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Rassah: <ThickAsThieves> No I DOn'
t mircea_popescu: Rassah there's a lot teh soft cloud of derps circling btc don'
t know about.
Rassah: So I think "reddit/skype/etc still wonder why atc is a thing" should have been " reddit/skype/etc don'
t even know atc is a thing."
pankkake: I don'
t think any altcoin should have a market cap >$10,000 or so
mircea_popescu: it can'
t be a loaded question. it gets immunity, because it's the strict followup to your protest.
pankkake: there was (still is?) a porn kickstarter, but most of the things there were boring. the only one I voted for didn'
t go to funding stage
mircea_popescu: the people backing otc to move there. which won'
t happen really, because people don'
t move unless the platform fucks up majorily.
Rassah: Being on a tor site doesn'
t eally mea hiding, does it?
rithm: and he's broke and he can'
t pay it back
mircea_popescu: Rassah 1.5 watt inverter is kinda low neh ? cause of inductive capacity, you can'
t really run a fridge ron it
Rassah: What I didn'
t know before is that Priuses have no transmissions, timing belts, or belts f any kind, and reqire practicaly no mainenance other than 10k mile oil changes and 100k brake pad and transaxle fluid changes. Everything else is electric... After $600+ expenses every 3 to 5 years on my Honda Civic, this is awesome. The 60mpg helps too
danielpbarron: i don'
t think a 1`000 BTC prius can ever get a ROI
Rassah: I don'
t give a shit about the environment. I bought it to save money
Rassah: I was an early adopter, I bought bicoin usin my OWN retirement funds (i.e. money slated to go to IRA and savings every week ended up going into Bitcoin). Then I borrowed some more money from our HELOC to buy a $30k BLF miner, I never preordered, waiting for them to ship, by February 2013 they still didn'
t ship, so I sold those bitcins, paid off the HELOC, and bought this
http://imgur.com/ZGjrh4e instead. I bought at $8, and sold
Rassah: He thinks if it won'
t make him a million ad get him a fancy sports car, it's not worth bothering with
mircea_popescu: this is just another way of saying they don'
t matter, you're aware.
Rassah: Most of the people I'm connected with don'
t have time for it.
ThickAsThieves: rassah, you can'
t remove trust from the sytem, you can only move it to where you prefer
danielpbarron: Rassah, right; my point exactly.. you can'
t force Bitcoin addoption; the common man will use Bitcoin when he is FORCED TO by the new economic reality
Rassah: Mircea, care to fill me in on other thins I've missed? The "we don'
t need distributed xchanges ay more" is surprising considering MtGox died just 6 months ago, and BTC-e is questionable
Rassah: From the way he described it, I think he only wants it to be a temporary stepping stone to make USD to BTC transition easer, and doesn'
t expect it to last very long
nubbins`: i like it when i tell people their artwork isn'
t big enough, and they just scale it up in photoshop
Rassah: So, has it been long settled that we don'
t need a distributed exchange? I missed that memo...
Rassah: There's is another difference. Bitstant desn'
t have the resources, or even interest, in getting their Bitstamp dollars used by other banks
mircea_popescu: the fact that B. Fucktard P. wasn'
t here in 2011, because he was too busy blowing 13year olds in back alleys
mircea_popescu: this is why people don'
t btc to paypal directly, and haven'
t, since 2011.
Rassah: Woah. I haven'
t authenticated in over a year. Shows how often I visit IRC :p
Xplosionist: mircea_popescu: Okay. I just "didn'
t get it". ;-)
danielpbarron: obviously they use more electricity! they can'
t use coal or gas!
nubbins`: wait, right, doesn'
t work like that
nubbins`: a nice soft
t-shirt is like being draped in jersey-knit bedsheets
nubbins`: got this email from our
t-shirt supplier today
fluffypony: I can'
t even remember which article it was
mircea_popescu: o lol you went by map. i think they just didn'
t fill it in
mircea_popescu: this okcupid stuff is a goldmine. "Another inquiry that had unexpected results: we asked 252,900 straight people have you ever had a sexual encounter with someone of the same sex?". men : 7% did and enjoyed it ; 6% did and didn'
t enjoy it ; 5% didn'
t but would like to try. women : 26% did and enjoy it ; 7% didn'
t enjoy it ; 18% would like to try it.
mircea_popescu: much like you can'
t be delivered the notion of pear or the sadness of joseph.
decimation: don'
t forget about the cats! they need equality too!
decimation: "According to Volack, most of the stray and wild cats in the city are usually spotted in backyards, and she sometimes gets resistance when she tries to trap the cats. "I've been trying my hardest to capture the strays and feral cats and kittens, but I have just as many people who don'
t want me to trap them as those who do.""
mike_c: WoL doesn'
t have any magicians
mike_c: the irs explicitly said bitcoin isn'
t money
benkay: i clearly don'
t understand WoL in dpeth.
benkay: but mike doesn'
t need capital
mircea_popescu: ok so, mpex report : the servers are built and racked. they have power. os installed. networking isn'
t working properly, clustering software being hammered into shape.
mircea_popescu: "honey, i love you very much, but i just can'
t live without twentysomething yo cunt in the house"
nubbins`: wait, she wasn'
t tom cruise's sister
mircea_popescu: also, idiots tend to think nothing they can'
t see exists. best way to keep compton in line is keeping cars on patrol.
benkay: what, you don'
t talk to regular humans for things like that?
mircea_popescu: benkay no, it could not. because you oculdn'
t motivate anyone to join it.
nubbins`: dudes who don'
t wanna deal with the 5 minutes of awkwardness it takes to break up with someone they're not really interested in
mircea_popescu: i don'
t know that many women that don'
t like sucking cock.
Azelphur: mircea_popescu: they don'
t imagine, they have the data to back up that it's fairly equal?
mircea_popescu: anyway, that's what the fuck us media does, anyway. buncha retarded kids who can'
t touch each other growing up, sitting around reading cracked and jezbel to figure out what to say to each other
mircea_popescu: after all, the space of language is actually finite, and besides, what are people who don'
t know each other gonna talk about.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform noididn'
t.avi Azelphur it's actually quite patternable.
Azelphur: mircea_popescu: hey, I didn'
t say it was much of a clue.
mike_c: ok, it doesn'
t *really* see the future
Xplosionist: free thinking, doesn'
t require (or recommend!) serious analysis. :-)
rithm: that doesn'
t work, i've been trolled here
PantyHotOffThePr: Not particularly, pictures are one thing but slamming my face in a video when I may become a teacher probably isn'
t the smartest idea.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: At least living in a place with winter you don'
t have to worry about the problem of large snakes becoming established carnivorous megafauna
benkay: i also think robots aren'
t allowed to pull triggers on their own.
BingoBoingo: I mean it's hard to set traps for coyote that also won'
t be appealing to every other animal around, so you'd prelly have to go for a live trap.
Xplosionist: nubbins`: maybe my happiness doesn'
t either.
gribble: Error: "Hasn'
t" is not a valid integer.
the20year: will i get more reviews or whatever I need if I do the flyers so I won'
t need voiced again?
BayAreaCoins: mircea_popescu RavinTavin isn'
t speaking to me atm.
PantyHotOffThePr: I'm guessing now's a good a time as any though huh? If you don'
t mind me asking, why start this up?
PantyHotOffThePr: Well that would be me as well, I just figured I'd eyeball a bit first. Seemed there was a discussion going on and I didn'
t want to be the asshole that just jumps in like "Yo, tit pic sale?"