mircea_popescu: "Like your client, the facts of the claim won't, quite, fly."

mircea_popescu: guy tells you not to grab his shirt, you fuckin' don't grab his shirt.

mircea_popescu: "She was lucky to get away with only a broken foot, but I guess that’s what happens when you don’t listen to something a millionaire tells you to do."

mircea_popescu: how the fuck is that thing "the hottest chick" anyone ever saw ?!

mircea_popescu: i do not know there is anyone more incompetent alive today than people posing as lawyers for the us federal bureaucracy.

mircea_popescu: You paid taxes for that.

mircea_popescu: When the target of satire complains that it is defamatory, the relevant question is whether the satire can reasonably be taken as a statement of fact about its subject. Dr. Berkley, by saying that "of course" the satirical articles do not reflect the actual words of the subjects, has just proclaimed that the satire he is complaining about cannot be taken as a statement of fact.

mircea_popescu: "Of course Dr. White did not in fact participate in the interview and Dr. Koob did not write the letter attributed to him."

mircea_popescu: rithm: i'll pay good bitcoin for a -assets tshirt << pinging nubbins ?

mircea_popescu: half hour later he was just about done introducing monotony when the bell rang

mircea_popescu: anyway, it's really difficult to take very intelligent people through a set itinerary. when challenged to prove cbs some other kid started with set theory.

mircea_popescu: but i did get full mark on the paper.

mircea_popescu: it had a troll proof which now i forget.

mircea_popescu: so that term I used a "all obtuse angles are straight angles" lemma. blazed through the geometry section with it.

mircea_popescu: came up with, you may use any lemma you can, if asked after the paper, demonstrate at the blackboard. but if you can't, you get an F no matter what's in yoru thesis. hoping to shut us up.

mircea_popescu: we were superadvanced math class, and so the teacher getting bored of all the constant "but may we use CBS to prove this ?" "no" "Why the fuck not!"

mircea_popescu: here's an anecdote : back when i was in school tho, we did this "thesis paper" each trimester, which accounted for half the grade, in select subjects.

mircea_popescu: mike_c me, possibly the only entity out there.

mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves: Chrome was freezing so i went to uninstall it and i think i unistalled the whole os ui << MP on ubuntu fresh install. "Why the shit does this have internet ? Take it out". Ubuntu proceeds to mark everything as "to be uninstalled", all the way up to the kernel. Why ? BECAUSE FUCKTARDS MARK EVERYTHING AS A DEPENDENCY.

mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: Your website is faster than 97% of all tested websites compared to 86% for bcoinnews.com , yet news get 99/100 and bitbet 83 << because it's not scored by performance, it's scored by you doing what they want you to do.

mircea_popescu: fluffypony: I'd rather not say to protect the guilty - he mismanaged stuff badly after that and the whole thing spiralled into recklessness and infamy << the company you keep.

mircea_popescu: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-27388104 << bank of india won't take free usd.

mircea_popescu: jborkl todd ?!

mircea_popescu: thestringpuller: "compare it to the known losses of non scammor companies" <<ya, not sure if there are any of these around << you could count the 2012 mpex cdos i guess.

mircea_popescu: mike_c prev bump was 10%. and this does get increasingly hard as time goes by, too

mircea_popescu: there's obviously a nonzero chance that bitcoin has a -50% diff event during its lifetime. i wonder if it'll also be during our lifetime.

mircea_popescu: but there's just no way it makes 5.2bn gains in 2-3 periods.

mircea_popescu: helpfully omits to link gpg key. likely does not even know what that is or why it'd be relevant.

mircea_popescu: wtf is wrong with these people, if you're gonna put it on the web anyway, why dick around with emails.

mircea_popescu: lawl. greece introduced a 33% tax on all capital gains on greek bonds between 2012 and 2013.

mircea_popescu: fluffypony hey, shitty interwebs but at least they paid for the airport to display related ads, right ?

mircea_popescu: i always thought it synonymous to bling.

mircea_popescu: for the love of christ

mircea_popescu: did little miss boring get the best atm of the year award or whatever it was ?

mircea_popescu: so wasn't tat supposed to liveblog some lolfest or it hasn't started yet or what ?

mircea_popescu: so far this isn't proceeding well on either of the two scores.

mircea_popescu: i only up yuou because i don't recall your name and figure maybe you have something to actually say

mircea_popescu: Redditor : Sorry to have burst your bubble.

mircea_popescu: Me : Only a noob could think this is an actual explanation. Most if not all diff propositions were upsets.

mircea_popescu: Redditor : Much simpler explanation : the proposition target was way off-market (100%). Nothing to be won by betting on the clear outcome.

mircea_popescu: Naphex was making sometring of that ilk.

mircea_popescu: just a lotta people happen to have the keys is all.

mircea_popescu: otherwise, THIS connection is encrypted.

mircea_popescu: 1 reduces to 2.

mircea_popescu: !up toastee

mircea_popescu: used to be one of my top ways to judge a girl : go to her bathroom, see if the shampoo is resting "upside down"

mircea_popescu: motherfucker! who came up with the retarded idea of making shampoo bottle caps not straight