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decimation: another good one from the same podcast: " A man named Northly[?] came--he was the Executive Vice President of the North Carolina Peanut Association. Wonderful guy. He stood up as this
conference was ending, and he said, 'Let me tell you about the peanut program. There's only two people in America who understand how the peanut program works. It's my job to keep it that way.'"
mircea_popescu: next
conference, have a sort of oscars. "best usd will fail paragraph" "best x" etc
ben_vulpes: OKAY CLIENT WHY AREN'T YOU IN OUR
CONFERENCE CALL
ben_vulpes: Disclosure: Although the event was closed to the media, I was invited by the founders of Nexus, Jonah Wittkamper and Rachel Cohen Gerrol, to report on the
conference as a member of the family that started the Johnson & Johnson pharmaceutical company. << woo hoo hoo
mircea_popescu: davout if all else fails you can have some of mine, also at
conference o.O
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform hey, get me like a dozen, bring em over at
conference.
danielpbarron: thestringpuller> US passport: Tax Curse, -10 from wealth << why i can't attend
conference mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: Oh people are now ripping off MP's
conference format << lmao buncha wanna-bes. what fucking elite ?
ben_vulpes: trilema.com/2014/the-
conference-third-edition/
mircea_popescu: btw ben_vulpes im thinking, at first
conference dinner... we have roast party ?
decimation: "Caldwell was being interviewed as a part of the annual State of the Net
Conference in Washington, DC. One minute, she was vilifying encryption; the next, she was sending a message to the country’s citizens and companies that they need to be “more conscious of cybersecurity.” “They need to be assuming they are vulnerable, assuming their data can be taken,” she said"
mike_c:
conference this year should definitely include a poker game
mircea_popescu: "During a
conference call with reporters Monday, Fed staffers were asked why the paper made no mention of Bitcoin. They responded by saying that they plan to monitor developments with digital currency, and that later, as those technologies mature, regulators will possibly have a different strategy."
pete_dushenski: then he said "oh, what about this
conference?" and i told him to leave a comment if he was interested
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: anything in particular you'd like to know about your interested participant for the
conference?
BingoBoingo: Also why the fuck is the total weight of Homero's
conference bodyguards less than that I usually have on any given Friday?
mircea_popescu: only thing missing being, mickey doesn't put on the sorcerer's hat to go to some
conference mircea_popescu: ne1 else recall the glbse
conference where nefario explained all about how he's immune to stuff two weeks before closing down ?
ben_vulpes: pete_dushenski: i'm going to the third
conference, foo
pete_dushenski: ben_vulpes so when's this baby of yours due ? we've been hearing about it since, what, you tried to use it as an excuse to not go to the third
conference ?
Adlai: there's a booth at this
conference, advertising for another
conference. they're giving out free stress balls, those bouncy nerf foam tennisballsized things you can squeeze... over the course of the day, corners get filled up with these garbages
Adlai likes the idea of a
conference where pitching is forbidden by default
Adlai: actually i didn't see him at the
conference itself yesterday, but his goons from the kickoff party were hanging around, so i'm guessing he was there too
Adlai: at first i was so glad, "ah, some diversity in the
conference patrons!"
kakobrekla: re
conference , im disappointed to find out chief scammer did not show up
Adlai: seems to be working well for them so far, guy at the
conference said that coindesk is a reliable news source so it must be
mircea_popescu: SNB Chairman Thomas Jordan denied at a news
conference that the move amounted to a "panic reaction", saying the cap had been scrapped because it was unsustainable. "If you decide to exit such a policy, you have to take the markets by surprise," Jordan said. << quite.
adlai: moe levin (
conference organizer) has already gone on the public record saying that talks and Q&A sessions will be recorded and recordings subsequently uploaded, further eroding whatever "reasonable expectation of privacy" could be claimed
adlai: that happens at a
conference adlai: ok, i'll make sure to plug my ears before entering the
conference grounds
adlai is FoaFs with moe, might be introduced at the
conference mircea_popescu: "I know the the responsible for the
conference, and his integrity is unquestionable."
mircea_popescu: (i'm somehow confused as to how the slackening btc affects you anyway, not like the
conference became more expensive ?!)
thestringpuller: cazalla: "I helped run plenty of conferences. I do have an idea. The priority is to make sure you have a
conference that runs well enough that people don't notice the problems, and that everyone who paid to attend it gets their money's worth. Who actually paid to make it happen is a bit lower on the priority." << LOL FUCKING L
cazalla: that habbo hotel bitcoin
conference is on lol
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: a "bitcoin" "
conference"
mircea_popescu: Lindsay Holland, assistant director, received $160k + $2,512. I have no idea what she's doing, other than writing press releases, uploading
conference videos to YouTube and giving interviews about how she's paid in Bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: anyway, who here wants to go to the next porn
conference ?
fluffypony: punkman: we had a mini
conference when I was in the USA
cazalla: this fkn
conference i'm streaming.. "cold storage is out dated, it's about multisig now".. where do you see bitcoin in 20 years time? "something like email where you can instantly send value over the internet"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: what was his project (mentioned in the comment) ? <<< you perhaps recall i said at
conference i want two things made, an advertising service and a jobs board. we had some initial discussions about it, we ran into a bunch of conceptual difficulties about how exactly to handle the job descriptions/contractual enforcement, which turned out a much more complex task than originally imagined, last was "we
mircea_popescu: what happened here is exactly the equivalent of, "sniper got obama between the eyes with a shitbullet, while on
conference with the security staff"
saifedean: much as i'd love to be in the
conference, april might be tough, especially as i'm so goddamn far, but i'll let you know if i manage to work out jan/feb
mircea_popescu: saifedean yes. for that matter, the bitcoin
conference is in april.
jurov: Both
conference founder Eyal Abramovitch and speaker/sponsor Ofir Beigel are members of Meni Rosenfeld‘s Israeli bitcoiner meetup.
assbot: South African Goldcoin (GLD)
Conference - YouTube