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BingoBoingo: No, not like the Queen at all. More like Ariel Sharon, practically dead, brain dead, just kept fresh on a ventilator.
moiety: it's just like the queen, just clining on to the throne
Vexual: paretheses ommitted
BingoBoingo: moiety: Back then you could have gotten BTC at $80 per
Vexual: they see a palendromic email and theyre all like, this old coot is loaded!
moiety: all the compounds are armed guarded
moiety: nigerians scare the hell out of me
moiety: i have THE best email address BingoBoingo :D palindrome email address almost
moiety: i only ever bought hosting with that, tipped the rest to other people
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Vexual: perhaps the nigerians are a sign
moiety: I've never managed to buy it yet because of one problem or another
moiety: i'm just entirely fed up of the hassle
BingoBoingo: My favorite part of ATC trading is it is like all of the trading I have ever done.
BingoBoingo: Finding things that don't work is easy. Things that work though are unknowable until after the fact.
moiety: i spend all my time telling others not to bother lol
BingoBoingo: moiety: It can be if both parties have rep appropriate to the amount being traded.
moiety: otc is not the place to paypal is it
BingoBoingo: This ATC trading thing would be so much easier if herbi was still in the game.
Vexual: scott cann:into the blue
Vexual: "we got the cheez!"
BingoBoingo: The z is important. No actual milk or rennet was used in the making of the cheez
BingoBoingo: Of course. I mean it wouldn't be worth it to copy the Doge profiteers and whore myself out in the name of Moon.
Vexual: double the atc and bring back some btc
KRS-One: damn its dark in there.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: How much did you buy the ATC at?
Vexual: fuck a man with a plan is the last thing i need
BingoBoingo: So... I made about a 200% gain selling the bulk of my Altcoin today.
moiety: lol still? hhaha the guy at the london expo simply said: sorry
mircea_popescu: well they're only what, 5 months late ?
moiety: they had grovellers out in force in london in november
moiety: what's the current with bfl thesedays?
BingoBoingo: moiety: At this time last year the only serious Chinese involvement was ASICMiner.
moiety: but then china hadn't banned it last year
BingoBoingo: moiety: Last february though there wasn't a prolongued dip like this.
moiety: that's very kind and i would normally, but I'm not in a position to give myself deadlines at the moment BingoBoingo
BingoBoingo: moiety: Do you want a loan you can apply to the purchase of trilema credits since you are in the WOT nao?
Vexual: new yorkers dont live to 120 do they? all that smog
Vexual: are you in the market for a funeral?
moiety: better run a malwarebytes scan then?
MisterE: hope so moiety but your computer can download stuff without you knowing, especially if there any known vunerabilities in your browser
Vexual: isn't there 10+ spoken languages right in cape town?
MisterE: security for whites is crazy there
mircea_popescu: then couldn't get anyone prosecuted for it out of the entire gang, so she left once she was 18
mircea_popescu: i knew a girl that loved it, then got raped for being white, aged about 15,
moiety: i knew a girl here thatleft age 8 to live there, came back in her 20s
Vexual: its a bit like australia if the dutch knocked it up first
moiety: true arseholes are a special breed of people aren't they
Vexual: juno the one about the hot lesbian?
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Vexual: no i might have been confusing it with the sun
Vexual: Imagine the page 3 girls
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I hope you mean the whole operation.
mircea_popescu: the new york times
mircea_popescu: yeah there's a slew of those
BingoBoingo: I've been finding odd content aggregators linking me from the start.
mircea_popescu: anyway, since im in there some gems :
mircea_popescu: not even holes drilled in the barrel
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i always imagined they're non-functioning
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: The Benjamins are probably toilet paper
asciilifeform: what, then, are the benjamins?
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I imagine the gold bars are better concealed than the plated firearms.
moiety: they say black leopards... they are jaguars
asciilifeform: unless all the mexican barons share the same lion.
asciilifeform: likewise, quite a few of these shots look rather familiar.
moiety: i hadn't thought of that but it's a really good point, i would rather bars than all those notes
asciilifeform: or even simulacra thereof
asciilifeform: anyone else find it curious that these 'bust' photos never seem to feature gold bars?
asciilifeform: the most interesting thing in the picture is, well... not actually in the picture.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: depends whether one insisted on firing it...
BingoBoingo: I dunno if a gold barrel could do anything other than explode.
asciilifeform: i say plated. the rivets are in the right places, and if it were solid gold, it'd be welded.
moiety: i bet they would if they could
mircea_popescu: or would they
asciilifeform: moiety: probably a counterfeiter's shop, as well as whatever else they did.
ozbot: Mexican drug lord's house: You won't believe what the authorities found in this Mexican drug Lord's
moiety: wtf lol how to walk on ice? i've seen it all.. no, wait, re-enact that poster with gold crackhead...then i will have seen everything
moiety: merry 15th all! can get on with the rest of the year now.
MisterE: ThickAsThieves: you read about the dude who flew to Tokyo to confront Gox CEO?
mod6: haha, magicaltux came on the lamers bus
pankkake: from the looks of it, the guy ate all the bitcoins
pankkake: http://thekronies.com/ (but you can't buy them… yet)
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ThickAsThieves: hypothetically speaking of course
ThickAsThieves: "dont expect to buy options when you want them most" or such
davout: maybe the quoting leprechauns are on strike
ThickAsThieves: as in cant access the bitcoincharts data that is accessible?
Apocalyptic: the issue, and the fact someone is exploiting it beyond reasonable doubt has been verified
davout: kakobrekla: i'm asking because imma open up the market orders feature, and i want to test the shit out of it before i do, so i was wondering if there were some bugs with them that could give me additional things to pay attention to
davout: "your cable was unplugged and it took 3 secs to fix? we'll charge you the full hour no problem"
Apocalyptic: <kakobrekla> btw dunno if you caught it, but they are supposedly selling their shit in a month or so // interesting
davout: like hitting your order with a satoshi just to charge you the minn fee?
kakobrekla: (they can also make this shit up)
kakobrekla: the most irritating is the min trade fee
kakobrekla: anyway re bitstamp, there were couple of problems over the course of time
davout: one of the two is unknown
davout: punkman1: the value of an exchange boils down to the value of their banking relationship + their existing customer base
davout: the question is who buys it
kakobrekla: btw dunno if you caught it, but they are supposedly selling their shit in a month or so
kakobrekla: but then they added to their faq "we are retarded" and i stopped.
davout: or should i dig the logs?
benkay: punkman1: nowhere on that page is there mention of bitcoin. you should fix that.
ozbot: Stephen Law: How the US Treasury imposes sanctions on me and every other "Stephen Law" on the planet
Willdude123: The lmgtfy thing didn't really work as one was not expecting to google that
Willdude123: Well, 30BTC then
punkman1: Jere_Jones: in this case, read the thread, and see the derps asking Havelock to 2FA HARDER
Jere_Jones: punkman1 What's wrong with asking customers what they want?
Willdude123: Do they have miners?
Willdude123: kakobrekla, so how can they afford to pay out what a 5 mh/s miner would pay out?
kakobrekla: take the time to understand and self learn yourself
kakobrekla: read the contract if there is any
Asa9: there are many pdfs online
Asa9: start there
Asa9: the richest man in babylon
Willdude123: Are there any good books on investments I can read?
Willdude123: What was that rather large stock exchange that shut down? Something E
pankkake: well if the paper was the issue, that's someone he knows
mircea_popescu: i guess hipsters don't either, nor rabis.
asciilifeform: 'only the laziest won't kick a dead lion' (rus)
mircea_popescu: nono the best part about lenin (in romanian at least) is Partiia Lenina!!!!
Asa9: mp - Im doing some housework and Im hummiing along with the hymn of the soviet union. Thanks a lot!
mircea_popescu: they do delete pages that dare notice that indeed forward is shorthand for stupid.
mircea_popescu: they don't delete the retarded pages about nonsense like bullying
mircea_popescu: only some of them.
pankkake: the thing is, most of your torrents stay idle, but you then can seed a LOT of things
pankkake: I wanted to compare the different reward/"economic" systems but never got to it
mircea_popescu: and the better ones actually don't block romania, on the grounds of you know, being in romania in the first place.
pankkake: the best trackers - as in best content and spee- usually don't do that
mircea_popescu: so the goal is to try and recreate riia out of material stolen from the riia
pankkake: the real issue of private trackers is… CENTRALIZATION!!
punkman1: the goal is usually to get people to pay for download credits, since they can't actually upload anything
mircea_popescu: north korea is at this very moment saying the same
mircea_popescu: seeing how there's no comparison point, all soviet bureaucracies claim a lot of speed and content
pankkake: well, the end result is a lot of content and a lot of speed
mircea_popescu: just let people do whatever the fuck it is they please to do.
pankkake: the goal is to encourage sharing
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mircea_popescu: but why do you care if they lie or not /
pankkake: private trackers rely on the clients to tell how much they upload and download
pankkake: the lines are built
pankkake: and it seems most of the hurdle is bureaucracy
pankkake: either it was because some ISPs were altering the traffic (happens in Israel), or there were too many cheaters (romanians, after all)
mircea_popescu: pankkake obviously you can have anything custom installed. the discussion is more about you know, entry level or average or w/e
pankkake: conversely, there are many romanian trackers
mircea_popescu: i would guess 50% of all material in the eu is in romania.
boolcrap: dam i just moved to the country
mircea_popescu: anyway, getting gbps connections isn't either hard or expensive.
mircea_popescu: boolcrap there are, but you'd have to go there FOR THAT purpose.
mod6: i used to live in the az countryside :)
boolcrap: theres no places where there isnt fiber run?
mircea_popescu: there is no "countryside" in the arizona sense of the term
mircea_popescu: this is the country side.
boolcrap: what kind of internet do they have?
boolcrap: in the country side
mircea_popescu: apparently they slashed it
mircea_popescu: that's the provider. 150mbps for like 30 bux or w/e
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mircea_popescu: pankkake nah, it's definitely the best in the eu.
mod6: lol, someone should spoof that USSR Hymn, change the words to USSA and obummer & co.
boolcrap: popescu are you like, the only honest man in romania?
boolcrap: hey i hear the internet is amazing in romania.
boolcrap: i have nothing further to contribute to this.
mircea_popescu: so the romanians say.
mircea_popescu: there's this romanian joke whereby the insane in one asylum loved jokes, and knew them so well that people'd just say the index # and everyone laughed.
ozbot: Hymn of the USSR - Red Army Choir (English Sub.) - YouTube
Jere_Jones: Anyone heard the "Theory vs Reality" joke? It's the only one I have that routinely gets geniuine laughs.
Asa9: I went to the shrink once. He diagnosed me as being Stoic. I cried.
boolcrap: and the rabbi says " out of what?"
boolcrap: so the priest turns to the rabbi and says " boy id love to screw that little boy"
boolcrap: a rabbi a priest and little boy are sitting at a table, the little boy is kind of bent over the table getting something
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what were schoolkids' paramilitary thing called in the ussr ? i forget.
mircea_popescu: "i want to go to the soviet union!!!"
mircea_popescu: "what's the matter little girl ?"
mircea_popescu: whereas for comparison the kids in the soviet union are free and happy and even get icecream!
mircea_popescu: tells the kiddos all about the horrible imperialist barbaric lands outside of The Country, and how children there are kept naked and starving and forced to labour in huge child labour camps
mircea_popescu: a guy in the required sunglasses joins the 4th grade to help with their political educaiton
mod6: it has been quite the transformation over the last 30 years. WE WILL HAVE PROGRESS, FROM HOPE, TAXATION OF THE WEALTHY AND UNICORN FARTS! WE WILL SHOW THE WORLD HOW EXCEPTIONAL WE ARE!
mircea_popescu: you know, i like the americans better. at least to them i can tell jokes :D
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know the joke with the little girl and the icecream ?
asciilifeform: where 'honey don't forget to refuel the reactor, milk the bear, and turn us in to the kgb.'
asciilifeform: the americans seem eager to move into the mythical ussr they themselves painted.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform then what's ann arbor ?
asciilifeform: the new, 'streamlined', 'modern' ussr. all butugichag, no kurchatov.
mircea_popescu: a resut of the stupidity of one particular race,
mircea_popescu: all sorts of obscure nonsensical shit you sincerely thought are an artefact of the time and place,
asciilifeform: sad part is, these folks are about to get a Free! Amazing! excursion there. no time machine needed.
mircea_popescu: mod6 it is, you know ? i mean people who haven't lived this side of the iron curtain can't really get the depth of it, it;s not the same to be told about it or to see it with your own eyes
deadweasel: my brain will never be the same
mircea_popescu: fight the tendency to spend 100% of one's life in the sinagogue
mircea_popescu: they're there to force people to also do some work in a day. at the very least to pay for the credits.
mircea_popescu: people love to think that trilema credits system is there cause im greedy, but it may just as well be the case
mircea_popescu: back to the mines.
deadweasel: 'his discourse is about on par with what you’d expect out of the Ohio representative in the Miss America competition.' >> ahahahahha
Asa9: you should call yourself the Oracle something
Asa9: sir - I wish you were around when I was a teen. I would have had my shit together way before now.
ozbot: Why Dogecoin is a scam, why the people pushing it are assholes, why Business Insider is a contemptib
jborkl: I noticed almost 0 of the advertising slots have been filled for about a month, I read about vaporware every few days
Jere_Jones: Favorite mp quote so far: "There’s however no intelligence required to be an asshole."
benkay: some of the goat's posts ocassionally get 'edited'
mircea_popescu: heck, goat is still there, rpietilla is still there, one of these days the pirate character is gonna start posting again.
mircea_popescu: even the gbbg dood is still there.
mircea_popescu: nothing ever goes away on the forum.
jborkl: I thought Activemining was resolved as a fat guy in the trunk of a 67 skylark 6 months ago
mircea_popescu: why the fuck are all these people without a clue involved in stuff.
mircea_popescu: "We are being blocked, even in a startup the owners can move their ownership to another investor, we can't even do that."
mircea_popescu: pankkake that'll be interesting. i guess the results are only predictable to like five people or some shit.
topace: correct i am no longer a majority stakeholder in havelock (the exchange)
jborkl: oh huh, what did they inc in another country and transfer type of deal?
pankkake: seems to be a bit stronger than the others
mircea_popescu: they did some dubious shuffling of assets
deadweasel: were they IPOd before havelock changed ownership?
pankkake: and the first one was sold out very quick, it traded much higher for a short time, like the older havelock IPOs
pankkake: they made 3 IPOs, each newer IPO… cheaper
mircea_popescu: pankkake yeah, because they want to sell more treasury stock.
pankkake: they're over the IPOs price now I think
mircea_popescu: they should have let them wear bras and nothing else.
mircea_popescu: this is the worst fucking idea ever.
mircea_popescu: they only took their investors down 30% or so, so far.
mircea_popescu: i'm with pankkake, they actually are one of the less scammy things on havelock.
deadweasel: glad you took them to task. that is a very scammy venture judging by their post.
mircea_popescu: s/laungh/launch. apparently laugh got impacted in there
deadweasel: since they're trading below IP, it would make them look profitable!
mircea_popescu: deadweasel maybe they can laungh a poll so that 2013 comes before 2011 in their personal history.
deadweasel: A poll, in the forums....
deadweasel: Hey, they launched a poll to confirm their beliefs about their upcoming growth spurt... what other evidence do you need?
mircea_popescu: and one's mother is not a system.
mircea_popescu: more abstractly : for things to be unique it's not enough for them to be different, it's also required for that difference to be meaningful in some sort of actual system. it's not enough that a system may exist in which the difference may be meaningful. it has to be actually meaningful in an actual system.
pankkake: "the first Bitcoin-only gaming establishment to offer unique, provably-fair games" is true if you account for "unique"
mircea_popescu: yes, which is why the mention.
pankkake: and I think CBTC is the least worst havelock security :) (I sold mine as soon as I could make a profit, because fuck havelock, but anyways)
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves> "New bitcoins are now far more likely to be spent than hoarded" << on the basis of what ?
ThickAsThieves: yeah the graphic is kinda useless
deadweasel: they don't know what they mean.
mike_c: so when mining pools distribute shares the coins are "spent" i guess?
mike_c: and by "spent" they mean.. moved?
boolcrap: there we go
asciilifeform: 'we shall all bake together when we bake...'
chetty: we been there for 50 years, nothing to see there
boolcrap: they would become asexual?
mircea_popescu: boolcrap just the girls.
boolcrap: im pretty sure we are on the verge of blowing all of ourselves up
boolcrap: your saying that humanity will survive another 10 years?
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