mircea_popescu: the difference being that s&p made 32.4%, which is like... 3x averages over the period.
mircea_popescu: we had the desire to have a pool ?
deadweasel: i'm not sure it made it out of suggestion stage, but the logs will tell
deadweasel: you got rebanned? who won the pool?
kakobrekla: seems thermos does not want to reply to my ban complaint
mircea_popescu: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BhnJABJCMAAwZ1b.png:large << the us health system in ten thousand words
mircea_popescu: the us is simply awash in newly printed dollars.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves of course, none of it has anything to do with miracles or nye or the debate or anything.
ThickAsThieves: well i'd rather see that money go to netflix subsciptions or whatever the hell else it may have gone to instead
BingoBoingo: The thing about science/bitcoin/whatever is people can believe whatever they want, while reality generally doesn't give a shit.
ThickAsThieves: no good deed... http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/03/01/284397588/creation-museum-bill-nye-debate-sparked-funding-miracle
BingoBoingo: This is prolly my favorite last psychiatrist post http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2007/07/the_most_important_article_on.html
benkay: showing a baby picture to a man is an aggressive act because it demands a reaction, you showing him a picture of your baby is entirely for your benefit and not at all for his, it is a dare, in much the same way as a woman on a first date telling you she doesn't play games is a dare, a dare you shouldn't take, trust me on this, overpay the check in cash and run.
KRS-One: lol gainesville sun..i used to live in gainesville..quite the college party town. i almost stayed there living the life.
gribble: The operation succeeded.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell copumpkin incidentally, you ever read http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2014/01/randi_zuckerberg.html ?
mircea_popescu: the jury's still out on that one.
mircea_popescu: well, maybe with the exception of government
ThickAsThieves: "I'm not satisfied that there isn't some hiding of information," she said.
ThickAsThieves: only Coinlab could have someone worrying about the "integrity" of bankruptcy
ThickAsThieves: "What I see is a debtor that has absolutely zero existence," Judge Overstreet said. "I want to make sure that when we do this world-wide advertising [to promote an auction] we are not misrepresenting to the world what we have to sell, because the integrity of the bankruptcy process is at stake."
ThickAsThieves: "Alydian doesn't have employees or an office, but it reimburses CoinLab for the work it has done in the mining process."
mircea_popescu: for instance if my roof disappeared and then came back
kakobrekla: deleted the website?
mircea_popescu: they had deleted it earlier.
ThickAsThieves: "As a fairly early Bitcoin adopter and institutional miner, the choice for mining hardware comes down to innovation. Who is going to have the experience and best technology going forward to keep me ahead of the curve? The fact that BFL has a proven chip design, combined with their innovations in form factor and node size means that they will be hard to beat moving forward."
ThickAsThieves: wow they are still selling preorders of those PCI cards
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla seen their site recently ?
ThickAsThieves: i didnt learn about how the Alydian thing panned out til yesterday
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla you know, all about how bfl is a serious biznis that has the foundation's seal of approval.
mircea_popescu: or did their murk lawyer advise they;'re not to discuss two major scams the same week
ThickAsThieves: to unlock the keys
ThickAsThieves: they all have dick heads too
ThickAsThieves: not like we're in france, where every corner of the body produces exotic cheeses
ThickAsThieves: out in the cold?
davout: you guys are all the jon snows of cheese
mircea_popescu: but the greek stuff.
Jere_Jones: ketchup and mustard mixed together
mircea_popescu: notrly. just bad retellings of them
mircea_popescu: you don't actally need to be able to at all understand what they say for this purpose.
mircea_popescu: by the criterion that "it is pulp all which includes no intraducible complexity"
ThickAsThieves: solving the wrong problem, cuz incapable
mircea_popescu: but you know, suppose you didn't for whatever reason have the ability to evaluate content.
ThickAsThieves: well i always say, if it's that complicated, you're solving the wrong problem
Jere_Jones: Except for the spelling
mircea_popescu: this is pretty spot-on, i do think phebe novakovic has moar clearance than most of the senate.
mircea_popescu: ubly interesting because calculus was invented to make hard work easier. "I just don't get math." Can't do math if you weren't taught to think logically, and logic is tough on kids' self esteems and makes them way less submissive, easier just to put on a video.
mircea_popescu: However, not all women are the target demo of Randi's lip synching, the CEO of General Dynamics is a woman, I think she has a higher security clearance than the entire Senate, and I know for a fact she builds alien spaceships, why not interview her about how she uses social media to promote her brand and make connections and break ceilings? Because there's no Like button for hard work or triple integrals, which is do
mircea_popescu: there's a start.
mircea_popescu: i put a pot on her head and fucked her holding the handles.
mircea_popescu: judge buys the guy drinks and asks him to pls tell him wtf.
mircea_popescu: at trial they can't quite establish HOW he'd have done it, so in spite of all the scandal guy walks free.
mircea_popescu: there's a joke that goes with that picture.
benkay: SO THESE MYSTICAL BITCOINS
benkay: give us another one, mi
BingoBoingo: benkay: More cause he looks like he is going to stab someone of they obstruct his view of dat ass
BingoBoingo: blue shirt bald head near the van
mircea_popescu: also, you can readily guess that shot is in europe : women smile at naked girl walking down the street.
benkay: what's the -est? puerto rican?
mircea_popescu: so which'd be the yadier-molina-est guy in that pic ?
benkay: you're the anthropologist tho
benkay: well 'this generation' would be the agerange boss
benkay: that's the new all american as far as this generation of babes are concerned, B
BingoBoingo: The NFL is trying to watch women the wrong way, anyways. Most of the women and girls I know favor this guy over the "All American" sort https://www.google.com/search?q=yadier+molina+tattoo&safe=off&client=ubuntu&hs=kyp&channel=fs&tbm=isch&imgil=_i-QdhSNVYsuXM%253A%253Bhttps%253A%252F%252Fencrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com%252Fimages%253Fq%253Dtbn%253AANd9GcTvSwzEK9Oe49mbzNu6AKJERZyAJuRbPbTzh2mITclXb6EW64AUDw%253B698%253B576%253BaQkQtdrU-z
nubbins`: see, the guy offering you a joint is just trying to make you a better writer
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Well football at the professional level it seems is.
mircea_popescu: person breaks fucking article to insert paranthetical diorama
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo you see, sports ARE dead. cause they're trying to get women into the audience.
mircea_popescu: "The NFL's been handing out traumatic brain injuries for decades, but the moment Disney decided it needed the women that was the end of lockerroom hijinx. But until it completes the NFL's rebranding as a kinder, bully-free, concussionless game, complete with engagement rings and Us Weekly's "Ten Hunkiest White Or Articulate Quarterbacks", it's going to have to keep broadcasting Nashville. "
jurov: well, pro runners use very light and soft shoes, no wonder they wear off quickly
nubbins`: it's funny, he actually takes a marker and writes the date of first use on the back of the heels
nubbins`: ehh, there are costlier pastimes
nubbins`: the roommate runs as a pastime
mircea_popescu: "Of the many problems that poses, none is more serious than the fact that Omidyar now has the only two people with exclusive access to the complete Snowden NSA cache, Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras. Somehow, the same billionaire who co-financed the coup in Ukraine with USAID, also has exclusive access to the NSA secretsand very few in the independent media dare voice a skeptical word about it."
mircea_popescu: yeah. i think it's moire for the political press than anything
ThickAsThieves: all the kids reading trilema, ohnoes!
ThickAsThieves: can be taken the wrong way easily
ThickAsThieves: which neither of you are
mircea_popescu: well yeah, but really it's neither me or him, it's just british.
ThickAsThieves: “I must again confess that their investments outperformed mine. (Charlie says I should add “by a lot.”) If such humiliating comparisons continue, I’ll have no choice but to cease talking about them.”
ThickAsThieves: Warren Buffett once said, “Diversification is protection against ignorance, it makes little sense for those who know what they’re doing.”
ThickAsThieves: “Woody Allen stated the general idea when he said: ‘The advantage of being bi-sexual is that it doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night.’ Similarly, our appetite for either operating businesses or passive investments doubles our chances of finding sensible uses for our endless gusher of cash.”
mircea_popescu: the community!
ThickAsThieves: yep, and the rub is this service is arguably provided for free
nubbins`: THANKS FOR THE UPDATE
nubbins`: from earlier today: "so there's wind out there & that, and some roads are closed. not too warm out."
ThickAsThieves: see this is why i hate customers, after fixing this AM share mixup: "For this event, thank you very much for your cooperation.At the same time,As the responsible company, I hope you don't appear again similar mistakes !"
wao-ender: I like these US soft-skills.
nubbins`: his expense claims turned out to be perfectly reasonable, in the meantime
mircea_popescu: someone not deserving it they could stand, but someone who earned it they could never tolerate.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` this is quite exactly why they fight his entitlements.
nubbins`: anyway, Dingwall turned the mint from a black hole into a very profitable endeavor
nubbins`: [Former Liberal cabinet minister David] Dingwall was defending his right to a hefty severance package after stepping down from a six-figure salary as head of the Canadian Mint. His departure, which some say was forced, came after revelations surfaced about ... questionable expense claims"
nubbins`: speaking of the mint
mircea_popescu: make solid wheels out of the stuffs
nubbins`: the bizarre part of all this is that you turned down an offer of 25btc
peterl: the silver is what, 0.1 btc?
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves the rabi one i sfucking great.
ThickAsThieves: from my first job through my whole life, i've observed customers thinking they are entitled and more experienced at the task they are paying for
peterl: maybe he should open a forum thread, plenty of advise there ...
ThickAsThieves: I tell him to get a clue in kinder words, he replies "im sorry im a bit confused are u saying if i have the business plan / interesting offering you can't help me or you can ?"
mircea_popescu: with the promoting of BEKs.
ThickAsThieves: that's the whole email
ThickAsThieves: I am looking to do a fund raise for my business I would like to get your feedback on the best strategy to do so and the best way to reach the market.
mircea_popescu: it's not the quantum computing emulated on z80s if you mwan that one
ThickAsThieves: i wonder if this is the same guy who emailed me a few days ago
mircea_popescu: the greek idea was that "these people say nothing meaningful, may as well be sheep, bar bar"
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves part of the problem, of course, is epitomized in the word for barbarian
nubbins`: if this woman approached me on the street, sure
nubbins`: omg guise i've been selected for a free cruise to the bahamas!
wao-ender: I didnt buy when I read their prospectus..
mircea_popescu: lest he voids the warranty
nubbins`: TBF some guy on the street offers me a joint, i say yes
ozbot: imgur: the simple image sharer
asciilifeform: there is no grey
asciilifeform: nubbins`: love the weasel man in that piece
ThickAsThieves: from the lips of frogs
nubbins`: a particularly insightful comment: "another sensational story by the CBC over dramatising as usual .....and indeed scrapping the bottom of the barrel ...give us a justin bieber story please"
ThickAsThieves: yeah the new company line is bitcoin is outdated, havent you heard
ThickAsThieves: "This quote from your article aludes to plants having some sort of intelligence and a brain. This is rather disturbing to me coming from such a prestigious campus. This thinking must originate from some primitive caveman type of superstition. Otherwise this is a wonderful article."
ThickAsThieves: "This is a technology institute. I don't believe there are any communication courses here."
ThickAsThieves: then savvy ones buy fake reviews
ThickAsThieves: there are some serious issues for small businesses and google
peterl: Namworld: and there are people talking about resurecting Gox, can't we just let the pile of crap die now?
mircea_popescu: they guzzle da cum.
mircea_popescu: that's the dirty secret of good looking vegan chicks
mircea_popescu: unless you're in the habit of swallowing and do it 10 times a week
nubbins` reels in the line
nubbins`: will they provide you with multivitamins?
ThickAsThieves: i learned that if i am ever imprisoned i will need to tell them i am jewish in order to maintain veganism
mircea_popescu: but anyway, there's going to be a livinbg to be earned in summarizing and translating irc and stuff for vaiours needs.
mircea_popescu: finance has always been the inside joke of some old jooz.
mircea_popescu: you don;t have to understand the whole thing to have an actionable understanding.
ThickAsThieves: plus they need to get through the irc log as a primer now to even hope to understand what's going on
mircea_popescu: yeah, plenty of rabbits with money all over the forest.
mircea_popescu: when you could juist read the stuff on trilema and be ahead.
mircea_popescu: currently i'm shitting the bitcoin advisor market, because you wouldn't hire anyone to pay him 100x for stupid shit
kakobrekla: how do you think hes gonna get by now, without the mpoe options....
mircea_popescu: anyway, it's ridiculous, just look at the volatility curve for 4-8 feb.
mircea_popescu: the result being ocasionally incontrollable deflagrations
mircea_popescu: i would say it's becoming a major problem now that people keep trying to outmaneuver me intellectually, and whereas i'm very blunt, they ascribe wallstreet-esque depths of trachery to what i do
mircea_popescu: either that or don't fucking read too deep into what mp says and go all fucking nuts just because he has to cover 10k
ThickAsThieves: so a further implication might be, don;t bet too hard against mircea or he'll just move the goal posts?
mircea_popescu: o no wait. not of that article. of some other article.
ThickAsThieves: does the section with the graph basically imply that as you made efforts to CYA on those purchased Puts, the influenced caused a ripple that dropped the exchange rate all around?
ThickAsThieves: i was reading the MPOE statement
ThickAsThieves: heh, Friedcat is covering the 19 shares :)
kakobrekla: or did he have the coins on gox
kakobrekla: oh yeah whats with the ukyo now
asciilifeform: if i understand correctly, this is just the difference between armchair general and actual general
nubbins`: that's the spirit
mircea_popescu: the context is complicated.
asciilifeform: what was the context here
mircea_popescu: Jan 25 16:40:13 <mircea_popescu>we're not equal, even if we can type the same strings in a box they still aren't the same strings. depends whose name signs on them. we're not equal, even if two people have "the same idea", in one head it's an idea, in another head it's nothing.
asciilifeform: nubbins`: the fellow with 'guardia civil, alma de charol' ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the 'art' piece?
ThickAsThieves: say something new then
mircea_popescu: i can't remember what the fuck exactly i said and so i can't grep too efficiently.
mircea_popescu: can someone link me to the log where i rant about how if someone had an idea they didn't have an idea until someone in power says so ?
ThickAsThieves: other than maybe cucumbers
ThickAsThieves: well it is probly the most orgasmic fruit
mircea_popescu: people here know everything don't they.
asciilifeform: the problem of 'tell shit from shinola programmatically' is ai-complete
nubbins`: people don't eat the skin?!
ThickAsThieves: especially if you eat the skin
ThickAsThieves: i was at an event last night where the speaker told the crowd to only eat orgasmic veggies
nubbins`: so we got our enormous-carbon-footprint 6.25% organic tank tops in for the yoga studio (eco-friendly!)
ThickAsThieves: word of the month!
ThickAsThieves: and now all i have is these pictures
nubbins`: that's one of our albums (atelier bleu!) on top of the pile :D
ozbot: Twitter / CBCWam: Look at all the brand new CDS ...
asciilifeform: 'Most of the conferences took place in China, and most of the fake papers have authors with Chinese affiliations.'
mircea_popescu: the dogeplet.
mircea_popescu: "The quantum droplet is made up of roughly five electrons and five holes. It possesses some characteristics of a liquid, like having ripples, the scientists said."
mircea_popescu: meanwhile russia is still a sovereign, but the us is not sovereign anymore.
mircea_popescu: back when the us was still a sovereign, it promised (together with russia) to defend the ukrainian border if ukraina agrees to dismantle nukes.
ThickAsThieves: i can click all the tags!
mircea_popescu: i mean each year there are at least >9000 various start-ups, whether on broadway, off broadway, off-off broadway etc that try it.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves that strategy worked in the past so well for so many now famous venues
ThickAsThieves: coindesk steals info on other blogs and makes fancy timeline linking to all gox articles http://cdn.knightlab.com/libs/timeline/latest/embed/index.html?source=0AtTCgM8sLx3UdHNCeWdlZHBhNjVXQ1dtSWhUQm04LVE&font=Bevan-PotanoSans&maptype=toner&lang=en&start_at_slide=57&height=650
FabianB: so OIX and MPBOR is suspended for the time being
mircea_popescu: those lucky enough to work for the 0.01%
mircea_popescu: for the 1%
mircea_popescu: lmao @55 seat parliament. i imagine their senate is not large enough to supply players for a tournament of bridge.
ThickAsThieves: parliament split 25-25 on the vote, with five abstentions
mircea_popescu: because they'd like sovereignity.
ThickAsThieves: Under that plan, Cyprus must privatize its ports, telecoms and electricity companies to raise up to 1.4 billion and pay down debt by 2018. Centre and left wing parties rejected the privatization scheme.
ThickAsThieves: lol the Mastercoin currency exchange is called Masterchest
mircea_popescu: nubbins` here, i made this as a gift for you : http://trilema.com/2014/a-potpourri-or-your-first-time-gazing-upon-the-intimate-workings-of-power/
ThickAsThieves: how will they fair when he dies? "Next year’s letter will review our 50 years at Berkshire and speculate a bit about the next 50. In the meantime, come to Omaha on May 3rd and enjoy our Woodstock for Capitalists."
mircea_popescu: (ie, what position they could take counting all leverage)
mircea_popescu: i think that's their reach
ThickAsThieves: these recaptchas seem to be getting more impossible
mircea_popescu: you'll need all the help you can get propping up the "ignorant idiot without a clue" defense.
mircea_popescu: better spend the 30% left of those savings and anything you can borrow to retain counsel now, before the freeze orders start raining down.
mircea_popescu: (you know you're going on the list of accessories for that prosecution, right ?)
gribble: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Reamed | Reamed. To Ream, to annihilate the ass-hole of your sexual partner while performing anal sex. After I reamed her ass last night I feel L337 as hell. by Griffin ...
mircea_popescu: the idiots are currently getting reamed with fireworks.
mircea_popescu: wao-ender we're having this little private war, had for a while. mp versus the idiots.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` aaand it's burried. you couldn't tell them if you wanted to.
cazalla: mircea_popescu: when a bet i created is added to the site, why does it show duplicate bets coming from my address?
mircea_popescu: Everybody knows the fight was fixed
mircea_popescu: Everybody knows the good guys lost
mircea_popescu: Everybody knows that the war is over
mircea_popescu: Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
mircea_popescu: Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
nubbins`: (and no other)
nubbins`: i am the 1% in this regard
mircea_popescu: i am the 99% in this regard.
mircea_popescu: more than the value per se, romania is still to this day a cash economy.
nubbins`: i often wondered why south korea hasn't revalued their currency
nubbins`: not unusual to find yourself in the lineup at canadian tire, stuck behind some asshole buying a snowblower with canadian tire money
mircea_popescu: The coupon rate earned was initially 5% of the eligible purchase price but was subsequently lowered to 3%, then to 1.4%, and now is 0.4%.