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pete_dushenski: "There is widespread belief that violence in poorly governed countries is triggered by international demand for their natural resources. We study the consequences of U.S. legislation grounded in this belief, the “conflict minerals” section of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act. Targeting the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, it cuts funding to warlords by discouraging manufacturers from sourcing tin, tungsten,
assbot: The great Nedeflorena show on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1Lp21dw )
pete_dushenski: ^ what a cool million buys in the used car market these days.
assbot: 1995 Bugatti EB110 Super Sport | London 2015 | RM Sotheby's ... ( http://bit.ly/1Lp1M2g )
pete_dushenski: no 'skin in the game'
asciilifeform l0lz re: the only #b-a fella who gives a flying fuck re: u.s. election being a canadian
pete_dushenski: @realDonaldTrump: "I would like to extend my best wishes to all, even the haters and losers, on this special date, September 11th."
gribble: The operation succeeded.
assbot: Log In - The New York Times ... ( http://bit.ly/1Ok0v1F )
deedbot-: [Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski » Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski] Down to the last satoshi. Now with bonus poem! - http://www.contravex.com/2015/09/11/down-to-the-last-satoshi-now-with-bonus-poem/
pete_dushenski: me and youtube, gmail, and facefraud. oh the company i keep.
shinohai adds pete_dushenski to the sponsors of terrorism list.
trinque shoves the barge that once was a mailserver seaward, fires a flaming arrow, salutes
assbot: No, dropping lowest-priority tx (in the event of a spam attack) is not better than dropping random transactions - in fact, it's a lot worse. Peter Todd is full of shit on this one. Here's why. : bitcoinxt ... ( http://bit.ly/1Q7Af95 )
shinohai: ^Guarantee they will go bankrupt trying to find enuf cloth to fit all the fat-ass feminists.
mircea_popescu: oh ffs, who the fuck is laura bates.
mircea_popescu: not their fault you persist in living in a counbtry whichg has decided "coding will work like art works!!1"
mircea_popescu: i know bunches of late 20s earlky 30yos with insurance for the shiot they make
mircea_popescu: they won't do custom jobs for items worth less than maybe 100k or so, but then again fuck you, nobody is going to insure your chewwed gum
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> phun phakt: most american 'home insurance' co. will specifically ~not~ insure any item you built yourself << of course they will.
gribble: The operation succeeded.
mircea_popescu: didn't know they could code.
mircea_popescu: i thought it was the derpy blondies or something.
ascii_field: it's the world's spiffiest tr0l0l0l
mircea_popescu: how exactly did the russky govt manage to steal a .org ?
pete_dushenski: for those unawares, TD Canada Trust is one of the 'big 5' banks in canada
shinohai: All they got was a cruddy old laptop worth abt $200, wasn't insured.
ascii_field: shinohai: some insurance companies will not officially recognize the fact of theft, vandalism, etc. without a police case #
shinohai: I got called an idiot for not calling the cops when my house got broken into yesterday.
ascii_field: (sorta like what they would like to make in usa, instead of all the disjoint local police forces)
ascii_field: crush(p); //Use the function crush in Dworkin.Xir to discard the oppressor
shinohai uncovers a plot where the USG kidnaps asciilifeform and force him to rewrite bitcoin in this: https://github.com/ErisBlastar/cplusequality
mircea_popescu: beat the shit of the romanians, who tried same but failed utterly.
mircea_popescu: they did a good job actually copying the principles not merelyt the objects, turn out perfectly passible items now.
mircea_popescu: ftr, the estonians got really great at "fake ancient furniture".
ascii_field: the actual shitcatcher.
mircea_popescu: http://i.imgur.com/8ZHmhKt.jpg <<< hey check out the respectable dulap!
ascii_field: speaking of the toilet per se, strictly
mircea_popescu: ascii_field wut ?! bathroom was the size of that room o.O
ascii_field searched, in vain, for people on the street with square arses
mircea_popescu: nobody even knows the quals anymore, is it ?
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: go give ben_vulpes a unix and laptop co-designed with it, then he can throw away the crapple
mircea_popescu: ascii_field the "apparently care" you propose has a name.
ascii_field: the billion lusers who buy the thing, apparently care
mircea_popescu: derplet's got these feelings almost like he's a thing, "i am a tractor, it makes no sense i can't pull odwn this wall, please explain mechanics to it!"
ascii_field: they sell microshit-free machines usable by civilian
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 17:28:23; ascii_field: 'Please inform Mr. Toom about the grading system and instruction methods of THIS country.:.. I earned a grade of A in my college algebra and trigonometry courses so it makes no sense for me to be doing so poorly in this course. Please straighten this man out.'
mircea_popescu: your argument strikes me of the same exceptionalism "medicine" of 1700 employed. or "religion" of 1800.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field i dunno, women i know hate the inept cocksure ones more than the neurotic pay-for-it ones
ascii_field: and only the most desperately repulsive subset, even
mircea_popescu: spiral of defeat. a) woman goes out, meets a buncha schmucks ; b) woman starts charging ~100 per dinner date, ensuring that... she will now ONLY meet the schmucks.
assbot: Adnotated words of wisdom on the topic of online fraud on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1Q7t1lw )
trinque: cazalla: yep, back up now; as long as they are that responsive I'm pleased
ascii_field: it is like microshit in the mid-90s
ascii_field: because there is no (from the perspective of the aficionados) remotely credible alternative.
ascii_field: the thing about apple is that it can live for a very, very long time even with all internal organs removed
cazalla: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-09-2015#1270754 <<< i use fastmail and today was the first time i've ever had an issue, reliable until now
mircea_popescu: the inserting is predicated on the 700.
shinohai: Which would you rather have, $700 or a device that you charge $50 for and people keep inserting coins in to use?
mircea_popescu: "as long as the state agrees it's 700, doesn't jack shit matter what they do"
ascii_field: folks pay a few hundy and telco covers the rest in exchange for binding contract for n years
ascii_field: ~nobody actually pays the 700
ascii_field: most iphonists don't even know what the thing costs to buy fair & square
mircea_popescu: gotta support the standard.
mircea_popescu: doesn't matter how they get it.
mircea_popescu: in any consumer driven market, the price is the only signal of everything. and you do not give as much as a faint whiff of selling the 1k item for ~20 bux. not ever.
ascii_field: in usa, almost all iphonistas were getting the things via their telco already
mircea_popescu: it's in the price. they cost >1k or w/e
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 20:45:57; mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: << mircea_popescu appears to have slept through the total obliteration of whatever 'premium' status ipNohe had. << it's in the price, see ?
assbot: Logged on 21-08-2015 03:58:42; mircea_popescu: fun fact, since for some reason i'm doing history now. romania's head rabi (niemirower) died in 1940. he was succeded by one alex safran, who was 29 at that time. and by virtue of being head rabi, the young man also had an ex officio seat in the romanian senate. but for not being yet 40 years of age as the senate required, he asked for, and obtained, a special derrogation from the high chamber of cas
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 14:49:33; pete_dushenski: "Jews who were citizens of Germany’s allies lived or died according to certain general rules. Jews who maintained their prewar citizenship usually lived, and those who did not usually died…Jews from territories that changed hands were usually murdered. Jews almost never survived if they remained on territories where the Soviet Union had been exercising power when German or Romanian forces arriv
mircea_popescu: hm, fuck the other ones i meant!
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 14:20:34; phf: i was in moscow few weeks after iphone 5 release and saw status games golden youth would play with it, polished girls coyly extracting iphones to pretense that bought it in new york just last week, iphones on tables at expensive cafes, etc. i've seen more iphones over a weekend out then in moscow then i've ever in the states. nothing like that was happening after 6 came out, of course it's my impressions, but i
mircea_popescu: chumpatronics is its own science, with its own measures scl, you can't just replace them for gonzo values
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: << mircea_popescu appears to have slept through the total obliteration of whatever 'premium' status ipNohe had. << it's in the price, see ?
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 13:59:43; asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-09-2015#1270214 << easily, if the adult is a demented bugger goading the idiots on
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 13:59:10; asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-09-2015#1270211 << there was gold, foreign currencies, no ?
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-09-2015#1270480 << for the record i know actual us women, in their 60s, in the same situation. the usg itself doesn't, but that'd be more of the http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-09-10/bullying-allegations-against-monash-senior-surgeon-upheld/6766046 same.
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 13:56:45; asciilifeform: then again jurov is fortunate in not being personally concerned with this matter, just as eagle does not concern himself with muddy roads...
trinque: because it's their problem to keep up, and the idea that any email is beyond prying eyes is long since passed
ascii_field: e.g., go and get the indium back out of the junkyard, for new lcd glass
mircea_popescu: anyway : yes as adoption grows (the real kind, not verbal), the average size of the unspent will decrease.
ben_vulpes: rather nifty books
ascii_field: (beautifully fictionalized but afaik pretty accurate depiction of 'trial of the pyx' in n. stephenson's 'baroque cycle' - recommended)
mircea_popescu: the dilution is in fact inevitable.
ascii_field: the dilution is not inevitable, it is pure pickpocketry
mircea_popescu: the choice is to either make it microscopic or dilute it with base metal
mircea_popescu: once the empire grows, the size of the coin has to diminish
mircea_popescu: if money were still linked to gold, seeing how there's not that much gold around, you'd be dealing in sub-miligram units.
mircea_popescu: why did they want this ?
mircea_popescu: i refer you to your classical history studies. why do you suppose the atom count of gold per monetary item kept decreasing ?
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 13:52:21; asciilifeform: this is rather like supposing that all gold on planet will one day be split into individual atoms on account of its scarcity, no ?
ascii_field: hey, 'better for the buses, closer to the shops' or how'd it go
mircea_popescu has little faith in the length of that "little while".
mircea_popescu: and the next day after i start making obscure chinese statements on trilema you run off from home to live in xiang-fuck or some shit
assbot: The great Nedeflorena show on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1L6WM6C )
mircea_popescu: i suspect the deep driver there is "idiots" vs "enemies"
ascii_field: reminds me of my brother's Unified Theory of Linguistics
mircea_popescu: s/g/s/ and re-arrange the letters a little
gribble: The operation succeeded.
trinque: "They will train to repulse an attack from the air and to defend the coast, which means firing artillery and testing short-range air defense systems, " the source said, adding that the exercise had been agreed with the Syrian government. << might as well have said "against US airstrikes"
fluffypony: those were the ones I took on my phone, I have other pics (somewhere) I took with my camera
assbot: ericcart comments on ETH is dumping HARD, why? What's the bad news? ... ( http://bit.ly/1NmAttG )
trinque: they taught us the quadratic formula in middle school using a goddamn nursery song tune
trinque: pete_dushenski: where's the >1BTC bet feed?
ascii_field: http://dpaste.com/0HCN3ZM << another good piece by him, de-pdfized
ascii_field: 'Please inform Mr. Toom about the grading system and instruction methods of THIS country.:.. I earned a grade of A in my college algebra and trigonometry courses so it makes no sense for me to be doing so poorly in this course. Please straighten this man out.'
gribble: The operation succeeded.
shinohai: Nor did they make that conference by using actual bitcoin.
ascii_field: just pointing out that the people pictured in BingoBoingo's links did not get the way they are by eating actual food
pete_dushenski: well, no one's buying planets now are they, not even mr. musk
assbot: The battlefield of the future on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1UM248j )
pete_dushenski: "So run off to the bathroom, strip naked and weigh yourself. Pork bellies go for ~$1 per pound, and so do you (provided you were frozen, trimmed, and added up to enough of your peers to make a 18`000 kg package)." << http://trilema.com/2014/the-battlefield-of-the-future/#selection-133.273-133.484
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 14:55:23; pete_dushenski: gotta love those statist stats. what would we do if we knew that poor people were fat and poor because we were redistributing wealth so as to ensure that they stay that way in perpetuity ?
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-09-2015#1270540 << also the peculiarly american conflation of various industrial waste for 'food'
punkman: why haven't they made the emergency permanent yet?
pete_dushenski: nah, think it mighta been 'battlefield of the future'
assbot: Fetlife, the meat market on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1ULZI9D )
assbot: Crystal meth: 'Walk a little way in any direction and buy it for a trifle' | World news | The Guardian ... ( http://bit.ly/1ULZorm )
ascii_field: (vintage article, where persian supposedly laments the coming of new dope to replace old, http://www.theguardian.com/world/iran-blog/2014/may/13/crystal-meth-tehrans-new-drug-of-choice )
ascii_field: 'Yes, opium was a murderous agent in our blood streams. Yes, we were addicted. But we gained a gravelly tone that made friends’ poetry recitations bearable. If we expired bit by bit, we were comfortable in our growing numbness. Opium eased away frustrations and failings. This was a traditional addiction respectful of our history, of traditions that allowed us to go with the flow as we socialised around glowing charcoa
shinohai: Unless I make them red in the face, where's the fun?
pete_dushenski: shinohai: not like she'll ever read the logs. have at 'er :)
shinohai: I wonder if the author of that article would be mad if I made a masturbation pun on her name.
assbot: 10 ways you can tell if you’re a ‘feminazi’ | Laura Bates | Comment is free | The Guardian ... ( http://bit.ly/1EStbgg )
pete_dushenski: "James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, is said to talk nearly every day with the head of US Central Command’s intelligence wing, Army Brigadier General Steven Grove – “which is highly, highly unusual”, according to a former intelligence official." << it brings a tear to mine eye to see these bureaucrats breaking down barriers like this. *sniff*
assbot: US spy chief's 'highly unusual' reported contact with military official raises concerns | US news | The Guardian ... ( http://bit.ly/1ULW0gb )
phf: punkman: yes, not for purchase though, to smoke. he ran to a different location, packed it there, brought here, and then proceeded to refresh coals by repeating the process
assbot: North Korea exploits 0-day in Seoul's favourite word processor • The Register ... ( http://bit.ly/1FBQo0R )
pete_dushenski: gotta love those statist stats. what would we do if we knew that poor people were fat and poor because we were redistributing wealth so as to ensure that they stay that way in perpetuity ?
pete_dushenski: is another “food insecure” indicator."
pete_dushenski: "The definition of “food insecure” includes anyone who frets about not being able to purchase food at any point. If someone states that they feared running out of food for a single day (but didn’t run out), that is an indicator of being “food insecure” for the entire year — regardless of whether they ever missed a single meal. If someone wants organic kale but can afford only conventional kale, that
pete_dushenski: "“Food insecurity” is a statistic designed to mislead. USDA defines food insecurity as being “uncertain of having, or unable to acquire, enough food to meet the needs of all their members because they had insufficient money or other resources for food.”"
pete_dushenski: in other news, "the Agriculture Department announced this morning that 48 million Americans live in “food insecure” households."
pete_dushenski: about seven hundred thousand Jews who were citizens of Germany’s allies were killed. Yet a higher number survived. This is a dramatic contrast to the lands where the state was destroyed, where almost all Jews were killed."
pete_dushenski: "Jews who were citizens of Germany’s allies lived or died according to certain general rules. Jews who maintained their prewar citizenship usually lived, and those who did not usually died…Jews from territories that changed hands were usually murdered. Jews almost never survived if they remained on territories where the Soviet Union had been exercising power when German or Romanian forces arrived…In all,
shinohai: I always got to include travel time in my former employment, but only "to" job site and not the return trip.
pete_dushenski: and this is certainly the way i'm billed whenever i have a contractor fix something on a property. travel time is always included.
punkman: phf, bringing hookah from other shop down the stree?
assbot: Ask a North Korean: what's life like in the army? | World news | The Guardian ... ( http://bit.ly/1F1CeLH )
phf: fingers crossed xt ios app will be ready by the time africa is the last remaining apple market
kakobrekla: need more bumphones in africa so they can use ze blockchain
phf: asciilifeform: this stuff seems more pronounced further away you are from фабрика грез. i'm sure you'd still be the coolest boy on the block with an iphone in kerala
asciilifeform: if there was something 'statusy' about it, this disappeared in 2009 or earlier.
asciilifeform: (boredom lures the pnohes out of pockets and to where you can see them)
phf: i was in moscow few weeks after iphone 5 release and saw status games golden youth would play with it, polished girls coyly extracting iphones to pretense that bought it in new york just last week, iphones on tables at expensive cafes, etc. i've seen more iphones over a weekend out then in moscow then i've ever in the states. nothing like that was happening after 6 came out, of course it's my impressions, but i think 5 to 6 period was the p
asciilifeform: (items like $3k laptops where the screen cracks two weeks after purchase, and THEY WON'T TAKE IT BACK, are why. that kind of thing is not forgotten, not forgiven. if the alternative were not microshit, apple would already be dead.)
kakobrekla: in their view.
kakobrekla: the only way you dont have a bumphone is if you have the latest one.
kakobrekla: "i can show you i sleep in a shoebox in the middle of the street on my iphone"
asciilifeform: ~this~ is the racket apple would like to roll up
asciilifeform: but there are folks who know how to change the glass, and it is inexpensive; hell, i did it myself for a few personal friends back in the day
asciilifeform: now, what you often ~will~ see is folks, esp. females, playing with iphone ~with cracked glass~. this tells you that a) almost certainly owner got it 'via contract', which is to say as a slave collar from the telco; and b) cannot remotely afford to pay the thing's retail price to replace it
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 10:02:44; mircea_popescu: who the fuck commodifies his premium product for boredom o may gawd
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-09-2015#1270278 << mircea_popescu appears to have slept through the total obliteration of whatever 'premium' status ipNohe had. i often go into town on weekends on the train. there is literally no one too ragged, too ethnic, whatever, to be playing with apple gadget, often more than one. literally, stinking bums have'em, and had for years.
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 09:57:40; mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-09-2015#1269902 << so then it's the rifht move ?
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-09-2015#1270266 << if you want your employees to fight to the death, yes, throw in the chix
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 09:41:57; davout: it's an output in the bathroom, it's an input in the bedroom
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 09:25:40; mircea_popescu: sorta like the emperor of flies can't happen with an adult present.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-09-2015#1270214 << easily, if the adult is a demented bugger goading the idiots on
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 09:25:07; mircea_popescu: i doubt it. see, wiemar collapsed because THERE WAS NO currency. at all.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-09-2015#1270211 << there was gold, foreign currencies, no ?
phf: my grandmother worked in my grandfather's department, designing analogue circuits, and it wasn't some contrived "women in engineering", simply something she was good enough at to get hired into "оборонка"
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 09:12:18; mircea_popescu: jurov actually the she-programmers of yugo were famous in romania in the 80s
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-09-2015#1270183 << and in more or less the whole su colonial world
asciilifeform: then again jurov is fortunate in not being personally concerned with this matter, just as eagle does not concern himself with muddy roads...
asciilifeform: jurov: that is, you can still find one with brain installed, but it has to be naturally-occurring. which, sure, go and wait for the natural fission reactor. THERE IS ONE ! geologists found it! somewhere in africa.
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 09:11:26; jurov: lol the programming cheerleaders.. i've heard fantastic tales from bygone era in czechoslovakia about female *system* programmers one would literally go for debugging help in the darkest hours
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 09:07:45; mircea_popescu: there's an entire ugly unspecified state downstream people keep pushing under the rug
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-09-2015#1270170 << there is considerably more ugly in the fact that the actual meaning of the system IS NOT SPECIFIED because NOBODY ACTUALLY KNOWS WHAT the crap does - esp. bdb, openssl, etc
asciilifeform: this is rather like supposing that all gold on planet will one day be split into individual atoms on account of its scarcity, no ?
asciilifeform: but kinda defeats the purpose of the exercise.
asciilifeform: 'targeting' them as if they were c-machine arch would result in a terrific blob of unreadable shit
asciilifeform: they are not.
phf: you could target picolisp from sbcl, same way as you're right now targeting the unix to common lisp machine abstraction layer, that's written in c
punkman: ok, on dream or mulisp or other then
asciilifeform: NOT ALL LISPS ARE THE SAME
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-09-2015#1270129 << sure you can. all you need is another common lisp ! doesn't matter from where, or running on what
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 08:39:23; mircea_popescu: this is more of the "gavin has spoken with experts" / "btcoin business support"/ "xt is going to matter" etc etc verbiage.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-09-2015#1270090 << hey, it worked for killing linux! that is, it is alive, but on what, 100 boxes, and the rest happily run shituntu and subscribe to autoupdates, happily run usg binaries, etc.
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 08:36:50; mircea_popescu: they went to work for metansa right alf ?
asciilifeform: e.g., the very same mulisp discussed in the 'derive.exe' thread; 'dream' (x86 and later x86_64 scheme implementation;) and others
asciilifeform: b) plenty of lisps, of various descriptions, mainly but not exclusively 'scheme' implementations, written in 100% asm from the ground
asciilifeform: 2) sbcl and other adult commonlisps a) use c version for bootstrapping, which is to say, compiling self to a legit 100% self-shat executable --- but they will link with libc for unix terminal i/o, sockets, etc
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 08:25:38; mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-09-2015#1267867 <<< haha wut. except any lisp is also implemented atop libc, and half the time atop fucking python and some shit. don't throw stones ye of the glass house.
PinkPosixPXE: hey mircea_popescu, doing pretty good, been busy with the new job, how are you?
punkman: "This isn’t to say that there aren’t large systems that can be formally specified: Bitcoin is one such example."
assbot: The Tar Pit - The myth of "software engineering" ... ( http://bit.ly/1ULhslr )
shinohai: I'll take the tradeoff, I have a soft spot for older computers.
BingoBoingo: Champion's Towing and Recovery of Columbus Mississippi is the most persistent comment spammer I've ever seen for such a niche meatspace business.
assbot: evylllint comments on I hope this is OK because I have to get this off my chest. I'm an accountant and was hired by one of the most prominent Fat Acceptance activists. Wow. ... ( http://bit.ly/1KIFoqd )
BingoBoingo: https://archive.is/C32nz << "Well, since a ton is 2000 pounds and Fat Activists tends to have their mortality increase rapidly after 500 pounds, we can conclude there are 3-6 Fat activists to the ton."
assbot: Nation’s Marketers Only People Still Trying To Reach Inner-City Child - The Onion - America's Finest News Source ... ( http://bit.ly/1ULfm4Y )
mircea_popescu: (who the fuck told those women to wear overknee skirts, srsly now)
mircea_popescu: http://i.imgur.com/zfLcA20.jpg << there's something coallescing in my head here. basically, the us bet on india against china. and lost.
phf: plenty of that, also fresh fish. my american girl is finally convinced that there's something fundamentally wrong with u.s. food supply
mircea_popescu: "11. Don't know a thing? No worries you are not alone, but that shouldn't stop you from blogging as it doesn't stop others, you can still make money just by blogging on topics that are interesting"
phf: with japanese salarimen from the 80s doing company retreats
mircea_popescu: if you're working a boring dayjob and need that fantasy to get out of bed in the morning.
mircea_popescu: phf yeah, they exist like buenos aires night life exists.
mircea_popescu: how can these people be that retarded srsly ? dump random txn ? that's the plan ?
phf: you would know better, are there "bdsm" hotels? in the style of those italian "discipline" comics, with pony waitresses and a strict madame running the place
mircea_popescu: http://dpaste.com/0TTX2CN << somebody cribbed the wrong part off b-a logs
phf: authentic Cube experience
mircea_popescu: phf you know they supposedly have those torture hotels in tokyo
mircea_popescu: and if he just sat on the silver or w/e it was... but no matter.
mircea_popescu: "I listed my castle for sale. If I manage to flip now, even at a slight fiat loss, I would have gained 3x the bitcoins in a year. Decent trade, huh?"
mircea_popescu: honestly i think the decrepit reality looks muchg better than the mcmanshion candy-cane photochop
punkman: fluffypony: how did the castle look when you visited?
mircea_popescu: as soon as they are ready, the reservation system and Bitcoin integration should be ready also.
BingoBoingo: Seriously that noise is the hardest part about qntra
mircea_popescu: how many of these throwaway items have we seen so far.
mircea_popescu: Deloitte to audit to BitEx.la Bitcoin exchange, the first of its kind in Argentina and possibly in the world for a market of Bitcoin << except a) it doesn't actually exist and b) all of the fucking nopes already, wtf.
mircea_popescu: the boat's still missed. but i gotta say it's fucking hysterical to obvserve the US as a society behaves collectively exactly like every ustard individually. haughty pretense at first, desperate flailing once it's too late.
assbot: The future of Bitcoin regulation on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1ULcfKf )
mircea_popescu: Blythe Masters says US lags in blockchain use (ft.com) / Over $60 million in funding raised for bitcoin companies this week alone. / bla bla << "To sum up : what we have so far are a few millions invested in hopeless start-ups that have no talent, no business model, aren't solving a problem and generally speaking don't exist other than as a tag on an orange calling it a potato." / http://trilema.com/2013/the-future-of-
shinohai: lol. XT camp takes it as a sign they have already won the game obviously.
mircea_popescu: "Great Job, Everyone! Bitcoiners are DDoSing Bitcoin (motherboard.vice.com)"
assbot: Bill Ackman: Stocks are pretty cheap | Watch the video - Yahoo Finance ... ( http://bit.ly/1ULagpt )
mircea_popescu: so the list of places where obama can still show up consists of... fort meade ?
shinohai: I wonder if the jester is aware of the irony of his latest tweet today https://twitter.com/th3j35t3r/status/642278738848292864
davout 's favourite is the one with gmaxwell
shinohai: Is that Butterin wearing the Steve Urkel pants for real?
cazalla: oops, didnt realise i botched the image links
mircea_popescu can't readily figure out which of the two is more ridiculous.
mircea_popescu: http://qntra.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/14.jpg <<< is that their high chancellor ? and is that a dildo or a lava lamp in the display behind his chancellorness ?
BingoBoingo: Maybe she has a condishun' like edema or arthritis. Knees aren't engineered to carry that all above above them.
mircea_popescu: what the fuck.
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 06:20:30; cazalla: sheeit, another user an hero's himself http://www.bulletinleader.com/ashley-madison-pastor-commits-suicide/74435/
mircea_popescu: The guidance advocates a ban on password strength meters, mandatory resets, and predictable combinations, instead encouraging brute force rate limiting and reduced access controls." << in other words, "password gimmicks don't work an we're back to ip bans, in a 100% reversal of the fecal consensus of 2005"
punkman: they want wider adoption
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