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mircea_popescu: but as long as i have the total energy and it's fixed, you can't run fake perpetuum mobiles.
dub: one thing is certain
mircea_popescu: this is why bitcoin destroys the welfare system : because it is a strictly bound system.
mircea_popescu: so, dust collectors follow the qt. at some point the qt is used to deliver some value away from the users. i say so, and point to bf. end of story.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it won't be btc. the beauty is that we're perfectly severable. i just sit here and wait, and the scammers build themselves up. when their building becomes unsustainable for them, i cut their rope and they choke.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: sure btc is ready to lose the chump money collector that is the 'dust' users?
jcpham: you just need enough media and TV to expose you
jcpham: and it doesn't even need to be true
jcpham: it's really not even important if you know what you are talking about
mircea_popescu: in a sense it's good that they follow the crud, self limiting disease on both ends.
jcpham: witnessed enough idiocy in action that leads to further opportunities
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it makes relatively little difference what the dust bitcoiners are running.
mircea_popescu: what happened to you, got married ?
jcpham: i used to make fun of them but i get it now
jcpham: i get the talking head thing
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mircea_popescu: jcpham yes. as long as you speak american, in order to be anything anywhere within the structure you have to be a talking head. that's the thing. thats why obama's not black, even if he is a nigger.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: seems like bitcoind users are 'setting themselves up the bomb' by running the foundation's crap - sooner they quit, the better
jcpham: all that stuff
jcpham: and make "someone has a gun to your head" youtube videoa
jcpham: so if you want to be on the board you need to be a talking head
ThickAsThieves: front run teh IPOz!
dub: joerg wants to be hardcore
mircea_popescu: i am not at liberty to discuss.
ThickAsThieves: the Trace guy like pre-announced his Armory investment via board debates
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: so where's the authoritative 'clean' bitcoind fork?
mircea_popescu: support bfl scammers while that was good, pretend it never did afterwards, the way shit works.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it was made by well known vc circuit fraudster vesseness. it collected "donations". it used said donations to prop ycombinator-driven "businesses", that incidentally never got anywhere. what did you expect it to do next ?
jcpham: mr. how to disappear wants to be on the board
jurov: it's grup of kids cooperating to avoid doing their homework as mircea nicely put it
ThickAsThieves: if there's one thing we can count on mp, it's that tomorrow when we wake up you'll still be an asshole
jcpham: lol'd at trace meyer endorsements
asciilifeform: ThickAsThieves: it publicly joined a traitorous 'NSA club'
mircea_popescu: and then i'll be an asshole and link you to 2012 and well...
mircea_popescu: tomorrow you'll wake up to further realisations,
ThickAsThieves: it's a shell org to act as catchall for for VC opportunities
ThickAsThieves: i'm probly late to this realization, but yesterday it occurred to me that the Bitcoin Foundation is worse than just being a bunch of cointreprenuers
pankkake: it was for TAT
ThickAsThieves: jurov, but it has no coinbits in the name?
mircea_popescu: you know, not a single fuckable chick i ever talked to had a reddit.
ThickAsThieves: am both totally and totally not interested in this article http://www.riabiz.com/a/24063560/how-the-winklevoss-twins-presence-at-a-big-nyc-hedgie-event-cut-the-torpor-and-distracted-from-the-poor-job-most-hedge-funds-are-doing-for-clients
jurov: i literall just today registered livestocks.me
jurov: lmao these names
jcpham: i'm waiting on the price to drop to a few btc before i jump into solar
jcpham: i like the fact that I can buy a 6500k off the grid solar tie in kit for 48 bitcoins
pankkake: let's ask the same question every day ~reddit
ThickAsThieves: Is Bitcoin the Beginning or the End of Banking as we know it? ~reddit
pankkake: while True: developers
ThickAsThieves: god that video is horrible
mircea_popescu: how to know you're not really in the us
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jcpham: i bet dialup too
asciilifeform: (well, that and iridium sat)
asciilifeform: AOL lives, still. there even remain rural pestholes in the U.S. where they're the only game in town.
ThickAsThieves: i still wont use it tho
jcpham: yahoo was on top of that race until gmail
jcpham: who's webmail had the most free shit
mircea_popescu: oldscjhool by now. weirdo retired uni profs have them
jcpham: then they got into competetion with storage space and stuff if you remember
mircea_popescu: i think it is
ThickAsThieves: seems like that should be a collectible
jcpham: because yahoo was one of the first to offer that
jcpham: it must be the webmail niche still
jcpham: i have one too but haven't logged in in years
jcpham: and surprising i know lots of peeps with them still
pankkake: and the French have hotmail - thankfully a thing of the past but…
mircea_popescu: this includes my mother's only email address, and pretty much any romanian company out there.
mircea_popescu: i still fidn this hard to believe, but > 90% of rtomanians have yahoo email.
mircea_popescu: jcpham yahoo has pretty much all the world's yahoos
jcpham: microsoft needs to solve a need to become relevant again
jcpham: i guess if you aren't being like a technical innovator at life
mircea_popescu: i was glad yahoo got that chick what's her face, i was sad microsoft is replacing balmer, but if it's elop...
ThickAsThieves: google wants to do ALL shit
jcpham: and google just wants to do crazy shit
ThickAsThieves: but couldnt they ruin it faster?
jcpham: i don't understand any of these tech companies anymore except google
ThickAsThieves: thats one way to look at it
ThickAsThieves: he has the password to Nokia
jcpham: 'cause they've worked for it
jcpham: gotta parachute those execs man
pankkake: how can this exist
ThickAsThieves: "He'll be leading up Microsoft's expanded devices division when the acquisition is complete, but given that there's a recently vacated CEO position at Redmond there's the possibility of even greater rewards in Elop's future."
Scrat: ThickAsThieves: rofl you couldn't make this up
ozbot: Nokia's Stephen Elop to make more than $25 million for jumping to Microsoft | The Verge
kakobrekla: cause they dont like it big and hard
pankkake: then my question would be… but who is going to buy microsoft?
ThickAsThieves: lol microsoft really is taking Elop?
mircea_popescu: seems perfectly adequate for the application.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: glue a Stirling engine to the asic, convert heat to vibration...
mircea_popescu: after brain damage from gpu waste heat, vaginal burns from usb asic miner dildo would defo put us on the map.
mircea_popescu: pankkake they get that hot ? i doubt it. have you SEEN how hot girls get down there man ?!
mircea_popescu: they totally gotta put those usb sticks in dildos already
pankkake: it's kind of ticklish
mircea_popescu: benkay a that's what it iwas.
pankkake: must be hard not to move when tatooed there though
mircea_popescu: deizel ok that ones pretty good.
deizel: bitcoinsexchange.com (later a hyphen is added to clear things up, bitcoins-exchange.com)
mircea_popescu: is that a really badly done tattoo or am i just unexpert ?
nubbins`: SOMEBODY TIME ME
mircea_popescu: have the girl on her back and slap the tit