
ThickAsThieves: “They always complain about regulation.
That’s
their job. Let’s look at
the
track record. Let’s look at
the facts. Since I have come into office,
there’s almost no economic metric by which you couldn’t say
that
the US economy is better and
that corporate bottom lines are better. None." ~ o'bama
mircea_popescu: the beauty of
this being
that
they aren't going
to succeed, but letting
them
try is so god damned productive and enriching.
mircea_popescu: and fail in its mission, even
though it in principle could have succeeded,. much like gold had succeeded for a long long
time.
mircea_popescu: the gambit being
that if
they manage
to get bitcoin price
to behave like gold price, bitcoin will essentially behave like gold