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punkman: "KAM Analysts have come out and established the opening price for MZC at $1.00 USD as a opening price. "We felt this was a reasonable opening price with the Alt Market the way it is currently, Dogecoin is setting around $1.17 in some exchanges and MAXcoin is still right around $1.28."
BingoBoingo: And I do mean tired over tried. It is now as worn as some dude's mom.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: phun phact: today, K is known in russia - not mainly as a chess player.
BingoBoingo: gesell1: As mircea_popescu pointed out though I am bored
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: cups size: as in '2 X, 1 cup' ?
BingoBoingo: gesell1: The support line is a girl speaking Ingrish. Might as well go to latestrip.com where the Ingrish girls show tits
asciilifeform: as described by mr.o
mircea_popescu: as long as you don't actually use your knee it doesn't harm her in any way
asciilifeform: as the chinese are suspected of planning
nubbins`: big oil popeline terminates in constanta as well, no?
asciilifeform: ' The deal will funnel $2.6 billion into Ukraine annually for the next 50 years. China will also send seeds and fertilizer, as well as build some vital infrastructure in Crimea...'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: there is such a thing as an agricultural equivalent of 'strip mining'
mircea_popescu: modern agriculture uses soil as substrate, plants are fed oil.
asciilifeform: (as they are presently doing elsewhere)
mircea_popescu: afghanistan, as pumped by the us is a failed state.
asciilifeform: bankrupt, serious ethnic split, little to no history as an actual nation... dead industry
mircea_popescu: by comparison, ny was boring as fuck.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: how the fuck is the ukraine a failed state << exactly same way as the u.s.
asciilifeform: but he might as well have
asciilifeform: but, to 50% of russian-speaking people, she may as well have said it
mircea_popescu: as if anyone could be bothered to colonize china.
asciilifeform: 'orc culture 101.' in the lands of the orcs, when 'human' shows up and says 'we can have government without corruption!' what people hear is 'if we'd let the jerries win, we could be in a mercedes benz. but it isn't too late! and if we end up as the seats, that's our place'
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and as far as parasites go... russia definitely takes the cake. their (putin's) recovery model pretty much relies on parasites
mircea_popescu: well because in that sense you could as well say i did it.
asciilifeform: i suppose it depends on what you think of as 'industry'
asciilifeform: counter-derper: 'as the leather seats' ☟︎☟︎
BingoBoingo: Nah, Players as old as big Pappi don't get consecutive good seasons
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: When I wrote the electric boogaloo bet, France's boots were the ones I imagined solving it as Yes
ozbot: BMO customer's account emptied of $87K as bank falls for scam - British Columbia - CBC News
nubbins`: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bmo-customer-s-account-emptied-of-87k-as-bank-falls-for-scam-1.2555647
BingoBoingo: As I write the noob sports betting article, I'd like to open a quick survey. What team would people pick to take the World Series this year?
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Well, n00bs don't read -assets so I might as well write it for them.
mircea_popescu: fact : the ~average~ entrepreneur will not have made by age 40 as much money as the average hs floozie working the stripping joints in saget, il made.
mircea_popescu: Sauget was incorporated as "Monsanto" in 1926. It was formed to provide a liberal regulatory environment and low taxes for the Monsanto chemical plants at a time when local jurisdictions had most of the responsibility for environmental rules. It was renamed in honor of Leo Sauget, its first Village President
asciilifeform: as described, in great detail, elsewhere
asciilifeform: 'those were the great roaring 90s, we survived as well as we could'
mircea_popescu: just as long as they made some tenochtitlan steel sabres cca 1300
mircea_popescu: i'd much more regret the russians should they go, even as they've been unmitigated assholes their entire history.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Well it counts as personal survival, but not cultural survival. It's a mindset. A flawed one. But it is the one dominant on this continent in spite of wrongness.
cazalla: mike_c: not really :\ i am hopeful they did delete my ID as they said they would after i closed my account
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i kinda count "Becoming something different" as survival.
asciilifeform: well, the animal is often described as having had an... inadequate reaction to predators, having lives as it did without them
cazalla: wonder if gox actually deleted account and personal details as they said they would after 90 days (from memory i was 90)
mircea_popescu: as counterintuitive and mother-in-law-wisdom contradictory this may seem.
mike_c: haha. from that twitter page: "@niccary @marketmakers @Bloomberg @blockchain did the price of #bitcoin go up as to insider trading?"
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: only as 'part of a balanced diet!' with a working 'Friend Or Foe' detector.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: one of these days, you ought to write 'n00b guide' to sports bets. for instance, i grew up thinking of the whole concept as a chumpatron (lusers bet, the sports meisters throw matches & pocket the chumpatronium)
kakobrekla: it cant resolve as no yet
ThickAsThieves: as good a criteria as any here !
ThickAsThieves: what websites has bitbet allowed as proof in the past?
ThickAsThieves: add to the FAQ: In a circumstance where an accepted bet is determined to have unreliable determining factors, BitBet shall choose factors as best it can, or refund all bets at its own discretion.
kakobrekla: 12:32 AM (3 minutes ago) > hey guys can you resolve this as a yes, aurora already almost doubled and everyone else agrees? thanx
mircea_popescu: as far as we know
TATrilllaInTehMi: I think u gotta take 'ends up' as 'when this bet closes'
mircea_popescu: first of all i'm banning that retarded site, it's a signal about as good as pissing in the snow.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Depends on the motel, could go as low as $50 a week if the interstate is too fat.
BingoBoingo: 100k/BTC might be as forgetable a milestone as silver parity
BingoBoingo: Problem is he is too good as well, at being grumpy and old.
cazalla: reading the casinobitco.in feb report - if bitcoin price is lower, would it be right to assume people would be more bitcoin as it's worth less?
ozbot: Former Central Banker Admits "[They] Are Making It Up As They Go Along" | Zero Hedge
BingoBoingo: Definitely. The ritual cleasing is roughly as effictive as one of those "dream catchers" with an overly coarse net on a round wooden frame
benkay: it's a mystery to me as well, mike_c
ThickAsThieves: they said so on a stage as well!
ThickAsThieves: "Mark Karpeles blatantly lied so as to hide an inexcusable fact: no development work had been done. "
ThickAsThieves: "As a result of one’s legitimate desire not to pay for a job failing to comply with the original agreement"
mircea_popescu: if they have as much as one cent extra over what the bare minimum their sustenance requires,
benkay: stuff like this as well: http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2005-December/027626.html
benkay: #3 make it hard to parse the possibility space, #4 have rock solid encryption as a last barrier?
benkay: or suits as the case may be.
benkay: more on the US polizei's role as underclass regulators: http://www.nickfarr.org/2014/02/what-i-learned-from-an-unfortunate-incident-with-the-nypd/
dub: dude is og but scetchy as fuck
nubbins`: he was lurking as Guest56803 for the past few days
nubbins`: that's as far back as my client goes
benkay: "Greg and Connie were born in New Jersey, but from the moment the Internet struck, they might as well have just arrived from Taiwan. When the Internet landed on them, it redistributed the prestige and authority that goes with a general understanding of the ways of the world away from the grown-ups and to the child. The grown-ups now depended on the child to translate for them. Technology had turned them into a family of immigrants."
ThickAsThieves: i was tempted to offer free coins to the sox as sorry if more than 2 could show previous share ownership
ThickAsThieves: March 2012 he started COG, same month as Surf Capital
mircea_popescu: Kiplinger's Personal Finance listed Xavier 70th among 100 private college and universities as a "Best Value" for 2013.
mircea_popescu: Robert’s role at Surf Capital Management as Chief Financial Officer puts him as the head of investment research for Surf Capital Management.
mircea_popescu: Bitcoin is to the money as the internet was to communication.
mircea_popescu: "I currently work as a Segway tour guide in downtown Cincinnati."
ThickAsThieves: this doesnt count as a waste of time?
TestingUnoDosTre: not yet, but i will as long as its not a waste of time
benkay: the general message you should be accepting is that you need to interface with bitbet via bitbet. the people behind bitbet set it up the way it is so as to minimize these sorts of interactions.
mircea_popescu: 500 btc sounds impressive as all hell,
ThickAsThieves: also much internet-connected lower class uses it as central comm
mircea_popescu: as to the behaviour of their risk management teachers.
nubbins`: might as well ask about the thread count of his sheets
mircea_popescu: ""I had Christ in my mouth for over an hour!" was a post funeral text from a woman who... what? I'm not a Catholic so it took me a few minutes to piece together that this lunatic meant she had kept the Eucharist from the funeral mass in her mouth without swallowing it for an hour-- as if that meant something."
ThickAsThieves: and you have to be as crazy as kanye to take the whole thing
wao-ender: mircea_popescu: no, slovakia is labeled as czechoslovakia.
ThickAsThieves: As I read TLP, I don't get much sense of gender, but I haven't read it trying to scrape that out yet. Your theory is sound though, being that I never knew Randi existed before reading that.
ThickAsThieves: your own progeny is also interpreted as a way to live posthumously. The whole conversation can be starkly scientific, or frustatingly philosophical. intraductibillamawhatsit i guess.
ThickAsThieves: <mircea_popescu> all i'm sayin' is that by your reasoning, the farmer shouldn't plow the field /// It's a lizard brain thing - the most innate thing we're here to do is reproduce, so i'd assume a man's desire to bare his own blood is not only natural, but reinforced by male social roles. Of course this is becoming quite distorted, as you point out about betas feigning alpha. Having
mircea_popescu: country producing nothing anyone wants to country producing fuels and minerals everyone wants "herpderp isolation is u". might as well be some dork talking to scarlett j about how socially isolated she'll be if she continues being blonde.
mircea_popescu: the thingwith snackman, as i recall it, is that he sent a wager on an already known bet
mircea_popescu: there still aren't better opportunities available in btc as it is.
mircea_popescu: this shit's fucking incredible. btc is about 500ish, the odds of 10k (ie, 2k% increase) are viewed as 1:3
cazalla: dignork: it reflects on me as a parent
cazalla: whether he is straight as an arrow or flaming homosexual
cazalla: tbh as long as we raise him right, i don't think things like that would ever be an issue