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nubbins`: some from
there (i'm in
the "masters club" now), some from amagi, some from casascius
nubbins`: they weren't kidding about
the bust
nubbins`: and i
thought
the guy paying 50btc for
the first-day 2011 1btc coin was crazy
mircea_popescu: seems
to me 9.983 mn in gold would be a wee bit more
than
that coin's weight
nubbins`: unless it has
the blood of rasputin on it or something, it's just
taking
the piss
nubbins`: find me a coin
that a collector would pay $17,000 over spot for, y'know?
nubbins`: or even worse, 30btc for
their 10s
nubbins`: i do have
to laugh at
the people asking 40btc for
their 25btc rounds,
though
nubbins`: but hey, maybe casascius kept all
the private keys, or maybe my gold bullion is filled with
tungsten, or maybe my coffee whitener is full of powdered melamine
nubbins`: i mean, i've even got pgp-signed docs from casascius with md5 checksums of scans of
the coins he sent me... but
that doesn't stop me from making fakes with
the same addresses
mircea_popescu: it's more akin
to exchanging underwear/chastity vows/whatever other amorous practices
nubbins`: it's kind of risky
though, because
the other guy could just not send his coin
nubbins`: i have some duplicates and want
to expand my collection
mircea_popescu: outside of bored
teenagers behind
the bleachers
type of situation
nubbins`: "you must pay escrow and shipping for both of us
though"
nubbins`: some forum guy registered sept 2013 with 0
trust wants
to do a coin-for-coin
trade with me
KRS1: trilema had some nice galleries..cant find
them anymore =/
gribble: BingoBoingo was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 1 day, 1 hour, 37 minutes, and 42 seconds ago: <BingoBoingo> Just remembet I
take a break as soon as hockey coems on
Duffer1: why do i get
the feeling .bait are just pics of MPs conquests
KRS1: dibs on
the one on
the left
mircea_popescu: talk
to pankkake, i
think
they give
them a copy with
their passport.
Duffer1: bah
torrent search of
The Miser just gives me le mis
mircea_popescu: truffles i'd rather re-read voltaire
than re-read forum idiocy nominally "new" and written by some "new" guy but factually
the exactly same rehash
truffles: where does one find
the
time
to read
that much
these days
mircea_popescu: steer clear of all
the puritan bawdlerizations of all of
these,
that's like millitant illiteracy
mircea_popescu: it's actually what created
the expectation of "timelessness" in art.
mircea_popescu: sophocles is perhaps a little hermetic if you don't understand
the context
Duffer1: though i do have sophacles on my shelf i haven't been able
to bring myself
to open it
mircea_popescu: well
that's what i mean when i write about "teaching people
to read and write and nothing else"
Duffer1: if it's over 100yo and not plutarch or shakespeare
then i probably haven't read it
mircea_popescu: these dudes were writing post-meta-deconstructivist works on
the bitcointalk scams cca 1500
mircea_popescu: Duffer1 yes well you won't get
too far in life w/o rabelais and boccaccio etc
Duffer1: i've never even heard of gargantua and pantagruel, any other classics you can
think of?
mircea_popescu: plenty of good ideas, but you're
telling me some people live inside a fake-gravity spinning straw ? it's ridiculous.
diametric: it makes me want
to punch
the screen
diametric: but every
time i watch a scifi where some motherfucker hacks a system like he's playing a puzzle game
mircea_popescu: take... i dunno,
take clarke's
thing with
the rotating space straw.
diametric: yeah,
thats a problem. fantasy has its own internal consistency, you know, magic. you can suspend your disbelief easier.
mircea_popescu: moreover, i understand a lot more science
than whatever rules fantasy.
diametric: but
there is significantly more bad sci-fi
than bad fantasy.
diametric: I have
to admit
though, good sci-fi is good.
mircea_popescu: and with it, you know. most of strabo, shakespeare, everyone writing before
the industrial revolution is writing stuff indistinguishable from fantasy.
mircea_popescu: nah, fantasy has
the advantage it's much, much older. stuff like gargantua y pantagruel counts in my eyes.
Duffer1: with
the exception of
the altered carbon series
Duffer1: i've found
that
to be
true of fantasy and sci-fi
mircea_popescu: Duffer1 notrly.
they don't do nearly enough sex
to make
the cut as a rule.
diametric: Duffer1: clones, in
the picture
there are a
total of 7 3d printers
KRS1: nice lab..also..if
the 70's ever rolls around again, you are already remodeled =D
KRS1: ah ok
that explains it..just as i
thought
KRS1: buy ripple with
those ripple assigneed
to shares of
the ipo somehow?
KRS1: how does one ipo over
the ripple protocol..is
there such a
thing?
mircea_popescu: fantasy is pulp
that knows it's pulp. sci-fi is pulp with a pretense. i never like
that much.
diametric: mircea_popescu: yeah, loading up my laptop right now. on my wife's imac at
the moment.
Duffer1: is it
the genre or just
the games you dislike mp?
Duffer1: i've yet
to see a sci-fi mmo i've liked
mircea_popescu: there's no big deal signing in when needed.
that's how i do it at any rate, nickserv is good enough for just casual chat
diametric: i should put
that into my bouncer startup.
diametric: while not an MMO,
the Mass Effect series is very good
Duffer1: i
tried
that
too, i'm just
too
tired of
the middle earth magic fantasy, i need sci-fi
Duffer1: just waiting for something good
to come out
Duffer1: i
traded mmos for naval gazing
diametric: i
traded playing mmos for playing with cool stuff like laser cutters.
mircea_popescu: Duffer1 kinda it.
there still is
the bitcoin eve guild, but fuck me if i can be bothered with eve, i'd rather supervise excel monkeys
Duffer1: i 'played' eve for a few hours, i never got
the impression i was 'playing' anything, more like watching eve
mircea_popescu: Duffer1
the main
town is pretty much a constant spam of "send us monez we send back monez"
diametric: watching people
try
to scam bitcoin makes me miss my days of playing eve.
Duffer1: hope someone knows how
to farm >.<
mircea_popescu: ".
The world in general and bitcoin in particular are all stocked up on vague allusions
to anticipated greatness."
b0n1: we are 3 people, do i have
to pay 10 BTC for every single person for
the conference?
kakobrekla: why do i have a feeling
this would reqire lots of diy
pankkake: made a small hole on
the sheets
ozbot: Halomethane - Wikipedia,
the free encyclopedia
pankkake: I have a vacuum
tube amplifier, I
think it's going
to explode eventually