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mircea_popescu: dub: similar(ly stupid) ideas about spending them after fiat collapses as metals probably, libertardation << seems credible. some sort of fetishism.
mircea_popescu: zee germanz never actually managed to figure out navajo did they
chetty: Last of the original Navajo Code Talkers, Chester Nez, died today at 93
mircea_popescu: soon it will start controlloing the price of electricity.
mircea_popescu: mike_c: it is truly amazing how it keeps doubling << it is.
Mats_cd03: yes. the men wear tight pants
mircea_popescu: i'd give people triangles of french velveeta
mircea_popescu: was [pretty lulzy at the height of the mad cow scare
Apocalyptic: there was this "maladie de la vache folle" hype in french media a couple of years back
mircea_popescu: jurov: tinkerers and people who know how to do things right are such incredibly disjoint groups << word.
Mats_cd03: 14:26 <•pankkake> can you tell koreans apart?
assbot: CDC - Confirmed vCJD Case in Texas - Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD)
mike_c: looked bigger to me.
mike_c: ah. need to put a quarter on it :)
asciilifeform: about the size of a breadbox.
assbot: imgur: the simple image sharer
mircea_popescu: moiety: ok i'll try and work it in << lol don't let these goons talk you into absolutely anything. you're a nice girl, but they need their spanking
fluffypony: ;;later tell bitstein why isn't Daniel Krawisz on IRC? get him here!
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: that is my new favourite quote << it's pretty acurate. the guy should be here, invite him.
mircea_popescu: (this is arcana, but from what i understand no agency with enforcing capacity is allowed to mention specifically any company outside of the context of bringing charges)
mircea_popescu: i dont tihnk they're allowed to.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Because they didn't make it explicit
BingoBoingo: PC1 will have to resort to selling Doge pelts to the chinese
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: I still can't believe the SEC implicitly offered MPEx such a glowing endorsement today. << whay not.
Naphex: what is it with this youngin hackers. hacker got customer account, couldn't unlock it to send funds. decided to email support
BingoBoingo: Now everyone is going to give shitcoins max increase rools and long adjustment times.
mircea_popescu: pls to not read loges everyone.
BingoBoingo: OMG Mircea spilled the sekrits
mircea_popescu: this behaviour should actually make atc trading very productive
mircea_popescu: mike_c, ah, this is actually +ev because it allows them to select when to mine huh
mircea_popescu: assbot: The First 'Bitcoin 2.0' Kickstarter-like Campaign Was A Wildly Successful $7 Million Disaster - Forbes << a good title for once.
mike_c: yup. pool hoppers pump up the diff, then leave, then come back when the diff drops again.
mircea_popescu: didn't it just drop 60% ? what is this, stop and go miniung ?
mircea_popescu: jurov: let's skip to the part where bitcoiners have personal drivers << you're trying to go back in time to 1995 so that you can work hard for 20 years, save a nd buy many bitcoin pizzas in 2010 ?
mircea_popescu: it also varies a lot by where in the country.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, that's quite complex because of the multi layered social support systems htey use
mircea_popescu: argentina is a country with twice the population and three times the gdp of romania.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, exactly the same as in the us, remarkably.
mircea_popescu: somehow people think pork is tender than beef.
asciilifeform: tiny motorcycles. what's petrol cost over there ?
pankkake: why can't we send steaks over the internet yet?
fluffypony: is that like Instagramming it?
assbot: We continue our foray into distant lands pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
pankkake: hm, penguirker is too dumb and speaks before it can
mircea_popescu: many regulars got their little offering in that article.
asciilifeform moves to ar, opens an 'Umformerschwitz'
mircea_popescu: and most of their oil drilling eq is ro made.
mircea_popescu: to this day you can see logan on the streets here (tho the renault assholes are branding it aqs renault not dacia)
asciilifeform: la casa del transformador!
mircea_popescu: Naphex, romania had major ties to argentina, going all the way back to peron's days.
mircea_popescu: apparently not even reddit takes kindly to erik these days.
mircea_popescu: "Seriously? You should have taken those bastards to court. They have no jurisdiction. All you have done is pave the way for them to blackmail others in the future. I hope you're proud of yourself."
fluffypony: right next to the Tsukino Usagi Center For Kids Who Can'T Backup Good And Want To Learn To Do Other Things Good Too
mircea_popescu: "derp. o god i can't read those comments." etc
fluffypony: Andreas Tower is going to be awesome
mircea_popescu: dude it must be crazy to live in there.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony, "Maybe Goldman Sachs execs will be unemployed and busy holding an Occupy Bitcoin protest outside Andreas Tower."
pankkake: when shaved I have a tendency to attract the gay. hard fail on "little or no body hair, and no facial hair"
assbot: Twink (gay slang) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
mircea_popescu: pankkake, https://unsee.cc/mabozise/ <<< hyou know this looks like a twink do you ?
mircea_popescu: more consumers is pretty much the least needed thing, above more plastic containers even.
mircea_popescu: princessnell: i used to think to myself "well, these women are at least promoting the tech in a way that other women can understand." but they're only thinking of it as a consumption tool, which is worse than doing nothing at all. << by george, nell got it exactly.
mircea_popescu: TomServo: wasn't there a wife too? << yeah lol. she wanted me to not condescend her.
assbot: F.MPIF Live Tracker - Btc Alpha
mircea_popescu reloads http://www.btcalpha.com/mpif-tracker/ for the 5th time today
Naphex: i don't see much interest in xrp anyway and all the news i bet didn't help
Naphex: i don't care about ripple, but kept noticing it and wondered if they pump the volume on exchanges that accept XRP or what
Naphex: and its consistently higher then BTCEUR
Naphex: mike_c: their BTCEUR volume is 12
mike_c: 24h volume is 16 btc, is that high?
mircea_popescu: a) it myust be 1024 wide ; b) i don't own the copyright
los_pantalones: mircea_popescu how about this one?
danielpbarron: 14:54:18 <+mircea_popescu> btw, what's anyone think of the new trilema header ? << i kinda miss the monopoly one, even though all the later ones have looked better an an aesthetic sense
mircea_popescu: and time conquers all.
Naphex: so yeah maybe proof of work is the future future
Naphex: someone should give that to the presses to annoy all silver/gold/money bugs
Naphex: so.. if the difficulty adjusts itself to do sha256 for 10 minutes, isn't bitcoin backed by TIME?
mircea_popescu: a ty
mike_c: i like the new pic btw. the greenery is nice.
mike_c: trilema cookie bug? I re-cookied, I can read articles, but homepage keeps giving me paywall. credits are showing correctly in top right.
mircea_popescu: alternatively, most of them can't read trilema because it is painful.
Naphex: i wonder all the people who think you don't exist or are some anon troll, who do they think you place on the header pictures?:)
Naphex: staring down the crowd
mircea_popescu: btw, what's anyone think of the new trilema header ?
mircea_popescu: yoiu don't understand the knowledge.
Naphex: so much bull from that peter schiff
asciilifeform: 'Once there was The People—Terror gave it birth; Once there was The People and it made a Hell of Earth. Earth arose and crushed it. Listen, O ye slain! Once there was The People—it shall never be again!' - mr k
mircea_popescu: the people were invented in 1797 what the fuck is this bullshit, "the people"
assbot: Valcambi CombiBar - The New Gold Standard in Gold - YouTube
bitstein: Look at this innovative monetary technology you can get your hands on with Bitcoin now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cNwaA5sNr8
mircea_popescu: of course the lord made gold money.
mircea_popescu: wtf derpage is this
Naphex: "and gold wouldn't have ever value if the people wouldn't have done that, but bitcoin has no value":o
Naphex: "the people made gold money, not the goverments"
Naphex: on the value of bitcoin
asciilifeform: didn't care to find out
mircea_popescu: just bored to death i bet.
asciilifeform: i do wonder as to the objective: poor lamer knocks on the door, invited for tea, vivisected ?
assbot: Keep 'Em Outside | Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! | Adult Swim - YouTube
asciilifeform: i must confess, didn't knock on the door of the wagen, didn't see if one was installed.