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tg2: anwyay, read up, if you choose to invest in it, or mine it, I think it has merit
as a coin, in stark comparison to every other piece of garbage that was forked in the last 3 months
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Maybe ship Manuls with Cardanos
as a physical security enchancement?
tg2: a nice uptrend
as people realize the merit of the coin
mircea_popescu:
as far
as i recall, about a week before disappearing, nefario froze goat'
mircea_popescu: "We accept most international and local credit and debit cards
as well
as PayPal. Flattr use Euro
as its base currency, but it doesn’t matter what currency you use, we take care of the exchange."
ThickAsThieves: "Male university students in North Korea must get the same haircut
as their leader Kim Jong-un, reports say."
pankkake:
http://www.overcomingbias.com/2014/02/fail-faster.html It is rare for a startup to admit it isn’t going to work out, and give some cash back to investors. […] A great application of prediction markets is to give better and clearer warnings of upcoming failure, to enable better mitigation, such
as quitting.
dhenson: I agree TaT it seems shady to me
as well... especially if AM ends up not mining anymore.
mircea_popescu: there's no consensus of what makes a better language, other than edge cases such
as ergativity
benkay: a toss up
as to which is better value: likely worthless paper vs. entertaining gizmo
mircea_popescu: you may actually force him over a threshold, with results so far out of proportion he might
as well just shoot you and bury you in hudson river.
ThickAsThieves: kakobrekla> <ThickAsThieves> i define it
as something productive, worth doing, that provides mutual benefit to me and at least one other party < you dont need a biz or a job or anything for that /// only in the broad sense, i wouldnt personally find that "worth doing" in my own values of what my time is worth
kakobrekla: <ThickAsThieves> i define it
as something productive, worth doing, that provides mutual benefit to me and at least one other party < you dont need a biz or a job or anything for that
ThickAsThieves: i define it
as something productive, worth doing, that provides mutual benefit to me and at least one other party
ozbot: How to have fun
as an intelligent person pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
Mats_cd03: universities should just offer 'ripping off government acquisitions managers'
as a degree and be done with it
nubbins`: i say give him the silver
as well
as the gold
ozbot: How can Bitcoin be taxed
as property, but regulated
as money? It's time for a class action lawsuit.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Well, that may be usefull
as I turn my notes into a post.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Derpasaurii
as a construction necessitation clarifying relations between herp and derp
VanCleef: IRS Declares Bitcoin Is Property and Must Be Taxed
As Such.....?
benkay: 'statistics' aside, "Jones found that people in their thirties contributed about 40 percent of the innovations, and those in their forties about 30 percent. People over 50 were responsible for 14 percent, the same share
as the twentysomethings. Those under the age of 19 were responsible for exactly nothing."
mircea_popescu: i can;t for the life of me figure how exactly russia taking crimea disqualifies it
as an industrialised country.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo for most of the testees having to eat asparagus prolly qualifies
as cruel and unusual.
mircea_popescu: somehow nobody picked on "hey, one address per transaction has its issues
as a model"
as a result, either.
moiety: asciilifeform: i have a manul
as my profile pic now
BingoBoingo: Kraken has been toxic almost
as long
as vircurex, haven't they?
mircea_popescu: on the off chance anyone here was silly enough to have btc there, prolly a good idea to get them out asap, this looks
as awful
as it getds.
gribble: Nick 'BingoBoingo', with hostmask 'BingoBoingo!~BingoBoin@unaffiliated/bingoboingo', is identified
as user 'BingoBoingo', with GPG key id 309BB8D7F3251143, key fingerprint ADD7A9A28F85E5EF1F51904F309BB8D7F3251143, and bitcoin address None
mircea_popescu: TestingUnoDosTre i dunno, do you see BingoBoingo
as <BingoBoingo> or <BingoBoing> ?
nubbins`: resulting in such situations
as this:
nubbins`: i read "9x% sold out" and i translate
as "we're having a hard time getting rid of these shit coins!"
mircea_popescu: "Daca eram un canibal si te prindeam cu o urata te luam la pula-n scurt baga-mi-
as pula-n ea de strimba."
ozbot: Interacting with fiat institutions [such
as the SEC], a guide
pankkake: people accept anyone's friendship in linkedin. I always get recruiters
as shortest paths, it's useless :(
mircea_popescu: so in this sense, pankkake, i can mark
as 10 someone with whom i only do 0.001 trades, inasmuch
as i judge that i can 100% describe them to whoever asks
ninjashogun:
as to whether something is an investment contract is a fact-specific analysis. \p The Division of Trading and Markets "
mircea_popescu:
as far
as the alphabet soup is concerned, the ideal situation is to have everything penetrated by people like kenna.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: On the planet where the rectothermal is repackaged
as a fashionable relaxation on par with massage and enemas here.
mike_c: that's weak. it does measurements for you. i guess timezones aren't
as popular
mircea_popescu:
as far
as i can remember i always used tos
as toilet paper and never suffered for it.
diametric: mircea_popescu: i didn't sell gold, but i did other things that caused them to actually track down my place of employment via linkedin and try to have my fired. I should actually state it wasn't Blizzard. Blizzard was not bad about it, it was the brass
as Activision.
gribble: Nick 'diametric', with hostmask 'diametric!~diametric@2604:3400:dc1:43:216:3eff:fe27:bf9d', is identified
as user 'diametric', with GPG key id BDD47433133081CF, key fingerprint 0789CB4F508B384EB74CEFBFBDD47433133081CF, and bitcoin address None
diametric: though after they banned me I was very tempted to rape their policies in
as many ways
as I could.
mircea_popescu: my friend freud says that since you said it just
as i was going to bed, clearly it's the case.
mircea_popescu: bounce i used it
as a metaphor for a guy who says "you do what i tell you or i kill you" and then proceeds to stick to his word.
mircea_popescu:
as in, well, this application will require a start-over anyway
mircea_popescu: bounce also known
as "plenty of people in the us cannot drive"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there is sucvh a thing
as idiocy through absence.
mircea_popescu: i'll readily grant that it didn't operate in any kind of free market in the 90s. but your statement was
as of product
mircea_popescu: just another way of not being dumb
as rocks,
as it were.
mircea_popescu: should have a bet
as to wehen the first bitcoin corp makes the top
jurov: yeah, google tends to support common good such
as... public transport ? :DDD
bounce: greece is a shambles, but so far hasn't been too good for the eu economy
as a whole. how would turkey have been different?
bounce: the US found new enemies to fight,
as it is wont to do
mircea_popescu: And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests,
as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with te
ThickAsThieves: "Google's new cloud storage prices are
as low
as $0.026 per gigabyte
as a flat rate, far below Amazon's lowest offering of $0.037 per gigabyte, which kicks in if you're holding terabytes of data in the AWS cloud."
mircea_popescu: specifically : people who are already defeated take into consideration nonsense such
as "oh but the feds have a 9x% conviction rate"
as a ready-made excuse to settle.
ThickAsThieves: it's also an absurd degree of taxation: say i buy a Walmart Gift Card with btc, i should pay sales tax, gains tax, then the seller reports profit and is taxed, revenue used to pay employees is taxed. then you tack on the accounting burden on both sides, plus the seller's burden
as tax collector
bounce: well,
as long
as they steal the tax obligation with it, I suppose I can live with it
mircea_popescu: in neither case a representation is made
as to transfer of title, which makes blizzard's ip assertions irrelevant.