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mircea_popescu: KRS-One you're wrong on that score.
KRS-One: just the fact the brand is well known is what counts and even adds to balance sheets
BingoBoingo: KRS-One: Playing both sides is often the best way to BitBet
KRS-One: There is a bit of goodwill with the mtgox brand..its been around a while.
BingoBoingo: KRS-One: How much BTC are you looking to Bitbet, enough to play both sides?
KRS-One: They can get bought out too before anything drastic happens, I'm sure.
ThickAsThieves: well thats the bet at this point
BingoBoingo: Well it depends on how long they can play pretend.
KRS-One: That gox bet stinks, if they arent insolvent I'm sure they will be above $150
BingoBoingo: Bugpowder: I'm tied up in other things atm.
Bugpowder: BingoBoingo: If you feel so strongly, why not buy the O.USD.P500T @ 1.500 BTC
ThickAsThieves: i took no on that bet
cazalla: up the tigers
BingoBoingo: South Syndney Rabbitohs to win the NRL regular season.
BingoBoingo: KRS-One: A decent second choice would be to start a BitBet.
Bugpowder: BingoBoingo: I think there is an 80% chance that resolves as yes.
mircea_popescu: look at that, benkay may have actually got himself rich.
mircea_popescu: that too
kakobrekla: <mircea_popescu> i mean this channel was fundamentally born out of some clueless noobs' inability to grok that intelligent discussion is more important than avoiding displays of cunt. < not really, was just to impress girls.
mircea_popescu: from the random herp with mental issues and lulzy url department : http://www.homelandsecurityus.com/archives/10482
BingoBoingo: KRS-One: Take 'NO' on this one http://bitbet.us/bet/281/btc-usd-at-mtgox-will-be-above-150-on/
gribble: S.NSA - Cardano pricing, other statements pe Trilema - Un blog de ...: <http://trilema.com/snsa-cardano-pricing-other-statements>; Unsorted collection of various Cardano related updates + ... - Trilema: <http://trilema.com/2013/unsorted-collection-of-various-cardano-related-updates-spurious-pics/>; S.NSA, January 2014 Statement pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea ...: (1 more message)
benkay: ;;google trilema cardano
gribble: Gerolamo Cardano - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerolamo_Cardano>; Cardano: <http://www.cardano.com/>; Cardan biography: <http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Cardan.html>
benkay: homie you behind the times like whoa
Bugpowder: I DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT IS
benkay: plus "how to keep comms secure" lessons
Bugpowder: don't exactly understand why you want to contact them
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves right, the dood contributed.
KRS-One: havent looked for the last week or two
ThickAsThieves: <mircea_popescu> lots of idiot tribes. // you owe Seth Godin royalties now
asciilifeform: (or elsewhere for that matter)
asciilifeform: as if it needs much of an explanation beyond simple translation in the anglo world.
KRS-One: i took just-dice money and they arent getting it back
Bugpowder: I had to add it to my hosts file
mircea_popescu: benkay more children is a time-tested solution to any social problem.
ThickAsThieves: <WillTablet> I mean, I haven't even figured out my intense social problems, nor stopped procrastinating // dont confuse procrastinating with not wanting to do stupid shit
benkay: last thing we need is more 99%ers
asciilifeform: at any rate, the politically-aspirational academtards who were the 'krysha' of occupy eventually pulled the plug
mircea_popescu: if they did what i propose you'd have a baby boom on your hands atm
ThickAsThieves: <Bugpowder> ATC needs a killer app though. Has anyone talked to dooglus about ATCdice /// has he made alt versions before?
mircea_popescu: only because of the ny mayor missing some very reasonable measures.
ThickAsThieves: <WillTablet> Though doing cpu mining with altcoins and then buying BTC seems more profitable /// yeah but nubbins might call you a scammer
mircea_popescu: they'd have been all over that.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you mean all the waspish wallflowers weren't about to take smelly bum cock ?
ThickAsThieves: <Bugpowder> Do you have charts? I need charts to do TA. /// http://atc.blockr.io
asciilifeform: but with genuine bums in the mix, it was 'acquired taste' rather than 'general interest' kind of affair.
mircea_popescu: could have eaten rio's festival tourist trade right off.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform new york missed a huge opportunity to start the largest fuckfest/rave in the history of the us.
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benkay: mircea_popescu: that's what made me think about cold-calling DC intl law firms.
nubbins`: BitcoinPropagand: what's to know? make posters and hire kids to put 'em up. this is how shows are advertised all across north america
BitcoinPropagand: I need to know more about that program of propaganda
asciilifeform: eventually health inspectors condemned the tents.
asciilifeform: some found their way into restaurant shitters, others did what they will where they stood
BingoBoingo: nubbins`: You don't want to hit the big cities. Go for the select suburbs and exurbs where they actually live.
asciilifeform: here, eventually the city confiscated their latrines.
mircea_popescu: then pass clothes dump trucks to collect the textile contraband, and beat the shit out of any dressed kids left.
nubbins`: you could even get some of the big names to do some designs, get a bit of momentum behind it
mircea_popescu: srsly, if the ny mayor had any sense he'd have passed an ordinance saying that kids are allowed to camp indefinitely oly for as long as they're naked, also get three meals a day courtesy of the city.
nubbins`: mircea_popescu: any decent-sized city likely has a number of print shops that would happily churn out and slap up posters
mircea_popescu: so i wouldn't have been the only one huh,
asciilifeform: lots of idlers, in nice suits or otherwise, came to gawk.
asciilifeform: it wasn't like they quizzed you for redditard orthodoxy at the door (what door)
mircea_popescu: nubbins` provided enough people think with their heads, yes.
nubbins`: ^ you know, that's not an entirely difficult task to pull off.
asciilifeform: i actually entertained myself at the wash. d.c. 'occupy' regularly, until it finally croaked. got GBs of video of these folks clowning around in a thousand riotously inane ways.
mircea_popescu: i wonder what'll happen once teh bitcoin forum crowd finds out there actually are plenty of irl banks that work exactly this way.
benkay: it's really a membership fee to the cigar and wine vaults
mircea_popescu: mp bank prolly charges 100k to open an acct anyway.
benkay: "it's just a fantasy, office! this is totally consensual!"
cads: well come on to the MP bank!
mircea_popescu: and the kids' be all "but we don't have an account"
benkay: privileged to rape one feminist?
cads: maybe that's all white people have to do
mircea_popescu: and distributed them.
cads: the key meme was the rhetoric of the "one percent"
cads: the dialog of privilege had not been opened in the public yet
mircea_popescu: so good for them. running is quite healthy for young men.
mircea_popescu: i'd have been all like "but yo, if there's no more banks, were'd you check your privilege ?"
cads: runners that would run between camps in the city
cads: they had, get thiss
cads: on the camp ground there was hustle and bustle and optimism and the undeniably knowledge that they were DOING SOMETHING.
mircea_popescu: you know, i'd have gone to work early and hung out with the bums half an hour.
cads: it was funny because there were business men filing nervously past the tents every day
cads: boxing them in :D
cads: laughing at them
mircea_popescu: does the "feminist" not wish to wear slutty clothes herself,
cads: mircea_popescu: no no, to the left and the right and the north and the south towered the enormous buildings of the billionaires
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that question cuts to the heart of the matter.
asciilifeform: i still don't grok this. did anyone actually wish to use freicoin? or merely for others to use it.
mircea_popescu: were they confused as to the whereabouts of wall street ?
cads: living cramped in a tent*
cads: I heard about it from, get this, a grungy muddy finance grad student living with two other grungy dudes in a 300 tent colony that had sprung up in one of the main parks in the center of atlanta
mircea_popescu: cads o i missed a sarcasm there.
mircea_popescu: i could have just bought out the damned billboards if that was the angle i wanted.
mircea_popescu: BitcoinPropagand my budget is for the purpose of this discussion unlimited, but it is also unfortunately useless.
cads: arguably their mission is complete :)
cads: mircea_popescu: freicoin ain't going to inspire no greed, no sir!
benkay: the richness of today is the more richness of tomorrow