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truffles: gotta
turn on
the sad music
to go with sad mood amirite
mircea_popescu: basically
the one
thing people most hate is being exposed
to other
things.
mircea_popescu: what else,
they make some modest woman go about naked.
torture of all hells. yet other women love being nude.
pankkake: I would probably like it… I dislike happy music
though
mircea_popescu: kinda funny, if you
think about it, how "torture" = enforced enlarging, in
this case. god forbid you listen
to some music you don't normally.
mircea_popescu: you
they probably
torture with arab koran chanting, or with nun music
pankkake: maybe
the
torture is confusing music genres
mircea_popescu: yet
the "community" and it's "press" fails
to print in
two inch letters "Hey! We have a guy here
that's
two years smarter
than
the best of
the USG.
That's why you're fucked."
mircea_popescu: i like how
the research office simply restates
the MP stand on
the matter back in 2012,
truffles: TAT id like
to see your writing style, ure prob funny
ThickAsThieves: i dont write nearly enough
to hope I'd be good at it, but maybe I read so much it's possible
ThickAsThieves: incidentally
that is one of my ideas for a blog
title "So Meta"
mircea_popescu: "The Ethereum wiki runs Mediawiki, a
tool
that seemingly lacks any sort of page indexing, leaving me no choice but
to look at all recent changes
to all pages for
the past
thirty days
to even get an idea of
the scope of writing
that's been put into
the project." << benkay does
this,
then complains about forum.
ThickAsThieves: then newbs will be like what are
these altcoins i keep hearing about!?
mircea_popescu: proof of stake is kind-of
the retarded concept of
that original scamcoin, what was it
ThickAsThieves: "NXT – Proof of Stake and
the New Alternative Altcoin"
ozbot: All 15 candidates now officially in presidential race -
The Slovak Spectator
jurov: if/when you fid
the unicode problem, ask wao-ender for
the
text
mircea_popescu: "Humans inevitably want
to be a part of a
thing. Mostly
they want
to be led into glorious battle by strong men, but since men no longer lead and battle is not a
thing, humans now coalesce into writhing, headless balls of worms in
the
traditional socialist style of leaderless leadership."
mircea_popescu: "Vitalik understands growth hacking, and got himself a landing page. It's got
that modern, professional, single-pagey look
the kids all love, and
takes in emails.
There's even a countdown
to
the Revolution beginning, although it's entirely opaque as
to what precisely is Revolving other
than Satoshi in his grave."
mircea_popescu: moreover, you can arguably have ops w/o speculation, dubious and sickly as
that may be
ThickAsThieves: indeed,
TSLA did not actually become $20 more valuable in a few days
mircea_popescu: yeah but see,
the convenience of financial speculation is built on some people actually doing operations at some point.
mircea_popescu: think about it. you wanna buy a house. you do dd.
that's a week if you're mercury himself.
mircea_popescu: you can't run corps on a
two week horizon. just getting a sale
throguh is longer
than
that.
mike_c: like
the february difficulty bet?
the20year: The only hope
that I have looking forward,
the reason investors back us is because our company can arbitage low interest rates in fiat
to
then repay
them in a manner
that *hopefully* will outpace bitcoin
ThickAsThieves: <mike_c> bitbet fee revenue was higher in Q4 2013
than Q3 2013 despite massive BTC appreciation <<< it's not
that simple
the20year: And
that would be one of very few examples where it would work ,as long as
they can keep
their coding fees low
mircea_popescu: i guess we managed
to conserve purchasing power parity or what was
the line ?
ThickAsThieves: anything
that appreciates in value 10% while bitcoin only moves 2%
mike_c: bitbet fee revenue was higher in Q4 2013
than Q3 2013 despite massive BTC appreciation
the20year: no one would agree
to it, additionally no companies would be willing
to pay
their employees entirely denominated in bitcoin without caveats
that would essentially link it
to fiat
ThickAsThieves: there are plenty short
term investments
that could outpace bitcoin
benkay: good luck getting btc-denominated rent,
the20year
the20year: But
that goes with every single investment in
the world
that isn't specifically buying bitcoins and holding
them
the20year: That's
the unfortunate
thing with any bitcoin investments, if bitcoin continues
to rapidly appreciate
jurov: he is
turning
them into brick and mortar
mike_c: the20year: you are
turning bitcoin into $, which i
think is a bad idea.
jurov: er..in fact i'm not.
today is opex
jurov: lol at least for
today
ozbot: MPEx:
The Missing Manual 7 - Bonds and S.MPOE stock - serialized delusions
benkay: there are words, aren't
there?
benkay: well someday when i'm endowed with a reasonable amount of capital i'll pay someone
to fix it
mircea_popescu: anyway, YOURS suck more because of
the pagination you use which is ugly!
mircea_popescu: but i cant contropl how long your browser keeps
tooltips up
mike_c: clicking on
them disrupts
the reading flow
too much
mike_c: 2) you can't fking read
them because
they are long and
they disappear before you can read
the whole
thing
benkay: mouseover
text is always broken
benkay: yeah your footnotes suck
too
mike_c: said
the pot
to
the kettle
benkay: how is
that a bad bet?
kakobrekla: dont give me
that look, i just dont like misinformation
mike_c: KRS1: yeah,
that's
the point. don't invest in a company
that is going
to use
the funds for R&D or have fiat-based returns.
mircea_popescu: yeah, until people start doing
this, after which
there will be a 5% fucking fee.
KRS1: Because like
the article states, "At what point over
the last
two years would [actually using
the money] have been a good idea?"
kakobrekla: or make a rejected proposition and fund
that
mircea_popescu: as opposed
to
the burdened world of fiat, where useless substitutes
take four years+ and deliver no actual value.
mircea_popescu: let us rejoice we still live in a
time when it's humanly possible, and it doesn't even
take a full year