BingoBoingo: Nah, Steve Jobs had Pancreatic cancer, Real Jobs is the last survivor of the Jobs family
benkay: steve jobs is the future
kakobrekla: cause real jobs is the future
nubbins`: and is now scrambling to undo the damage
nubbins`: rg is raging at the world in -otc
benkay: "Greg and Connie were born in New Jersey, but from the moment the Internet struck, they might as well have just arrived from Taiwan. When the Internet landed on them, it redistributed the prestige and authority that goes with a general understanding of the ways of the world away from the grown-ups and to the child. The grown-ups now depended on the child to translate for them. Technology had turned them into a family of immigrants."
nubbins`: "It seems like Mark Karpeles is blinking "GAG" repeatedly in MORSE code during the video, did anyone else notice this?"
benkay: shipped a project skeleton last week and the pm wants to bring us on to another project he's doing
nubbins`: right on, brought a stack of zines to a coffee shop yesterday and they've got a third of them sold already
FabianB: some improvements to the portfolio cmd too (statistics of STAT / prices)
FabianB: mircea_popescu: someone requested 'push' without having to use the 'plain' raw command
mircea_popescu: "You can't see it, but since this is America, the problem here is debt. Not credit card debt, though I suspect that's substantial too, but self-esteem debt. They're borrowing against their future accomplishments to feel good about themselves today, hoping they'll be able to pay it back."
benkay: anyways when there's capital to be flushed down the drain of styling around here you can bet i'll do it. appearances ain't a priority on anything but http://survantjames.com until we're booked for a year solid.
benkay: dunno if you can inspect elements in lynx and get their computed css properties, but if you do that you can verify the above claim.
mircea_popescu: they'reall different sizes
benkay: just folks on the other side of the wire saying "gosh it should really look a different way"
benkay: 1% of the time it's an obese whale
mircea_popescu: benkay check how fixed they are, bish
benkay: kakobrekla the javascripts dollars you're using are all wrong too
kakobrekla: css line a day keeps the doctor away.
benkay: mircea_popescu: on the subject of shit that ain't getting fixed, your footnote tooltips are also busted
ThickAsThieves: also tempted to do a moderated thread, but of course then you get all the troll in the speculation thread moving from website design complaints to scam accusations
peterl: don't feed the trolls
ThickAsThieves: i was tempted to offer free coins to the sox as sorry if more than 2 could show previous share ownership
ThickAsThieves: so everyone got their daytrader hats on
mircea_popescu: a cause they sold at 32 or what
ThickAsThieves: (cuz they couldnt arb)
ThickAsThieves: they are mad they couldnt make new LMB accounts on the last day shares were availab;e
mircea_popescu: that bnlonde milf's head being cut by the neo block is visually awkward
ThickAsThieves: the typography mostly
mircea_popescu: what are they so incenst about ?
kakobrekla: but yeah, i get the european joke.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves what's the a tyt
mircea_popescu: not .com either
kakobrekla: but thats another thing completley
mircea_popescu: am i the only one getting Webmail - Orion telekom ?
mircea_popescu: the forum has decided neobee site sucks
mircea_popescu: they hold it in.
BingoBoingo: Maybe he is just the physical incarnation of sockpuppeting?
mircea_popescu: who likes to pretend he's little bois on the interwebs
mircea_popescu: used the internet to link up with
mircea_popescu: didn't he apologize for bidding on his own auction and promised that it a) was the first and b) will be the last time ?
mircea_popescu: so wait he is quoting himself while responding to himself and to himself from another account ?
ThickAsThieves: "I think this conference call would be highly beneficial, and a necessary step in moving forward. I'll send out an email to shareholders shortly inviting everyone to participate in a conference call. I am certainly open to the decentralization of everything, which includes our hardware of course."
mircea_popescu: i suppose suggesting he reads the log is inappropriate, he's too young to have a year to spare.
mircea_popescu: Forbes ranked 220th among America's Top Colleges for 2013, 174th among private colleges and 46th in the Midwest.
mircea_popescu: Xavier has an undergraduate enrollment of 4,485 students and graduate enrollment of 2,165. Xavier is primarily an undergraduate, liberal arts institution. Graduate programs include occupational therapy, education, counseling, nursing, English, theology, psychology, and business.
mircea_popescu: what are the fucking odds, this noob a) claims he started in 2012 b) is named garett c) holds cog
ThickAsThieves: Surf Capital Management was one of the principal investors in computer hardware companies that implemented application specific integrated circuits (ASICs) to process transactions on the Bitcoin network.
mircea_popescu: see the about us page above.
gribble: Surfin' U.S.A. (song) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfin'_U.S.A._(song)>; Surfin' U.S.A. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfin'_U.S.A.>; The Beach Boys - Surfin' U.S.A. - YouTube: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fGaBv8pAMA>
mircea_popescu: "Garrett founded the firm in 2012 with the goal of bringing virtual currency investing into the mainstream by providing comprehensive research, trading, and asset management services."
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves fixed income would mean bonds in the context he aspires to.
mircea_popescu: Roberts role at Surf Capital Management as Chief Financial Officer puts him as the head of investment research for Surf Capital Management.
mircea_popescu: they're practically finance lolis.
mircea_popescu: they're cute, what.
mircea_popescu: dude check them out!
ThickAsThieves: i used up my sock-baiting for the week https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=289730.msg5456678#msg5456678
mircea_popescu: " I believe that Bitcoin and the idea of cryptographic trade will be huge in our lifetime. Digital currencies like Bitcoin free trade from political and economic hindrances. Some examples of the benefits of Bitcoin trade are 1.) faster processing times when compared to traditional banking systems 2.) transaction fees are mininal 3.) no chargebacks 4.) cash out to Dollars, Euros, etc."
the20year: most of the ohioans I know in bitcoin are pretty low performers
mircea_popescu: you know i wish once these kids went out and said it plain. "bitcoin excites me because it's what tits are to cars"
ThickAsThieves: i miss the internet
mircea_popescu: What excites you about Bitcoin and other digital currencies?
kakobrekla: is he selling segways or driving tourists around with them
ThickAsThieves: they have sailboats in ohio?
mircea_popescu: the20year so make one.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile the kidis trying, even has a gpg sig
jurov: lol so the day came
mircea_popescu: why the fuck would a fund manager take votes from investors
mircea_popescu: that's even logical-er if you live in fuctardiaintheassia
mircea_popescu: "I'll be submitting a vote to shareholders to decide which company the fund should start buying shares in next. "
mircea_popescu: "Explanation: I've decided to liquidate the fund's AsicMiner position. I'd like to start diversifying the fund's exposure to different aspects of the Bitcoin economy. "
mircea_popescu: the idyllic notion is that someone sane ending up on the forum by accident follows the light out of there.
BingoBoingo: ANd some people don't spank the wife enough to have a line that simply read "porn"
BingoBoingo: Eh, some line has to appear on the credit card statement.
mircea_popescu: which begs the question why even have a brand at all, but i guess that'd be a little facetious.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: It keeps branding, because I imagine it is in a business where the customers don't need the brand to find you.
mircea_popescu: where you know, being part of the loser team may mean your details get leaked and you're fucked.
mircea_popescu: professional respect and not running with the larmers comes first
BingoBoingo: Or their contracts ran out and Blackwater paid better
mircea_popescu: the replacements are... well, you know, like the people replacing all those dead in wtc
mircea_popescu: meanwhile they've got killed and maimed
BingoBoingo: US special ops are still busy in deserts and mountains engaged in war against people who until 2003 had no idea there was a United States or that they lived in Afghanistan
mircea_popescu: and so the failure of us army is compounded by failure of us diplomacy ?
BingoBoingo: Well, US special ops are too busy cleaning up US messes. Also crimean people would prolly not like US special ops. They would sound funny talking and smell weird.
mircea_popescu: but because i am pretty certain the us could not field 15k ish special ops that can take over crimeea
BingoBoingo: Of course, favorite quote: "Putin, who is the Supreme Commander of the Russian Armed Forces, has not yet ordered the deployment of a limited military contingent in Ukraine"
mircea_popescu: not because they could drop more bombs,
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo by "the people"
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla he did do a runner. this is the pretense of not having done a runner
mircea_popescu: i wonder how the brilliant "let's buy clay ovens for bitcoin" plan worked.
mircea_popescu: is there dogetalk ?
kakobrekla: other hole is best hole.
mircea_popescu: benkay did the girl pack it an' leave ?
kakobrekla: all swell then
benkay: i'm the asshole, you're the helpful. north is south and the argentine peso is the bedrock of civilization.
mircea_popescu: some (5? ) peope with their retarded toolbars.
mircea_popescu: cazalla basically it's the tunebox system nielsen research uses for tv audiences
kakobrekla: <qwebirc420729> the reason I got all prickly was because benkay was acting like a royal douche. kakobrekla was straightforward and helpful < this cant be, sure its not the other way round?
mircea_popescu: yet another leading provider of fantasy bitcoin involvement.
mircea_popescu: hitbtc regularly monitors its balances in both crypto-currencies and fiat reserves. Our investors have provided us with enough liquidity to keep our customers safe and satisfied. We have heavily invested into hiring the best auditors and accountants to protect the balances of the people who put their faith in our exchange."
mircea_popescu: "HITBTC CUSTOMERS ARE IN THE BEST CARE AND SOLVENCY IS OUR MIDDLE NAME
mircea_popescu: obviously the two aren't comparable.
qwebirc420729: the reason I got all prickly was because benkay was acting like a royal douche. kakobrekla was straightforward and helpful
gribble: The operation succeeded.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell TestingUnoDosTre stop arguing shit and do what you're told or not do what you're told. there's no prize for arguments, this isn't school.
qwebirc420729: think the pool will get over 10 btc?
kakobrekla: all of them
benkay: maybe the mods are trying to cut down on zero-interest bets, TestingUnoDosTre.
TestingUnoDosTre: surprised at the amount of miniscule bets on the website if theyre always staking .1btc
ThickAsThieves: the best customer service comes from mommies
kakobrekla: TestingUnoDosTre the word was 10 btc will pretty much guarantee it, the lower you go the less likely will it be, likely.
benkay: everyone has told you what to do, now stop blathering and do it.
benkay: if the mods say "moar" try doubling your bet.
benkay: the general message you should be accepting is that you need to interface with bitbet via bitbet. the people behind bitbet set it up the way it is so as to minimize these sorts of interactions.
kakobrekla: to deal with all the letterels
benkay: the CUSTOMER is ALWAYS RIGHT
gribble: The operation succeeded.
Duffer1: Testing that message would have shown on your client with the name "gribble"
TestingUnoDosTre: much appreciated, for the actual help fabian
ThickAsThieves: the walls are in your head
ThickAsThieves: and said the same things we all did
benkay: shoulda opened a bitbet that TestingUnoDosTre would hear the same thing from a) everyone b) kako c) mp
TestingUnoDosTre: I I proposed a bet that the share price of mmm divided by the bitstamp daily high would be above or equal to .2 on may 3rd. I opened with a .5 btc wager, and it was rejected, citing that i needed to put down more btc due to the peculiarity of the bet. why isnt .5 btc substantial enough when many bets start with less than .1 btc
benkay: We go by the last price rates that we receive directly from MTGox,
kakobrekla: they tried to do btcusd
mircea_popescu: and in the process revolutionize phones
skinnkavaj: And what are they gonna say even
Duffer1: a culture of zealous anti intellectualism probably isn't helping either..
ThickAsThieves: but is it really cuz the women, or men not being men?
mircea_popescu: "I don't want to be cynical, but boy oh boy is it hard not to observe that at the very moment in our history when we have the most women in the Senate, Congress is perceived to be pathetic, bickering, easily manipulated and powerless, and I'll risk the blowback and say that those are all stereotypes of women."
kakobrekla: <mircea_popescu> and the fact that ridding bitcoin of "bankers" and other idiots only cost 500 btc in 2012... heh < ah, so nostalgic :D
mircea_popescu: but those were on the book at an average cost of 2.4 or some shit
mircea_popescu: and the fact that ridding bitcoin of "bankers" and other idiots only cost 500 btc in 2012... heh
BingoBoingo: Except less profit for the operators of LinkedIN
BingoBoingo: I see someone is putting their February dividends into BitBet bets
mircea_popescu: if it were the place where poor indian imigrants gather to spam each otrher it'd be linked-in
mircea_popescu: after all, they got to facebook because it was the exclusive ivy league sorority dating repository
ThickAsThieves: well the lower class is eating up everything above it no?
mircea_popescu: people, and us people in particular, fie the notion they may congregate with the lower class.
ThickAsThieves: the 40+ crowd
mircea_popescu: "Let me offer a contrary position, unpalatable but worth considering: the only appropriate time to wear make up is to look attractive to men. Or women, depending on which genitals you want to lick, hopefully it's both. "Ugh, women are not objects." Then why are you painting them?"
Duffer1: oh TaT i dig the Bitcoin Error Log, good stuff
mircea_popescu: Duffer1 you read the patrick harnett "no pirate deposit" thing ?
Duffer1: i wonder how many asked themselves why their trusted issuers had money with pirate in the first place...
mircea_popescu: yeah. so back then loads of shitty/scammy stuff went like
mircea_popescu: you weren't around during pirate, when people suddenly discovered they had lost it all on pirate were you
nubbins`: the mind boggles
nubbins`: why the fuck would a business owner -- of any size -- store funds in an exchange?
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla speaking of letterel : http://bitbet.us/bet/770/btc-e-out-of-business-in-2014/#c2520 http://bitbet.us/bet/747/two-1-seeds-will-play-in-the-2014/#c2519
mircea_popescu: http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7s08vqS0Y1ru15g3o1_1280.jpg there, have some butts.
kakobrekla: yeah, the letterel is always right
kakobrekla: you got the funky shit now.
mircea_popescu: "you lost the keys... where?!?!"
mircea_popescu: "When someone hates something that to outside observers looks exactly like themselves in every way, you should quickly consult a French book to see if they don't have a word for that phenomenon, and they do, it's called projection."
kakobrekla: i fix one think brok another
mircea_popescu: its a noteworthy mark of the desperation of the media re bitcoin that they're reducing to putting forth the opinions of frat boys
kakobrekla: there.
mircea_popescu: so let the kids short mpex stock what
nubbins`: y'know, the greek letter pie
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla obviously they're entirely correct.
kakobrekla: >If I were to encounter my bank's CEO on IRC, I would not think "how cool and edgy, lemme get a screen cap, LOL," I'd put my money in a mattress and short the bank's stock.
ThickAsThieves: " the chatter coming out of the Delta Sigma Pie Fraternity at Boston Uni is that senior Frat colleagues have been expressing serious concern about the progressively erratic behavior of Prof. Mark Williams."
mircea_popescu: pile of failed ignorance denouncing the "general" failed ignorance.
nubbins`: "If one must pick a cryptocurrency, the lowly dogecoin, of all things, is doing everything right."
mircea_popescu: this is the sort of shit i may say, not random twerp.
mircea_popescu: the phrase before the mysql debacle is "I went to the Cornell dairy barn, I drank the fizzy milk drinks that the agriculture students designed for their masters projects. The code being peddled under the NoSQL rubric is analogous in its construction and quality."
mircea_popescu: who the fuck is this retard with delusions of competence ?
mircea_popescu: the only thing it does is that it's fast.
mircea_popescu: from the earlier link.
mircea_popescu: what's the world com<u>in</u>g to
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Well at least all of this "textual analysis" provides forumites a distraction from the Szabo is Satoshi hypothesis
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo all these wannabe mps gotta study up on style!
ozbot: Mircea Popescu aka Crumbs & others
mircea_popescu: why split the comedy ;/
mircea_popescu: o there's two ?
mircea_popescu: pankkake https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=490703.msg5411306#msg5411306 << it's official, the forum estimates it'd be better off if it consisted of nothing but my socks, than the present situation
nubbins`: you can see the gears start turning in people's heads
davout: nubbins`: nope, it's the walking away part
nubbins`: well, now that we've come to the conclusion that asking people what they think is trollish, invasive, and grossly offensive
nubbins`: might as well ask about the thread count of his sheets
mircea_popescu: ""I had Christ in my mouth for over an hour!" was a post funeral text from a woman who... what? I'm not a Catholic so it took me a few minutes to piece together that this lunatic meant she had kept the Eucharist from the funeral mass in her mouth without swallowing it for an hour-- as if that meant something."
mircea_popescu: perhaphs the most distant relation possible.
ThickAsThieves: i'm unable to ask for clarification to the q without being trolled?
ThickAsThieves: i mean this assumption that when someone asks a question, there is a context
gribble: George Carlin- Does the time bother you? 1978 On location George ...: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5M5eG-aywZQ>; Do You Have the Time? No, I don't - George Carlin on Time - VideoSift: <http://videosift.com/video/Do-You-Have-the-Time-No-I-don-t-George-Carlin-on-Time>; George Carlin Quotes (Author of Napalm & Silly Putty) - Goodreads: (1 more message)
mircea_popescu: ;;google carlin do you have the time
nubbins`: what do you think of the quarterly financials?
ThickAsThieves: everyone knows what someone means when they ask what you think
ThickAsThieves: the time has context
nubbins`: someone asks you the time, you don't say "where?" unless you're an idiot or a smartass
nubbins`: asking what you think is a complete question, in the sense that asking the time is a complete question
mircea_popescu: the feeling is obviously mutual.
ThickAsThieves: asking people what's on their mind is at least a complete q
mircea_popescu: actually asking people you're not sexually intimate with "what's on their mind' is quite offensive.
nubbins`: the great conversations? nope.
ThickAsThieves: and they didnt say 'about what?'
nubbins`: boring people say "about what?", interesting people tell you what they think.
nubbins`: i've had some great conversations that started with me asking someone what they thought
ThickAsThieves: so why pretend otherwise
ThickAsThieves: he knows what they'll say
nubbins`: or at the very least, a segue
mircea_popescu: o right, and pestering people is like all etherated or what.
davout: the french people loves you anyway
nubbins`: (i used to date a girl whose very rich grandfather would stroll around parties asking people what they thought. when responded to with "about what?", he would simply walk away)
mircea_popescu: what was that study that whatever primitive villages were 80% the offspring of the village chieftain or something
mircea_popescu: (incidentally, cazalla's rationale is perhaps why traditionally leaders also fucked all the women.
mircea_popescu: talk about cuckolding, you didn't even fuck all the women
ThickAsThieves: and you have to be as crazy as kanye to take the whole thing
mircea_popescu: you can't buy the crimea from russia any more than you can buy kim kardashians' ass from her
BingoBoingo: Oh, that ways Bitcoin will change the world. Now Russia and Ukraine contest Crimea. In the future someone in this chan is going to think, "Now that this place is getting such attention the weather seems nice" before buying the penninsula from both warring factions
mircea_popescu: so since czechs ate slovakia, can't romania eat up that ukraine pseudopod there in the south ?
mircea_popescu: why the fuck does this kid think i banned him from assets?!
wao-ender: since 91', seem that telly didnt updated their geo infos
MisterE: "While the popularity of both innovations has grown quickly (even though Coin is not yet available), they still face key uphill battles"