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Vexual: clicking those links on his phone in the snow, excellent work
gribble: MtGox BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 708.627, Best ask: 711.40999, Bid-ask spread: 2.78299, Last trade: 708.627, 24 hour volume: 13797.10364250, 24 hour low: 655.0, 24 hour high: 729.99174, 24 hour vwap: 688.75163
mircea_popescu: Duffer1_ see ? he knows better than you.
mircea_popescu: 200% is not 200% no matter how you cut the numbers.
Duffer1_: it's only a gain if you're not the one holding the bag when those scammers cash out
netSam: 200 % is 200% no matter where you cut the numbrs
netSam: 200% rise today bro
Duffer1_: ah don't listen to 4chan for investment advice
mircea_popescu: you're late for that.
netSam: I wanted to get in on the Doge fever and Scrypt mining on a Geforce gpu sucks
mircea_popescu: but that aside, spend your first months reading.
mircea_popescu: take your time.
netSam: does local bitcoin provide any protections for the buyers?
netSam: And MTgox wants a wire transfer ---
netSam: Ne pointers on how to quickly buy bitcoins?
ozbot: Trilema, the Rift guild pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
benkay`: i was appreciating the term coinage.
mircea_popescu: (locklin being the new way to say dumb, as per http://trilema.com/2013/how-to-fail-the-scott-locklin-method/ )
mircea_popescu: except they're too locklin to get it
mircea_popescu: IF they shut the fuck up and got with the program.
benkay`: the six month lag won't be that big of a deal in the long run
mircea_popescu: basically the imf is about six months late to the party. real countries mine since summer.
mircea_popescu: Vexual except it will have to pay for it.
Vexual: mr plassaras seems to drive himslef towards the solution that the imf should get a fuckton of bitcoin there
mircea_popescu: but for now they are in fact a symbol of identity.
mircea_popescu: many years later these shackles will be presented as a symbol of opression,
mircea_popescu: the nigger of the future is easily recognised in the present by his desire for shackles.
benkay`: this appeared in a conversation about e-cigarettes recently, where the idea of regulating these vaporizing devices was broadly hailed in the room as a grand thing.
benkay`: we are so far gone that lack of regulation is a vice.
benkay`: D. The Vices of Digital Currency
Duffer1_: harder to bribe 3rd world puppets with bitcoin though, imf may pressure authorities to try to do something
ozbot: Regulating Digital Currencies: Bringing Bitcoin within the Reach of the IMF by Nicholas Plassaras :
benkay`: that *would* be the point.
benkay`: In a paper entitled “Regulating Digital Currencies: Bringing Bitcoin Within the Reach of the IMF,” Nicholas A. Plassaras suggests that the International Monetary Fund is ill-equipped to handle the widespread use of bitcoins into the foreign exchange market, highlighting the inability of the Fund to intervene in the event of a speculative attack on a country’s currency by bitcoin users.
jurov: next thing they actually come in WoT
ozbot: Behold: The World's First Digitally Signed International Agreement - Uri Friedman - The Atlantic
ozbot: You'll Never Guess Where This FBI Agent Left a Secret Interrogation Manual | Mother Jones
jborkl: So, the picture Hashfast twitted - had a metal fork, a tub of popcorn and a case where I could not see a power cord plugged in
ThickAsThieves: "Glad I waited until the last minute to buy everybody Bitcoin for Christmas."
ozbot: Merry Bitmas - Buttcoin - The P2P crypto-currency for butts. - Buttcoin - It's Bitcoins with Butts -
benkay`: iud's are tits
nubbins`: mike_c: ask if they're anti-life or anti-choice instead.
nubbins`: and you get to fuck without a rubber.
nubbins`: relatively inexpensive over their lifespan
nubbins`: that said, they're more effective than condoms or the pill
nubbins`: IUDs are a bit more painful to insert if you haven't had a kid yet
the20year: Some do, some do not, I know when planned parenthood here in the US offered free IUDs to anyone that wanted them, the rate of abortions in that area went down significantly for quite some time
mike_c: and I'll email them and ask them whether they are pro-life or pro-choice.
pankkake: it seems doctors don't want to give IUDs to females without children
mike_c: well for the record, they do still seem to be maintaining their all-time list at http://api.bitcoincharts.com/v1/csv/
nubbins`: the anti-choicers don't like to talk about that tho
nubbins`: most after that point are medically necessary
ThickAsThieves: he said 12-14weeks likely feels pain too
ThickAsThieves: thats 3mos though
ozbot: Does the Fetus Feel Pain? Summary of a Presentation
ThickAsThieves: funny cuz its true?
nubbins`: the20year: got a link? curious to read
benkay: the cows i eat also feel pain when they aren't killed right quick
the20year: And not all babies that are born scream
the20year: They feel pain when they are killed, according to all the studies I've seen
benkay: always figured air played a role in the production of sound with vocal cords
nubbins`: babies cannot scream in the womb.
benkay: in the womb, noone can hear you scream.
the20year: Babies can't scream in the womb?
benkay: well, one's intimately attached to the life support system; the other can scream on its own.
Duffer1: oh good, we're still talking about this..
the20year: and the difference between a baby inside a person and a baby outside said person?
nubbins`: and, fwiw, aren't babies until they've been born
benkay: probably "who knows! nobody in here touches that shit except the MPOE bot..."
mike_c: i will take the silence as "yes, idiot, everyone already knew that".
mike_c: first unix time is 1387390488, which is pretty far from 1386901071
mike_c: like this: http://api.bitcoincharts.com/v1/trades.csv?symbol=mtgoxUSD&start=1386901071
mike_c: their docs still say yes, but the api seems to say no.
mike_c: sanity check: bitcoincharts won't give historical trade data anymore? correct?
benkay: they can feed themselves?
benkay: not a terribly popular stance, but resolves this question about who does what with the newt.
benkay: or we could just bring back the notion that property is the only constant and that humans too can be property.
the20year: and the problem lies that either people are human for a set number of traits, or they are not, and inside or outside the womb isn't much of a qualifier
pankkake: at what point your sperm (or its mutation) ceases to be your property?
the20year: Does the baby get a choice whether they live or not?
ThickAsThieves: cloudhashing in NYT too... http://imgur.com/ZcnVf9z
jcpham: much trust very amaze
pankkake: I only use brain surgeons that are in my web of trust
nubbins`: 20 years later, awarded the Order of Canada for his work
nubbins`: ^ guy performed over 5k illegal abortions before winning a court case and having the laws struck down in 1988
ozbot: Henry Morgentaler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
nubbins`: but that's covered by laws about medical procedures
nubbins`: obviously you need to be a doctor to perform one
nubbins`: i mean there are no laws on the books regarding abortion. at all.
KRS|Gotyawallet: Canada is right on..they might be the only ones who know what they're doing.
nubbins`: consider that canada has no abortion laws whatsoever, and we still manage to have a functioning society
nubbins`: failing to understand that it's a life-altering choice either way
nubbins`: anti-choice folks like to pretend that women having abortions think it's all a big lel
pankkake: eh… they might not enjoy it after the fact, sure
ThickAsThieves: not the woman
ThickAsThieves: they want to be deciding what gets aborted and what doesnt
nubbins`: their argument is based in morals, just not the morals that you think they're arguing for :D
ThickAsThieves: it might be a male control thing in the sense that,
deadweasel: nope, it's in the faq
nubbins`: it's almost like having to carry an unwanted baby to term is punishment for being a dirty slut