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mircea_popescu: "I was
told
that up until a few weeks [at
time of
the interview] ago,
there was hardly any development environment
to
test changes. Most changes were done straight on
the production environment."
mircea_popescu: jcpham it boggles. next
thing we'll discover people actually invested into mcxnow.
pankkake: I don't
think new miners are coming
mircea_popescu: pankkake since you're loaded in, what's
the chain reports ? diff ? blocks ?
pankkake: actually, some people pay for vanity addresses, for
the long ones
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves i imagine as brokerages develop
they'll keep a vanity gen side.
mircea_popescu: open source it may be, but i'm in finance not in
tech.
mircea_popescu: pankkake you keep my cash and my books for
that altcoin
mircea_popescu: i'm looking forward
to headlines like "donations dry spell causes government shut down"
Duffer1: actually
the irs wants
to allow a free automated
tax service but
turbo
tax and hr block have spent millions
to successfully lobby against it
mircea_popescu: soon enough it devolved into "books must be kept
this way because it's more convenient for us"
mircea_popescu: originally
they piggibacked on
the notion
that "well... but you keep your books anyway" and "if you're honest you don't mind sharing"
ThickAsThieves: here you must collect both fed and state
tax from your customers,
then make paperwork showing
the details, and if you are late you get a fee
mircea_popescu: irs wants
to keep accounting, let it hire accountants and pay for
them.
mircea_popescu: the very notion
that
the affairs of
the state shall be imposed upon
third parties is beyond outrageous.
ThickAsThieves: i
think
the accounting burden for small business is retarded
mircea_popescu: but in
the end,
the "because i say so,
that's why" side of
the discussion is apple and hsbc,
mike_c: hm.
then why all
the ireland
tax evasion bs. you still have
to jump some hoops
to avoid
them.
mircea_popescu: they're
the equivalent of
the 4th grade bully. only
there
to scare
the small biz owners.
mircea_popescu: mike_c i dunno why you
think
the irs is important in
this discussion.
mike_c: heh.
tell
that
to
the irs
mike_c: i
thought
they could only purchase foreign companies (like skype) with
that maoney
mike_c: yes, but you aren't evading us
taxes by doing so
mike_c: hm. b/c
they are a us company. seems fishy
mircea_popescu: i use "foreign" money
to purchase shares all
the
time.
mike_c: you
think
they can use foreign money
to repurchase shares?
mircea_popescu: and
the way
the us is going...
they ain't repatriating
that shit.
ThickAsThieves: "Breaking: Apple repurchases $14 billion of own shares in
two weeks: CEO Cook"
mircea_popescu: well if you're gonna neglect it
then you defo shouldn't.
ThickAsThieves: i probly shouldnt offer, i'm already neglecting
things
mike_c: vexual is drunk half
the
time
ThickAsThieves: drugs beget random behavior, which is mor elikely
to have good results
than always idiot behavior
mircea_popescu: at any rate
their present state could in no way be harmed.
mircea_popescu: funny how
the idiots who scream about "deflationary" "undue advantage
to first movers"
ThickAsThieves: This is still a Wild West kind of environment,” Casey said on
the show, while noting
that episodes like
this can happen periodically as none of
the exchanges are regulated by
the SEC.
mircea_popescu: mike_c if you
think about it, it makes no sense
to exercise while
the spot is below 24 hour ago spot.
mike_c: did he get excercised? put
the microphone next
to
the speaker!
phish: or how does
that work
phish: so did
that guy who did
the put option lose 2k btc?
nubbins`: i'm wondering if
the r goes in electified or stings
ThickAsThieves: only major electric shock ive seen is when our bass player grabbed a copper pipe in
the basement practice space while bullshitting. he wasn't grounded properly and ended up ripping
the whole pipe out because of
the shock forcing his grip
mircea_popescu: they'll burn
the same at all
the steps, from 1.5
to 12, and
therein learn a valuable lessons.
mircea_popescu: buy one of
those stepped
transformers, 1.5
to 12 V,
then shove a metal dildo and
touch
them with
the other side.
nubbins`: not sure of
the current,
there were some components between
the mains and my hand
mircea_popescu: here's a fun experiment
to
teach young girls physics in a pleasant manner :
nubbins`: i need
to plug
this computer in and eat lunch
mircea_popescu: i never said i didn't do anything. what i said was
the entire derpage is stupid.
nubbins`: you're
talking about identifying colors by
taste
mircea_popescu: but anyway, an ability
to grade crude with your mouth is actually a valuable skill.'
nubbins`: "Regular is kind of
tangy, supreme is kind of sour, and diesel actually
tastes pretty good"
nubbins`: mircea_popescu:
there was an episode of
trailer park boys where
they discussed identifying fuel by flavor
mircea_popescu: so for
the record : any of
the resident experimentalists can
tell
the difference between sweet and sour crude ?
nubbins`: i'm going
to embed
them in
the blockchain
nubbins`: he gave me a
trove of secret docs
Duffer1: mention snowden a few
times just
to make sure someone reads it
nubbins`: kakobrekla: just don't send me all your btc,
then
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] [PAID] 0.77985399 BTC
to 813 shares, 95923 satoshi per share
mircea_popescu: somewhere in a nsa psych lab somewhere
they're screening all
this right now