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mircea_popescu: cazalla chumpatron knows their audience.
ThickAsThieves: <+asciilifeform> short it << outside my windows, a dead squirrel, buzzing with flies. how do i short it? /// the eternal question
cazalla: i knew before i scrolled there would be a token black kid on that new site
mircea_popescu: who, apparently, is also involved in the eth scam
mircea_popescu: I DO NOT CARRY MY OWN SHIT. THIS IS BITCOIN.
ThickAsThieves: "Build an international rapid response team to respond to policy threats globally"
ThickAsThieves: Increase transactions-per-second throughout
ThickAsThieves: Priorities: Fund developers to tackle specific scalability and security challenges
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mircea_popescu: NOW i realise the fucking bubbles were done in ms paint.
mircea_popescu: so i am sitting here with a glass of mineral water. it's a tall, about 12 oz glass. on it, some black bubbles as decor. i've had it for a while.
asciilifeform: g: 'show me the real budget.' a: 'you're asking too much. that's off limits to you.' ☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: remember the story about gorby and andropov? ☟︎☟︎☟︎
mircea_popescu: maybe the carders should run these numbers.
mircea_popescu: well they must be the only people on the planet who don't by now
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what, you thought they had access to the real figures?
mircea_popescu: But the median debt, $1,350, is still pretty substantial, she adds. who the fuck carwes what the median is. jesus.
mircea_popescu: nevermind, i'm not interested in what these doods have to say anymore.
mircea_popescu: Researchers relied on a random sample of 7 million people with data reported to the credit bureaus in 2013 to estimate what share of the 220 million Americans with credit files have debts in collection.
asciilifeform: child support payments << phun phact! we still have debtor's prisons for these in usa
ThickAsThieves: while i dont care, i could argue their wording is leading you
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves textbook exercise in how to devalue a market to the point you can no longer survive in it.
ThickAsThieves: i doubt thats the deal Dell got
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves : "The report analyzed 2013 credit data from TransUnion to calculate how many Americans were falling behind on their bills. It looked at how many people had non-mortgage bills, such as credit card bills, child support payments and medical bills, that are so past due that the account has since been closed and placed in collections."
ThickAsThieves: "By comparison, one of BitPay’s biggest competitors here in the United States, Coinbase, offers a no-fee processing service for the first $1 million in bitcoin revenue. After that, a one percent fee is charged upon conversion from bitcoin to local currency."
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: having them translated << to english? this promises to be exceedingly difficult
ThickAsThieves: bitpay goes from service provider to skimmer i guess
asciilifeform: another place people 'borrow' is... the tax authorities. (how? many who are classified as 'contractor' aren't paying their bill on time, because gotta eat.)
mircea_popescu: btw asciilifeform, re our discussion yest. im toying with the idea of putting together a bulk of russian "dark whateveritwas" writings and having them translated.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: also fails to count the folks who borrowed from unofficial loan sharks
mircea_popescu: the article conveniently doesn't report the average debt per 77 mn.
mircea_popescu: a that's a good point.
ThickAsThieves: I have like a 900 credit score and had something in collections last year i think
ThickAsThieves: i will say, it's damn easy to have a random bill from some fucktarded scam or shitty company go to collections without people knowing it
mircea_popescu: assbot: A third of consumers with credit files had debts in collections last year - The Washington Post << clearly the economy's recovering o.O
assbot: BitBet - BTC to top $800 before August :: 3.22 B (12%) on Yes, 23.62 B (88%) on No | closed 1 day 13 hours ago
mircea_popescu: they summon the devil that lives in details.
mircea_popescu: and heuristics are incantations, but they don't summon me.
mircea_popescu: except, of course, if you're one of the sort of vain fucktards bitcoin's been blessed with. too good to obey, too fucking stupid to boil water.
artifexd: aok ty
mircea_popescu: cazalla said "well, that too but they were warned". to this i said, "a nod is as good as a wink". as in, it shouldn't really take much warning that when a cock is going in and out of your butt, you're being fucked.
cazalla: i'm reading that heuristics pdf again, perhaps they are incantations?
artifexd: Is your arrival at this time pure coincidence?
cazalla: speak of the devil..
artifexd: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=30-07-2014#777781 << Had me quite confused until I read this: http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/nod-is-as-good-as-a-wink.html ☝︎
ThickAsThieves: quick those guys
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BingoBoingo: It was on the side bar next to one of the cat pictures
BingoBoingo: jurov: Which thing I linked?
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BingoBoingo: !up the20year1
thick_as_thieves: he thinks rosie is a critter or too weak or something so he attacks her and carries her around
thick_as_thieves: we have a cat we've offered away four times with no success
moiety: i got elvis because he was offered home four times and let down
thick_as_thieves: when you get em that young, they turn out awesome
thick_as_thieves: probly less than 2 weeks
thick_as_thieves: we foster them young
moiety: how old is she there
moiety: ive had them at 5 weeks and bellies were fine
moiety: aww she's so cute thick_as_thieves! beautiful colouring
thick_as_thieves: the sock suit was to stop her from picking at her bellybutton
thick_as_thieves: moiety: this is lil rosie when she was littler. she's full grown at about 6lbs now. http://i.imgur.com/asL9ccZ.jpg
cazalla: i crumb and then panfry the hind/fore legs, toss the rest in a slow cooker, started using the kidneys + liver for pate recently
punkman: I always do rabbit in stew/sauce, wanna try chicken-fried next time
cazalla: could produce more but i like to give the does a month break once she weans them, the commercial ones are typically rebreed same day as they give birth
cazalla: punkman, 8 kittens ready to eat in about 2 weeks besides the 2 does 1 buck for breeding
moiety: i need to figure out how to combine cats and btc, life would be complete
punkman: I guess word is out that I got free food
thick_as_thieves: <+BingoBoingo> ;;later tell ThickasTheives http://therealaltcoin.org/ seems down /// up for me, but that's one more sign namecheap hosting sux
punkman: also made the older kitty jealous and she left
punkman: he killed a cockroach, does that count?
BingoBoingo: punkman: I think asciilifeform set a standard that cats in this channel need either serious fluff or confirmed kills...
moiety: god i wish i worked at ARI at this time
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moiety: "o a nice raised up rug/bed, thanks!" i reckon would be the response or "this one wont talk to me!"
BingoBoingo: I dunno, maybe they would smell that doing so would be unwise...
moiety: i could see them sitting on it actually
BingoBoingo: moiety: That is an interesting question? How would your other cats handle their favorite being immobile?
BingoBoingo: And frustrating when their face is partially obscured because you know they are making great faces
moiety: if i were to write to a zoo do you think they would let me stuff one that died naturally?
moiety: the way they move around is hilarious
BingoBoingo: Prolly true
moiety: i believe losing an arm in order to touch one would be a fair swap
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moiety: that woman has THE best job ever
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punkman: I'd go to manul beach
moiety: ik! the WTF face is even better in a video too
BingoBoingo: moiety: They are so much better moving!!!
moiety: cazalla: understandable. at least you have time to search too and no deadline though
cazalla: moiety, no set date but i want to within 18-24 months, we have a short list of places but i'll need to sell my unit, bubs is teething atm so makes it difficult for me to leave missus here on her own and find a place
punkman: 32 C again, this is not conducive to work
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cazalla: beautiful area though, can't wait to move to tassie
cazalla: we were meant to go the day prior but it was cancelled due to bad weather, should've been a headsup for what was to come heh
moiety: now thats when you really panic... when a boatman or pilot starts to worry
cazalla: i had to keep it together for her sake but i was terrified, tour operator ended up turning back as he was concerned as well
cazalla: missus started crying, it was her idea too as she wanted to see the seals etc
moiety: fuck that must have been petrifying cazalla
cazalla: moiety, although i've been around tasman island and the wind was that bad, figured the boat would overturn for sure