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mircea_popescu: im sure glad i'm not here at some eatery among unfriendly ozarks people waiting for my payment to clear tho
mircea_popescu: 41 blocks over the past 345 minutes. i guess it's about there.
mircea_popescu: it's almost as if the hash had fallen from under the network.
mircea_popescu: 3 blocks the past hour
ozbot: S.NSA, December 2013 Statement pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.BBET] [PAID] 2.01767224 BTC to 3`000`000 shares, 67 satoshi per share
BingoBoingo: This story seems like it might be related to Obama's magic tempest tent http://complex.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/12/18/exclusive_how_diplomacy_helped_cause_an_f_18_crash
Duffer1: though i have made it a new years resolution to chill on the hating
gribble: MtGox BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 871.0, Best ask: 874.999, Bid-ask spread: 3.99900, Last trade: 871.0, 24 hour volume: 16209.42453216, 24 hour low: 820.56318, 24 hour high: 888.8, 24 hour vwap: 859.64173
mircea_popescu: haters, the lot of you.
BW^-: kakobrekla: super thanks!
BW^-: indeed, "#bitcoin-assets" is pretty clear about that the Bitcoin is the asset :))))
BingoBoingo: I hear people in both those channels could always use more fiat
BingoBoingo: BW^-: Have you tried your pitch in -otc or -dev yet?
asciilifeform: in other news, dell corp. joins the denial chorus: http://en.community.dell.com/dell-blogs/direct2dell/b/direct2dell/archive/2013/12/30/comment-on-der-spiegel-article-regarding-nsa-tao-organization.aspx
asciilifeform: i'd love to see the perl script this came out of!
Duffer1: it sounds like it shouldn't be anyone's thing
mircea_popescu: such clinical. very by the book. much psych.
BW^-: arskiss,duffer1: there were no followup Q:s so I guess this means that's not your thing
mircea_popescu: "LOOKS CLOSER AND THE CORRUPT BACKWARD RULING PRINCES OF AN OIL-RICH DESERT FIND MORE MUTUAL BENEFIT FROM"
asciilifeform: no phalse phlag is complete without one of these!
mircea_popescu: if yhou imagine a facebook page "adds trust" you should be on reddit.
mircea_popescu: people are here because they despise those things.
mircea_popescu: people aren't here because they don't know what facebook is or can't find some dollars.
BW^-: duffer1: also I circulated on FreeNode with this nick for something like 3-4 years now.
mircea_popescu: dude, you're running the wrong direction
BW^-: feel free to add me on Skype, Facebook, etc. if you want a quick path to some sense of trust now.
gribble: Safe Browsing Tool | WOT (Web of Trust): <http://www.mywot.com/>; Download the WOT add-on | WOT (Web of Trust): <http://www.mywot.com/en/download>; Web of trust - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_of_trust>
Duffer1: ;;google web of trust
BW^-: i saw that database before
BW^-: Duffer1: mircea was kind to ask me for a WOT
BW^-: anyhow, if there is a prospective interest in making more fiat out of fiat through turning over Bitcoin, I would be very happy to talk
gribble: Error: I am not seeing this user on IRC. If you want information about a registered gpg user, try the 'gpg info' command instead.
ArsKisS: why dont i pay them with bitcoins?
BW^-: i mean, material things
BW^-: arskiss,duffer1: fiat in, more fiat out. through turning over bitcoins.
ArsKisS: but what do I do with that :O
ArsKisS: does that mean I get fiat or bitcoin?
TomServo: Interesting. Thanks.
mircea_popescu: some people with nary a financial interest in the world do keep a keen eye to see what of the old time bitcoin brings back. it's really an anthropology goldmine first and foremost.
mircea_popescu: these two may be unrelated. then again, maybe not. who's to know ?
mircea_popescu: back when sound money was a thing, middle class males spent their first three decades in their parent;s house and were generally unable to talk to strangers throughout their lives.
TomServo: mircea_popescu: Can you elaborate on the "social shyness of the gold standard" ?
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] [PAID] 68.25110960 BTC to 500`000`000 shares, 13 satoshi per share
rbonestell: I'm still looking for beta testers for myHavelock, an Android app for monitoring your Havelock Investments portfolio!
topace: the passthru operators hold the direct shares
VanCleef: don't make it more confusing topace
topace: the only place to trade it is a passthru
topace: it isnt traded anywhere officially
the20year1: where's asicminer being traded?
VanCleef: its a death trap
the20year1: who ThickAsThieves
ThickAsThieves: i think it just bottomed out
topace: has there been some good asicminer news lately? price seems to be increasing
mircea_popescu: pankkake say, if i want to hedge my exposure to your coin, can i use a hedgdoge ?
gribble: Next difficulty estimate | None based on data since last change | 1491769001.38 based on data for last three days
mircea_popescu: we are the stupid! the many!
ThickAsThieves: Here's Why Good Things Are Bad #READMYBLOG
mircea_popescu: pls our lady of teh governments save us in this our hour of need! we can not live in a world where even a single good idea still draws breath
mircea_popescu: ono but how could this be!1!11
mircea_popescu: this is the story of the cat that looked at a mirror and decided the mirror is the painting of a cat.
ThickAsThieves: but the irony of the headline...
mircea_popescu: EPIC! Man whose value is driven by the fact that he sounds impressive comments on the mother of all value.
ThickAsThieves: his job is to get views i assume
Duffer1: i don't see why else he'd still be talking about it
Duffer1: that only proves to me that he's trying to drive the price down to get cheaper coin
ozbot: Bitcoin Trader Job - Business Insider
ThickAsThieves: PAUL KRUGMAN: Bitcoin's Value Is Driven By The Fact That It Sounds Impressive
mircea_popescu: this thing rocks
Duffer1: but perhaps fitting for the timeline the story exists in
Duffer1: the pretext for the poundings seemed a bit far fetched
Duffer1: well done MP from hot slut to granny squirts in 7 words
gribble: WARNING: Currently not authenticated. Trust relationship from user mircea_popescu to user BW^-: Level 1: 0, Level 2: 0 via 0 connections. Graph: http://b-otc.com/stg?source=mircea_popescu&dest=BW^- | WoT data: http://b-otc.com/vrd?nick=BW^- | Rated since: never
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [CBTC] [PAID] 4.62550000 BTC to 7`975`000 shares, 58 satoshi per share
Duffer1: am idoing this right?
mircea_popescu: it's been there for almost a year because nobody [of any import] was stupid enough.
mircea_popescu: Duffer1 it's there for comedy relief
Duffer1: what the shit
Duffer1: how is that not a pyramid scheme and how has it been around for almost a year?
kakobrekla: must be europeans then
mircea_popescu: it SEEMS like a little over a day, but in fact it has been two days + doing the work of 30 hours
mircea_popescu: not that small, is it ?
mircea_popescu: a negative ? that's a rare sight.
BingoBoingo: ;;later tell benkay You've got some weird unicode stuff going on with your url handling. You link to Loper is the primary example.
KRS1: i didnt mean 'how' exactly but how come this hasnt been taken offline...data this good doesnt usually last long
ozbot: Ask HN: Take down my reverse-engineered Snapchat lib because they asked? | Hacker News
KRS1: i mean wouldnt snapchat want this taken offline
KRS1: wtf how can they do this haha
kakobrekla: perhaps write to alberto armandi
kakobrekla: so i think someone else will have to to the experiments
kakobrekla: mircea_popescu im sure there will be negative months, but i would dissolve way before negative nav
mircea_popescu: try it sometime. the missus will love you for it.
testingUnoDosTre: I thought the post was touching more on history than the movie. I did understand that it was a film, but no I have not seen it.
mircea_popescu: arguably some combos are not too visible
kakobrekla: i think you need open light
kakobrekla: but as vapor you need the right mixture
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla it;s true that gasoline as a liquid will not catch on fire
testingUnoDosTre: could definitely be wrong though
testingUnoDosTre: No, I thought that everyone was slipping in under 10% lately
the20year1: I do , i was assuming you were talking about e85 stations