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fluffypony: every
time
they have an old retired person who's moving out of Germany
they look at houses in Spain or Ibiza or Cape
Town
fluffypony: the wife watches
this show called Mieten Kaufen Wohnen where Germans go house hunting
fluffypony: I wonder what criteria
they used for
that list
ThickAsThieves: and
then if you have $1m you can look at
the nice waterfront stuff
fluffypony: but still, $1 mil goes a lot further here
than
the small-ish
town my in-laws are in in Germany
fluffypony: you can even get a 30 acre farm near Cape Point with cottages and farm house for
that
fluffypony: and
they're all 4-6 bedrooms with views
ozbot: PAARL: AN ARCHITECTURAL
TOUR-DE-FORCE | Paarl | Gumtree South Africa | 112188553
ozbot: The "Bishopscourt" of
the Northern Suburbs | Parow | Gumtree South Africa | 112194461
fluffypony: but for
the most part R10 mil will get you a pretty huge and elaborate place
fluffypony: R10 mil ($1 mil-ish) won't even
touch sides
there
fluffypony: well certainly for parts of Cape
Town like Camps Bay and Clifton
fluffypony: ThickAsThieves: see, all
the signs are pointing
towards one place
ThickAsThieves: "Cape
Town, has
the highest concentration of
threatened species of any continental area of equivalent size in
the world."
mircea_popescu: apparently 1mn buys you 2k sq feet of premium housing
there.
mircea_popescu: all
that followed followed from
this simple principle, a hundred men wanted
to sort out who sits where in
the forum.
mircea_popescu: but
the entire roman republic, pre empire, can be correctly summarized as a set of benches somewhere, and people vying for position on
the best bench.
mircea_popescu: Having been both a student and
teacher at MIT, my personal explanation for men going into science is
the following: young men strive
to achieve high status among
their peer group ; men
tend
to lack perspective and are unable
to step back and ask
the question "is
this peer group worth impressing?"
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves all counted i would estimate
there's between 100k and 500k popescus alive
today.
mircea_popescu: "A lot more men
than women choose
to do seemingly irrational
things such as become petty criminals, fly homebuilt helicopters, play video games, and keep
tropical fish as pets (98 percent of
the attendees at
the American Cichlid Association convention
that I last attended were male). Should we be surprised
that it is mostly men who spend 10 years banging
their heads against an equation-filled blackboard in hopes of lan
ThickAsThieves: another popescu and his friends have some new quantum
theory on flow of
time
mircea_popescu: i guess
this sort of scum populating
the underbelly of
the internet
that makes up
the redditors and wikipedians and bitcoin forum "investors" and quora experts and seo experts and so on and so forth
mircea_popescu: "i'm
the boyfriend of
that chick you picked up at a
traffic stop in 2011 ASSHOLE!11"
mircea_popescu: people no longer have
the common fucking decency
to self-identify when
they're butthurt
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: who is
this minerpart dude on
the phorumz? him and jimothy seem
to have personal grudges
mircea_popescu: mine was an entypus
too, im pretty sure, but not exactly
this one.
fluffypony: ok so now I've gone
to look at a bunch of pictures of wasps killing spiders
mircea_popescu: <mircea_popescu>
that's no criteria. obama has been
trying
to be a president for a while, he still sucks at it.
ozbot: The complexity of life, a
triad pe
Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
mircea_popescu: In December 2010, it was revealed
that Sterling had been heckling his own players from his courtside seats, specifically focusing on point guard Baron Davis
mircea_popescu: Sterling once said he did not like
to rent
to Hispanics because
they "smoke, drink and just hang around
the building," and
that "Black
tenants smell and attract vermin."
moiety: also, sometimes, i am marinated in rose. i
think
this flavours me
moiety: walking
to
the kitchen and lifting baking
trays is enough
moiety: i should
taste quite nice
then
moiety: is
this
the root of
today's happy? (side note -- i
think a manul would
taste good, most hard
to catch
things do)
moiety: o its
totally aftermewn here, how did
that happen
ozbot: The complexity of life, a
triad pe
Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
ThickAsThieves: and
then i get another link removed from my chain for being a gambling bookie
mircea_popescu: hello kakobrekla, raper of assbots, sleeper of long
time.
Namworld: So far, over
the last few years, anyone with BTC income would have been better off waiting and filling late
to avoid having
to convert BTC
to pay
taxes earlier it seems.
Namworld: Hmm, I'm looking at penalties for late
tax filling. Looks like
the interest charged is low. Up
to a maximum of 50% flat penalty for multiple years of late filling plus 5-6% annual interest on balance.
benkay: o wow, phf.
that's...news
to me.
BingoBoingo: benkay: IRL socially drinking
today. Just stepped out for a fag.
benkay: i was just
throwing
the notion of a gasenwagen conf around
BingoBoingo: benkay: If
this game gets much worse I might self up and hang here a while
fluffypony: on
that note, I'm off
to bed, night all
benkay: happy weekend
to yourself as well
moiety: benkay: yeah, i have
to stop responding as i am reading. i saw
the biting bit after. happy weekend btw!
ozbot: Twitter / AdrianChen: Yes.
There will be a live-doxxing ...
fluffypony: I have some ideas for other ones, just
too busy
to actually do
them
phf: and
there's a proper use of kashchenit
terminology going on
phf: ok, glad we're on
the same page
benkay: well,
the gasenwagen conf is for
those scheduled for
the gasenwagen but have not yet been picked up
phf: i.. wouldn't recommend going
to a gasenwagen conf, not by your own choice anyway
BingoBoingo: Delete restore and generate new keys prolly no less
than 10
times
BingoBoingo: prestonbanks:
The most important part of
the GPG stuff is
the key management practice.
BingoBoingo: prestonbanks: Cool, just remember some freenode shit is weird and non-standard? Oh, you don't just
tab
to autocomplete?
danielpbarron: 11:51:45 <+mircea_popescu> i will go as far as
to say
that no person
that has spent one year diligently (4hrs/day) reading
this logs can be stupid. << I have been doing exactly
that ever since I found
this place.
prestonbanks: bingbiongo; i have some experience with registering and using IRC channels so i
think
that will be no problem as soon as i figured out a new nick
fluffypony: ThickAsThieves: in fact, I
think I got quite vocal on
this
thread:
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/3862 -
the proposal was
to switch
to micro-BTC, but
the accounting software idea is
the same...unfortunately it was NACK'd because everyone
thought it had
to do with
the exchange rate rather
than reading
the opening post
BingoBoingo: prestonbanks:
The GPG stuff does
take a while but registering with nickserv and setting enforce
to on is a quick exercise
fluffypony: magnitude different, so
the argument is sound
fluffypony: ThickAsThieves:
there's a shitload of account software
that can't handle more
than 2 decimal places, and when you have idiot data captures manually capturing BTC
transactions because
the company is
too cheap
to pay a developer for an hour's worth of work, bad stuff happens...that same accounting software has no problem differentiating
the US Dollar from
the Zimbabwean Dollar and
the Japanese Yen, despite
their integer values being orders of
ThickAsThieves: i dont write much, and as i read my writing it feels very "What I Did Last Summer", so I'm also open
to constructive criticisms
fluffypony: ThickAsThieves: I'm EXTREMELY opinionated about
that, and I fully agree with your conclusions
BingoBoingo: thestringpuller: One of my favorite parts of bitcoin is
the mystery surrounding
the distinction between NCOs and officers of Bitcoin
moiety read manuls, realised it was a
typo *disappoint*
mod6: i guess i just read a lot of
these blogs directly. kindof a nice digest
tho.
mod6 wonders how he never looked
that up
fluffypony: kakobrekla: nobody reads
the chan
topic, apparently
fluffypony: mod6: much easier
than pushing everyone's RSS feed into a reader
mod6: huh, didn't know about
that page.
fluffypony: prestonbanks: your
time will come, don't forget
to register your nick and get in
the WoT, cheers!