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mike_c: http://porcfest.com/ hmm, i don't think this is what you're talking about.
danielpbarron: i don't think i'll go to any future porcfests; i kinda regret buying the ticket for this one but i might as well use it at this point
danielpbarron: I don't expect that to arrive before I leave
mike_c: if that is true, it doesn't make a ton of sense to me. if Facebook pays the right amount for BitPay, market cap shouldn't move. Facebook will be -$1b in cash and +$1b in value due to bitpay.
assbot: BODY COUNT - Talk S**t, Get Shot (Official Music Video) - YouTube
Vexual: cat hasn't even done a vice cover yet
jurov: that doesn't preclude them to be sold anyway
jurov: markov chains did n't use to have souls
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDvikAG7cD8#t=15 << 4-cycle petrol engine built from that fridge's compressor.
asciilifeform: couldn't get german steel for the part where the film stretches taught
decimation: well, yes, today. but I would wager that if you exchanged the populations of hawaii and singapore, it wouldn't look that way for long
decimation: it could easily outsingapore singapore with its location. but it won't, because it is a combination of bezzle playground and indian reservation
decimation: When I was in Hawaii last week I thought about this w.r.t. Hawaii. They own one of the most strategic islands on earth
asciilifeform: industrial civilization doesn't get birthed from coffee shop (as discussed in one of mp's essays?)
decimation: the thing I don't understand ascii is that it's clear that russia has the brainpower to make alternatives
mircea_popescu: (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhjVKOPUIcc if you don't klnow it)
asciilifeform: going back to russia/industry: according to 'hardcore' russian folks, the west deprived the nation of crucial natural resource - one still abundant in, e.g. china. of course they aren't talking about lanthanides, but... girls who will birth half a dozen kids and work in factory without toilet breaks
mircea_popescu: can't hurt.
decimation: well, he certainly want to encourage fertility, and sending the message that it's okay for russian women to aspire to childless eat pray love isn't the way to get there
mircea_popescu: it... still hasn't happened. the oppressed minority is still an oppressed minority.
asciilifeform doesn't live there now, but definitely gets it. if you grow up in ussr, '45 never really ends
mircea_popescu: "i can't love you because what if you leave me"
asciilifeform: from russian perspective - silicone that won't be there if the border closes
asciilifeform: good to occasionally hug things that aren't the rifle, also
asciilifeform: 4kw fridge. that the germans, swedes, whoever, can't blackmail you with by withholding
mircea_popescu: shouldn't even exist!!1
mircea_popescu: im a sovereign that doesn't even suck its own cock, how about that!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform didn't it ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i don't quite see it. so far, they got 50 bn or so, not paying it back
decimation: ascii why don't the russians get into electronics/computer manufacturing? have they managed to chase away the talent?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i can't rightfully say china is 'immovable object.' if you care to try 'irresistible force' there, we'll watch, cheer.
decimation: the original text isn't. click on a link and see the original: http://don-colacho.blogspot.com/2011/02/2862.html
decimation: well, it certianly isn't down the street from hong kong
asciilifeform: better question - what it doesn't contain.
BingoBoingo: I like how Bitpay couldn't even sponsor a game in a stadium actually suited to the sport.
asciilifeform: doesn't look quite so cheap then, no?
asciilifeform: don't know how to ask << makes a difference if this is a fixable condition (know who to pay off, etc) or more difficult (have the correct uncle)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform possibly no go, because you don;'t know how to ask.
decimation: oh yeah this isn't even a real court, just a commitee of government employees
mircea_popescu: the entire "attainder" thing is the result of internet fucktards opining on matters. i wouldn't repeat it.
mircea_popescu: decimation this wasn't a law, to begin with
mircea_popescu: but the thing is... this wasn't being registered.
decimation: what I would like an "economist" to explain to me is why we subject science and engineering to such high competition but professions like collecting welfare, teaching k-12, gov't employee, etc are subject to no pressure whatsoever
decimation: people don't want to do those calculations - they know the truth and they don't want to face it
assbot: The Man Who Wasn't There | Science Careers
BingoBoingo: If I get this bezzel job I don't plan to pay more than $300.month to rent
gribble: The Man Who Wasn't There | Science Careers: <http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_magazine/previous_issues/articles/2009_02_13/caredit.a0900021>; Marketing your first-year soccer tournament - TourneyCentral: <http://www.tourneycentral.com/marketing-your-first-year-soccer-tournament.html>; Five Keys to Marketing a New Soccer Tournament | The PTM Blog: (1 more message)
asciilifeform: i don't know him well. if you want to dispute his info, wake him up (he does - did? lurk here)
moiety: i watched this program called "What Happens in Kavos" and it was all people like that. broken legs, ribs, noses but so wasted they either don't notice or don't feel it enough to do anything about it
TheNewDeal: it doesn't analyze only the current list of bets to date?
TheNewDeal: haven't you heard of neutral gribble?
BingoBoingo: Even though the circumstances in which the actual underlying couldn't cover the synthetic would have been exceedingly unlikely... Trading on an artificial weight would have set a bad precedent.
TheNewDeal: bingoboingo, that we weren't able to strike a deal on the difficulty had little to do with wording. More to do with you placing your bet later than I trying to sell my Yes bets
TheNewDeal: you can't import cnc equipment into argentina?
mircea_popescu: translated. nanotube doesn't yet speak it
mircea_popescu: they don't have the EXCLUSIVE now do they
TheNewDeal: surprised he didn't have it backed up anywhere?
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: they don't have the keys (at least not that they've admitted to), but once they have them they can beat the keys out of him with a wrench << this is a dubious proposition at best.
mircea_popescu: * chetty thinks MP has been reading tea leaves again// << the funny thingbeing... i don't even drink that much tea :D
dignork: tl;dr version: we add another puzzle with controllable difficulty, which pool will have to solve, but it uses privkey, so he won't outsource it.
punkman: too long, didn't read
mike_c: but since it hasn't been announced yet, i assume capped.
mike_c: mircea_popescu hasn't said anything
FabianB: too many miners don't
FabianB: l337: if you don't look short-time you might realize it's not current fiat/btc price that matters
davout: also no, i'm not bidding, and i didn't inquire
los_pantalones: sorry, per'aps that was something i shouldn't have asked
los_pantalones: oh, fo realz? why didn't they get dox'd with the rest ?
bitstein: We don't.
l337: ah, didn't notice that
l337: why couldn't you do it, los_pantalones?
los_pantalones: don't think there were any bcc
mike_c: doesn't look like it, ignore me.
mike_c: don't you need a space?
punkman: why isn't the hashbang working, how do I linux?
los_pantalones: ha, idk, i don't doubt they will try
fluffypony: they don't have the keys (at least not that they've admitted to), but once they have them they can beat the keys out of him with a wrench
mike_c: possiblity? SR coins can be sold now. DPR coins can't be sold until conviction.
los_pantalones: i was always under the impression that they didn't have control of that
benkay: "don't run strange"
mircea_popescu: i wasn't watching at the time, but did ayone in the early 90s/late 80s say hey, lenin's nep previewed what'll happen here ?
mircea_popescu: if it were going to work, fiat-based intl merchants wouldn't have such a fucking headache.
mircea_popescu: o look, south africa actually uses the ancient dce concept. nao i don't need to fumble trying to explain to people what domicile means anymoar! just reference south african law!
gribble: korbman was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 15 weeks, 5 days, 22 hours, 32 minutes, and 46 seconds ago: <Korbman> or else I wouldn't be on here haha :P
nubbins`: unlike a barber shop, where you can come in the next day for a free tune-up if you don't like what they've done
nubbins`: and then i can't even fix it because i throw out all my scissors and clippers when i'm done :(
nubbins`: Naphex: i don't pay someone else to cut my hair for the same reason i don't pay someone else to cook my food
nubbins`: if i could suck my own cock i wouldn't be wasting my time on irc
Naphex: anything with electric razor or bald doesn't count:P
Naphex: you don't have to pay attention and maybe you get a sweet skull massage :)
punkman: it's one of those things you can't do very well on your own
mike_c: don't work what way?
fluffypony: mike_c: dnsseeds don't work that way
mike_c: they don't appear to be returning anything
pankkake: the worst is job names. some can be gendered, some not, and even the French don't know what to do of them
assbot: I Can't Believe They Made Trophies For These Things - CollegeHumor Post
BingoBoingo: I wouldn't know how. My fumbling attemps at mining never met going to a pool
BingoBoingo: I as mentioned before really didn't start until I beat herbi. Before I occasionally bet substituting exchanges for bookies.
Naphex: i don't trade at all
Vexual: didn't you take all his moneys?