mircea_popescu: anyway, attempts to win wars by artillery have been ongoing ever since someone observed cca 1600 that cannon is the major batterfield KILLER.
ascii_field: not the tet
mircea_popescu: the us army and south vietnamese were at first inept but then regrouped and turned it into a disaster for the northeners
ascii_field: and mircea_popescu is right, i was thinking in reality of the Christmas Offensive
ascii_field: vietnam is where they 'we shall win by dropping 4 million tonnes of trotyl'
mircea_popescu: at no point was the pentagon idea that war is won by anything other than fucking guts.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: it went away in vietnam and there were only men fighting
mircea_popescu: no it wasn't. dude, srsly... they had a fucking draft for vietnam.
mircea_popescu: the day they decided to fret over "transgenderism" instead of beating kids for sport is the day performance went away
mircea_popescu: and the reaso nit is "very difficulty" to appraise the "capabilites" of us army/navy/etc is because they are nil. anmd the reason they are nil is exactly the same reason the intellectual abilities of college grads are nil.
ascii_field: it was the pentagon way
mircea_popescu: 'The Pentagon didn't notice the moment when blowing up defenseless, demoralized adversaries using cruise missiles stopped being the only method for waging war.' << this was never the fucking case wtf narrative bs is this.
ascii_field: '... no other electrical appliances were permitted, and inspectors made their rounds to see; but people went to great lengths to deceive...'
ascii_field: 'i do not know for sure how the city buildings connected to the power plant, but the accidentally preserved 'testament to the right to utilize the mains grid energy', you can see that our home was connected to the mains on 20 january 1950, and the permit was written ~only~ for light bulbs, starting with 50 watt, then progressing to 145...
mircea_popescu: nah i mean in the original country.
ascii_field: is 'cheater' - even in english-speaking lands. from this i surmise that they, too, once had 'headcount' fees on mains socket
ascii_field: direct analogue is the 'cheater'
BingoBoingo: ascii_field: Lol, counseling upon the student's return
ascii_field: 'The Pentagon didn't notice the moment when blowing up defenseless, demoralized adversaries using cruise missiles stopped being the only method for waging war. And now it is very difficult to appraise the real capabilities of the huge bulk of the US Army or Marine Corps, should they ever encounter an enemy that is approximately equal to them in technical capabilities.'
ascii_field: 'Generally speaking, any authentic-looking towelhead who is able to intelligibly pronounce the word "democracy" has a chance to receive financing and weapons. But nobody has any control over where he will then go with these weapons. By the way, Soviet intelligence services of the Brezhnev era had the same problem, latching onto any tribal chieftain who knew how to pronounce words like "Marx" and "Lenin."'
assbot: ClubOrlov: American “allies” in Syria: their shameful performance is perfectly explainable ... ( http://bit.ly/1FAIWbY )
ascii_field: http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2015/09/american-allies-in-syria-their-shameful.html << from the l0lpharms
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> problem is the stockpile keeps getting drunk. << I believe the concept is "inventory buffer"
assbot: Logged on 28-09-2015 08:50:25; mircea_popescu: (and random discussion YET AGAIN undercovers the well lied about ustardian poverty. hey random schmuck, did you know your DAD could afford 5x the water that may be wasted on your stupid head ? forged granpa.)
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=28-09-2015#1286918 << must point out that this is easily fixed with drill, often - with bare hands; and that i have yet to meet anyone who actually ~uses~ shower head which came with his house or flat - they go in the rubbish, to be replaced by proper one with hose
mircea_popescu: if you're curious as to where the endless scams draw their vigour from... you need look no further than government.
mircea_popescu: them's be fightin' words
funkenstein_: !up thestringpuller
funkenstein_: yeah? one way to describe time averaged is smoothed, so as to not show the variations that happen over short times
mircea_popescu: funkenstein_ "smoothed" ?
funkenstein_: hey that looks like a smoothed derivative
mircea_popescu: hint : a world without complex systems IS a realistic goal. in point of fact, it is the baseline in realism.
mircea_popescu: "Global terrorism is extreme both in its lack of realistic goals and in its cynical exploitation of the vulnerability of complex systems."
mircea_popescu: check it out, ethereum needed moneyz so it sold its s.mpoe participation.
mircea_popescu: what would you say the "intuitive meaning" of A'j is ?
mircea_popescu: let there be a monotonous measurable system S. let Mi be measurements made at moments-in-time Ti. let average-per-unit-time delta values be reported for each Ti as Ai = (Mi - Mi-1) / (Ti - Ti-1). let an arbitrary "reporting unit" R be defined so that a finite count of Ti fit in each such unit Rj. Let Ais be plainly averaged so that A' = (Ak +...+ Am) / (m-k) where k, m are the first and last i's for Tis fitting in Rj.
mircea_popescu: i would suspect there's more random common law criminals being shielded by the usg from various jurisdictions than there are successful prosecutions in any given year.
mircea_popescu: "The intelligence official, identified as William George Basil, was accused of espionage and eavesdropping. But by then he had already left the country, and the U.S. government, as it has done for the past 10 years, continues to stonewall Greek authorities on the agencys involvement."
mircea_popescu: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CP722YKU8AAqoD2.png:large << clearly, more pki is the solution to pki.
assbot: Logged on 29-09-2015 04:25:15; punkman: mircea_popescu: Since Ether went live he has disappeared and refused to discuss the issue anymore, and it is unlikely anyone could've collected from him at any point. << and they didn't even have the anton story?
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-09-2015#1287284 << i would guess this is what the anton story morphed into.
assbot: Logged on 29-09-2015 02:15:33; trinque: the nerve of trying to make the argument that what we're seeing in the world today is *russian* military adventurism
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-09-2015#1287262 << hehe. bare ankles in housewives really bothers old whores.
HeySteve: hmm. well it's looking like you called another one. what do you think about BitShares? it looks like it can do what I want but seems a little too good to be true
mircea_popescu: they've mostly (80% or so) burned through the ~10k actual dollars they had available for this highschool play, which is about what you'd exp[ect for six months' entertainment
mircea_popescu: about the same budget.
mircea_popescu: altogether a marginally better showing than garza's "buyout at $20" plan.
mircea_popescu: rket value, right ? notwithstanding that mp has nixed ripple back when it was still called colored coins, and notwithstanding that this ripple reimplementation is even failful-er than the previous one).
mircea_popescu: the whole "ethereum" story is, mr alienface and some junior profs at umaryland scammed that university for a little space and morning coffees ; he lied about the few hundred BTC available as being tens of thousands, and did some fraudulent moves to "prove" this ; he lied about "expenses" to explain why the capital he claimed to have doesn't in fact exist (but hey, he "spent it" for ethereum, which is good and builds ma
HeySteve: who put in the 37k?
HeySteve: I was looking for a way to do multi-sig with coins pegged to fiat or PM, so investigated Ethereum
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mircea_popescu: https://www.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/3monji/vitalik_buttering_author_of_ethereum_cannot_even/ << i lolled.
mircea_popescu: who knows. the venetians spent all their time training the girls to be whores, lost to charles on the field then won in the bedroom.
HeySteve: in a nasty war situation for eg. all that education and child-rearing effort is likely to come to nothing on the battlefield
mircea_popescu: woman has 12 kids and feeds them off 2k income ? good for her.
HeySteve: well, it's hard to say how the world will go and which reproductive strategies will be selected for
HeySteve: of course, state has gotten into the parenting and schooling game in a big way, so things are distorted there
mircea_popescu: those differences drastically favour the jews, india and china. perhaps in that order.
HeySteve: also cultural differences in the emphasis placed on parenting and education
mircea_popescu: yeah. but even the western yurpeans favour narrow waists and wide butts.
HeySteve: and also developmental differences in the offspring
HeySteve: well, there are physiological factors relating to ease of childbirth
mircea_popescu: it's not clear that "they're more about education" , or that their cunts just don't work worth a crap.
mircea_popescu: there's even a line delineating the "poorly productive females" half of europe, and it was drawn in the 1800s
HeySteve: true, they're more about education
HeySteve: I think they only hit demographic problems around 2030 or so whereas EU, USA and Japan are already there
mircea_popescu: well then i dunno what you mean. the us has had low birth rate since before it was "developed", ie a century ago. england has had low birth rate throughout it's four centuries of being developed. china had lower birth rate in its undeveloped 80s than it does today.
mircea_popescu: lowest caste women could perfectly finely spawn highest caste men. there's absolutely no relation between class and reproduction.
mircea_popescu: exactly. with the exception of roxy the kidnapped ukrainian, two centuries of high class progeny was carried on the bosoms and thigs of SLAVES.
HeySteve: no idea, weren't they more about harems?
HeySteve: but the ultimate result is Idiocracy world
mircea_popescu: reproduction and class are strictly unrelated considerations. in fact, they do not even share any common space at all - there isn't a way to define "class" so that reproduction can be made meaningful or vice-versa.
HeySteve: I guess you can bring in waves of immigrants too and hope they take out a load of home and car loans
HeySteve: but this debases the "population supply" eventually
HeySteve: so if middle-class aren't reproducing like they used to, subsidise reproduction of lower class
mircea_popescu: that's a whole other conundrum
mircea_popescu: in a world of a billion, you will never ever reach the end of breathtaking.
HeySteve: they're*
HeySteve: well, dominant ideology says there fungible
mircea_popescu: to put that objection in more practically comprehensible terms : if you live in a village of 100, the prettiest girl you ever see in your life will be ugly.
mircea_popescu: those women on welfare, with a dozen kids, ARE doing their job, right ? and splendidly at that, natality ain't easy.
HeySteve: it's related to what you said about gender roles, with no father to do quality control you get bad outcomes
mircea_popescu: HeySteve what's the good reason ?
HeySteve: then the state got involved and illegitimacy rates (which are strongly correlated with criminality) skyrocketed
HeySteve: a good example is welfare for single mothers, previously spawning bastards was socially-discouraged for good reason
mircea_popescu: i guess handouts rot the brain.
HeySteve: well, in their minds
HeySteve: perhaps the concept of earned has been destroyed by handouts
mircea_popescu: "Why is schooling so poor for black children? To begin with, because blacks have little enthusiasm for academics. Blacks have demonstrated for an end to discrimination, more welfare, less brutality by police, greater rights, more pay, and greater respect. They do not march for more homework, harder courses, thicker texts with larger words and smaller pictures."
mircea_popescu: that's the gender role since the begining : woman spits out maggots from her maggot hole and man figures out which she may get to keep.
mircea_popescu: it keeps women from devolving into the wasp nest dvorkin'd live in, of her own devices.
mircea_popescu: incidentally - dvorkin happens to be pretty much correct. male sexuality IS fundamentally contempt for all life. not for life in particular, but for life in the universal, for the life of maggots and cockroaches and everything else teemingly and indistinctly alive. and as such it is both fundamentally important and functionally required,
mircea_popescu: "Men use the night to erase us...The annihilation of a woman's personality, individuality, will, character, is prerequisite to male sexuality, and so the night is the sacred time of male sexual celebration, because it is dark and in the dark it is easier not to see: not to see who she is. Male sexuality, drunk on its intrinsic contempt for all life, but especially for women's lives, can run wild, hunt down random victi
mircea_popescu: The following, which gives the flavor, is from Andrea Dworkin, who I gather is a sort of museum-piece siege howitzer for feminism. It's pretty much how they all talk. Listen:
mircea_popescu: looking through that site - seems the average lifetime of a "serious" blog is in the hundreds. i would guess from my own experience less than 1% of a personal attempt survives the 1k articles mark.
mircea_popescu: i must admit i'm a little confused by the internet.
assbot: The Top of the Pyramid: The Rothschilds, the Vatican and the British Crown Rule World | Humans Are Free ... ( http://bit.ly/1LYXzCx )
mircea_popescu: but wait! there's more... http://humansarefree.com/2014/09/the-top-of-pyramid-rothschilds-british.html
mircea_popescu: "Note: The history of the Khazarians, specifically the Khazarian Mafia (KM), the Worlds largest Organized Crime Syndicate that the Khazarian oligarchy morphed into by their deployment of Babylonian Money-Magick, has been nearly completely excised from the history books."
assbot: The Hidden History of the Incredibly Evil Khazarian Mafia (Updated) | Veterans Today ... ( http://bit.ly/1LYXyi1 )
mircea_popescu: and in random lulz, http://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/03/08/the-hidden-history-of-the-incredibly-evil-khazarian-mafia/
mircea_popescu: problem is the stockpile keeps getting drunk.
mircea_popescu: hence the interest of things that are predicated on breaking that imagined wall (say - madmax ?)
mircea_popescu: i expect ~half the various anarcho-this and that, so-and-so-punks etc are pretty much equal to that when it comes to social organizing. "let's all live as dunbar number communes in the desert, inaccessible from one another like."
mircea_popescu: but the fantasy is alive and well, hence "hunger games" and whatnot.
mircea_popescu: which is amusingly biographical : fighter circuit consists of groups of a few hundred people (the boxer, his team, people at his club, his social acquaintances etc) that come together under very strictly controlled setting (matches) and otherwise are very strictly separated.
mircea_popescu: his method works for any arbitrary number, providerd of course they never exist in groups larger than a few hundred and those groups are strictly separated.
mircea_popescu: and honestly, if i'm going to ride the bus once, i'd much rather ride it with lafond than plenty of other people.
BingoBoingo: People are going to do what they are going to do. Some are going to run stock exchanges while others ride the bus to work the grocery store.
BingoBoingo: It's like the people who stockpile all the stuff for collapse even if it really means they get robbed first
mircea_popescu: da fuck would i need bitcoin for, in a world where the win criteria is "work out a little".
mircea_popescu: heck, all the fucktarded broken software stack would really not be a point of concern if all it took was you know, hitting the gym three times a week and not being over 60.
mircea_popescu: but i dunno that anyone actually sees them the way sake makes phf fear anyone sees them.
mircea_popescu: there's nothing wrong with it, obviously. and the freshness of perspective is welcome, certainly. and i enjoy reading them, generally.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo his approach is fundamentally broken, fwiw. "oh, be in shape and you'll..." you'll what ? you'll die, just like everyone else. what's it gonna do, exactly ? he keeps spinning these... what they are is basically "believable superman strips". self-contained submarine-jetfighter except you know, not actually THAT capable, so the weakness of the "self-contained" fantasy is a little harder to put under fire.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> fifty years ago, back when they were "opressed" us blacks ACTUALLY HAD SOMETHING. meanwhile they've been... liberated out of it. << He's got bits of that scattered around though he does focus on the "liberated" younger generations
mircea_popescu: nah. trompi is a putative divinity introduced by a comic strip. he's more mysterious than the fsm in that outside of me and those guys nobody even references it.
punkman: is trompi the romanian dumbo?
mircea_popescu: (yes, lenin is a bit player in a story that marx didn't start, and the french didn't start. the stone fell i nthe lake long long ago.)
mircea_popescu: "The most important consequence of the Papal Revolution was that it introduced into Western history the experience of revolution itself."
mircea_popescu: imagine telling her about "the world before cellphones" as her mom lived it.
mircea_popescu: "where's your profile pic" of the 90s gave way to the "where's your instagram account" of the 2000s which gave way to "you make and send nude selfies on demand as a prequal" of today which will give way to something, dat much is fo sho.
mircea_popescu: punkman that's nothing. i suspect the pedigree of "women with a sexual market value" will in the future require full coverage much like the sale of cattle and other biomaterial includes full documentation by default today.
mircea_popescu: fifty years ago, back when they were "opressed" us blacks ACTUALLY HAD SOMETHING. meanwhile they've been... liberated out of it.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile if you look at the actual demographics involved the loss of identity, cultural, biological, you name it has been MORE marked for the minority and is certainly going faster.
mircea_popescu: there's 2k years' worth of actual social science being amused at lafond's "hi world i'm an ex boxer lemme tell you how the world looks through my glass" schtick.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-09-2015#1287253 << i dunno that it is. honestly, "Race relations" in the sense of, here's a 10-15% ish scapegoat minority is the lulz of all time. same role the gypsies play in romania, same exact role of the small rus / white rus whatever in russian rhetoric, what the fuck are the ukrainians gonna do, bleed on everyone ?
punkman: "“The Greeks identified terrorist nets, so NSA put these devices in there and they told the Greeks, OK, when it’s done we’ll turn it off,” said the source. “They put them in the Athens communications system, with the knowledge and approval of the Greek government. This was to help with security during the Olympics.”"
punkman: "Last February, Greek authorities took the extraordinary step of issuing an international arrest warrant for a CIA official the Greeks believe was a key figure in the operation while based in Athens. Unnoticed by the U.S. press, the warrant was a nearly unprecedented action by an allied country. The intelligence official, identified as William George Basil, was accused of espionage and eavesdropping."
punkman: !s athens affair
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punkman: mircea_popescu: Since Ether went live he has disappeared and refused to discuss the issue anymore, and it is unlikely anyone could've collected from him at any point. << and they didn't even have the anton story?
copypaste: i intend for it to be used for presentations and not logging keys, but i suppose it's just as good for either purpose...
cazalla: maybe get a blue yeti or similar to avoid handing microphone around though (missed what you said at the start)
trinque: much closer than say Central America is to the USA
trinque: what I see is numerous smoldering fires all along their south
trinque: the nerve of trying to make the argument that what we're seeing in the world today is *russian* military adventurism
phf: actually reminds me of this guy, fred reed, from earlier internet, http://www.fredoneverything.net. he used to be a dc journalist, so he has a lot of candid comments about dc northeast and generally race in america
phf: this sake i've been drinking put me in a foul mood, and orcs at the door rhetoric is depressing
mircea_popescu: "When blockchain technology will become more adopted by businesses, is an ether price of 100$ realistic ? (self.ethtrader)"
mircea_popescu: <phf> (i'm saying lafond because that's where i assume most people here are getting their racial relationship information from) << eh no they aren't, cmon.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: He's a white guy. Been in since the last Black guy was voted out.
cazalla: BingoBoingo, well that is far better than the casette player i had in mind
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BingoBoingo: http://epmonthly.com/article/the-right-moves-making-sense-of-icd-10/ << "ICD-10 could bring with it a 15% drop in provider revenue due to incomplete charts and claims rejections. Thankfully, a few basic principles can keep you up to date, and [hopefully]in the black."
BingoBoingo: <cazalla> what's available to smash and grab from a car these days? << In Missouri? Firearms
phf: in any case i'd be curious to watch breakdown patterns in philly. you have a lot of agents here, that are not just realtors. there's upenn, there's ethnic neighbourhoods, there's also a lot of "blacklivesmatter" hipster feminist areas that are deep in the ghetto territory.
cazalla: what's available to smash and grab from a car these days?
BingoBoingo: The surge in violence seems to have a more nationalist feel.
phf: nicer in a sense that gentrification line was pushed further out, or nicer in a sense that ghettos were becoming better places to live? philly for example has a large muslim community and Ethiopian community that pushing in the ghetto without necessarily turning it into polarising yoga and smoothies yuppie centrals
phf: tention. there's a wide range of ghettos, and those that are there, at the end of the day, how many black of service age is there.
phf: i spent a long time biking through north east dc and was friends with a dc cop at umd and i know that north east is hellhole ready to burst. i'd bike during day time and would have old black guys on the street corner go "whacha doin here white boy". but then i moved to philly and ghetto here is not north east nor baltimore by any measure. i can walk up to 69th street or kensington and as long as i'm smart about it, nobody will pay me any at
BingoBoingo: <phf> (i'm saying lafond because that's where i assume most people here are getting their racial relationship information from) << I've been getting most of mine from KMOX
BingoBoingo: Sometimes the City's just broken.
phf: (i'm saying lafond because that's where i assume most people here are getting their racial relationship information from)
cazalla: in other words, don't make a big deal outta it spider
BingoBoingo: Of course and if they get caught in this situation they are just "taking one for the team" in the name of refining their machine for extracting value from Whitey.
pete_dushenski: recreational violence has a long history amongst bank robbers and other 'pros'. highly effective means of persuation and, hell, gratification.
BingoBoingo: "Mayor Francis Slay said Monday he would give Dotson "unlimited overtime" to put more police on the streets. Slay reiterated his goal to hire more police officers, but warned it may not be enough to combat what he called "a higher level of boldness" by criminals who are carrying more and higher-caliber weapons and who have little regard for consequences."
BingoBoingo: Most of the failing US urban areas have some sort of civilized carve out in the Downtown area, but they are becoming increasingly indefensible
BingoBoingo: Prolly most North American cities have to look forward to: "It is the latest robbery in St. Louis in which the victim was shot even after complying with a robber's demands."
pete_dushenski: and by 'the future' i don't mean 'the future everywhere' but rather a great many north american cities, particularly those focused on a single industry.
BingoBoingo: Well, the problems emerge less from the touristing and more from the activities of daily living necessary as an urban dweller
pete_dushenski: i mean, who wouldn't want to see a real live honest-to-goodness usian dystopian ghost town to see if the future is really that shitty or whether it's in fact quite liveable
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo haven't been to either detroit or stl, but the former holds some appeal to me, at least as a tourist.
mircea_popescu: course, not nearly as heroic as "dude that has a bunch of other altcoins anal rings around his penis said ethereum's no different, and he had an open offer we mostly didn't take, and now it turns out it's no different and let's not mention the bitbet bet on the matter if possible."
mircea_popescu: In other words, he's a troll."
mircea_popescu: Since Ether went live he has disappeared and refused to discuss the issue anymore, and it is unlikely anyone could've collected from him at any point.
mircea_popescu: "Short summary from clicking the link: this dude claimed to know Ethereum would fail, so during the crowd sale he offered Ether at a huge discount to the official price. Since nobody took him up on this amazing offer of selling something he didn't have at a price cheaper than the price people were willing to pay to people who actually had Ether to sell, he declared victory.
mircea_popescu: no two fur coats are the same.
pete_dushenski: "Part of the initiative is to create around 20 cross-border Special Economic Zones. Khorgos, on the border with Kazakhstan, serves as a cautionary example: two years after the go-ahead China has built a city consisting of a number of multi-story shopping centers in the desert. In one of those buildings, for example, there are roughly one hundred shops, each one of them selling exactly the same product: fur coats."
assbot: China’s ‘Silk Road’ Initiative Is at Risk of Failure | The Diplomat ... ( http://bit.ly/1OCYPS5 )
BingoBoingo: Of course. There may be wankery in some places like California where the police are enlisted to pull over and impound such vehicles when spotted driving, but it is retards all the way down
mircea_popescu: the overarching point being that whatever paper dickery they choose makes exactly 0 difference in the field.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> the more they do of that, the less rope they have left. << How they would do it is probably mandate the titles to the vehicles be converted to "salvage titles" or some other wankery that would make the cars illegal to be registered to drive on the road.
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mircea_popescu: https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/3mpq6b/new_ethereum_blog_post_from_vitalik_buterin_the/cvh5kzh << at least SA is having SOME fun with it.
mircea_popescu: this is the problem of "regimes", let's call it. a quest for oxigen, underwater. there's no more oxygen being added.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> no but seriously. at what point does the idea form that hey, minuscule "pollutants" out of extant cars aren't the problem. stop giving so many derps cars! << The used car market is finally starting to regain some price sanity after the "cash for clunkers" supply contraction. The confinscatadors may be planning to do a repeat except with more "fuck you" and less "$5000" rebate
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mircea_popescu: http://qntra.net/2014/11/buterins-waterfall-a-likbez/ << i had forgotten alf put all the work into this!
pete_dushenski: thestringpuller haha silky johnson!
btcdrak: the blood moon has come true for so many assets today
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu 0.001 looking more likely by the minute
thestringpuller: pete_dushenski: probably the same way people reacted to Dave Chappelle shooting a slave owner on camera in a skit.
assbot: Ethereum (ETH) price, charts, and info | Crypto-Currency Market Capitalizations ... ( http://bit.ly/1Pexkvq )
mircea_popescu: http://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/ethereum/ << check out the one day for shits an giggles.
pete_dushenski: halfway through 'django unchained' atm. if the locals in derptown texas couldn't imagine 'nigger on a horse', how would they react to 'nigger sells your papy's farm to chinaman' ?
mircea_popescu: o never mind, i was holding the graph upside down.
thestringpuller: the entire point of college these days is to get laid it seems, which I dunno why you'd pay 10k a year just to get laid.
mircea_popescu: omfg! ETHEREUM BROKE THROUGH
mircea_popescu: but hey, the party's over. all that's left of america are the fly shat pictures of granpa on the wall.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski the epic moment where a kenyan and a chinese agreed that "the us can't pull itself out of the shit without chinese support".
thestringpuller: i think the kid eating glue is worse off now with that mantra
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller no, it's bush.
mircea_popescu: yeah, by filling the country with a bunch of retarded assholes you wholeheartedly feel like driving over.
thestringpuller: I blame Obama for all the "everyone should go to college" bullshit.
thestringpuller: pete_dushenski: only the stupid have student debt, why pay for something you can't afford, or are not cool enough to get someone else to pay for?
pete_dushenski: best thing the post-secondary ustardian system ever did. reduce pollution. with debt !
mircea_popescu: how about make being poor very fucking sad, so they have SOME incentive to stop lying to themnselves about it.
pete_dushenski: this side of the pollution equation is being helped immensely by the crushing student debt that 'social scientards' are coming out of school with. still have to live at home. ride bike, take bus. what choice do they have but make being poor fashionable ?
mircea_popescu: last i heard ethereum is today in a state that is generally worse than not existing at all.
mircea_popescu: <pete_dushenski> mircea_popescu "Ethereum now actually exists" << what the fuck does this even mean ?
pete_dushenski: 'national ride the bus day'
mircea_popescu: it's clearly a square. one edge has been optimized pretty well. tiome to do the other one ?
mircea_popescu: no but seriously. at what point does the idea form that hey, minuscule "pollutants" out of extant cars aren't the problem. stop giving so many derps cars!
pete_dushenski: the size of the vw legal problem is too obviously too large for derpy bureaucrats with concrete boots to handle
assbot: Logged on 28-09-2015 06:09:56; mircea_popescu: fascinating that the author manages to go through all that without at any point rising to the very moderate level of awareness that's included in the observation that "all this retarded pseudo-legalistic bullshit just ate its own tail, and now ill have to go. vw shot it in the head, thanks god."
mircea_popescu: i guess derpy amherst dude could have benefited from jewish mother.
mircea_popescu: jewish mothers have a saying, something like, "stick to being honest, you're too dumb to be crooked."
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski at least he could have the commo nfucking decency to make a new nick, like every dumbass / scammer before him.
mircea_popescu: the budget of the entire scamolade is ~150 btc, and i doubt they're actually willing to burn all of it in support of this paycoin.
assbot: BitBet - The ETH scam won't see 2016 :: 52.17 B (28%) on Yes, 134.11 B (72%) on No | closing in 2 months 4 days | weight: 84`582 (100`000 to 10`000) ... ( http://bit.ly/1OCUQVB )
mircea_popescu: https://bitbet.us/bet/1199/the-eth-scam-wont-see-2016/#c5162 << i happen to value the estimation of that anon bitbet commenter. i looked at the data source and to my eye he seems exactly on the money.
mircea_popescu: <mike_c> holy shit it's down to 1800 btc? what did they start with, 30k? << "30k".
thestringpuller: So Hearn thinks not everyone should read the bitcoin source code and advocates pseudoscience: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3motjs/bitcoin_block_size_analysis_using_real_data/cvh10d1
BingoBoingo: !up thestringpuller
mircea_popescu: should be a pretty lulzy showdown, once they try and "prosecute" someone who's not hired straight from central casting.
mircea_popescu: hey, if the usg "law enforcement" hires some kickass pr it might even catch up to the sinaloa cartel by 2016.