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ThickAsThieves: so much as hard to pin down as not trustworthy
ThickAsThieves: i'm not sure i'd classify cipherstuff as random scam
mircea_popescu: not as far as can be helped
mircea_popescu: this sorts of bets aren't accepted so as not to transform bitbet into a revenue source for the forum scammers.
mircea_popescu: turbo_ac100 hard to make. as it stands, your bet would be satisfied by a ciphertrade.tripod.com webpage including a form where you can type text and that then gets published
mircea_popescu: no srsly. this is like reading whitehouse sponsored pulp as to why obama is not a fucktard.
BigBitz: yeah ThickAsThieves as I said ^^ his other reigns were interesting...
mircea_popescu: another is to be one of the visible people to whom people come with questions as to credibility of entrepreneurs.
BigBitz: scan reading an article and saying "if those reasons are legit" isn't exactly a glowing reference as to how it performs as an Exchange :)
mircea_popescu: as anon says, this thread is motherfucking epic.
thestringpuller: I got high as shit and started playing it
gribble: Nick 'mike_c', with hostmask 'mike_c!~mike_c@unaffiliated/mike-c/x-9105598', is identified as user mike_c, with GPG key id 4FBC58464F910E21, key fingerprint 9086CA4627840552468FE3D44FBC58464F910E21, and bitcoin address None
Tulak_: as planned
BingoBoingo: drmandude: This problem is why I prefer shooting from the hip and betting as close to open as possible and then defending my stake as other people bet.
mircea_popescu: drmandude the idea here is, that if a bet runs for say a month, and you put 1 btc when it opens, some dude betting like 3 weeks later can't get as much as you do of the winnings
mircea_popescu: cats will eat placenta, which makes them about as weird as french women
nubbins`: heh, yahoo internal mail describes MS Outlook as an 'anachronism of the now defunct 90s PC era, a pre-web program written at a time when NT Server terrorized the data center landscape with the confidence of a T-Rex born to yuppie dinosaur parents who fully bought into the illusion of their son's utter uniqueness because the big-mouthed, tiny-armed monster infant could mimic the gestures of The
dub: it starts out incredible, as time passes it just is
mircea_popescu: if it weren't for default trust they'd have no trust at all, as vast majority of "community members" couldn't figure it out
ozbot: Torturer Dustin Paxton smirks as his brain-injured former roommate gives victim impact statement |
nubbins`: http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/10/16/torturer-dustin-paxton-smirks-as-his-brain-injured-former-roommate-gives-victim-impact-statement/
nubbins`: did you know that there's no such crime as "non-state torture" on the books in canada?
mircea_popescu: i hope this will be at least as good as the tom cruise oprah tyhing
mircea_popescu: what some goat herder in bumfuck thinks on the matter is about as relevant as what his goats think.
mircea_popescu: dub same incentive as getting a waffle maker. if you make a lot of waffles
mjr_: so...i don't think anyone recognizes their authority, they just do cost benefit calculation as to whether they will get caught and how much it would cost
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: My favorite part was the incomplete and incromprehensible paper where someone hypothesized the possibility of Public key infrastructure being the same as Diffe inventing PKI and releasing it to the public, where... it could be recorded and documented as prior art...
pankkake: won't do you much good as you come here just a few minutes every few days or so
dub: and excess 'murican as jurov` notes
jurov`: same problem as with replacement organs?
jurov`: as i am share^W bagholder of it, we had very funny email exchange
pascal257: "Advertising in forums is never the best idea as the trolls are waiting you."
pankkake: as you don't need to be out of noob jail to post there
pascal257: as long as I don't get reasonable offers, I don't see why I should sell
pankkake: yeah, that too, but it's the kind of bet that might to be resolved as fast as others I guess
pankkake: as entire meals
deadweasel: naturally we lose lactase enzymes as we grow older (read: away from mommas tits)
pankkake: it's even racist in the liberal sense, as milk tolerant people are mostly white IIRC
nubbins`: but he acts in pretty much the exact same manner as one
thestringpuller: "Luke-jr is not part of the Bitcoin devteam. He.s a loud and mostly useless contributor, such as pretty much everyone with a github + my cat."
nubbins`: add some useless feature to drug x, market it as x', the new generation!
kleeck: He is as much a legend.
kleeck: "Yes, I am," said Diffie, in what surely qualified as the biggest understatement of the trial.
Tulak_: as a sith apprentice, I need connections
thestringpuller: i guess do while you lurk, and while you lurk-do, affect as little as possible
nubbins`: you won't find anyone from France who recognizes Quebecois as "french"
nubbins`: colombian spanish is about as pure as you'll find
nubbins`: oh right, they abbreviate bachelor's of science as "BS" in the states, don't they
nubbins`: as evidenced by the fact that i wrote the fucking thing myself over the course of about 9 months
mircea_popescu: in case anyone had any doubts as to who's going to be bowing to whose authority.
Kleeck: Honestly, I know a few people who are "in" on government contracts - they happen to do really good work, but there are a good amount of firms that are "in" with the Gov due to family connections that are not near as qualified for some projects as other companies.
mircea_popescu: how can you be swedish and pay as much as a kronor in tax when you know it will be used to do this sort of mischief ?
mircea_popescu: the way they do it here is you join as a research phd/grad which is called "associate prof", then you get lecturer, conferentiary and finally professorship
mircea_popescu: coingenuity ok but as a lecturer you can't be granted professorship ?
coingenuity: mircea_popescu: nope, his highest title was senior lecturer... i dont think he's qualified as a full professor
coingenuity: but thats all just nonsense, same as waste management or television service, they're only profitless on paper
truffles: bet it sounds great as instrumental
nubbins`: well no, it's sketchy as hell
nubbins`: as much as i'd like to leave $3,000 coins all over my house D:
bloctoc: I'm putting up a sell XRP order with bloctoc.com as the issuer for bitcoin. whoever wants to buy will have to use the bloctoc.com gateway.
nubbins`: chemistry is lost on me, but i understand precursors are pretty tightly wrapped as well
Vexual: i wouldnt recommend it as a first pshycidellic experience
nubbins`: would love to, i'm as ready as i'll ever be
ozbot: Bitcoin as replacement for the electoral system pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
mod6: http://trilema.com/2013/bitcoin-as-replacement-for-the-electoral-system/
jurov`: such as, whole southern america thinks we literally stink
jurov`: i'd recommend something simpler (such as that lisp i mentioned above), j2ee is mishmash of technologies, not easy to comprehend
nubbins`: as far as romance languages go, spanish (as spoken in this hemisphere) is pretty good
nubbins`: altho as a native english speaker, that's a pretty cheeky response
tulak_: mircea_popescu: I've been browsing your blog and I found something to be quoted: "...This will be maintained and frequently linked as a permanent reminder to people of the cause of their own relative lack of success : it is their lack of discipline and their laziness that keeps them small and insignificant. It certainly is not lack of opportunity that keeps them small and insignificant." Thank you so much for that!
mircea_popescu: i tell you tho, i know of no country that is quite as entertaining.
pankkake: and I'd charge twice as much
ozbot: Bitcoin as replacement for the electoral system pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2013/bitcoin-as-replacement-for-the-electoral-system/
pankkake: otherwise probably, and as the Neo guys say, it's easier to reach politicians
asciilifeform: (other humiliations, such as the dummy grenade thrown at mr. bush, could also count.)
mircea_popescu: A woman screams because a mouse has run over her face. Bedbugs drop from the higher bunks onto the lower. Another woman screams because the little boy in the bunk above her has spilled the jam jar he uses as a chamber pot all over her. Somebody has whooping cough. Another little boy begs his mother not to beat him because in his sleep he wet the bunk he shares with her. She does and he squeals. A former night-club danc
mircea_popescu: the correct way is to have the bets close as close to actual time as possible
pankkake: jurov`: I only knew chauvinism as patriotism
pankkake: oh he's the one who wrote "I expect MP was abandoned as a child and this is how s/he gets back at the world." earlier
mircea_popescu: as far as i can see friedcat claimed 5 Gh/W and the bet only asks for 4
mike_c: i like how he posts links to monthly reports as proof of stealing. because of course all thieves publish monthly reports detailing their crimes.
mircea_popescu: deadweasel perhaps that's an argument there. in the end, you can sell dangerous mushrooms in europe as long as you give people insteructions on how to properly cook them
mircea_popescu: i have no problem with you rooting for the underdog, as you perceive it.
deadweasel: as I learned it
mike_c: if that's the worst thing that happens as you learn you are better off then a lot of people (like me) who have to learn by repeatedly making costly financially errors.
mircea_popescu: basically it induces a lot of uncertainty on your end, as in, you're not even sure what words mean so multiple restatements are actually beneficial because they'd expose errors ?
benkay: and i'd rather be seen as an idiot than not ask questions and get fried for it later
benkay: not in as dumb words as i need
deadweasel: as the present.
mike_c: i'm going to start a website that "explains" all price movements and become rich. like "mpoe just dropped as people realized the owner has a fondness for poisonous psychoactive mushrooms"
ThickAsThieves: "As his convertible rolled through Dallas, three shots rang out, their echoes lodging in our memories for years to come."
ThickAsThieves: what do we use as body shields?
mircea_popescu: anyway. as i said, worst wave.
mircea_popescu: they get killed, looted, whatever. as per game rules.
mircea_popescu: somehow groking that bitcoin isn't a consumer affair is hard, and too many losers pushing it as such for lack of a clue.
mircea_popescu: henceforth i shall be refered to as either mp in the direct or "the definition of elitist" in the euphemistic.
mircea_popescu: am i the only one seeing the article as top result there ?
mircea_popescu: otherwise, stealing as the old regime is dieing is pure harpagon nonsense
mircea_popescu: the only way theft is worth it is if you steal the various factories/other means of production just as the new regime is coming into power.