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fluffypony: pankkake kicking ass and
taking names on
the forum
today
jurov: could not find if anyone
tried
that
jurov: as even hair fiber can carry ridiculous power and shpuld be able
to carry 100km of itself
jurov: i had an idea (um..okay) of rocket launch
that will use energy delivered from groubd via fiber instead of fuel
ozbot: Log In -
The New York
Times
artifexd: I always assume
that
the usg has always-on access
to my bank accounts. I guess I should start assuming
the same with my coinbase activities.
artifexd: What data does coindesk have? Reader's ip addresses?
They're a news aggregator.
mircea_popescu: meaning any info you upload
to
them, such as bank acct numbers, id scans, etc, is now held by
the usg and by all
the hacker groups.
mircea_popescu: artifexd it's a real
thing. coindesk dumps all its data daily.
artifexd: Is
that a real
thing or a joke on
the nsa watching/logging everything?
artifexd: asciilifeform: What is autosnitch? google fails
to find anything relevant.
benkay: fluffypony,
ThickAsThieves: is
there an emoticon for shooting oneself in
the head?
ThickAsThieves: <hearn> integrated
Tor support in bitcoinj - merged! \o/
fluffypony: asciilifeform: successful == hasn't married a drunkard and/or hasn't gone
to prison
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: my paternal grandmother is a very
traditional, superstitious, short Italian woman (who cooks accordingly). she says my dad was
the most successful of her 3 children because "he steal alla of
tha calcium from me, he leave none for Daniele and Sonia"
benkay: fluffypony: y'ain't seen me log out yet, eh? my logs ain't
the publogs.
mircea_popescu: "all 12 men
to have walked on
the moon were either eldest or only children"
benkay: what's wrong with y'all
today, logs are mad short.
benkay: important
to note
that just because a
thing claims
to be legal in
the states is no guarantee of its legality or quality or anything really.
benkay: the brand i've been made aware of by a friend who once smoked
three pots (!) all at once (!) is 'spyce'
benkay: asciilifeform:
the synthetic
thc stuff is not related
to bath salts.
mircea_popescu: kinda why regressive
tax is actually
the only way for national/polis stability. it acts as a de facto offer.
mircea_popescu: also known as
the view
that locations have
to make you offers, rather
than vice-versa.
mircea_popescu: principally due
to
the important benefits one derives from... rootless cosmopolitanism,
mircea_popescu: spanish/european jooz were
the merchant class pretty much.
mircea_popescu: they did
the same exact mistake, much higher scale : got all
the gold, pestered
the jews,
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform depending on what measure of wealth you use. but if you consider % of extant gold shipped
to capitol,
the us is way behind england, rome and pretty much every empire in between
mircea_popescu: fluffypony
they're only different if you're into splitting hairs. otherwise, same people.
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: coinbase yo, coindesk is
the news site
mircea_popescu: i mean i get it,
the average us peon
thinks oprah is one of
the richest people in
the history of
the world,
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, none of
this matters in any actual sense.
mircea_popescu: there's no argbument
that
the us-based vc-scammers are very good at what
they do : faking numbers.
fluffypony: till
they get screwed by
their buy order being cancelled
fluffypony: I know some of
the OTC/localbitcoins sellers do
the sell with GWallet/wire
transfer/cash > deposit into bank -> instant buy on CoinBase, rinse/repeat
jurov: ^ got
this in everyday's spam from lulzbourse
jurov: Bitcoin Bourse welcomes 3100 International Investors and
Traders
fluffypony: I know a bunch of people in
the US
that
think Coinbase is *the* only way
to buy Bitcoin
ozbot: Awstats and stuff pe
Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: no you have
to create an account
to use
them, not based on a cookie'd ID
fluffypony: so
they've had 1.2 million people use
them, not unsurprising
fluffypony: I wouldn't be surprised - every
time someone buys BTC
through
them doesn't it create a wallet?
fluffypony: saw it mentioned on
the redditz, but presumably according
to
them
fluffypony: wow, Coinbase has 1.2 million customer wallets,
that's a goxing waiting
to happen
mircea_popescu: fluffypony i guess after my extradition i can STILL make more
than
the average forum guy.
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] [PAID] 2.70080880 BTC
to 7`496 shares, 36030 satoshi per share
ThickAsThieves: [11:51] <ThickAsThieves> bitcoin probably approaching
the point where "community consensus" = paralyzation
ThickAsThieves: [11:50] <sipa> especially not developers for one client
that is hardly used by end users
ThickAsThieves: [11:50] <sipa> in any case,
that sort of
thing requires.community consensus, not developer attention
fluffypony: the only exception are
the Gazorpian women of Gazorpazorp
Naphex: "You
try and do your best for women, but
they all just run us down. Bitches" ;]
fluffypony: if
they can engineer some
tears
they do
fluffypony: and
then I was like "wtf, all
they do is look at houses"
fluffypony: the first few
times I watched it it was interesting