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ben_vulpes: Pierre
_Rochard: okay so indulge me, because i know nothing about the pros and cons of taxation: what are the benefits of taxing revenues?
Pierre_Rochard: ben
_vulpes: both tax on revenues and tax on profits have their pros and cons. So I’m assuming the answer to my question is that it’s a tax on profits
punkbot: ben
_vulpes: Queued 1 valid deed for next bundle.
punkbot: ben
_vulpes: Queued 1 valid deed for next bundle.
punkbot: ben
_vulpes: Error: There is no command "list".
punkbot: ben
_vulpes: (deed [url]) -- the bot will search [url] for signed deeds and queue them.
punkbot: ben
_vulpes: (help [<plugin>] [<command>]) -- This command gives a useful description of what <command> does. <plugin> is only necessary if the command is in more than one plugin. You may also want to use the 'list' command to list all available plugins and commands.
punkbot: ben
_vulpes: Queued 1 valid deed for next bundle.
ben_vulpes: mircea
_popescu: why do you put a space before semicolons?
punkbot: mircea
_popescu: Queued 1 valid deed for next bundle.
PeterL: ;;later tell pete
_dushenski sorry about missing your blog, looks like scoopbot crashed before you posted it
assbot: Logged on 09-03-2014 02:50:58; asciilifeform: chetty
_: russian roulette, ~143,000 micromorts.
BingoBoingo: <mircea
_popescu> i thought it was gangland warfare. << Most of these survive
hanbot: mircea
_popescu pharma spends money on pretending to care
ben_vulpes: <jurov> mod5, ben
_vulpes: i hereby submit a proposal for the foundation's fund to be used for x.idiff marketmaking << lol no but good try
mod6: jurov: None so far that I know of, other than perhaps a bounty or something for testers as suggested by ben
_vulpes.
jurov exposes his dick to mircea
_popescu to spit on
kakobrekla: mircea
_popescu if its your saliva on em
jurov: mod5, ben
_vulpes: i hereby submit a proposal for the foundation's fund to be used for x.idiff marketmaking
Adlai: mircea
_popescu: i meant, where in /names
saifedean: <mircea
_popescu> i have two laptops and can do that, but can you recommend a guide to starting with linux?
thestringpuller: mircea
_popescu: like that time when you kissed a girl tho it seemed kinda stupid << how is that ever stupid?
Azelphur: mircea
_popescu: unsupported browser for youtube...what are you running, lynx?
bounce: lack that and we're in
_why johnny can't encrypt
_ territory
saifedean: @pete
_dushenski it can be fun, though after five years at columbia, it can take on the feel of trying to talk tapeworms out of your stomach
saifedean: @pete
_dushenski i avoid keynesian retards like the plague, but if i do confront one, the ranting is uncontrollable and cathartic
teward: pete
_dushenski: better to just ask in the channel for a cloak
teward: Pierre
_Rochard: might start here for a cloak on Freenode:
Pierre_Rochard: Hey pete
_dushenski, just googled what a cloak is and it does sound appealing. How did you get yours? (I searched contravex)
pete_dushenski: howdy Pierre
_Rochard. just noticed you don't have a cloak?
pete_dushenski: mircea
_popescu: dub i dunno, what am i, the micromanaging tyrant of a cult ? << now why would anyone think that?
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Adlai: mircea
_popescu: tl;dr because i'm about to leave for a movie?
Adlai: mircea
_popescu: being an early adopter hath itth pritheth
mircea_popescu: <assbot> Logged on 16-05-2013 02:56:36; mircea
_popescu: tell you wahjt, if i'm the boss of a tribe and i need a curtrency ima make teeth the currenyc. <<< shit that spelling.
mircea_popescu: <ben
_vulpes> mircea
_popescu: "sidewalk" << isn't that your building's domain anyways? << the sidewalk ?! no, city property in all new yorks.
assbot: Logged on 25-09-2014 21:26:13; mircea
_popescu: really the proposition of making a living with trading bots is the response of the engineer who confronted with the fundamental impossibility of making money picking stocks decides to write a hard ai to do it.
assbot: Logged on 16-05-2013 02:56:36; mircea
_popescu: tell you wahjt, if i'm the boss of a tribe and i need a curtrency ima make teeth the currenyc.
gernika: mircea
_popescu: im pretty sure 3rd stage reader actually has two cvasi-simultaneous processes where the same photogram as registered by eyes is first parsed for stems then parsed for endings and they get superimposed in a 3rd stage << Is "3rd stage" a reference to a formal description of the classes of reading ability that I can research elsewhere?
assbot: Logged on 07-11-2014 01:18:27; mircea
_popescu: there is exactly one avenue to do that : make it so good some actual trader starts using it, after which go work for him.
ben_vulpes: mircea
_popescu, bounce: "gods" << mayer l brenner's dance of the gods series was very entertaining. i endorse.
ben_vulpes: mircea
_popescu: "sidewalk" << isn't that your building's domain anyways?
Adlai: mircea
_popescu: poster from my greek history classroom: "It takes N muscles to smile // M[<N] muscles to frown // but 0 to just sit there with a dumb look on your face"
ben_vulpes: <mircea
_popescu> ben
_vulpes time for bitcoin foundation to issue a statement that the only thing bitcoin needs is for politicians and other leeches to stfu and go away ?
ben_vulpes: mircea
_popescu: re foundation and politics. what politics?
mircea_popescu: mats
_cd03 look into calogero vizzini, if you're curious
mats_cd03: 13:13:47 <+mircea
_popescu> ... the proper way to regard the mafia is as the legal, lawful govenrment of the place being continually attacked and subverted by various socialists, in rome and abroad. << interesting perspective, this
BingoBoingo: mircea
_popescu> punkman: hah, same story as SR1.0 <<< im not so sure i believe that, incidentally. iut's called parallel construction for a reason, and that reason is, "lying through the teeth". << SR 1.0 parallel construction, SR 2.0 comedy of errors
Azelphur: mircea
_popescu: haha, don't even get me started on this topic, special snowflakes, special snowflakes everywhere.
punkman: mircea
_popescu: re: deed errors, guess I should make it say "3rd deed invalid" instead
cazalla: mircea
_popescu, coin.org should be confirmable once digital btc submit their next quarterly to the asx
mircea_popescu: ben
_vulpes time for bitcoin foundation to issue a statement that the only thing bitcoin needs is for politicians and other leeches to stfu and go away ?
assbot: Re: [Bitcoin-development] The difficulty of writing consensus critical code: the SIGHASH
_SINGLE bug
punkbot: mircea
_popescu: Queued 1 valid deed for next bundle.
punkbot: mircea
_popescu: No valid deeds found, try again. (invalid: 1)