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dub: the one console I recall using was
the old pong game
that plugged into a
tv
cazalla: we had similar knock offs in australia, it was my grandmother who bought me brick when i wanted a gameboy with
tetris and she
tried
to
tell me it was
the same
thing
cazalla: tfw
too poor
to own a gameboy, somehow $2 brick from reject shop didn't fill
the void
bloctoc: is
the french rate
that ECB negative rate from a week or
two ago?
mircea_popescu: actually, failed isn't even
the word. we need something strong like
the french rate
bloctoc: benkay - plus marketing, rent, receivables (mentioned earlier) and plane
tickets for CEO
to find more money.
mircea_popescu: benkay also known as moral hazard,
this, and why someone's gotta put a stop
to it
mircea_popescu: for
the other, how do you know what he's stashed away ?
mircea_popescu: for one,
things don't look suspicious for what
they are, but for what
they look
davout: ThickAsThieves: yeah, i was
thinking like car accident or whatever way
that wouldn't look suspicious
benkay: okay derailment over
thanks gents
benkay: huh i seem
to like
this word.
benkay: implying
the
thing impends and
that i've my eye upon it.
mircea_popescu: the
time
to <derp derp derp> is nigh, if not upon us already
benkay: lol no
the implication is
that knowing
that a
thing is upon one is a hard
thing
to figure
ThickAsThieves: it's implied
that you'd know when it was upon you, so surmising whether it may already be is only exposing a state of nigh
benkay: grammar question: "the
time
to <derp derp derp> is nigh if not upon us already" << y/n?
mircea_popescu: apparently
the guy is a
total gold bug.
the ever helpful
tardopedia : " His 20 year
tenure as head of Forbes magazine coincided with
the decline of
the publication and
the Forbes family empire."
ThickAsThieves: “Somebody can’t go and use a whole bunch of our patents but
then sue us for using one of
theirs,” Musk said “That seems like it wouldn’t be a very nice
thing
to do.”
assbot: Steve Forbes says U.S. will return
to a gold standard
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform was he a chechen living in
turkmenistan ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i doubt it. he's actually more expensive
to kill
than
to ignore.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and
their political position is made more difficult by
the presence of
the millitant communists in
the democrat party.
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mircea_popescu: there's no certain reason for it
to work for
the entire finance bureaucracy
ThickAsThieves: hehe i just read
the part about he started weightlifting cuz he was worried for his safety
davout: asciilifeform: "afaik he never penetrated
the 'bozo barrier field'
that surrounds it" <<< haha,
that's probably very
true
mircea_popescu: davout because
to
this day about half of
the us bureaucracy is shielded by only
the flimsy "nobody could have predicted"
mircea_popescu: davout asa bonus he has a lenghty list of "i fucking
told you so" for various people.
davout: from what i understand of
the black swan, his ideas pretty much destroy
the rationales by which risk is managed in
traditional finance
ThickAsThieves: but
the human race never fails
to find new ways
to surprise and disappoint
mircea_popescu: yeah, but his simple existence poses some very significant ontological problems
to many folk in socialist academia
ThickAsThieves: it seems odd
to me, since so far his ideas make plenty sense
mircea_popescu: he's disliked by
the people who imagine he's not
their peer.
mircea_popescu: Thanks everyone for
the incredible amount of support on
this project! I hope we're just getting started."
ThickAsThieves: he paints himself as disliked by his peers, is
that
the case?
ThickAsThieves: i'm
totally ignorant of
taleb other
than gaining a familiarity of his name from you guys over
the months
bloctoc: I don't wish
to be pedantic, but
the donner party did not just die,
they ate each other.
mircea_popescu: i dare say
the
taleb notes and
the gangue of great minds found at
their burial are not
the same
davout: mircea_popescu:
tried dictionary, should've
tried wikipedia instead XD
mircea_popescu: and
this is perhaps
the first
time i used "dude" in its proper fucking sense in
this chan. go me.
mircea_popescu: davout some dudes,
tried
to
traverse
the utah salt marshes, died.
mircea_popescu: whereas an uncombed, out of bed appearance like
those notes is actually better according
to
the readers
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah
this is an interesting point. people believe [because
they're
trained in school
to believe and
they never examine it ?]
that
the "proper" form is and
they're at
their best in book form
ThickAsThieves: it puts into words concepts ive always kinda had
theories about
ThickAsThieves: and
to whomever recommended Antifragile, it was exactly
the next book I was looking for, great so far
mircea_popescu: <davout> mircea_popescu: well, if you count $10k/month/person
that's like 3.6mn/year in salary,
that's not *that* much compared
to what
they raised, and
they haven't been 30 for
that long o a
time i'd assume << you know
the donner party also wasn't as large before as it was at
the point it starved
to death.
bloctoc: if bitpay
takes 3 days
to receive
the fiat.
That's a loan essentially in BTC
to be repaid in USD. so,
they're shorting btc and will always be shorting
the bigger
they get.
kakobrekla: also check
this out, 2 years or derping
ThickAsThieves: <+BingoBoingo>
ThickAsThieves: Continued BTCFundnation goodwill... /// isnt bitpay already a plutonium level supernode sponsor member?
dub: she seemed retarded in
the 'election' interview
ThickAsThieves: she did seem
to be a decent little worker bee for btcf at
the conference
davout: mircea_popescu: well, if you count $10k/month/person
that's like 3.6mn/year in salary,
that's not *that* much compared
to what
they raised, and
they haven't been 30 for
that long o a
time i'd assume
midnightmagic: also, on
that
team page, manuel araoz builds software
that attacks bitcoin
ThickAsThieves: i dunno,
this concept of bitcoin services doing a NASDAQ/NYSE IPO, seems somehow naturally unlikely
kakobrekla: wheres
the easiest
to check btc price for june 2012
mircea_popescu: from what i hear
this 30mn bought
them a lease on life worth about a year.
davout: just had a look at
their "team" page
davout: i guess
that's closer
to what you were explaining initially
mircea_popescu: once
they start laying down rail
track and optic fiber...
davout: you don't need 10x more engineers
to process 10x more payments
davout: aren't
there legitimate cases where companies need
to raise repeatedly because
their current positive cash-flow is not sufficient
to address
the market as it could be addressed?
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: But
they refuse
to acknowledge
that as well