mircea_popescu: just in case someone else may get a chuckle out of this :

mircea_popescu: http://pastebin.com/2841S6uF

mircea_popescu: ;;tslb

mircea_popescu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wCgZh-nczY

mircea_popescu: http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2014/05/lousy-recoveries

mircea_popescu: possibly the most retarded article of the week, yet standard fare in today's "climate change" style of pseudo-ecinomics

mircea_popescu: !up slashme

mircea_popescu: "The bitter truth is that central banks launch economies off the ZLB when politicians force them to. This was true of many economies in the 1930s, it seems like it will be true of Japan, and there is every indication that it will prove true of Europe and America. The ZLB is not an economic problem. It's not about deleveraging or inflation targets. It is a political problem. Preventing the kind of crisis and recovery is

mircea_popescu: easy: just have a political majority committed to something different. "

mircea_popescu: something different aka, let's all be rich permanently for free.

mircea_popescu: seems like a great commitment.

mircea_popescu: xanthyos try again, in a language ?

mircea_popescu: all you really need is for 1 = 2. after that, everything is one single step away.

mircea_popescu: +1

mircea_popescu: "but all you really need is for the politicians to decide otherwise!111"

mircea_popescu: really instructive by contrast with actual economy, the economist.

mircea_popescu: not a bad bet.

mircea_popescu: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BnYdHI3CAAAEG0k.png

mircea_popescu: i wouldn't trust the uk to anything. it's basically the political equivalent of nevada. an uninhabited wasteland where you test nukes.

mircea_popescu: "But it's true. He wasn't great at encryption. In common with most journalists working today, he had no clue about tools that would have allowed him to communicate with sources privately, without fear of NSA or any other snooping."

mircea_popescu: these people can't math even to the degree of grasping the most basic points of statistics

mircea_popescu: they can't encrypt, they can barely read and rarely comprehend anything

mircea_popescu: yet they still think themselves journalists. what sense does this make ? a guy thgat can't turn on the stove and regularly cooks moldy chicken isn't a cook

mircea_popescu: some dude that can't work a hammer isn't a carpenter

mircea_popescu: why would a bunch of dorks with nary a clue as to the workings of the actual tools of their trade be even for a second taken seriously as "journalists" ?

mircea_popescu: i don't see it.

mircea_popescu: http://bitbet.us/bet/768/bitcoin-difficulty-over-21b-before-june/

mircea_popescu: so people keep clamoring about how the close should be much earlier than the resolution date.

mircea_popescu: then when the close is a month before resolution date, they bet 28 bitcents, 99% less than the average diff bet.

mircea_popescu: herp.

mircea_popescu: classical socialist mindset. fat close buffer means a lot of risk for people betting early, because if something happens they won't be able to cover/adjust for new odds.

mircea_popescu: two bit webtrepreneur figures tis is GREAT because he's thinking of it happening to other people ONLY

mircea_popescu: just like us libtards and taxes, or regulation.

mircea_popescu: when things are changed to accomodate his worldview, then and only then can he see the stuff applying to him. because the libtard has 0 critical thinking ability. unless it's before him, he can't follow a counterfactual.

mircea_popescu: and so... he doesn't want to bet anymore. but now "it's fair", he says, just, no fair he'd want any part of.

mircea_popescu: so he's done fixing california and moves to texas.

mircea_popescu: to make texas "more fair", too, and also liveable.

mircea_popescu: after which he'll move to mexico or w/e, make that fair too.

mircea_popescu: these people should be shot, basically.

mircea_popescu: anyway, fuck that, i'm writing this article.

mircea_popescu: just because someone bets early or a lot doesn't mean they have a point.

mircea_popescu: so how do you know they're valuable

mircea_popescu: i know, but jus' sayin'. it's a signal, but whatg's in a signal. whatsapp selling for 20bn is also a signal.

mircea_popescu: soon to become a signalol.

mircea_popescu: it is

mircea_popescu: o back under 1 huh

mircea_popescu: well it was quite the ride. i wondere how much of it is due to bitpay's largest ipo ever.

mircea_popescu: or just wanting to participate or who the hell knows

mircea_popescu: lol

mircea_popescu: safetyf laws.

mircea_popescu: so adding to the delights of weird shit happening to me, today... i got flooded.

mircea_popescu: water flooded

mircea_popescu: rainfal was 150mm easy

mircea_popescu: artifexd ty fixt.

mircea_popescu: !up Folichon-

mircea_popescu: http://www.opiniatimisoarei.ro/wp-content/gallery/inundatii-timisoara-2/inundatii-timisoara-ploaie-torentiala-4.jpg < sort of idea.

mircea_popescu: that was afternoon.

mircea_popescu: and, of course, http://www.renasterea.ro/images/stiri/ploaie_vara-28622.jpg

mircea_popescu: ;;later tell thickasthieves who the fuck waits for hotel checkins, srsly.

mircea_popescu: bounce my understanding is that various govts/the bureaucratic interest are pushing to block or if not possible tightly control all shipments of precious metals among any independent entities, traders or not.

mircea_popescu: this under the guise of the usual methods, falsely accusing these of "breaking the law", or fail that, "being racist"

mircea_popescu: https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1206333552/twit.jpg

mircea_popescu: this twit has opinions on what bitcoin needs and its image.

mircea_popescu: dude, seriously, why is every two bit stripper claiming to be working "in the press" ?

mircea_popescu: http://bitbet.us/bet/786/bitcoin-to-surpass-berkshire-as-an-investment/#b140

mircea_popescu: o look at that it's starting to move

mircea_popescu: damn.

mircea_popescu: kakobrekla y u no slower!

mircea_popescu: and where is this bet ?

mircea_popescu: this bot*

mircea_popescu: i'm behind

mircea_popescu: because water.

mircea_popescu: http://pando.com/2014/05/14/sorry-america-the-ukraine-isnt-all-about-you/

mircea_popescu: Catherine Rampell @crampell · 2h Over a lifetime, average US college graduate will earn at least $800,000 more than the average high school graduate http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/05/us-usa-fed-college-idUSBREA440KD20140505

mircea_popescu: Mircea Popescu @Mircea_Popescu · now @crampell That lifetime started in 1960 and ended in 2005. The next lifetime will be quite distinct. Fight the present, not the previous war

mircea_popescu: such herpetology.

mircea_popescu: http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/05/linux-gets-fix-for-code-execution-flaw-that-went-unpatched-since-2009/

mircea_popescu: ll/pp/qq are dne

mircea_popescu: bounce: next you'll need a bitcoin transmission licence to send (or receive) more than 1 bitcoin per day << in their own little koi pond where bitpay is the largest best first company and us side vcs matter, they can do whatever the hell they want, up to and including a plastic version of bitcoin to go with the plastic version of a steak.

mircea_popescu: you didn't expect the dead to actually embrace their death, did you ? ever sent a teenager upstairs to clean up their room ?

mircea_popescu: of fucking course they'll be back on the gamestation half hour later swearing up and down that they have, and the disorder apparent is just their implementaiton of order.

mircea_popescu: benkay gotta talk to a woman about that, i can't help you :D

mircea_popescu: http://bitcoinpete.com/2014/05/14/first-largest-bestest-ever-in-the-us/ << this guy's enthusiastic.

mircea_popescu: o hey artifexd, nice bet

mircea_popescu: bot*

mircea_popescu: mind adding it in here with a special rule to only dump bets > 1btc ?

mircea_popescu: fluffypony: I don't get the Ohio thing << ohio is the shithole state. i used it as a metaphorical derogatory, to help the guy understand that his vc circuit is a bit player in bitcoin.

mircea_popescu: assbot: Bitcoin Bingo: What Ticker Will the Winklevii Pick for Their ETF? - Bloomberg << "we forgot to mention that mp said this in his mpoe reports for february. it just occurred to us, just like that, out of the depths of our ramen fed brainz."

mircea_popescu: gotta love teh press.

mircea_popescu: god i hated the jetsons. that and scooby doo, worst fucking cartoons in the history of cartoons.

mircea_popescu: artifexd: http://bitbet.us/bet/846/ <- first time I've seen a bet before the initial two bets were placed. << that's the sign by which you know a zeroconf.

mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: any posting a banable offense << i thought this forum already existed ? i haven't posted in it since 2011

mircea_popescu: http://linux.fe.up.pt/portal/aggregator/sources/2

mircea_popescu: the epic just piles on.

mircea_popescu: Ilja van Sprundel discovered that libXfont incorrectly handled font

mircea_popescu: metadata file parsing. A local attacker could use this issue to cause

mircea_popescu: libXfont to crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code in order to gain

mircea_popescu: privileges.

mircea_popescu: win.

mircea_popescu: o look at that, i'm all caught up with logs.

mircea_popescu: i accomplished so much today.

mircea_popescu: Or that more attractive people are judged as more trustworthy, or they arguments they give as more intelligent. << this is actually not that bad a bias.

mircea_popescu: fluffypony cause those existed pre an0 basically

mircea_popescu: punkman beauty is simply a sign of good quality genetics. all things equal, beautiful people are more likely to be intelligent than ugly people.

mircea_popescu: fluffypony yeah. except mpoe is incorporated as a zero asset corp, and bitbet may be migrated, once i have some time to dick with that.

mircea_popescu: so far it's ambiguously either of the two, and a bunch of other stuff needs reviewing about it

mircea_popescu: certainly lengthier, for no clear benefit

mircea_popescu: right.

mircea_popescu: one of the issues with bitbet is how exactly the bets will be treated

mircea_popescu: aha ?

mircea_popescu: right.

mircea_popescu: imo they cheapened it into the dirt

mircea_popescu: hardly worth having one (and the people that had them back in the day are pissed at nyse for it)

mircea_popescu: the collapse of the us is made of little pukes like that.

mircea_popescu: lose a bunch of smart traders in the wtc, piss off everyone with a populist nyse franchise,

mircea_popescu: stuff like that

mircea_popescu: generally speaking, any move you take to make anything more accessible, makes it shittier. in general, by a larger % than the gain of accessibility.

mircea_popescu: BCB what's bct ?

mircea_popescu: fluffypony nobody can say they didn't have a fair chance. they blew it, tho.

mircea_popescu: and i'll delight in punishing all the vcs with it in the years to come. "here. this was your job. this was your job that you didn't do. because you suck. because you're inept. because you can't do your job. like children. look how stupid you were. you still are." ☟︎

mircea_popescu: yeah well, they're limited by what they see on cereal cartons.

mircea_popescu: BCB do you mean https://bitcointa.lk/threads/maged-permabanned-mpoe-pr-because-she-swore-shock.292615/ ?

mircea_popescu: mike_c which is, exactly, http://trilema.com/2013/the-future-of-bitcoin-regulation/

mircea_popescu: who the fuck told them to come a year too late ?

mircea_popescu: why didn't they read trilema april 2013 and execute THAT WEEK ?

mircea_popescu: what is this shit, i give orders and they disobey ? because why ?

mircea_popescu: of fucking course you'll be priced out of what trilema tells you to do in april 2013 if you wait till april 2014. if you weren't priced out that'd mean trilema sucks.

mircea_popescu: it doesn't.

mircea_popescu: "This is possibly the last chance to take those piles of fundamentally worthless US dollars and use them for something with any sort of future value.", the man said.

mircea_popescu: sure.

mircea_popescu: and i'll be all http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-05-2014#675569 ☝︎

mircea_popescu: fluffypony it was free for a whole month.

mircea_popescu: all the shits-for-brains on the forum knew better.

mircea_popescu: then it was 20 btc, when btc was $5

mircea_popescu: all the shits for brains knew better.

mircea_popescu: etc.

mircea_popescu: mike_c was as high as nyse, practically. back when btc went over 1200

mircea_popescu: pankkake http://pankkake.headfucking.net/2014/05/06/bitcointalk-always-retarded/ << you need to write more words. spell things out.

mircea_popescu: mike_c you must agree i know how to price.

mircea_popescu: kinda funny for someone with 0 days experience in sales/product.

mircea_popescu: fluffypony if you think about it, nyse has 1.5k seats or so, and perhaps 150mn diff people ever traded on it.

mircea_popescu: that'd be 1 in 100k.

mircea_popescu: but yes, unless your portofolio is > 1k btc, you don't really need a seat imo.

mircea_popescu: !jd mpif

mircea_popescu: srsly, who still has a forum account ?

mircea_popescu: tell phinn gage to come over.

mircea_popescu: pankkake you seriously claim to have seen most porn in existence ?!

mircea_popescu: how is that even possible, i'd guess even excluding cams and amateur shit, there's well over 1mn hours floating around.

mircea_popescu: ;;calc 24 * 365

mircea_popescu: even if nonstop... 100 years ?

mircea_popescu: lmao

mircea_popescu: i mean he could say he's seen most GIRLS that ever shot more than a few tests

mircea_popescu: i know guys with similar performance

mircea_popescu: well... gals, mostly, but anyway.

mircea_popescu: dear channel, i have a question.

mircea_popescu: chick that's not been allowed to wear pants for 5 years now or something, tried on one of my pairs for fun. she looked incredibly hot in them.

mircea_popescu: am i gay ?

mircea_popescu: ;;gettrust bcb

mircea_popescu: plz to be seriously.

mircea_popescu: who got a gaydar

mircea_popescu: kakobrekla lol

mircea_popescu: i bet ascii got a gaydar.

mircea_popescu: he's got every other gadget in his 400 sq feet of "living" space

mircea_popescu: beards are manly.

mircea_popescu: lol

mircea_popescu: check that out, all the olschool cats trust BCB

mircea_popescu: kakobrekla omfg, look at that, 1k trust. we are x.x

mircea_popescu: BCB what do you do, paypal arbitrage basically ?

mircea_popescu: so what do you do now ?

mircea_popescu: well so how would you like a managerial position in mpif ?

mircea_popescu: We think our actions express our decisions. But in nearly all of our life, willing decides nothing.

mircea_popescu: "We cannot wake up or fall asleep, remember or forget our dreams, summon or banish our thoughts, by deciding to do so.

mircea_popescu: dude this is total bs. i can do most of those things.

mircea_popescu: i have a much better beard than jobbs ever had.

mircea_popescu: read the contract first.

mircea_popescu: http://mpex.co/?mpsic=F.MPIF