mircea_popescu: ;;later tell benkay ah ah i see.

mircea_popescu: bloctoc good point

mircea_popescu: o look who's here. thestringpuller when did oyu get out

mircea_popescu: bloctoc someone is selling like 8k

mircea_popescu: finally can have cock in the other hole ?

mircea_popescu: why necessarily meta ? can't people just sell stuff anymore ?

mircea_popescu: people harping on twitter about how women are the future of tech

mircea_popescu: mp: "Women are the future of tech like they are the present of governance. When it sucks they come to dominate it."

mircea_popescu: ensuing butthurt.

mircea_popescu: antephialtic look at the log

mircea_popescu: the20year you just added a jpg

mircea_popescu: Jere_Jones quote is better than paraphrase :)

mircea_popescu: you mean the gpg contracts trilema article ?

mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2012/gpg-contracts/ << you meant that ?

mircea_popescu: aha.

mircea_popescu: see, the shit about me is that i write very subtly. these aren't the same.

mircea_popescu: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BhLGGI4IcAA3bA5.jpg:large << check out lenin taking a ride

mircea_popescu: thestringpuller there's this massive derpage re "we've found this technology which we'll pretend like and demand it does our work for us"

mircea_popescu: there was some good discussion here re why that's nonsense, lemme find it.

mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-02-2014#496087 ☝︎

mircea_popescu: thestringpuller pretty much. then "and they aren't for X anyway, they're for Y" then blogger "omfg you do not understand the holy cause of the future!!11"

mircea_popescu: benkay except sd ipod on mpex not on ethereum

mircea_popescu: anyway. kids gotta kid.

mircea_popescu: can i sell tickets to "Touring benkay butt. The international butt tour!" ?

mircea_popescu: oooo

mircea_popescu: Jere_Jones you know the merchant of venice, do you ?

mircea_popescu: Jere_Jones yes. it's what people were discussing in that log link i gave above. my selection of it, ie http://trilema.com/2014/the-most-serene-republic-and-its-laws/

mircea_popescu: and that readlist goes for nicknode too :D

mircea_popescu: considering i've not bought anything for btc in 2013...

mircea_popescu: i guess i bought some things, actually, not on the usual "here's my shop" sense

mircea_popescu: nope

mircea_popescu: i don't even drive.

mircea_popescu: dignork my pleasure.

mircea_popescu: randomcloud who're you ?

mircea_popescu: o wait, you're the randomcloud chick i remember nao

mircea_popescu: lol

mircea_popescu: either in jail or in a whiskey barrel

mircea_popescu: you mean gribble ?

mircea_popescu: well so then he was the one who wanted you

mircea_popescu: check out the logs of here ~20 hours ago,

mircea_popescu: maybe it becomes obvious

mircea_popescu: benkay http://trilema.com/2014/all-you-may-ever-need-to-know-of-financial-planning/ ?

mircea_popescu: ie, kelly criterion ?

mircea_popescu: ;;calc 0.01 * 10**9

mircea_popescu: i guess i missed some zeroes but you get the idea.

mircea_popescu: so sez bernoulli.

mircea_popescu: yes and yes.

mircea_popescu: welcome to being smarter than most people club.

mircea_popescu: benkay consider this simple point : facebook overpaid by about 99.x% for that whatsapp thing.

mircea_popescu: this yielded two results : telegraf now making noises about how they added 800k new users in the past 4 hours

mircea_popescu: rather than 1mn a day

mircea_popescu: and armchair generals going "i wonder who's the next to buy one of these. vodafone ? telefonica ?"

mircea_popescu: then i point out that this bs deal put the bar way wya topo high, which means there won't be more sales, as old money has more of a clue

mircea_popescu: (dunno some bs messaging app nobody heard of)

mircea_popescu: and they go like o no, old money loses money through its teeth.

mircea_popescu: because they actually believe this shit.

mircea_popescu: so then i point out that telefonica makes 5bn net on 70bn revenue

mircea_popescu: whereas fb makes 1 bn net on 7 bn revenue

mircea_popescu: and so it's a chipmunk in the discussion.

mircea_popescu: so they retort that telefonica did in fact buy some messaging app

mircea_popescu: and lo and behold, they did indeed. for 70 MILLION

mircea_popescu: and so then they run for the exists.

mircea_popescu: but one can't not stop to observe that yo! had you spent five minutes thinking things though on publicly available data,

mircea_popescu: you'd have not been a total derp

mircea_popescu: mike_c there must be some tax angle in all this i'm missing.

mircea_popescu: benkay no exists as in, and i quote, "you lost me, all I said was WHO will start investing, didn't name an exit price, have a lovely Sunday :) "

mircea_popescu: not like he has dough to exit anyway.

mircea_popescu: dignork the fact that user numbers are like "views", ie easily and commonly faked is only known here, apparently.

mircea_popescu: mike_c ah i see.

mircea_popescu: anyway. this is, mostly, the bezzle.

mircea_popescu: right.

mircea_popescu: meanwhile over at the stupid farm :

mircea_popescu: @TheBitcoinWife · 6h

mircea_popescu: Staunch Bitcoin purists are missing out on the beautiful decentralization of innovation that is manifested in altcoins. Real time evolution!

mircea_popescu: @Mircea_Popescu · 56m

mircea_popescu: @TheBitcoinWife @Beautyon_ Hon, you really need to drop by #bitcoin-assets. Yer the one missing out. http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=bitcoin-assets …

mircea_popescu: @TheBitcoinWife · 44s

mircea_popescu: @Mircea_Popescu @Beautyon_ Pls dont call me hon & patronize me. If you paid any attention youd know Im not "missing out." I LIVE for Bitcoin

mircea_popescu: how could you NOT patronize these idiots ?

mircea_popescu: i mean, she thinks it's because she's a woman, but it's merely because she's dumb.

mircea_popescu: kinda why calling people names is so effectual.

mircea_popescu: you call one of these schmucks names it's like a cataclysmic event in their little brain.

mircea_popescu: lol

mircea_popescu: but SHE LIVES FOR IT

mircea_popescu: Jere_Jones you see ? YOU SEE ?

mircea_popescu: so as a bonus exercise for he who was smart enough to find the important spot, write an alternative future or description of what the prayer should hgave been

mircea_popescu: lolk

mircea_popescu: werll if not fun at least prudent

mircea_popescu: DONT PATRONIZE HER

mircea_popescu: this is what the fucktarded activists have reduced the matter to. these are "women in tech"

mircea_popescu: hunter coin is adorable and she roots out for ken the most.

mircea_popescu: fucking despicable abuse of women to a degree not the loweliest slave in the most obscure african harem endures.

mircea_popescu: ahaha wait wait. "the proven leaders in crypto" max keiser ?

mircea_popescu: nubbins` not bad

mircea_popescu: benkay https://twitter.com/Mircea_Popescu/status/437811089900711936

mircea_popescu: lmao

mircea_popescu: what's so hard about making an album in a month. 3 days/song is over the average for pro pop these days.

mircea_popescu: well yeah

mircea_popescu: most girlies get about a week in the studio

mircea_popescu: for their "album"

mircea_popescu: i guess some people aren't lazy bums

mircea_popescu: i had no idea how well my follow list protects me on twitter.

mircea_popescu: there's like fiddy billion of these retards who think they matter in btc because they have no life, and so they "live for bitcoin"

mircea_popescu: ;;ticker

mircea_popescu: why ?

mircea_popescu: people with any smarts need to be convinced to start blogs. people who already have blogs... dun wanna use the noggin. it's a dilemma.

mircea_popescu: cazalla i would guess the gimmick is that btc/satoshi is the husband

mircea_popescu: everything worth doing is a burden

mircea_popescu: business is a burden, children are a burden, womenz are a burden, fucking eating is a burden

mircea_popescu: you gotta chew...

mircea_popescu: drum cowbell ?

mircea_popescu: same deal.

mircea_popescu: nubbins` you know, just because for w/e reason you don't perceive it as a burden

mircea_popescu: doesn't mean it isn't.

mircea_popescu: the20year idiot zonehenge "karpeles quits bf, price plumets"

mircea_popescu: totally infantile these people. and i mean, the bitcoinwife being a clueless bint is one thing

mircea_popescu: mod6 commenting'd be one thing.

mircea_popescu: the problem is they have the unmitigated audacity to pretend like they know what they're talking about.

mircea_popescu: Jere_Jones bitcoin has proven leaders you see. max keiser et co :D

mircea_popescu: TIL nick szabo thinks peak oil is nonsense.

mircea_popescu: sort-of. difficult to evail

mircea_popescu: http://szabo.best.vwh.net/miningthevastydeep.html

mircea_popescu: Some perspective, even some purely theoretical perspective, is in order. If we look at the problem at the scale of the solar system, we find that hydrocarbons are remarkably common -- Titan has clouds and lakes of ethane and methane, for example, and there are trillions of tonnes of hydrocarbons, at least, to be found on comets and in the atmospheres and moons of the gas giant planets. What is far more scarce in the so

mircea_popescu: lar system is free oxygen. If there will ever be a "peak" in the inputs to hydrocarbon combustion in the solar system it will be in free oxygen -- which as a natural occurence is extremely rare beyond Earth's atmosphere, and is rather expensive to make artificially.

mircea_popescu: for instance.

mircea_popescu: this is in fact sound, at that scale.

mircea_popescu: and while the "Carbon" preoccupation is laughable on the part of hte "climate scientists", ie the dudes dressed in white coats on tv screens,

mircea_popescu: nevertheless it's a fact that oxygen saturation in atmosphere has been dropping for the past coupla centuries.

mircea_popescu: "fresh air" ain't quite as fresh as it used to be.

mircea_popescu: to the tune of what, 100 trn ?

mircea_popescu: yeah but you'll need a coupla aircraft carriers + a bunch of nuke subs

mircea_popescu: just in case anyone gets uppity.

mircea_popescu: protecting your exploration sites

mircea_popescu: you never played starcraft ?

mircea_popescu: ok wise assets of wisdom, i have a stupid question.

mircea_popescu: when i was a kid i loved a game, something like 3max or somesuch. it consisted basicalyl of this, you built robot metallic things, and fought over land an water against enemies.

mircea_popescu: sort of way cooler dune, and it had hotseat multiplayer

mircea_popescu: i could never find it again ;/ anyone know it ?

mircea_popescu: you could pick "races", one was musashi

mircea_popescu: it got bonus to planes iirc

mircea_popescu: iirc algae actually produce more oxygen than trees

mircea_popescu: and in fact there's more of them today than 200 years ago, because we keep dumping all this organic and iron into the ocean

mircea_popescu: benkay those are shares to hold

mircea_popescu: provided they'll actually not renege.

mircea_popescu: currently it's riskier to hold fiat shares than it is to hold bitcoin shares

mircea_popescu: provided you have the sense to identify which shares are worth holding in the first place.

mircea_popescu: they're a penny stock neh ?

mircea_popescu: nah not really

mircea_popescu: the way the exploration market works is, the governments holding explorable land spend some public money on support services for idiots. like i dunno, geologist support.

mircea_popescu: the idiots, who are people who wish to strike it big, take all the risk and go camp in the wild, whittling their lives away fighing the impossible odds of nature.

mircea_popescu: the smarter and luckier actually get exploration companies together, which have possibly valuable claims.

mircea_popescu: once a claim is actually worth enough, the majors buy them out.

mircea_popescu: pretty much all fields have a few majors in this business.

mircea_popescu: randomcloud im a businessman. i know business. it's what i do.

mircea_popescu: randomcloud i used to have a well paid consultancy before bitcoin swallowed me.

mircea_popescu: nubbins` aren't you describing the exact same thing ? :)

mircea_popescu: i kinda tried to give an abstraction, pretty much all countries with explorable land do some variant of it.

mircea_popescu: possibly the russkis being the lulziest

mircea_popescu: a war over the np would be cool.

mircea_popescu: "GERMANY INVADES SANTAS HOUSE!"

mircea_popescu: benkay sort-of.

mircea_popescu: benkay amusingly, it's exactly the same thing, because of the huge capital barriers involved.

mircea_popescu: benkay whjen they go under it'd be too late.

mircea_popescu: shareholders are last in line

mircea_popescu: and moreover, even if they strike it big, repudiation is a major concern.

mircea_popescu: lol they beleeted it all ?

mircea_popescu: repudiation is the unilateral rejection of a claim. like what companies do on havelock,

mircea_popescu: o you owned shares ? fu.

mircea_popescu: nubbins` soyouthink some canadian penny stock is so much better ?

mircea_popescu: who is going to send in the army, ww1 style, to protect your claims

mircea_popescu: like the us protected rockefeller's ?

mircea_popescu: the russians even weren't able to protect the claims of their oligarchs in cyprus

mircea_popescu: and cyprus is a shitty island

mircea_popescu: (obv the russian govt side would very much argue that they did a splendid job, protected it via diplomacy.)

mircea_popescu: benkay canada has a history of stealing corps anyway.

mircea_popescu: under the guise of "regulation" or w/e.

mircea_popescu: basically, no armored divisions, no fiat investments.

mircea_popescu: The company closed its paper mill in Stephenville, Newfoundland in 2005, and announced in 2008 that it would also close its plant in Grand Falls-Windsor. The Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly promptly passed legislation expropriating AbitibiBowater's assets in the province. This included the cancellation of “water and hydroelectric contracts and agreements” between the province and Abitibi, the cancellati

mircea_popescu: on of ongoing legal proceedings Abitibi had against the province, and the blocking of access to Newfoundland’s courts by Abitibi.

mircea_popescu: compare and contrast this with that idiot judge guy,

mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2013/the-sops-or-what-might-you-expect-from-government-clerks/

mircea_popescu: when in fact the room should have been full of suits suddenly realising that the guillotine is for them.

mircea_popescu: benkay i doubt that'll end up mattering. as it is right now, nobody cares who can ride horses or owns a pair of chaps

mircea_popescu: benkay im saying that things such as nukes, and tanks, and so on are grossly unimportant anymore.

mircea_popescu: if you read that facebook explanation of the thing in the ukraine, the guy clearly states that the police did not dare intervene in force chiefly becayse "we know where they live and would have killed them off one by one"

mircea_popescu: this is true. "we know where you live". whats the tank good for ?

mircea_popescu: benkay http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=07-02-2014#487027 ☝︎

mircea_popescu: oh my game was "M.A.X: Mechanized Assault and Exploration"

mircea_popescu: thank you person.

mircea_popescu: impossibru

mircea_popescu: B007 your notion of foreign is broken tho.

mircea_popescu: it used to mean shomething, 500 years ago. now i'm more likely to fuck a foreign chick than a local one.

mircea_popescu: in fact, im not even sure i fucked a romanian this year.

mircea_popescu: so in this sense, all military operations are against people.

mircea_popescu: hello BitcoinSachs

mircea_popescu: you married to her ?

mircea_popescu: good for her.

mircea_popescu: BitcoinSachs do you know how to read the logs ?

mircea_popescu: B007 yes but he comes from an environment where the obvious and common sense aren't either obvious or common.

mircea_popescu: BitcoinSachs do you know who you're making a fool of yourself in front of ?

mircea_popescu: so then what are you doing there ?

mircea_popescu: i never heard of anyone posessed of this highschooler attitude mattering in any context, fwiw.

mircea_popescu: nubbins` i believe the expression is, "coward sitting behind a IRC chat talking shit on someone."

mircea_popescu: no, actually, the problem is she's retarded.

mircea_popescu: and nobody is smack talking the retarded here.

mircea_popescu: we go in quite excruciating detail to document how and why they are retarded.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform nn!

mircea_popescu: he's not married, he's just copumpkin ing all over her.

mircea_popescu: BitcoinSachs so listen, if we apologize do you get laid tonight ?

mircea_popescu: wait wait.

mircea_popescu: you're not even white ?!

mircea_popescu: nigga gtfo out of here.

mircea_popescu: what, let the guy have fun.

mircea_popescu: r3wt how old are you anyway ? i forget.

mircea_popescu: aahha zing

mircea_popescu: benkay does the darling know about the little boys ?

mircea_popescu: i suppose BitcoinSachs should meet BingoBoingo

mircea_popescu: i think there's a dogewife doing doges somewhere on 4chan

mircea_popescu: but it's a little... gross.

mircea_popescu: nubbins` "the slutty wife" ?

mircea_popescu: BitcoinSachs you have any idea how many have tried ?

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform who even knows that the proles mean when they use words.

mircea_popescu: omfg r3wt this traitor to the holy cause of irc!

mircea_popescu: RUNNING DOG TO THE TWITTERHEADS

mircea_popescu: nubbins` can you see "The MP wife" ?

mircea_popescu: i've done this plenty of times, "i'm with her". functionally the same thing

mircea_popescu: r3wt and a buncha doods went all crazy "protecting" her ?

mircea_popescu: nubbins` yeah but you're not a self absorbed asshole quite to the degree we are.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform a cat is the equiv of a chick

mircea_popescu: r3wt so now you know what's happening here.

mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo nono, the relation between this twerp and gs is about the same as the relation between the btcwife and btc.

mircea_popescu: purely based on stalking. like michael moore and important ppl.

mircea_popescu: benkay you fail son.

mircea_popescu: !b quick or !b broken!

mircea_popescu: fuck whoever just pmd me named assbot i deleted it

mircea_popescu: such is lyf!

mircea_popescu: hey guise, i have an idea!

mircea_popescu: let's all make derpnames like nounbitcoin and bitcoinnoun

mircea_popescu: that way the fact we're related to bitcoin will be quite clear to everyone!

mircea_popescu: it's so sad the various fiat banks don't hold a trollbox where their top manageemnt could come by

mircea_popescu: and mock the plebs.

mircea_popescu: tha'

mircea_popescu: s what i'd have done during occupylolz

mircea_popescu: nubbins` yes except the ws top brass didn't participate

mircea_popescu: imagine if dimon started mocking the womenz

mircea_popescu: BitcoinSachs so what would we have heard of you for ? do you run a service of any import ? anything ?

mircea_popescu: nubbins` occupy crowd should have just gone for nudism.

mircea_popescu: pretty much the one way a crowd of nobodies can disrupt modern society.

mircea_popescu: yup

mircea_popescu: it would have swollen in numbers greatly

mircea_popescu: indeed.

mircea_popescu: still, if the people trying to get obama reelected had enough sense to only pay a few girls to get it all started, judghing correctly the white knight idiocy of the frustrated male will do the rest

mircea_popescu: they could have also had the sense to only hire gangbang veterans.

mircea_popescu: a woman can take about a thousand cocks a day, if she's any good at it.

mircea_popescu: definitely.

mircea_popescu: astroglide could have just used crop treatment helicopters to dump gallons of lube on the crowd

mircea_popescu: now THAT would have been a problem for wall street.

mircea_popescu: o look at that, we lost buttcoinsecks.

mircea_popescu: win.

mircea_popescu: waitwut

mircea_popescu: anyway, for the inquiring minds that wish to know : yesterday i had spinach in bechamel with small shrimps,

mircea_popescu: and today i'm baking a pumpkin and will have it with tenderloin!

mircea_popescu: well im baking in the sense i'm running bitbet.

mircea_popescu: bitcoinwife is doing the work

mircea_popescu: husbandry. meats. grinding.

mircea_popescu: this sounds a little porny dontchathink?

mircea_popescu: nubbins` but srsly, it's not a bad idea.

mircea_popescu: not that many people make moose sausage, and when i mentioned it to chetty she was like... nom.

mircea_popescu: check it out, "The rest of this article fill look"

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform did you know nick szabo has a w/f issue ?

mircea_popescu: this'd be by far the most important property too look for in that entire "textual analysis" story.

mircea_popescu: cazalla can't hurt.

mircea_popescu: moose is a very large cow.

mircea_popescu: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsVDb3kqnnI < this is cazalla

mircea_popescu: eating the brains of any mammal is dangerous

mircea_popescu: in that we never know wtf prions they got.

mircea_popescu: nubbins` a few days ? i fasted for days. who cares.

mircea_popescu: cazalla i think i started it in here. but anyway, obviously, eat some fish oil or w/e, it's resolvable.

mircea_popescu: cazalla butter'd be better tbh. i almost always cook rabbit in butter.

mircea_popescu: nubbins` fortunately for you, there exists a large contingent of themarkwifes on twitter, reddit etc

mircea_popescu: seeing how tjhey don't understand what anything is, they may just as well buy it.

mircea_popescu: benkay "There are over 400 collectively worth more than $1.5 billion in operation today and their numbers are increasingly rapidly."

mircea_popescu: there, there's a future.

mircea_popescu: lol

mircea_popescu: he's bad fat.

mircea_popescu: there's this distinction i make between people who are genuinely fat and people who are visibly fastfood fat.

mircea_popescu: midnightmagic rabbits carry human able parasites ?

mircea_popescu: "The current center of this activity is Namibia, with offshore reserves estimated at more than 1.5 billion carats." << look at that, almost one diamond for each marrigeable girl!

mircea_popescu: now where to find the 10k dollars to pay for all the rings

mircea_popescu: chetty pest is universal, much like e colli

mircea_popescu: benkay o look at that, nautilus actually focuses on mining extinct black smokers

mircea_popescu: that's a brilliant idea.

mircea_popescu: lol wut ?

mircea_popescu: lmao i just owned @bitcoin. and reddit.

mircea_popescu: @Bitcoin · 48m Mt. Gox @MtGox DELETES everything from their twitter account http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1yrqpm/mtgox_deletes_all_tweets_from_their_twitter_feed/

mircea_popescu: How about next time you RT https://twitter.com/Mircea_Popescu/status/437823752571588608 instead of being an ass. @Bitcoin @MtGox DELETES everything from their twitter account.

mircea_popescu: must suck to exist as a news thing and be constantly hours, days, years late.

mircea_popescu: ;;ticker

mircea_popescu: lawl. just not under 150 yet huh.

mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2014/bitcoin-was-written-by-the-retarded-part-ii/

mircea_popescu: jurov i grilled him yest.

mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-02-2014#523512 ☝︎

mircea_popescu: https://twitter.com/HistOpinion/status/437927458810368000/photo/1/large

mircea_popescu: what do executives know

mircea_popescu: they're in on it!

mircea_popescu: etc

mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves i have no idea

mircea_popescu: random_cat what's that even ?

mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves i'd guess they had easier access to a bunch of truck drivers ?

mircea_popescu: anyway, where's the quote from ? forum ?

mircea_popescu: random_cat probably ciuciu resurected.

mircea_popescu: so firefox is making a 25 dolla phone, facebook is hoping to spin the watsap disaster into a phone...

mircea_popescu: what's with people and this obsession for phones

mircea_popescu: incredible how the bitcoin foundation rats nest sticks together to the very end.

mircea_popescu: "This is actually good news. I applaud Mark and the MtGox team for making the right decision as I had to do the same. Speaking very lengthy to Mark and the team over the weekend, I see good news on the horizon for people who have funds stuck in MtGox (I also have funds in MtGox stuck)" < shrem

mircea_popescu: "Colorado Girl Scouts Not Allowed To Sell Cookies Outside Pot Shops"

mircea_popescu: win.

mircea_popescu: im guessing the only way to safeguard the nation is banning girlscout cookie sales, girls, scouts and cookies.

mircea_popescu: so conn just imploded

mircea_popescu: apparently selling couches on credit to people who have horrible credit ratings in the hopes they'll find change in the very couches to pay for the couches didn't work out

mircea_popescu: seems you need rich friends to be able to use couches that way.

mircea_popescu: heresy.

mircea_popescu: https://twitter.com/niubi/status/437948979872284672 epic shit.

mircea_popescu: "What do u call selfie taken by someone dedicated to overcoming selfhood ?"

mircea_popescu: "As we were letting you know back on the 15th of May 2013, two models filled lawsuits against Totem Entertainment and Totem Front Office alleging we were using their images without their authorization.

mircea_popescu: Despite they both signed a contract and have been paid, we've been ordered by a French judge to cease using their images and to terminate any licencing of them. We appealed from that decision but meanwhile we have to comply with the judge's order."

mircea_popescu: fucking french judges.

mircea_popescu: http://webmasters.totemcash.com/top100.php << meanwhile check out that sadness. one guy laundering money and $150 a month to make the top 100.

mircea_popescu: and from the anals of stupid : chick that identifies as "Digital @NBC Owned Television Stations. I tweet media, tech & startups. California transplant, opinions are mine." wants to know if this pic is legit : "So.. I got this WhatsApp message from one of my contacts this morning, real thing? pic.twitter.com/mLAMw9hmUY "

mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves prolly some webcam stuff.

mircea_popescu: most porn today is webcams because how the fuck are you going to get paid for a jpeg

mircea_popescu: wow they charge for that ?

mircea_popescu: the20year you're now ready to work for NBC as a social media, tech and start-ups specialist.

mircea_popescu: WomenzInTeach!

mircea_popescu: she should defo ask him.

mircea_popescu: "Mr Mike like totally great stuff can you tell me like is it true about the forwarding ?"

mircea_popescu: ahahaha best idea ever.

mircea_popescu: no srsly, they should. make usagi an officer.

mircea_popescu: i think he finally left once he realised he couldn't shove his guitar or somesuch

mircea_popescu: https://twitter.com/Mircea_Popescu/status/437958867012444161

mircea_popescu: curious if famous anal-ist takes the challenge.

mircea_popescu: ;;tslbn

mircea_popescu: ;;tslb

mircea_popescu: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=482989.msg5337539#msg5337539

mircea_popescu: check out ThickAsThieves owning the field...

mircea_popescu: particularly lulzy set of idiots there anyhow

mircea_popescu: "my brain doesn't work because english is not my first language"

mircea_popescu: seems legit.

mircea_popescu: he really got something in there.

mircea_popescu: i can't discern whether shrem defending mtgox on twitter is worse for shrem or worse for mtgox.

mircea_popescu: what's the worse situation, for a fraudster to associate with a drug dealer or vice versa ?

mircea_popescu: (i get that neither are very good at their respective thing, but still, discussing in principle)

mircea_popescu: sooo... egypt cabinet resigns, new military dictatorship brewing ?

mircea_popescu: country comes back to what it was, only with 30 years younger mubarak

mircea_popescu: and i guess no ak47-ing of the anwar sadat this time

mircea_popescu: the teflon don of bitcoin.

mircea_popescu: "I've said it before, but if Barack Obama had been president instead of Ronald Reagan, I'd still be a Soviet Citizen." ~Kasparov

mircea_popescu: it's kind of funny that US govt official policy back in the 80s, such as "government is bad generally and big government worse" etc is today regarded as fringe opinion.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform at least gorby had his fun moments.

mircea_popescu: was it him or yeltsin that actually fired at the duma ?

mircea_popescu: it was yeltsin wasn't it.

mircea_popescu: got plastered one night, ordered the artillery out the next morning

mircea_popescu: a nice

mircea_popescu: lol i like that white lada there

mircea_popescu: one thing he did well was the choice of successor.

mircea_popescu: putin is probably the strongest leader russia had since roughly speaking ivan

mircea_popescu: lol

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform btw, if you're at all curious, by very far the best contemporary employ of the romanian equivalent of mat is this bunch of kids making a cartoon.

mircea_popescu: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iCLCJifhfQ

mircea_popescu: it is utterly untranslatable, but it is also the only cultural product of contemporary romania that i'd bother mention.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's insanely hard to. most romanian native speakers could not write down the average episode even if they were given unlimited replays.

mircea_popescu: you need a fucking postdoc to even understand the whole thing.

mircea_popescu: an indicative example : loud music, the blue guy asks "cine-i la usa" (who's at the door)

mircea_popescu: the other guy pretends to mishear "sa te ghetzalesc in gusa ?" which'd be... you want me to cum down your throat ?

mircea_popescu: ghetz is a translation of hungarian word for cum, transformed into a verb by the romanian method of verbing (utterly foreign to hungarian)

mircea_popescu: and gusa means gullet.

mircea_popescu: s/is a translation/a notation/

mircea_popescu: Duffer1 lemme write it down for you then.

mircea_popescu: Duffer1 http://dpaste.com/1653751/

mircea_popescu: well at leeast you can now sing along :D

mircea_popescu: Duffer1 it's exactly right. tho i'd have said "exhudes onion sauce"

mircea_popescu: face of a beggar, like a female hygiene product with wings, hair between the tits and whey coming out of ears.

mircea_popescu: !t h neobee

mircea_popescu: Jere_Jones i dunno, how would you eval it even

mircea_popescu: Jere_Jones so they got a bunch of advertising in cyprus done. by my count that's worth ~0, and they have a pretty clueless ceo/management team, which is the end of the story.

mircea_popescu: then again... im sure other people differ.

mircea_popescu: Jere_Jones did they ever publish a statement ?

mircea_popescu: balancesheet, cash flow, etc ?

mircea_popescu: derp...

mircea_popescu: how long have they been trading ?

mircea_popescu: neobee what do you mean in general.

mircea_popescu: yeah lol.

mircea_popescu: i guess they only missed one if they do quarterlies then

mircea_popescu: so bail once they miss the 2nd

mircea_popescu: not like you'll have any problem unloading to the reddit crowd anyway

mircea_popescu: thestringpuller we're out of signal atm.

mircea_popescu: thestringpuller http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-02-2014#506450 ☝︎

mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves kinda why statements are helpful.

mircea_popescu: would resolve Jere_Jones question anyway.

mircea_popescu: i guess it must.

mircea_popescu: i have no idea, i'm kinda interested in women only in that age range.

mircea_popescu: she's ok i guess.

mircea_popescu: so apparently apple just got owned to shit

mircea_popescu: "This means theoretically that if you’ve been using the flawed iOS or OS X systems since then, a hacker on your shared network could have captured all your data that should have been SSL- or TSL-encrypted for the past 18 months."

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you seen the shit ?

mircea_popescu: i guess i didn't realise at the time just how deep it goes

mircea_popescu: just went "derp, apple sucks"

mircea_popescu: "goto fail;" srsly ?!

mircea_popescu: http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2014/02/20/remittance-map/

mircea_popescu: check out nigeria.

mircea_popescu: deadweasel i saw 6

mircea_popescu: pankkake lol waitwat ?

mircea_popescu: who's crumbs anyway ?

mircea_popescu: is this some guy's sock trying to pretend he's me or is it some random nut trying to say i'm everybody

mircea_popescu: eccentric huh ?

mircea_popescu: hey guise you really think i'm eccentric psychotic ?

mircea_popescu: "The proof of this has been sent to the person who paid for my services which cannot and will not be shown on here, due to the backlash this will bring including personal information for him and other users who have trusted him."

mircea_popescu: iiiinteresting

mircea_popescu: "Due to the real identity of these troll accounts belonging to Mircea Popescu and how close he believes himself to be to the higher echelons of Bitcoin including the Mods/Admins of this forum, i don't believe this post to last long."

mircea_popescu: who am i close to, thermos ? bear ?

mircea_popescu: who is even a mod there these days ?

mircea_popescu: o wait, davout!

mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves meanwhile i got the list.

mircea_popescu: " The Fed isn't printing."

mircea_popescu: gotta love twitter folk.

mircea_popescu: incidentally : check out this shot https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BhQVp6XIEAANOCd.jpg:large

mircea_popescu: isn't it fucking pathetic ? i mean it's obv the girls aren't there cause of the guy.

mircea_popescu: they're not even looking at him, more liek trying to get in the shot.

mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves maybe he's crumbs.

mircea_popescu: i recently emptied mine. i feel all nude now

mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves wait, vampire is on irc ?!

mircea_popescu: a, forum nm.

mircea_popescu: listen, with the new 0day scammer registration programme, does ignoring even serve any purpose anymore ?

mircea_popescu: lol ignored aussie_striker

mircea_popescu: all these names i don't know

mircea_popescu: SolarWindMiningCompany << wait aren't these those idiots with the insane ipo plan ?

mircea_popescu: nice list of people who LIVE for bitcoin, had you paid attention!!1

mircea_popescu: "The information & proof has now all been given to the buyer to do with as they please (legal action) - (see below), now with their consent I have the approval to post the identity of this Troll."

mircea_popescu: wait wait... i'm getting sued ?

mircea_popescu: pankkake what have you got me mixed up in!

mircea_popescu: i am but a simple country boy, some might say a cock-eyed optimist, who got mixed up in a deadly game of world diplomacy and international intrigue!

mircea_popescu: ;;ticker

mircea_popescu: "mp is ousted as pankkake/crumbs. bitcoin plunges"

mircea_popescu: actually you're right, the pankkake theory is really...

mircea_popescu: wait. usagi invented that neh ?

mircea_popescu: or was usagi before p's time

mircea_popescu: who was usagi threatening to sue because it's me ?

mircea_popescu: repentance ? hmmm

mircea_popescu: cause he had irc logs as evidence!

mircea_popescu: of me hiring whoever to mess up his biz

mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves this is actually true.

mircea_popescu: never you mind that.

mircea_popescu: the true part is that gun dealers are being squeezed by obama's goons exactly on the pp side.

mircea_popescu: lol

mircea_popescu: hence "Crackpot"

mircea_popescu: http://31.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9ihtpqwVP1ru15g3o1_1280.jpg << cunt we all just get along ?

mircea_popescu: this

mircea_popescu: o o o.

mircea_popescu: well... the more idiots are being drawn away from bitcoin, the better.

mircea_popescu: people going about "adoption" keep forgetting we don't want a large number of idiots,

mircea_popescu: we want a high avg iq more than that

mircea_popescu: http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9db3yoO1v1ry97voo1_500.jpg << aren't those great tits ?

mircea_popescu: I offer 1M Nxt ? what's that worth ?

mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves yes. 1mn nexts

mircea_popescu: "So above you see pankkake continue to smear the company ActiveMining (by calling it an investment scam, associating it with the known 'LabCoin scam', saying the CEO is facing jail and accusing me of being a scammer (!)) after Ken publicly refused to pay pankkake's blackmail money demand." ☟︎

mircea_popescu: derp

mircea_popescu: these people. i wonder if there's anyone but the scammers left on that forum

mircea_popescu: o look, they could have got a mpex seat

mircea_popescu: ;;ticker

mircea_popescu: yeah not bad.

mircea_popescu: MPOE-PR: "i just... i can't even... i wasn't going to say anything tonight, but this forum has decreased in intelligence and self-awareness since last fall at least three fold"

mircea_popescu: "sometimes i imagine i'm in a floating third world bazaar full of people trying to sell socks and pick pockets and not much else"

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform she does what i say and i never said she should leave.

mircea_popescu: call it inertia i guess

mircea_popescu: uh howssat ?

mircea_popescu: i never measure it tho. what do i care ?

mircea_popescu: she writes well, that's good enough.

mircea_popescu: i think some people here actually found this place because they ran over something she said.

mircea_popescu: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=462370.msg5341519#msg5341519 << asciilifeform check it out

mircea_popescu: they're doing textual analysis on me, coming to th conclusion i'm nick szabo

mircea_popescu: you are crumbs.

mircea_popescu: your girl is pankkake.

mircea_popescu: except on weekends. then she's thestringpuller

mircea_popescu: derpology ?

mircea_popescu: herpetology was taken

mircea_popescu: oops sorry guys i accidentally posted as diametric

mircea_popescu: anyone wanna see my handwriting /

mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2010/ajunge/ ☟︎

mircea_popescu: telling natl liberal party to get stuffed.

mircea_popescu: it's a historical document of sorts!

mircea_popescu: CLEARLY

mircea_popescu: you're pankkake

mircea_popescu: lies.

mircea_popescu: preparetohearfrommyelawyer

mircea_popescu: fortheseslanders

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform is that you ?

mircea_popescu: indeed.

mircea_popescu: nice penmanship

mircea_popescu: anyway, anyone can transcribe my shit ?

mircea_popescu: first complete version gets 1k ATC

mircea_popescu: devthedev you mean generally or what ?

mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-02-2014#525896 ☝︎

mircea_popescu: cardano :D

mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic 1F 22 5A 94 D5 09 40 8B

mircea_popescu: there you go.

mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic you know the von neumann coin debias algo ?

mircea_popescu: so then that

mircea_popescu: prolly work.

mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic the problem of rng quality only appears on large datasets.

mircea_popescu: for 8 bytes nobody can say anything

mircea_popescu: FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF is perfectly random

mircea_popescu: just impossible to verify entropy quality on tiny samples.

mircea_popescu: and yes, it SEEMS it'd have been easy.

mircea_popescu: but only in retrospect.

mircea_popescu: there's a slight difference between stat analysis and entropy measuring, but anyway

mircea_popescu: look at that, Jere_Jones is nao rich, over 51!

mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic actually, probably great way to get random data : select random day from log, select random portion of text, hash it.

mircea_popescu: as anyone reading can attest, this chat is the randomest thing on the planet.

mircea_popescu: $depth meh nm

mircea_popescu: holy shit i totally forgot nubbins!

mircea_popescu: ;;later tell nubbins`omfg you're right!

mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves no i just went ballistic over idiot wannabes stealing shit totally forgetting to mention i got it from him

mircea_popescu: which i guess is ironic

mircea_popescu: Vexual you're too kind lol

mircea_popescu: devthedev i think there's some bets about it

mircea_popescu: nubsy should start that sausage blog already so i can give him a link

mircea_popescu: i no speka

mircea_popescu: who broke the pipes

mircea_popescu: no, his ass is too big.

mircea_popescu: these self improvement idjits are ridiculous by now. "You want to do something that you enjoy every day and then the outcome doesn't matter."

mircea_popescu: derp, jacking off meets those criteria.

mircea_popescu: Jere_Jones the well known headmash on kbd gif

mircea_popescu: doesn't it load ?

mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo indeed.

mircea_popescu: http://sirf-online.org/2014/02/21/how-to-effortlessly-earn-a-riskless-90-on-your-bitcoins-through-the-magic-of-binary-options-trading-or-the-nigerian-email-con-tries-wall-street/ sort-of lulzy

mircea_popescu: kakobrekla again this ghostship of an idea ?

mircea_popescu: it keeps coming back.

mircea_popescu: kakobrekla there was a business cca 2012, different guy

mircea_popescu: it never went anywhere

mircea_popescu: my understanding was that ThickAsThieves is not actually related to neobee ☟︎

mircea_popescu: do you run the havelock asset ?

mircea_popescu: well then.

mircea_popescu: so then basically you run the havelock asset but have no say in anything

mircea_popescu: what's going on in your head ?

mircea_popescu: suppose they split. what do you do then, apologize ?

mircea_popescu: yes. split.

mircea_popescu: i distribute ~1.0 par on the shares and dissolve s.nsa

mircea_popescu: i force him not to

mircea_popescu: and people get ~1.0 par on their shares.

mircea_popescu: not very good examples, there.

mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves roughly. have you seen the s.nsa report ?

mircea_popescu: S.NSA has a total of 4`737`075 authorised shares outstanding. The total assets per share implied value is thus 0.00009980 BTC. The cash+tangible assets per share implied value is thus 0.00009828 BTC.

mircea_popescu: so it's about 0.9828 par atm.

mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves just goes "havelock ? shares ? wat ?"

mircea_popescu: "we never heard of any of this sorry"

mircea_popescu: so ?

mircea_popescu: suppose they get bought out.

mircea_popescu: is this published anywhere ?

mircea_popescu: which means if anything goes south you will be sue-able.

mircea_popescu: at the very least as about five different torts.

mircea_popescu: if the deal goes south in any way your secret contract fails to cover for it any havelock owner can sue you for breach of fiduciary duty

mircea_popescu: as they trusted you and your secret contract to protect their legitimate interest in the matter.

mircea_popescu: and this is merely scratching the surface.

mircea_popescu: "Now, if you look at his Web of Trust ratings, you'll see that pankkake has a rating from user abc4btc with the note

mircea_popescu: "small captcha-for-btc transaction". Two months later MP gave him a rating as a "python dev". MP also has a rating from

mircea_popescu: pankkake for "MPEx and other stuff" (#32218)."

mircea_popescu: definitely!

mircea_popescu: we're in the wot!

mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves if they get no roi on their advertising campaign what happens ?

mircea_popescu: pankkake the lulzy part is the guy has a dota avatar. wtf one could like dota and be that silly.

mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves seems to me you've put yourself in a rather untenable position there, if that's what you're asking.

mircea_popescu: pankkake yup

mircea_popescu: it was pretty fun yeah.

mircea_popescu: very clever

mircea_popescu: o get it, definitely.

mircea_popescu: great humour.

mircea_popescu: that and planescape:torment prolly the best writing in game history.

mircea_popescu: there's about five yards worth of caselaw dealing with undisclosed contracts/relationships and what implications these have.

mircea_popescu: but as a rule of thumb, it opens up the agent to all sorts of liabilities.

mircea_popescu: anyway, as to the direct question, yes.

mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2013/our-emperor-deliver-us/ << this is an instructive example, which was litigated in spite of the thing being quite public, and on a hell of a technicality.

mircea_popescu: now imagine that instead of the two parties, there was a 3rd agent involved on one side.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform kinda different things.

mircea_popescu: https://www.lmb-holdings.com/ this ?

mircea_popescu: no hits for havelock or shares on the main page ?

mircea_popescu: i guess maybe i'm getting a broken version

mircea_popescu: $vwap s.nsa

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform atm trading at like 220% book. i guess you're well regarded.

mircea_popescu: not much volume at all tho

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform probably the number guesser thing

mircea_popescu: aha

mircea_popescu: bizarre arrangement.

mircea_popescu: wtf ?

mircea_popescu: dun do that jeeze

mircea_popescu: sure. a ballwhore.

mircea_popescu: lmao

mircea_popescu: would you do karpeles kakobrekla ?

mircea_popescu: no no, you're payin'. he's got the tits.

mircea_popescu: what, slovenia has a nuclear plant now ?

mircea_popescu: ;;ticker

mircea_popescu: ;;calc 574.306706561 * .7 * 0.00021 * 10**6

mircea_popescu: you're rich bitch :D

mircea_popescu: ;;google slovenia nuclear plant

mircea_popescu: no fucking way

mircea_popescu: "The plant is a 2-loop Westinghouse pressurized water reactor, with a rated thermal capacity of 1,994 thermal megawatts (MWt) and 696 megawatts-electric"

mircea_popescu: ahahaha okay.

mircea_popescu: It runs on [...] demineralized water as the moderator

mircea_popescu: check it out... it's basically a skoda.

mircea_popescu: pretty cool.

mircea_popescu: boroz tito ftw.

mircea_popescu: works.

mircea_popescu: dudes srsly, learn to language

mircea_popescu: all these shits everywhere.

mircea_popescu: if god had wanted stupid letters he;d have made them

mircea_popescu: Đ is for 8====Đ

mircea_popescu: kakobrekla yes. also penis.

mircea_popescu: to the moon!

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i never used one. standard-us my entire lyf.

mircea_popescu: haha tito @stalin

mircea_popescu: stalin stopped.

mircea_popescu: kakobrekla who's that ? nobody in particular ?

mircea_popescu: why, cause that's how you become part of bitcoin, holding a derpference.

mircea_popescu: maybe they can paint a mutt in gold this time

mircea_popescu: dedoged party ?

mircea_popescu: kara-djodje party!

mircea_popescu: The length is stored in an unsigned char type, which will overflow and wrap at 256

mircea_popescu: ahahaha

mircea_popescu: 3! 3 major bugs in like forever!

mircea_popescu: "255 chars should be enought for everyone"

mircea_popescu: anyway, past about 48 characters or so you get no actual further benefit

mircea_popescu: as the hash doesn't carry the entropy iirc.

mircea_popescu: http://31.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7japhRg9F1qaxawwo1_500.jpg

mircea_popescu: "the poor probably need them more thna you do"

mircea_popescu: mhm

mircea_popescu: i'm like the nsa

mircea_popescu: except not evil.

mircea_popescu: Rod you the sirf guy ?

mircea_popescu: meh.

mircea_popescu: ello rod

mircea_popescu: a there you go!

mircea_popescu: so i read your sirf piece, and it is exactly what's needed.

mircea_popescu: so, how do i get you to spend the next decade of your life obsessively covering bitcoin stocks ? ☟︎

mircea_popescu: we have a shitton of the stuff and it needs you desperately.

mircea_popescu: because most of it is horrendous crap.

mircea_popescu: rod yes

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform http://sirf-online.org/2014/02/21/how-to-effortlessly-earn-a-riskless-90-on-your-bitcoins-through-the-magic-of-binary-options-trading-or-the-nigerian-email-con-tries-wall-street/

mircea_popescu: Rod so tell you what i'm gonna do. i'll pay you a bitcoin upfront just to show you i mean business.

mircea_popescu: yes but let me do what i wanna do.

mircea_popescu: you're a nonprofit, you can have it there. got a donation address ?

mircea_popescu: yes well, we hate paypal.

mircea_popescu: tell you what, get a bitcoin address up for donations, maybe some of these scrooges will sweeten the pot

mircea_popescu: and other than that : here's the channel log : http://bitcoin-assets.com

mircea_popescu: sifting through there you can get AT LEAST a subject a day.

mircea_popescu: going back like a year.

mircea_popescu: there is so much you can cover, you will literally not be doing anything else.

mircea_popescu: there are some other people trying to cover things, but they're you know, doing other things.

mircea_popescu: yes.

mircea_popescu: often with humorous results. often with quite painful results.

mircea_popescu: how old are you ?

mircea_popescu: you'll be fine, there's people older than you here

mircea_popescu: course they're petrified of me, but hey.

mircea_popescu: o.o

mircea_popescu: Rod so wait, you have a bitcoin wallet then ?

mircea_popescu: ah i see.

mircea_popescu: go to blockchain.info, you can set one up in like a minute

mircea_popescu: do not keep much value there however.

mircea_popescu: getting a proper wallet will require some more downloading and reading, which i encourage you to do, but it will take time.

mircea_popescu: ;;google trilema bitcoin drama timeline

mircea_popescu: that first link is a decent primer i guess.

mircea_popescu: if you want to autosell your bitcoins you can prolly use bitpay

mircea_popescu: if youwant to keep them prolly blockchain.info, or sure, multibit.org

mircea_popescu: i think bitpay actually pays out to paypal ? not even sure, never used them myself.

mircea_popescu: .d

mircea_popescu: good idea.

mircea_popescu: ;;estimate

mircea_popescu: pankkake i think it at least tries to

mircea_popescu: it's about 18 yeah

mircea_popescu: that should be interesting

mircea_popescu: nubbins` doesn't seem so.

mircea_popescu: interestingly mod priced it 6:4

mircea_popescu: pankkake you're a good man.

mircea_popescu: !jd

mircea_popescu: kinda

mircea_popescu: i've not been watching it much, other than to marvel in disbelief how the profit just won't revert to normal.

mircea_popescu: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/03/03/140303fa_fact_khatchadourian?currentPage=all

mircea_popescu: check it out! i share articles from march 3, 2014!

mircea_popescu: rob no problem

mircea_popescu: you can drop by any time, too

mircea_popescu: (this is probably the best place to get in touch with me)

mircea_popescu: what am i going to do with more owmenz ?

mircea_popescu: Duffer1 whatever he picks, he can be at it until the cows come home

mircea_popescu: twizt there's a bitbet bet about it going under 150

mircea_popescu: probably by now the only point of interest re mtgox left.

mircea_popescu: pankkake yesterday was yesterday.

mircea_popescu: so next time bet.

mircea_popescu: diametric yeah

mircea_popescu: http://bitbet.us/bet/751/mtgox-out-of-business-in-2014/ << there's also that

mircea_popescu: later all.