657300+ entries in 0.436s
benkay: welcome, you've found
the hotbed of cryptojihadi dissent
RebeccaBitcoin: I was reading Bitcoin Pete's blog and noticed
that he frequently chats on irc, and set out
to find
this elusive place.
thestringpuller: benkay: my mom is a super
teacher, so I was kinda just set.
benkay: ;;later
tell bitcoinpete "Fostering a disciplined and inquisitive mind is
the greatest gift you can bestow upon your children, which explains why almost no one gets it right." // shit keeps me up at night, man. just last night i was diagramming out a curriculum in natural philosophy.
benkay: "Funerals were initially a major source of
transmission. "Relatives sometimes fall, cry on
the dead body, wash
the body," says
Temba Morris, who runs a government health clinic in a remote village of roughly 3,000 people near
the epicenter of
the Sierra Leone outbreak."
dub: asciilifeform: worked for many species for a lot longer
than we've been upright
bitcoinpete: mircea_popescu: just because a buncha muricans pretend
to be scientists shouldn't sour one on science << but it's so easy
to
throw out
the baby with
the bathwater! i've been guilty of
this
too benkay
DreadKnight: little kids don't even know what star
trek is overall
assbot: [ActiveMining] Official Shareholder Discussion
Thread [Moderated]
DreadKnight: he's a bit full of crap even in
the video, people jaw dropping at his sight lmao
bitcoinpete: DreadKnight: $100k
to develop, $5.3mn
to market
DreadKnight: though 5 million dollars for a digital app for reading is kinda
too much
bitcoinpete: DreadKnight: ya i watched
the show as a kid. wasn't
terrible or scarring. so better
than what's on
today i guess
DreadKnight: bitcoinpete, sounds a bit gay hmm, I'm afraid; he showed up a bit in Big Bang
Theory, impersonating himself as a washed up actor overall
bitcoinpete: DreadKnight: mircea_popescu, oh, La Forge,
the black guy with visor << he's coming back
to
tv soon. as
the reading rainbow guy!
bitcoinpete: i irlloled when someone dropped "ham wallet"
the other day.
decimation: as moldbug points out, most folks want
to be published in
the 'grey lady'
decimation: I wouldn't recommend
taking your family
decimation: if you include
the masses
the numbers are probably much higher
decimation: well, I was just counting uniformed police +
their dogs
mircea_popescu: which
to me seems
to grossly underestimate facts, but hey.
mircea_popescu: decimation fun fact :
the deadliest strike in
the history of
the us bodycount ~=
the claimed le bodycount for 2012, in
that source of yours.
assbot: Ludlow Massacre - Wikipedia,
the free encyclopedia
bitcoinpete: mircea_popescu: yup, going back
to sabbath on saturdays
mircea_popescu: but
the only
two actually over 10 btc bets are also more like 96-97%
mircea_popescu: bitcoinpete sundays aren't what
they used
to be anymore.
FabianB: mircea_popescu: only if
that's more
than
the fees
bitcoinpete: mircea_popescu: i
thought i could do both at
the same
time but… not even close. sundays are usually lighter
mircea_popescu: FabianB well
thatr's only a point if
the odds aren't right. if
they're right, doubling
the 99% side will yield a doubling of
the 1% side.
FabianB: mircea_popescu: point wasn't
that
the odds might not be right, it was
that it might make no sense
to put even more in
the 99% side
bitcoinpete: man alive you guys wrote a lot in
the
time it
took me
to put
that blog post
together
mircea_popescu: kinda
the point of posts like
the von flondor one. people
tend
to stop and consider
their situation.
decimation: it's
true
that
the dying empire
thing isn't such a great deal anymore
DreadKnight: Hollywood makes a lot of movies encouraging death in
the line of work; patriotism / heroism / martyr bs propaganda / brainwashing
decimation: well, considering
that in practice nearly everything can be construed as illegal in
the us,
that's probably
true
mircea_popescu: in fact, a us agent has better chances of being shot on
the job
than someone breaking a us law of being sent
to jail.
decimation: I don't
think
the usg hides
this stuff either, it just gets pushed into statistics
that no one reads.
The usg has a compulsion
to account for itself (in its own crazy way)
mircea_popescu: much, much more dangerous
than
the empire is
to
the world at large.
mircea_popescu: in short : it's dangerous fucking work, working for
the dying empire.
dub: asciilifeform:
there's all kinds of upsides
to flooding
the us with drugs
chetty: how about how many bankers,
that one is getting interesting. Being a banker is not healthy
these days
mircea_popescu: allow me
to blow your mind : a degree of magnitude fewer per capita
than US agents.
decimation: I guess I don't see it, I don't
think us gov't agents are dying
that often, why bother killing
them anyway?
mircea_popescu: obviously at
this point you're addressing
the wrong market :D
decimation: well, according
to
that site 78 officers were killed by gunfire across
the entire US in 2012-2013
mircea_popescu: from what people have been saying here,
they expect it
to be a year.
mircea_popescu: jurov incidentally,
this reminds me : supposedly people plunked down 5k btc
to be locked away in an ethereum address for at least six months, if not more
chetty: doesnt jet get into
the primaries count? Warren will be
there I bet
mircea_popescu: FabianB it is possible
this is a reflection of
the actual odds.
assbot: BitBet - Elizabeth Warren
to run for US President :: 0.01 B (1%) on Yes, 1.09 B (99%) on No | closing in 4 months 1 week| weight: 99`071 (100`000
to 1)
assbot: BitBet - Brock Pierce
to resign at BTC Foundation :: 0.3 B (3%) on Yes, 10.08 B (97%) on No | closing in 1 month 2 hours | weight: 29`770 (100`000
to 1)
assbot: BitBet - Bitcoin-Central out of business in 2014 :: 0.37 B (4%) on Yes, 10.09 B (96%) on No | closing in 5 months 2 days | weight: 63`350 (100`000
to 1)
assbot: BitBet - World Cup 2014: English
to net more
than 6 goals :: 0.39 B (6%) on Yes, 6.41 B (94%) on No | closed 1 month 3 days ago
dub: unrealted:
to save a world of goolepain, is
teh SR codebase online somewhere?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what matters is relative security. who can prevent whom from messing with
their shit.
chetty: even stuff
that hits
the front page is gone with
the next headline
mircea_popescu: you want
the prosecutors, you want
the FBI, you want
the state police, etc.
mircea_popescu: but do
this, for your own amusement. compile
the list of dead us agents in arizona, new mexico, something, during one year.
decimation: chetty:
there's a difference between
the media
trumpeting a fact and
the fact being hidden
mircea_popescu: now, how many people did cia lose
there ? "presumably someone misses
them"... well... do you ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform one of
the casualties was a major part of something awful (ie, where
teh libertard community resides. it's a sort of anti-bitcoin,
that
thing)
mircea_popescu: and
that was an embassy. not "accidental death" walking down
the street.
chetty: decimation, I used
to
think
that, but
they dont need
to keep secrets, just keep waving flags at more important stuff