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dhenson: (back tire)
dhenson: Of course, she did run over him with the car.
dhenson: A friend of mine's wife was arrested for assault, so not sure that's known by my local police if true.
adolf_fishler: ur just supposed to let her. its the law.
adolf_fishler: its ok for your wife to beat u in america
dhenson: They would only need 1 in 3 to speak english. With all of the american tv programming, I could believe it.
adolf_fishler: i believe that one
adolf_fishler: fact: a woman in Afganistan has more freedoms than a male in America.
Mats_cd03: thats dubious, have you ever interacted with chinese speakers that learned ESL?
dhenson: fact: soon, China will be the #1 english speaking country in the world.
VanCleef: fact: a woman in Afganistan has more freedoms than a male in America.
VanCleef: america should just ban the internet
ThickAsThieves: when will they ban Twitter?
ThickAsThieves: "Congress to consider banning online gambling"
asciilifeform: VanCleef: same poll as 'bedbugs have higher approval rating than senate,' etc.
asciilifeform: VanCleef: afaik this has been the case for years.
ThickAsThieves: obama better hit the gym
VanCleef: Putin approval rating is higher in American than Obama
ThickAsThieves: socially transmitted diseases
ThickAsThieves: the numbers, they have a mind of their own!
benkay: "We! Are! The 99%!"
ThickAsThieves: lol, in the recommended links on the same page:
mircea_popescu: "we have a poll to prove it"
mircea_popescu: "please believe us when we say the shit we sell you is worth buying"
ThickAsThieves: most retarded headline of the week: Poll: 48% of Americans understand bitcoin but most still prefer gold - See more at: http://www.pfhub.com/poll-americans-distrust-bitcoin-and-prefer-gold-457/#sthash.yidxzuVA.dpuf
FabianB: ThickAsThieves: looks like you can margin trade on huobi
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell nubbins` maybe tshirts with "A loser is You!"
ThickAsThieves: how did people get negative balances? why are they refunding people in cash?
ThickAsThieves: i'm having trouble understanding this huobi thing
mircea_popescu: plenty of people trying to make a career out of doing the wrong thing.
mircea_popescu: FabianB i would suppose they're taking the opposite tack to the now-famous "fuck you and read" https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=339544.0
FabianB: just wondered whether i got something wrong or if they really pay their stupidest users
mircea_popescu: much like a singer won't win if they're good. they must suck to win, in order to "represent" the idiots watching at home.
mircea_popescu: a large part of the entire "start-up success" fantasy by now is specifically NOT having any sort of technical merit or actual value
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves somehow this discussion is a strange rehash of the older "platinum records / musical talent" thing.
FabianB: "Huobi agreed to make its customers whole again at 70 RMB ($11.29) per LTC for anyone who sold below that level."
ozbot: Overdose: The Next Financial Crisis - YouTube
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform lol the saga of bad crypto never ends does it.
Mats_cd03: wouldnt be the first time someone said that
ThickAsThieves: hard to say
VanCleef: i think these are signs that market is topping and everything over valued bubbles etc and could see a decent crash this year
ThickAsThieves: you can say that again
Diablo-D3: can actually afford to do business with me
VanCleef: yeh that candy crush ipo is a joke
VanCleef: if that were da case
VanCleef: id probably invest in things on kickstarter
ThickAsThieves: but they are tabled or something
ThickAsThieves: there are new laws on the table in the JOBS act I believe
Duffer1: er not that i'm aware of
VanCleef: so on kickstarter are you allowed to sell equity into yourprivate company or nah?
Duffer1: maybe they want to offer a vr platform for minigame devs?
ThickAsThieves: i'm typing like a champ today...
ThickAsThieves: i dont see how socilmedia-izing the Rift will help
Duffer1: also the sequels to Leviathan Wakes were pretty disappointing imo
ThickAsThieves: but it is still the only hope they have to survive
Duffer1: or deliver it on Facebook's terms
ThickAsThieves: i agree that Facebook does not seem agile anough to imitate what google does
pankkake: them being bought by facebook make them unlikely to deliver the advertised product
VanCleef: but yeh anyway another terrible buy from fb
ThickAsThieves: VanCleef, while that would be "nice" i see no reason they should
Duffer1: aren't they allowed already through a DPO?
VanCleef: with the money that oculoss made with fb they hsould pay back the kickstarter peeps
ThickAsThieves: but if Oculos were allowed to actually crowdfund for equity investors, the odds are thats what they would have done instead
benkay: either way you get the fartup feels
benkay: a toss up as to which is better value: likely worthless paper vs. entertaining gizmo
ThickAsThieves: and can only expect their gizmo
ThickAsThieves: sure, all the investors know what they got into
Duffer1: i believe that's more an effect of a consumer mindset rather than a common sense mindset that would naturally want equity instead of swag
ThickAsThieves: this event puts it into real perspective though
benkay: i thought that was the whole point of kickstarter.
ThickAsThieves: oculus gets $2m to create their thing, sells out for $2b
ozbot: Oculus rises to a $2B exit while its Kickstarter backers are left with cheap swag | PandoDaily
ThickAsThieves: http://pando.com/2014/03/26/oculus-rises-to-a-2b-exit-while-its-kickstarter-backers-are-left-with-cheap-swag/ it's interesting to think how regulation has actually created a situation where investors can be totally removed from any interest in the company they effectively funded
benkay: i lost several nights of sleep to that book
Mats_cd03: benkay: leviathan wakes isnt bad, im ~100 pages through
asciilifeform: somehow this is all very reminiscent of folks disenchanted with the american medical establishment switching to snake oils, faith healing
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: potential sequel to your cesar cipher essay:
asciilifeform: http://cryptome.org/2014/03/ubiquitous-comsec.htm << somebody needs a new shannonizer. this one's sputtering.
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FabianB: has it been discussed yet why Huobi is paying ppl that were just too foolish to market sell into a too shallow order book?
ThickAsThieves: us buttcoin owner in this channel
ozbot: IRS rules on Bitcoin; This is actually news - Buttcoin - The P2P crypto-currency for butts. - Buttco
bounce: bit of a problem then that from the outside you can't see just how the exchange's innards pick their condiments
ozbot: Tulip Mania: The First Bubble [Debt & Doubt - Animation 6] - YouTube
asciilifeform: from whom is this a secret
bounce: oh, so the core devs are at it deliberately
asciilifeform: reference client perhaps shouldn't be filled with interfaces that don't work << not everything in the kitchen is food. rat poison is not a condiment
Mats_cd03: https://soundcloud.com/gruuvtastic/the-black-keys-fever The Black Keys single
BingoBoingo: With the config change to raise the DB locks
benkay: talk to the 'core dev team' about that.
bounce: well, yes, but that's not really the point. the reference client perhaps shouldn't be filled with interfaces that don't work very well.
BingoBoingo: bounce: They used "features" that weren't really implemented
asciilifeform: bounce: not because the thing isn't a turd - it is - but it is then necessary to explain why other people's coins have stayed put.
asciilifeform: bounce: 'reference client hacked' is 'extraordinary claim that requires extraordinary evidence'
bounce: so now we have a bunch that did their own coind and customer funds went AWOL. and a bunch that used the reference client and customer funds went AWOL. now, digital finance is unforgiving, but I'll say that it's not purely operator error in a hostile environment; looks like the machinery is dangerous too.
padishah_emperor: and more for absurdist theatre
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: it would need to set up a reliable one. by shipping clients to both 'sides'
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: if this business actually existed, it couldn't rely on 'naturally-occurring' wars.
Mats_cd03: your negro vernacular is lacking, thestringpuller
thestringpuller: "if you're getting bitcoin throw it in the air. bitcoin-assets, the hustler's lair."