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mircea_popescu: http://store.asymmetric.net/ << lol ius that the team ?
danielpbarron: oh, I used to play it years ago
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mircea_popescu: no with this thing
danielpbarron: with what? isk/rift? i don't know what those are
mircea_popescu: isk and rift plat are backed by bitcoinz, so why not this other thing.
danielpbarron: unless you think the let's talk Bitcoin network is actually worth 250 BTC
danielpbarron: it's an asset backed by the in-game currency of http://kingdomofloathing.com/
mircea_popescu: what was that ?
danielpbarron: I ran into someone who was already familiar with my MEAT asset on counterparty; that was pretty funny
danielpbarron wouldn't know as he avoided most of the actual events
mircea_popescu: i wonder how many great new altcoins were thought up at porcupine
danielpbarron: he was one of those "wow 2.0 !! decentralize everything" types
danielpbarron: I was talking to the guy about how none of the popular Bitcoin news sources focus on real security
danielpbarron: yeah, I got they feeling Bitcoin magazine is like all those podcasts out there; they want the listeners to give them free content for them to advertize over
mircea_popescu: pretty sure by now pankkake's rss reader has more readership than the bitcoin magazine anyway.
danielpbarron: I'm guessing that any article worth reading wouldn't get accepted by their staff
mircea_popescu: are you looking for one in the field of trade rags ?
danielpbarron: mircea_popescu, not at the moment
danielpbarron: so someone from Bitcoin magazine gave me his business card at porcfest and told me they might publish an article if I write one for them; should I even bother, and what should it be about?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform never played that one.
mircea_popescu: jurov: and the 6th slide is fatally wrong << it is fatally wrong
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mircea_popescu: do the mods ban you if you're violently interesting ?
nubbins`: and it's exactly what it says on the label
mircea_popescu: i thought it was a joke.
mircea_popescu: i can't fucking believe there actually exists a /r/mildlyinteresting
rithm: she loves that retarded movie
nubbins`: 5 simpsons episodes that show you how cool blue hats are
nubbins`: so they'll just say oh hey this simpsons episode has a blue hat, i think there were three or four others with blue hats
mircea_popescu: rithm it' on the internet dood. what factual.
rithm: sometimes i can't tell anymore between a farce site and a real site
nubbins`: generally the lists have arbitrary numbers of items in them, because the "people" who "write" them don't have any real information to convey
mircea_popescu: goes about as well as you'd expect the National Waiters' Poetry Club to go.
mircea_popescu: cracked is mostly kids who figure they're not realy waitresses, but really writers, giving it a crack.
rithm: it's not complete satire, though
rithm: pretend i don't get out on the internet much
nubbins`: it's basically an entire website dedicated to the type of shit in /r/mildlyinteresting
rithm: is cracked one of those sites like the onion
mircea_popescu: wow nubbins`. i kinda given up on cracked for this exact reason, i just had no idea how to express it before.
nubbins`: snozzberries article is such a stretch that it may snap
mircea_popescu: 1% of america MADE AVAILABLE 20% of the income in this country.
mircea_popescu: o may fucking gawd. just thefucking terminology... 20% of the ~available income~ ? dude... it's not "the available income".
assbot: 9 Toys That Prepare Children for a Life of Menial Labor | Cracked.com
mircea_popescu: rithm it'll attract the taakis
mircea_popescu: which are those
thestringpuller: the dingleberries taste like snozberries
nubbins`: dingleberries have the richest taste
asciilifeform: there were, of course, other places to learn english.
mircea_popescu: i was just trying to do a... pun i guess
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: alt.tasteless was this thing. where the famous 'spittoon' story was posted, etc. it was glorious.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i find your proposition that dingleberries are tasteless an exercise in sheer nonsense.
nubbins`: i thought a willnot was when you had a bit of poop that wouldn't come out
asciilifeform: yeah same thought
mircea_popescu: isn't that a dingleberry ?
gribble: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Willnot | A little round ball of shit (and/or bumwad) stuck in the hair of the crack of your ass and WILLNOT come out.
mircea_popescu: artifexd yes ty.
mircea_popescu: not in any sense dangerous, but just slowly asphyxiating everything to the point the whole society has to be destroyed by a bunchy of barbarians so the five surviving women can start over,
mircea_popescu: and a shitton of it is just toxic, which is where we are now.
mircea_popescu: someone needs to explain to me sometime why "too much inequality can be very dangerous". seems that TOO MUCH is perfectly fine, a little is fucking dangerous if the idiots now have the means to argue the point,
mircea_popescu: sits in front of an audience of Americans and points out how retarded their leadership is for not being left enough.
fluffypony: he sits in front of an audience of Americans and points out how retarded their leadership is
mircea_popescu: fluffypony hmm, i kiled it 10 seconds in. too soon ?
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asciilifeform: ;;google start control talking pet
mircea_popescu: what is this, leninism ?
mircea_popescu: somehow i'm the only one vaguely offended by the fact that "humorous" talking head is "explaining to the masses" what "the president said" ?
nubbins`: fluffypony could finally go back to speaking xhosa
mircea_popescu: all these people and their weird equalitarian ideas.
assbot: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Wealth Gap (HBO) - YouTube
mircea_popescu: nanotube well yeah, cause i'm multilingual and other people in here are and we end up running into translation things at least weekly.
ThickAsThieves: Thomas France, founder of Maison du Bitcoin, told the Wall Street Journal that he supports the new legal framework because it further legitimizes virtual currencies and that cryptocurrency anonymity is just “a myth.”
assbot: France to mandate identity verification for bitcoin account holders
thestringpuller: nanotube is the ultimate lurker
nanotube: heh well, can't hurt to later tell :P
rithm: nanotube he stalks the channel logs
nanotube: ;;later tell mircea_popescu no need to pay for google translate, there are other free translate api alternatives. if you think there's a significant need for irc-translate, i could throw something together. just didn't figure it was all that useful.
nanotube: later tell mircea_popescu no need to pay for google translate, there are other free translate api alternatives. if you think there's a significant need for irc-translate, i could throw something together. just didn't figure it was all that useful.
punkman: from the lolfoundation dept.
artifexd: ;;later tell mircea_popescu In the sentence containing footnote iii of your Danika post, did you mean "existing" instead of "exiting"?
jurov: any worthy revolution follows this, too
jurov: 4. Punishment of the innocent
jurov: 3. Searching whom to blame
jurov: 2. Sobering in the process of realization
jurov: heh... remembered the 5 stages of planning:
jurov: it should say "and then the revolution eats you"
jurov: and the 6th slide is fatally wrong
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BingoBoingo: Altcoin, the Silica to Bitcoin's Plutionium
kyuupichan: gribble gave up too
kyuupichan: Miners saying "fuck this; it's too hot in here"
mircea_popescu: holy shit that was objectionable.
mircea_popescu: i don't remember when i hated a film this much last.
thestringpuller: how da fuck a nigga supposed to sleep in dis shit
thestringpuller: fuckin' 80 and humid out there
thestringpuller: Damn the south is so fucking miserable in summer.
BingoBoingo: Also for being the size of a whale
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform doesn't help that.