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mircea_popescu: a fraudster stands
to evil in
the relationship an army major stands
to
the government.
mircea_popescu: "I was shaking. We had spoken
to Evil on
the phone." ahaha dude how fucking overdramatic can altucher get.
assbot: Doctor Grumpy in
the House: 12:07 a.m.
BingoBoingo: Detroit and Chicago are cheaper stand ins for China
than... China
BingoBoingo: I was kinda hoping Ghana would have won
that one
BingoBoingo: Yeah, amazing how sometimes events make
the errors irrelevant.
FabianB: <+mircea_popescu> FabianB how does it do bait ? <-- not exactly, i mean
this:
assbot: Snoop Dogg's Doggystyle - Wikipedia,
the free encyclopedia
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i wonder how
they manage
to shoot videos
tbh. if i were living
the limited lifespan of a rappar, i couldn't give less of a shit as
to what
tv convntions are.
pankkake: fluffypony: fun
thing, it's called just "un camembert", not even "graphe en camembert"
mircea_popescu: incidentally, what's
the us black slang
to denote a woman in her 20s
that spends her life naked in
the household of some local lord /
trap star ?
assbot: The Scientific Way
to Cut a Cake - YouTube
mircea_popescu: sure. but nothing cuts itself. evntually you get
to a prime mover.
BingoBoingo: Sorta like
the dilema by which Bitcoin is great for a well lawed and ordered society yet incredibly hostile
to regulation
mircea_popescu: so basically society only works for as long as society enforces some sort of equivalent by itself. which is also why
there can never be a society of "laws not men".
mircea_popescu: problem with
trying
to implement
that however is
that it's
too fucking sweet for whoever's in charge
to hijack it into oppression of dissent
xmj: as in,
The Market For Lemons ?
mircea_popescu: the only
thing it yields is a vicious circle of ever decreasing marginal investment in speech
mircea_popescu: costs him about 100x less
to run
the mouth
than it costs you, and so... he's using it.
BingoBoingo: fluffypony: Maybe ask why hes
till isn't Bitrich
mircea_popescu: serious politician : "name one policy your demagogy implemented
that served
the public"
fluffypony: and apparently "The whole internet is a web of
trust."
mircea_popescu: fluffypony he went
to
the us school of diversive argumentation.
fluffypony: so I asked Jimmy Boy: "I'll
turn
that around and ask you
to list 3 mining operations
that were Bitcoin profitable.
To simplify, you can just list
the asset, what
the IPO share price was, and what BTC dividends
to date would have been for 1 BTC invested."
BingoBoingo: 2.X for some values of X isn't bad. Same with 3.X with caveat,
that for some values of X.
mircea_popescu: he's prolly
tried wp past 1.x and got burned by how shitty it is
BingoBoingo: The reason
to use wordpress is
that it's
the standard. Doing it right is hard, but all of
the usefull standards are.
mircea_popescu: <BingoBoingo> fluffypony: Also get rid of
that discus shit << srsly.
fluffypony: will
take a looksie again when I have
time
BingoBoingo: ;;google site:trilema.com
the hottest idea in bitcoin
pankkake: I haven't
tried
those yet
though
pankkake: I've seen some automated systems
to do it, finally. proper comments was
the only
thing I would miss with a static blog
BingoBoingo: Not
the whole
thing, just
the comment form
fluffypony: I'll see if
there's something new out for jekyll
that is non-JS-ish
BingoBoingo: fluffypony: Just have a send all comments
to X@Y.Z email address
fluffypony: BingoBoingo: I hate all
the other jekyll comment plugins
pankkake: not
that you could be easily faked
BingoBoingo: fluffypony: Also get rid of
that discus shit
pankkake: Vexual: why still not on
the wot?
mircea_popescu: quote
that
to forum derp.
this is exactly what we fucking do here, day in, day out.
mircea_popescu: “I have an idea,” I said, “I know
the guy who wrote
that letter. I’ll write
to him and ask him if he wrote
that letter.
This way he independently verifies.” <<
the wot.
BingoBoingo: Kinda
the Roger Ver story, except he still praises and pays
the loons
that fleece him
mircea_popescu: anyway,
the post sounds legit. it's pretty much how something like
that'd go.
BingoBoingo: How was
the borrower agreeing
to
that not a red flag
that
they were a fake
mircea_popescu: - Bill wanted 25% of all
the upside on
the full $25 million in shares for
the next
ten years.
mircea_popescu: Bill said, “We’ll lend $10 million IF we get
the full $25 million on any default.” Here were
the other
terms Bill said.
mircea_popescu: i could use some *people*
that reliably detect my sarcasm
BingoBoingo: Maybe
the headline is
the
test? Secret Service collecting references
to it as data
to feed
the beast...
jurov: Apocalyptic why? i wouldn't put it past
them?
jurov: "Ability
to detect sarcasm and false positives,"
the request reads.
assbot: The Secret Service wants software
that detects social media sarcasm. Yeah, sure it will work. -
The Washington Post
assbot: I stopped a
ten million dollar robbery - Boing Boing
pankkake: (translation : highly subsidied fake artists occupy
the Court of Accounts)
pankkake: Apocalyptic: la Cour des comptes has been saying smart
things for years, and has been ignored all
the way
Apocalyptic: i wouldn't hazard a guess,
too much for sure
gribble: Bitstamp BTCUSD
ticker | Best bid: 607.51, Best ask: 609.0, Bid-ask spread: 1.49000, Last
trade: 609.0, 24 hour volume: 8473.12848309, 24 hour low: 586.84, 24 hour high: 616.0, 24 hour vwap: 604.991375459
mircea_popescu: this bit of info'd quite change
the optimisation, if
they had it.
mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic i suspect it's only disrupted by
the fact
that atc has
the sort of backing
that makes it not go anywhere. it's nailed straight
to
the sun as it were.
Apocalyptic: dunno if he started earlier
than
this diff period
though
mircea_popescu: course
this is a fact people who aren't familiar with atc history probably easily miss.
Apocalyptic: well
the hooper's "optimisation" is disturbed by unbalanced's plan somehow
mircea_popescu: since
they'll be counting
the "high" 5k as "low" six weeks later anyway
mircea_popescu: seems
the hopper's "optimisation" is nothing but a dream in
their head
mircea_popescu: funny
tho
the lockstep way it works. 1k - 4k - 1.5k - 5k - 2k - 7k - 5k diff sort of
thing
Apocalyptic: it's in quiet mode before
the diff retarget
BingoBoingo: All of
these people who grew up when
the rest of
the world was crippled now imagine it still is.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: American's didn't have
the
too much money problem until recently
though (1950's) Kids who grew up with
that mindset run
the show nao
though... or at least imagine
they do
mircea_popescu: they used
to be 10% earlier
this year.
then again
they used
to be 100% a coupla years ago
mircea_popescu: on
top of
that
there's some... maybe 1-2% by now, amateurs
that get
to jerkoff
to
the
thought
that
they're "just as much a part of bitcoin AS ANYONE"
fluffypony: but it serves no practical purpose as an investment vehicle for
those already holding Bitcoin (or who are buying Bitcoin on a monthly basis with
their fiat earnings)
mircea_popescu: rack up
the fiat expenses so you don't make a profit,
take
the bitcoin home.
mircea_popescu: bitcoin mining is a perfect avenue for large players
to dodge
tax, whcih is why
the hash is going quite so nuts.