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mircea_popescu: decimation: mircea_popescu: minor nitpick - I don't think USG employees get dental actually
<< generally no, but afaik nsa folk do.
mircea_popescu:
<ICEbErg> PHGMYUBYUIREYAE YRN B lYaY, ONDLNYAYNBEE X oHREPE NAHRYUER?
ben_vulpes:
<nubbins`> how about the marijuana supports terr.. oh, wait`
<< from a conversation with a client earlier today: "pot makes you stupid! if my son keeps smoking, i'm going to cut him off."
ben_vulpes:
<mircea_popescu> well, lettuce see. the submarine is submerged. it does not care about "weather" in either fluid sense. with the new fleshlights and tumblr pr0nz... i defy you to find a bunch of 20somethings whose current life would be differen if they were subbed.
< ah
ben_vulpes:
<mircea_popescu> so what if ben_vulpes has it his way and by say 2050 most people that are people actually live in one ?
<< uh pardon?
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: satisfying log. keep up the good work.
<< i guess we're all labrats in kako's little lab experiment.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: and we always wondered what an 'EGGOG' was.
<< ahaha that's so cute.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: but for desktop machining - perfect. so long as you aren't in a hurry.
<< well no, see, electricity is still sold by the watt. whether you're in a hurry or not, you still need same wattage, so still are beholden to the same (rather high) cost. so i suppose "so long as you're making something small enough for your fun doing it to be worth the 0.001 cent to 1/4 dollar price transition"
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal: it's just a trilema article written like shakespeare, no?
<< it's the merchant of venice ye lout! :D
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: with little-to-none attention to principles
<< the reason would be that chemistry is not a science. physics is the science. if the kids wanted the principles they'd go for physics. if they didn't that means they don't wish to understand the thing, but merely you know... be engineers :D
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform:
http://imgur.com/AR8UVBW << quoted for the battery. now that EXACT battery, so exact that a vague outline thereof is the most that's needed and the most a person of taste and discrimination would ever draw, for fear of being you know, boringingly fastidious, is a 4.5 volt 3 cell mangan oxide battery that was the most important element of my childhood.
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal: I just don't get why they think it's all about some party
<< because if it's about something in their system then that validates the system in question.
mircea_popescu: assbot: Tech Visionary George Gilder: "Bitcoin is the Libertarian Solution to the Money Enigma." - Reason.com
<< what is this, "i've caught up to 2011 let me tell you what i have now discovered" ?
mircea_popescu: decimation: to me the obvious use for plastic turd is to make molds for metal pouring
<< metal pouring is a very iffy proposition tho.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell Bitcoin1011: Is he involved in other mobile apps in the space for my reference?
<< no, he's the resident talent scout.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: why did the rulers of ussr, china, etc. push so aggressively for mechanized agriculture? to free the plow-pullers from their toil so they can watch opera?
<< for efficiency.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: the folks pushing the 'urban' ('totalitarian', etc, pick favourite term)
<< these seriously aren't equivalent.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: eventual goal, for the state, is an endgame where you can't grow your own potato in secret any more than you can produce your own 14nm cpu.
<< eventual endgame, for the utopian socialist/nazist state, as for any utopian/figment of imagination, is human relevancy.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: a historical annoyance, for all forms of state, is that folks can, in general, grow food without asking it permission first.
<<< this brings to mind the ridiculous "permit to assemble" device.
mircea_popescu: destroy land/wealth equivalency
<< this is gone , actually, which is why i rent.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: or say, go and fix RuBisCO, world's most inefficient enzyme
<< it's not its fault! hard fucking shit!
TheNewDeal: mircea_popescu:
http://stats.bitcoin-assets.com/ << wouldja look at that, weekly active user count over avg last week for the first time in like half a year.
<<< usagi has been firing up all his old names?
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: so you can only miss the chance to sell 10k 3 times or something?
<< that was going the other way.
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<http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1329665/> gribble: (eregister
<nick>
<keyid>) -- Register your GPG identity, associating GPG key
<keyid> with
<nick>.
<keyid> is a 16 digit key id, with or without the '0x' prefix. We look on servers listed in 'plugins.GPG.keyservers' config. You will be given a link to a page which contains a one time password encrypted with your key. Decrypt, and use the 'everify' command with it. Your passphrase (1 more message)
thestringpuller: nubbins`: whether you've ever hit my wife
<< ??? this has happened?!?!?
gribble: dexX7 was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 9 weeks, 5 days, 6 hours, 23 minutes, and 33 seconds ago:
<dexX7> i think i can up myself
ben_vulpes:
<jurov> that was more like a tweet
<< playing with the format a bit, yeah. 140 characters ain't enough, but less than 200 words can be fine too.
BingoBoingo: TheNewDeal> what was most annoying was he PMed me after I spoke with him here. Over the next hour or so he tried to convince me of his smashing businesses successes, and the danger of healthy skepticism
<< This is the reason for his neg rating.
fluffypony: [2014-08-17T17:04:11+0200]
<usagi> Look at my WOT brother. The wot itself is telling you how transpareently obvious you are
fluffypony: [2014-08-17T17:03:50+0200]
<usagi> Fluffypony are you aware that I have actually been offered business as a result of you targeting me?
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu> i dun think atc ever dropped two digits sort of shit.
<< You forget before the civilized times ATC would trade at ~500 and 100 satoshis in the same hour
mircea_popescu:
<Apocalyptic>
<X-Rob> I normally just reinvest into hardware. // this strategy is bound to fail
<< i think he pretty much said he enjoys the tinkering aspect. so from his pov it's perfect, put some money in, letting it run itself out. bitcoin, the very complex and realistic online mmorpg/mud
chetty:
<mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo it's looking pretty gnarly huh.// just needs a handbasket
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal> on bitbet, people always write up a bet about stocks like GOOG will close at above 1200 before jan 1
<< so it's like freedom, let them have fun.
Apocalyptic:
<X-Rob> I normally just reinvest into hardware. // this strategy is bound to fail
jurov:
<mircea_popescu> [09:28:56] mp lists derps, ... nobody wants to do series a anymoar.
<< but i was waiting with any advertisement till F.DERP gets online
chetty:
<usagi> Thanks, I was looking at monsanto the other day actually and according to them at least, they don't produce "terminator seeds".// YET
chetty:
<asciilifeform> a historical annoyance, for all forms of state, is that folks can, in general, grow food without asking it permission first.//+++++
chetty:
<asciilifeform> there is only, at present, 'foods optimized to resist gargantuan quantities of herbicide on the field.'// actually I dont think they much have a clue all the effects of the 'engineering' they been up to
pete_dushenski: cazalla: pete_dushenski, "Yes, dear People Of The World, you belong to your family, your faith, and your traditions, not your ?nation.? Where else does this exist than perhaps countries such as Japan? Families have been destroyed, faith abandoned, very little tradition left. What's left but nationalism? (I started to fall into this trap).
<< that's sorta teh point of their nefarious exercise. what's left is your own
gribble: (market buy [--fiat] [--market
<market>] [--currency XXX]
<value>) -- Calculate the effect on the market depth of a market buy order of
<value> bitcoins. If
<market> is provided, uses that exchange. Default is Bitstamp. If --currency XXX is provided, converts to that fiat currency. Default is USD. If '--fiat' option is given,
<value> denotes the size of the order in fiat.
gribble: (buy [--long]
<amount>
<thing> [at|@]
<priceperunit>
<otherthing> [
<notes>]) -- Logs a buy order for
<amount> units of
<thing>, at a price of
<price> per unit, in units of
<otherthing>. Use the optional
<notes> field to put in any special notes.
<price> may include an arithmetical expression, and {(mtgox|bitstamp)(ask|bid|last|high|low|avg)} to index price to mtgox ask, bid, last, high, (1 more message)
gribble: vexual was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 5 days, 0 hours, 46 minutes, and 15 seconds ago:
<Vexual> thats not how you play frogger
gribble: mexual was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 2 days, 23 hours, 52 minutes, and 8 seconds ago:
<Mexual> shit a brick, thats exactly how frogger is played
BingoBoingo: "Analysts who study the opaque American political system, in which all provinces are granted semi-autonomous self-rule, warned that Nixon may seize the opportunity to move against weakened municipal rulers in Ferguson."
<< Surprisingly accurate given how St Louis county is organized
mircea_popescu: assbot: usagi +v failed; L1: 0, L2: -5
<< this is kinda lulzy.