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mircea_popescu:
<mike_c> srsly i would kick in for an offical b-a accountant.
<<< me too. sadly...
mircea_popescu: "a while back i finally figured out what makes a good relationship."
<< from, of course, reddit.
mircea_popescu:
<ben_vulpes> smorgasbord of cultural touchpoints is the best some people can do!
< < actually i think it's how you get the top marks in women's colleges.
mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> 'You actually know who Kim Kardashian is.'
<< nice ass turkic-type girl.
mircea_popescu:
<ben_vulpes> "In an ideal world, Kim Kardashian would have spent her life getting sport-fucked anonymously by hip-hop stars in some Bel Air mansion, ran a salon, and either died of a coke overdose or Botox poisoning."
<< this "ideal" world is actually the world. i dunno what this new shit the kids got going post 2000 is supposed to be, but it ain';t a world in *any* sense
mircea_popescu:
<ben_vulpes> dolar blue actually fell last week?
<< yes, from 12.5ish to 12.8ish
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves> my name in Dota 2 is Bitcoin-Assets and I killed an opponent named Doge
<< lol let the permanent record reflect this. in duplicate.
mircea_popescu:
<ben_vulpes> honey if the rest of the world disagrees, who the fuck are you again?
<< she's SWAIA! Someone with an internet acct!
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes> "Where in the world (outside of Taliban-controlled parts of Afghanistan) do fifty-year old men routinely get to mate with twenty-year-old women? " oh gosh
<<< everywhere ?
mircea_popescu:
<assbot> Algorithm recovers speech from vibrations of potato-chip bag filmed through soundproof glass
<< impressive hh
mod6: And the music sucks. Dear God, the music sucks.
<< lol, this
ben_vulpes:
<ThickAsThieves> i saw this picture of a bunch of Canadian red/white maple leaf ATMs form Cavirtex, I wonder if maybe those stockholders from Havelock might get something something outta things in the end...
<< a) cavirtex is desperate for profit b) doubtful havelock holders are going to get anything as they've been delisted, right?
ben_vulpes: ;;later tell pete_dushenski
<pete_dushenski> but we're losing our voices over here
<< leave it to the professionals :D :D :D :D
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pete_dushenski: decimation: as happens in societies without stable property rights. If you do this at all you can expect an immediately higher default premium which would make an economy undercapitalized."
<< pete_dushenski: “It’s possible that taking physical pain relievers provides men with more cognitive resources to express the pain they feel,”
<< alcohol seems to work this way
pete_dushenski: zillabtc: and they all faild?
<< what was mircea_popescu saying about people sitting quietly and reading solving all the world's woes?
chetty:
<pete_dushenski> punkman1: he's a believer
<< show this stellartard "never say never" and he'll be a belieber too// belivers we got, need a few more skeptics to throw mud around, imo
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: well i got a condition where i can't differentiate canadian settlements.
<< maybe we shouldn't have colour-coded them...
pete_dushenski: ben_vulpes: maybe i'm just lazy and stupid. that's always possible.
<< so humble.
pete_dushenski: punkman1: he's a believer
<< show this stellartard "never say never" and he'll be a belieber too
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes meh green/browns
<< so mp wasn't kidding! i never know sometimes...
ben_vulpes:
<mircea_popescu> nfi why it should be such a big deal, but it undeniably is.
<< theatre hue
mircea_popescu: ". As far as intellectual whores can determine, the average female bitch has a rating system that works like this:."
<< look, the original reference is even preserved./
mircea_popescu:
<cazalla> old enough to remember around 2000 the red pill was called ladder theory
<<< .
decimation:
http://falkenblog.blogspot.com/2014/07/pikettys-terrifying-dystopia_27.html << " It's always been popular to think, maybe we should have a jubilee, get rid of those ledgers and start again as equals! Given the power law distribution of wealth at all times such a proposal is perennially popular to those ignorant of history. Yet, if you do this every period, capital isn't owned by any individual, and so would be completely mismanaged
mircea_popescu:
<BigBitz> Sounds a bit sudden for it to be Ebola, chetty.
<< not if he had it for a while.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell pete_dushenski "AdT makes a strong argument that democracy is far from the only solution, and in fact pales in comparison to democracy in several key ways."
<< you mixed em up ?
chetty:
<FabianB> chetty: so the BMOI is basically the Black Market and Opressed-finance Index/ actually a pretty useful index, maybe not for btc
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves So ATC has more opportunity than RON? Welcome to the new world order!
<< lmao this is actually quite literally correct. as unbelievable as that may sound.
gribble: mike_c was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 2 days, 7 hours, 26 minutes, and 41 seconds ago:
<mike_c> wasn't bolivia the one that banned bitcoin?
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves: i didnt bother reading the incel details much
<< the restated maslow pyramid towards the end is the meat of that article.
mircea_popescu: dignork: chetty: evil keyboard will do wonders on windows, with ctlr-esc+cmd+cr combo, not so much on other OSes
<< what's that do on win ?
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: doge sticker
<< dude's not trolling?
mircea_popescu: novusordo: but then the laughter subsided and a sense of inferiority crept in for only speaking english
<< best gift you could give your head, learn a language.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: mr mold
<< i'm hoping to see the archives in a sane format sometime soon.
ben_vulpes:
<tenyks> Portland, OR is 86.4 F (30.2 C) and Scattered Clouds; windchill is NA; winds are Calm
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves: nice knowin ya MPEx!
<< sadly nobody counts all the already burried X of Y and Z of K that were "going to".
gribble: jborkl was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 2 days, 22 hours, 25 minutes, and 53 seconds ago:
<jborkl> answered my next question
ben_vulpes: "At some point, you may wish to delete private keys from a wallet.dat file but as of version v0.6.0 of Bitcoin-QT/bitcoind, there is no RPC method available for this purpose."
<< assholes.
chetty:
<asciilifeform> it is a fool's errand to save people ----from themselves
gribble: Hollywood was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 49 weeks, 0 days, 20 hours, 27 minutes, and 53 seconds ago:
<Hollywood> I only am because it is the top post on the forum, but I don't want to read it and waste brain cells
gribble: jborkl_ was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 10 weeks, 2 days, 15 hours, 44 minutes, and 34 seconds ago:
<jborkl_> added next diff, block found by- still adding pool info have about half- finishing up live charting of btce,bitstamp and btcchina
mircea_popescu:
<decimation> granted, it's a mistake to think of that as another golden age too - there's a reason they all left Germany after all
<< that reason is population pressure.
mircea_popescu:
<decimation> I'm convinced that one of the reasons that pre-WWII germany spiraled out of control was because people who were able to make something of themselves had already left 50 years earlier
<< this is actually a pretty good theory.
mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> fuckitall. watched that clip, now i just wanna be in friedrich's army. what have you done mircea_popescu!
<<< lmao. die kaisrin hat sich mit den franzosen alliiert, und das romiche reich gegen mich revoltiert die russen seind gefallen in preussen ein auf! lasst uns zeigen dass wir brave landeskinder sein!
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> gedankenexperiment. imagine if it were not possible to starve to death - folks who can't find any food would, say, photosynthetize (this is not geometrically/thermodynamically possible in life, but imagine for a moment.) what would the people who have never, or almost never, eaten - write on the subject?
<< Reddit aspires to buy monitors with sufficient brightness to enable photosynthesis, gets scammed on kickstart