mircea_popescu: dub: thats an interesting one for france given cambodia << ahahahaha

mircea_popescu: ok best log

mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: for instance, i've got a client who (for some silly reasons) basically needs to throw out their Solr index on a daily basis. << you know, a tool that empowers you to do sometyhing stupid is not a powerful tool.

mircea_popescu: it just seems like one. to you.

mircea_popescu: dub: winklevii outreach via buttbet? << capn' Talism yo. one pays, one can name his terms.

mircea_popescu: thestringpuller: If bitpay didn't shutdown their atm I'd buy more << this lulz is so lulzy to me.

mircea_popescu: you actually verified it has no 2nd brain this thing ?

mircea_popescu: in the pcb sense

mircea_popescu: i'm going through a phase atm something like "fuck this shit, i need a non-pc router like i need an ipad."

mircea_popescu: makes sense

mircea_popescu: gtk.

mircea_popescu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3PJF0YE-x4 heh

mircea_popescu: lol

mircea_popescu: jesus the world we live in.

mircea_popescu: maybe whioever made it was so proud of it ... he had to

mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> and That Would Be Wrong (tm) <<< i think doing away with FOSS shared idiocy will be the greatest bitcoin contribution to the movement.

mircea_popescu: yes, you can turn down commits that change he to her. if women get upset, that's because the women in question are stupid and they don't belong in tech ; yes you can use proprietary code. if anyone doesn't like it, anyone can suck a free bag of dicks ;

mircea_popescu: etc etc. there's this large pile of mental viral load they're currently carrying, so as to do essentiually what the power rangers want bitcoin to do : play cozy with TITB.

mircea_popescu: aka the idiots that be.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah yeah. synergy.

mircea_popescu: the key to escaping from usg is not caring about usg issues ; the key to not caring about usg issues is escaping from usg.

mircea_popescu: they solve each other.

mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> (what rng? ring oscillator jitter, with sha1 whitening.) <<< better than many

mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> no prizes for guessing why. << usual management cluelessness

mircea_popescu enjoys the luxuries of preaching naked.

mircea_popescu: the rong file ?

mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo check out the megaspam right under that lol

mircea_popescu: total fees, .5 btc. for 5k txn. so we wanna do it at 0.1 bitcent per tx. because why the fuck not, right ?

mircea_popescu: swift costs 50 bux to send, but bitcoin should do it for 20 cents.

mircea_popescu: and the fact that 5k idiots worth together a restaurant meal are left out is somehow BITCOIN's problem.

mircea_popescu: check it out yo! all the broke ass niggers at the ritzy club entrance have a quarter between them!

mircea_popescu: that red rope gotta go!

mircea_popescu: find me a fucking txn where visa charged 17.5 cents.

mircea_popescu: thestringpuller weren't you due some qntra material ?

mircea_popescu: you can't sleep on it yo!

mircea_popescu: it's a news site not a mortuary service.

mircea_popescu: http://bitbet.us/bet/1103/bitcoin-to-drop-under-170-before-march/ <<< re the "one week" clause bs. it just invalidated this bet.

mircea_popescu: now nobody gets anything.

mircea_popescu: anx says "the order engine has turned off. please try again later."

mircea_popescu: if anyone's looking for things to look into.

mircea_popescu: "Unfortunately, too often the place where we do that important work looks, at best, like a dorm room."

mircea_popescu: doh ?

mircea_popescu: "Please. WIRED is no longer a pirate ship. It’s the home of world-changing journalism."

mircea_popescu: it fucking died.

mircea_popescu: wasn't feeling all that well for years, but...

mircea_popescu: " It’s the West Coast home of Condé Nast. "

mircea_popescu: quite exactly.

mircea_popescu: "And it’s increasingly a place where we, and our New York colleagues and owners, host artists, founders, CEOs, and advertisers." splendid :

mircea_popescu: world changing journalism lol.

mircea_popescu: wht's this obsession with changing the world anyway ? very insecure people.

mircea_popescu: it's the universal superlative by now. world changing novels and toothpaste, cars and fruit juicers, politicians and nail polish.

mircea_popescu: brb while i fartchange the world!

mircea_popescu: ahh that felt like a most worldchanging dump i just took.

mircea_popescu: anyone perceive any difference ?

mircea_popescu: ahh! then i can go to bed without paxil for once!

mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo actually ima write that up for qntra.

mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: add keyserver to the list of things la serenissima wants its own of, eh? << heh sure, eventually.

mircea_popescu: artifexd: <BingoBoingo> A gossipd-net of keyservers would be divine << I like it << kinda how it has to work anyway

mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: and now you found out that altcoin extremist are also bad ? << dude... you people are so hard to troll i swear. what sort of a cult are we running here out of this much internet savvy and genre savvy and whatnot! i think we're supposed to fall over backwards every time some random lolcow wanders in and says something nice.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: microshit wireless kbd crypts with xor. << OTP ? :D

mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: My venom sacks are still sore trendign towards empty << it finally dawned on me what cazalla wanted with domme chicks.

mircea_popescu: get a busted lip, bust out 50 qntra articles in a rage.

mircea_popescu: if a shit suddenly farts, is it shittier than before it farted ?

mircea_popescu: dude srsly...

mircea_popescu: pastebin wtf.

mircea_popescu: ahaha

mircea_popescu: they probably just intend to pickpocket them.

mircea_popescu: well, rome, capital of the rroma people.

mircea_popescu: ahaha

mircea_popescu: fluffypony they're more often fat than ugly, to put a... fine point on it.

mircea_popescu: howrysheeit look at it! mom, i made the papers!

mircea_popescu: "Sometimes, rom and romani are spelled with a double r, i.e., rrom and rromani. In this case rr is used to represent the phoneme /ʀ/ (also written as ř and rh), which in some Romani dialects has remained different from the one written with a single r. " << actually, this is incorrect.

mircea_popescu: the source of the double r in writing is that right at the time gypsies decided to yet again rename in the early 90s, there was circulating on romanian TV a reading of a caragiale novel (romani verzi) mocking a very nutty sort of nationalism current in his time, that was being read in a particularrrrr manerrrr by a certain comedian.

mircea_popescu: this was immediately and universally applied to what was perceived as a silly and pompous notion of the minority in question.

mircea_popescu: so mucxh voice.

mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski funny how scoopbot dies half hour before you come in lol

mircea_popescu: mebbe it has a crash on oyu.

mircea_popescu: lol

mircea_popescu: iirc saw that in teh logs.

mircea_popescu: apparently one admin was actually undercover agent, the official story now goes

mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski the fact that i can't tell if you're straight or sarcastic is telling

mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo but not originally.

mircea_popescu: so which was it ?

mircea_popescu: "The men who murdered Virginia's original twenty-six cemetery-occupants were never punished. Why? Because Alfred the Great, when he invented trial by jury and knew that he had admirably framed it to secure justice in his age of the world, was not aware that in the nineteenth century the condition of things would be so entirely changed that unless he rose from the grave and altered the jury plan to meet the emergency, i

mircea_popescu: t would prove the most ingenious and infallible agency for defeating justice that human wisdom could contrive. For how could he imagine that we simpletons would go on using his jury plan after circumstances had stripped it of its usefulness, any more than he could imagine that we would go on using his candle-clock after we had invented chronometers? In his day news could not travel fast, and hence he could easily find

mircea_popescu: a jury of honest, intelligent men who had not heard of the case they were called to try—but in our day of telegraphs and newspapers his plan compels us to swear in juries composed of fools and rascals, because the system rigidly excludes honest men and men of brains."

mircea_popescu: srsly, twain was complaining of it.

mircea_popescu: http://www.buenosairesherald.com/article/179517/amia-prosecutor-accuses-cfk-timerman-of-covering-up-iran << argentina heating up.

mircea_popescu: mno

mircea_popescu: didnt look yet

mircea_popescu: mats >> it's on qntra even.

mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel: note however, the /average/ number of classes a year is 14. << i expect it's just a shortcut to pay them better.

mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel: I may have missed it in the logs, but is someone explicitly working on an assbot with gribble functionality or are we going to wait for wotnet / gossipd? << kakobrekla has been, for a while now

mircea_popescu: davout: kakobrekla: the question now is *what* is almost complete :D << wot capabilit yintegration into assbot!

mircea_popescu: thestringpuller ic!

mircea_popescu: news waits for no man, mr.

mircea_popescu: lol

mircea_popescu: @ ethereum reddit.

mircea_popescu: lolwut ?! finney was dead wasn't he ?!

mircea_popescu: wow. i thought i had read eulogies and everything

mircea_popescu: oh

mircea_popescu: ty for that made my head spin for a minute

mircea_popescu: "Roger Ver, another early bitcoin adopter, believes he was victimized by the same person the week before the Finney family was swatted. That’s when someone using the names Nitrous and Savaged hacked into Ver’s email accounts and demanded that he cough up 37 bitcoins"

mircea_popescu: lmao roger ver is such an exercise in tramp

mircea_popescu: aye.

mircea_popescu: by not caring.

mircea_popescu: if you mean the swiss

mircea_popescu: they're too well integrated with euro to actually care.

mircea_popescu: davout shoulkd be there.

mircea_popescu: TomServo well ideally it'd have to be fixed,

mircea_popescu: but if that doesn't woirk i guess it'll have to be replaced.

mircea_popescu: ivreally wish people were a LOT more open with the problems they have. if there's one time to be all over this place, it's then.

mircea_popescu: the alternative of "it dun work and i'm mia" pretty much the worst possible approach.

mircea_popescu: i dunno anymore than you do on the topic.

mircea_popescu: just what i see in logs.

mircea_popescu: yeah but we dunno what it needs or what's going on, and so can't help.

mircea_popescu: i will next i see 'em.

mircea_popescu: lol

mircea_popescu: this pretense that shit like "denmark" even have the power to legislate.

mircea_popescu: gtfo, you're a municipal council. stick to peeling chewinggum off the sidewalk and debating what uniform to put the parking meter chicks in.

mircea_popescu: bwahaha

mircea_popescu: you know, the ironic bit here is that... ceausescu called his epic fail "epoca de aur". teh golden age of ballooning.

mircea_popescu: SNB Chairman Thomas Jordan denied at a news conference that the move amounted to a "panic reaction", saying the cap had been scrapped because it was unsustainable. "If you decide to exit such a policy, you have to take the markets by surprise," Jordan said. << quite.

mircea_popescu: one can't maintain arbitrary caps like that.

mircea_popescu: one shouldn't even try, but hey.

mircea_popescu: ""I've never seen such a drop in one go, it's huge. People will probably be buying euros, but also dollars and other currencies," said one UBS teller, after selling euros to a Russian client."

mircea_popescu: orly ? people are goinmg to BUY dollars because they're worthless ?

mircea_popescu: and are going to SELL stuff like RUB ? what "people" are these people ?

mircea_popescu: "Fitch's managing director of sovereign ratings Ed Parker said the move would not affect Switzerland's top-grade rating." ahahahaha jesus fucking christ.

mircea_popescu: tell me if it's going to affect the us's top rating, derps.

mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2010/un-mic-exercitiu/ << so if anyone feels like delving into romanian, this is me doing journalism school in 2010. comments moar valuable htan article as per usual.

mircea_popescu: davout it's right.

mircea_popescu: "An individual who owned twenty feet in the Ophir mine before its great riches were revealed to men, traded it for a horse, and a very sorry looking brute he was, too. A year or so afterward, when Ophir stock went up to $3,000 a foot, this man, who had not a cent, used to say he was the most startling example of magnificence and misery the world had ever seen—because he was able to ride a sixty-thousand-dollar horse

mircea_popescu: —yet could not scrape up cash enough to buy a saddle, and was obliged to borrow one or ride bareback. He said if fortune were to give him another sixty-thousand-dollar horse it would ruin him."

mircea_popescu: check it out! kako's golf used to be a horse.

mircea_popescu: it's not feasible long term.

mircea_popescu: run both you and the horse bloody.

mircea_popescu: talk to davout iirc he was looking to start a farm.

mircea_popescu: i have no idea what you imagine the point of a company is if not educate its workers.

mircea_popescu: so you're really after the political statement that it is a business owner's own right and privilege to educate whatever he sees fit, and the intermeddling of some "state" is at best unwelcome ?

mircea_popescu: sure.

mircea_popescu: how goes mthreat ?

mircea_popescu: saw teh flood ?

mircea_popescu: yeah, libertador was under a foot of water coupla days ago

mircea_popescu: suddenly the car was afloat lol.

mircea_popescu: it can really pour here.

mircea_popescu: lol. "o, there's a problem ? let's ignore it maybe it goes away".

mircea_popescu: college was not for naught!

mircea_popescu: terrorist redpiller pedophile racist

mircea_popescu: are you threatening me ?!?!

mircea_popescu: i need progress for my bunghole

mircea_popescu: lol

mircea_popescu: lmao

mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo writing up this one ?

mircea_popescu: lol

mircea_popescu: <assbot> BBC News - 'In dog we trust' misprint on US sheriff's office rug << aww that';s so cute

mircea_popescu: but is it driving adoption ?

mircea_popescu: "our plan to drive adoption is twofold : first, make a lot of people off themselves. their thus orphaned offspring, will, necessarily, be adopted. we will endeavour to drive as many as possible, but some might have to walk."

mircea_popescu: davout this because clearly the fork won't fail, but contrairiwise

mircea_popescu: not bad for a dead man.

mircea_popescu: so what, o'reilly smelled the gunpowder and is splitting from the scam foundation ? or are they actually yielding in corpore but still trying to protect gavin's head from my platter ?

mircea_popescu: cazalla: pretty lulzy if true << not as much a matter of true as a matter of holy shit, that trial will be a coin toss. http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-01-2015#976369 still curtious on that point. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: chef, grocery shopper, dog walker <<< burlesque dancer, escort ?

mircea_popescu: https://i.imgur.com/OEC7s6Y.jpg << check out "the man responsible" lolz

mircea_popescu: lol gotta love the forum derps. "o hai we're here in the swamp isolated from the goings on in bitcoin. how come we have nfi what's going on ???"

mircea_popescu: uh i dunno...

mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes i fail to see how a guaranteed payment would be inflationary but a guaranteed job not << depends on the definition of guaranteed job. guaranteed payments are always inflationary - that's the very definition of inflation : payment without a counterprestation. jobs however can be guaranteed in such a way that prestation is at the same time guaranteed, at least theoretically.

mircea_popescu: consider my alt economy where the currency is teeth. every person can be guaranteed a job as selftooth extractor, paying 30 teeth over their lifetime.

mircea_popescu: now, irl the cow's not spherical nor does it live in a vacuum, but hey.

mircea_popescu: washington post article is especially niggardly, which is what one'd expect from the vanguard of us socialism. "o noes, if you look at just this portion of the graph, bitcoin has been falling".

mircea_popescu: guess what, by the same measure apple, ibm, the us fed and washington post stock are all ponzi schemes.

mircea_popescu: http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=GHC+Interactive#symbol=GHC;range=1y look at that, from 900 to 500!

mircea_popescu: Matt O'Brien is a reporter for Wonkblog covering economic affairs. He was previously a senior associate editor at The Atlantic. He is also an idiot soon to be permanently unemployed.

mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: cadchf -40% in 1h total ponzy. << well... that's a point there, canada totally is a ponzi scheme.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i don't get it, in what sense is CFRG/ietf influential ?

mircea_popescu: gavin isn't quitting the scam foundation either, and obviously the msm would present it as "influential". what's it influence, reddit ?