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assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 41 @ 0.00302852 = 0.1242 BTC [+]
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 106 @ 0.00504974 = 0.5353 BTC [-] {4}
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assbot: [HAVELOCK] [COG.F] 1 @ 1.875 BTC [-]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 10200 @ 0.00086784 = 8.852 BTC [+]
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assbot: [HAVELOCK] [HMF] 9 @ 0.0242 = 0.2178 BTC [-]
nubbins`: ;;later tell mircea_popescu re: S.POT, canada is outlawing personal growing for medical marijuana patients in april, and the entire system will move over to private growers. legal at federal level. country full of world-renowned growers. number of licensed users expected to grow tenfold over next decade. nice business to have established when across-the-board legalization eventually comes around.
nubbins`: A+++++++++++ WOULD INVEST IN :0
WillTablet: Gotta get me some altcoin invested in that
cazalla: anyone else wagering robot wins vs human in ping pong
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assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 14 @ 0.52100001 = 7.294 BTC [-] {3}
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assbot: [HAVELOCK] [RENT] 27 @ 0.0055 = 0.1485 BTC
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assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 8450 @ 0.00086562 = 7.3145 BTC [+] {2}
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.EXCH] 3 @ 0.16230094 = 0.4869 BTC [-]
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 88 @ 0.0030323 = 0.2668 BTC [+] {2}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 11327 @ 0.00086742 = 9.8253 BTC [+] {2}
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 39 @ 0.00503001 = 0.1962 BTC [-]
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [COG.F] 1 @ 1.875 BTC [-]
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [COG] 10 @ 0.08499962 = 0.85 BTC [+] {4}
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [COG] 12 @ 0.08499999 = 1.02 BTC [+] {4}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 14588 @ 0.0008676 = 12.6565 BTC [+] {2}
mircea_popescu: i dunno, i guess i must be an old arse, everyone i heard was very excited for some reason.
mircea_popescu: i guess the people that got the licenses in colorado made out ok.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 6500 @ 0.00086423 = 5.6175 BTC [-]
mircea_popescu: lol so paypal wants to compete with bitcoin by making... yet another webwallet.
mircea_popescu: course their webwallet would have an exchange built in, which by now they're probably testing and which nobody will be either to compete with or outlaw.
mircea_popescu: so i guess there goes the market for man-and-his-dreams exchanges.
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [KCIM] 73 @ 0.003 = 0.219 BTC [-] {2}
BingoBoingo: I don't know if Paypal can make the jump from holding nothing of value on their servers to holding numbers of extreme value.
the20year: i think it could be good for worldwide acceptance, but won't displace many
mircea_popescu: this, prior to bitcoin was the most valuable and only valuable thing to keep on a server.
mircea_popescu: anyway, they of any sense'll treat their investments in coinbase/whatever exchange as having terms of 1 year tops.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: You wrote before on the subject of stolen credentials like credit card numbers making a poor currency due to their short lifespan.
mircea_popescu: but you are telling me that bitstamp has better ops and it security than paypal ?
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 6552 @ 0.00086848 = 5.6903 BTC [+]
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [COG] 5 @ 0.07499997 = 0.375 BTC [-] {2}
mircea_popescu: lol i was thinking, "and after you're done telling me go tell kako"
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [COG] 6 @ 0.07499997 = 0.45 BTC [-] {4}
mircea_popescu: anyway, the greater strategic implication here is that given my lukewarm at best interest in the fiat side,
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [COG] 3 @ 0.07499997 = 0.225 BTC [-]
mircea_popescu: and given the horridly ineptitude of the tech people + the horridly dishonest ineptitude of the "business" people involved in the "market" let's call it for lack of a better term of interfacing bitcoin and fiats
mircea_popescu: after paypal offers transparent exchanging into and from bitcoin to anyone with a paypal account we won't even KNOW what the exchange rate is anymore.
mircea_popescu: not that we necessarily care, but it is the first actual loss in the field.
chetty: It will be whatever paypal is giving +30% (their fee)
mircea_popescu: basically what they do now, if you move usd to eur or w/e
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 1550 @ 0.00086848 = 1.3461 BTC [+]
BingoBoingo: I'm leaning towards supposing all BTC/fiat interface operations come with finite lifespans.
kakobrekla: well everything in this fuckin universe comes with a finite lifespan
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla you know wells fargo was originally a stagecoach company ?
BingoBoingo: Things like matter and form have less finitude
ozbot: Medical marijuana production in Canada set for dramatic change | National Post
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nubbins`: it's not so much the THC itself as it is all the other cannabinoids
nubbins`: plain ol' THC pills have been around for ages and never really gained much traction
nubbins`: "Health Canada estimates that by 2024, the 'legal marijuana supply industry' may have annual revenues of $1.3-billion."
nubbins`: eating a tomato will never be equally as enjoyable as smoking a joint :D
BingoBoingo: Well there were K2 and the other products from Asian and pacific pharmaceutical manufacterer's after hours production
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 2 @ 0.07699997 = 0.154 BTC [+]
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 95 @ 0.0030323 = 0.2881 BTC [+]
nubbins`: “Health Canada had valid concerns” about the authorized license applications they were receiving last year, says Mr. Kennedy. Many displayed a “lack of sophistication” about the medical marijuana industry, or had a “lack of capital,” he says. The department “was concerned about the ability of new licence holders to meet demand.”
decimation: ascii did you see the maryland "cyber center" link?
decimation: I feel bad for the youth who will be swindled into giving their flower to rank idiocy
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decimation: "Smoking tobacco is losing so it seems reasonable to ban smoking it even in your own car while driving through a brushfire zone. Smoking marijuana is winning, so it doesn't seem like the ban on smoking in Laurel Canyon applies to dope."
decimation: It seems to me that there would be some value in having a multicast stream of blockchain updates
decimation: it's so sad that multicast is broken for almost everyone
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [COG] 3 @ 0.06349999 = 0.1905 BTC [-]
nubbins`: meh. in the early days of canada's national parks, they had to put signs up reminding people not to toss lit cigarettes or tap pipe bowls onto the ground
nubbins`: the simpler explanation is "people are idiots and need explicit signage" rather than "good smoke / bad smoke"
BingoBoingo: The simpler solution is to remember to grind spent but warm cigarette butts into the dirt when traversing a tinderbox.
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [COG] 3 @ 0.06299999 = 0.189 BTC [-]
decimation: what I don't understand is why bitcoin network code uses TCP, yet includes optimization hacks to try to improve performance. Why not manage things properly at the application layer with UDP?
decimation: no, but I find the overuse of TCP to be an annoyance. TCP was made by the devil to help people trick themselves
mircea_popescu: <decimation> I feel bad for the youth who will be swindled into giving their flower to rank idiocy <<< unlike what other youth ?
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assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 5621 @ 0.00086849 = 4.8818 BTC [+]
mircea_popescu: decimation because satoshi didn't understand udp and couldn' find any libraries.
mircea_popescu: because they mostly don't exist standalone because people in gaming need and so make them
mircea_popescu: but anyway, bored young minds with the strength of oxen wishing to create an ACTUAL altcoin are well advised to try and specify bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: by the time they're done they will have collected enough tidbits (such as this one) to actually make an alt with a chance.
mircea_popescu: decimation in anyone's defense, nobody can know everything.
mircea_popescu: we are today right here in this chan in a much softer seat than satoshi ever was
mircea_popescu: simply because there's a collection of idiots rather than a single idiot.
decimation: this is true. I would rather have bitcoin as-is than no bitcoin
BingoBoingo: I imagine Satoshi is a lurker in this chan, never speaking, but simply logging the lols
mircea_popescu: it's role never having been to be worth "x billionty dollars" but simply to support nurture and allow this conversation.
mircea_popescu: and perhaps the larger loss. as people today interact with him like with shakespeare, out of reinterpreted reinterpretations of copies
decimation: there are still Ricochet boxes that dot the countryside in the US
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [CBTC] 837 @ 0.00021259 = 0.1779 BTC [+] {2}
decimation: right. It seems to me that there is still space to compete in that market for bottom dollar text/email
decimation: I always wondered how they would deal with constrained nodes
BingoBoingo: I remember when half of the failed grocers and restauranteurs tried to set up competing dial up ISPs
decimation: I think guys like him and Vint Cerf see what the Internet has become and are sad
decimation: like idiots using stateless protocols like
http to "log in"
ozbot: A Mathematical Proof Too Long To Check - Slashdot
mircea_popescu: proofines = the quality of something which isn't proven but you'd like it to be.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I might lean towards thinking the proof is valid, but could come in at hundreds of KB if only enough Aspies were locked in an attic with some meth.
decimation: ugh, the worst offenders for hardware codecs are the DVSI guys
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I imagine Breaking Bad takes place in an Alternate universe where Erdos had to cook his own amphetamines.
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] 2 @ 0.0995 = 0.199 BTC [+]
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform or at least, social engineering as we know it.
decimation: on the other hand, you could argue that "IS-95" is a "format" and Qualcomm camps out on that with their custom crapware
mircea_popescu: social engineering as the venetians knew it "mostly went away" too.
mircea_popescu tries to remember who decimation is. who are you decimation ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform actually the novel of "how will SE look in a post-key apocalypse" could be an interesting novel.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I'm juggling 8 tasks, but is there a bounty on the post key apocolypse novel?
ozbot: Shall be Delivered | The Whet
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [DEALCO] 30 @ 0.00492531 = 0.1478 BTC [+] {4}
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: That author is from what I understand an expatriate Californian
decimation: this guy is a hero to the amateur radio guys - he's making is own open-source codec for low bitrate speech
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 10450 @ 0.00086849 = 9.0757 BTC [+]
mircea_popescu: but yes, this is the major criterion i employ to guide me linguistically.
mircea_popescu: i've not learned chinese yet mostly because i know of no noteworthy intellectual achievement in their classics.
mircea_popescu: decimation it's not even the bureaucracy. i despise their 5000 years of dumbass comme-il-faut-confucianism
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform tell you what. they had alchemy inception cca 2nd century BC.
BingoBoingo: I'm still lol'ing at decades of nutrition made soldier outgrow the chinese army's tanks
mircea_popescu: the head whore cixi rejected trains because they were TOO NOISY
decimation: There is something about the West that breeds a certain creativity that is absent in the far East
BingoBoingo: Well, I guess this makes a case for chemistry as being a somewhat acceptable surrogate for food.
decimation: every man for himself vs. veneration for the entire family/community?
BingoBoingo: If only the Chinese had enough inate malice, they could have been the ones to hook the English on opium
mircea_popescu: decimation something in that sense. i dunno that it could be readily reducible to any other form.
mircea_popescu: both sets of chimps will readily ensalve the troop for their benefit
mircea_popescu: but the western chimps tend to lol at the slave troop while doing it.
mircea_popescu: this is perhaps usable as an explanation of why the us and generallythe english world collapses today
decimation: rather than the slaves accepting the mandate of heaven
mircea_popescu: it all begun when they decided it'd be more stable if they stopped making fun of their captives.
mircea_popescu: who knew that sort of ossified, concrete stability is the enemy of long term survival.
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decimation: somehow this ties into all voice and no exit
decimation: why didn't the 1000 BC Chinese sail to the new world and scap some Indians?
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 8658 @ 0.00086849 = 7.5194 BTC [+]
mircea_popescu: decimation perhaps, but that may well be misleading. hard to see
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform because they could never sail, because they were fucktarded in the roman sense
decimation: the Romans managed to trade with China too
mircea_popescu: may i remind you that at all points of human history the chinese hel;d the upper hand.
mircea_popescu: chinese merchants shopwing up in europe would have disrupted the hansa
BingoBoingo: When aircraft carriers are a tenth of a BTC, I might pick one up and start an ocean voyaging farm
mircea_popescu: and their ships could have easily arbitered the 100 years' war
mircea_popescu: and in general, we could have been a subcategory of their culture much like they ended up a subcategory of ours.
decimation: but it was the Euros dreaming of sailing to China, not the other way
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mircea_popescu: "you'll find the east indies, you just don't know where".
decimation: I wonder if there is the same itch in China to try to gain alludial rights, like the English moving to New England
chetty: comfortable people stay home, the miserable go adventuring
decimation: yeah, the emperor or whoever has the mandate of heaven which is universal, why bother escape?
decimation: heh. I doubled my money with btct and asicminer, but then I heeded the warnings of mpoe-pr and bailed
BingoBoingo: I think I'm going to try sealwithclubs, been about 9 months since I've been there. Maybe I can make a profit or two.
decimation: unfortunately I lost a much bigger stash a few years ago when my hard drive died
decimation: taught me a lesson I will never forget
BingoBoingo: decimation: That seems to be a common lesson.
mircea_popescu: it's a fundamental function of language, this symbolism.
mircea_popescu: they're "professional" which really is just a shoddy translation of "civilised", ie, part of the polity
mircea_popescu: it is not nearly as silly as it seems. there's a fundamental tension at work.
decimation: yeah electronics have to come in a box with irrelevant art
mircea_popescu: i have a set of three articles in romanian laying the foundation for understanding this and many other bullshits.
BingoBoingo: Oh Seals now says they require 2 confirmations to credit deposits while only actually requiring one.
decimation: you see this phenomenon with the Old Republican goldbugs who try to understand bitcoin
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decimation: "we need bitcoin backed with gold" etc
mircea_popescu: possibly the most imporant articles i ever published but the shit's fucking abstruse.
mircea_popescu: but you are wrong to think that the language-servants are not proceeding abstractly.
mircea_popescu: they are proceeding on a radically different sort of abstraction than the number-servants
mircea_popescu: i don't know the guy well enough to discern da fuck he's thinking under n layers of public communication bs
mircea_popescu: there are, you know, even in soviet russia smart people.
mircea_popescu: like... suppose there's a club of shitbathers, who seek out filthy stables and other animal warehouses to bathe in the crap
mircea_popescu: then you discover some of those people actually heard of merlot, and even can distinguish it from pinot.
decimation: bitcoin teaches that the valuable part of the gold coin isn't the physical coin but merely the information it conveys
mircea_popescu: it could just as well show that the pedestrian definition of "physical" isn't really as important as we thought.
mircea_popescu: what is more "physically yours" than something nobody can take from you ?
decimation: in the final analysis everything can be taken from you, except your soul
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the absence of both of these being long regarded as a bug in the implementation of physicality.
mircea_popescu: guy buys a new car. friend asks him what color is it ?
mircea_popescu: "well... do you know the color of the sky just as the sun is rising ?"
decimation: I was watching Top Gear last sunday and they were driving a Dacia sedan
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: What protects the gold from malicious teleportation?
decimation: what if I teleported all the gold on Jupiter?
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mircea_popescu: decimation one of the advantages of au is that it being elemental, it's actually finite in any finite region of space.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I mean we can add some crypto to gold teleportation, but at that point the gold may as well be superfluous
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform fun fact : teleportable gold would be cheaper than gold as-is currently is.
mircea_popescu: well wouldn't a car which also sucks your cock be naturally more expensive than one that doesn't ?
mircea_popescu: kinda shows why the entire utilitarian and monetarist stuff is nonsense with a dab of cream.
decimation: it's my understanding that sdcards are cheaper than the equivlient plain flash ships
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i think i may prove a metastability re neutronsa
mircea_popescu: grossly stated, "seeing how the value of gold in a finite space would be a function of other physical processes in the same finite space,
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] 3 @ 0.0995 = 0.2985 BTC [+]
mircea_popescu: the trade value of gold may never exceed the energetic cost of gold"
decimation: this is why I find the "oh noes, the deflation" objection to bitcoin hilarious
decimation: as MP pointed out bitcoin is inflationary for a long time
BingoBoingo: Is kakobrekla Slovenia or Slovakia, I forget.
decimation: electronics have gone up in value & down in price for decades
decimation: yet people are not "waiting to buy" computers
greenspan_fan: mircea_popescu hi, I've been reading your blog and thought I'd check out the chat
mircea_popescu: "It is plain to see, from both sides of the issue, the troubles associated with PayPal payments. The problem SWMC would have with accepting PayPal payments is this: An investor purchases a Contract for X-GH/s using PayPal for the purchase. The mined BTC for the Contracts is paid to the investor over the following 6 months (for this example, the life of profitability of the investment.) Then, sometime between 6 to 12 mo
mircea_popescu: (they spell the ligature i as a j for some god forsaken reason)
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Well he started with two other noobs. One had sense to quit hours after my blog post. The other didn't quit until a few weeks ago. The one unfortunately stuck with the forum handle has sent me so much angry correspondence.
BingoBoingo: So, I've bet on slovenia to beat Sweden in Olympic hockey to multiply my bet by 20
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: If she matches up against WIlliam soon I'm going to make so much money and maybe kill a sportsbook.
mircea_popescu: i doubt miss williams wants to play a scrappy player from romania.
BingoBoingo: The Alma mater couldn't do it. Maybe this woman who turned tits into a rocket can.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: In a tournament she may have no choice.
BingoBoingo: The problem with boxing is the opposite thing. Where any party can veto any matchup. At least tennis forces these issues.
decimation: it strikes me as unlikely that random fanbois were able to actually design and build asics
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo boxing has the problem that every fight kills you a little.
mircea_popescu: tennis is free from this. if anything, every match makes you better.
mircea_popescu: decimation notice that asic production only began in earnest once the set of fanbois crossed into the 100k heads territory.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: American handegg has the same problem as boxing. Amazing where ad revenue goes when fiat backs the ads.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo it's dubiously fiat's fault, seeing how the solidus and aureus backed the same principle.
decimation: I bought one of the knc miner neptunes, thinking they would deliver. In retrospect, it was a dumb idea. Now they want to deliver me rights to their "datacenter" that will mine for me
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Well, I think when herbi was trying to sculpt an orderbook I pointed out that in fiat world the cheapest part is the money. Maybe this week a trailer park sells for $200, maybe next for $200,000
mircea_popescu: decimation "everyone's making roi" or how did the scammertalk go
decimation: yeah. they claim it's because they are having to delay delivery of the newer 20 nm chips
decimation: On the other hand, it's better than nothing at all, like BFL
mircea_popescu: o cause not having delivered anything else they're now delaying for better stuff to not deliver
BingoBoingo: decimation: BFL ships things... To Tiger Direct and newegg after their customers give up on them.
BingoBoingo: I only learned of this yesterday. That BFL has a 10 GH/s miner sold through warehouse stores.
decimation: who is going to go to Sam's club to buy a bitcoin miner?
BingoBoingo: decimation: People who lack the btc to overstock.com?
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 150 @ 0.0030323 = 0.4548 BTC [+]
mircea_popescu: "In 301, one gold aureus was worth 833⅓ denarii; by 324, the same aureus was worth 4,350 denarii. In 337, after Constantine converted to the solidus, one solidus was worth 275,000 denarii and finally, by 356, one solidus was worth 4,600,000 denarii."
mircea_popescu: i wonder what one could have bought with a denarius or two back then
mircea_popescu: but say it was like a dollar, you needed 5 of them for a cup of coffee
mircea_popescu: imagine walking around with ~50mn in the shape of ten coins, weighing 1/4 pound
BingoBoingo: Moar nao can fit on a microsd card. I'd like to feel that.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile today, abramovich visiting some london court has nowhere to eat.
mircea_popescu: i think one major point people fail to properly consider is just how unwarrantedly equalitarian society today is.
mircea_popescu: and just how unsustainable that theatre is, on the face.
BingoBoingo: It doesn't even have the history to be religion.
greenspan_fan: you're much less likely to get hassled as a billionaire if you pretend other people are worth as much as you by some metric
BingoBoingo: Fun would be taking a time machine back to 400AD carrying a pound of black pepper and an sks.
BingoBoingo: greenspan_fan: That is what your staff is for.
mircea_popescu: just the fact that someone'd even consider hassling you is indicative of serious systemic problems.
mircea_popescu: ie, that tons of people are completely clueless as to their proper place in the world.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo you recall that "come up with what you'd take back in time" contest on trilema ?
BingoBoingo wants expandable ASP style batons with inbuilt electroshock devices to exist.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: No, that may be before my time.
greenspan_fan: I mean, if the true scope of the gulf between the average and someone in the 0.001% was really appreciable, the average person has so much less to lose
BingoBoingo: In Napoleon III's court Aluminium was worth everything
mircea_popescu: greenspan_fan they all have equally the same to lose : their place in the world.
mircea_popescu: this notion that anyone could be anything is kind-of strange.
greenspan_fan: true, but people have some grasp of how far the fall is for others
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 8133 @ 0.00086557 = 7.0397 BTC [-]
BingoBoingo: If a billionaire falls 99% in the forbes standings they are still richer than Rap Genius
mircea_popescu: cryptorush is a fine example in an endless string of fine examples as to why this nonsense is harmful to the stupid poor.
mircea_popescu: in general, if you're too stupid to make a pan, you're much better off thinking you're too stupid to make a pan thank thinking you're smart enough to make a pan.
mircea_popescu: arguably society as a whole extracts more benefits from the stupid who think themselves smart than from any other venue,
decimation: In old Japan, it wasn't illegal to be an asshole. It wasn't even illegal to be an asshole to a samurai. But it was illegal to be an asshole to a samurai - if you weren't a samurai. See how it works? You might say the samurai were a sort of protected class. A system not at all unique to old Japan. Always and everywhere, "microaggressing" against the protected class is hazardous to your health.
greenspan_fan: mircea_popescu: I don't understand-- why more benefits? why unsustainable?
mircea_popescu: decimation dunno how far i'd take that always and everywhere, i like say nigger and shit.
mircea_popescu: after which i'll gladly answer if you need further answering
decimation: well, Herr Yarvin's point is that the niggers have taken the place of the roman duke
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform like what, say he is ugly and his mother dresses him funny ?
decimation: yeah there's no doubt that the elite whites in America would import any barbarian available to level their redneck enemies
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform srsly, construct a microagression scenario.
decimation: I suspect that merely attempting to enter the same confined room with him would be considered a 'microagression'
mircea_popescu: you're nuts, i rode in elevators with all sorts of people, what
greenspan_fan: mircea_popescu: read it; still unsure why it's unsustainable-- 0->1 SD is always going to be about 18%
mircea_popescu: greenspan_fan it's unsustainable because it creates frustration in the stupid.
greenspan_fan: mircea_popescu: they move on to a new fandom (catharsis!) or get a clue; new people are attracted by the same mechanisms as the previous cohort
mircea_popescu: this in the ideal, business plan rendition of the thing (infinite hitpoints etc)
mircea_popescu: in the real retelling of the situation, they start smoking pcp and quit showing up for work.
mircea_popescu: all the problems the us faces today are strictly an attempt to somehow manage the frustration of the stupid that the unsustainable system induced.
mircea_popescu: people much poorer who lack the delusions of grandeur are actually doing just fine all over the rest 19/20ths of the world.
chetty: well these days they try to exploit the frustration
mircea_popescu: so, unsustainable budgets because of "mandatory" social spending,
mircea_popescu: the country's nigh on ungovernable, and the reason is simply that the 4/5ths of the population that are the idiots believe they are not actually subhuman.
mircea_popescu: every dood with a ged and a history of shelf stacking thinks they're a person just as much as me. this bizarre state of affairs can only lead to fallover.
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mircea_popescu: greenspan_fan well how could it play out ? teh fifth that matters tried to voice till they got bored, now they're mostly exiting
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decimation: I like to experience the fifth stage when I play dayz
mircea_popescu: greenspan_fan generally, the third world or your dreams.
mircea_popescu: romans exited to gaul, byzantines exited to the arabs and northern europe etc
decimation: perhaps it will be possible that a group of pissed off Euros will invade some reasonable turd world country and create a colony
mircea_popescu: Solzhenitsyn spent a while exiting in his head then did it properly
decimation: except they would be the mortal enemies of the entire multicult
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i believe that to be a lie. would you say i'm not personally an example of in the open etc ?
mircea_popescu: the us does not have anything like the projective powers it imagines it has.
decimation: it sufficiently conflicts the interests of the bureaucrats that they cannot see the threat clearly
greenspan_fan: higher defense spending than just about every other country combined
greenspan_fan: I think they do, but it would be politically complicated to actually deploy it.
greenspan_fan: mircea_popescu: yes, but if they decided to actually get their money's worth it would be spectacular
decimation: all of that fancy military hardware would be gone tomorrow if the dollar collapsed
mircea_popescu: so he ends up "investing" : he buys a share in the local cafe
mircea_popescu: but he's too kindly to actually cash in on his investments that looky helped the village thrive.
mircea_popescu: no, it wouldn't be. he'd just be stripped naked and anally raped with a pole for public amusement.
mircea_popescu: somehow it wasn't a north vietnamese that leaked the homemade porn of the fucktarded "supreme leader"
greenspan_fan: but in cases of embezzlement, they're wasting capacity
greenspan_fan: a national emergency (when government and contractor interests are aligned) would actually put that capacity to use
decimation: such an emergency is precisely the time that the unpayable debts become due
mircea_popescu: it shows that in a national emergency the govt and contractor interests are not merely not alligned
decimation: plenty of rebellions were fueled by cheap ak's though
mircea_popescu: i suppose one could take the parliamentary wars in england too
mircea_popescu: moreover, finding agents to do the beheading becomes expensive
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mircea_popescu: for they well know that the enemy may or may not be inclined to buy the nurnberg defense.
mircea_popescu: the beauty of "national emergencies" is that even bureaucrats suddenly become free agents
decimation: for the select few like Cromwell, they can ride the wave of terror to new heights
mircea_popescu: obviously all power vacuums create plugs, much like all drainage pipes create clogs
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decimation: the Reformation is another example - once Luther revealed the lies of the church, hundreds of third parties immediatedly started to grasp for the raw power up for grabs
greenspan_fan: i'd still say that the u.s. could project more power but doesn't because the world is too complicated. Something might be a good idea tactically but terrible strategically, etc.
mircea_popescu: greenspan_fan it could project more power at the risk of having its arms broken off and used to beat it over the head.
greenspan_fan: in the event of some unifying scenario of principle actors (say, a world war) they'd be much more effective
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mircea_popescu: ten arabs turned a spot of their choosing in manhattan from bank to mosque.
mircea_popescu: at a cost to the us of about billions in direct damages, and then billions more in materiel over a war they've yet to win.
mircea_popescu: soo... for the arab side : 1.enemies looses bank ; 2. we gain mosque ; 3. we destroy some enemy wealth ; 4. enemy destroys some more of its own wealth.
greenspan_fan: ok, we cannot take the actions of george bush as an example of great or even good strategy
mircea_popescu: we can take the historical facts as historical facts tho.
decimation: george bush was a figurehead upon a bureaucracy
greenspan_fan: the smarter move would've been to mourn and then move on
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so for the folks running the forbidden city all sorts of things were epic pants creaming victories.
mircea_popescu: up until the time when barbarians stormed in and took a piss on their kimono
greenspan_fan: asciilifeform also, it lead to the election of obama, and some of those people (depending on proximity to political center) were terrified of what he might do
mircea_popescu: anyway. obama thought he's tough tits, talked shit to putin like any random forum retard.
greenspan_fan: his administration made exceptionally bad choices, is all
mircea_popescu: arguably clinton was a lot better than the lot of them, but hey. he didn;t in the end have the balls to come out and say "i am the president. i fuck whoever i want whenever i want in whatever manner i feel like. get lost twerps"
greenspan_fan: political considerations (can't do much if other democrats can't get elected). Which is the price you pay for living in an egalitarian society.
decimation: nixon was terrible; he fathered the modern multicult
greenspan_fan: his administration was one of the most well run in recent memory
mircea_popescu: greenspan_fan go into detail re: well run. use examples.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that yarvin piece is absolutely fuckingly hysterically funny, because :
mircea_popescu: " I was pretty amazed that he went for it. He flat out said that he wants his film to be funded and wasn't sure if it'd be possible after all of his, and I replied that it realistically wasn't going to happen without the say-so of someone like me, and I wasn't inclined to give some producer the nod on this. "
greenspan_fan: The ones that come to mind in terms of achievements: detente, opened relations w/ china, created EPA,
mircea_popescu: the "someone like me" is some nobody on twitter, whose claim to fame was "retweeting only women"
mircea_popescu: greenspan_fan i thought we were discussing projection of power.
mircea_popescu: somehow somewhere in this world this fucktard exists, and he doth believe he meaningfully has any impact on anything whatsoever.
greenspan_fan: sort of-- you asked me to qualify "well-run" re: nixon. Who I had used as an example of executive quality impacting projection of power via strategic considerations
mircea_popescu: i asked you to qualify well run strictly in the context of our discussion.
mircea_popescu: otherwise you know... some presidents were really tall and handsome.
greenspan_fan: I wanted to avoid vietnam and associated regions because that's a debate quagmire
mircea_popescu: only debatable in the sense of debatably useful for your side in this discussion
mircea_popescu: otherwise it easily sums up to "example of the us failing to project its claimed power"
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greenspan_fan: but clearly, being able to get china/su to come to the table entails some projection of power, no?
greenspan_fan: but for nixon it wasn't from a position of supplication
decimation: you should read what Chiang Kai-Shek thought of Nixon
greenspan_fan: so for the us to successfully projected power, it would have to treat china like panama?
mircea_popescu: that would be what you're proposing, n'est pas ? that it could do such a thing, "if need be"
greenspan_fan: chiang kai shek was a miserable bastard who was mad at the us because they got shafted after wwii and korea
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decimation: the us abandoned china to Stalin and Mao
decimation: because FDR loved him some commies, more or less
greenspan_fan: post wwii, macarthur planned to open the korean theatre to include china as well
greenspan_fan: the joint chiefs advised against it so it ended up not happening
decimation: My objection is to FDR's "europoe first" strategy
mircea_popescu: without that the us story would have ended in the 60s rather than 50 years later.
decimation: if china were secured, hitler would have been worn down
decimation: right, it's basically a massive number of peasents
greenspan_fan: not really sure if that was winnable, and also, germany constituted a much greater threat
decimation: even 1942 US would have been able to marshal them to do anything useful
mircea_popescu: germany left alone to overrun england'd have been a royal fucking pain.
decimation: ascii, do you believe in Moldbug's "Hitler invaded Russia in self defense idea"?
mircea_popescu: it does seem the sort of nonsense he publishes for the sake of being interesting to chicks.
decimation: it seems that there would be a pile of nazi intelligence or something that would substantiate the claim
decimation: I've no doubt that Stalin had the motive and opportunity
mircea_popescu: "You know, Goog, once you start lying, there's really no end to it. For one thing, even if your enemies ignore lying, defensive evasion, and other telltale "beta" behaviors, they still own you." <<< whoa.
mircea_popescu: so yarvin delivers. there, greenspan_fan is a short and sweet explanation of the concept.
mircea_popescu: whether its enemies actually bother to call the us on its gargle or not... they still own it.
decimation: yeah exactly. 1942 US would not have been alpha enough to marshal the oriental hordes into invading moscow
mircea_popescu: decimation average han guy marching ~1700 days on foot to reach moscow ?!
mircea_popescu: decimation in one of the countless retellings of the entire nazi thing (a woman in berlin)
mircea_popescu: a russian officer makes the point that most of the russian soldiers didn't even know wtf germany is
mircea_popescu: before it had to fucking invade. and they likely wouldn't have cared to find out.
decimation: it's true. the invasion creates a Schelling point
mircea_popescu: hitler was, if my otherwise uninformed opinion interests, simply caught in a battle with his own demons.
mircea_popescu: the old plans (from ww2) called for germany to sweep west into france and then east to russia
mircea_popescu: this for very good reasons having to do with mobilization times.
mircea_popescu: and never was fully confident in his actually much smarter military advisers.
mircea_popescu: of course the great germany of ww1 fielded as many people as russia did,
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: There is a huge gulf between an Officer and a Soldier though.
mircea_popescu: how the fuck am i going to read anything, im stuck here with you guise,
decimation: speaking of which I must sleep or my mind will be useless
BingoBoingo: Officer vs Soldier is Usagi versus Usagi's self image.
greenspan_fan: hey, I was wondering: is there anyone keeping track of mt. gox's inflows/outflows? or are those too hard to identify/untangle?
mircea_popescu: the thinking is that you're more likely to misinform than inform trying to do that.
greenspan_fan: I am assuming it's hugely profitable for those who have been keeping track
greenspan_fan: it should be near zero or near the other exchanges, if enough people knew if it was (in)solvent, right?
mircea_popescu: so if mtgox recycles its deposits to its own addresses fifty times it now has paid out 50x its actual capital ?
greenspan_fan: the fact that it isn't (and assuming it's possible to trade in any volume) means that you'd be selling/buying from people who clearly don't know as much as you do
greenspan_fan: no, I mean, if you're able to buy from them and subsequently transfer from them
greenspan_fan: or alternatively, sell your account/wallet to someone else who thinks they're solvent
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Vexual: or have another milkshake and stay rotund
greenspan_fan: my personal belief is that they're fucked, but it'd be profitable to know one way or the other
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Vexual: thats prolly exactly what they're thinking greenspan_fan
Vexual: i wonder if they even know how much they double spent
BingoBoingo: greenspan_fan: There is a lot to learn from Vexual
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benkay: anything interesting happen today BingoBoingo?
greenspan_fan: my impression was that they're past the point of being a functioning business since they're not bothering to update/answer customers, and one of the public facing parts of their business (twitter) hasn't been updated and what is there is embarrassing, since, like a month ago
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greenspan_fan: so the heuristic judgement suggests a significant amount of double spending
BingoBoingo: greenspan_fan: I suspect more just Mark has a touch of downs and imagines he can hug away his scams
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benkay: where's my berkely auto distribution
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Vexual: hook it up to some interior disco leds BingoBoingo
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greenspan_fan: BingoBoingo his repeated lack of response to those protesters is not a good sign either
BingoBoingo: Vexual: The way the car is now, I might give myself epilipsy trying that.
BingoBoingo: greenspan_fan: Protesters are worthless unless they go as far as Ukraine.
greenspan_fan: BingoBoingo but you'd think that after the fifth encounter he might have something to say?
BingoBoingo: greenspan_fan: People have things to say. Scammers though prefer to say less.
BingoBoingo: Oh, how did this n00b post to a locked thread?
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Vexual: he looks like a fuckwit
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Do you need someone to talk to 'Muricans?
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davout: don't give dem coins away
davout: it usually goes that way in my experience
davout: two years later, when price did x100
davout: "oh hey, remmember this bitcoin you gave me? lost it"
davout: and variations thereof
mircea_popescu: davout i wouldn't particularly mind having this to hold over taleb.
davout: "and these words convinced me to blog-pukku"
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davout: if the first comment i get about it is "omfg that is bad." :-)
mircea_popescu: dun tell me you deleted it, i just linked it from twitter
davout: it kinda looks like the store-your-porn kind of security device, not the store-your-bitcoin-wallet
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B007: haha I have an address
B007: And I met this pentester that works at hp
B007: he makes 100 000 + a year
BingoBoingo: Bar Rescue might be the second best education in BTC business
B007: greenspan_fan: I mean I don't know exactly how much he makes
B007: I was told around 100 000 so
BingoBoingo: greenspan_fan: That day you will ency BFL customers or what?
greenspan_fan: it cost a lot, but you have to spend dr. phil money to become oprah rich
greenspan_fan: a friend of mine ordered a miner from them and now uses it mainly as a space heater
B007: coinbase is surprisingly stable. been around 600 usd / 1 btc forever. artificial?
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Vexual: nubbins' might get you some good organic bitcoins
Vexual: mircea_popescu, it stikes me that the collected works of this taleb fellow might cost less to buy than 1bc, have you tried his publisher(s)?
mircea_popescu: i am not interested in a) enriching foreign third parties or b) participating in relationships of any kind on any other structure than as designed by me.
Vexual: you could ask that they are sent in a carbon nuetral fashion and all
Vexual: but talking to the phone girls at publishing houses is so much fun
mircea_popescu: jesus god, yarvin actually argues that the us invented communism ?
Vexual: they may have repurposed the word
mircea_popescu: this would be a fine example of why i hold the guy for a complete ignoramus.
greenspan_fan: the problem w/ offering to send people bitcoin is that the people who are doing it lately have like 0.001 btc to their name
mircea_popescu: the reality on the field is that france invented communism, and everyone tried to copy france to some degree.
mircea_popescu: to spin this into some sort of story of our pathetic colonies being relevant, let alone central...
Vexual: not really an argument
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Vexual: communism might be one of those thing that one has to experience to fully understand
B007: the commies are coming! hide under a desk
greenspan_fan: it just doesn't seem like enough to point out how it goes the same way every time
Vexual: i expect dreadlocked hippies living in a squat isn't the same
mircea_popescu: greenspan_fan infinite hitpoints. the evisceration of each individual head of cattle is its own, private and special event.
mircea_popescu: it only goes the same way if you're not yourself a cow.
greenspan_fan: mircea_popescu I don't really get the "infinite hitpoints" thing
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Vexual: mirce do you think communism as it was in romania allowed more opportunities for people to be successful?
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mircea_popescu: communism is like cancer : at the very most it allows the fucked to appreciate how great it'd have been if they weren't so fucked.
greenspan_fan: on one hand, there are the people who just don't learn from experience
greenspan_fan: but there's also the people who don't respond to any sort of abstract counterargument
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greenspan_fan: communism seems to attract the intersection of both groups
mircea_popescu: i guess technically that may count as some sort of an attraction.
mircea_popescu: but no one goes there willingly. one is a communist that is too stupid, too lazy, or too stupid and lazy to be anything else.
greenspan_fan: Alternatively, you have people with great intelligence who support it because it's theoretically interesting, or controversial, or perhaps out of masochism
greenspan_fan: cf. zizek, who I can't really slot into one of the above groups
mircea_popescu: no, simply your categorisation of these people is flawed.
Vexual: they want everyman to have the same power or something
greenspan_fan: vis. crediting them with intelligence? or describing why they might be interested?
mircea_popescu: either they are in fact intelligent but it has nothing to do with the shameful stupidity of communism, much like beethoven probably farted but this isn;t normally mentioned
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I just going off of what I see. Zizek dislike the communism he grew up with, but instead prefered the still stupider communism advanced by Hulkamania
BingoBoingo: greenspan_fan: Are you familiar with Transnistria?
mircea_popescu: greenspan_fan "it is forbidden to have a course in nonsense. But the history of nonsense, that is scholarship."
B007: who is that quote by
mircea_popescu: the quote was re kabbalah, of course, but it makes little difference.
mircea_popescu: lol poor guy will end up making wikipedia not load again.
mircea_popescu: it makes the point. marx studying idiocy is marx studying idiocy.
mircea_popescu: some bovine being a communist is not marx, but some bovine.
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greenspan_fan: but he genuinely believed it was the ideal system of the world
Vexual: and your freind with the offer of 1bc?
Vexual: this is my question, its very open ended as usual
mircea_popescu: greenspan_fan theoreticians often get overexcited which makes them be stupid.
mircea_popescu: i'm not throwing out heidegger or husserl or hegel on the grounds of being involved in communism
mircea_popescu: (the proposed difference between fascism, national socialism, soviet socialism, communism, etc so forth is purely imaginary)
greenspan_fan: which is what I alluded to when I said one of the reasons smart people espouse communism is for theoretical interest
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mircea_popescu: yeah but what is excusable in the 1800s back when nobody could or did read and so you were able to count on a certain audience
BingoBoingo: greenspan_fan: Transnistria is the last surviving Soviet Socialist Republic
mircea_popescu: is not excusable in 2000s, when everyone THINKS they can read.
Vexual: i think i can't , and dont
greenspan_fan: yet you see people who still claim to be "communist" and aren't easily dismissed
Vexual: i can save two hours ignoring a book by not picking it up
greenspan_fan: it's one of those things you have to experience in order to discover that no, it won't be different this time
Vexual: you can buy into a commune in nimbin for about 150k
greenspan_fan: "dismissed as idiots/not capable of understanding"
greenspan_fan: ever heard the song "Holiday in Cambodia"? It's kinda apropos
mircea_popescu: rather banal punk, classical themes (fakers, real world, bla bla), what of it ?
Vexual: is he saying marx was chasing his tail?
greenspan_fan: mircea_popescu the lyrics are addressed to the stereotypical college leftist
greenspan_fan: suggesting a holiday in cambodia (under the pol pot regime), because something short of actually being in a communist country is unlikely to make an impact
mircea_popescu: since we're doing this, you ever saw One, Two, Three ?
mircea_popescu: you should check it out. cagney in west berlin, fixing up the slutty daughter of his us boss with a local nutty kid.
greenspan_fan: so I may have to find some of my usb keys to actually subscribe, rather than pirating
greenspan_fan: The line about facing the "same one doom" in trilema.com/2014/a-conceit-or-the-importance-of-blogging/ was excellent as well
mircea_popescu: greenspan_fan what are you talking about, not on a blog.
greenspan_fan: normally, blogs have a really poor signal-noise ratio, you know?
mircea_popescu: but this is merely a side effect of them having the absolute monopoly on all peaks of human production.
mircea_popescu: the same was true on broadway, back when broadway still mattered : huge noise to signal ratio.
greenspan_fan: which is not to say that they don't have interesting/worthwhile things in them
mircea_popescu: not much of any value or import can be found outside of a blog these days, nor will be for a while.
greenspan_fan: but putting an idea in its best terms is hard, and blogs are somewhat low effort
BingoBoingo: greenspan_fan: I'm guessing you are 'Murican
greenspan_fan: low effort in the sense that you can tell posts are first/second drafts
greenspan_fan: and in particular, the image of everything great ever written starting as a blank page was perfect
greenspan_fan: idk, but it's actually enjoyable/interesting to read
greenspan_fan: rather than having to go through tediously to find what's worthwhile
greenspan_fan: I can't really tell, since you're not a native english speaker, but I'd say "one draft" because you're baiting me.
Vexual: mano you said you could see how many edits it had
Vexual: i'll guess one billionty
greenspan_fan: Well, one purpose of multiple drafts is to capture the best version of what you're trying to say
mircea_popescu: i never draft. i publish then i have editors edit my shit. maybe once in a blue moon i decide midway that what i'm writing is stupid and drop it altogether.
greenspan_fan: but if the ideas are themselves good, the product tends to be good.
greenspan_fan: yeah, I wasted my deal w/ the lower power on violin playing skills
greenspan_fan: not well; it's a reference to niccolo paganini who was reported to cause riots and fainting spells at his concerts
mircea_popescu: the pedestrian explanation, of course, being that he had a much softer crowd to work with.
greenspan_fan: he was the original musician (I believe) whose reputation had faust superimposed over it
greenspan_fan: yeah, I went to see joshua bell and I barely rioted at all
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cazalla: that idea to charge, did you get that from NYT or some other news site?
Vexual: hey, i do the trolling here cazalla
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mircea_popescu: "Cred ca asta ar trebui sa-mi scriu pe cartea de vizita : eu sunt un tip care-a conceput asa, de unul singur, un sistem mai eficient decit chestia implementata de New York Times, sase opt luni mai tirziu."
mircea_popescu: "i suppose this is what should be on my business card : i'm the guy who came up on his own with a better system than what the nyt came up with, six i mean eight months later"
Vexual: the content is often chewier
greenspan_fan: isn't theirs worse, though? I can get the news from anywhere, but to read your site I have to use proxies or wait
mircea_popescu: theirs does not in fact work as implemented, like a lawn mower that doesn't cut, you just follow after it with clippers.
greenspan_fan: it's more intended for the severely computer illiterate
greenspan_fan: I think chrome's incognito mode lets you read any nyt article you want
Vexual: no ensuring the mower blades are firmly attached can be detrimental to observers health
mircea_popescu: so basically moldbug's september 2009 write-up on communism and whatnot is chiefly notable for his very good points on charity vs w/e, "callous altruism".
mircea_popescu: which actually came to be because of a discussion with asciilifeform
mircea_popescu: so i guess the circle is complete, don't recomend yarvin to me, recomend trilema to his readership, which will result in him having more stuff to write in the future.
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Vexual: ill give you a minute :)
r3wt: ;;auth 1337xmR8JRzwKonFgd17dhVo9NHQiP7875
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greenspan_fan: I've looked at the welfare state as supplanting charity, but it's interesting to think that having charity function properly in practice hurts the rational for the welfare state
r3wt: hmm, i have not registerd a gpg key it says. i
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r3wt: awesome, thanks man
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mircea_popescu: greenspan_fan imo that's like perfume supplanting washing.
r3wt: so i should buy and sell here to increase my ratings?
r3wt: WTS: 10 LTC. .026 /ea.
Vexual: you can help me to increse your ratings
greenspan_fan: mircea_popescu happens in practice, still kinda gross
cazalla: can havelock stop people selling shares that were privately held but than added to the exchange later (see casino bitcoin)
Vexual: r3wt, i accidently sent a bunch of bitcoin to my altcoin deposit address, can you have someone trasfer they kay over?
Vexual: take a % for the cause
cazalla: i wonder how long until casino bitcoin offload them then seeing the privately held ones were added to the exchange
Vexual: shareholders, devs, whatever
r3wt: I'm pretty sure i can't transfer the key from ATC to BTC
Vexual: dumpprivkey importprivkey
r3wt: ^different checksum
Vexual: experience the atc power friend
r3wt: how much btc is it anyway?
Vexual: 0.08 and change, whats it worth to you? you have the key
Vexual: you can take the lot if you like
Vexual: but thats not my preference
r3wt: lol, i'm not goinna take your coins. i was just wondering. i'm not experienced enough to be sure if importing the key is the idea, especially with reported "Transaction malleability" vulnerabilities discovered in bitcoin recently.
Vexual: well have a go, 10% is a generous offer
r3wt: are you being serious?
Vexual: take 10% of the bitcoin for your trouble, it should take all of 5 minutes
Vexual: nope, sounds like 2014
antephialtic: I don't think the turkish president gives a fuck how many twitter followers he has
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mircea_popescu: so basically if people who predicate their lives on twitter followers consistently act like anyone gives a shit about their twitter followers, somehow ??? the twitter followers will matter ?
mircea_popescu: the turkish president could buy twitter and bury it somewhere and nobody'd even know.
r3wt: ok vexual. better not be any surpises here
davout: mircea_popescu: "what's the inernet gonna do? blog about it?" <<< made me lol and looks relevant here
Vexual: r3wt, ask any of the more reputable players here if you like
r3wt: you have no ratings
Vexual: did you see my support request to this effect with another username?
r3wt: ok. post your openex deposit address for bitcoin.
r3wt: you're high if you think i'm going to just import the private key on the server. i'll make a new local wallet import it then destroy the privatekey after i'
r3wt: no percent, i send it to you straight minus the tx fee
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r3wt: looks like Vexual lost .08 btc to stupidity
Vexual: if you can get it back, take some money for your time
r3wt: if i could get it back, the bitcoin protocol would be seriously flawed.
r3wt: you can defy tradition and even physics, but you can't defy logic
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Vexual: i sent btc to my atc add on openex
ozbot: Twitter / Mircea_Popescu: @anildash Your self-absorbed ...
mircea_popescu: anyone wanna lay odds on the fucktard actually showing ?
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mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo o im taking that yes. how much is your pleasure ?
cazalla: Duffer1: check your bitcoin privilege
Vexual: whenever you get a chance r3wt, theres no rush
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Give me time for a glass of OJ and some more thought on those odds.
pankkake: must be weird to be called self-absorbed by MP
mircea_popescu: this guy is a sort of chewed gum attached to someone's boot.
mircea_popescu: "There was also a pretty dogged pitch for his startup, which will get all kinds of warm huzzahs from the intersection of MRAs, Bitcoin fans, NSA critics and Redditors. I was pretty amazed that he went for it. He flat out said that he wants his startup to be funded and wasn't sure if it'd be possible after all of his, and I replied that it realistically wasn't going to happen without the say-so of someone like me, and I
mircea_popescu: wasn't inclined to give some VC the nod on this. On reflection, I'll be explicit: If you're a venture capitalist, and you invest in Pax's startup without a profound, meaningful and years-long demonstration of responsibility from Pax beforehand, you're complicit in extending the tech industry's awful track record of exclusion, and it's unacceptable."
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I have to see who this Dash guy is
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I need maybe 20 minutes to see what kind of Nobody though.
mircea_popescu: the kind of nobody who imagines that buying 500k worth of twitter followers and going to faggoty parties in CA makes him notable.
BingoBoingo: I might also have to finish the episode of Bar Rescue first
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: It is almost as good as the Variety Speak. We need John Taffer in this channel.
Vexual: i can piss a better bar rescue in 30 second
Duffer1: btw thanks for sharing that last one BB
BingoBoingo: Need to find him first. This Dash dude is a social media hot mess. A year a retweeting only women for some Doge article.
mircea_popescu: the raping that this entire establishment of nothings and nobodies is about to get all through the rest of the decade is unparallel in the history of rape.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I read the Doge article on the retweets before. Name was unnotable though.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i gotta say there is one thing i love about twitter :
mircea_popescu: the fact that by starting your tweets with an @ reference you effectively limit distribution to only those who already follow the idiot in question allows one to engage idiots who otherwise you'd hesitate to engage for the last thing you want is publicise unremarkable idiots.
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BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: The Doge article where he wrote about only retweeting women. It would have been a Bit article if only it wouldn't insult Bit, hence Doge article.
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mircea_popescu: i dun think he actually has the clue to see the difference, just, the doge troop of fucktards probably haven't bought his payola whatever yet,
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Diablo-D3: people give a shit about gender on the internet? lol.
mircea_popescu: i don't get why that's supposed to be a problem anyway. so he retweeted only women. i fuck only women. seems about even.
Diablo-D3: it was flamebait on hn recently anyhow
mircea_popescu: First, to recap: I had about 18,000 followers of my own back in October, when I got added to the suggested user list. (Let's call these "organic" followers.) If I'd have continued my normal rate of growth, i'd have about 25,000 followers today, but thanks to being on the list, I've got close to 300,000 followers. Surprisingly though, I only get as many retweets and replies as I'd get with my organic number of followers.
BingoBoingo: Lloyds might have to insure a bet on Dash. So much Hurp. I don't think I can price Dash.
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BingoBoingo: The more I read the more i think he might show for a derp piece.
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Duffer1: *click link* A Blog About Making Culture ... *closes tab*
Duffer1: i get the strong impression that it's more 'tell me what to think' type blogging rather than 'teach me how'
cazalla: i don't understand why there are more and more of these types of people
BingoBoingo: Reading his mouth feces makes me want to see him stop by
mircea_popescu: Duffer1 it's a fine example of the us socialism. guy's an (unpaid) propaganda agent of stupidity.
pankkake: because they can afford to live in their bubbles, away from reality?
cazalla: it's popping up everywhere though
mircea_popescu: closer to leni riefenstahl on the riefenstahl-eisenstein scale of socialist propaganda.
pankkake: I've seen a few "enough is enough" about the supposed IT sexism. I think the nonsense worked so far because those are usually quiet communities, so they took silence as acceptation
mircea_popescu: moreover, fuckwits like this and whats-her-rapeface cause i forgot tend to live in their own realities
mircea_popescu: sort-of like little mtgoxes scattered around the land.
BingoBoingo: In the meantime a higher portion of MP's IT and coding workforce has vaginas than SIlicon Valley's
mircea_popescu: perhaps at some level that happening happens because actual women that are actually competent also... happen to be more comfortable with me than with fucktards like this and his ilk. nevertheless...
mircea_popescu: anyway, from reading his comments i get now why the low income housing for free stuff is so important to these people.
mircea_popescu: basically, all the fuckwits doing the retweeting, redditing etc are people with "liberal" educations and a ton of debt, no means of sustenance and a desire to live in manhattan
cazalla: sounds like a micro aggression
mircea_popescu: so therefore... OF COURSE they want low income housing.
mircea_popescu: so they don't have to go back to ohio and help pick up the potato crop.
BingoBoingo: Anils seems to realize that if he didn't accidentally into Six Apart he could have been an expert cashier too
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Idaho is potatos. Ohio is shitpits.
mircea_popescu: ony because all the ohio fuckwits and ESPECIALLY fuckwitettes flocked to ny to be
BingoBoingo: Any Industrial chemical process that smells too bad for New Jersey happens in Ohio
mircea_popescu: The punk rolled up his big blue eyes and said to the jocker, “Sandy,
mircea_popescu: I’ve hiked and hiked and wandered too, but I ain’t seen any candy.
mircea_popescu: I’ve hiked and hiked till my feet are sore and I’ll be damned if I hike any more
mircea_popescu: To be buggered sore like a hobo’s whore in the Big Rock Candy Mountains.”
BingoBoingo: Never before has Bowlderization done as much harm as it did to the Big Rock Candy Mountain
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mircea_popescu: that sad moment when your favorite read of the day is a year old articlke of your own
mircea_popescu: "This video contains content from UMG. It is restricted from playback on certain sites"
BingoBoingo: Great point "Boys get caught and go to jail, girls get caught and go to the maternity ward."
BingoBoingo: Thailand and Ukraine in flames at the same time? There won't be any girls left for the cam sites.
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mircea_popescu: "We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work....After eight years of this administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started...and an enormous debt to boot!"
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lnovy: Hi guys, anybody willing to explain me that 2/4/2014 mpex puts in laymen terms? thx
lnovy: mircea_popescu: I'm reading that, but I guess I'm not that schooled in the terminology, therefore I'm asking for layman terms...
lnovy: eg. that little [-] at the end of assbot line has a meaning of what?
lnovy: the thread that is linking the irclog?
mircea_popescu: the [-] has the meaning that the current trade is at a lower price than the previous trade
lnovy: from bitcointalk? or some other? can you point me please with a link? I'd be glad
lnovy: ok, will dive into that, thx
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davout: france is considering banning foie gras
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pankkake: then southwest will probably secede
mircea_popescu: about five years ago romania "banned" classic lighbulbs.
the20year: And in the US some want to make kosher/halal slaughters manditory
mircea_popescu: i still use them, they're still available for sale. not in the supermarkets, of course, which happens to be great : i never used them, but now more people have direct economic incentive not to.
mircea_popescu: about thirty years ago, some countries in the waszaw pact were a lot more zealous than romania in implementing the glorious directives of the eastern socialist brother.
the20year: Moldova seems to be a shining beacon of economic and poltical freedom. But that's the only one I can think of
the20year: Really? My bulgarian contacts seem to make fun of Romania for being more commie than themselves
mircea_popescu: in broad strokes, the soviet plan was to have industry concentrated in russia and agriculture in the west.
the20year: my one contact there keeps wanting me to come over and help with business development. He has a ton of cool stuff going on since they can export to the EU
mircea_popescu: it worked in the ukraine and bulgaria, which mostly made pickles all through the 90s.
mircea_popescu: and as a result, they actually had a famine, in the 90s
the20year: Ukraine had a fammine in like 2004 or 2005
the20year: Nothing like the holomodor mind you, but they were worried about an agricultural collapse on a massive scale
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the20year: That's when grain prices in the US started to boom which is finally starting to end now
the20year: Land prices went from $3k/ac to nearly $8k locally
mircea_popescu: meanwhile in the same 2004, romania was one of the 3 countries the us was suspecting might have sold inertial stabilizers and other high tech gear to the evil arabs.
the20year: Yeah, obviously that's stupid because Romania can't produce things like that, they're more into producing shovels and cheap inaccurate guns
mircea_popescu: so mayhap said bulgarian guy is a little... you know, confabulating.
mircea_popescu: the20year actually, romania is exactly capable of producing them, and in fact it had sold them.
the20year: His statement to me was that all political officals are corrupt, but they're also cheap to buy, so you can get done whatever you want for a few hundred bucks
the20year: Compared to moldova, where it costs $1m to build a $50,000 building
mircea_popescu: at the rate things are going france or denmark may be tomorrow's bulgaria and ukraine.
the20year: I don't know about that, it's going to be quite interesting though in 20 years
davout: i'm considering opening a bitcoin exchange in nigeria, thoughts?
the20year: Between negative population growth, rise of immigration and 75% taxes, it'll make for a quite interesting century
the20year: I just want to see how the map changes in Europe more
the20year: Maybe scottland, flanders and some of spain will break off
mircea_popescu: the20year i pay ~3%. i dunno where you got that 75% from.
davout: lived there, mommy still knows folks in various ministries, if they're corruptible that could become the main exchange hub in africa >)
the20year: The guys i've talked to in spain are all leaving over Hollande's big tax
the20year: and if you look , holland's tax is just a throwback to mitterand's big tax in the 80s, which saw a pretty large exodus of business leaving the country
mircea_popescu: france is fucked anyway, i think pretty much everyone realises this by now.
the20year: I think that you could get good traction on african exchanges/wallets if you show the use of savings
davout: the20year: what do you mean? as in inflation-proof?
the20year: most africans don't save, saving money for the future is a good thing
the20year: financial independence is a good thing
davout: the20year: the way they save is they make kids
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mircea_popescu: they don't actually have enough for any other saving to be worthwhile
mircea_popescu: fat in the kids first, then fat in the cattle, then real estate
the20year: I just get sad every time I hear about more stupidity in africa, i wish someone would do something taht might actually make the general populace act less retarded
mircea_popescu: then capital goods, then capital in cash. a full four degrees away from it yet
mircea_popescu: the20year the average of africa population is A LOT less retarded than the average of us.
the20year: A guy in my town exports farm equipment to south Africa, it's always depressing to hear how terrible things are getting for farmers there
davout: mircea_popescu: the proof is that they manage to survive in africa
mircea_popescu: the us folk are merely on the receiving end of a pillage system their grandfathers built and they can't support.
chetty: Africa would do fine if people would stop helping them so much
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pankkake: many (all?) of the horrible african leaders have been western-educated
kakobrekla: davout i can cover nigeria from somalia just well.
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davout: kakobrekla: it's on the other side!
pankkake: another good point for bitcoin in africa, is that using multiple currencies isn't something new
davout: when i was a kid i wondered why my mum had to buy dollars on the black market
davout: sat on dutch school there for three years
davout: (the french school was too retarded apparently)
mircea_popescu: l’autre grand géant HBO domine le marché avec des séries de qualité, de Newsroom à Games of Thrones
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mircea_popescu: Trop de créativité d’un coup dans un épisode d’une série pourrait provoquer des dommages irréparables
davout: you can see stuff like "terrorist organizations on strike after the government complexifies the emergency plans color codes"
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pankkake: le gorafi is often close to reality, like the onion
mircea_popescu: soo... our good friend the irrelevant twitter authority has failed to actually back his bullshit. surprisingly enough.
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davout: "and are now running a bitcoin exchange ?!" <<< haha, missed this
davout: I LEARNED FROM THE MASTERS
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mircea_popescu: amusingly, the forum never discovered this a year or so ago.
ThickAsThieves: I just want to note that briefly working with Jimmy @ cryptocointalk.com has been a pleasure and I like what he's doing with his forum
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves which jimmy is this and what exactly do you work on with jimmy ?!
ThickAsThieves: to become a mod and manage the Altcoin thread he created
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ThickAsThieves: unless only an idiot would make an account at wsj.com to comment....
lnovy: from that link it looks like that an idiocy is more than common there...
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ThickAsThieves: the irony(?) is that i wish your exchange with him had more substance
mircea_popescu: generally people seem uniquely unprepared to... you know, explain themselves.
mircea_popescu: average joe blow banker can't articulate why he doesn't like bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: "dude, i hate it because it's a threat, what do you want from me ?" would be infinitely more respectable than you know... "oh, deflation"
pankkake: anyway I feel like you're discovering twitter
pankkake: it's always empty "witty" retorts, never substance
mircea_popescu: ironically, i had an account long long ago, then abandoned it because they did something stupid to the site. don't remember what exactly.
ThickAsThieves: do you think your style may not serve you in situations like this? as in, you started with farts and piss, and thus gave him an out to start talking like a child?
mircea_popescu: so he failed to establish his ground as a man, will do better as a child ?
mircea_popescu: the difference between the smart and the stupid is simply that the smart can be stupid. the stupid can't be smart.
mircea_popescu: if we reduce it to the smart are smart, the stupid are stupid then there's no longer any clear hierarchy.
ThickAsThieves: some people require ritual in their debate is all i mean, i'm not saying it's justifiable, so much as if you talk to people the "right" way, the substance of the conversation can sometimes be allowed to surface
mircea_popescu: this particular ship you propose, which existed cca 1800, has meanwhile been infected by barnacles,
mircea_popescu: to the point that there's no ship left. just an outline of barnacles.
mircea_popescu: this is what this guy is, and what i meant by "nigger" in that article : he's nothing more substantial than JUST the ritual in question.
mircea_popescu: in such a circumstance attempting to satisfy the ritual becomes an empty exercise in circularity.
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mircea_popescu: like some derp makes some ipo announcement on tardtalk and you or the girl or pankkake (who is just a troll right ?) or kako or anyone says some things
mircea_popescu: and the noob either withdraws the "ipo" (which i've seen at least once) or else goes on a derprampage.
ThickAsThieves: wouldnt that require convincing him of his idiocy at all
mircea_popescu: he convinced himself of it, let him unconvince himself of it too.
pankkake: I give up on the forum btw. it's hopeless.
mircea_popescu: any other approach runs straight into "i'll unconvince myself for five dollah mista"
mircea_popescu: check it out : us supreme court rules that argentina must pay out in fulkl to holdouts
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves the most effective point in all of us foreign policy was when kennedy said "fu, we're ghoing to war"
mircea_popescu: in relations with agents you're stuck not being efficient but effectual instead.
ThickAsThieves: maybe use your mpex options problem as an example, it was brought up more than once that you had a problem and it should be solved, but only after preparing the information in a way you could digest would you acknowledge it
ThickAsThieves: maybe not fair to compare a room of smart people i guess
ThickAsThieves: well what if i had come to you saying your options are shit cuz they a borked
mircea_popescu: the reason people could ever construct their arguments was that i was engaging the substance, and visibly so, which allows for retort.
mircea_popescu: and the reason they bothered is the experience/knowledge that i actually do act under my own authority,
ThickAsThieves: Here’s a challenge : defend the options crap. in public. Against me.
mircea_popescu: we'd have ended up bogged down in the fact that i know who you are
mircea_popescu: if random guy fell into the chat with that request i'd have probably linked him to jurov's manual.
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ThickAsThieves: being in the US, and a background in mktg & visual media, it's hard for me to avoid the desire to cater i guess
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mircea_popescu: in this case mutual catering is actually a large chunk of the problem.
mircea_popescu: not only and not especially because it inflates such bubbles of self-absorption,
ThickAsThieves: i just enjoy it more when someone is converted and joins us, than when we display one more idiot
mircea_popescu: but imo even more importantly because it fails to resolve tensions with the unknown
mircea_popescu: by which i mean : kids who hussle each other grow strong and confident
mircea_popescu: kids that live in the us schools today, forbidden to as much as touch, grow up with this HORRID fear of everyone and everything
ThickAsThieves: i agree that catering in general is a horrible snowballing thing
mircea_popescu: well, in her defense, women playing the game and men playing the game are different problems.
ThickAsThieves: indeed, her being a woman happens to be one of the reasons she's leaving
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jayk: another jp morgan bank jumper
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Apocalyptic: "Dimon's hit squad at work right now....If i work at JPM, I would watch my back going to and from work just to be safe"
jayk: oh there has been 6 in 3 weeks
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jayk: ;;google custers revenge
jayk: i had that for the atari 2600
mircea_popescu: did any of you discover that the original civ could be forced into multiplayer mode
mircea_popescu: (the one that identified which civilisation you're playing)
mircea_popescu: As the mist leaves no scar on the dark green hill so my body leaves no scar on you and never will
mircea_popescu: who the fuck ever loved a woman and never left any scar on her.
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ThickAsThieves: “It is important to continually improve Canada’s regime to address emerging risks, including virtual currencies such as Bitcoin, that threaten Canada’s international leadership in the fight against money laundering and terrorist financing,” said Flaherty.
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bones`: So what is going to happen in Ukraine?
bones`: Pretty sure they've made it to mayhem
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nubbins`: BingoBoingo: i'm now 0-2 after losing to you and Apocalyptic. D:
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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform postmodernism. everyone's famous for nothing in particular.
ThickAsThieves: i always assumed they stopped mining and started faking it at some point
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ThickAsThieves: there are some stories out there of customer nightmares
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mircea_popescu: well i guess this passes the bar for advertising, what can i say.
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TomServo: asciilifeform: got a link to the monitor you mentioned?
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nubbins`: was it an ipad with retina? ;p
nubbins`: i've seen some nice usb monitors for cheap
nubbins`: nod. fine for the size, but if you want something bigger..
nubbins`: i almost bought a nexus <size of phone>
nubbins`: <--doesn't keep up on tech much anymore
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nubbins`: what's the biggest res that HDMI can support at a reasonable framerate, i wonder?
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: You didn't get him in channel though.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ok 3k px but how big is it ? 10 inches ?
mircea_popescu: even so. i make it my policy to never look at small stuff.
mircea_popescu: i don't think i've read type smaller than about half an inch in the past decade
mircea_popescu: but anyway, everyone : the best thing you can do for your eyes is make all the text big.
mike_c: aren't we all sitting in front of multiple 30" monitors that are blasting our eyes to crap anyway?
mircea_popescu: mike_c the eyes don't mind all that much just as long as you don't go all spinoza on them
Jere_Jones: Can/Should WOT be used for a business identity instead of the individuals behind that business?
Jere_Jones: Coinbase (just an example) creates a WOT identity and puts the fingerprint on their website. Happy with the service? Rate it. Unhappy, rate it.
mircea_popescu: the wot is the corporation register of bitcoin. whether you're a person or anything else, you're equally a corporation anywya.
Jere_Jones: Would there be an implied social contract to not transfer the identities private key if the business changes ownership?
mircea_popescu: the outgoin gowner would sign in favour of the new owner's key.
Jere_Jones: I'm thinking more along the lines of the new owners not getting the benefit of the previous owners good ratings.
diametric: oh man so tempting a 3d printer I've wanted to try for a while can be bought with bitcoin now.
mircea_popescu: sometimes people fuck it up, like dice seems to have fucked up /.
nubbins`: one of my companies has a WoT identity
nubbins`: to be fair i use it as well, but, shrug
nubbins`: sure, but that's true of individuals too
nubbins`: how many people have a dozen "-10 FAGGOT SCAMMER" ratings?
diametric: mircea_popescu: yes its probably wise
diametric: I've run out of real estate to put them
diametric: until I build out my garage into a machine shop this spring
mircea_popescu: diametric ok so i'll talk you out of it for a modest fee of 1 btc
nubbins`: diametric: for the sake of a differing opinion, i think you should purchase the luxury item you don't have room for
nubbins`: joke's on you, my lapel is covered in petroleum jelly
mircea_popescu: diametric you could probably put it in the bedroom anyway
nubbins`: anyway regarding this growing weed business, it's probably not a great way to make money. so regulation, much red tape
mircea_popescu: nubbins` the co licenses are worth about 10x what they cost atm.
bones`: diametric, did you say what you planned on printing?
nubbins`: the other thing is that all this shit is still 100% illegal on the federal level
diametric: bones`: lots of things, though i already have 9 3d printers
mircea_popescu: the entire point is the destruction of the federal level.
nubbins`: DEA bandaleros can technically (if not practically) swoop in whenever they wish
bones`: Then you definitely should buy another, who has 9 of something? Have 10.
diametric: nubbins`: not for the reasons you think
diametric: They need to do that, so someone with time and money can challenge that shit
nubbins`: mircea_popescu, story of my life
BingoBoingo: nubbins`: I don't remember, but I didn't think Apocalyptic was in the tournament.
nubbins`: there's a guy in my city who has a massive hydroponic lettuce operation
diametric: I feel like the feds plan is just to loom over the industry to cast doubt on it, but only rarely try to enforce it at the federal level.
nubbins`: BingoBoingo: then my record remains 0-1
diametric: its fucking ridiculous marijuana is a schedule 1 drug
nubbins`: and i know of several people who currently have grow licenses from health canada
nubbins`: city bylaws would realistically be the only other obstacle
nubbins`: but i mean, just move the farm outside the city. 15 minute drive and you're in the sticks
nubbins`: security costs plummet then, as well
nubbins`: at least a month ago, likely more
Apocalyptic: I remember playing BingoBoingo well before that
nubbins`: you're looking at this from the perspective of buying a license and selling it, not from the perspective of actually financing a legal grow-op
mircea_popescu: seems it's a better deal than buy a miner, which is worth less in time
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mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic gotta ask BingoBoingo then, he's been butchering the championship management.
nubbins`: well, if you feel like doing it in .ca, you know a canadian who can wrangle things. got about 6 months to make a killing before competition pushes profit down to a minimum
mircea_popescu: it's an entire apparatus, not as simple as one guy sadly.
BingoBoingo: Apocalyptic: We played well before the tournament started I believe. It was this thing started on a whim as a four player round robin. truffles nubbins` and myself were in MP's spec I believe and then Namworld was online at the exact right time. Since we need some sort of three way tiebreaker if nubbins` loses to everyone... Fuck it, five way round robin.
nubbins`: oh, totally, you'd need a dozen or so people at the least
nubbins`: i've got a brown thumb anyway, the best i'd be able to do is pull together a team on your behalf
nubbins`: BingoBoingo: "if" i lose to everyone
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BingoBoingo: nubbins`: Well, truffles is in this thing.
nubbins`: on another note: "Pussy Riot members attacked with whips by Cossack militia in Sochi"
jcpham: water futures will one day be a hot market
jcpham: fresh water speculation
mod6: ahh cool, never noticed the "check GPG key quality" link on the WoT page for a certain registered person, it links to nosuchlabs.com's collider :)
nubbins`: that reminds me, i need to vault some backups
benkay: dude youse guys aws is so seductively awesome
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benkay: blob store? we got it. presigned urls for user content? we got it. cdn? yup. servers. auto-backing-up database servers. load balancers.
benkay: still want my own metal
kakobrekla: zomg "i believe that decentralization in the central theme of the century." dude, it aint funny!
nubbins`: generally i lose a little bit of interest in a sentence when it starts with "I"
nubbins`: and then a larger chunk if "I" is followed by "believe"
nubbins`: if it wasn't for peripheral vision, i wouldn't know what the rest of the sentence was beyond "decentralization"
kakobrekla: well the question went "do you believe that. ..."
nubbins`: "central theme of the century"
nubbins`: i believe that he doesn't know what three of those words mean
benkay: thinking is hard to begin with
nubbins`: combinatorics, great field of study
benkay: but man you start /stacking/ ideas and people just trip over their own feet
nubbins`: makes you go a bit googly-eyed after a while tho
nubbins`: ThickAsThieves: "centralization", i guess ;(
ThickAsThieves: we've been building things for so long, let's change it up!
nubbins`: or perhaps "hopefully we will survive long enough to reproduce"
nubbins`: that's probably the overarching theme
nubbins`: but hey, isn't that just a different way of saying "decentralization"? ;D
ThickAsThieves: "do not block or slow down access to any lawful content on the Internet."
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gribble: Time since last block: 6 minutes and 17 seconds
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cads: hey guys, suppose a business is consulting me to provide them a fleet of 5 3d printers (which can be bought for around $4K a piece)
cads: What's the appropriate consulting fee, assuming I'm additionally training some workers and teaching them how to use the tech?
gribble: Error: 'wo' is not a defined function.
cads: okay, 2k a week while we're there doing the thang
pankkake: some French mobile ISP did a similar thing
pankkake: and most mobile ISPs are doing a lot of crap
diametric: asciilifeform: I've seen that going around.
diametric: asciilifeform: what appears to be happening now, is verizon and comcast are pushing netflix through their already saturated links
diametric: and then going "thats just how the internet works, we're not throttling it!"
kakobrekla: <VirtaEu> yes, you can contribute to the Satoshi Project to receive a guaranteed 120% payout (34.1% funded on round 49) :
http://cur.lv/7lc9r kakobrekla: <VirtaEu> oups, I was not on private :\
diametric: VirtaAssets: do you have any multi-level marketing opportunities?
diametric: VirtaAssets: it works! wow! tell me more about how it works
pankkake: you send me 1.2 BTC and I'll send you 1 BTC
diametric: no no no, you invest 10 BTC, and get a monthly 0.1BTC return
mike_c: w00t, $500 from the nsa
ThickAsThieves: i wonder if i could get away with selling NSA original logo shirts as parody too
cads: wow my business partner sent me the email correspondence with the client
cads: he managed not to mention that he has a partner who's loaning him the computronium base of the business
Apocalyptic: cads, was there some "niggers.txt" attachment ?
cads: and he sent his resume
cads: the client thinks that it would be a good idea to instead retain my friend for 25 an hour while he helps them set up
cads: and possibly a permanent position
cads: I think if we manage this we can get more than that
cads: for now we're negotiating a first job - we're going to print a gun stock for around $700
cads: it's a prototype to testing fit and ergonomics
the20year2: Unless it's free floating, unique and all that jazz
cads: I'm not sure why they would not simply mill it from wood
the20year2: Most companies do , or they use PIM to make one from say zytel
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the20year2: But, as you said if it's a prototype it might make sense to test it before using. Granted I don't undersand how you came to $700 if that fee doesn't include the design work too
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diametric: the20year2: 3D printing thats a bit high, but for traditional CNC its not.
diametric: the20year2: creating the toolpath from the design can be just as difficult as the design itself.
the20year2: For cnc it could likely be fine, for 3d printing i don't think it'd be right
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diametric: the20year2: yeah thats what i said
cads: we're figuring 200-300 for set up, 500-600 for printing.
diametric: most of the toolpath work for 3D printing is entirely automated
the20year2: The stock will be then creating the toolpath if they go wood, molds for dies ,ect
cads: it's going to be a ultra tall format print and we're expecting it to fail at least once :P
the20year2: Are you talking full length stock, say 18"-24" long or just the end stock for like an AR/AK that's 6" or so
diametric: yeah thats way expensive dude, but hey if you can get it, good on you
cads: right now they use a STL machine in italy
cads: and fly out a guy to check the prototype
cads: I think they want to see what a $1000 3d printer can do
diametric: If it were like an objet, then yeah $700 probably isn't enough.
cads: and want some local guys or indeed some inhouse capability and staff
diametric: The resins objet uses are stupid expensive
cads: objet would be at least 3500
the20year2: would seem cheaper to me then to create dies and just PIM it
diametric: the20year2: creating the die would cost a lot more than $700
diametric: I guess if you had some cheap sintered dies made
cads: I'm not going to lie, 3500 is a figure I pulled from my rear
diametric: that only would last a few runs it would be
cads: but you have less lead time and you're able to print really unmanufacturable geometry
cads: Hmm, it would be nice if we could print with fiber reinforced plastic.
the20year2: My dad was told by quite a few guys they hated their stocks
cads: I'm kinda worried our printer won't be able to do it
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greenspan_fan: I am just waiting for a $500 carbon fiber printer to show up on kickstarter
cads: the thing is a piece of crap
cads: and the control software is really lame
cads: luckily the parts we have to print are pretty printable
the20year2: There's a tube inside the aluminum stock that runs to the end of it
benkay: "hold still! i must bonk you gently!"
the20year2: And you're not supposed to club someone with the gun, you're supposed to stab with the pointy knife on the other end
the20year2: Or , if you're gonna club someone, use the barrel, not the butt
diametric: greenspan_fan: theres CF infused PLA already
diametric: CF just isn't something you really 3D print with
the20year2: There are some really good materials coming out soon that have awesome tensile strength
diametric: greenspan_fan: no benefit, any FDM style printer is still going to suffer from a weakness on the layers
diametric: greenspan_fan: whether or not its CF
the20year2: Those barrels are made out of steel proofed to 200,000PSI , you're not gonna bend them by clubbing someone
the20year2: It just isn't possible to bend the barrel of a modern firearm
the20year2: or to damage it by a human being clubbing somoene with it
the20year2: In a life or death situation i'm sure they don't care too much
the20year2: But at any rate, the military still issues bayonets to soldiers
the20year2: and those work typically much better than clubs
the20year2: Would be much easier just to separate the BCG from the bolthead and just throw it as far as you can
the20year2: That would render the gun inoperable and virtually nothing usable for the enemy to use
the20year2: Bending the gas tube would be pretty easy, and could potentially plug the barrel up in a way it wouldn't operate correctly in teh future
the20year2: Not against us , but they used the heck out of them against the CHinese and conitnue to use them today
the20year2: the AK and M16 are two different guns. One is for people who are educated and trained, the other is for everyone else
the20year2: I love my AK, but I can't say it's the gun I want to use if the world ends
the20year2: Additionally, up until the Sino-vietnam conflict, the Chinese doctrine was to issue everyone with T53 bolt action rifles because they were 'more reliable' than the AK
the20year2: I'm sure it won't happen like that, but the gun within grabbing ditance, ready to go in my house is a colt AR15, not my AK
the20year2: Plenty of empires or smaller players have had time in the past to prepare for wars, ect. Many people in many nations have had time to prepare for civil wars
the20year2: The leadup to the yugoslovian wars saw some sides doing quite well with armament programs.....the ones that lost didn't prepare
the20year2: Yes, they still have the dies that the USSR plundered from Germany
the20year2: The USSR broke up much of the fabrication equipment from Eastern Germany and sold or gave it to client states
mod6: bought my buddy a mauser once, thing bucks like a mule.
the20year2: Much of the 8mm/mauser equipment ended up in Romania and Yugoslovia. The MG42 tooling ended up entirely almost in Yugoslovia, specifically the zavasta plant in Serbia. They still produce the MG42 and K98 on original german equipment
the20year2: ascii, to a point yes, but the bulk of it was given to USSR client states
the20year2: In future wars there will be plenty of ww1 era firearms used
the20year2: There are many, many firearms from WW2 and pre-ww2 eras still being used in most of the middle east, africa and asia
the20year2: And of all ww2 weapons, a great deal were made during ww1,
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the20year2: And if you got surplus from ww1, means there's a good chance you have pre-1900 weapons too.
the20year2: my favorite example is the colt potato digger
the20year2: Buy one without a ton of permits in the US and it's jail time
the20year2: Even though it's 120 years old, and made with hand tools
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the20year2: That's why I collect them. There's something fun about handing a 1895 issued rifle to a person and reminding them it's effective to 1,000 yards
the20year2: There are few if any modern arms that are vastly superior to those made during ww2. Sure things are lighter today, but that's it
the20year2: The US M240 GPMG is based off the BAR which was designed in 1918
the20year2: People do that all over the world still :)
the20year2: I always hear about hand grenades being found locally of ww2 vintage
the20year2: i just hate seeing people find and turn in $30,000 guns for destruction
mike_c: BingoBoingo: is there a btc line-betting sportsbook that isn't a total scam?
BingoBoingo: mike_c: I've found bitbook.biz reliable, but who knows if they will continue to be reliable.
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mike_c: bitbet needs moar links. where's that list of proposed/rejected bets?
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pankkake: is there a way to download the bitcoin-otc wot db?
pankkake: can I have a more detailed answer?
mike_c: yeah, sry. in the arguments the other day mp said the wot can be backed up by anyone (similar to mpex db). that is my basis for "yes". idk how, but it should not be fruitless to keep looking for how.
pankkake: yes, that's exactly why I was looking into doing that :)
Apocalyptic: you'll probably have to write a custom spider
benkay: hey nanotube where do you stuff the wot backups again?
pankkake: that's what I feared. well, I'll eventually write a lib to explore it anyway
benkay: nanotube keeps backups in public, i knew where they were at one point. that memory block has been gc'd for more useful things tho
jurov: benkay, you don't have virtual memory?
jurov: with swap configured :D
nanotube: np hf. doing anyhting interesting with it?
pankkake: maybe to link users between services, but for now just backups
benkay: jurov: i do have virtual memory, but swap is extremely manual
ThickAsThieves: "According to our own internal audit we have never had a 2FA account compromised. We offer a BTC10 reward to anyone that can repeatedly prove that he can hack an account which has 2FA enabled." ~Havelock Investments
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benkay: goodness 10btc you say
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jurov: *benkay swaps out heavily ;)
benkay: *noise of giant blocks getting shuffled around inefficiently*
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mike_c: un-squickily. what a word :)
diametric: ponzi schemes, ponzi schemes everywhere
benkay: mike_c: throwaway pun of the day ;)
benkay: "GET YER BITCOIN PONZI SCHEMES UP AND RUNNIN BOYS WE GOT A NEW CROP OF SUCKERS IN TOWN"
mike_c: i do like this new breed though that is upfront about the ponzi-ness.
benkay: ya well no shame in it really
benkay: like the lotto or anything with expected -ev outcomes
mike_c: no shame if you are upfront about it. some shame if you say its not and it is.
benkay: the scam is in lying about the reality
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diametric: good ponzi schemes always pay off for early investors
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ThickAsThieves: someone make an IPO that invests for 1 profit period in every ponzi that appears PDF - Ponzi Destruction Fund
benkay: man that's a risky play
benkay: lots of human in the loop there
ThickAsThieves: might be an interesting study across all bitcoin securities, how much would have been made/lost if you bought into every bitcoin IPO and sold the day after it's first payout/dividend
KRS-One: isnt it safe to say they'd all be a loss
CiPi: here you go girls www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iGIcN4UFEA
diametric: KRS-One: good ponzi's last a while, and actually have ROI for early investors
diametric: its how a ponzi needs to work. If the ponzi shuts down immediately after it opens, its not really a ponzi, its just an regular scam to steal your money.
ThickAsThieves: "A person shall not issue or put in circulation, as money, anything but the lawful money of the United States. Nothing in this section shall prohibit the issuance and use of alternative currency that is redeemable for lawful money of the United States or that has value based on the value of lawful money of the United States but a person shall not be required to accept alternative
dexX7: and that's from 2013? weren't there news recently that alt currencies are illegal and this shall change in the future?
diametric: the last part is probably the most relevant
diametric: Theres also a subtle distinction. So long as goods and services sold for bitcoin, calculate their cost in bitcoin based on USD, all is fine.
diametric: But if I decouple the USD value from bitcoin, and begin using it based on my own interpretations (or the community at large) then I'd be in violation I guess.
dexX7: you read it as something like "you are fine with accepting btc as long as you also accept usd"?
davout: you guys seem to be confusing redeemable, and exchangeable
diametric: ThickAsThieves: individually its hard to prove that kind of decoupling.
diametric: but in a community at large, would be easier.
davout: "shall prohibit the issuance and use of alternative currency that is redeemable for lawful money"
ThickAsThieves: of course i do adjust my rates, but not often enough to be remotely "coupled"
diametric: davout: It says you can exchange bitcoin for money, and you can exchange goods and services for bitcoin so long as that bitcoin value is based in USD.
diametric: ie I want to sell you a $500 phone for BTC. I figure out how much BTC is worth about $500, thats fine. If I decide based on other factors then I wouldn't be.
diametric: ThickAsThieves: Its like a sleeper
diametric: its something that realistically won't come into play until Bitcoin becomes large enough that very large communities (in the US) begin transacting solely in bitcoin
davout: diametric: where does it say that ?
diametric: davout: "Nothing in this section shall prohibit the issuance and use of alternative currency that is redeemable for lawful money of the United States or *that has value based on* the value of lawful money of the United States but a person shall not be required to accept alternative currency."
diametric: davout: the "value based on" part.
diametric: The very first line prohibits an entirely alternative currency from existing, period.
diametric: The second allows it so long as its coupled to USD
ThickAsThieves: you could also read that as "it's legal until the fed says it isnt"
diametric: ThickAsThieves: you can read everything like that
davout: diametric: i read it as "issuing alternative currency based on the usd isn't forbidden"
diametric: of course, they have to maintain the theater
diametric: davout: thats exactly what i said.
davout: diametric: which does't imply that alternative currency based on the usd is forbidden
diametric: davout: If the alternative currency is based on the USD its okay. So you can buy/sell with bitcoin so long as the value you give to bitcoin is coupled to USD you're fine.
davout: diametric: i didn't see any part where it said it *had* to be, it says it isn't forbidden
diametric: "A person shall not issue or put in circulation, as money, anything but the lawful money of the United States." first sentence.
davout: diametric: it doesn't say it's the *only* allowed form of alt currency
ThickAsThieves: note: they specifically edited it to say "person" instead of "corporation, flexible purpose corporation, association, or individual"
diametric: No it does, the first sentence clearly states if you put into circulation as money anything but USD, you're in violation.
diametric: Then the second sentence begins making exceptions.
CiPi: diametric; what r u doing here man? :)
davout: i'm putting it in circulation as valueless tokens
davout: it *might* be used to outlaw mining, but nothing else
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diametric: davout: I'm missing how you think the first sentence doesn't ban using something as money other than USD.
davout: what if i told you bitcoin was a commodity
davout: case dismissed, a money requires an issuer, a central bank if you will
davout: it's used as a currency
davout: but it has the properties of a commodity
diametric: davout: but the second sentence outlaws anyone using bitcoin if its not tied to USD.
davout: since the first sentence didn't outlaw bitcoin, the second sentence is just making exceptions
davout: it can't follow that the second sentence prohibits bitcoin
diametric: the first sentence outlawed the putting of bitcoin into circulation.
davout: or free barter of a commodity
diametric: the second says how it can be used
CiPi: diametric; i think you loose the train man. :)
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davout: no it didn't, like i said, bitcoin is a commodity
davout: the point is that this whole thing is irrelevant to bitcoin
davout: as much as in theory than in practice
diametric: davout: give me an example it is relevant to then
diametric: I'm curious what its relevant too if not bitcoin, or diametric-tokens.
diametric: What currency would meet the legal criteria of this legislation
davout: diametric: i have no idea, does it have to be relevant to something?
davout: diametric: it's relevant to the liberty reserve usd for example i'd say
diametric: davout: It doesn't, but those that enforce it will find something it is relevant too, and you're kidding yourself if you think bitcoin wouldn't be it.
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 200 @ 0.00298868 = 0.5977 BTC [+] {6}
diametric: Whats the legal definition of a commodity anyway?
davout: saying that law enforcement will fuck you regardless of what the law says is orthogonal to the thing being debated
diametric: I thought it had to have an inherent use
ThickAsThieves: "This bill makes clarifying changes to current law to ensure that various forms of alternative currency such as digital currency, points, coupons, or other objects of monetary value do not violate the law when those methods are used for the purchase of goods and services or the
davout: diametric: distributed timestamping is what blockchain is about, voting, you name it
diametric: davout: alright I'll concede then it may not apply
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 6250 @ 0.00086219 = 5.3887 BTC [-]
davout: diametric: the whole point is that no matter the way you put it, banning bitcoin and pretending to be a democracy are mutually exclusive
diametric: davout: I'm not disagreeing with that
ThickAsThieves: "Facing legal action, creators of COINY have ended the project and COINYE is now Lost in the World, but may have been nothing more than a Dark Fantasy."
Bugpowder: Time to update the MPOEbot settlement price index?
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 3700 @ 0.00086219 = 3.1901 BTC [-]
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 14 @ 0.07 = 0.98 BTC [+]
ThickAsThieves: Winkdex is calculated by blending the trading prices in U.S. dollars for the top three (by volume) qualified Bitcoin Exchanges*
ThickAsThieves: * As of February 7, 2014, Mt.Gox placed a "pause on all [BTC] withdrawal requests” in addition to a continued "back-log of [USD] withdrawals”. As a result, it is no longer a qualified exchange for the Winkdex calculation.
davout: ThickAsThieves: i see two PDFs
davout: the one i'm reading mentions dogecoin
pankkake: by the way, I'd use other currencies converted to USD, too. otherwise, you're ignoring perfectly working exchanges
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [CFIG] 10 @ 0.07252099 = 0.7252 BTC [-] {5}
FabianB_: Bugpowder: looks like it's missing a 24h avg
FabianB_: same problem as with the coindesk index
Bugpowder: I need to pickup the license plate from CA DMV...
the20year2: oh wow, i din't realize tesla was at $200
FabianB_: Bugpowder: oh and: "Subscription to the API for Winkdex will be available soon."
TomServo: lol they couldn't be bothered to have unique 'about us' descriptions?
TomServo: "You know, when I see those two twins on that Doublemint commercial? I'm not thinking of gum."
ThickAsThieves: i invited the cryptocointalk.com guy to IRC but he says he's swamped with working on the forum
ozbot: Still Report #190 Calif Assembly Passes Cryptos Unanimously - YouTube
dexX7: didn't watch it yet
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 50 @ 0.00495 = 0.2475 BTC [-]
gribble: Request successful for user r3wt, hostmask r3wt!add82c3d@gateway/web/freenode/ip.173.216.44.61. Your challenge string is: freenode:#bitcoin-otc:43ad94451c81549176cd11b6b741f22d8795f925a6f42e150382b652
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] 10 @ 0.10031999 = 1.0032 BTC [+] {6}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 21100 @ 0.00086081 = 18.1631 BTC [-] {3}
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [RENT] 20 @ 0.0055 = 0.11 BTC
the20year2: We just posted a contract update on havelock
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 5700 @ 0.00086236 = 4.9155 BTC [+] {2}
benkay: hey the20year2 what changes did you make?
kakobrekla: basically just grep for any utf8 char and replace it with space
r3wt: anyone wanna buy some bitcoin-scrypt?
r3wt: just bitcoin with the scrypt algorithm, you never heard of it?
ozbot: Twitter / cavirtex: Our site will be going down ...
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] 2 @ 0.0631 = 0.1262 BTC [+]
kakobrekla: is bitcoin-scrypt compatible with my IP address?
jurov: no it's only compatible with ipv4 and ipv6
the20year2: benkay: we're bidding on 3 different properties
the20year2: kakobrekla: it was a update on bidding on 3 different properties that we're looking at/conisdering with the IPO cash
r3wt: i'll throw in a dusty crackrock. its kinda old and stale but it'll getcha hi
kakobrekla: is that rock compatible with my ip address?
jurov offers r3wt bitcoin-rot13 for it
kakobrekla: every fool would decline that, bitcoin-rot13 is worth only as much as bitcoin-plaintext
jurov: as opposed to duty hairy crackrocks
r3wt: i don't know i derailed the thread again. time for me to shut up now
jurov: ok back to business: davout, why b-c isn't listed on btcmarkets nor bitcoinity?
r3wt: Someone i knew once blew their brains out yesterday. One of those people you'd never think would blow their brains out
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [COG] 25 @ 0.06959971 = 1.74 BTC [+] {8}
r3wt: WTS: 32 LTC make offer
ozbot: Starting a new FPGA mining farm/contract Cognitive Resurrected on[Havelock]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 4200 @ 0.00086115 = 3.6168 BTC [-]
ozbot: [ANN] PWNYCOIN [PWNY]
pankkake: I mined it, but it didn't make me rich despite the instamine feature
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [CBTC] 2608 @ 0.00018108 = 0.4723 BTC [+] {9}
pankkake: they botched the pony theme, too… not cute, not enough ponies
pankkake: and rainbow dash is worst pony
Diablo-D3: and besides, if we're playing that game
Diablo-D3: fourth wall breaking gypsy arsonist murderer that is also the second companion to the doctor.
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [COG] 5 @ 0.06999995 = 0.35 BTC [+] {2}
Mats_cd03: This Cognitive guy is just starting college? lolol
jurov: deadweasel: no, why?
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 12100 @ 0.00086399 = 10.4543 BTC [+] {2}
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [NEOBEE] 122 @ 0.00299996 = 0.366 BTC [+] {5}
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [COG] 30 @ 0.07229998 = 2.169 BTC [+] {4}
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [COG] 8 @ 0.07299999 = 0.584 BTC [+] {3}
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 1 @ 0.53499998 BTC [+]
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] 1 @ 0.534 BTC [-]
ThickAsThieves: such signs if getting old, ive never heard of whatsapp before
jurov: it's funny i have met people that were using some IM app I never heard of, cuz everyone they know is using it
jurov: even yahoo messenger
diametric: i'm still rocking aol instant messenger
diametric: same account since like, 97 i think
diametric: i prefer something that works with pidgin/adium so I can use OTR
diametric: I use it pretty much all the time. Most of the people I talk to have an otr capable client so it just automatically initiates a session
jurov: haha. for one i know of no one using otr outside irc
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.SELL] 2 @ 0.10099999 = 0.202 BTC [+] {2}
pankkake: skype is the evil of evils. proprietary encrypted protocol, so you're forced to use their crappy software
ThickAsThieves: On March 1, 2014, TAT Investments will transfer control of the AM1, AM100, and [b]SMG [/b]listings at HavelockInvestments.com to the direct control of Havelock Investments.
ThickAsThieves: None of these funds are closing at this time. A new e-mail address for AM1 transfer requests will be provided at the end of this month.
ThickAsThieves: None of the fund terms are changing other than to replace TAT Investments.
ThickAsThieves: All underlying assets that represent these passthrough shares will also be transferred to Havelock. The direct shares will be held at 1J5fvfUrDcZj8rrpVHMgn8u7sXee84QkPd.
ThickAsThieves: This also means that ThickAsThieves will no longer hold a board seat with ASICMINER, and a representative from Havelock will instead.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 2750 @ 0.00086132 = 2.3686 BTC [-] {2}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 3300 @ 0.00086403 = 2.8513 BTC [+]
dexX7: are they buying you out?
ThickAsThieves: the reasons why are multiple, some fairly obvious, some not
ThickAsThieves: i'll keep it positive though and note i'm focusing on other projects instead
pankkake: I guess I was right saying Altcoin is the next AsicMiner
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 4550 @ 0.0008644 = 3.933 BTC [+] {2}
kakobrekla: even shorter is answer: theres no more money innit
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.EXCH] 1 @ 0.16230094 BTC [-]
kakobrekla: [Zapp Brannigan has just piloted the Titanic straight into the path of a black hole]
☟︎ kakobrekla: Captain Zapp Brannigan: Don't blame yourself, Kif. We were doomed from the start. I guess all that remains now is for the captain to go down with the ship.
kakobrekla: Lt. Kif Kroker: That's surprisingly noble of you, sir.
kakobrekla: Captain Zapp Brannigan: No, it's noble of you, Kif. As of now, you're in command. Congratulations, Captain.
ozbot: I was just threatened for exposing a scam on r/bitcoin : Bitcoin