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mircea_popescu: chetty: how they gonna train kids for things that haven't been invented yet?
<< maybe give up on the trainin' ? the greeks had the same problem, had solution : music, sport, grammar and logic. and fuck them.
mircea_popescu: Adlai: though combustion is not requires, vapor is also nice and would suffice
<< this guy so fried...
BingoBoingo:
<mats> i don't believe the kurds will actually fight inside mosul
<< There's a time and place the Kurds will fight, but first the need to go through the motions of leveraging all of the phree stuff they can from Obola
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> think about it. GREEN mercenaries vs allah's host.
<< Don't forget the mercenaries that aren't green in the peshmerga who want their own state carved out of Turkey
mircea_popescu: mircea_popescu> "everyone" knows academi has been hiring overtime.
<< these are all noobs.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla:
http://xkcd.com/1489/ <<< that's pretty much EXACTLY it. and then various noobs imagine physics is a serious science, while in fact it barely hangs out at the outskirts of credibility, and same noobs imagine stuff like i dunno, psychiatry or "earth sciences" are not kinda as srs as physics "but nevertheless".
mircea_popescu: assbot: Greece and creditors agree to extend bailout package
<< euians saw all the fun usians had with the "debt ceiling", made a little sideshow of their own.
chetty:
<cazalla> what took a joe stack to realise in 50 years takes someone like me to realise in 25 years which takes someone to come after 10-15 years// I dont think it has another 10-15 years left in it
cazalla:
<chetty> smart is a very relative thing, that you are here says a lot
<<< nope, says that we're near the end
chetty:
<cazalla> now you need a phd just to work the mcdonalds grill// how else they gonna keep ya in debt for life?
kakobrekla:
<punkman> his book is a fun read
< yup, quite out there.
Adlai: 'bong was a part of the USG lowering Shrem into pederastry'
<< ?
kakobrekla:
<cazalla> everything would suggest arjan
< yep, arjan lying thief
mircea_popescu:
<decimation> doh "As two RAF Typhoon
<<< news to exactly no-one
decimation: "„Es wird diesem Land nicht einfach gemacht, seinen Weg in Freiheit und Selbstbestimmtheit zu finden.“ Der Prozess bleibe schwierig."
< It is not easy for this country [ukraine] to find its way to freedom and self determination" [Merkel] said
punkman: mircea_popescu: (the guy fatass kim is trying to immitate, basically. paid $$ to be adopted by some ex german prince)
<< lol! Prince Frederic (Gabor's current husband) paid some old lady to adopt him too, rest of family doesn't recognize him.
decimation: NewLiberty: Under what law is this [pawn btc trade] offending?
<< specifically, finra has declared that anyone who would conduct such a transaction to be a 'money transmitter' and thus would need to register with finra and the local state authorities in charge of such matters
mircea_popescu:
<NewLiberty> ^^ yes, my friend that does this has household expenses >US$50K per month.
<< that's a decent dozen o' slavegirls.
mircea_popescu:
<ascii_field> danielpbarron: but a random person off the street cannot enter that world simply by asking.
<< you know this is actually a great idea for a movie.
ascii_field: what's the diff
<< if you mention bitcoin in a pawn shop here, and aren't thrown out as a nut, you're dealing with -an individual- rather than an institution under any kind of legal constraint
mircea_popescu:
<ascii_field> it's one of those faux loopholes that's really a honeypot
<< so turn it on at obama's girlfriend's house.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field> but that the intersection of folks who -have- the problem, and those able to solve it, is thus far zero
<< this is merely an artefact of your own perspective, is my story an' im stickig to it.
gribble: The20YearIRCloud was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 10 weeks, 3 days, 22 hours, 58 minutes, and 55 seconds ago:
<The20YearIRCloud> Big thing has been to have em look over all the financial documents as we're filing taxes for 2014 next month and I didn't want to submit till they had a good idea of it.
ascii_field: danielpbarron: that is.. not outside the realm of possibility for me... not that i've made such an inquiry
<< the odds are that after you were to make two or three such inquiries, you will come across a usg stoolie
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> i never followed that franchise, but did batman have a vallet /
<< He did indeed
thestringpuller: ascii_field: out of orphan bachelors
<< an organization of Batmans?
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski> thestringpuller: you can't use bitstamp ? or bitcoin-otc ? or one of those schmancy atms ?
<< it's bs, all of it. people can trade ~infinity btc/usd without any problems PROVIDED THEYRE IN THE WOT
mircea_popescu: ascii_field> mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and then
<< the general concept being that people will find themselves under so much pressure as the thing advances, that marginals (ie, people who depend on paychecks etc) are prolly in a very weak position to participate anyway.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and then when we start hiring, we hire slaves, like anyone hiring
<< simply wanted to point out that all of the #b-a projects (with possible exception of kakobrekla's work) are powered a hundred percent by the fiat economy's surplus - that is, free hours of various folks involved - and to some extent are at the mercy of their day job fortunes (see, e.g., the demise of moiety)
thestringpuller: pete_dushenski: re: War on Drug
<< We can't buy Bitcoin without the help of Coinbase, or submitting to enemy's wishes, so alternative is to hit the streets. This is similar if not exact mentality of aspiring drug dealer wanting his own corner.
assbot: Logged on 17-02-2015 03:22:43; asciilifeform: nubbins`: what state's your beast in now
<< stuck on crafting the ramdisk (in-ram root fs) for netbsd. as of a week ago. haven't the time, presently, to do anything
pete_dushenski: thestringpuller: "The overbearing regulatory climate in the US for exchanging fiat for Bitcoin seems to have similar consequences as its War on Drugs."
<< curious how you get here logically
danielpbarron: " speculation of the dangers of trapping "
<< url broken
mircea_popescu: aha. Preliminaiy version: do not quote without author permission.
<< ironically, only typo is in the warning
mircea_popescu:
<nubbins`> if there's one lesson bitcoin teaches people mercilessly...
<< exactly. "if you don;t know the owner, the thing doesn;t exist". exactly contrary to how the us currently works, all impersonal and "it's our policy" and bs.
nubbins`:
<+danielpbarron> "if the pre-req for chatting on irc is being in the WoT, the chat is gonna suck"
<<< *cough*
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: gladly suck our cock if only we a) didn't bang hotties and b) validated their self-hottie delusions.
<< These are usually the girls who start false accusing despite being squelched.
danielpbarron: is it about 10k a day
<< more like 5k: 183012, 189051, 194563, 200106, 204520, 210431
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: so anyone wants to make a poker site ?
<< actually yes.
assbot: Logged on 19-02-2015 20:48:27; ascii_field: great sim heist
<< transparent nsa smokescreen. gsm uses toy crypto since day one (usg mandate) and has always been breakable with minimal effort.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron: height=210431 vs height=186701
<< is it about 10k a day or am i sorely misreading the numbers ?
mircea_popescu: saifedean: in pdf
<< BingoBoingo you got that pdf converter thing anymore ?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: it reeks of wankery at this point, but eulora is the only btc-only game in town
<< srsly.
thestringpuller: cazalla: "To get the in-game economy going, EverdreamSoft plans to sell 70,000,000 BitCrystals, which is the premium currency used in Spells of Genesis to forge card packs or new items."
<< sounds like ethereum nonsense
gribble: artifexd was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 2 weeks, 2 days, 13 hours, 3 minutes, and 53 seconds ago:
<artifexd> Go
mircea_popescu:
<decimation> "nothing feels as good as fighting rightists
<< somebody's bound to sooner or later discover sexual intimacy and move on.
decimation: "Und das jährliche Turnier „Golf gegen Rechts“ hat sich um den „New Golf Award 2015“ beworben. Ausgezeichnet werden dabei die innovativsten Ideen für ein neues Golf-Turnier."
< the annual "golf against the rightists" tournament has been awared the "new golf award 2015" for the most innovative idea for a new golf tournament.
decimation: "Jeder, der ein rohes Hühnerei in die Demo wirft, darf sich einmal fühlen wie Stauffenberg im Kampf gegen Hitler - doch der Vergleich hinkt: Stauffenberg war ja auch irgendwie Rechts, oder?"
< Anyone who throws a raw egg in the demonstration may once feel like Stauffenberg in the fight against Hilter - but the comparison is misleading - Stauffenberg was kind of a rightist [Nazi, fascist] too?
assbot: Logged on 19-02-2015 20:48:27; ascii_field: great sim heist
<< transparent nsa smokescreen. gsm uses toy crypto since day one (usg mandate) and has always been breakable with minimal effort.
danielpbarron: mircea_popescu> so sure, w/e your microbrewing friend gave you
<< or my brother :D he even makes his own yeast cultures
ben_vulpes:
<mircea_popescu> jesus this free speech thing i can't even force a point beyond all reason without you people oppressing my metaphordisphoria
<< it's for the logs :P
decimation: asciilifeform: the vendors aren't really trying to mimic the genuine article.
<< no, they optimize on 'sales'
decimation: asciilifeform: one way or another, iatrogenic. you can take that to the bank.
<< who knows, maybe it comes from giving out antibiotics like candy
ben_vulpes:
<mircea_popescu> [] there is the occasional shop that's competent, but by and large the label offers no protection.
<< nice thing about growing up proximate to actual farm land worked by actual humans is the learned skill of being able to nix Cisco-vendors after a single visit.
ben_vulpes:
<asciilifeform> [] the fizzy drinks and synthetic beers have been around longer than autism, though.
<< what on earth is synthetic beer!?
ben_vulpes:
<mircea_popescu> [] pollution is my guess.
<< "you don't need to make up and over fit models to convince me that the silicon fabrication process is realrealreal bad for life on planet earth"
ben_vulpes:
<pete_dushenski> [] Xuthus: and who would you be ?
<< that guy who broke his dick, right?
ben_vulpes:
<NewLiberty> [] USD will kill USD, even without XBT
<< xbt lol
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform iatrogenic
<< nah, my money's on a yet unidentified pollutant from industrial practice. something in consumer products, from the shitty gelatin kraft/unilver uses as the basis of all their "products" - really flavoured goop, to soaps plastics w/e.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: wanna-be girlfriends
<< you mean groupie who false accusing it?
Adlai: mircea_popescu: "made to fail once it no longer can work"
<< these are not binary