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b0n1: is
there a btc
transactions stream?
ThickAsThieves: fyi i am
traveling and will be less available for a few days.
kakobrekla: hey mjr_ , not much, continuing
to be disappointed in
the btc retarded community
kakobrekla: fyi its ok
to steal, if you are doing it small enough.
potatoad: Anyone know how I can find hashrates for
the mining corps?
gribble: Next difficulty estimate | 18597051.0226 based on data since last change | 18731247.738 based on data for last
three days
furuknap: Seems
the kid has run out of sour grapes, and I still haven't made it
to bed.
KRS-: Hold
the chocolate covered Wasps
zebedee_: Yeah march-April
the cars are coverd in sandy stuff after it rains.
zebedee_: Not
that I'm married
to a Japanese; slight slip of
the "also"
there.
ericmuyser: rains
too much here
too lol, and so windy.. apparently sand from china blows in wtf
zebedee_: Visiting an ex-colleague also married
to a Japanese who moved
to Seattle in '99.
zebedee_: heh; I was
there last Dec. On my
travels :)
zebedee_: ericmuyser: You got it. What are you doing in
Tottori?
zebedee_: Provided you're willing
to eat Japanese food.
zebedee_: Lunch and dinner can be superb value, even in
Tokyo, compared
to most western cities.
furuknap: Tokyo is about as expensive as Oslo. Slightly cheaper on some
thing, more expensive in others. Now I have
to go
to bed.
zebedee_: The hardest
thing about learning Japanese is getting
to
the stage where your Japanese is better
than
the other person's English. Once you achieve
that,
they'd rather speak in Japanese as it's easier, and
then you get better quickly. At
the start it's hard because your language is so shit no-one wants
to
talk
to you in Japanese.
KRS-: Japan is cool plus
they have cute females
there
that do
the whole Hello Kitty cosplay
thing
zebedee_: Japanese is easy once you get used
to it :)
Took a while
tho.
ericmuyser: it's expensive and
the language is balls hard
KRS-: seriously
though, where are you going
to go once you get
there?
zebedee_: Japan is expensive.
That's
the only downside.
zebedee_: 14 years
total, but only 8.5 consecutive. 2nd
time here.
zebedee_: It's
the optionality of permaent residence
that I like - gives more freedom of choice.
zebedee_: New one will be a 5 year visa; should be able
to get permanent residence once I get
that.
KRS-: only worked half
the year for a while it was nice.
zebedee_: Yeah work visa, expires in September so I needed
to do sthg.
zebedee_: But yeah
the bank balances are dwindling.
KRS-: zebedee: I did
that before Obama was head idiot in charge, I was an I.T. consultant.
zebedee_: ericmuyser: I had a well-paid job long enough
that I've got savings.
KRS-: I want one of
them it comes with secks.
zebedee_: But mostly
to get a visa again. Don't absolutely need a job, but it greases various wheels.
ericmuyser: ah haha who hasnt
taught english in japan? so many ESL
zebedee_: Hehe. My sister
taught English
there 7 yrs ago
furuknap: That would be sad. We saw some amazing gardens when we were
there.
furuknap: I saw
the space
thing up close. It's insane, but I have
to admire
the space efficiency of
their solutions.
furuknap: Yeah, I spent a few weeks in
Tokyo last winter (2011-2012).
Too foreign for me.
zebedee_: Starting
to affect
the property value I'm sure.
zebedee_: Knocked down
the one next door. Putting up 3 in its place. Sigh.
zebedee_: Rural areas, and
the edges of
Tokyo
that were booming in
the bubble 25 years ago, are really hurting now
though.
zebedee_: Where I live (central
Tokyo)
they're squeezing ever more people in a smaller space. If you only observed central
Tokyo, you'd swear
the population was rising 5-10% a year.
furuknap: Yeah, I
think we own most of Japan
too.
furuknap: Not sure how long I can keep
that rate up,
though.
zebedee_: Japan's doing
that all by itself with radical success.
furuknap: My new slogan: "Diminishing
the population of Norway, one citizen at a
time"
furuknap: OK, so
that was slightly exaggerated. We've just passed 5 million. One less now after I moved.
furuknap: FFS, we own almost 2% of all US publicly
traded shares. More in Europe and slightly less in Asia. For a population of just over 31,
that's a frigging miracle.
zebedee_: My views on economics and politics have changed completely in
the last 3 years. Predates my discovery of BTC by about 9 months; BTC only accelerated it. I
think
that slowly, more people are waking up.
furuknap: It looks like it is a fairytale but
the
truth is it is Norway is just lucky. No skill, no abilities, no genius. Just luck.
furuknap: By substantially, I mean
to
the extent
that when
the rest of
the world was shitting its pants, Norway relying solely on exporting over-priced stuff
to
those countries, shrugged its shoulders and just kept going.
furuknap: The fractional reserve
thing, among other
things, was
tightened substantially, like it is now being done in
the rest of
the world.
furuknap: That's because we had our crisis in
the 90s and fixed
the system. When
the erst of
the world fell, we went about out daily business, reading about it in
the rest of
the world like if it was a minor flood in china.
zebedee_: How so? If it's still based on printing money and fractional reserve, it's just a slightly shinier
turd.
furuknap: Yeah, but
the
thing is,
the system Norway implemented works. Banking in Norway is decades, literally, ahead of other international banks.
zebedee_: It's
the system
that's broken. Banking crises are always only a matter of
time;
they're part of
the system. We need a new system.
furuknap: We had our crisis in
the early 90s,
though.
furuknap: Comparatively, Norway has had
the biggest fuckup in banking in history. We lost far more per capita
than
the US did during
the 2009 bust.
Thus, we have
the same rules and regulations
the rest of
the world is now adopting
to guess what, we weren't affected by
the financial crisis either.
zebedee_: Japan's always worked hard.
They've been screwed over by
the banks, pols and company heads.
furuknap: Heck, we even pay women
to fuck here, as long as
they get pregnant after a while. It's silly, really.
they get
tens of
thousands of US$
to have a kid. Who
the fuck can afford such ridiculousness?
zebedee_: Well looking at France,
the US and
the UK, I'm not so sure.
Time for a wakeup.
zebedee_: Nothing for 67 mins,
then 4 in 7 mins
furuknap: Well,
the west doesn't have
the luxury of sitting on its asses doing nothing for 200 years more. Norway has, and its population is getting used
to it.
zebedee_: blocks are like buses - never come,
then all come at once
zebedee_: Last
time I used it outside work was 1997
zebedee_: Having gotten used
to real O/Ses, I could never go back
to winders.
zebedee_: Chaaaang-Noi must have decided
to cash in some AM. :)
zebedee_: I
think
that's
true of all
the west now, sadly.
furuknap: They aren't.
They're building a country of lazy, spoiled brats.
zebedee_: Norway? So how are your pols gonna screw
that one up?
furuknap: Want
to know
the next big
thing after oil? Nuclear power. Clean, safe nuclear power.
To get
that, you need
Thorium. Guess which country has
the
third largest
Thorium deposits in
the world..?
zebedee_: I'm happy - been 65 mins since a block, and
this
time I'm not waiting on it!
furuknap: We have
three location based resources; oil, fish, and our coastline, which resulted in massive oil industry, fishing, and shipping. Oil is a diminishing asset, we've all but over-fished our coastline, and shipping has had
to move out due
to ridiculous
taxation.
zebedee_: Hmm, I
thought Norway managed its finances well. Sovereign wealth fund and all
that. All
the UK did was blow it. On hookers and drugs, or sthg equally ephemeral.
furuknap: We have no innovation, we have one of
the highest
tax rates on
the planet, and we have an attitude of hurting entrepreneurs because
they're not following
the pattern. Hence, I moved.
furuknap: No, we didn't. We had a lot of politicians who had oil and
thus screwed
the country over. We have one of
two companies in Norway of any size
that isn't big due
to location.
zebedee_: furuknap: re Norway, like my country you had oil wealth, my country squandered it. You apparently had one or
two politicians with some integrity.
furuknap: Haha,
that kid is really sore...
Namworld: and I'm
totally not serious...
Namworld: I'll
turn
them into 480 BTC > 821 BTC > 4217 BTC > 5 BTC > 3590 BTC > 0 BTC. In a matter of 1 day!
Diablo-D3: and
they're kinda useless sitting
there
Diablo-D3: Chaaaang-Noi: are any of
the US exchanges still not requiring docs?