Show Idle (> d.) Chans


← | Results 441751 ... 442000 found in trilema for 'the' | →

BingoBoingo: On the plus side though, little fat.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: That would require Title paperwork and all that. best to just leave the keys in with a sweater I bled all over half a mile from the bridge.
BingoBoingo: Well, last I priced the esacpe it was ~300 dollars to the border and ~$2000 to hardware BA. Not counting the part where I leave the car in Laredo it die.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: if you have what it takes to earn a living in the free world - don't wait for torquemada.
BingoBoingo: The part where federal DA's routinely threaten people with 30 years in prison just to see if they can say anything interesting.
BingoBoingo: With respect to the issue of local corruption though... I might be up to doing a month in jail if it means I get 3-4 lawyers in the prosecutors office sanctioned. The Federal stuff though would make me walk.
danielpbarron doesn't have a passport either
BingoBoingo: My fucking alabaster drive-thru lawyer has to be in practice probably the biggest nigger I have had the misfortune of trusting in my life.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: There's also the problem where I still dun have passporte
BingoBoingo: Namworld: I got interviewed by the FBI man, and Allegedly I spoke on issues of local politics in the neighboring counties
BingoBoingo: In the worst case though the plan is to go pack and forth across the border with $40k stuffed up my ass each time
BingoBoingo: We have less fun critters of last resort in the outside pantry
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: If I get to the river that (is finally wet nao foiling my plans) I have ~ 2 days of food beyond that.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: remember why most people in usa - stuck. nothing to do with paperwork. just the banal fact that - no way to eat.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Exactly that. Canadian citizenship is work. Argentine is staying out of their jails.
BingoBoingo: Mostly because I am not paying a motherfucking fee to the TSA
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: SPz somehow the FBI manages to store me for a decade because I have no silk road info and at the same time keep my priv keys safe? The chance at being a possum instead of a rat?
asciilifeform: so say you win. then - ?. i, for instance, am not embroiled in any suits. wanna end up like me ?
BingoBoingo: Also.. need a bit more time to practice the Spanish. And then there's the almost sick hope I might win the misdemeanor case nao.
BingoBoingo: Also a kind of curiosity. If the US let me know it wants to keep me here, can I leave anyways.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: At this point... it seems to be a kind of morbid fascination of whether I first find library employment or three hots and a cot courtesy of the bezzel
BingoBoingo: Well, it is an improvement. Coinbase developing only Coinbase API to Coinbase hiring capable people to make useful things that may fuck them in the end.
BingoBoingo: kakobrekla: Oh, I thought Maybe toshi was just blockr stripped of the interface
BingoBoingo: As far as the seperate federal question goes, I'm just an expensive dead end.
BingoBoingo: And thanks to local county mountie politics they'd all be in the prosecutor's office so no need for guilt about it.
BingoBoingo: In the worst case though if this thing goes to trial... I can probably take at least two or three law licenses down with me.
BingoBoingo: This is disconcerting given how optimistic the lawyer's last conversation was.
BingoBoingo: Lawyer has yet to follow up on me about what the next hearing of whatever is.
BingoBoingo: Well, I'm immediately more concerned about "minimalist travel the other direction.
mircea_popescu: for it to matter in there it needs to find two dozen more central american countries
gribble: Hispanic Origin Profiles, 2010 - Pew Hispanic Center: <http://www.pewhispanic.org/2012/06/27/country-of-origin-profiles/>; Hispanic and Latino Americans - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans>; Hispanic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanic>
mircea_popescu: ;;google spanish speakers in the us by country of origin
BingoBoingo: Central Americans in the too small to assert themselves states
mircea_popescu: that's why it's mostly mexicans , not the proximity, but the only country with similar crime levels.
mircea_popescu: just, your average sa guy that feels insecure in ba could simply not live in the us. at all. like you can't live in berlin cca 1948.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> well with the blessings of travel the differences aren't that marked physically. course, fat is fat, and annoying is annoying, whereas hungry is hungry and eager is eager. << Probably also helps that Romanian is Perl, and... your ancestors are not vowel shift victims
mircea_popescu: not the ministration of blue collar anything, or any other electorate
mircea_popescu: honestly thinking about it, the insanity of the crime levels in the us (both private and state-run) are what prevent more immigration.
mircea_popescu: well with the blessings of travel the differences aren't that marked physically. course, fat is fat, and annoying is annoying, whereas hungry is hungry and eager is eager.
BingoBoingo: I think the actual scare is the literal "Lillian Rearden" scenario
gribble: Mark Sanford disappearance and extramarital affair - Wikipedia, the ...: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Sanford_disappearance_and_extramarital_affair>; Mark Sanford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Sanford>; Back On The Appalachian Trail: Mark Sanford Breaks Up With ...: <http://www.politicususa.com/2014/09/12/appalachian-trail-mark- (1 more message)
BingoBoingo: Think about the augmented Cali girl vs. Midwestern girl vs. Brazilian...
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: The whale like Anglos dun want the Hispanic women to steal their allowances.
BingoBoingo: I'm pretty sure most of this Immigrants from down under scare in the US is more wife driven than blue collar man driven.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` here i saw the first underage female with impants.
BingoBoingo: Those sunken cheeks, the way he seemed so ashamed to raise his firearm...
mircea_popescu: i suppose given that south america decided boob jobs are apt gifts for 15 yo girls on their confirmation thingee, i shouldn't be too excited
BingoBoingo: I wonder when the last time inept Buenos Aires mugger dude had a solid boner was. Probably been a while.
BingoBoingo: But the Tim Swanson of Erection Science LTD will never admit this.
BingoBoingo: The actual danger though is making erect cock insufficiently scarce.
BingoBoingo: Well, diabetics have a learning curve. THESE ARE SRS X-PERTS.
BingoBoingo: There may be teenagers with erection problems though in the sense that they can't get off with a girl, because they are too conditioned to the habits of their own hand.
BingoBoingo: Ah, If you are talking American, the word legitmate has been ejected long ago.
mircea_popescu: yeah but we're not talking of the ones that survive here :p
BingoBoingo: Or epinephrine. Depending on the kind.
mircea_popescu: overmedicated civilisation if there ever was one
mircea_popescu: the glyceril trinitrate is coming out "just to be sure"
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> like say a mechanical rib pinch of the pleura << On the boner drugs that ought to be properly diagnosed as pneunothorax
mircea_popescu: like say a mechanical rib pinch of the pleura
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo up until the kid is in a skating accident and gets a dose of nitrate for paramedics << What skaing accident could possibly call for nitrates?
BingoBoingo: The erection drugs just trigger targeted vasodialation for roughly 30 seconds beyond the time they are metabolized to nothing.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo up until the kid is in a skating accident and gets a dose of nitrate for paramedics
BingoBoingo: The way Lipitor fucks with cholesterol it fuck with every derivative of cholesterol including all of the fun sex hormones.
BingoBoingo: Lipitor though affects pretty much everything in the Master gland
BingoBoingo: Well two very different questions. the erection drugs work simply and when they are gone, there aren't many downstream effects.
BingoBoingo: Keeps them occupied longer
mircea_popescu: because why the fuck not right, 18 year olds are such a splendid market for erection drugs.
mircea_popescu: this idiotic "i can be everything including a sex therapist" dude is giving advice to virgins, which includes... cialis.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I agree. This is why I despise the NFL for its current war on RunningBacks. Still, I'd bet your two best against Rice-Petersen in a monument building contest.
nubbins`: there they are &c
BingoBoingo: You beat them so they don't need chains of a physical kind
BingoBoingo: I thought the correct default setting in case of a misunderstanding was always "build pyramid" so that in the worst case they can be located.
nubbins`: perhaps the man will learn
kdomanski: oh, the man issued a wrong command to his slaves
BingoBoingo: Why did I have no Joe West pictures here: http://www.thedrinkingrecord.com/2014/08/10/a-place-i-was-pictures/ Dude was at the fucking game and we made fun of his FUPA the whole time.
mircea_popescu: well, there's the "help yourself" desk and the separate "helping girls memory" desk.
kdomanski: do you have like a helpdesk for the harem?
kdomanski: the guy's getting technical support :D
kdomanski: "my slaves don't seem to be able to determine who their master is. i confirmed they can talk to zookeeper just fine."
BingoBoingo: when someone else, or when you don't get the job you were more qualified for, or when you get blamed for something your brother did, or when someone butts ahead of you in line. And sadly, because Joe West chose to single-handedly change the game that taught us how to deal with a world that can sometimes be unfair, we may not have the character to deal with those situations."
BingoBoingo: "Except that yesterday Joe West, who in 2010 was ranked the 2nd worst umpire in the league, decided to expand the role of instant replay in baseball all by himself. Joe West opened the door for instant replay further than it's ever been opened. Joe West opened the door for our children to cry out that things are unfair, stomp their feet and call out for an instant replay. Sadly, he won't be there when a cute girl decides to go out
gribble: Better Know An Umpire: Joe West - Deadspin: <http://deadspin.com/5921160/better-know-an-umpire-joe-west>; The Secret Lives of 8 Baseball Umpires | Mental Floss: <http://mentalfloss.com/article/25121/secret-lives-8-baseball-umpires>; Major league baseball is looking into jonathan papelbon's crotch-grab: <http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/09/15/major-league-baseball-is-looking- (1 more message)
BingoBoingo: nubbins`: Not many opportunities for that in the Middle West.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu then waits for the puking to be over << I've ate American Chocolate
mircea_popescu then waits for the puking to be over
mircea_popescu: what did the romanian doctor tell the diabethic who told his doctor his wife got candida and asked what to do ?
BingoBoingo: But this is a bezzel, neither side is innocent.
BingoBoingo: After 4 years of pay freezes someone did the math and real estate going down 20% while everything else goes up 23% actually means they make less than they did when I was a wee lad.
mircea_popescu: what so the datacenter is striking ?
mircea_popescu: dude what the fuck is wrong with the world's most bankrupt government already. can't even keep HURRICANE WATCH website online ?
mircea_popescu: this america is so fucking opposite of the classical america...
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo no but i mean the idiocy of people. "let's give away value to this company, so it can make money off of us for free!11"
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: How else were they going to defend the pretense the commenter's traffic habits weren't their actual product?
BingoBoingo: !up devthedev
nubbins`: it's in the logs!
nubbins`: punkman and thenewdeal both ordered two, i think
mats_cd03: i have to sign up on the forums? i guess ill wait for batch 2
nubbins`: his username on the forums is TECSHARE
mats_cd03: as an aside, the tools ddrescue and scalpel are pretty cool.
mircea_popescu: ltr means a long term relationship with a number of women who fuck together.
mircea_popescu: that the male idea of life is a harem not a fucking "ltr"
mircea_popescu: not a single one of them so far happened on the idea that you know what ? women must PLAY WELL WITH OTHERS.
mircea_popescu: all this derpage about how they want to "escape a female view of life and everything" yet they think of it through purely monogamous, "rel;ationshipy" eyes.
mircea_popescu: holy shit these meninists dudes are completely fucking retarded.
mircea_popescu: "My critics will often take a binary stance in their arguments with this idea citing that “they could never be with more than one woman at a time out of respect for her” or “so I should just lie to her and see other girls on the side?” To which I’d argue that these are feminized social conventions that attempt to thwart a man’s options in order to establish women as the prime selectors in intersexual relati
mircea_popescu: ons. If it can be conditioned into a boy/man to ‘feel bad’ about seeing more than one woman at a time, it only better serves the female-as-chooser dynamic."
nubbins`: mats_cd03, the last one was sold a few days ago :/
mats_cd03: are there still posters available my good man
mats_cd03: i finally got around to recovering my gpg keys from the dead drive.
mircea_popescu: that's the dumbest thing i read all day.
mircea_popescu: "Beware the guy with too many or exclusively female friends. This might make for the plot of stupid movies, but most women are wary of guys with so many female friends that they question their being able to relate with and be Men."
BingoBoingo made an ass of himself, assuming he was living in the BC/AD transition
mircea_popescu: child pushed forward by his father (originally, wife in the reenaction)
BingoBoingo: On the radio now, I often hear the Ferguson insurgents being refered to as Terrorists.
BingoBoingo: Clinton's moar a Julius, Bush II is the brief confusion, and Obummer is the Augustus 2.0
mircea_popescu: funny how the skirt cumrag guy is probably going to end up remembered as the augustulus v2.0
BingoBoingo: I was born during the Reagan presidency, but after his brain died.
mircea_popescu: kids born after the world stopped being cool
gribble: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=AFC | An AFC in a bar with gorgeous women would sit in the corner, and ask himself " why aren't they coming up to me." When he should be going up to them, but wont  ...
mircea_popescu: drunk or not, in class or in the dorm.
mircea_popescu: but i suppose i'm attacking the wrong qualifier. yeah, you can't learn that kind of engineering at harvard.
mircea_popescu: the freakshow startups despise any seriou swork ; the actual startups you don't hear about, they hear about you.
BingoBoingo: What befuddles me is why with Moores law on its last legs there are not Startups with ideas they want to etch in silicon.
BingoBoingo: One of the most disappointing name collisions has to been the suckage systemd vs. the awesome System D
mircea_popescu: or w/e they may be, the handwave of the field.
jenninsea: ah, understandable, BingoBoingo. sorry to hear about the nasty visit
mircea_popescu: for the same fundamental reason.
assbot: A Law Enforcement Encounter: If you ran a Bitcoin related service before the thing hit $100 you prolly ought to be somewhat concerned and/or prepared | Bingo Blog
BingoBoingo: jenninsea: You're welcome. Just be aware that since the FBI knocked on my door I've been a bit more paranoid than typical, hence the easy come easy go caveat http://www.thedrinkingrecord.com/2014/08/25/a-law-enforcement-encounter-if-you-ran-a-bitcoin-related-service-before-the-thing-hit-100-you-prolly-ought-to-be-somewhat-concerned-andor-prepared/
mircea_popescu: what the fuck happened to "I failed. I overestimated my cognitive ability and misjudged our abilities. This is because I suck. I am going to sit in a corner for a little bit, suck the cock of much better men and maybe come back later. Perhaps as a girl."
BingoBoingo: The other bullshit is there's a number of contruction sites much more habitable than houses
mircea_popescu: "here's the supergreat thing.". "o no i never said anything".
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> what the fuck would it take to make that asshole happy ? << hands... and a refrigerator. Dude has to fucking binge eat and still risk starving next week.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo yeah but gisele won't last << Very true. The recluse thing is never very lucrative for persons who want to be treated like sculptures.
nubbins`: oh, there IS a scotland bet, it's just closed pending
mircea_popescu: o oops... he won't either.
mircea_popescu: what the fuck would it take to make that asshole happy ?
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Indeed. But Football is like the Bezzel lab.
mircea_popescu: in general insurance works for fields where the insured can't change the occurence rate.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: TheNewDeal: Sure. I wonder how long it is though until someone starts getting the idea to sell NFL players suspension insurance << poster child for ininsurable risk.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: there isn't enough time in the world to teach the lawyers scm <<< actually a grasp of scm is the mark of a good paralegal (ie, worth the money). lawyers are paralegals anyway, what are they going to do, win a case on their own ?!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: we already have 'many read few write.' nobody's really fooled by the erzats-writers. << "nobody"
BingoBoingo: TheNewDeal: The "serious schools" as there was a discussion of not too long ago here are essentially palace economies that dominate the surrounding geography.
BingoBoingo: TheNewDeal: Similar reason to why Nick Saban won't coach an NFL team. He has established a ridiculous value for himself at exactly one geographic location.
mircea_popescu: wow the log!
TheNewDeal: I've seen coaches quit their team mid year. Any reason why he can't?
BingoBoingo: TheNewDeal: You can't do that though when the incident happens within months of your contract expiring, so Mizzou got to renew Pinkel at a discount
TheNewDeal: He will probably just go to some other college and make more
BingoBoingo: TheNewDeal: But... But... This was the "Man of Integrity" who chased Dorial Green Beckam into Oklahomo's open arms...
TheNewDeal: then 2... between 800 and 930
nubbins`: then oops they were actually an 8-ball
TheNewDeal: then claims they were jumbo
TheNewDeal: then 2 between 800 and 830
TheNewDeal: then says he has 2
BingoBoingo: It's the sort of thing that could get Nick Saban or Bob Stoops to put down a quarter million dollars a piece annually for a decade
BingoBoingo: TheNewDeal: College Coach two years from becoming the school's winningest got boned on his next contract.
TheNewDeal: didnt read the pinkel piece
BingoBoingo: TheNewDeal: Still the Pinkel guy lost probably 4 million over four years since after he had some wine with dinner he got arrested.
jurov: coinbr had 2 euros on the account a i had to untagle that mess due to them
TheNewDeal: but but but the Tom Bradys and Tim Tebows would make a lot more money just faking some back injury and watching from the couch on sundays
BingoBoingo: TheNewDeal: Of course the moral hazard is that marginal defensive backs and linemen are going to TRY to get arrested when cut time comes around
nubbins`: they called and left a message telling me when my order would ship, and to call them if i had any questions :0
gribble: Tony LaRussa - BR Bullpen - Baseball-Reference.com: <http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Tony_LaRussa>; Top 10 WTF Cardinal Moments of the 2000′s | Cards Diaspora: <http://cardsdiaspora.com/2009-articles/top-10-wtf-cardinal-moments-of-the-2000s.html>; Tony La Russa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_La_Russa>
BingoBoingo: ;;google Tony larussa Miami asleep at the wheel
assbot: BitBet - Rob Ford will withdraw from the Toronto mayoral race before September 12th :: 0.04 B (36%) on Yes, 0.07 B (64%) on No | closed 2 weeks 5 days ago
BingoBoingo: ^ TheNewDeal That's also where the money is, college coaches
nubbins`: ben_vulpes truth be told, i'd rather print on paper than fabric
nubbins`: you basically just show the yellow ink to the shirt
BingoBoingo: The20YearIRCloud: Sure it could be profitable, sell it to Tom Brady
nubbins`: great big 20x24" screen with a tiny caterpillar-sized bit of space in the middle
ben_vulpes: i love how the the yellow is totally gratuitous
ben_vulpes: thestringpuller: co-tenants in this space gave me this shirt today http://i.imgur.com/gcI32D9.jpg
BingoBoingo: TheNewDeal: Sure. I wonder how long it is though until someone starts getting the idea to sell NFL players suspension insurance
TheNewDeal: To me, I would much rather prefer keeping more money than I would probably earn in the next 20 years, and having to deal with professional golf assholes the whole time
BingoBoingo: TheNewDeal: Well, part of it is just quitting is so lucrative in his position
nubbins`: so there's plenty of room for things to go wrong
nubbins`: i read once that they're given "sheet music" with a note granularity of 1 second
nubbins`: the entire harbour is maybe 1km from end to end
TheNewDeal: wonder how close they are spaced?
nubbins`: ehh, none of the captains can apparently keep time
TheNewDeal: sounds kind of neat. Always enjoyed hearing fog horns from the bay while growing up
TheNewDeal: re: Anthony Kim - all the best pro's know when to quit
nubbins`: guess they bought the deluxe package
BingoBoingo: kakobrekla: It's all the same market
kakobrekla had the other market in mind but i guess its same here
gribble: (ticker [--bid|--ask|--last|--high|--low|--avg|--vol] [--currency XXX] [--market <market>|all]) -- Return pretty-printed ticker. Default market is Bitstamp. If one of the result options is given, returns only that numeric result (useful for nesting in calculations). If '--currency XXX' option is given, returns ticker for that three-letter currency code. It is up to you to make sure (1 more message)
kakobrekla: looks like the fall isnt over for today.
nubbins`: so gribble can generate a ,,$rand but does anyone know how to restrict the range?
mike_c: most slanted bitbet out there, starting to look better. http://bitbet.us/bet/1041/euro-sinks-against-usd/
jurov: Settlements will also be delayed until September 25th. It should however remain possible to buy X.EUR futures until that time unless the market maker bot somehow explodes in flight.
mike_c: The20YearIRCloud: so why don't they just put in bids..
The20YearIRCloud: thestringpuller: a few of our larger investors want more equity shares, and there's no way to sell it outside of havelock
mike_c: mircea_popescu: see? why else care what the stock price is.
BingoBoingo: !up The20YearIRCloud
gribble: (rate <nick> <rating> [<notes>]) -- Enters a rating for <nick> in the amount of <rating>. Use optional <notes> field to enter any notes you have about this user. <nick> must be the user's GPG-registered username, Your previously existing rating, if any, will be overwritten.
thestringpuller: is anyone from bitstamp in the WoT?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: we already have 'many read few write.' nobody's really fooled by the erzats-writers.
ben_vulpes: it's the pesky client documents
ben_vulpes: there isn't enough time in the world to teach the lawyers scm
mircea_popescu: the ease with which an appearance of wrioting can be imparted on children in the latin empire may be the actual downfal of this entire thing
mircea_popescu: mats_cd03 maybe there's something to be said for a many read few write system, upon consideration.
thestringpuller: getting paid to sue clients for money they owe you for violating SOW
ben_vulpes: missing highlighting of like 4 other changed areas
ben_vulpes: "please send me a diff of this amended SOW against the previous one"
ThickAsThieves: you have the wrong definition of goal tho
bounce: easy enough fix. they fudged their definition so much to make it seem lower that they have plenty of headroom fudging the definition so it's back at goal.
ThickAsThieves: The Federal Reserve said the economy is expanding at a moderate pace and inflation is below its goal while maintaining a commitment to keep interest rates near zero for a “considerable time” after asset purchases are completed.
mats_cd03: writing them, not so much.
mats_cd03: its inefficient, because while recognizing them is easy
mircea_popescu: lol bitbet can't approve hurricane bet because the hurricane center site is down
mircea_popescu: granted the alphabetic notation is much better mnemotechnic than the stupidity of pictograms, which is why modern language use alphabets and words.
mircea_popescu: i scarcely see the problem. i know about half a million words and never confuse them
mats_cd03: the kangxi dictionary, standardized during the qing, has... 47k characters.
mats_cd03: even highly educated chinese (~6000 character mastery) sometimes write complex characters incorrectly, and dont realize it due to the sheer number of them in existence
ThickAsThieves: the video game where you can hack anything is called Watch Dogs, i think
Namworld: Well it's the middle of the city, mostly concrete all around. Not much backyards. Plus big cats don't like him on their territory apparently.
mircea_popescu: that's like the only identifiable point of bitcoin programme. "let's act as if idiots didn't exist"
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller why ?
mircea_popescu: like renaming homeless people something else : now you get a year or so breathing space while everyone redoes the studies in the new name
Namworld: Cloud hacking? Is there games/movies about people who can hack into everything electric? Yup.
mircea_popescu: lol maybe this is the cause for the cloud
mircea_popescu: conventional fiction just isn't worth the time
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller wut ?
Namworld: Next episode: Hacker and his gang's daring escape with the floppy disk containing half a billion USD. Hot pursuit, treason and more!
punkman: someone's gonna try the rubberhose eventually
assbot: Vilified Bitcoin Tycoon After Losing $500 Million: My Life Is at Risk - The Daily Beast
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: anybody else is either too stupid or too poor << the funny part is, if i actually had any palpable coin, i'd find this kind of mental process more arduous, rather than less. being armchair general vs. the actual kind. easier.
mircea_popescu: the ethereum scam was mostly supported on borrowed coins.
asciilifeform: i see it as virtually certain that the sr stash was 'washed' - i.e. traded for some quantity of 'uninteresting' coin, of the kind the public has not been sniffing the blockchain history of on a daily basis; which was then used as fuel with which to stoke gambits like 'ethereum.'
mircea_popescu: kinda why the entire "public auction of btc" thing turned into such an embarassment for the usg.
mircea_popescu: well... no demand then right ?
mircea_popescu: ensure too strong a word. but suppose you don't let terrorists run their own exchanges, nor deposit to yours.
asciilifeform: as i understand, they are simply baking on painting the tape 'dark enough' with arse-mouth lowball bids.
mircea_popescu: anybody else is either too stupid or too poor to be concerned with such matters.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: anybody other than us discussing this publicly ?
mircea_popescu: kinda the idea. "make it impossible to sell btc to third parties, continue to pretend like the price is low, gold v2.0"
asciilifeform: the usd printer doesn't even have to engage unless an outsider shows up to purchase a cheap coin.
asciilifeform: had a thought. usg's btc price dampener strategy has no clear endgame - the 'ethereum' thing will carry on while the usd printing press runs, because it stands to reason they are running both the sell and -buy- ends of the machine. 'arse-mouth system.'
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller maybe a reality show
thestringpuller: i was just thinking of the scenario of dumb robbers ending up in detroit for some reason and attempting it
mircea_popescu: the fact that doofus survived to that age is in general proof of the incredibly low crime rate here.
mircea_popescu: dja feel threatened by the schmuck ?
los_pantalones: everyone mock the dufus and move along
mircea_popescu: generally the southwest, baraccas, la boca etc
mircea_popescu: los_pantalones on one hand, it's been all over the logs yest, we even indentify the place ; on the other, a comment there even gave me a starting point for a trilema article

← | →