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diametric: davout: I'm missing how you think the first sentence doesn't ban using something
as money other than USD.
davout: i'm putting it in circulation
as valueless tokens
diametric: No it does, the first sentence clearly states if you put into circulation
as money anything but USD, you're in violation.
diametric: "A person shall not issue or put in circulation,
as money, anything but the lawful money of the United States." first sentence.
diametric: davout: If the alternative currency is based on the USD its okay. So you can buy/sell with bitcoin so long
as the value you give to bitcoin is coupled to USD you're fine.
davout: diametric: i read it
as "issuing alternative currency based on the usd isn't forbidden"
ThickAsThieves: you could also read that
as "it's legal until the fed says it isnt"
diametric: The second allows it so long
as its coupled to USD
diametric: davout: It says you can exchange bitcoin for money, and you can exchange goods and services for bitcoin so long
as that bitcoin value is based in USD.
dexX7: you read it
as something like "you are fine with accepting btc
as long
as you also accept usd"?
diametric: Theres also a subtle distinction. So long
as goods and services sold for bitcoin, calculate their cost in bitcoin based on USD, all is fine.
ThickAsThieves: "A person shall not issue or put in circulation,
as money, anything but the lawful money of the United States. Nothing in this section shall prohibit the issuance and use of alternative currency that is redeemable for lawful money of the United States or that has value based on the value of lawful money of the United States but a person shall not be required to accept alternative
the20year2: Would be much easier just to separate the BCG from the bolthead and just throw it
as far
as you can
diametric: the20year2: creating the toolpath from the design can be just
as difficult
as the design itself.
the20year2: But,
as you said if it's a prototype it might make sense to test it before using. Granted I don't undersand how you came to $700 if that fee doesn't include the design work too
ThickAsThieves: i wonder if i could get away with selling NSA original logo shirts
as parody too
BingoBoingo: Apocalyptic: We played well before the tournament started I believe. It was this thing started on a whim
as a four player round robin. truffles nubbins` and myself were in MP's spec I believe and then Namworld was online at the exact right time. Since we need some sort of three way tiebreaker if nubbins` loses to everyone... Fuck it, five way round robin.
mircea_popescu: it's an entire apparatus, not
as simple
as one guy sadly.
nubbins`: security costs plummet then,
as well
nubbins`: to be fair i use it
as well, but, shrug
mircea_popescu: mike_c the eyes don't mind all that much just
as long
as you don't go all spinoza on them
ThickAsThieves: “It is important to continually improve Canada’s regime to address emerging risks, including virtual currencies such
as Bitcoin, that threaten Canada’s international leadership in the fight against money laundering and terrorist financing,” said Flaherty.
mircea_popescu:
As the mist leaves no scar on the dark green hill so my body leaves no scar on you and never will
mircea_popescu: kids that live in the us schools today, forbidden to
as much
as touch, grow up with this HORRID fear of everyone and everything
ThickAsThieves: maybe use your mpex options problem
as an example, it was brought up more than once that you had a problem and it should be solved, but only after preparing the information in a way you could digest would you acknowledge it
ThickAsThieves: some people require ritual in their debate is all i mean, i'm not saying it's justifiable, so much
as if you talk to people the "right" way, the substance of the conversation can sometimes be allowed to surface
mircea_popescu: so he failed to establish his ground
as a man, will do better
as a child ?
ThickAsThieves: do you think your style may not serve you in situations like this?
as in, you started with farts and piss, and thus gave him an out to start talking like a child?
davout: the20year: what do you mean?
as in inflation-proof?
mircea_popescu: and
as a result, they actually had a famine, in the 90s
mircea_popescu: "We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work....After eight years of this administration we have just
as much unemployment
as when we started...and an enormous debt to boot!"
BingoBoingo: Never before has Bowlderization done
as much harm
as it did to the Big Rock Candy Mountain
pankkake: I've seen a few "enough is enough" about the supposed IT sexism. I think the nonsense worked so far because those are usually quiet communities, so they took silence
as acceptation
mircea_popescu: First, to recap: I had about 18,000 followers of my own back in October, when I got added to the suggested user list. (Let's call these "organic" followers.) If I'd have continued my normal rate of growth, i'd have about 25,000 followers today, but thanks to being on the list, I've got close to 300,000 followers. Surprisingly though, I only get
as many retweets and replies
as I'd get with my organic number of followers.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: It is almost
as good
as the Variety Speak. We need John Taffer in this channel.
greenspan_fan: I've looked at the welfare state
as supplanting charity, but it's interesting to think that having charity function properly in practice hurts the rational for the welfare state
mircea_popescu: theirs does not in fact work
as implemented, like a lawn mower that doesn't cut, you just follow after it with clippers.
greenspan_fan: and in particular, the image of everything great ever written starting
as a blank page was perfect
greenspan_fan: The line about facing the "same one doom" in trilema.com/2014/a-conceit-or-the-importance-of-blogging/ was excellent
as well
greenspan_fan: "dismissed
as idiots/not capable of understanding"
Vexual: this is my question, its very open ended
as usual
mircea_popescu: i guess technically that may count
as some sort of an attraction.
Vexual: mirce do you think communism
as it was in romania allowed more opportunities for people to be successful?
mircea_popescu: i am not interested in a) enriching foreign third parties or b) participating in relationships of any kind on any other structure than
as designed by me.
greenspan_fan: a friend of mine ordered a miner from them and now uses it mainly
as a space heater
BingoBoingo: greenspan_fan: Protesters are worthless unless they go
as far
as Ukraine.
greenspan_fan: the fact that it isn't (and assuming it's possible to trade in any volume) means that you'd be selling/buying from people who clearly don't know
as much
as you do
mircea_popescu: of course the great germany of ww1 fielded
as many people
as russia did,
greenspan_fan: post wwii, macarthur planned to open the korean theatre to include china
as well
greenspan_fan: sort of-- you asked me to qualify "well-run" re: nixon. Who I had used
as an example of executive quality impacting projection of power via strategic considerations
mircea_popescu: we can take the historical facts
as historical facts tho.
greenspan_fan: ok, we cannot take the actions of george bush
as an example of great or even good strategy
mircea_popescu: every dood with a ged and a history of shelf stacking thinks they're a person just
as much
as me. this bizarre state of affairs can only lead to fallover.
greenspan_fan: mircea_popescu: they move on to a new fandom (catharsis!) or get a clue; new people are attracted by the same mechanisms
as the previous cohort
mircea_popescu: arguably society
as a whole extracts more benefits from the stupid who think themselves smart than from any other venue,
mircea_popescu: cryptorush is a fine example in an endless string of fine examples
as to why this nonsense is harmful to the stupid poor.
mircea_popescu: ie, that tons of people are completely clueless
as to their proper place in the world.
greenspan_fan: you're much less likely to get hassled
as a billionaire if you pretend other people are worth
as much
as you by some metric
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: American handegg has the same problem
as boxing. Amazing where ad revenue goes when fiat backs the ads.
decimation: it strikes me
as unlikely that random fanbois were able to actually design and build asics
mircea_popescu: (they spell the ligature i
as a j for some god forsaken reason)
decimation:
as MP pointed out bitcoin is inflationary for a long time
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform fun fact : teleportable gold would be cheaper than gold
as-is currently is.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I mean we can add some crypto to gold teleportation, but at that point the gold may
as well be superfluous
mircea_popescu: "well... do you know the color of the sky just
as the sun is rising ?"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the absence of both of these being long regarded
as a bug in the implementation of physicality.
mircea_popescu: it could just
as well show that the pedestrian definition of "physical" isn't really
as important
as we thought.
mircea_popescu: it is not nearly
as silly
as it seems. there's a fundamental tension at work.
mircea_popescu: this is perhaps usable
as an explanation of why the us and generallythe english world collapses today
BingoBoingo: Well, I guess this makes a case for chemistry
as being a somewhat acceptable surrogate for food.
mircea_popescu: social engineering
as the venetians knew it "mostly went away" too.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform or at least, social engineering
as we know it.
mircea_popescu: and perhaps the larger loss.
as people today interact with him like with shakespeare, out of reinterpreted reinterpretations of copies
decimation: this is true. I would rather have bitcoin
as-is than no bitcoin
mircea_popescu: by the time they're done they will have collected enough tidbits (such
as this one) to actually make an alt with a chance.