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BingoBoingo: On
that note Imma head over a few hollers
to pickle
the liver. I am already considering at least 1 sponsorship offer for
the blog, and I'll prolly contnue entertaining offers
through
Thursday.
benkay: ;;later
tell bitcoinpete let's do some gpg practice when you get back
BingoBoingo: So my location is in
the middle of a "Fire Weather Warning"
ozbot: Mt. Gox was always dead in
the water | Business Spectator
the20year1: mircea_popescu: where is
this quote from, about professional users leaving gox in 2013?
mircea_popescu: "Most professional users moved away from Mt. Gox months ago, leaving April 2013 or
thereabouts. By June 2013,
the final nail was in
the coffin for US users," said one of bitcoin's core developers, who requested anonymity.
mircea_popescu: ;;later
tell reutersemily "Shortly after
that, a bitcoin exchange known as bitfloor was shuttered after its US bank account was closed because it had not properly registered with regulators." << nah, bitfloor was run by shtylman, who either ran off with
the coin or "lost" it.
radan: is
this a bad
thing, or
mircea_popescu: "The whole reason we have such confidence in our company is
that from
the start we said
this has got
to be something
that plays nicely with
the
traditional financial world," Ehrsam said in an interview.
mircea_popescu: "Fred Ehrsam, a co-founder of
the Bitcoin
trading platform Coinbase, said his company
took a position early on
that it would not fight regulators. Regulators have cited it as an example of how others should behave."
nubbins`: well why don't i just read
the fucking faq ;(
nubbins`: well i guess
that explains why
the house bet chose my address for payout
mircea_popescu: by now coming up with bitbet bets is probably
the highest paying writing gig on
the internet.
mircea_popescu: gotta provide some initial
turbulence, gotta reward people going out and crafting bets,
nubbins`: what's
the reasoning behind
that?
nubbins`: BingoBoingo: "way
to young
to"
nubbins`: mircea_popescu: i've seen a few wagers on bitbet
that have "house bets" attached
to
them -- are
there specific criteria for whether
the house will
throw down on a bet, or is it left
to mod discretion?
BingoBoingo: I've put more
though into
the fundraising
thing. If anyone really prefered
the oil painting option I guess I could
throw
that in as well.
ozbot: A Fundraiser, because
this is way
to young
to have a paywall, but hosting isn't free | Bingo Blog
hdbuck: some entity
that holds your BTC for IUOs,
then
trade
the shit out of it and run off whenever you claim
them back?
radan: I want
to invest my 1 bitcoin
Namworld: Well anyway, no point in
talking further. I don't have anything else
to do on
the computer, I'll be on my way.
BingoBoingo: You know
the biggest change in bitcoin from 2013 is last year is was hell
trying
to get mass media journalists interested in
talking about MPEx.
Namworld: I
think it's been established what is progress
to me. Speaking of groups in absolute fuels hate, especially when
the one speaking doesn't believe in such absolute, is bad.
Thus I will speak against it when I see it. Just like you would call out people on doing
things you disapprove of.
Namworld: You said you knew how jews
think. Jews have a common religion. Everything else could be completly different. Although
the religion might influence a good portion into certain ideas, if you
took jews and non jews mixed
together and asked
their point of view on various
things
that doesn't
touch jews like Israel and such, you'd have a hard
time spotting
them.
aclot: this dialogue is veering dangerously close
to monologue
radan: this dialogue is veering dangerously close
to autism
Namworld: I didn't say
there's none. It might be common.
That's okay
to expect similiarities
to be probable. But one should not assume people from
the same group will be alike.
radan: "nba players are just like any other people, some of
them can shoot a basketball, some of
them can't"
radan: they're raised in
them
Namworld: They're not all born with
the same ideologies and values as
their ancestors
Namworld: One person and another from
the same group can be complete opposite.
radan: and
the individual vagaries
radan: you get
to know
the similarities
Namworld: You
talk as if jews where a single entity. One person with one mind.
radan: it's not exactly hard
to figure out
Namworld: Knowing a jew does not make you know how
they all
think.
radan: I know how
they
think
radan: I went
to a jewish high school
Namworld: radan, are you sure about
that? What is it with all
those assumptions?
mircea_popescu: in
this context
torpila means ancient but workable car
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
the bug mafia band quoted earlier discusses, in a song about cars, "sau vre-o
torpila dunarita, la volan o fata, mai
tata"
radan: I
think he's a bit more perceptive
than your average happy merchant
radan: yet you would feel deeply uncomfortable outside of
the west
radan: "I don't feel fondly attached
to any culture particularly."
Namworld: Anything
that reduce
the motive behind wars, hate and violence is progress. Most
technological progress have done just
that so far.
Namworld: Some would say loss of culture and
traditional way of living is not progress. Me, I don't feel fondly attached
to any culture particularly.
mircea_popescu: some of
the best houses for
the history of western
thought were
tolerance houses.
mircea_popescu: i don't get what
the
trouble with
tolerance is in
the first place.
Namworld: I don't
think we can eliminate
those
things, short of simply eradicating ourselves.
Namworld: No, from my point of view we're progressing
toward less famine, poverty and sickness
through
technology, and better understanding of our nature as an animal. Which in
turn decreases violence,
torture, wars and hate, as a side effect.
radan: and evola, if you want
to get into
the metaphysics of it
radan: an objective observer can decide for himself which of
these opinions is
the more realistic one
radan: we're proceeding infinitely leftward on an uninterrupted
train
to
Toleranceville.
radan: which is
the same as
that of my ancestors
thousands of years back
Namworld: You understood
that I meant you've set
those standards' limits where you pleased.
Namworld: I'm calling you out on calling
the world is going bad or people are wrong-headed when it is doing so only by your standards, which are arbitrary.
radan: I'm already doing
that
radan: they can kill me, until
then I'm a free man.
Namworld: Yes, pretty much, live and let live. Not shape yourself
to fit where you don't belong. Voice your opinion.
radan: or whatever
the current casus belli is
radan: if
they want
to stop me from hurting people's feelings
radan: I'll call
them out on it
radan: trying
to save my people's genetic livelihood
radan: that's not going
to stop me from doing what I
think is best
radan: no,
there is no objective right or wrong
Namworld: Which is my whole point. It's all personality related.
There's not really any right or wrong, re
the way of living you choose.
radan: there's no need
to raise a kid as a father per se in obama's america
radan: the leaders of
this country have implemented a massive social security system
Namworld: I didn't say otherwise, just unsure about
the best way
to go about it and not liking how it's done.
radan: I'm never gonna marry one
though