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asciilifeform: i can picture spanish passengers, muttering 'witchery'
mircea_popescu: i would expect, yes.
asciilifeform: incidentally, mircea_popescu's article with the 'brujula' (compass), i could not help but wonder, is this same root as 'bruja' (witch) ?
asciilifeform: when i was a boy, mother went, briefly, to finland, and came back with tales of unfathomable civilization, with megatechnological wonders such as clean streets, japanese cars, and tv sets with REMOTES
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: they 'happened' to them during peter I
mircea_popescu: i suspect the russians happened ot the fins.
mircea_popescu: i dunno who recalls the history of irc ; but for the sake of recording : it was originally a finnish bb extension ; it quickly spread throughout finland then to swedish network ; then various us universities applied to be accepted and were. then it was used to report on the gorbachev coup, through a "media blocade", after being similarly useful during the gulf war.
asciilifeform: i suppose now that these are stamped out by the thousand, they are ~unremarkable.
a111: Logged on 2015-10-10 17:48 mircea_popescu: "here's the laws and and if you don't like it, you can leave" "i'll go join the people that'll fuck you up" "o wait you can't leave" "does that mean you admit your laws are dumb ?" "nope" "does that make you a hypocritical idiot ? " "no it doesnt!!1"
mircea_popescu: not really what i suggest to an us retiree no.
shinohai: Though I could just move to Colombia and start a harem, as you suggest
shinohai: Nah I live close to that shithole Atlanta.
mircea_popescu: for some reason i had thought you were in yurp.
asciilifeform: if there's nothing else, i've nothing.
mircea_popescu: lettuce talk of something else for i tire of the nonsense.
asciilifeform: but burden of proof is on fella who says 'i've been trying to get this tx mined since obama presidency and nobody includes it in block because they are joooz' is on the claimant.
asciilifeform: i tell ya, whole classes of coin loss universe that are possible given 'coin moved' - can be immediately ruled out if coin has not moved.
asciilifeform: i tell ya, i dun see it.
asciilifeform: btw if mircea_popescu wants to do a shannon-style proof a la otp bits, i'm all ears.
asciilifeform: i dun see how it worx.
asciilifeform: i get it, mircea_popescu has this 'if we pretend coin movement carries 0 bits of info to the enemy, mebbe it will become true' thing going.
asciilifeform: i can already guess where this will go.
asciilifeform: wanna demonstrate why i merely hallucinate that it works?
asciilifeform: vs if it had not moved, i can see that it had not.
asciilifeform: i am under no obligation to close my eyes.
asciilifeform: if i can see it, i can see it.
asciilifeform: what am i missing ?
asciilifeform: going up the stack, i dun see successful gambler as == to 'was covered'
asciilifeform: yes. i think i might still be paying that one.
asciilifeform: if i catch syphilis now, can i charge the penicillin bill to some dead genoan?
mircea_popescu: mno. "i don't see how they did" and "i see how they didn't" are quite widely spaced apart.
asciilifeform: i dun see how they covered the colourful swan of , e.g, syphilis.
asciilifeform: pete is, as i understand, boiling the rope, as we speak.
mircea_popescu: i don't think i ever spoke against a hanging, maybe if nice tits invovled or something, but rare enough.
asciilifeform: lol aha, 'if i dun steal that donkey, another will'
asciilifeform: well i dun wear a pope hat.
asciilifeform: nevertheless i am free to consider a hypothesis that could be ruled out if he had not moved it.
asciilifeform: and i will share. publicly.
asciilifeform: but if i pick up a stray burst of radio static from bbet that suggests he lotteries, this will be part of my risk assessment.
asciilifeform: dunno, i see 0 difference b/w a bbet that shitfinexes customer coin and that derp who put his customers' into canadian lottery.
mircea_popescu: it wasn't a significant sum - think, i threw away 1k btc to humiliate buffett, i threw away 5 fucking btc for stuff like the contest that produced "shall be delivered" ; etc. moreover, to correctly account for it would have likely cost more.
mircea_popescu: i think i am altogether a bad influence.
mircea_popescu: this makes the... shit i lost count-th lady flying into weird uncharted lands to meet with me.
mircea_popescu: get in touch when you're here, i'll send someone to pick you up or such covertress . ☟︎
covertress: then I believe we now have something to discuss in private
mircea_popescu: i just said that didn't i ?
asciilifeform: but i do expect that if a phriend of mircea_popescu borrows his moneyz, and goes to gamble with it, and loses all, he will be made to pay with balls
mircea_popescu: covertress aite, i'll buy you a steak. you ever had a proper steak ?
covertress: I would like to propose a visit then, during my return leg from Shanghai.
asciilifeform: i'ma, lets say, low expectations fella.
asciilifeform: i dun expect it to work. i expected it to walk with the coinz.
mircea_popescu: i don't expect ~anyone else would afford to do this. period.
mircea_popescu: understand - just because i'm the king and queen and can afford to leave whatever untold bitcoin fortunes lay fallow in whatever addresses for yeasrs at a time - does not give you the right to expect or demand such.
covertress: mircea_popescu, I've meant to speak w you in private but, thought it rude to PM you.
covertress: ahh, yes, I've seen your numbered exploits posted here. lulz
mircea_popescu: covertress i've been in contact with a lively, nicely titted waitress. i think this makes it 1-0 for me.
covertress: I've been in contact w le ver.
mircea_popescu: while i ran bitbet there was no specific guarantee made that "the coins" would be found in any place or not found in any place. this specifically, explicitly and intentionally ; against at least three different attempts to "community organize" and assorted nonsense.
mircea_popescu: i dunno the missionary, and don't care to remedy this.
asciilifeform: i haven't the intel. hence q.
asciilifeform: well i have nfi, perhaps missionary dude also was ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i meant people, not rando "i crawled out of a woman at some point"
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-12#1519966 << morel ike a teaser. i'm teased alright. ☝︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i have nfi why strausskahn went
pete_dushenski: http://www.dailystormer.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/der-sturmer.jpg << example i guess
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: aha. just recalled that i read a bio or two of streicher after your mention of him in the logs recently.
mircea_popescu: doesn't seem like the uk is declaring anything but "i'll hold her for you"
asciilifeform: i saw, in delaware recently, a cannonball stuck in wall, since 1814, from it.
pete_dushenski: kim was harped on for being hairy ? this is nooz to me. i thought she just got sassed for being, as chappelle would say, a nigger-lover.
mircea_popescu: (to go quite into the depths of this : /me has always suspected all the "upsetting" stories about how hairy kim is were i nfact strategic plants from her media strategist. to make her acceptable, for being ~jewish)
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: Nah, I just caught that downthread you were talking about dudes.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-12 20:06 asciilifeform: trinque: i know this. but am interested presently in where it interfaces with physical reality.
BingoBoingo: <pete_dushenski> asciilifeform: there's no one better than chinese gymnasts atm. just watch the olympics.<< I thought black american hobbits were winning?
a111: Logged on 2016-08-12 20:11 trinque: I wonder if it's truly that the USA was *that* wealthy that it had this far to fall, that there is not yet starvation.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-12#1519897 << yes, the us was inconceivably wealthy. i nthat 1985-1990 half decade / 5yrplan it could have literally convinced the globe to do anything. this is ultimate wealth. sadly they decided to use that capital to convince the globe "saddam had nuclear weapons" and "green energy/blabla ecolotardisms and assorted danquayleisms" instead. ☝︎☟︎
mircea_popescu: maybe next pass you know, come 2019 or w/e, when i gotta move it from 0.02 to 0.001 or w/e
BingoBoingo: I was tempted to write about the falling value of tits.
danielpbarron: BingoBoingo, ah, so i shouldn't even publish it myself?
shinohai: Yeah, kinda weird. I started two submissions, then realized how dumb they sounded and canned 'em.
shinohai: I haven't found *a single thing* to qntra this week
mircea_popescu: i don't think i've ever seen this in romania. or for that matter the states.
mircea_popescu: yeah srsly, i should run an ad campaign here. "Be smart, don't fuck Argentines."
mircea_popescu: which is precisely why, widely speaking, economic progress happened in the west, with the sandyvagina'd women that didn't marry and didn't have kids, rather than i nthe east, or in china, with the loving and tolerant she-rabbits.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-12 19:58 asciilifeform: i am quite interested in the mechanisms whereby 1) goldmansachs usd are prevented from transmuting into turkey usd 2) plebes wielding turkey usd are restrained from putting unendurable pressure on supplies of limited resources, of the sort which lead to shortages and visible collapse.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-12#1519864 << i don't think it was ever contemplated in these here logs as anything but symptom. ☝︎
pete_dushenski: danielpbarron: wd on the latest blog post. made me realise i missed the last couple too!
pete_dushenski: sort of what i gathered from the logs during bbet auction day. cheers.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski a guy by that name was active back in 2011-2012 ; he made some corrections to mpex faq verbiage ; we've not kept in touch hence nor have i heard anything of him for a few years.
pete_dushenski: i recall the thread. it was persuasive as to the difficulty of the cut. in the end, 'scammer' is probably an accurate tag for bitbet's new owner.
asciilifeform: well when pete_dushenski is done being curious and puts in the bullet, i'll sit and listen.
pete_dushenski: eh. i'm a curious feller. sue me.
danielpbarron: asciilifeform, ya I archive.is'd it
asciilifeform: 'i put escrowed coin up my arse and then went to visit white house, where anal computer was confiscated and emptied' == scamming.
asciilifeform: 'i put escrowed coin on a winblowz box' == scamming.
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: 'i spent escrowed coins to cure sick grandmother' == scamming.
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: by continuing the conversation, perhaps i'll find out just that. sick grandmother ? ransomware ?
danielpbarron: lol i can't even load the b-a logs. I guess i'm blacklisted
pete_dushenski: anyways, i'm a bit hesitant to throw the 'scammer' label at znort, but there's definitely some fishy smells about.
asciilifeform: it is rather like talking to ninjashogun. i personally would like some of the time i wasted on it, back...
asciilifeform: at least, i'd expect.