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peterl: oh, no, I don'
t trade much.
kdomanski: mircea_popescu: long term they won'
t, but short term? quarterly bottom line & shit
mircea_popescu: kdomanski nobody stops to think that well, organisations populated by the mouthbreathing won'
t survive anyway.
ben_vulpes: i wouldn'
t even know. all i actually know is bearings and deflections and universal joints. this web shit is all new territory to me.
ben_vulpes: you probably don'
t use consumer-grade services period.
ben_vulpes: <BingoBoingo> Basically they can'
t escape their consumer programming to have the newest, the shiniest, the most prestigious embadgened << for macos users, the programming is in the machine, in the user, and in people writing software for the thing. the people writing the software write for the latest platform, 'cause "80% uptake rate in 24 hours! why not!?", which makes a vicious spiral where unless you're running the latest and
mircea_popescu: "This may sound a little harsh, but you'll see, when you do usability tests, that there are quite a few users who simply do not read words that you put on the screen. If you pop up an error box of any sort, they simply will not read it. This may be disconcerting to you as a programmer, because you imagine yourself as conducting a dialog with the user. Hey, user! You can'
t open that file, we don'
t support that file form
BingoBoingo: Basically they can'
t escape their consumer programming to have the newest, the shiniest, the most prestigious embadgened
mircea_popescu: anyway, the scammers involved didn'
t "have delays before". they scammed before. the difference is marked.
AntonOsika: And you said something about: just 1 satoshi after 25th of july if they still haven'
t finished a market for it
AntonOsika: +mircea_popescu Yes, I'll go on! I was the newbie under the nick CheapBoy wanting to bet on ethereum. I'm still interested, haven'
t had time to get the WoT up untill now. What's your take on ethereum now?
BingoBoingo: The x/
t 60's tend to be prized anyways simply for the sheer amount of stuff that runs on them.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo it doesn'
t stop there tho. i used to watch formula one, but then... guess what ? david price intervened in the middle of the game and took everyone's bats away and forced them to use curtain rods.
BingoBoingo: Steve Ballermer and Magic Johnson fighting over who gets to take Sterling's team is a political discussion a la which contractor gets this bunch of tax money. David Price can'
t in the middle of the game take Mike Trout's bat and compell him to use a curtain rod instead.
mircea_popescu: differentiation presumes meaning. if you can'
t have meaning, you can'
t say "that's not sports, that's politics"
mircea_popescu: punkman i can'
t really distinguish latin languages enough to have an oppinion, other than that modern french is perhaps having a similar if unrelated problem.
mircea_popescu: you can'
t run with your eyes closed. you can';
t act in a world inhabited by these phantasms.
punkman: yeah you don'
t have to spend any processing cycles on what the other guy said, just do the most superficial patter-matching to harvest some entropy for your markov chain
mircea_popescu: there's a bunch of academics no less, discussing a topic of no particular interest with utter abandon : some palestinian guy who's also a professor got offered a job and then de-offered the job, because urbana admin didn'
t like him ranting about israelis on twitter.
punkman: "this isn'
t the textbook I was expecting!" ?
mircea_popescu: that's it. im surprised people even bother learning the language for this crap. o wait... they don'
t, do they.
mircea_popescu: you have politics/current affairs, which are mostly a bunch of who we're calling the bad things this week, putin "doesn'
t understand how the world works" for having dared to humiliate our beloved leadership bimonthly for the past year, and israelis are whatever and on and on
mircea_popescu: they're only discussed because we don'
t really give a shit about the prisoner himself. if we did, we'd discuss how fucktarded he is instead of how x is failing y and other statistical wankery.
mircea_popescu: so woul have the forum. if bitcointalk weren'
t run by a random 20yo kid with nary a clue of this world and a random gang of otherwise unemployable, it'd have not failed into the scam swamp of all time.
decimation: well, to be clear, it doesn'
t matter what you do as long as you keep me in power
mircea_popescu: i guess rational consistency isn'
t that big a deal when one's got feeeehlings.
mircea_popescu: let's make it so that low income people can'
t find any jobs, but let's not make it so they can'
t vote.
mircea_popescu: nbase, for showing us what integrity is (you really didn'
t have to do that).
The20YearIRCloud: the big thing is getting out from under our locked 6%-8%APY yield, we really can'
t unless we start selling off properties or leverage.
decimation: The20YearIRCloud: I've traveled through rural Ohio, and I can'
t figure out where people make money. Do they mostly commute to the cities?
artifexd: Do you have any that don'
t start with btc/bit/coin/etc? You know, for the seo potential.
decimation: mircea_popescu: so I need to find how to put a spell check on my irc, stream-of-conscience spelling doesn'
t work for me
decimation: I'm using konversation, I haven'
t really taken the time to learn the keystrokes
mircea_popescu: talk about "valuable domain real estate" why don'
t you.
TheNewDeal: aapl says you can'
t use their software to develope nukes
mircea_popescu: you don'
t have to sign a contract with an arbitration clause if you don'
t want to.
decimation: you can still sue, but the contract typically has language saying that you can'
t sue, so the courts decide whether the clause is valid
cazalla: i imagine it's more about the betting than the game nowadays, they've had sports bet owners masquerading as commentators in the past, i wouldn'
t even let my kid watch it if he was old enough to do so
decimation: if this whole winklevoss etf thing isn'
t a scam, bitcoin is probably going to trade 2-10x in dollars by next spring
decimation: which isn'
t quite tax avoidance, but it's measurable asset avoidance
xanthyos: bill hicks isn'
t dead. he's alex jones now.
jborkl: most of the conference would leave, unless they don'
t know
DreadKnight: now he talks money making strategies regarding his TCG while I haven'
t even seen a single screenie
mircea_popescu: DreadKnight banks won'
t lend to peons. owners won'
t rent to deadbeats. sink low enough, it's either a cheap motel or the park.
DreadKnight: I don'
t get people living in hotels; know a dude around here that does that and works at a supermarket, the math is not right
mircea_popescu: DreadKnight what, him ? but he don'
t speakz romanians.
DreadKnight: people who don'
t have the rich mentality get back to being poor in no time
BigBitz: So I didn'
t amass much. Such a shame, really, I first 'found' Bitcoin in Summer 2009... Sigh... what could have been mircea_popescu :)
BigBitz: but I didn'
t get into Bitcoin for some time. April 2013.
mike_c: it doesn'
t seem he's just on a bash mpex kick. he bashes everything.
mircea_popescu: that didn'
t look like a wp hack, incidentally. they lost root.
DreadKnight: mircea_popescu, when my wordpress got hacked, I didn'
t get such a nice page left in place T_T
mircea_popescu: maybe i'm not quite as radical as pankkake about it, but i defo don'
t like em.
DreadKnight: mircea_popescu, really find that way stupid as well; wasn'
t very excited about steam coming to linux in the first place, but maybe someday SteamOS consoles will be popular, like OUYA was somewhat expected, but until then, steam is an extra layer, just to get more ads and see a ton of "your friend is not playing dota2"
moiety: ;; later tell mircea_popescu i didn'
t talk to them, it was a message left. unsure what to do with the phone line?
pete_dushenski: hushmail looks intact and you probably can'
t see clearly enough to care if it isn'
t so, y'know, good enough
pete_dushenski: they don'
t use it by name, just "end-to-end encryption" or some such
BingoBoingo: decimation: Unfortunate enough to illustrate they don'
t know the space they have chosen to operate in
BigBitz: That's CoinFloor isn'
t it?
chetty: <mike_c> wasn'
t there a guy in here doing the first-best-greatest UK btc exchange?// at least 3 times
mike_c: wasn'
t there a guy in here doing the first-best-greatest UK btc exchange?
decimation: nope, just curious, I don'
t even have an account there. That is why I am soliciting information from those who may have.
mike_c: scam aside, the design actually isn'
t bad.
chetty: omg, its on sale, must have somes, somes what?, doesn'
t matter its on sale!
DreadKnight: chetty, oh; I don'
t know much about it though, seems a bit underground atm
mircea_popescu: problem there would be that your putative investors would have relatively little reason to believe you won'
t simply walk after the listing.
DreadKnight: mircea_popescu, they seem to be making more, nice SaaS business plan compared to disqus, but I don'
t like not being able to edit posts, so will keep my distance
mircea_popescu: "WoT is a gimmick just like GPG. 99.9% of bitcoin businesses don'
t take it seriously." o the win in that. lmao.
DreadKnight: they don'
t seem to be accepting bitcoins yet
mircea_popescu: monthold acct, tryin to fight the good fight among the nuts, it's one of you gais isn;'
t it
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> i don'
t think mine are even translatable in the first place. maybe by someone that's mentally ill and quite drunk. << Even then it always took me so many iterations to even come close
mircea_popescu: i don'
t think mine are even translatable in the first place. maybe by someone that's mentally ill and quite drunk.
DreadKnight: Internet is full of that so I didn'
t bothered with it, but I could do
DreadKnight: a bit caught up with silly freelancing atm; and the heat doesn'
t help xD
BingoBoingo: Will collapse eventually because the snake can'
t grow faster than it can eat itself
BingoBoingo: "Here we are just a few short months later and we’ve heard from various people in the industry that we are quickly creating one of the most reliable cryptocurrency news sites and we’ve gathered up a team of kick ass volunteers to help us grow this madness out." << Is this in reference to the pats on the back for making a phone call and finding out "insured wallet" wasn'
t insured?
BingoBoingo: * ChanServ removes voice from adrrr * assbot gives voice to adrrr << Can'
t Chanserv and assbot learn to get along?
steven-__: thanks, mircea_popescu any thoughts on the no agenda show? searched on trilema but couldn'
t find anything.
TheNewDeal: I don'
t know how much he actually does for the company, but he is quite the figure head