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mircea_popescu: due to a keen understanding of how things work online
asciilifeform: perhaps woman posted this crap herself - hungers for free sympathy coin.
mircea_popescu: im sure she'll get all the pizza she can eat
ThickAsThieves: if they are smart
Namworld: Dibs on thirtytwobitidiot. I'll spread "Bitcoin hack tools to print Bitcoins" links replacing victims' OS with Windows ME.
mircea_popescu: damn this typing
Namworld: I did? Oh, I shouldn't be here then.
mircea_popescu: so is threebitidiot someone here ?
thestringpuller: I thought you died Namworld lololol
Namworld: Dorian Nakamoto will get much more than a free lunch it seems.
mircea_popescu: it's just... obviously nobody bothered to think it through
mircea_popescu: not even a lousy "mp is a hypocreat!11" sticks, it'd work out more like "omg mp is such a better troll than you"
thestringpuller: I don't have time to think about that.
thestringpuller: then they prove the moon landing was fake?
mircea_popescu: but even that aside... suppose you somehow prove she's me. nao what ?
mircea_popescu: i mean, on one hand ample proof to the contrary is available
mircea_popescu: it just sticks out as such an ill advised time and effort investment.
ThickAsThieves: people willing to put more effort protecting being wrong
ThickAsThieves: still follows mp's thought on it though\
thestringpuller: i feel like that's just an ancillary effect in certain cases - i think there are people who are hell bent on proving MP === MPOE-PR and put plent of effort into researching that. nevertheless...
mircea_popescu: they don't really need to wait for a snowden to come around
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i wonder if it is unpatriotic to point out that generally speaking, the chinese military and perhaps others have been reading the us communications for a while now
mircea_popescu: splendid arrangement to my taste.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the mpoe-pr thing is quite efficient, in that people who still confuse us two inadvertently manage to show about how much effort they're willing to put into research
ThickAsThieves: do we need to read past "The CIA, for instance, is moving toward the cloud with the help of Amazon"
asciilifeform: from the lulzfarm:
thestringpuller: complete change of toppic
ThickAsThieves: i guess the next LSD study results won't be publicly shared
ThickAsThieves: he wants mpoe-pr to teach him more explicitly, rather than laugh that he doesn't read that icbit and gox are scams on his own
asciilifeform: they ought to apologize by seppuku in front of his doorstep instead.
ThickAsThieves: I think it's really funny, and aren't I brilliant?"" in the same breath
ThickAsThieves: I like how DrGreg goes "Have you noticed, MPOE-PR, that each and every time you have attempted to start a substantive argument with me of any kind, I have handed you your a** on a platter? " and then goes "The difference is, these folks have the class not to belabor the point, they have the class not to run around after you saying "hey, look at this joke I just made up about you, and
ozbot: Fans raise cash for Dorian Nakamoto, irrespective of his link to Bitcoin | Ars Technica
B007: "in order to be acknowledged as the single professional trading platform in the world for operations in cryptographic currencies."
mircea_popescu: or at least, the noobs are.
mircea_popescu: and yet another bites the dust
ozbot: Another Bitcoin Exchange Bites The Dust: Vault of SatosHistory
mircea_popescu: o look, neo thread is nao about mpex.
B007: I don't think anyone under 20 even knows what Blue Chip was
mircea_popescu: "stay away from technology, we don't understand it. focus on stamps and wrigley's instead"
mircea_popescu: perhaps worse than the cherry cola.
mircea_popescu: According to Buffett's 2006 letter to Berkshire shareholders, Blue Chip had 1970 sales of $126 million as about 60 billion of "stamps were licked by savers, pasted into books, and taken to Blue Chip redemption stores." He also said, "When I was told that even certain brothels and mortuaries gave stamps to their patrons, I felt I had finally found a sure thing." Sales dropped to $19.4 million in 1980 and $1.5 million in
bitcoinpete: mircea_popescu: from the derpartment...
mircea_popescu: isn't it great that every hs drop-out / grocery packing specialist out there gets to judge the president and the supreme court justices ?
mircea_popescu: hilosophical conception of the constitution is pernicious."
mircea_popescu: from the "i'm a derp on the internet hear me roar" dept : "It is often noted that Barack Obama is an expert on constitutional law. That is better than the alternative, but it doesn't follow from that credential that he has a sound (or even benign) philosophical understanding of the constitution. Obama's credentials as a constitutional lawyer pale compared to those of Justice Antonin Scalia, for instance, and Scalia's p
mircea_popescu: she and 48 scammers keep that ship afloat.
mircea_popescu: also TIL MPOE-PR is 1.8687% of bitcointalk's scam accusationsboard.
ozbot: [Mpex.co] The Scientology of Bitcoin Finance?
mircea_popescu: i guess he's busy socking me on teh forum
moiety: building freelance platform that is 60% complete. need 10btc benkay
mircea_popescu: bitcoinpete this is from 85
moiety: https://bitcoinstarter.com/projects/618 just got asked about this. went through it asking what exactly they need money for until the guy says: well fuck im out of words.
mod6: benkay: ya, (Can't contact the database server: Lost connection to MySQL server at 'reading initial communication packet', system error: 111 (mysql))
bitcoinpete: even at his advanced age, still hustlin' for that cherry
moiety: btctalks ads just get better.. trusted ponzi's now?!
moiety: not just one change, a distinct drop in respect and increase in hilarity this year
mircea_popescu: who's to know, my hayseed was maybe drinking OmahaCola
mircea_popescu: " I hope you come to this year’s meeting, which will be held on May 20 in Omaha. There will be only one change: after 48 years of allegiance to another soft drink, your Chairman, in an unprecedented display of behavioral flexibility, has converted to the new Cherry Coke. Henceforth, it will be the Official Drink of the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting."
moiety still thinks a cat botherer would be the best plan
asciilifeform: with added twist that a zombie can install the implant in a generic bird
asciilifeform: probably easier to use 'remote-controlled mouse' technique on organic birds
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform perhaps too advanced yet, but! suppose the thing actually MADE its own polymers
asciilifeform: picture the epic battles.
asciilifeform: disabled bird drives a nailgun round through its LiPo battery, explodes honourably.
mircea_popescu: i guess youd make it real thin anyway
asciilifeform: unlikely to be a major factor in the cost of the machine
asciilifeform: while on this flight of fancy, one can also consider flexible photovoltaics as the 'wings.'
asciilifeform: to fly - foldable mylar membranes between the legs (ornithopter flight - rotors are lame)
asciilifeform: immunity to jamming
mircea_popescu: "only look when there's something you wish to see"
asciilifeform: clever designer can build a swarm, which uses the steerable cameras and lasers for intra-swarm comms
moiety: i'm not planning on arming the cats to be fair
asciilifeform: and a handful of spare eyes, which normally face the earth, gives resilience against incoming enemy laser.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform actually 8 legs is prolly ideal. in rough conditions legs are used for navigation, like a spider. on normal situations two legs are used as depth perceptive eyes
asciilifeform: beam bounced around room by mirrors, ~1mW. if beam fails to land on sensor, cranks up to 50W.
asciilifeform: N+1 legs, lift a leg to use as 'eye'.
mircea_popescu: btw, i don't recall if i ever showed diametric my toy anti-fly plan ?
asciilifeform: if you retain the cameras/optics in the legs, the machine can be easily programmed to always step on solid ground.
mircea_popescu: just chase the spot.
moiety: mircea_popescu: Plan! I appear to have two subjects ready for testing. though, you know it won't get rid of me forever, i'd come back and show you the results
asciilifeform: one could handily build an approximation of the pictured toy from the guts of five or six 'steerable' webcams.
mircea_popescu: moiety just think, one could code that thing to bother cats
moiety: pet lasers?! beats the purple one hands down!
asciilifeform: circuit which turns the panels to face the sun must be independent of the rest of the machine
asciilifeform: hobbyists very often lose their machines when it lands in any direction but props-upward
asciilifeform: like treetops
asciilifeform: landing gear for a serious flyer more or less has to be arachnoid, to handle non-ideal surfaces
mircea_popescu: yup, that'd work too
asciilifeform: then flyer can be quasi-autonomous (land on roofs, otherwise inaccessible places, etc. to recharge via photovoltaics sometimes)
asciilifeform: i've suggested it as 'landing gear' for flying bots, to diametric (who built an example of each at one point)
mircea_popescu: actually spider legs is probably the best solution for robots.
mircea_popescu: is this one ALSO a vc and entreprteneur who thinks himself well known ?
KRS-One: lol this shit is getting thick https://twitter.com/threebitidiot
asciilifeform: this is how the wool is trimmed from the relatively well-paid folks in u.s.
asciilifeform: the 'secret' (not much of one) is that they deliberately build ultra-low-density housing in 'white' sectors, to keep it expensive. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: something like that.
asciilifeform: designed to stand up for ~2 decades, in good weather.
mircea_popescu: i think it's vinyl and recycled pet
mircea_popescu: i don't think they still use wood