moiety: youplay video games at the pub?!
moiety: i wanna go to that pub!
thestringpuller: well there is an arcade pub, with old 90's arcade games scattered about.
thestringpuller: but the one I'm going to is a skateboard ride away. So I can get drunk as shit and skate home.
moiety: sounds dangerous thestringpuller lol
mircea_popescu: DreadKnight mass slow + berserk + blind on a hero with infinte mp and archers against a slow infantry -> carnage.
DreadKnight: mircea_popescu, totally; still reading comments actually, I got a bit of nostalgia now :D nice to see lots of comments on your blog made by krossfire as well
DreadKnight: got the privilege to meet him back in the day I started getting into game development
DreadKnight: I wonder why he hasn't sticked with making games, he had quite a few decent prototypes done in pretty much no time
DreadKnight: back then it sure was the case for indie game devs
DreadKnight: will try to catch up with him soon, it's been too long
DreadKnight: last time I talked to him about 2-3 years ago, I recall his latest game with the zeppelin that he wanted me to try
DreadKnight: he seems to be more into tweeting that blogging nowadays xD
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mircea_popescu: we're doing ~ 1.5mn impressions/hour atm. curious if it does anything.
mike_c: holy shit. that must be in a lot of places?
assbot: MS Paint Fan Adventures
mike_c: hopefully a big hole full of bitcoin
assbot: Bose decides today IS F*** With Dre Day: Beats sued in patent spat The Register
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform do you see the wol banner in the oglaf site ? (ab ove) ?
decimation: no, they are suing someone who has $3 bn
decimation: lawsuits are only useful if there's blood to suck from the other party
mike_c: well, they are suing apple now right?
decimation: ascii what about those isolating in-ear buds?
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform ashamed to admit, owns some bose hardware. mainly because nobody else comes close in plain old noise zapping. (tried many vendors.) << I feel that
BingoBoingo: Bose filters are great even if the fundamentals suck
BingoBoingo: Ah usuausll I commect input to somgs of my people
decimation: do you find them more comfortable than head-clamp style headphones?
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: <asciilifeform> then somebody asks 'why not shooting plugs?' and answer, 'try wearing those for 14 hrs' << actually had a weird dream last night
BingoBoingo: Went aroung too long begging for an SKS in the middle of zombies
BingoBoingo: Trraded beloved watch for working rifle in this dream
decimation: turns out that the beats by dre headphones suck at delivering bass too
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> BingoBoingo: my understanding is that this is virtually unheard of << Turned out all of the other patent people held .308 winchester rifles I was the long 7.62x54R party to this fight against the undead
BingoBoingo: Short story, this morning's bitcoin burning went to a pound of firing pins
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> BingoBoingo: phun phact. russia produced 308 winchester since early 1970s. why? brezhnev received a costly hunting rifle as a gift from usa. needed to feed it... << Similar with stalin and his 1911
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: But Russia has crates of them intended for Thompson
BingoBoingo: Unless submerged bullets don't aged to poorly
BingoBoingo: Officer model 1911 and clones are still popular concealed carry pieces
decimation: I would get the 7.62x39 with a suppressor (after all the ATF paperwork)
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mike_c: lol, never saw that one
BingoBoingo: decimation> I would get the 7.62x39 with a suppressor (after all the ATF paperwork) << for delicate shit in missouri suppressors are a thing and most .22 lr semi autos have tons of accesories available
assbot: The crime of being American pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
decimation: my office mate got a suppressor recently, took 9 months for ATF to approve paperwork
decimation: because you know someone wanting to keep from going deaf while shooting game needs to be regulated
mike_c: ah, i do remember that post
mircea_popescu: synergy : because of wol author of that cartoon can now get a little money.
BingoBoingo: <decimation> my office mate got a suppressor recently, took 9 months for ATF to approve paperwork << Missouri to missouri lacks the hurdles
decimation: he had a practical use for it too: was out hunting, saw deer, didn't have time to apply hearing protection before getting off a shot (with 30-06), his ears rang for several hours
BingoBoingo: <decimation> my office mate got a suppressor recently, took 9 months for ATF to approve paperwork << Walther P-22 or whatever no wait with a probably missouri residence
BingoBoingo: <decimation> he had a practical use for it too: was out hunting, saw deer, didn't have time to apply hearing protection before getting off a shot (with 30-06), his ears rang for several hours << This is why supressors are UK legal
decimation: afaik they are legal and common throughout northern europe (where guns are legal)
decimation: what purpose does it serve to require people who shoot guns to deafen themselves?
BingoBoingo: <decimation> what purpose does it serve to require people who shoot guns to deafen themselves? << Puritan baggage
BingoBoingo: decimation: Mazing though that the two most killing calibers here are .22 lr and police 9mm and .38
BingoBoingo: decimation: What else do people keep stats for?
decimation: .22 lr pistols have always been popular
BingoBoingo: Also .22 lr hollow points have just enough space for a bit of pleasantly colored phosphorous
decimation: um, why would you want phosphorous in your round?
BingoBoingo: <decimation> .22 lr pistols have always been popular << Problem is they don't cycle well on subsonic loads
BingoBoingo: <decimation> um, why would you want phosphorous in your round? << fire
decimation: so you can burn someone from the inside after your hollow point smashes their organs?
BingoBoingo: <decimation> um, why would you want phosphorous in your round?
BingoBoingo: decimation: WIth .22 lr not usually persons, groundhogs and other vermin
BingoBoingo: Anyways normal .22 lr blunt lead cheap shit tens to ricohet in the skull after it penetrates
BingoBoingo: For small mamammals though that extra burn sves a shot or two
BingoBoingo: Big mammals you have to get them to accept they are dying...
DreadKnight: mircea_popescu, seems you forgot to translate "Un blog de" into english
mike_c: ;;later tell fluffypony i gave that guy your handle, he may come ask you about the job
thestringpuller: I get nice and drunk, then step on my board - and voila - gravity takes me home.
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DreadKnight: I managed to bump into a parked car in a similar scenario
thestringpuller: DreadKnight: I live in the suburbs so there is either 1) speeding cars or 2) no cars
btc111_: is MPEX still selling 5000:1 ether for march expiry?
DreadKnight: thestringpuller, I see; you said the pub has arcades?
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RooK314: Well I finally get here and seakazoo leaves for the night
btc111_: wahts the default risk on those contracts?
btc111_: trying to model the default risk into my structured product
RooK314: She's a friend of mine. We are going to get her into some investments, not sure what yet
assbot: I’ll pay for your tits pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
RooK314: That's a possibility. You have to talk to her lol
RooK314: I highly doubt anyone would want to see my tits
btc111_: MP: 0 sounds like a bit of a stretch. im seriously interested in buying those contracts... do you have enough BTC to cover if ehter hits 200:1 ?
mircea_popescu: 0 is not a bit of a stretch. the central bank is nominally 0 risk in any economic system.
btc111_: MP: who's the central bank here?
btc111_: MP: you have unlimited BTC to cover if ehter rises?
mircea_popescu: i have more btc than what eth can ever be worth, ever.
btc111_: hah. interesting statement. care to elaborate? im not trolling... don't you think the hype will push it higher when it launches?
Duffer1: the question is whether or not it will still exist this time next year
mircea_popescu: btc111_ you overvalue hype. this isn't fucking feminism, or some other internet thing where what people say matter.
mircea_popescu: people can hype all they want, i deflated the dogecoin hype just fine, what's so special about eth ?
btc111_: MP: turing complete contracts
btc111_: MP: if ethereum hasn't launched by march, do the contracts expire worthless?
DreadKnight: if dealing with bitcoins, do I have to bother with taxes?
Duffer1: depends on jurisdiction and how legal you want to be
btc111_: MP: ah, nevermind then -- i could see them being at least 6-8 months delayed
mircea_popescu: DreadKnight that's something to ask your tax attorney not the internets.
mircea_popescu: btc111_ the notion that they have the discipline to maintain work on that thing after 9 months' delay six months from now is beyond ridiculous.
mircea_popescu: the average lifespan for a blog is about 13 months, and that's an upper bound for dumbass internet kids and their projects.
Duffer1: 9 months delay + 5k? free btc..
assbot: Strict Liability pg 1 | The Illustrated Guide to Law
DreadKnight: so how come big companies like Apple and such don't buy back all the shares? I can think of a few possible reasons but maybe I'm missing something important...
DreadKnight: well nvm, reading up a lot of articles on the subject
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assbot: The crime of being American pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
benkay: can't quite say what i am
benkay: "optimizer of future degrees of freedom" is the closes i've come lately.
assbot: The crime of being American pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
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benkay takes note of all the places new MPEx properties advertise
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benkay: in derpy consulting companyville, a small and attention-draining project has been completed and discharged which is *awesome*, for both the money and the cognitive bandwidth. we've an agreement in principle with another client to take more of a technical project management role, handling more of the coordination of roadmap + code production and moving the product along while the ceo feller focuses on sales and other higher-level
benkay: and another project is basically closed but we're still in the dance-around-and-grab-at-each-other's-nuts phase w/r/t actual working relationship and what has one
benkay: vision for next 2 years is to grab bigger and bigger slices of the pie, maybe using mobile as a wedge and demonstrating kickassery and then expanding scope to whatever can be had and paid for.
benkay: i'm starting to realize also that an engineering team that's blitting from one project to another is never going to be as effective as the same team focused on roadmap and cohesive set of business objectives.
benkay: which in retrospect, duh
benkay: subject only of stories that are not scams or threesomes
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jurov: "we're still in the dance-around-and-grab-at-each-other's-nuts phase" benkay is a poet
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cazalla: it's a lot of fun fluffypony
cazalla: it's just the total lack of sex that shocked me more than anything
cazalla: comic needs to add baby is also covered in piss and vomit, not just shit
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fluffypony: "A market map of the entire Bitcoin startup ecosystem"
fluffypony: ie. who got given money for their shitty idea
kakobrekla: coindesk "hey i am spam in your email, want to give me money for an article"
☟︎ kakobrekla: bit4x "wait, let me find the quote, go fuck yourself"
Duffer1: nm i already stopped caring
ThickAsThieves: i didnt know Portishead made a new album in 2008, it's actually good as the other stuff
atcbot: [ATC Diff] Current Diff: 687182.56 Est. Next Diff: 613819.23 in 990 blocks (#42336) Est. % Change: -10.68
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kuzetsa: mircea_popescu: what's with the spam tool?
mircea_popescu: (i made some comments about buying traffic yest, now im innundated with people pitching their various traffic generating offerings. some are lulzy)
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DreadKnight: yeah, a lot of shady people are using bots and such to sell their magic crapware
DreadKnight: facebook allows for scheduled posts anyway, pretty powerful stuff, considering most posts don't make it to your fans and you need to spam
DreadKnight: my fb wall is filled with cleavage, gj Mark.
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: cleavage ain't that bad. <- that's what Klye thought too :-P
fluffypony: he thought cleavage was going to make him millions
DreadKnight: it worked pretty well with Riot and League of Legends, lots characters / skins having that in-game and there's also Nikasaur chick presenting the community fanart showcase on youtube channel
DreadKnight: that game is like tailored for underage wankers
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assbot: Stupid fucking white man.
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decimation: lol over the butthurt re: amazon posting quartly loss:
decimation: Bezos insists on taking the long view. In his letter to shareholders last year, he responded to criticism about spending by saying investing in a "just-in-time fashion would be too clever by half."
assbot: Far-reaching ambitions, no profits, worry Amazon investors - Moneycontrol.com
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mircea_popescu: y saying investing in a "just-in-time fashion would be too clever by half." << guy's got a point. he shgould be here.
decimation: amazon benefits from being one of the few well-run companies in the us right now - this gives them the power to create their own frame
benkay: right, last trade vs. orders on books
mircea_popescu: actually tbh bezos may be the only guy in the derpeconomy of websites and whatnot that i actually like.
decimation: derps have no choice but to invest in amazon because they don't see any good alternatives
decimation: then they whine when quarterly payouts are not forthcoming
assbot: Jeff Bezos PowerPoint prohibition | Philanthropy Daily
decimation: Ed Tufte is a little crazy but his classes are worth taking. His position is that you present your ideas in the form of an essay or paper. Then you talk about the salient points and field questions. The projector is for showing information dense pictures, like the baseball stats page from a newspaper
assbot: Edward Tufte: Books - Essay: The Cognitive Style of Powerpoint
decimation: it's short, but has pretty pictures and is easy to understand for n00bs
assbot: Original Warren Buffett Partnership Agreement Found Here | StockRip
decimation: he writes about how powerpoint contributed to retardation at nasa which lead to the shuttle's destruction
mircea_popescu: the problem is exactly what he states : pp makes it easier for the presenter, harder for the audience. this is not a tradeoff you want
mircea_popescu: unless, of course, you're trying to make everyone dumber.
decimation: which is generally the goal of most gov't meetings, gov't education, etc
mircea_popescu: right. then it becomes fashionable and before you know it the dumb broads in your household are giving pps to each other. and you can't do shit about it, because they're not your slaves, they're your "equal partners"
mircea_popescu: in fact : traditional views on sexuality impose monogamy as a standard because that's the only way to hide just how dumb and inept a commune actually is : by keeping it real small.
mircea_popescu: try a family of a coupla dozen wives that are all "equal partners" and see.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it will, yes. it will resurect the not-yet-corpses and make the rest obvious.
Duffer1: mircea_popescu "..and that ETH trades on a reputable exchange" has "reputable" been defined?
mircea_popescu: "just get rid of her if she's annoying" leads directly to "and get rid of any slaves that can't cope with no pp or complain enough"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: obviously i'll be buying some once it comes out. if shit happens like on icbit , where your bids are simply ignored while it "sells" to lower bids... then it's not reputable.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform welcome to the world of a different set of idiocy.
decimation: My favorite thing about it are the random code snippets that are supposed to demonstrate how awesome it is, but in fact demonstrate that it's crazy
mircea_popescu: decimation if this gets funded ima allow interested buyers to take positions. either directly or via bitbet.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform according to their own claims, they got > 5k btc deposited by people looking to get a total 10mn of the shits.
decimation: I guess it's one of these turing-complete contract bitcoin wanna-bes - I haven't seen any serious analysis of the codebase yet
Duffer1: speaking of.. i haven't heard any ripple news in a while..
decimation: ascii re:premined - monkey can't let go of banana in trap...
decimation: quite. To be fair, satoshi still has his hand on the banana
decimation: but that kind of opportunity only comes around once a century or two
mircea_popescu: <decimation> quite. To be fair, satoshi still has his hand on the banana << i don't see it.
assbot: BBC Sport - Argentina FA fined 20,000 for Falklands banner display
decimation: mircea, are you saying satoshi's horde doesn't exist?
assbot: The Coins Source Trust Index
decimation: is there a published analysis of the early blockchain?
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decimation: that's alot but not enough to shake the foundations of bitcoin
mircea_popescu: decimation i am aware. it's not "his" estimation. there's been this thing pushed around since 2011ish, a meme equivalent to "who really is satoshi"
mircea_popescu: decimation it's just... you know. pretty much everyone i know who's been mining in 2010 has actually lost the majority of bitcoin they ever mined. irrespective if they still mine or not.
mircea_popescu: and besides, artforz is likely a much larger holder than satoshi himself. IF he had any sense.
mircea_popescu: which judging by his disappearance, he prolly did have.
assbot: Chain Archaeology - Answers from the early blockchain
decimation: yeah I agree, I had mined in 2010 and lost much of it unfortunately
mircea_popescu: so, yeah. people like to dream. one dream they like to dream is that they'll be the sherlock that'll discover "the real satoshi". another dream they like to dream is the vicarious wealth of amillionbtc.
mircea_popescu: there's nothing wrong with this any more than there's anything wrong with watching animated pony cartoons.
mircea_popescu: when one starts pretendling like reality, going to school in their pony suit and mixing fiction in power points... well... that's actually unhealty.
mircea_popescu: i don't get what that coinsource thing is supposed to be.
mircea_popescu: if only they had a smidgeon of business sense to start back in 2013 by coming here, they'd have actually had a future.
assbot: In the Balance : Hispanic Population's Share of Wealth Likely to Increase by 2025
decimation: The U.S.'s Hispanic population was about 50.5 million in 2010, representing 16.3 percent of the total population (Table 1).1 According to the Federal Reserve's Survey of Consumer Finances and its Financial Accounts of the United States, Hispanic families had about ... about 2.2 percent of total wealth ... In summary, we project the Hispanic share of total wealth to increase from 2.2 percent in 2010 to either 2.6 percent or 3.2
decimation: percent of the economy's total wealth by 2025
mircea_popescu: inasmuch as some jews are hispanic, im sure it will increase.
assbot: Wealth Share of Hispanic Population May Triple by 2025 | St. Louis Fed On the Economy
mircea_popescu: this is such idiocy. rich people are rich people. they're not "hispanic", they're rich.
mircea_popescu: there's exactly zilch that the "share of wealtyh of the hispanic population" means.
mircea_popescu: this entire situation is reminiscent of someone trying to "enhance" abstinence-only sexed by reports about how "women's orgasms per capita set to increase this year"
mircea_popescu: people who're not fucking aren't going to be interested, unless, of course, they're retarded.
decimation: just as rich folk could give a tinker's damn what some poor mexican thinks about how things ought to be
assbot: Decadence Is Not Physical « Isegoria
decimation: "Decadence is a moral and spiritual disease, resulting from too long a period of wealth and power, producing cynicism, decline of religion, pessimism and frivolity. The citizens of such a nation will no longer make an effort to save themselves, because they are not convinced that anything in life is worth saving."
chetty: I wonder, does the poor Mexican give a tinkers damn either?
decimation: not really, because he thinks he is rich compared to his cousins back home
mircea_popescu: Daniel: "We believe that we can build a better future. We believe that we can enable all to participate in a revolution of collective ownership, something that will radically shift the nature of human society." wtf; are they socialists? <<< lulzy danielpbarron
mircea_popescu: decimation it only indirectly results from a too long period of wealth and power. i know, for i've been wealthy and powerful my entire life. the trick is to not buy into comfort. that's the direct causation : once people become comfortable and think "i'm too wealthy and powerful to be here fucking with a wrench inside this engine on the side of a road".
mircea_popescu: pretty soon it's "we're too cool for our children to be killed off like the worthless shitbags they are"
mircea_popescu: and from there on... anyone with a wrench can wrench a deal out of you.
decimation: for some of them, they could be making more money not fixing things and hiring a guy
mircea_popescu: decimation the problem is exactly there : a roman citizen is required to be part of the army, even if he could serve the republic "better" elsewhere.
mircea_popescu: the point is specifically to be able to serve everywhere, so to speak,
mircea_popescu: because the relative value of things can't really be fixed.
mircea_popescu: decimation but you see the signs of decadence much closer to home : the moment people start shying away from calling someone a cunt in the street, because o noes, we're civilised now. that's it.
mircea_popescu: compare the father with the son in cat on a hot tin roof. that's it.
mircea_popescu: what, big daddy doesn't know what bum love is ? yes he does.
mircea_popescu: he may not be talking too much or too loud\ly about it because of that shithead ida, and her unwanted, unwelcome and damaging "love", but otherwise...
decimation: in other words each household needs to keep its own shit in order
decimation: ascii so the point is that the court can dodge questions of "what exactly are you charging me with?" by making a grand-jury circus?
decimation: speaking of which, whatever happened to that guy who was convicted of possessing silver coins?
assbot: ClubOrlov: Financial Totalitarianism
decimation: yeah him, did they actually sentance him
assbot: Bernard von NotHaus Seeks Acquittal, New Trial » Titania - the Open Source Ethical Society
mircea_popescu: <decimation> ascii so the point is that the court can dodge questions of "what exactly are you charging me with?" by making a grand-jury circus? << the principle is that "the people" can charge you with w/o the shit they want.
mircea_popescu: decimation well if it wants to be a republic, it gotta be a republic.
mircea_popescu: "Unless you have been through this, with much of it kept secret to protect means and methods of investigation and prosecution, prepare for an exciting first time on the actual hot seat, not on TV or online where hypnotic disinfo rules and seduces the unwary to believe tickling the comsec tiger's tail is fantasic rep building." <<< heh.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what do you perceive the difference being, between military and legal ?
mircea_popescu: no, it's the "know the magic incantation that'll make them rue the day they messed with me so close"
mircea_popescu: try capturing chtulhu. hey everyone! free insanity today, and all get seconds!
decimation: he has magic hacking powers, give him the a. ames treatment!
mircea_popescu: i mean obviously, the king's ministers, no matter how cornered, will attempt to put forth the theory of how dominant their kingdom actually is.
mircea_popescu: this has some trouble getting past things such as you know, that wikileaks guy.
mircea_popescu: if the kingdom actually worked like teh king's ministers propose it does, i wouldn't be looking into the yard of the king's minister's wife at the car of the guy the minister doesn't know she fucks
jurov: so if ascii gets jailed for jaywalking, we shall expect another national guard gathering?
mircea_popescu: well now... here's the thing... you can't be talking while you're not able to talk, right ?
mircea_popescu: and if you are able to talk, who's going to be able to control what you say, and to whom ?
jurov: hm.. i guess when patent trolls come for cardano, there are better ways than seppuku
mircea_popescu: perhaps you need your computers, perhaps you need access to a certain server, who's to know.
mircea_popescu: this isn't nearly as cut and dried a matter as the usg likes to pretend (forced mistake, it has no alternative than to so pretend).
mircea_popescu: exactly the same problems that limit the mob limit the government, and can be used identically.
decimation: for instance they haven't managed to jail this von nothaus guy yet
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decimation: apparently he was convicted but never sentanced
decimation: well according to this interview in miami on 1 feb 2014
decimation: "we are coming up to march 2014, so I've been waiting 3 years to be sentenced, this is most unusual. Usually in a federal case you are incarcerated within 60 days after being found guilty."
decimation: well I tend to agree with your point about recruitment, but it's not clear to me what he is going to be recruited to do exactly.
decimation: an enterprising defense team would have him start another altcoin for the purpose of turning against it
decimation: why didn't folks attempt to leave the "big jail" during ussr times?
decimation: seems like that would be the thing to do
decimation: I guess it's hard to escape with family intact
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> we can surmise that he refused one or more, but they aren't done yet << something like that.
mircea_popescu: <decimation> I guess it's hard to escape with family intact << people with families have no business escaping.
decimation: yes, their fate is to stand and take whatever comes I suppose
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller then eiher it's not a family, you're being forced to or you will be forced to.
thestringpuller: sounds like huxley's world would make that a moot issue (humans bred in tanks)
thestringpuller: it also seems being an orphan is more beneficial in that regard too...
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller well tbh, i dun see why i'd have wanted to leave huxley's world. just hang out with the boss guy down at the bar.
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decimation: you can own, you just have to confess to usg you have them
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: couldn't one in america escape through...non traditional means?
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mircea_popescu: but i follow the link. huge title "Bitcoin will be partially or totally controlled". ie, by some govt.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform people's own dumb heads do the guarding.
decimation: yeah I suspect walking to mexico is easier than the reverse
thestringpuller: there is a lot to stop you walking from mexico back into the states tho...
decimation: one would need iron balls to do it I guess
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mircea_popescu: i propose a new highschool charter. it teaches kids nothing, but smacks them every time they use "going to"
thestringpuller: i recently heard of a city in siberia that utilizes more energy to keep the city warm and operate than it would if people just commuted 100's of miles to operate the factories there...
thestringpuller: like in july the highest it'll get is like in the 10's to 20's C
decimation: ascii have you seen "Happy People: a year in the taiga"?
decimation: this guy Werner Herzon tours the River Yenisei and finds people who live off the land
decimation: they would have walked out of the gulag without a second thought
decimation: that's long enough to claim adverse possession in many states
mircea_popescu: the point is to live like a feral dog AND leave the country.
mircea_popescu: inconvenience yourself and you'll be free, but otherwise, you're predictable, and in being predictable you'll be a tool.
decimation: yeah that's what most of the "early retirement" folks advocate. if you can live on $20k per year you can retire now if you have any assets to speak of
mircea_popescu: decimation most of humanity lives on less than ten bux a week.
decimation: they can even pay to have their kids escape to the great 'el norte'
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decimation: the eastern metropolis is especially bad on this count. high population density but everyone is alone
mircea_popescu: there's very little doubt in my mind that if i were in the sort of situation most folk over there enjoy, i'd simply be shooting people.
mircea_popescu: which ironically makes the entire "terrorist" thing quite appropriate, except, i wouldn't shot them for the show (which is what terrorism implies, that you kill people for no reason than to impress other people). i'd do it because their continued existence is incompatible with mine.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform did i ever tell you about the two pellicans ?
decimation: which is exactly the attitude that the us used to have back in the pioneer days
decimation: before they were won by the English...
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform my only lingering regret from my days in costa rica is that one day i've visited a bird reserve. a large geodome sorta thing with a lot of birds in it.
mircea_popescu: among which two pelicans. which had figured where the door was, and what a door is. and were angling together to perhaps scare a dumbass tourist and manage to get out.
mircea_popescu: i have no idea why i didn't just take the birds across.
mircea_popescu: i guess a lot of foreign military officers wondered why they've not simply shot hitler at any point in the 30s, just walk up to him and boom.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform im sure they couldn't have survived in ther wild, but i dun see why that should matter.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform im sure the reason is exactly like the discussion re the altcoin
mircea_popescu: by the time you realise you should have it's too late.
mircea_popescu: guy shooting hitler would necessarily live in an alt-universe where shooting hitler's death is not justified by hitler being hitler, and so on.
mircea_popescu: certainly murder of political figures is always justified on the face. they were, after all, political figures.
decimation: I suppose that's the point of jury nullification
mircea_popescu: yeah but it mixes the people in there. what'd the people know.
decimation: well, in the village the people would know, not in the city
mircea_popescu: vilage people are actualy a lot dumber than city people. they just have much fewer avenues to display their inanity.
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mircea_popescu: okay, what i want you to do is create a bunch of handles in various forums (i'll tell you which) and participate in the discussion.
mircea_popescu: don't spam, make sense, bring in the various good points we know about the world doesn't, bitcoin, b-a, bitbet, mpex, etc.
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mircea_popescu: i don't pay people to lie, they do that on their own & for free.
danielpbarron: what are the terms? how much money; how frequently?
mircea_popescu: you can spend the rest of your days doing it for all i care, 24/7. you're to report each weekend and i'll pay you mondays.
mircea_popescu: start with warriorforum.com, gfy.com and lessee... bodybuilding.com
mircea_popescu: and more generally, if anyone's currently wasting a lot of time derping online and would like to make a job of it... say so.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: that thing's massive, about the size of a bodybuilder.
benkay: mircea_popescu: DERPs are backstopped to the sum of BTC brought in by sales of DERP shares, is that correct?
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron if there's religious interest forums you know that i don't / other stuff you're already doing feel free to throw that into the mix.
benkay: backstopped by your reputation and promise to pay?
benkay: so all of the D series is backstopped by all of f.derp
mircea_popescu: basically if each individual issue goes up 2x in btc, then it's just about wiped.
mircea_popescu: if one issue goes up 100x in usd and btc goes up 10x and there's 10 issues, then it's just about wiped.
gribble: duffer1 was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 2 hours, 51 minutes, and 55 seconds ago: <Duffer1> speaking of.. i haven't heard any ripple news in a while..
jurov: what, F.DERP is/will be actual asset?
mircea_popescu: so one can take either end. this was discussed in teh logs!!1
thestringpuller: we short using normal methods? (asking you to borrow shares on margin?)
mircea_popescu: you short the derps globally by buying f.derp. or i guess individually by borrowing them from someone that bough them
jurov: i try to read everything but my subconscious tends to skip it :(
jurov: it is apparently interested in politics and cultural anthropology
benkay: i like the finance stuff
benkay: can't be arsed with scamwatch
chetty: ever notice how much big apt buildings look like beehives?
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chetty: <asciilifeform> for most americans, walking to mexico would involve having to work for a living - a punishment far harsher than anything they do in jails here// walking over the border to Mexico is actually pretty easy
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DreadKnight: need to recall what comics I used to follow besides xkcd
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jurov: did anyone mention the homeland can always ask to extradite you?
jurov: lol this chan causes its own slashdot effect now? legacy-control.com is slow and throws errors
chetty: <asciilifeform> it isn't hard (presently...) to physically leave usa.// you'll never really know until you try
benkay: chetty you were a usian once, non?
benkay: chetty: and no longer?
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FabianB: ;;ticker --currency eur --last
chetty: good job asciilifeform, I am not so sure the gasenwagen will be a joke much longer
chetty: benkay, havent been back in a decade
benkay: chetty: d'you pay taxes? still have a US passport?
benkay: feel free to tell me to get stuffed with my questions
chetty: isnt that the big gulag?
benkay: chetty: you wouldn't be paying state taxes, though, correct? just federal?
chetty: yup, they get you on fed tax for 10 years even if you give up passport
benkay: chetty: i am aware of that bit, yes.
benkay: but the "no state taxes" thing is no small bonus.
benkay: what's the tax situation like in Argentina?
chetty: nasty taxes here, and huge hits for moving money in/out of country
benkay: what is "nasty taxes"?
benkay: and lolya i can imagine moving fiat into or out of ars would be an expensive proposition.
chetty: well not sure what the local income tax is, dont have a local job yet but 35% to take any money out of country
chetty: oh and a wealth tax ..5% of whatever you have over some amount
benkay: is that a one-time-thing or more like the 0.5% of "assets under mgmt"
benkay: that hits the fund investor every year
chetty: assets, and it goes up % wise at some point too, not really sure where all the gates are. I just keep my head down
benkay: 1.25 above 5'000'000 AR$
benkay: interesting stuff, chetty.
chetty: thestringpuller, exactly
benkay: no need to bury things anymore
benkay: it's *all* buried now.
benkay: i do look forward to constructing my last will testament and treasure hunt to reconstruct my offline keys
kuzetsa: burried treasure is a myth
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cazalla: DreadKnight, i quit when Nikasaur left :\
DreadKnight: cazalla, why? xD she thinks she can do better writing crappy stuff and getting funded on patreon.com apparently
kuzetsa: fine fine, yeah... it has happened, and more than just pirates have done the "bury something to keep it safe" tactic, but just because it's common enough that it's "not unheard of" doesn't make it "actually a common practice"
cazalla: DreadKnight, was just coincidence but c'mon, who doesn't wann bang trashy gamer girls like her
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DreadKnight: anyway, 1600$+ a month just because; for writing; that's like 3 romanian full time jobs; I got 0 on there so far
kuzetsa: I suspect it's more than just "being female"
kuzetsa: some non-zero entertainment value in the produced content
DreadKnight: though she has popularity, without that crowd funding websites are pretty useless
cazalla: DreadKnight, someone like her doing bitcoin news on youtube would get views instead of that ditzy asian girl on followthecoin
kuzetsa: well-connected and good at marketing (social media or otherwise) is probably more to do with it than "the power of boobs"
DreadKnight: cazalla, considered doing something like that with a chick I know that looks like the Dark Queen from Battletoads; got equipment and such
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kuzetsa: but it's mostly used for photographing inventory stuff for <name>'s online store
cazalla: DreadKnight, that's her, bit too skinny for me but looks ok, just lacking personality that someone like Nikasaur has, tits + her enthusiasm would do well imo
kuzetsa: yeah, having a decent personality & being able to market one's self is good
cazalla: benkay, with that accent? for sure
DreadKnight: cazalla, yeah, was just checking out some of the vids, she's so-so
DreadKnight: kuzetsa, ijustine kinda annoys me sometimes, too much of a crapple fan girl
kuzetsa: speaking of annoying, I've never seen a "follow the coin" video before
cazalla: how about miss hannah minx?
DreadKnight: cazalla, lol; there's also "hot for words", another youtube show about cleavage pretending to be educational
kuzetsa: not sure it's always the same person, but I jsut watched the one cazalla linked like 5 minutes ago, and the constant jumping-around shot from 20 billion camera angles per paragraph was giving me a headache
DreadKnight: sounds like what Michael Bay does with Transformers
cazalla: DreadKnight, seen that, not my type though
kuzetsa: cazalla: I'm unfamiliar with hannah minx
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DreadKnight: kuzetsa, small brunette, big blue eyes, big tits that always make it into the shot and juggle around, cute stuff, lots of japanese-anime words, a doge
cazalla: you can post that in channel kuzetsa
DreadKnight: all comments are about sex and boobs usually on her vids
benkay: just to throw a spanner into the works, mircea_popescu, i imagine the d-series do not pay out in the event that the companies use XCP or some such to list
cazalla: kuzetsa PM me, thinks i'm slut shaming these women lol
DreadKnight: they do that on their own as a hobby / job
DreadKnight: every social thing has quite a few of such women
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benkay: i'm a faminist too, kuzetsa
mircea_popescu: <jurov> lol this chan causes its own slashdot effect now? legacy-control.com is slow and throws errors << prolly cause of the log watching ppls.
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kuzetsa: cazalla: oh uhm... well allright then
kuzetsa: I can have the discussion here instead if you really prefer
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> gasenwagen, unfortunately, was always real. but it has triage. <<< you failed to qualify ?
kuzetsa: I just know in #bitcoin that personal disputes and whatnot are generally expected to be done in privmsg
benkay: mircea_popescu: is "cover" for all d-series contracts or is it reserved per contract?
kuzetsa refers to cazalla's pastebin for reference
kuzetsa: wow, how dose that already have over views?
benkay: eg: 50B of cover for D.BPAY, 0.2 of cover for D.BTGO
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> thestringpuller, benkay, chetty: usa would send a tax bill to a Chukcha if he weren't behind russian rockets. la << actually, aren't they derping about various russian citizens sanctions and whatnot ?
kuzetsa: cazalla: so as per privmsg, I don't understand why you called me a faggot
DreadKnight: kuzetsa, that bitcoin channel seems to be dying lately, too quiet, dogecoin more fun
kuzetsa: benkay: what's a faminist?
kuzetsa: [18:01:35] <cazalla> no matter how many men you throw under the bus, being a feminist is not going to lead to them fucking you
kuzetsa: [18:01:59] <kuzetsa> what?
kuzetsa: [18:02:42] <kuzetsa> huh, noticed just now that I typoed on feminist... is "faminist" a word I'm just unfamiliar with?
kuzetsa: [18:03:14] <kuzetsa> is that misspelling a word and it means something? it really was just a typo, I didn't mean to confuse.
mircea_popescu: <DreadKnight> cazalla, why? xD she thinks she can do better writing crappy stuff and getting funded on patreon.com apparently << such idiocy.
cazalla: kuzetsa, i'm not sure what the problem is?
DreadKnight: mircea_popescu, was expecting you would say that
kuzetsa: cazalla: well I don't understand what you're saying about men fucking me (or not) because I throw them under a bus or whatever... or why you called me a faggot
cazalla: kuzetsa, i thought you were saying you're a feminist and that i use slut shaming language
cazalla: fwiw, i don't object to nikasaur dressing trashy
kuzetsa: your definition of "trashy", and how you used it sure did sound like slut shaming
DreadKnight: mircea_popescu, most people only care about charisma and looks and that's why they fund her, not really interested in her writing; it's nice she does what she likes but that's different from what she's good at apparently
DreadKnight: mircea_popescu, saying "such idiocy" to whatever I say without arguments doesn't bring much to the table of conversation
kuzetsa: cazalla: mostly I'm just confused about why feminism = faggot (that logical jump confuses me)
benkay: there's nothing wrong with being trashy
benkay: connotations are all in your head
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DreadKnight: mircea_popescu, you're probably offended because you're a blogger yourself, but since you started blogging apparently you flamed more popular bloggers, so even you agree that not everyone should be writing stuff publicly :P
benkay: excessive rouge, lipstick, heels, etc. it's a good look on the right chick.
benkay: yeah sure - tattoos are great as well
kuzetsa: benkay: a lot of women chose to dress how they dress, wear their hair, makeup, tatoos, clothes, etc. for themselves, not for the benefit of others
cazalla: yeah, i like it on the right girl but i describe it as trashy, nfi why kuzetsa would take offense
benkay: it's clearly not for others.
benkay: doesn't mean we're not watching and watched ourselves.
benkay: i do a pile of sales. constantly. *i* dress for others.
benkay: when I didn't, I didn't.
benkay: ripped jeans, mohawk, the works.
cazalla: kuzetsa, because imo feminists are faggots eg andreas derpopolous
kuzetsa: choices about outwardly expressing whatever self-image one has about ones self (and/or other reasons for dressing one way or another) just doesn't seem like a friendly thing to use as a basis for labeling someone as "trashy"
DreadKnight: internet is full of porn, girls who undress on webcam; dressing slutty = more attention; ( . ) ( . ) = $$$
benkay: look there's a hobo on the street
benkay: he's clearly not dressing for anyone
benkay: and he's also clearly trashy
benkay: ofc my definition of such is going to differ from someone else's
benkay: but i'll not be told to not speak my opinion of stuff.
mircea_popescu: <benkay> excessive rouge, lipstick, heels, etc. it's a good look on the right chick. << for sufficiently drunk guys :D
DreadKnight: mircea_popescu, I linked near the quoted line, anyway seems you're too distracted to follow the conversation or reply overall, while others are debating about such women
kuzetsa: I personally don't feel "trash" or "trashy" is a good way to refer to persons --- trash is refuse, waste, compost, scrap, things to be recycled, or a computer metaphor for marking something as "trash" to be staged for deletion (such as putting one's unwanted spam emails in the trash)
mircea_popescu: kuzetsa so how does the logical jump work, from that to "not a good way to refer" ?
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cazalla: kuzetsa, it's the right word because i'd fuck her and then throw her away, trash, not the sort of woman i'd bring home to meet my parents
kuzetsa: mircea_popescu: it's dehumanizing to label someone as a term which is not inherently describing a state which is common to persons
kuzetsa: mircea_popescu: to say that a person is "
benkay: kuzetsa: ever met a girl who gets off on being degraded?
mircea_popescu: DreadKnight just some random chick, i don't see anything special about her. why's she discussed in terms of hotness or wtf.
kuzetsa: mircea_popescu: ...(oops, erroneously inserted a linebreak) "trash", or "trashy" is degrading to their personhood
mircea_popescu: no, it's not. it merely claims to be. which, like all claims...
mircea_popescu: saying someone's a scammer is similarly degrading to their personhood. that's no reason not to say it.
kuzetsa: mircea_popescu: to say that a person is trash is to liken that person to being a disposable, unwanted, low-value thing, not a person
mircea_popescu: the only criterion is whether she actually is trashy, not whether her being trashy'd ruin whatever for her.
DreadKnight: mircea_popescu, others find her special and hot, especially being nerdy gamer; I usually don't get why Megan Fox has many fans, but that's me
mircea_popescu: DreadKnight well megan fox got teh tits on a thin frame.
benkay: this argument is trash.
mircea_popescu: DreadKnight anyway, the "idiocy" comment was re the patreon thing. the whole thing fundamentally doesn't work.
mircea_popescu: people would really like it to work nevertheless, so every few years there's a new implementation
DreadKnight: mircea_popescu, for me she's just a tunned up bitch, just seen some of her roles earlier and she was playing the bitch role actually
benkay: (my dog just sneezed in his sleep and narrowly avoided rolling off the couch)
fluffypony: just started, will report back afterwards
mircea_popescu: but anyway, i'm not a blogger myself. i just happen to keep a blog.
DreadKnight: mircea_popescu, thought you meant my argument because you didn't said much, I agree about patreon not working unless you're popular, it's a wanna be kickstarter basically, but lacks a few important things
kuzetsa: sexy_saffron: yeah, "trash" conversation, in which my main objection is to degrading / defamatory / judgemental language being pointed at people due to clothing, hairstyle, personality, makeup, or whatever criterea is being used to target them in a dismissive manner :(
kuzetsa: I wasn't intending to have the conversation publicly, but the other party whom I was trying to ask what they meant decided the privmsg contents should be copied onto a pastebin and shared with the whole channel
mircea_popescu: people should be targeted in a dismissive manner. builds character.
cazalla: kuzetsa, no reason for that conversation to occur in PM to begin with
kuzetsa: there's a difference between constructive criticism, charcter building, harassment, bullying, and joking around
kuzetsa: mircea_popescu: illustrate what?
mircea_popescu: seems to me one man's constructive criticism is another man's harassment and bullying.
mircea_popescu: afaik bingoboingo's got a trial coming up on this very point
fats_cd03: whats the point of pretending like we respect each other?
HeySteve: gribble is full of shit tonight
sexy_saffron: there's a fine line between derision and harsh constructive criticism
kuzetsa: wow I really can't follow this channel right now
HeySteve: <+fluffypony> who's seen Jodorowsky's Dune? <- yeah that's a very interesting film. guy's a real character
DreadKnight: mircea_popescu, so you poked that zoso guy on purpose to get in the spot light? marketing strategy?
kuzetsa: this topic is apparently one which a lot of people are wanting to comment on
fats_cd03: is there some kind of internet etiquette insisting on politeness? i didnt check that box on install.
mircea_popescu: sexy_saffron yeah but if it's not objectively drawn then might as well give up. people wil just claim hurtbutts to get out of things they don't want to hear.
sexy_saffron: I haven't seen that but I like the dune adaptations
mircea_popescu: DreadKnight i step on the heads of idiots. it's what i do. the only selection criteria is how lulzy they are and if im bored.
kuzetsa: FWIW, the privmsg was in-part because the channel was kinda intense and I was having trouble filtering through this many words per minute
HeySteve: kuzetsa, if you dress / act a certain way, you'll inevitably draw a reaction from others
mircea_popescu: kuzetsa it gets nuts doesn't it. and it has the harshest voice model of any chan on freenode, too.
mircea_popescu: no idea what we'll end up doing, because it won't let go im sure.
kuzetsa: HeySteve: the "had it coming" defense about agressing on somebody verbally or otherwise, to their face or otherwise isn't one I consider to be valid
sexy_saffron: I think the best philosophy is to just stay true to yourself and not care what other people think, as cliche as that sounds
HeySteve: kuzetsa, learning to evoke a positive reaction with your appearance / manner is just social intelligence
kuzetsa: HeySteve: I'm a social idiot, quite arguably
fluffypony: hah hah - HeySteve right at the beginning, and it's already classic - I wanted to do a movie that would give the people that took LSD at that time the hallucinations that you get with that drug, but without hallucinating. I did not want LSD to be taken, I wanted to fabricate the drug's effect."
DreadKnight: mircea_popescu, he had a few arguments against you that could stand valid, but overall it felt like he was trying to protect his "#1 blogger by traffic" crown by trying to dis the new competition
kuzetsa: mircea_popescu: old enough to be a grandmother, so no, not a girl
HeySteve: lol yeah fluffypony, one artist apparently got tripped out just talking to Jodo, you'll see
kuzetsa: oooh, I like chtulhu (somewhat)
mircea_popescu: what if there existed a chick that'd get one high by having sex, provided it's bareback.
HeySteve: mircea_popescu, I think that poison ivy in batman might fit the bill
mircea_popescu: this should totally be a goddess. and yet... my memory fails me. is there such a goddess ?
DreadKnight: HeySteve, ha, I kept telling people that, especially as advice to avoid online insults or even rape, but a lot of people insist in "I can dress the way I want, nobody should care; the raper is always the guilty one!", so I'm like "ok, good luck with that mentality"
mircea_popescu: DreadKnight there's a difference between rappers and rapists.
DreadKnight: kuzetsa, ha, knowing you're female makes the whole "faggot" thing funnier :D
mircea_popescu: yea srsly. cazalla there you go, pming old ladies to call them faggots. wtf's wrong with you lmao
cazalla: there's no women on the internet
kuzetsa: wow, now I'm having yaoi-type thoughts about a few people
cazalla: mircea_popescu, no but someone did want to in high school
mircea_popescu: kuzetsa is that when underage boys rub foreskins or what was it ?
kuzetsa: mircea_popescu: no, I think the genital VS genitals rubbing thing with penises (foreskins or otherwise) is called a frottage
cazalla: i don't understand why it is homoerotic though, my understanding it's meaning is that a woman does not have the power to influence online as she does irl
kuzetsa: wow, that urban dictionary thing is pretty accurate
mircea_popescu: now lessee if i can get caught up on this monsterlog jeez/
kuzetsa: I've totally done the fangirl thing thinking of male characters romantically / physically involved with each other <I'll spare you the fanfic I may or may not have read or written>
sexy_saffron: I don't think gender has much to do with influence on the internet
benkay: but here, we all sort of know each other fairly well.
cazalla: sexy_saffron, clearly you've never had a woman join your guild, demand officer status, demand items while using cybering to attain that from idiots who allowed her to destroy said guild with drama
kuzetsa: good job, urban dictionary, that's totally what I meant by yaoi :)
DreadKnight: sexy_saffron, talk was mainly started by chicks popular on youtube mainly thanks to cleavage
mircea_popescu: cazalla no, actually, i had that lol. didn't really do much.
kuzetsa: mircea_popescu: retired, technically
sexy_saffron: idk, I just think people can be shitty regardless of gender
mircea_popescu: kuzetsa im looking for someone to cover the countless anime forums on the web, if you're looking for work.
cazalla: mircea_popescu, happened to me in EQ, guild leader's wife joins, she start cybering the teenage boys which undermines his authority, it all went to shit after that
mircea_popescu: sexy_saffron women can't be as shitty as men because they're inferior and all.
kuzetsa: sexy_saffron: yeah, people being unpleasant (shitty, whatever) doesn't have a strong correlation to any particular gender, race, religion, age, nationality, etc.
mircea_popescu: if i were a wife upset over matrimonial neglect i'd do the exact same thing.
kuzetsa: no, I'm not kidding about being retired
cazalla: kuzetsa, retired or on disability due to feminist issues such as gender dysmorphia, anxiety or other made up shit?
mircea_popescu: i meant the correlation with age. of course it correlates with gender and age, god help you with 16yo boyz.
kuzetsa: I still do a bit of consulting / contract work now and then though, as well as some speculation with bitcoin and such
mircea_popescu: DreadKnight: anyway, 1600$+ a month just because; for writing; that's like 3 romanian full time jobs; I got 0 on there so far <<< you know 20k a year is basically unemployment benefits. it doesn't really register as a fortune on anyone's radar. people like asciilifeform make many times that and essentially count themselves as paupers.
kuzetsa: fats_cd03: generally, this time, specifically, I probably meant the sorts of things which are often used as a basis for stereotypes or discrimination
kuzetsa: I could have instead said "or whatever" but "and such" seemed like a fun word choice this time
kuzetsa loads that substitition into the spintex content generation engine
fats_cd03: so you're saying you buy and hold bitcoin, and thats it
DreadKnight: mircea_popescu, it's all relative to location, might not be much money, but the more you go East, the more of a king you are
kuzetsa: ;;ratingsystem getrating kuzetsa
gribble: Currently authenticated from hostmask kuzetsa!znc@wikipedia/kuzetsa . User kuzetsa, rated since Sun Jul 15 14:54:23 2012. Cumulative rating 23, from 18 total ratings. Received ratings: 18 positive, 0 negative. Sent ratings: 22 positive, 2 negative. Details:
http://b-otc.com/vrd?nick=kuzetsa mircea_popescu: kuzetsa what, wikipedia too ? you're like the perfect enemy. no wonder you'll catch a little flak here.
DreadKnight: mircea_popescu, she might be in USA, so it's not too much there indeed
mircea_popescu: DreadKnight i think you're approaching this from the wrong angle.
mircea_popescu: living wages are living wages no matter how you turn it.
kuzetsa: mircea_popescu: yes, I've been editing wikipedia for nearly a decade.
kuzetsa: oh, you looking at my main WP page under the kuzetsa handle?
kuzetsa: eve? no, not for a few months
DreadKnight: mircea_popescu, living wages depend on geographical location overall and they vary a lot though
mircea_popescu: there's a large-ish bitcoin guild, smickles' in charge these days.
kuzetsa: no eve lately ever since that incident with me being a social idiot and I pissed off a pirate corp who all put large bounties on me
DreadKnight: mircea_popescu, if you're referring they're relative proportion to regular job, that's kinda "notrly" indeed, but when you consider internet crowd funding, that's a different story
mircea_popescu: DreadKnight: cazalla, considered doing something like that with a chick I know that looks like the Dark Queen from Battletoads; got equipment and such << she doing nudes ?
kuzetsa: mircea_popescu: mostly, in my case, when I say "social idiot" I just mean I've had a low success rate for knowing what sort expecations are "standard" within cultures, groups, circles, etc. (whatever you call it -- social situations)
DreadKnight: 100$ in USA is not equal to 100$ in Thaiwan
DreadKnight: mircea_popescu, she is but not for internet stuff; she's hot :3
assbot: I’ll pay for your tits pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
DreadKnight: in USA you can eat a day, in Thaiwian you can eat a week from 100$; just an example
DreadKnight: mircea_popescu, think I had it opened, was waiting for credit
kuzetsa: DreadKnight: that spelling is confusing me... did you mean thailand or taiwan?
DreadKnight: mircea_popescu, you, but there was also internet crowd funding involved in the equation when raising money
HeySteve: oh man that reminds me, there was a girl who wanted to do the tits for bits thing
kuzetsa: just don't wear the bitcoin logo on stuff, they might confuse it for baht, the local thai currency :)
HeySteve: if it's still going I should let her know
DreadKnight: so if you're in thailand and raise 100$ online, that's way better compared to living in USA and raising 100$ online from crowd funding
DreadKnight: HeySteve, bumped into a website where chicks get naked for btc a while ago
mircea_popescu: DreadKnight $100 is not worth the hassle anyway. no matter where you live.
HeySteve: cool where do I see the current entrants, mircea_popescu?
HeySteve: DreadKnight, girls gone bitcoin maybe?
mircea_popescu: HeySteve you mean the people who already got paid ? scroll down on the article.
mircea_popescu: i dun think it was. i think it's representative. you're thinking in teh wrong terms.
mircea_popescu: you want to build something that's large, not to make enough for a pizza.
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mircea_popescu: cazalla: DreadKnight, that's her, bit too skinny for me but looks ok << that azn chick is god awful.
DreadKnight: mircea_popescu, yes, 100$ won't personally get me far, but it would get me further than someone located in USA
cazalla: mircea_popescu, looks or personality or both? i bet she's a dead fish in bed
kuzetsa: DreadKnight: silly spelling for "asian", and I think it has other connotations
mircea_popescu: cazalla she looks meh and her personality is obnoxious. she speaks like she's chewing nibblets and her movements are atrocious. needs actor schooling.
DreadKnight: mircea_popescu, agree, she's average, not worst choice but not best choice
cazalla: mircea_popescu, they all look the same to me
HeySteve: a couple of those links have expired tho
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 257 @ 0.0029 = 0.7453 BTC [-]
kuzetsa: mircea_popescu: hmm? oh, I was mostly just embarrased by how I got all yaoi earlier at the "no women on internet" --> "homoerotic thing to say" joke earlier
mircea_popescu: omfg hannah minx = perianne boring's secret camho identitty ?
kuzetsa: mircea_popescu: sad smiley because the homoerotic reference reminded me of it
mircea_popescu: if anyone's looking to spank someone, kuzetsa's asking for it.
benkay: why the sad face, kuzetsa ?
benkay: dude you gotta fix your keytuation
fluffypony: someone else was struggling with it the other day
mircea_popescu: benkay: just to throw a spanner into the works, mircea_popescu, i imagine the d-series do not pay out in the event that the companies use XCP or some such to list << what's that again ?
cazalla: i don't think you can be gay and racist, at least not in australia
HeySteve: gribble says my OTP is incorrect but it works with altgribble. dunno what's up
fluffypony: nanotube: is gribble's GPG auth broken?
fluffypony: two people reporting the same error is weird
benkay: mircea_popescu: counterparty? "colored coins" v 4.2
fluffypony: [2014-07-25T20:07:35+0200] <the20year> and it says the key is invalid
fluffypony: [2014-07-25T20:08:45+0200] <the20year> ;;gpg everify freenode:#bitcoin-otc:532f4c (and so on)
fluffypony: [2014-07-25T20:08:49+0200] <the20year> (2:08:29 PM) gribble: Error: Incorrect one-time password. Try again.
mircea_popescu: benkay it also doesn't pay if the "companies" use a myspace page to "list"
fluffypony: HeySteve: are you seeing the same error as the20year was?
kuzetsa: benkay: 'cause I know well enough to know that a lot of yaoi hentai manga comics and anime are actually degrading to the idea of gay male-bodied persons being in stable, healthy relationships, and I'm a bit ashamed of my objectification-type thinking of of strangers in a pervy way which they might take offense to if they knew I was thinking that about them
mircea_popescu: kuzetsa you care too much. people are here for you to objectify. have fun.
fluffypony: HeySteve: ping nanotube about it, you're not the first person
HeySteve: male-bodied persons? you mean men?
HeySteve: mircea_popescu, I used ;;eauth as usual
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: I walked through what the20year was doing, his auth flow seemed correct
kuzetsa: oh, is gribble having trouble with eauth / bcauth?
mircea_popescu: HeySteve she doesn't say men because saying men would imply they have to be fucking men, and she doesn't want to nudge a bunch of pussies towards maturity.
HeySteve: mircea_popescu and kuzetsa, I don't like seeing awkward language to serve political purposes, it's too 1984
HeySteve: it doesn't really change anything, just makes communication confusing
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mircea_popescu: so on my box of panthers : "el tabaco te domina. dejalo".
mircea_popescu: if only all the subbie men looking for dommes knew this.
kuzetsa: HeySteve: I prefer to err on the side of sterile and verbose where being "less wordy" might result in ambiguity or leave room for interpretation
kuzetsa: perhaps, though I've found that the formal terms for some of the ideas I often wish to express, are best done so in complete, gramatically correct sentences
jurov: "male-bodied persons" left me with quite a room for interpretation xD
HeySteve: I agree, meaning is like the sculpture within the marble, you have to chip away all the extraneous stuff
mircea_popescu: kuzetsa ironically, that notion got expressed in broken english.
kuzetsa: jurov: some people don't self-identify as "men" despite having the legal (and presumably, medical) status of a male person... I've had a lot of friends who don't have a strong sense of gender in their self-identification.
fluffypony: when did #bitcoin-assets turn into Tumblr?
kuzetsa: I like this better than reddit
benkay: <mircea_popescu> terseness is a verbosity all of its own. // speaking in riddles is a great way to get people to think for themselves.
cazalla: kuzetsa, are you cis scum?
benkay: what a dainty little lock
mircea_popescu: benkay was merely a reference to yesterday's quantity / quality thing.
jurov: kuzetsa so you ask everyone about their self-identification first? what if they claim not to be persons at all?
jurov: you call them "human-shaped entity"?
benkay: my least favorite part of american english is the part where nouns aren't gendered.
mircea_popescu: who the fuck cares how people self idnetify ? all sorts of idiots self-identify as ceos of bitcoin entreprises, bitcoin investors, parts of the bitcoin community and so on and so forth ad nauseam. nobody worth two bits credits any of that self-identification crap.
mircea_popescu: benkay you should try russian. takes five days to figure out the genders of everything what goes in a entence.
kuzetsa: jurov: I've met people who self-identify some form of otherkin, and they legally still count as persons, despite a non-human self-identification... they also often accept the term "person" as being equally valid for non-human persons :P
benkay: mircea_popescu: gotta get my spanish more well-dialed first.
kuzetsa: jurov: I don't understand your point, though suspect you might be attempting a straw-man arguemnt or somesuch, or perhaps poking fun at my use of the word "person"
kuzetsa: mircea_popescu: oh... that works too
benkay: kuzetsa: do you have a particular bent for the genderqueer crowd?
kuzetsa: isn't spunk some sort of euphamism for semen or some other bodily fluid?
jurov: i mean, what do you do if you feel the word "person" to be loaded and demeaning
benkay: <mircea_popescu> now what's bashable about some woman liking spunk ?! // it's a good demonstration of some fundamental human characteristics.
benkay: constants, if you will, if such a thing can exist.
jurov: lol spunky. you have no idea.
benkay: i think perhaps mircea_popescu does have an idea
DreadKnight: this channel so logged and censored >_< feels a bit like a concert where everybody has phone up to film
kuzetsa: mircea_popescu: interesting, I guess you find BDSM to be "not unpleasant" based on the past 2 datapoints
DreadKnight: mircea_popescu, by removing stuff from log
kuzetsa: I'm reminded earlier about a comment someone made about women who like to be demeaned or humiliated or whatever
benkay: that's a pretty funny tan
kuzetsa: that's not the same thing as being non-consensually defamed by a stranger
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benkay: o we do consensual defamation these days?
benkay: implying defamation is also rape now?
benkay: omg rape is a subcategory of sex!
kuzetsa: mircea_popescu: I didn't know for sure, so I tossed the partial phrase: [unu’ care se pricepe la absolut tot] into google translate -- romanian?
mircea_popescu: kuzetsa "one that knows everything". it's ironic, as in, he THIN?KS he does.
benkay: btw y'all, don't be using bit-c
kuzetsa: mircea_popescu: oooh, so is it an idiomatic non-literal phrase similar to in english, calling someone a "know-it-all" ?
kuzetsa: I was unable to get the entire page to play nicely with google translate
kuzetsa: it ended up translated to something or other about paid conent
mircea_popescu: kuzetsa yeah trilema lets you see a few articles each week, then you gotta pay. much to DreadKnight's fortune, he's not yet discovered how much btc amassed into that address.
kuzetsa: *content, specifically: "This article is available for a fee."
mircea_popescu: we used to have a dedicated bot but then it was too tame or something
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 247 @ 0.0029 = 0.7163 BTC [-]
kuzetsa: mircea_popescu: oooh, so the google translate server farm thinger has been detected as having exceeded quota?
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mircea_popescu: kuzetsa anyway, the gist of it is that some random ro blogger got caught stealing a pic off a chan and presenting it as himself assfucking the girl in question.
DreadKnight: mircea_popescu, roger; was confused at first to see "Credits: 4" on your website, as I was thinking of the "cast" thingy like in movies; but yeah, you seem to write quite a bit about everything, so I see that working more and more with time as people get more familiar with technologies and digital currencies and become less scrubs hopefully
mircea_popescu: my response is this article, saying yeah, check it out, he's right. lucky me, i just stole some pictures off google which just happen to depict my own slaves. yay.
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HeySteve: hmm if her arms were free she'd be a better scarecrow
benkay: i've never quite grokked what goes through the tied-up human's head when they're so tied for hours
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kuzetsa: emscripten is apparently pretty mature, and has been around for a few years (next month is 4th aniversary, they already have over 10k commits in the repo and everything!!!!)
benkay: mircea_popescu: who'll do the tying tho
HeySteve: thx mircea_popescu, I left a note for nanotube on that issue.
benkay: always figured there was something to the person and the theatre of it, but perhaps a more utilitarian approach is called for
benkay: can slavery be turned on and off?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform kinda what i was trying to get across to the guy, from another angle.
mircea_popescu: same with the kid on my blog asking me why i'm not the one doing the romanian btc atm. well... because they won't do it on my terms and i'm not doing it on theirs. obviously.
mircea_popescu: "Woe to him whom Ishtar had honoured! The fickle goddess treated her passing lovers cruelly, and the unhappy wretches usually paid dearly for the favours heaped on them. Animals, enslaved by love, lost their native vigour: they fell into traps laid by men or were domesticated by them. 'Thou has loved the lion, mighty in strength', says the hero Gilgamesh to Ishtar, 'and thou hast dug for him seven and seven pits! Thou
mircea_popescu: hast loved the steed, proud in battle, and destined him for the halter, the goad and the whip.'
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what part of that reads like "fuck me in the ass, get lsd, fuck me down the throat, get pot"
fluffypony: holy fuck HR Giger is creepy in this documentary
fluffypony: he's like a creepy uncle that wants to watch you change
mircea_popescu is really curious if benkay took the implicit "so have her lock you up" as intended or simply read the neutral statemen the other way :D
benkay: hm? what's the other interpretation?
benkay: yeah no, can't imagine that answering my questions.
mircea_popescu: prolly not. make for decent dinner conversation for a while tho
benkay: myeah. plus, fun for all parties involved.
HeySteve: fluffypony for sure! was sad to hear of his death, really enjoy his art
benkay: on an ENTIRELY DIFFERENT TOPIC, mircea_popescu what sorts of events will trigger F.DERP divs?
benkay: fund'll probably be around for a few years, eh?
kuzetsa: did I miss anything when I wandered off other than mircea_popescu ... wait, what
kuzetsa: fuck me in the ass, get lsd, fuck me down the throat, get pot?
kuzetsa tries to figure out the context
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 7306 @ 0.0008003 = 5.847 BTC [+]
kuzetsa: probably just commentary or misunderstanding about some sort of confusing poetry... I hope?
jurov: so if, say, bitpay suddenly croaks, F.DERP NAV will increase by 240 BTC?
benkay: this depends on what we mean by NAV
kuzetsa: benkay: oh wow... that was an awfully large gap in context from the initial comment to the later one
jurov: ;;calc (1000-793)*0.24
benkay: 50btc, which incidentally is just what's in coverage
benkay: now - does nav include coverage?