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mike_c: i like how he posts links
to monthly reports as proof of stealing. because of course all
thieves publish monthly reports detailing
their crimes.
ozbot: BitBet - Super Bowl coin
toss will be "heads"
dexX7: ThickAsThieves: do you continue
the am100 <> am1 exchange or is it over now?
deadweasel: .If his (the customer) life was not in danger, if no one had a gun up
to him, if no one pointed a gun at him - what gives him
the right
to
think
that it's okay
to just shoot someone?. said
the relative. .You should have just left
the store and went wherever you had
to go in your car or whatever..
tulak_: why create a bot and charge money? is
this what people call capitalism
tulak_: so
this
thread is helpful after being 2 hours in it
tulak_: mircea_popescu:
the prophet of
truth
tulak_: quitting at
the end of
the year
tho
tulak_: i have
this job at my university
deadweasel: better
than breaking rocks
though... maybe. could b eargued.
tulak_: i had
to rush-install 6 laptops
mike_c: gotta love
that
the fees for
transferring over $100m was zero.
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abillionhorses: its not about rooting for underdog, its
the fact
that most people dont expect
their coffee
to be 180, so when it is...and it spills on an older woman causing her
to have
to get surgery...yes
there prob should be a suite
mircea_popescu: deadweasel perhaps
that's an argument
there. in
the end, you can sell dangerous mushrooms in europe as long as you give people insteructions on how
to properly cook
them
mircea_popescu: i have no problem with you rooting for
the underdog, as you perceive it.
deadweasel: She would have
to be aware
that
the coffee was 180
to 'get herself into
trouble'
abillionhorses: haha ok well 180 is a little hot for coffee imo...she deserved
to win against MCYD's
mircea_popescu: it means
that it makes no difference how much
trouble
the woman got herself into.
abillionhorses: that woman
that spilled hot coffee on herself from mcdonalds actually skalded herself and had
to get skin graphs etc and it was an older woman...she had a lot of reasons
to sew actually
mircea_popescu: she couldn't quite believe it, but by
the next day my nail was fine.
mircea_popescu: alcohol did nothing, rivanol did nothing, eventually my mother heated water
to boiling and i stuck my finger in
there repeatedly.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform here's a fun story : one summer @seaside i dug
thriough so much sand
to make castles i separated
the quick of my nail, and infection bred.
mircea_popescu: it
turned out
that
the "internal memos" were not either internal or memos. regulator mandated.
mircea_popescu: the classical case of
the "internal memos" bs is
the ford pinto.
mircea_popescu: so why make claims with no factual basis
that are also against your economic interest.
mircea_popescu: macdonalds' have
to be incredibly poorly counselled
to do
that.
mike_c: slick lawyers don't have
to prove, just convince.
mircea_popescu: how in
the heck did your slick lawyer prove
the negative ?
mike_c: just
the company marketing campaign
mike_c: that's
the point. it was not for
the benefit of ANY consumer
mircea_popescu: maybe
the stronger paint stripper cleans my bath
tub just perfect.
mircea_popescu: maybe i was driving all across
town for
the 180f coffee cause my cock liked
the
temp.
tarmi: why would anyone drink coffee at mcdonalds?
thats
the worst coffee I have ever
tried
mike_c: reverse side is
that
they were solely making it stronger (and more dangerous)
to increase
their marketing effectiveness. seems
this behavior should be curbed by someone.
deadweasel: i mean, at least read
the manual for
the lava apple pc
mircea_popescu: and it's not paint stripper's maker's job
to "know" what i do with it
mircea_popescu: 't want apple
telling me how
to "safely" use my computer,
mircea_popescu: mike_c "they know" is irrelevant.
they don't give a shit.
mircea_popescu: deadweasel someone deriving a benefit from
their activity does not immediately create a right
to realocation
towards random bystanders.
mike_c: how paint stripper works at 170 parts per million, but company kept pushing
the content for advertising "strongest", even
though
they know people open
their paint stripper with a screwdriver and will sometimes spill it on
themselves.
deadweasel: Actually, it was determined
that
they pushed
the extra 10-20 degrees because
the smell carried an extra few blocks, bringing in more customers.
mike_c: he made a good analogy
to paint stripper
mircea_popescu: except "irresponsible" is an undefined symbol ready
to
take any content, and what woman did
to herself is her damned problem
mike_c: argument is
this: 1) 170 degree coffee is blazing hot enough for anyone. 2) mcdonalds deliberately made
their coffee 180 degree so
they could advertise "we have hottest coffee" 3)
this was irresponsible and caused big harm (woman burned uterus and couldn't have kids)
mike_c: re: hot coffee. i
took a biz law class once, and
this lawyer came in and convinced us all
that
the mcdonalds coffee woman was correct. it was impressive.
deadweasel: in fact, my entire personality could be
teh product of parasites, who knows.
deadweasel: ThickAsThieves: could be, psychological effects of spirochetes boring
throuhg your brain can be quite dramatic.
mike_c: deadweasel: ouch. luckily, we are all in early enough
to recover from our mistakes.
ThickAsThieves: was
that you
that day? when you quit bitcoin in IRC and went like "that's it, i'm out!"
deadweasel: to say nothing of
the psychological effects I was suffering.
deadweasel: mike_c, I got Lyme disease, arthritic symptoms so bad I couldn't hit
the clutch on my
truck,
traded in and up for 4runner, sold my last bitcoins at ...... dun dun dun
mike_c: right into
the bubble! nice move! good for ~16 btc down.
mike_c: *loss? well,
the most recent was a few weeks ago when i sold
those C200T options :)
benkay: mike_c: why do you
think
the robe and barefoot?
mike_c: if
that's
the worst
thing
that happens as you learn you are better off
then a lot of people (like me) who have
to learn by repeatedly making costly financially errors.
benkay: wandering from bitcoin enclave
to bitcoin enclave barefoot in a robe
benkay: for
the first
time since late nineties i'm using
this handle in public and my record is going
to forever be "i bitcoins derp gpg derp wat asic derp quantum!"
mircea_popescu: anyway benkay you've inspired me
to write an article here.
mircea_popescu: also carries
the risk we just go sorry, production discontinued
benkay: holding off carries added bonus of maybe reaping benefits of large batch production efficiencies, although i imagine a large fraction of
that'll be captured by nsa itself
mircea_popescu: hm. who'd have
thunk it,
this actually makes MORE sense of retail.
mircea_popescu: and if all you ever wanted was one,
then let
the bigger fishes get
their prototypes first see if
they like it.
mircea_popescu: well,
the best advice being, don't go ordering 1k units out of
the gate :)
mircea_popescu: basically it induces a lot of uncertainty on your end, as in, you're not even sure what words mean so multiple restatements are actually beneficial because
they'd expose errors ?
benkay: mircea_popescu approach is more like "fu learn
tools"
benkay: well american approach is
to hold hands for customers
benkay: i'm still wrapping my head around
the mircea_popescu policy approach
to
things
mircea_popescu: if you find a difference we damn well wish
to hear about it.
mircea_popescu: if you run linux you can hash
the code for free, compare
to what's printed on
the
thing.
benkay: i'm doublechecking
that
that's
the only way
to get it!
mircea_popescu: dawg you refuse
to read ? "If desired, it can be read on a common instrument sold for
this purpose and its contents checksummed or otherwise perused.
The checksum of your firmware ROM is printed on
the bottom of
the chassis, under
the unit’s serial number"
benkay: and
the microcode will be stashed and signed somewhere on mpex/nosuchlabs for comparison
to
the devices?
mircea_popescu: now, you will need a rom reader, and
the ability
to grok microcode,
benkay: and i'd rather be seen as an idiot
than not ask questions and get fried for it later
benkay: hard experience has
taught me
to keep asking questions until
the implicit answers match
the explicit ones