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BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: We covered dictionaries in primary school
that I remember.
mircea_popescu: accepting credit cards is a skill. exponential, logarithmic,
this year alone or whatever else. it's all a soup.
jurov: davout: previously only bourse shares were sold, not even
trading
them was possible.
mircea_popescu: on
the left vs
the right,
the effects of
the deterioration of public schooling.
davout: BingoBoingo: ok, with pleasure! I can't play right now
tho
BingoBoingo: Caveat is
the kicker I supposed for
this months long
tournament is expiring on
the 28th, because obligations can not be kept open forever.
BingoBoingo: davout: We were coming
to an inevitable
tiebreaker problem so we added Apocalyptic an six player could help reduce
ties still further.
davout: BingoBoingo: are you guys done with
the first one ?
BingoBoingo: davout: You still interested in
that chess
tournament?
davout: jurov: didn't he allow
that earlier already?
BingoBoingo: barefood sounds much sexier
than
that scene.
mircea_popescu: but when
the girl is barefoot on
the dirt floor,
that's her own dirt floor she's barefood on.
BingoBoingo: Yeah. Between viewings one and
two I did
the paper reading.
ThickAsThieves: omg how do i get cash into gox someone should arb
that /s
mircea_popescu: if not exactly under
the medieval conditions described.
mircea_popescu: you know visconti had amateurs shoot
the whole
thing ?
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BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Subtitles would have blocked
too much misery from my eyes.
BingoBoingo: ThickAsThieves: I'm only one
timezone over and haven't slept yet.
ThickAsThieves: sorry i'm delirious from randomly waking up
too early cuz i had feeling itd be crashing
ThickAsThieves: We are very sorry for
the delays and deeply appreciate your kind understanding and
ThickAsThieves: status. We are committed
to solving
this issue and will provide more information as soon
ThickAsThieves: "As much as we didn’t want
to only provide an “update on an update”,
this is
the current
ThickAsThieves: combined with some other security and
technical challenges, pushed back our progress."
ThickAsThieves: security problems, and as a result we had
to relocate MtGox
to our previous office building
ThickAsThieves: "In addition
to
the
technical issue,
this week we have experienced some
BingoBoingo: ThickAsThieves:
They were on a ventilator 9 months. Most sane courts would have unplugged
the vegetable.
BingoBoingo: ThickAsThieves: You realize
the bet it for
that particular day and not before.
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BingoBoingo: ThickAsThieves: Which side you
take,
this could be
thrilling
BingoBoingo: Had
to watch it
twice since I understand spoken Spanish survivably but Italian not so much.
BingoBoingo: It ended how
the Merchant of Venice should have.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I watched La
Terra
Trema. JP Morgan will have
to find a wholesaler sometime.
mircea_popescu: there is a lot of competition in being
the best worst.
jurov: But Markus is far less competent
than ukyo/burnside...so prolly not.
jurov: Sooo...infamous bitcoinbourse.eu is going
to allow for
trading of stocks...another lulzround begins?
mircea_popescu: that you can't do for
them, nobody can, and so until
they learn
to submit you;re not going
to have business
there.
mircea_popescu: the problem you run into is
this :
they do not wish
to actually matter in
the world
that is,
they wish
to instead live in a world
they'd prefer.
BingoBoingo: I'm still leaving
the offer out
there if Goldman or JPM wants
to
try outrunning YCombinator
that I
tucked in my footnotes
Namworld: They could become
the best worst.
Namworld: They aren't done yet proving
themselves.
BingoBoingo: Well... Most people
took 18 months
to abandon BFL. Gox went, what... a whole 24 months before getting called out?
BingoBoingo: Namworld:
They didn't want
to let Mark hug out
the scam accusations
Namworld: Protesters were a security
threat?
Namworld: This announcement is as stupid as
the previous one. Who would have
thought.
Namworld: They should change
their pdf naming standard.
BingoBoingo: Well all of
those spam sites need
to point .info and .pw domains somewhere.
mircea_popescu: seems a combination of really shitty hosting and people running servers on
their home broadband
BingoBoingo: Is Microsoft actually making gains or are
the finally moving Hotmail off of FreeBSD
MisterE: coz I root for
the
to fail heh
MisterE: hate
to say it but Azure was good before
the upgrade now I hear no complaints
mircea_popescu: i was
talking
to a friend earlier and i said "tis hard being a woman". she retorted "yeah, not only our brains don't work but
tits and asses both droop with
time
too!"
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: It give you articles published on bitcoin. Reading gives you
the sensible
things.
Then math.
mircea_popescu: when bitcoin gets close
to about pi it's
time
to sell.
mircea_popescu: number of articles published discussing bitcoin / number of sensible
things said.
mircea_popescu: i have a new formula for computing
the market value of bitcoin
BingoBoingo: Windows seems more
to just be a fear of any other name. Call it pudding and
they will ignore it is shit.
BingoBoingo: chetty: Inertia and aversion
to learning I imagine.
chetty: I really fail
to understand why anyone would still be using windows
BingoBoingo: MS's priority for WIndows has
to be keeping
the number of Windows installs up
to keep selling Office and Visual Studios.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: For OEMs I hink I've read it goes down
to at least $25
mircea_popescu: what was
the lowest consumer license for windoze, like 50 bux ?
BingoBoingo: B007: Deception.
THey are in
the deception business.
BingoBoingo: Maybe, but I'm not in
the wrong business
that Facebook and Whatsapp are
B007: you are in
the wrong business son
BingoBoingo: The
thing is
there just aren't opportunites
to do
this anymore really.
BingoBoingo: It wasn't at its inception.
This is
the old "Fake it until you make it" 30k millionaire shit.
BingoBoingo: This fake messaging network business whatsapp is in isn't
too different from
the fake software development
tools business Microsoft started with
BingoBoingo: Now
that WIndows is so entrenched with lusers over decades,
they have been able
to force a sorporate ecosystem, because learning is bad Mkay.
B007: but I don't
think you can compare Microsoft
to WhatsApp
BingoBoingo: The entire microsoft ecosystem from Basic in
the 70's
to nao is
that doing better
things is more expensive in
terms of
time
to learn
the right ways.
BingoBoingo: Generally Windows is bundled with a consumer machine and consumers accept
that
to not learn better
things.
B007: So? Microsoft sells
to corporations
BingoBoingo: B007: How little do consumers have
to pay for WIndows?
B007: Microsoft? I don't
think you know what you're
talking about
BingoBoingo: Whatsapp is
too Myspace
to have value. WhatsApp embraces customers
too poor for actual
tools.