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thickasthieves: it's like the only biz that fits that description, no?
thickasthieves: "What is Coinbase? Coinbase is the world's largest platform for buying and selling bitcoins for US dollars at the current market rate."
asciilifeform: the notion that every male of the species can turn into mircea_popescu by effort of will is, at the very least, misguided. i catch quite a bit of crap for insisting that virtually everyone can, e.g., learn mathematics - so i sympathize. but it's still mistake.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it's almost like you read a guide to survival in the arctic, and said 'wtf is this nonsense, just take compass and march south'
mircea_popescu: or for that matter, trees.
mircea_popescu: why not just relax and enjoy the fact that you CAN chat up women.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i tell ye, if i perceived i HAD TO chat up women i'd be a fucking homicidal maniac, notwithstanding amazing success rates. even if i never left my own harem and so my success rate was forever 100%.
asciilifeform: let them eat cake?
mircea_popescu: there's nothing more pernicious to the mind than its ability to construct self coherent if spectacularly wrong representations.
thickasthieves: "when a man has to chat up dozens of women"
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'a chicken also wants to live'
mircea_popescu: ok enough of this guy, dear lord.
mircea_popescu: "I don't think an average man can pursue women effectively if he is primarily thinking about how good sex will feel when he gets it. That just isn't the right mindset when a man has to chat up dozens of women before he finds one with whom sex is a reasonable possibility." holy shit, with what woman is sex not a reasonable possibility ?!
chetty: <mircea_popescu> in short, it's not just the poor man's idea of what being rich is like that's wrong.//a lot of rich dont seem to have much of a clue either
asciilifeform: the poor man's idea of 'rich', combined with industry, is how we get trambo.
mircea_popescu: "By the first time I had "sex" (depending on how you define it, since I took things in stages) I had already endured years of frustration and humiliation of an intensity that I don't think I can properly put into words." a ok. ☟︎
asciilifeform: and yet trambos happen.
mircea_popescu: his idea of how to get there is similarly borkted.
mircea_popescu: in short, it's not just the poor man's idea of what being rich is like that's wrong.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: you're not in the market for a trambourghini, either, as i understand.
mircea_popescu: if sex robots were widely available today, i'd prolly still not use them. (for that matter, indiancandy is a sex robot, not terribly expensive - a good server costs more than what she would)
asciilifeform: drool, unfortunately, is the correct explanation for a number of things.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i don't see that as an argument at all. just... you know, drool.
CoinFire: Thanks for the invite! :)
CoinFire: BBL Going to work on a few different things, I'll try and drop in often :)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: as i understand, he was discussing why the robots are inevitable from a market standpoint (there are quite a few paupers, and they all want wheels. so we get trambourghini.)
chetty: munchcins vs the harlem globe trotters basketball anyone?
mircea_popescu: wtf is this, derplandia ?
mircea_popescu: consider, "sex robots so poor guys can have the same shit as rich guys" ?!
assbot: Women from all races want to bang rich, successful guys. I find it merely curiou - Pastebin.com
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no, he did have some issues this guy. http://pastebin.com/X7WtwLXV
mircea_popescu: those usually look like a raccoon trying to fight a truck.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: mocsny wasn't pushing for mixed footraces, so much as torturing some bozo who was obsessed with the 'injustice of exclusion'
mircea_popescu: there are very few fields where women / men competition doesn't look like a squirrel trying to fight a raccoon.
mircea_popescu: what is this guy, nuts ? who and why would want to see mixed gender sprint.
asciilifeform: if i remember, these folks don't go the pure squatter route, but actually make contact with megacorps and their lead marketing monkeys
mircea_popescu: f women's sports, the greatest affirmative action program in existence (a woman can win a gold medal at the Olympics despite a performance that might not even qualify her for the men's event---but despite her inferior performance she wins the same medal as the men's winner)."
mircea_popescu: "The sporting press is awash in liberal themes these days: the "underrepresentation" of African-American head coaches in professional football (nobody seems to object to the astounding overrepresentation of African-American players); the terrible injustice of private golf clubs refusing to accept women as members (funny, it's not a problem if Lady Victory Fitness Centers exclude men); and of course the whole business o
mircea_popescu: 140 won't cut it. they need like 8bn names for diabethes.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform kinda poorly researched tho you know ? the 5mn domain names that were finally abandoned recently were a failed exercise in exactly this
asciilifeform: now the interesting part. as i recall, the company in palahniuk's comedy actually exists...
mircea_popescu: for you know... down there.
mthreat: it's a thing!
mircea_popescu: about on par with toyota naming their prius replacement Toyota Pizda.
thickasthieves: "simultaneous introduction of two or more agents or species"
thickasthieves: and the word works
mircea_popescu: do they offer on-site cointraception ?
thickasthieves: i liked Haunted most i think
asciilifeform: 'I ask him, Why sometimes not? “The way this works is we copyright every conceivable combination of words, Greek words, Latin, English, what-have-you. We get the legal rights to every conceivable word a pharmaceutical company might use to name a new product. For diabetes alone, we have an inventory of one hundred forty names,” he says. He hands me stapled-together pages from out of his briefcase in his lap.
asciilifeform: oducts that are still in development,” he says. “And that includes you.” ... “We’re a total concept marketing slash public relations organization,” he says. “Our job is to create the concept. You patent a drug. You copyright the name. As soon as someone else develops the product they come to us, sometimes by choice, sometimes not.”'
asciilifeform: '“Just name a disease,” he says, “and we have a cure ready for it.” ... The pills for AIDS look just like the pills for cancer look just like the pills for diabetes. I ask, So these things really aren’t invented? ... “Of course they’re real,” he says and plucks the first two bottles out of my hands. “They’re copyrighted. We have an inventory of almost fifteen thousand copyrighted names for pr
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: you can't do that unless you're also begging for a flight
kakobrekla: and we are back to reddit lvl.
mircea_popescu: indian cooking pronz. "oya baby, put it on the cumin side."
kakobrekla: i guess if i make my surname justin, then i can have case and time for kids.
mircea_popescu: sir Case the Just
mircea_popescu: o look, mike_c bought the just dice brand and merged.
kakobrekla: sahtup you are ruining the joke.
kakobrekla: at some point ill +m the chan so we can all take a break.
CoinFire: HAHAHAHA So true chetty. So very true.
CoinFire: I will be sure to get my keys and everything worked out this week as well :) Been working on a lot of stuff. It seems it never ends.
CoinFire: I'll take it!!
thickasthieves: it's a lot to read, but we generally take pride in not being reddites and slaying derpitude
CoinFire: I totally should fluffypony ;)
CoinFire: Checking it out thickasthieves!
CoinFire: LOL That is awesome. Certainly trying to be all over them. Granted that involves virtually no sleeping ever.
mircea_popescu: people saying you're like on top of the scoops.
pankkake: I'm a fan of just using the default browser font (just use "sans-serif"). assuming most platforms have one that is not ugly.
chetty: whatever happened to just over ride the site css with your own font?
pankkake: actually I'm wrong, I have it through google fonts I guess. and yeah, disabling it it's much better, it's too thin
mircea_popescu: hey there CoinFire
fluffypony: that font needs to be stabbed in the face
CoinFire: Then literally two days later, a church. I just head to shake my head.
fluffypony: the only font worse than Comic Sans and Papyrus is...Curlz
CoinFire: Do people still even use Papyrus? That was something I asked myself recently then I saw a hair salon had it as a giant window sticker and was just like UGH
thickasthieves: raleway is one of those graphic designer trendy fonts from a couple years ago
pankkake: "Raleway"? I don't have it, so that's why the website looks nice to me
fluffypony: Papyrus, then?
CoinFire: LOL fluffypony the doge community would enjoy that.
thickasthieves: yeah it's just too thin, well for google fonts, i recall Cabin being a good one
CoinFire: I'll agree thickasthieves on the font statement. I am likely going to try and get that changed this week. Another thing on the list of things lol. I find it hard to read on my iPad so it has to change :)
CoinFire: They've sent me some stuff and I've been waiting further confirmation from the insurance company. We will see how it plays out and if I learn more I will most certainly be updating things and posting a new entry for everyone :)
thickasthieves: (i still think your blog needs a new body font btw)
thickasthieves: i liked the coinjelly stuff, i noticed they wanted to talk privately, did anything come of that?
CoinFire: LOL Exactly pankkake - Thankfully it is under warranty for a little while longer.
CoinFire: Thanks! Certainly trying to be on top of everything at all times, lots of Google alerts, etc etc
pankkake: replace the battery! oh, wait :p
CoinFire: Fighting with my MBP at the moment which is refusing to charge LOL.
thickasthieves: you seem to be on top of things, been reading since the SR auction
CoinFire: Howdy thickasthieves
CoinFire: Thanks fluffypony Was working on the WoT stuff but likely going to have to finish it a bit later ;)
pankkake: mpex need a trade fortress?
fluffypony: thickasthieves: it's because you changed your nick to all lower-case
thickasthieves: lol the WSJ writer wrote back to me "thanks for your thoughts"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform sadly it seems mpex is one of those things still requiring a fortress.
BigBitz: Austin or NYC. That's not a hard toss up.
Vexual: ptoly tagged experimental
pankkake: google is very fast to update websites, it will also come back fast
thickasthieves: ah so that's their niche?
mircea_popescu: actually i dont think i ever bought a diff rackable server.