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mircea_popescu: "we won't keep our word as to what we have promised in the past
mircea_popescu: "(b) The prohibitions in subsection (a) of this section apply except to the extent provided by statutes, or in regulations, orders, directives, or licenses that may be issued pursuant to this order, and notwithstanding any contract entered into or any license or permit granted prior to the effective date of this order. "
asciilifeform: incidentally, this is how boddy fischer became a fugitive from the u.s.
mircea_popescu: "(v) to be owned or controlled by, or to have acted or purported to act for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order. "
mircea_popescu: ropriation of its assets, constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States, and I hereby declare a national emergency to deal with that threat.
mircea_popescu: I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, find that the actions and policies of persons -- including persons who have asserted governmental authority in the Crimean region without the authorization of the Government of Ukraine -- that undermine democratic processes and institutions in Ukraine; threaten its peace, security, stability, sovereignty, and territorial integrity; and contribute to the misapp
mircea_popescu: FabianB the last exercise closed at 908350862, so if made after dec they'd be covered to ~263421 per neh ?
mircea_popescu: now i gotta read this thing
chetty: true but the powers he is claiming this time are pretty extreme - of course he wont really do any of that .... right
asciilifeform: chetty: actually the 'state of emergency' is quite old
chetty: National emergency lets him declare martial law and all that fun stuff
mircea_popescu: cool, hopefully the russians also freeze a buncha us citizen's assets, and fiat truely collapses in a pre-hansa state of disarray
chetty: I think talking to Ukrainians now warrants confiscation of property
chetty: yeah been that way
mircea_popescu: so the us is nao a rogue state.
ozbot: Executive Order -- Blocking Property of Certain Persons Contributing to the Situation in Ukraine | T
FabianB: my guess is they appeared 4 weeks ago and also made at that time, so probably the ones i bought are profitable :)
mircea_popescu: yeah, basically if period increases settle around 8% then it'll be all covered.
FabianB: yeah, far in the future, but now, if mkfut was called on jan 1st, it's only backed till around 29, it would need 45, currently there are asks for 39 which are not bought (probably) coz of the risk they were created early
mircea_popescu: but still, i'd eventually expect mining to settle down and 2.9x increases over a period to be rare.
mircea_popescu: i guess that introduces an extra leg of risk there huh.
FabianB: problem with idiff is that if you don't know when MKFUT was called you don't know how far it's backed
asciilifeform: (american flying machines were originally supposed to use the 'pro' version of 'gps', with crypto authentication. but someone, apparently, absconded with the $, and most of them left the factory with 'consumer' receiver.)
mircea_popescu: FabianB this'd be an interesting project i guess, it's not directly obvious to me how the to prices'd relate
asciilifeform: it's considerably funnier if you remember what makes this particular circus trick possible.
FabianB: not really, but it reminded me there's x.idiff.mar settlement soon
mircea_popescu: "today on Victories of Socialism : we have caught the other boys' model airplane!!1"
asciilifeform: perhaps it will appear there anyway.
asciilifeform: if the little flying trabant weren't so pathetic, it would be towed through red square on parade.
mircea_popescu: FabianB do you see a way to convert x.idiff prices into bitbet diff bet odds ?
ozbot: US drone intercepted in Crimean airspace - Russia's state corporation - News - World - The Voice of
mircea_popescu: not even that impossible.
mircea_popescu: if this thing ends up yes...
mircea_popescu: considering she didn't get fired over her blunder re: pirate, back in 2012, in spite of all the gigavps & co lobbying...
peterl: what blunder is that?
mircea_popescu: "She says that on a typical night on cam she can lose up to five pounds from all the work."
ozbot: Meet LittleRedBunny, the Queen of Cam Girls - The Daily Beast
Apocalyptic: I heard goat is building one too
mircea_popescu: moiety is that you ?
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gribble: Bitstamp BTCEUR ticker | Best bid: 454.70425, Best ask: 454.768951, Bid-ask spread: 0.06470, Last trade: 454.77614, 24 hour volume: 5626.14529822, 24 hour low: 449.520981, 24 hour high: 462.9716, 24 hour vwap: 454.436016379
gribble: (ticker [--bid|--ask|--last|--high|--low|--avg|--vol] [--currency XXX] [--market <market>|all]) -- Return pretty-printed ticker. Default market is Bitstamp. If one of the result options is given, returns only that numeric result (useful for nesting in calculations). If '--currency XXX' option is given, returns ticker for that three-letter currency code. It is up to you to make sure (1 more message)
gribble: (ticker [--bid|--ask|--last|--high|--low|--avg|--vol] [--currency XXX] [--market <market>|all]) -- Return pretty-printed ticker. Default market is Bitstamp. If one of the result options is given, returns only that numeric result (useful for nesting in calculations). If '--currency XXX' option is given, returns ticker for that three-letter currency code. It is up to you to make sure (1 more message)
gribble: Bitstamp BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 632.5, Best ask: 632.59, Bid-ask spread: 0.09000, Last trade: 632.6, 24 hour volume: 5626.22586279, 24 hour low: 625.29, 24 hour high: 644.0, 24 hour vwap: 632.126883265
davout: ;;later tell mircea_popescu ready when you are
mircea_popescu: LA TESTIMONIANZA. Me lo conferma Pascal, gigolò romano. “Sono stato contattato da un’imprenditrice svizzera – dice in esclusiva a “Sex and Rome”-. Durante la cena, tra una chiacchiera e l’altra, in attesa di passare dal vino al letto, scopro che anche lei, come me, ha investito nei bitcoin e sfruttato la bolla di marzo”
mircea_popescu: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/neo-bee.com < kinda curious how much that weeklong blip cost in fiat terms
mircea_popescu: gives the man the space to shine.
ThickAsThieves: anywho, you are right, he can defend himself, i'm just pointing out that the accusations are a bit off the wall
mircea_popescu: https://www.google.com/search?q=danny+brewster+cyprus&complete=0#complete=0&q=danny+brewster+lmh+holdings that doesn't look much better either.
ozbot: Let me google that for you
ThickAsThieves: just the stock
ThickAsThieves: yknow neobee isn't the name of the company
ThickAsThieves: the whole post sound slike something out of a tabloid
mircea_popescu: i don't talk privately to nobodies, in general. so he can answer and that's all.
ThickAsThieves: what's the big deal indeed
mircea_popescu: well guy can answer in his own time, what's the big deal.
ThickAsThieves: he's not hard to reach
mircea_popescu: ok, so where did he go to school ?
ThickAsThieves: neo has already committed to professionally prepared quarterly financial reports, so assuming they follow-through, the IPO funds *should* be accounted for
ThickAsThieves: i have no idea if he made that
mircea_popescu: http://cy.linkedin.com/pub/danny-brewster/75/95/552 < so is that him ?
mircea_popescu: i've not followed it either. how do they look ?
ThickAsThieves: it's 9mo-old gossip that lasted a few hours due to having the same name
Duffer1: i haven't kept up with the gossip
ThickAsThieves: yknow the whole coma Danny B was already covered here
ozbot: Calling out the premier scam on Havelock at the moment
Duffer1: did TaT not vet the NEO principles?
Duffer1: "I’m not sure what the implication is here, perhaps that he should be receiving his information from Wikileaks, like the rest of us ? "
mircea_popescu: buffet on the topic of "god forbid the free market works"
mircea_popescu: If, however, costs and prices are determined by full-bore competition, there is more than ample capacity, and the buyer cares little about whose product or distribution services he uses, industry economics are almost certain to be unexciting. They may well be disastrous."
mircea_popescu: administered in some manner and thereby insulated at least partially from normal market forces. This administration can be carried out (a) legally through government intervention (until recently, this category included pricing for truckers and deposit costs for financial institutions), (b) illegally through collusion, or (c) “extra-legally” through OPEC-style foreign cartelization (with tag-along benefits for dom
mircea_popescu: "To understand the change, we need to look at some major factors that affect levels of corporate profitability generally. Businesses in industries with both substantial over-capacity and a “commodity” product (undifferentiated in any customer-important way by factors such as performance, appearance, service support, etc.) are prime candidates for profit troubles. These may be escaped, true, if prices or costs are
Duffer1: spring is upon us, the new field of retards will need another month at least to grow
kakobrekla: last page,.. even the retards are starting to get it, amazing.
mircea_popescu: funny how people who can't afford personal travel arrangements in june are suddenly ceos in september.
mircea_popescu: http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/Leicestershire-man-coma-hospital-Cyprus-holiday/story-19428449-detail/story.html <that'd be the reference.
mircea_popescu: also would be nice to get a read as to whether danny webster is an uneducated welder from Leicestershire who tends to get involved in street fights. his subnormal mug certainly supports that theory.
mircea_popescu: kinda sums up nicely the earlier http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-03-2014#560018 ☝︎
mircea_popescu: we're not on the 1st of february, nor are we on the first of march, nor are we living in the alternative world where craig woods is a businesswoman or danny webster a ceo.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile a 23yo fuckwith stated that "The public facing websites are being tied into the advertising campaign which starts on 1st Feb. If you have concerns about me then so be it, if you would also like me to spend my time delivering updates then just say, however I do look forward to proving posts like these wrong."
mircea_popescu: so to this day if i google "neobee" i get 1st a havelock link and 2nd a webmail account for neobee.net, then reddit and btctalk pages.
mircea_popescu: where do you bury them all.
kakobrekla: another day or two and we will fuck up the states.
ozbot: Twitter / BtcDanny: Cyprus #2 on google trends ...
kakobrekla: was suppose to go in the other box.
mircea_popescu: or in george's gf's words, "Ha.Ha.Ha. ha...You don't have any money. I make more money than you do. ha. ha. ha. Yeah.. give me the papers I'll sign 'em.( she leaves) a pre-nup..."
gribble: Next difficulty estimate | 4536337702.16 based on data since last change | 4543209321.87 based on data for last three days
bitcoinpete: i like that analogy
mircea_popescu: i suppose ceramic armor plates on tanks don't shoot, either, and so it's immoral to spend military funds on armor plating research and deployment
bitcoinpete: "It is unethical to create an altcoin with the purpose of making money off of it for this reason. They should not be taken seriously."
bitcoinpete: "Altcoins are not viable because they cannot reproduce that which gives Bitcoin an overwhelming competitive edge: its market cap." Neglects that pre-mined recently that was actually useful developmentally for Bitcoin. Name escapes me...
mircea_popescu: why would one want to hasten it.
ozbot: The Coming Demise of the Altcoins (And What You Can Do to Hasten It)
bitcoinpete: Didn't know Ricciardo is Australian... He's 2nd on the grid.
bitcoinpete: And Lewey Hamilton is on pole at the first F1 race of the season
bitcoinpete: I hadn't heard anyone mention tom green in years, probably longer than a king of siam reference lol
bitcoinpete: which was a response to: 17:37:20mircea_popescu:;;later tell bitcoinpete yul killed in that king of siam role :D
mircea_popescu: Mar 15 03:49:38 <bitcoinpete>;;later tell mircea_popescu: I should check out the film, I've only seen the mainstage production :)
bitcoinpete: 03:56:21 mircea_popescu:;;later tell bitcoinpete you've seen the mainstage production of tom green's freddie got fingered ?! that existed ?! >> What was this in reference to?