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mircea_popescu: diametric but it is a specific
thing. it means "fucking" :D
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "there is no prison
that may hold
the literate"
mircea_popescu: you'll end up with larger heat exchangers
than solar panels
mircea_popescu: but one of
the biggest problems for any energetically intensive application outside of earth is like... how
the fuck you cool it.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> Duffer1: cooling in space is a bitch <<
this somehow never is directly obvious
diametric: I
think
the problem is people use
the word regulate like its some specific
thing.
Duffer1: can a level of bureaucracy exist sufficient
to regulate Bitcoin?
thestringpuller: lol operate a bitcoin exchange from a space station. no government
there...
TomServo: No doubt. It worked wonders for
Target, didn't it!
thestringpuller: PCI compliance is a joke, yet it accounts for good chunk of
the expense budget...that gets passed onto
the customer.
thus we have bitcoin. So what happens in 20 years big government regulates BTC and you need 10 licenses just
to
touch it in Country XYZ?
thestringpuller: payment processors have
too much overhead due
to regulation...you pay so many fees just cutting
through red
tape
ThickAsThieves: "with friends like
this, whi
the fuck needs cointelpro"
BingoBoingo: Well, when you want
to be everyone's friend you forget if you actually have friends or not.
ozbot: Open Letter
to Michael Casey - WSJ reporter who butchered my comments in
today's Bitcoin cover story
mike_c: looking at slides like coindesk's makes me mad for some reason.
those stupid charts with "here's why btc went up" and "here's why it went down".
they should post
that on bitcointalk and be done with it.
mircea_popescu: but as a general principle actual finance does not belong in
the mouth of pundits any more
than science belongs in
the mouths of politicos.
mircea_popescu: that's
the debatable point, but anyway. some slack for everyone
to cut closer or further by his
taste.
mike_c: and maybe even buy
those little plastice outlet covers
to make sure
they survive :)
mircea_popescu: you just go about your business without making a big deal of
them and let
the kids grow up with all
their limbs
mircea_popescu: you don't make a big secret out of
the power sockets, or
the power
tools in
the garage
mircea_popescu: the idea isn't
to keep anything a secret, god forbid, but basically i
think we should be informed by
the correct interraction with children in a family.
jurov: somehow no one is up
to it
mircea_popescu: mike_c anyway, stuff like publishing
the correct numbers is useful and welcome.
jurov: and start offering free mpex
trading for masses
mike_c: although i guess
they could have coinbr accounts
mircea_popescu: the day you're in
the same boat with
the sorts of people "investing" in groupon it's prolly
time
to move on.
mircea_popescu: the controlling point here, i guess, would be
the observation of Kennedy sr
that fuck it, when shoeshine boys discuss stocks it's
time
to get out.
mircea_popescu: rest of 62% is in other dead in
the water nonventures.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves well... it is. of
the 1-2% of bitcoin marketshare
that us vcs get
mircea_popescu: last
thing you need you know, is
thebitcoinwife being knowledgeable about stocks.
mircea_popescu: i mean
they can end up believing it is, like
they end up believing any other nonsense
they believe
mircea_popescu: i really don't want
this viewpoint promoted whereby bitcoin finance is
this point of interest for
the general public.
Duffer1: seems like a situation where
they'd just rather forget
mircea_popescu: TomServo kinda lulzy cause it went pretty much like an old guy's erection,
that forced coin.
ThickAsThieves: it's odd
to me
that
the bitcoin world ignored bitcoin stocks and stock exchanges so much
BingoBoingo: If only
the latest
trilema piece had come out an hour earlier
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] [PAID] 2.39675101 BTC
to 2`983 shares, 80347 satoshi per share
BingoBoingo: Also 737 people reffered by Slashdot in
the first hour as
the last of four links in
the story.
Duffer1: ya
that kinda stuff gets under my skin pretty quick
Duffer1: I plan
to give @RealAlexJones some free #maxcoin next week. No need
to bother with Bitcoin, #maxcoin is better. Currency of
the Resistance.
BingoBoingo: Duffer1: Max doesn't have
the dignity for
that
Duffer1: max seems
to have become
the
thing he hates
mircea_popescu: see
the jan 31st discussion with herbi, it's linked in
the
tweet.
BingoBoingo: At
this rate COindesk is headed into a Max Kaiser like niche becoming a noob ghetto
mircea_popescu: the argument is strong and well made, but not by
them and not by
their fucktarded infographic or w/e
that
thing is
BingoBoingo: ThickAsThieves: Everything, it is
the coindesk way
mircea_popescu: link is
there, "o derp, bitcoin is
the greatest asset class in
the histopry of business"
ozbot: Twitter / Mircea_Popescu: If you're going
to rip -assets ...
mircea_popescu: the derpage coming out of
that
thing is almost like bitcoin magazine runs it.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: "You know you've done
things right, when people aren't sure you've done anything at all."
ThickAsThieves: <mircea_popescu> i have no idea why people continue doing it. must be a mental disorder on
the management side. /// marketeers are persuasive, it's
their job
mircea_popescu: i have no idea why people continue doing it. must be a mental disorder on
the management side.
BingoBoingo: So, less
than 10% of slashdot users are using
the new layout
mircea_popescu: (this was back in
the ra ra ra days of
to
the moon when btc first broke 100)
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves he used
to back before i ended up wearing his asshole as a windshield decoration
Bugpowder: Wouldn't want
to bring down my influence.
Bugpowder: Why would one want
to engage with Keiser?
mircea_popescu: if only mr Y asked
the demonstrator ppl what music
they liked....
nubbins`: i'm only here because you guys all like
Talking Heads
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves you missed
the huge argument with anil dash coupla days ago ?
mircea_popescu: i abandoned it cca 2012 cause
they made it js-unusable.
Bugpowder: Nice
to see you getting back into
twitter.
BingoBoingo: Well, I guess years of reading
them
taught me
their copywriting style
ozbot: Scientists Discover a New State of Matter in
the Last Place You’d Ever
Think
to Look |
TheBlaze.co
pankkake: I wonder if
the UI is just a photoshop
thing for now
ThickAsThieves: "Having only one currency
that can be used for betting makes bet-matching simpler and easier (and more likely).
The currency for making bets cannot be BTC, because
the Counterparty protocol cannot debit BTC from a user’s address."
ThickAsThieves: counterparty is one of
those
things like mastercoin right
Duffer1: never heard about it until i was catching up on my daily actm drama
this morning
mircea_popescu: and really as entry level bureaucrats... how smart can
they be ?
mircea_popescu: kinda sitting ducks because
they're slaves
to
their
talking points
mircea_popescu: it's kind-of becoming a fun sport
these days
tho, find agents
twist
their arms.
nubbins`: twist: GCHQ stole pdf from gox and leaked it via
their agent selkis