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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
the nom de guerre / plume of some particularly unhinged pick up artist guy
mircea_popescu: ha!
trilema
the rift guild makes ~600 satoshi a day in
taxes.
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mircea_popescu: in most countries cable companies only sell
their
tv packages because
they're bundled with
the internet
mircea_popescu: they couldn't kill smoking, but cable failed
to
thrive in
the interval
bitcoinpete: There's a dilbert hiding in
there somewhere
bitcoinpete: mircea_popescu: azns clearly pushed
the noseless look, it wasn't no persian
mircea_popescu: yet
the
trend aren't stopping, now
the eyes are gone
too. it's just )))))
mircea_popescu: then people dispensed with
the nose, leading
to
the now common :)
bitcoinpete: "As a result,
this digital-savvy cohort is looking
to
the
tech sector
to provide banking solutions. Half of respondents said
they were counting on startups
to overhaul how banks work, and
three-quarters said
they would be more excited in financial services provided by Google, Amazon, Apple, PayPal, or Square
than from
their own banks."
mircea_popescu: it's an ancient
thing, ot, i recall sponsoring it in like 2012
CheckDavid: Did anyone here user open
transactions
to create or issue an asset?
bitcoinpete: asciilifeform:
the ancients understood atoms perfectly well, certainly
the buddhists
bitcoinpete: mircea_popescu how old is
the idea of communism by your reckoning? Mazdak was one of
the first notable purveyors, at least according
to
Tom Holland
ThickAsThieves: ;;later
tell nubbins` Interested in doing art for an album cover? Short
turn needed, close-up of beast chomping a microphone. If so, lemme know price, eta.
Thanks!
mircea_popescu: then again i guess i already have
that
too, in
the form of a philosophy degree
mircea_popescu: that way i could somehow filter out idiots who in 2014 create "momentuous historic events"
that "revoilutionise bla bla" by poorly reimplementing 2011's mpex
mircea_popescu: and actually... i wish an ancient would come
this way into
time and bring me blueprints of his fucking spam filter
mircea_popescu: then again, i suppose
the atomic view is also ancient, so... perhaps
that's why we can't make
time machines yet
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
the difference'd be
that
the difference between promise and mechanism is by no means a novel idea, just like
the knowledge of communism = idiocy is ancient.
mircea_popescu: bitcoinpete because obviously
the ones
that do keep it as bitcoin would report
that
to mark cuban
ozbot: SXSW: Cuban on bitcoin and why
texts should bite Cyber Dust
bitcoinpete: "The other
telling
tale in
terms of currency besides
the fact
that no central bank is going
to ever let (go of) control of how
they deal with
their own economy, is no one
that I've seen so far
that's in
traditional sales
that is
taking bitcoin keeps it as bitcoin.
They all
translate it
to dollars. And if you
translate it into dollars it's not a currency." - Mark Cuban
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: i
think
that has already been answered, but are options completely disabled or is only
the bot not quoting?
dexX7: yay welcome
to
teh future
mircea_popescu: i suppose we should have a bet as
to when he goes
the way of ciuciu, eskimobob and so many other great names
MisterE: but
they are not
taught
these
things in school
MisterE: if
they used a proper bank ledger
they would see everything
they have is a liability
mircea_popescu: most people belabouring under
the delusion
they "own" a house aren't aware
they only "own" it inasmuch as
there's something
to b e paid on it.
MisterE: hell water is
the next asset
mircea_popescu: which is really why it's so fun
to humiliate and
torment
them,
the naked emperors of power.
mircea_popescu: mat dimon is powerless
to do anything about anything, one regular here is a lot more powerful in
that WE ACTUALLY CONTROL our bitcoins.
mircea_popescu: there;s no such
thing as "powerful" in
the fiat world, being it a politician including obama, or a media personality including whoever
the fuck you watch, or a financial guy.
chetty_: nah, not worth a bullet,
they just laugh at him.
take his phone away
MisterE: Umm,
that evening or
the next day he would be assassinated?
MisterE: "Assange attacked what he sees as
the powerlessness of even
the most
theoretically powerful politicians, and asked what would happen if President Barack Obama said
tomorrow he was immediately disbanding
the NSA, or even
the CIA."
mircea_popescu: you want us
to confiscate your investments fine, you don't want us
to also fine.
mircea_popescu: you want
the gas fine, you don't want
the gas also fine.
mircea_popescu: the obscure part in all of
this is what exact space for diplomacy does russia need here ?
mircea_popescu: "He (John Kerry) made clear
that continued military escalation and provocation in Crimea or elsewhere in Ukraine, along with steps
to annex Crimea
to Russia would close any available space for diplomacy, and he urged utmost restraint,"
the official said.
ozbot: What Is Business?
The Roman Catholic Church, For One | When Bitcoin Met Pete
mircea_popescu: Furthermore
the local linearity of any utility curve means
that
the micromort is useful for small incremental risks and rewards, not necessarily for large risks
mircea_popescu: However utility functions are often not linear, i.e
the more a person has already spent on
their safety
the less
they are willing
to spend
to further increase
their safety.
Therefore
the $50 valuation should not be
taken
to mean
that a human life (1 million micromorts) is valued at $50,000,000.
mircea_popescu: (e.g., how much
they are willing
to pay for safety features on cars) a
typical value is around $50 (in 2009)
mircea_popescu: An application of micromorts is measuring
the value
that humans place on risk: for example, one can consider
the amount of money one would have
to pay a person
to get him or her
to accept a one-in-a-million chance of death (or conversely
the amount
that someone might be willing
to pay
to avoid a one-in-a-million chance of death). When put
thus, people claim a high number but when inferred from
their day-to-day actions
bitcoinpete: And incredibly easy for
the gluten intolerant
mircea_popescu: punkman i suppose
the putin-ness has
to do with ethnicity. eyck painted locals and putin is apparently baltic stock
mircea_popescu: bitcoinpete i don't
think author even understands
there's any depth
to
the matter.
the bread's all flat
to him, like he was born in
the internet age.
bitcoinpete: He didn't even pick
the lowest hanging fruit: Botero's chubby fruit
mircea_popescu: "If
the paintings have
tons of little people in
them but otherwise seem normal, it’s Bruegel. ajahaha
punkman: I lol'd "If everyone – including
the women – looks like Putin,
then it’s van Eyck."
mircea_popescu: at
the very least mike_c and benkay'd be very interesting in
their stuff.
bitcoinpete: crikey.
That makes
the Vatican look like a Swiss McDonald's
MisterE: what was
the british mainly sucking out of
them?
textiles?