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mircea_popescu: which ironically makes the entire "terrorist" thing quite appropriate, except, i wouldn'
t shot them for the show (which is what terrorism implies, that you kill people for no reason than to impress other people). i'd do it because their continued existence is incompatible with mine.
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: couldn'
t one in america escape through...non traditional means?
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> we can surmise that he refused one or more, but they aren'
t done yet << something like that.
decimation: why didn'
t folks attempt to leave the "big jail" during ussr times?
decimation: for instance they haven'
t managed to jail this von nothaus guy yet
mircea_popescu: this isn'
t nearly as cut and dried a matter as the usg likes to pretend (forced mistake, it has no alternative than to so pretend).
mircea_popescu: well now... here's the thing... you can'
t be talking while you're not able to talk, right ?
mircea_popescu: if the kingdom actually worked like teh king's ministers propose it does, i wouldn'
t be looking into the yard of the king's minister's wife at the car of the guy the minister doesn'
t know she fucks
mircea_popescu: what, big daddy doesn'
t know what bum love is ? yes he does.
mircea_popescu: because the relative value of things can'
t really be fixed.
mircea_popescu: people who're not fucking aren'
t going to be interested, unless, of course, they're retarded.
mircea_popescu: i don'
t get what that coinsource thing is supposed to be.
decimation: mircea, are you saying satoshi's horde doesn'
t exist?
mircea_popescu: <decimation> quite. To be fair, satoshi still has his hand on the banana << i don'
t see it.
decimation: ascii re:premined - monkey can'
t let go of banana in trap...
Duffer1: speaking of.. i haven'
t heard any ripple news in a while..
decimation: I guess it's one of these turing-complete contract bitcoin wanna-bes - I haven'
t seen any serious analysis of the codebase yet
mircea_popescu: "just get rid of her if she's annoying" leads directly to "and get rid of any slaves that can'
t cope with no pp or complain enough"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: right. then it becomes fashionable and before you know it the dumb broads in your household are giving pps to each other. and you can'
t do shit about it, because they're not your slaves, they're your "equal partners"
decimation: which is generally the goal of most gov'
t meetings, gov'
t education, etc
decimation: derps have no choice but to invest in amazon because they don'
t see any good alternatives
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: cleavage ain'
t that bad. <- that's what Klye thought too :-P
DreadKnight: facebook allows for scheduled posts anyway, pretty powerful stuff, considering most posts don'
t make it to your fans and you need to spam
benkay: and another project is basically closed but we're still in the dance-around-and-grab-at-each-other's-nuts phase w/r/
t actual working relationship and what has one
benkay: can'
t quite say what i am
DreadKnight: so how come big companies like Apple and such don'
t buy back all the shares? I can think of a few possible reasons but maybe I'm missing something important...
btc111_: MP: if ethereum hasn'
t launched by march, do the contracts expire worthless?
mircea_popescu: btc111_ you overvalue hype. this isn'
t fucking feminism, or some other internet thing where what people say matter.
btc111_: hah. interesting statement. care to elaborate? im not trolling... don'
t you think the hype will push it higher when it launches?
BingoBoingo: <decimation> .22 lr pistols have always been popular << Problem is they don'
t cycle well on subsonic loads
BingoBoingo: <decimation> he had a practical use for it too: was out hunting, saw deer, didn'
t have time to apply hearing protection before getting off a shot (with 30-06), his ears rang for several hours << This is why supressors are UK legal
decimation: he had a practical use for it too: was out hunting, saw deer, didn'
t have time to apply hearing protection before getting off a shot (with 30-06), his ears rang for several hours
BingoBoingo: Unless submerged bullets don'
t aged to poorly
DreadKnight: I wonder why he hasn'
t sticked with making games, he had quite a few decent prototypes done in pretty much no time
DreadKnight: mircea_popescu, read the homm related comments, seen people defeating pretty much any neutral army without having many units of their own by exploiting the berserk spell in homm3, really OP, hypnotize can'
t compare overall; lame example
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8DKlEbAv1U benkay: i still don'
t understand. strips = stockings and stars = negroes?
decimation: only so many gov'
t and indirect gov'
t jobs, and they are handed out in a FILO queue
mircea_popescu: us folk can'
t admit they suck andmore than classical japanese can admit emperor is a dumbass.
decimation: so we have a situation where people living in Bethesda have kids who have to move to Kansas because the people in Bethesda don'
t want to admit that they are poor
decimation: note those cities largely lack gov'
t jobs, and lack the primary patrons of bezzle money (big finance, welfare, defense contractors)
decimation: I wonder what percentage of households in say DC would be able to purchase their own home (assuming they didn'
t have their "house wealth)
decimation: lol from asciilifeform's millenial housing link: "At the same time, there?s good reason to believe that millennials, those ages 18 to 34, aren'
t that different from other generations and will pick up their purchasing before too long ", then the article proceeds to list reasons why they won'
t purchase
BingoBoingo: fluffypony: to make sure the dildo doesn'
t smash its stack on exceptions
mike_c: fluffypony: i might know a student interested in that deal. you want 15 hrs or 40 hrs? cuz he wouldn'
t have 40.
benkay: the thesis is that because there's no alloidal title in the us, one doesn'
t actually own the place?
mircea_popescu: benkay why would you be paying the upkeep of something you don'
t own ?
benkay: i don'
t know anyone my age who seriously thinks they'll be buying a house anywhere anytime soon
mircea_popescu: pigeons: my stocks went down too, but the price doesn'
t matter, i'll just take a temporary loss and not sell. how long is temporary? << you don'
t understand what loss means in this context.
chetty: its just the newspeak definiton of obstructionist, anybody that doesn'
t agree with libtards
mircea_popescu: to hear stalin tell it, lenin was not only a major stalinist but he didn'
t think much of trotski either.
bitcoinpete: mrstickball_: not at all. i haven'
t produced anything more tangible than a blog. slush sold $200 dongles for 2btc each
mrstickball_: because I couldn'
t commit suicide with you, Mr Popescu :-)
mrstickball_: they want crypto products, and want us to supply them. But we can'
t swing $250,000 of inventory on a net-30 payment model
mike_c: they don'
t deserve a video
mrstickball_: we're willing to engage in fiat sales for crypto hardware. Most companies can'
t navigate that well
mrstickball_: + we reinvest in inventory very frequently, so profits don'
t always show up on the books very quickly. I have $25,000 worth of risers behind my desk
the20year: don'
t forget the slaves he has in the shop working for him too
mike_c: well that better not be him, you don'
t even trust that guy!
mircea_popescu: <ThickAsThieves> no matter much trilema you read, the wife ain'
t gonna listen! << this sounds like a cry for halp
mircea_popescu: people have often done 180 degree about faces talking here. and those who can'
t gather on forum not here. so all's well, even if we are invested
mircea_popescu: it'd be all "o, you can'
t talk good accountingpractices with people who own x stock"
ThickAsThieves: no matter much trilema you read, the wife ain'
t gonna listen!
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves i definitely don'
t propose there's a winner. the dispute of which is more complex a tool does not map on the discussion of which is a better tool.
benkay: "this conscious operator can'
t make good decisions, so let's create an alternative decisionmaker inaccessible to the operator to whom good decisionmaking is delegated"
benkay: <mircea_popescu> you presume there's a way to live your own life outside of slavery. there actually isn'
t. // everything is a fractal representation of something else
mircea_popescu: but still, wives are not slaves (and probably shouldn'
t generally be)
benkay: you don'
t go straight for the butthole w/no lube etc.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves no itdoesn'
t. discussion and action are divorced topics,
benkay: that kinda stuff doesn'
t do much for me, mircea_popescu
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves sure you can'
t debate it. why would something not be up for debate ?
mike_c: i didn'
t present it as 2 of 2 choices
benkay: <mircea_popescu> it's not really "or else". // whose wives don'
t do as told?
mircea_popescu: and "it woudln'
t be fair anyway", for some variation of "mp has all the btc and can do whatever he wants"
jurov: actually the thread wasn'
t about "mpex is bad" till jimmothy came around