mircea_popescu: asciilifeform https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=507529.0 :p

mircea_popescu: andspeaking of which, copumpkin check this guy out https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?PHPSESSID=ul25uaqbfplpcom0n928ij4sa3&topic=507529.msg5681654#msg5681654

mircea_popescu: yeah it is

mircea_popescu: what was that ?

mircea_popescu: wild ? you did not know that ?

mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves you can have both

mircea_popescu: cads sonar was made for that application.

mircea_popescu: ;;later tell bitcoinpete you've seen the mainstage production of tom green's freddie got fingered ?! that existed ?!

mircea_popescu: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/vladimir-putin/10695204/Paranoia-leads-Vladimir-Putin-to-the-point-of-no-return.html

mircea_popescu: this is perhaps the best i've read on the topic, for any value of best equal "entertaining due to the propaganda dial being turned to such 11, the insanity of the whole process becomes obvious even to the casual observer resulting in an unintentional self-parody quality"

mircea_popescu: it's epic, ima write it up.

mircea_popescu: joecool sorry ?

mircea_popescu: o as in 1st ? hehe. maybe in some timezones.

mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves i think there's a special command like addkey or somesuch

mircea_popescu: you'll gotta read the docs

mircea_popescu: seems you got both.

mircea_popescu: aha wd.

mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves open terminal, go "gpg" paste it there

mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2014/lets-do-the-telegraph/

mircea_popescu: ;;later tell jborkl_ perhaps the oil painting example is weak, seeing how the artist would probably benefit from being physically present for the wedding.

mircea_popescu: ;;later tell jborkl_ the point about "over regulate people" is vague, in that nobody, from obama to ayn rand, believe their activity is "over regulatory". indeed, all over regulators in history carefully consider the point of over regulation (in their own reference frame) and decide they're being reasonable.

mircea_popescu: and for that matter it'd be a lot saner if you stuck around for few hours after asking for input on an article in so i don't have to make gribble work overtime

mircea_popescu: anyway, the statement of that point im happy with is in http://trilema.com/2013/stage-n-bitcoin-exists/

mircea_popescu: specifically, "As far as experience shows, people don’t tend to support states that either stupidly or unwittingly include rules among their enemies. You can’t win a war against math, or against drugs, or against “social injustice”, or “kulaks”. Soon after the Soviet government moved its focus from entities to rules, it lost the support of the people. Soon after the other-Soviet government moved its focus f

mircea_popescu: rom entities to rules, it also lost the support of the people. There weren’t that many people burning American flags in 1860, you know ? Why do you think not ? You can support a government killing Indians, or bison. You can’t support a government fighting chemical compounds."

mircea_popescu: this'd be a better distinction than simply over/under, because it's a difference in kind not degree.

mircea_popescu: ymmv.

mircea_popescu: you need a tower reasonably close

mircea_popescu: then again... chinese people. someone probably told them not to use cell phones

mircea_popescu: and so they didn't. period.

mircea_popescu: did they ever get fitted with that in the end ?

mircea_popescu: moiety what did you do ?

mircea_popescu: o o hehe

mircea_popescu: yeah srsly, prolly white noise most effectual

mircea_popescu: haha cell mitm ?

mircea_popescu: this is engineering these days.

mircea_popescu: the whole banking system was well fucked, what with its odd notions of a cheque

mircea_popescu: so knowing that, let's build another whole industry on rotten basics

mircea_popescu: i have no idea who exactly would wish to live in a world where a company making a product asks any government what it thinks on the topic.

mircea_popescu: it's by now a mistake to see anything in the us command economy as meaningfully separate from anything else.

mircea_popescu: they've plainly confessed to it what with the "too big to fail" doctrine,

mircea_popescu: which is strctly command economy under another name

mircea_popescu: i guess so.

mircea_popescu: hey, even sacred monsters a la buffett are reduced to teary eyed confessions of belief in the party, even at the zenith of their career/intellectual lucidity

mircea_popescu: someone did this as power moved from lenin to stalin but i don't recall who the fuck

mircea_popescu: they wheeled in some ancient revolutionary bolshevik to praise the party.

mircea_popescu: joecool i guess there's a good point here, in the sense that the infrastructure is really old, phreakin did exist, what is one to do

mircea_popescu: but let me point out that digital comms is a whole new industry.

mircea_popescu: none of the old infrastructure was usable, not really, towers is one thing copper is another and so on

mircea_popescu: my original comments refer strictly to this, while old landline is what it is, nobody forced cellphones to suck

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes that's him.

mircea_popescu: soo, the missing plane is placed between kazakhstan and turkmenistan now ?

mircea_popescu: the false flag conpiracy theory is getting better and better hah

mircea_popescu: cazalla

mircea_popescu: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-S3iw8xgb964/Udcz4b_ly9I/AAAAAAAAYrw/dJWKscaa8r8/s1600/1111No-MoreAK-47sSaysSpyMasterAnnaChapman-Aa-468x547.jpg

mircea_popescu: the what ?

mircea_popescu: haha where was this ?

mircea_popescu: the two seem unrelated ?

mircea_popescu: you mixing two articles together ?

mircea_popescu: Mar 15 03:49:38 <bitcoinpete>;;later tell mircea_popescu: I should check out the film, I've only seen the mainstage production :)

mircea_popescu: o o okay.

mircea_popescu: why would one want to hasten it.

mircea_popescu: these purists.

mircea_popescu: hey, i had it without reading it. purist argument from dumbland.

mircea_popescu: i suppose ceramic armor plates on tanks don't shoot, either, and so it's immoral to spend military funds on armor plating research and deployment

mircea_popescu: themisescircle said so

mircea_popescu: ;;estimate

mircea_popescu: DiabloD3: yeah I dont know why more men dont use prenups << because most men are deadbeats anyway.

mircea_popescu: or in george's gf's words, "Ha.Ha.Ha. ha...You don't have any money. I make more money than you do. ha. ha. ha. Yeah.. give me the papers I'll sign 'em.( she leaves) a pre-nup..."

mircea_popescu: where do you bury them all.

mircea_popescu: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1w8tib/neo_bee_zipzap_danny_brewster_serious_concerns/

mircea_popescu: so to this day if i google "neobee" i get 1st a havelock link and 2nd a webmail account for neobee.net, then reddit and btctalk pages.

mircea_popescu: meanwhile a 23yo fuckwith stated that "The public facing websites are being tied into the advertising campaign which starts on 1st Feb. If you have concerns about me then so be it, if you would also like me to spend my time delivering updates then just say, however I do look forward to proving posts like these wrong."

mircea_popescu: we're not on the 1st of february, nor are we on the first of march, nor are we living in the alternative world where craig woods is a businesswoman or danny webster a ceo.

mircea_popescu: kinda sums up nicely the earlier http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-03-2014#560018 ☝︎

mircea_popescu: also would be nice to get a read as to whether danny webster is an uneducated welder from Leicestershire who tends to get involved in street fights. his subnormal mug certainly supports that theory.

mircea_popescu: http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/Leicestershire-man-coma-hospital-Cyprus-holiday/story-19428449-detail/story.html <that'd be the reference.

mircea_popescu: yeah.

mircea_popescu: funny how people who can't afford personal travel arrangements in june are suddenly ceos in september.

mircea_popescu: time for new retards ?

mircea_popescu: "To understand the change, we need to look at some major factors that affect levels of corporate profitability generally. Businesses in industries with both substantial over-capacity and a “commodity” product (undifferentiated in any customer-important way by factors such as performance, appearance, service support, etc.) are prime candidates for profit troubles. These may be escaped, true, if prices or costs are

mircea_popescu: administered in some manner and thereby insulated at least partially from normal market forces. This administration can be carried out (a) legally through government intervention (until recently, this category included pricing for truckers and deposit costs for financial institutions), (b) illegally through collusion, or (c) “extra-legally” through OPEC-style foreign cartelization (with tag-along benefits for dom

mircea_popescu: estic non-cartel operators).

mircea_popescu: If, however, costs and prices are determined by full-bore competition, there is more than ample capacity, and the buyer cares little about whose product or distribution services he uses, industry economics are almost certain to be unexciting. They may well be disastrous."

mircea_popescu: buffet on the topic of "god forbid the free market works"

mircea_popescu: ohsnap.jpg

mircea_popescu: in other news, http://25.media.tumblr.com/7bfcdda0062963b9fd89c2f05d95dea9/tumblr_mtmbhf6lwn1rztzruo1_1280.jpg

mircea_popescu: i have no idea.

mircea_popescu: i've not followed it either. how do they look ?

mircea_popescu: http://cy.linkedin.com/pub/danny-brewster/75/95/552 < so is that him ?

mircea_popescu: ok, so where did he go to school ?

mircea_popescu: well guy can answer in his own time, what's the big deal.

mircea_popescu: i don't talk privately to nobodies, in general. so he can answer and that's all.

mircea_popescu: https://www.google.com/search?q=danny+brewster+cyprus&complete=0#complete=0&q=danny+brewster+lmh+holdings that doesn't look much better either.

mircea_popescu: gives the man the space to shine.

mircea_popescu: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/neo-bee.com < kinda curious how much that weeklong blip cost in fiat terms

mircea_popescu: LA TESTIMONIANZA. Me lo conferma Pascal, gigolò romano. “Sono stato contattato da un’imprenditrice svizzera – dice in esclusiva a “Sex and Rome”-. Durante la cena, tra una chiacchiera e l’altra, in attesa di passare dal vino al letto, scopro che anche lei, come me, ha investito nei bitcoin e sfruttato la bolla di marzo”

mircea_popescu: lol.

mircea_popescu: ;;ticker

mircea_popescu: ;;ticker --eur

mircea_popescu: ;;ticker --curreency eur

mircea_popescu: ;;ticker --currency eur

mircea_popescu: these were bitstamp

mircea_popescu: ;;tslb

mircea_popescu: "A Rational Discussion Medium Focusing on Cryptocurrency, Cryptography and Privacy Claim your bitcointalk.org username on Cryptanalys.is to redeem your free karma today!" ☟︎

mircea_popescu: moiety is that you ?

mircea_popescu: heh mkay.

mircea_popescu: seems like it

mircea_popescu: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/03/02/meet-littleredbunny-the-queen-of-cam-girls.html#url=/articles/2014/03/02/meet-littleredbunny-the-queen-of-cam-girls.html

mircea_popescu: teh press at its best

mircea_popescu: "She says that on a typical night on cam she can lose up to five pounds from all the work."

mircea_popescu: fatties have no excuse now.

mircea_popescu: considering she didn't get fired over her blunder re: pirate, back in 2012, in spite of all the gigavps & co lobbying...

mircea_popescu: seems unlikely.

mircea_popescu: http://bitbet.us/bet/712/bitcoin-difficulty-over-5-6b-before-april/

mircea_popescu: if this thing ends up yes...

mircea_popescu: .d

mircea_popescu: ;;calc 5.6 / 4.25

mircea_popescu: not even that impossible.

mircea_popescu: ;;calc 4.25 * 1.3 ** 3

mircea_popescu: meanwhile http://bitbet.us/bet/740/may-i-suggest-9b-difficulty/ actually has better odds

mircea_popescu: haha

mircea_popescu: ah 1970s, i missed you so. welcome back.

mircea_popescu: FabianB do you see a way to convert x.idiff prices into bitbet diff bet odds ?

mircea_popescu: "today on Victories of Socialism : we have caught the other boys' model airplane!!1"

mircea_popescu: FabianB this'd be an interesting project i guess, it's not directly obvious to me how the to prices'd relate

mircea_popescu: chetty maybe it's still fl\ying.

mircea_popescu: i guess that introduces an extra leg of risk there huh.

mircea_popescu: but still, i'd eventually expect mining to settle down and 2.9x increases over a period to be rare.

mircea_popescu: possibly.

mircea_popescu: ;;calc 1.08**13

mircea_popescu: yeah, basically if period increases settle around 8% then it'll be all covered.

mircea_popescu: hahaha

mircea_popescu: so the us is nao a rogue state.

mircea_popescu: cool, hopefully the russians also freeze a buncha us citizen's assets, and fiat truely collapses in a pre-hansa state of disarray

mircea_popescu: now i gotta read this thing

mircea_popescu: FabianB the last exercise closed at 908350862, so if made after dec they'd be covered to ~263421 per neh ?

mircea_popescu: I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, find that the actions and policies of persons -- including persons who have asserted governmental authority in the Crimean region without the authorization of the Government of Ukraine -- that undermine democratic processes and institutions in Ukraine; threaten its peace, security, stability, sovereignty, and territorial integrity; and contribute to the misapp

mircea_popescu: ropriation of its assets, constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States, and I hereby declare a national emergency to deal with that threat.

mircea_popescu: pretty fucking epic.

mircea_popescu: "(v) to be owned or controlled by, or to have acted or purported to act for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order. "

mircea_popescu: that includes lawyers ?

mircea_popescu: "(b) The prohibitions in subsection (a) of this section apply except to the extent provided by statutes, or in regulations, orders, directives, or licenses that may be issued pursuant to this order, and notwithstanding any contract entered into or any license or permit granted prior to the effective date of this order. "

mircea_popescu: "we won't keep our word as to what we have promised in the past

mircea_popescu: and we don't intend to keep our word given here as to not keeping our word either"

mircea_popescu: total liar's instrument this shti.

mircea_popescu: " I hereby determine that the making of donations of the type of articles specified in section 203(b)(2) of IEEPA (50 U.S.C. 1702(b)(2)) by, to, or for the benefit of any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to section 1 of this order would seriously impair my ability to deal with the national emergency declared in this order, and I hereby prohibit such donations as provided by section 1

mircea_popescu: of this order. "

mircea_popescu: check it, the us president thinks has the authority to forbide donations ?!

mircea_popescu: "For those persons whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order who might have a constitutional presence in the United States, I find that because of the ability to transfer funds or other assets instantaneously, prior notice to such persons of measures to be taken pursuant to this order would render those measures ineffectual. I therefore determine that for these measures to be effective ☟︎

mircea_popescu: in addressing the national emergency declared in this order, there need be no prior notice of a listing or determination made pursuant to section 1 of this order. "

mircea_popescu: "This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person. "

mircea_popescu: very lulzy.

mircea_popescu: so basically... the us has no law, fuggedaboutit.

mircea_popescu: from now on the correct response to anyone asking if some bitcoin corp is "licensed" or "incorporated" or legally operating within the us is simply pointing out that there exists no such thing as a united states jurisdiction, robber baron claims notwithstanding.

mircea_popescu: to anyone who doesn't much give a shit about the us, i would guess.

mircea_popescu: funny what juju that clown thinks he has, seriously.

mircea_popescu: no moar mental hospitals in the us ?

mircea_popescu: im at a loss as to what exact tumbleweeds need to be rolling around in one's skull for the notion to form that any one of those paragraphs is something he can come up with.

mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2011/психушка/ liek ?

mircea_popescu: that's okay, your schizophrenia isn't sluggish at all :D

mircea_popescu: you know, if some fuckwit comes out and declares he can shit cake,

mircea_popescu: whether he subsequently shits cake or not, the proposition is still laughable.

mircea_popescu: this ain't empiricism over here.

mircea_popescu: because why ?

mircea_popescu: such brave new world.

mircea_popescu: FabianB makes no diff tho, it's not prorated by days

mircea_popescu: it's just by periods, 2.9^intervals.

mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves afaik it was 50%

mircea_popescu: by the way - today's the absolute last day to get in the april conference,

mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2013/the-conference-second-edition/

mircea_popescu: mjr didja ever sort it out ?

mircea_popescu: if i recall he got well plastered clubbing last time, mebbe the lady objects.

mircea_popescu: anywya, mike_c is the winner of the little unofficial competition "who gets the lowest btc invite"

mircea_popescu: wait wut ?

mircea_popescu: so many forums

mircea_popescu: "Was trusted" around here in the past. You lost trust months ago and it will take months if not longer to get it back.

mircea_popescu: sums it up just about

mircea_popescu: http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bdaybhumor_8246.jpg

mircea_popescu: opera conspicuously absent

mircea_popescu: http://www.capitalfm.co.ke/news/2014/03/seven-dead-as-job-seekers-stampede-at-nigerian-stadium/

mircea_popescu: "All 10 presidential candidates for the April 5 election have said they would sign the security agreement if elected. But Karzai does not want his legacy to include a commitment to extending a foreign military presence."

mircea_popescu: pretty good.

mircea_popescu: i have no idea.

mircea_popescu: you... passed out ? what, drinking ?

mircea_popescu: lolk

mircea_popescu: http://25.media.tumblr.com/cb252fa2b1e06da237e1ef787de2a6ab/tumblr_mhg9xqYO0a1s27xouo1_1280.jpg << male or female ?

mircea_popescu: looks more like a shaved doberman tbh

mircea_popescu: don't pass out.

mircea_popescu: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-brU4OUkRPb4/UbIc01JalPI/AAAAAAAAGKU/Fd9k8lq9Qio/s1600/doberman-ears.jpg

mircea_popescu: "hello we have no idea what r u doing"

mircea_popescu: they're getting ready to play

mircea_popescu: DOBERBALL

mircea_popescu: need more cheaper doctors.

mircea_popescu: o hey just what i needed

mircea_popescu: no it is. i'm teaching a slavegirl basic trig

mircea_popescu: and i don't think she really groked the circle thing

mircea_popescu: slaves gotta know errything

mircea_popescu: inasmuch as the flesh trade goes, nothing beats the flesh itself.

mircea_popescu: but anyway, bbl, gotta attend to... things.