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mircea_popescu: who's yona__
RagnarDanneskjol: !up yona__
assbot: yona__ +v failed; L1: 0, L2: 0
jurov: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2frou7/psa_if_you_are_invested_or_gambling_at/
kakobrekla: ben_vulpes was i not suppose to?
xmj: ben_vulpes: how's tricks?
xmj: hey ben_vulpes
empyex: ben_vulpes: MPEx-Status: mpex.ws (939 milliseconds), mpex.bz (894 milliseconds), mpex.co (840 milliseconds), mpex.biz (1042 milliseconds), mpex.coinbr.com (911 milliseconds)
empyex: ben_vulpes: Proxies: mpex.ws mpex.bz mpex.co mpex.biz mpex.coinbr.com Current MPEx GPG-Key-ID: 02DD2D91
Duffer1: love that song ben_vulpes
BingoBoingo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jofNR_WkoCE
X-Rob: mircea_popescu: btw, thank you.
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> so #eulora just succeeded in an infrastructure upgrade, taking crystal space from 38 something to 40 something. this is a major tech victory. << nice!!
RagnarDanneskjol: the plot thickens: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com/forum/topics/bitcoin-open-source?commentId=2003008%3AComment%3A55276&xg_source=msg_com_forum
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X-Rob: mircea_popescu: the problem is, it's not that people don't care, is that' they don't want to learn. They go 'magic internet money', and that's pretty much it.
X-Rob: mircea_popescu: Well, p2pool is a specific case, and I probably shouldn't have used it, because that's one of the ones you /can/ be 100% certain about.
X-Rob: mircea_popescu: Well, that's an interesting question. Several pools mine to an explicitly well known address.
X-Rob: mircea_popescu: Indeed I am
punkman: mircea_popescu: yeah but why wouldn't the miner bet on himself
Rangerk: Seems mircea_popescu is active on your blog. :)
xmj: Rangerk: ben_vulpes introduced me to this one given similar interests
assbot: first_steps_in_bitcoin-assets [bitcoin assets wiki]
kakobrekla: then you need http://wiki.bitcoin-assets.com/first_steps_in_bitcoin-assets
assbot: http://wiki.bitcoin-assets.com/irc_bots
rithm: ;;later tell mircea_popescu y u disturb my slumber
nubbins`: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgKhPObZeaw&src_vid=7AEMiz6rcxc&feature=iv&annotation_id=pfc%3A0
mircea_popescu: !up yona_
BingoBoingo: http://trilema.com/2014/the-perfect-pitch/#footnote_25_56335 << Beautiful, very true
RagnarDanneskjol: mircea_popescu - fascinating as always you human being!. think I'll need to read that twice at least and start learning some Rom
ThickAsThieves: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_Ph1zvw_xE
cazalla: !up tpt_toolbox
Apocalyptic: mircea_popescu, some btc were sold for 3200 EUR each
punkman: https://btc-e.com/exchange/btc_eur
justusranvier: mircea_popescu: That too
justusranvier: mircea_popescu: Yeah, I actually don't have many compilation/dependency problems any more, but it's not progressing very much as a distribution
asciilifeform did not know mircea_popescu is aficionado of gentoo
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: probably cut wire. or caught fire.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes the thiel-buterin thing.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: yes - who doesn't know this.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes yeah but so far not so sure how to organise it.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i certainly do not see such... piss in the chalice in byzantium... pissing i nthe chalice in rome << some of us might like a place to defect to (specifically defect, rather than gulag-break and run into taiga)
gribble: mike_c was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 3 days, 5 hours, 3 minutes, and 10 seconds ago: <mike_c> the previous boss of argentina: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyoTwDfXZ6c
ben_vulpes: ;;seen mike_c
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> incidentally, it is shocking, outrageous but also very amusing to see just how copy-pasted the final days us is from the peak of romania. it's almost as if instead of the romanian idiots copying teh superior us businessmen, the reverse happened. << i'd love to hear more about this
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: naggum link << which ?
B007: 08-03-2014 02:09:00 <B007> mircea_popescu: you should bet 1000 on something on your site
danielpbarron: mircea_popescu, no report this week
BingoBoingo: http://edition.cnn.com/2014/09/06/world/americas/9-year-old-joyrides-in-city-bus/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
cazalla: mircea_popescu, http://www.bitcoinprivilege.com/cazalla_forum_posts.html past weeks posts
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Not at first. First it strengthens the Dinar, or whatever the fuck ISIS uses. Probably fucking Dogecoin.
BingoBoingo: Hello vos_vos
BingoBoingo: !up vos_vos
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: this is why the death of ussr is a global calamity - even folks like jurov and mircea_popescu, who saw the underside of the colonial boot, might see the argument as to how << i certainly do not see such.
asciilifeform: this is why the death of ussr is a global calamity - even folks like jurov and mircea_popescu, who saw the underside of the colonial boot, might see the argument as to how
decimation: mircea_popescu: there's a good story about that in the podcast link I put up yesterday: "But even without Russ's lectures, people began to recognize the potential for the Tragedy of the Commons. And quite quickly formed Cattlemans' Associations--the kind of thing that Elinor Ostrom would, you know, love to talk about; and I've talked about it with her. Russ: These are voluntary restrictions on the use of resources, not government,
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: there's correcting khruschev's wandering pencil, and then real conquest
Azelphur: mircea_popescu: I've accepted that job offer from RagnarDanneskjol btw :)
decimation: mircea_popescu: and that's my point, for purely practical reasons alone, one would think that the 'married men' who have to deal with reality would prefer a power that has a track record of at least keeping a lid on the crazies at home and showing up to the diplomacy table with things in order
decimation: https://www.nsa.gov/about/cryptologic_heritage/museum/virtual_tour/museum_tour_text.shtml#zimmermann_telegram
decimation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_federal_election,_November_1932 They were all worried about the communists too
asciilifeform recommends the 'manna' story except for final chapters. just like mircea_popescu's snip of the 'dulap' tale.
asciilifeform: it doesn't have to be a coin cell, either. can attach one of, say, these - http://www.ictradenet.com/models_pic/BH2AA-W.jpg - to outside of cartridge. drill a hole, attach terminals to correct spots. won't win any beauty contests, but will work. ☟︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: baked. http://www.loper-os.org/?p=1441
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: fundamental misunderstanding. machine does not know (unless it is fiendishly complicated, and elaborately trapped, perhaps) that you are doing, e.g., rsa.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: slightly different in ru. e.g., минетчица ~= 'blowjobesse', тракторица ~= 'tracroresse' - in same sense as Fr. 'comedienne.'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: sex anal cu tractoare, motocositoare si combine agricole >>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mVOd8zY3D8 << 'in Flyshitte, in the Red Corpse Kolhoz... there lived Tractoresse!' ☟︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: as discussed in the past - the various u.s. castes have, for reasons of their own (ask them!) decided never to live in walking distance of one another, if it can be helped
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: which part is stupid? most of these people couldn't hope to buy so much as a plastic&cardboard 'trabant' without massive credit
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: cars << another thing in usa. more or less everybody is condemned to be his own cabbie, and to some extent, mechanic
ThickAsThieves: <+thestringpuller> you know how I know you're not american mircea_popescu : you hate cars /// i cant stand driving and all the stuff about cars other than that they get me places
thestringpuller: you know how I know you're not american mircea_popescu : you hate cars
ThickAsThieves: not secret, mike_c is gonna check i think
ThickAsThieves: <+mircea_popescu> ThickAsThieves 5 before back to 8 or w/e it does ? /// i think i figured out exactly what it does actually
BingoBoingo: Moar NBA drama http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/11481937/atlanta-hawks-owner-bruce-levenson-selling-team
asciilifeform: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/66/Order_of_Lenin_type4.jpg
asciilifeform: http://www.mekanizmalar.com/fergusons_paradox.html
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Almost seems like it doesn't it.
BingoBoingo: The punter tried to tackle: http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--E7xeAeZ1--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/zwp2p9imqfeieamtdgne.gif
decimation: http://www.governmentattic.org/12docs/FBI-USAF-AlaskastayBehindAgentProgram_1947-1954.pdf
mircea_popescu: meanwhile at the other ranch, who the fuck needs viagra http://naughtybits.us/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/hole-in-one5_small.jpg
decimation: I just heard this podcast on "free market" environmentalism: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2014/08/terry_anderson.html
mircea_popescu: http://naughtybits.us/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/fart-like-a-clydesdale_small.jpg
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: fat rockets dropping on parachutes, self-aimed at tank turrets (see yesterday's film with ukrs clobbered by such. 1980s soviet product.)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: empowering betas to be weird >> http://www.wired.com/2014/09/armys-new-laser-cannon-blasts-drones-out-of-the-sky-even-in-fog << e.g. this. yes, let's draw a ruler in the sky straight to own artillery position,
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves ;;rate ben_vulpes 2 Met IRL for drinks and neither of us murdered the other << lol neither of you strike as teh murderin' kind
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ThickAsThieves: ;;rate ben_vulpes 2 Met IRL for drinks and neither of us murdered the other
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punkman: mircea_popescu: idea #1, kinda: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-life/10911242/At-last-the-clothes-store-that-lets-you-shoplift-for-a-day.html
asciilifeform: airplane scam << https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ERCO_Ercoupe#mediaviewer/File:1946_Ercoupe_Advertisement_in_Skyways.jpg << i live near the ruins of a factory where these were once made.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: bimbo vest << in usa, we have 'bimba' - they make pneumatic & hydraulic pistons. ubiquitous.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell mike_c hey is the wol chainwatcher behind on blocks ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2014/let-me-give-you-ideas/#comment-107457
punkman: mircea_popescu: you ever seen my huge copper round ? << I thought you'd pull out a dick pic right there
decimation: mircea_popescu: I don't think any plane would survive that test
decimation: mircea_popescu: well, the theory on that one blog is that because it has a parachute, inexperienced derps think they are invincible
decimation: mircea_popescu: as geenspun explains, it is a legitimate safety mechanism, but it doesn't make up for the apparently "comfortable" handling
decimation: mircea_popescu: yeah the whole plane has a parachute