Just how much do you know about washing diapers ?
The backdrop is that I've started a laundry list of LLCs and assorted corps here in Argentina for various purposes, one of which in partnership with a friend from the US. Which friend had previously been in contact with various English speaking groups interested in Argentina, mostly online-based, which groups further arrived through the usual means at various consensuses and nonsensuses, orthodoxies and dumbfuckeries held as truth by the lot. One such being that you have to be a resident to incorporate a business here. Fortunately I tend to select and hire actual counsel rather than rely on the "wealth of information"i that is the web and/or "dedicated" communities, and so I don't suffer from the numerous limitations average Joe Web picks up.
Her You know, being all over the place with you today, I mean, reading the articles of incorporation the lawyer drafted, the fact that the notary didn't bat an eye at our being foreigners, the fact that her clerk immediately knew to ask for the passports, it all clearly shows that there's nothing exceptional or at all rare about foreigners making companies here. It's common, common enough to be familiar. And yet, to hear these derps go, it's simply impossible.
Me Impossible, perhaps, or "just not done", maybe. At any rate, for them it is : English speakers have meanwhile reverted to womanhood. If you think about your proper lady of 1814 - it's certain that people could commission a boat and go sailing to India, or start building a country house, or purchase a set of slavegirls and train them to juggle eggs and eggplants. Or go to college, or go to the Wyoming Territory and try to start a law practice.ii Nevertheless, a woman couldn't. Why couldn't she ? Well.. Yeah. Why couldn't she ? "Just not done".
Her That's sad.
Me I'll tell you what's even sadder than that : you remember Mr. Babbage ?
Her The guy with the confusion of ideas that could yield such a question ?
Me Precisely. That's not the only thing he's said. He also pointed out that whenever he'd take the time to explain to an Englishman how his machinery worked, that Englishman promptly engaged in a protracted battle to explain to him, Babbage, the maker of the damned thing, why such a thing could never exist and if it did exist could never work, and if it worked could never be useful. Meanwhile whenever he'd take that time to explain same to an American, that fellow'd spend all his time trying to come up with tasks to which the machine could be applied and means through which this could be made to work. So now : England has prevailed. The US used to be known, back when it used to be powerful, and important, for the exact opposite of the spirit it displays today. These used to be the shocking go-getters, the offensive yanks that couldn't be bothered to even inquire as to what's "just not done" and how's it done that which is done. The people that didn't use to have no time for that are today the exact opposite of their former glory.
Her Now that's sad.
Me Quite. But hopefully they find a good man soon and have lots and lots of babies.
In closing, I would like to end with an hymn :
That'd be Columbia : she's got the stripes an' she's seein' the stars.
———The Internet is very useful in some situations and entirely useless in other situations.
The type of situation where it's useful squarely centers on verifiable source. The verifiability requirement is not absolute, but merely relative to the incentive to falsify. For instance, if I wish to know the actual address of a bar called Derpitude in County Cork, Ireland, searching for the website of such a bar and taking down the address therein offered works just fine - because the source is verifiable. It's not verifiable absolutely, clearly any troll could have made a fake website of such a bar solely to give out the wrong street address. Nevertheless, the potential benefit for such an attack is virtually nil, and so the identity has been relatively verified.
The type of situation where it's not useful roundly surrounds... people. Everything that you may pick up on any sort of source bereft of authority, such as a forum, or wikipedia, or the collected opinions of any club of online derps, is fundamentally and universally wrong, mistaken, misguided and misleading. Everything. You may think there's exceptions to this, mostly because you've probably bought into the entire "social media" pipe dream and so perceive the emotional costs of setting yourself straight too high. Nevertheless and irrespective of the emotional costs you perceive reality to pose, this is a fact : any judgement, opinion, agreement, whatever it may be that's built upon the social derpage of nobodies is about as useful for any practical purpose as whitening is useful for generating random numbers : if you're into the appearance of having resolved your problem then by all means, live superficially and be happy. It's not like you don't have illustrious antecessors in the bureaucracy. [↩]Seen The man who shot Liberty Valance, by the way ? Who's more the girly-girl, the early Ransom Stoddard (James Stewart) or the early Hallie Stoddard (Vera Miles) ?
And as a subquestion and our daily double-jeopardy : does "marriage understood as the union between a man and a woman" specifically exclude boys, ie, youthful males of a certain kind, like say the exact kind the US produces ? Because they're really a lot more like girls than men ? I could easily see the argument that it does. Now what ? [↩]
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Thursday, 24 July, Year 6 d.Tr.
Jardin Botanico Carlos Thays - Buenos Aires
My birthplace hosts one of Europe's best Botanical Gardensi and after many pleasant afternoons spent in its coquette embrace I'm rather fond and rather partial to this particular land usage.
Argentina's own Jardin Botanico Carlos Thays is not bad! For instance, the entire length of its exterior fence is dotted with people selling strawberries - you can buy two pounds for twenty pesos (about a dollar and a quarter). For another example, owing to the very mild temperature variationii the jungle grows in the open air here :
Furthermore, there's live cats doing porn shows in the alleys. No, seriously :
The spacing in the wrought iron fence is just enough to allow a cat through comfortably while denying passage to most any dog. Consequently, the place is teeming with cats (otherwise a reasonably rare sight in these parts - Buenos Aires is nothing like Istanbul to be sure!). Here's a close-up of the action :
Moving on :
You had no idea aloe could possibly get quite that happy, did you ? It's all the cat strip&lick shows, I think. And now that we've hopefully exhausted all the zoophilliac interest, let's move on to petrophillia :
Here's a closer up (I'll spare you the buttzoom, this time) :
That's a representation of a well known Spanish fairy tale which has local women kill themselves along with their offspring rather than take Moor cock. The very pronouncedly niggardly coloration of Spanyards to this day readily gives the lie to this fantastic theory, but its perpetuation nevertheless offers quite solid - stone solid! - proof that there's no accounting for sexual fantasy. Really guise, your foremothers killed themselves along with their offspring rather than take Moor cock ? How very great that you made it to today in one piece to tell that immortal tale then! And how very Germanic fair thou art, too!
Check out Mr Cat guy taking some serious nap!
Allow me to close with the nosebottle cleaner. To use : make girl get close, shove up nose. Enjoy!
———Gradina Botanica Alexandru Borza occupies 14 hectares in Cluj. [↩]Europe sees temperatures moving from 20 below to 20 above zero in any given year, a good forty-fifty degree spread. Buenos Aires is more like twenty-something. [↩]
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Sunday, 02 November, Year 6 d.Tr.
It's time once and for all to spend 10k+ words explaining why it's time once and for all for it to be time once and for all!
What's one to say anymore ? It's time once and for all!
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Thursday, 26 June, Year 6 d.Tr.
Istanbul selamlar!
Last time I visited this place, Erdogan was just then beginning his "dictatorship"i and Istanbul looked like the run down shithole Bucharest was sliding towards. Twelve years later, any Romanian town you pick would hope and dream to look like Istanbulii, in vain.
A few highlights : I covered the 40 Kms from the Airport to Sultanahmetiii in all of 20 minutes. The driver kept it at 120, because the new highway allows it. And there's three new bridges and a new tunnel, and a boatload of extra infrastructure keeping the traffic quite pleasant, I don't think I've been ever in a column longer than five cars. Think of it! And while you think of it, think of this : they've added like a million new apartments in the past decade, they must have, there's just no other way. Compare and contrast to New York's 50k or whatever it was.iv
And now I figure maybe it's time for some pictures.
This is me saying goodbye yesterday.
This is a seagull. There's lots and lots of them in Istanbul, owing of course to the proximity of all the fish. The only animal there's more in Istanbul than seagulls are cats (perhaps owing to the same proximity of fish, but more likely owing to the very calm and tolerant behaviour of the locals). There's an apparent infinity of them, possibly more than actual people. I imagine the rats in Istanbul are consequently very very small and very very shy, peanut sized creatures.
Wanna play "identify the ex cathedral" ?
The only picture I'm going to post out of Istanbul's Archeology Museum. Turkey ended up with the lion's share of remains from the classical period, so let me put it this way : if you've never been to Istanbul you are not a classics anything : not a classics professor, not a classics student, you simply have nothing to do with the classics at all. You may imagine you do, but you don't.
Ok, I lied. Here's one of the best busts ever made of the best emperor that ever was.
You're welcome!
Here's me considering your idea.
Here's some derp being pretty fucking awkward with some pretty blond girl for some god forsaken reason. All captured on film, for greater justice.
What's to say? Put your hand in a bowl of nuts, pull out three: that's the Warner brothers and their sister, Dot. Nuts. Crazy. But these kids knew from comedy.
And the raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting
On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door;
And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming,
And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor;
And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor
Shall be lifted - nevermore!
And by the way, if you've never read Jerome K. Jerome, dov. He's roughly a British Samuel Clemens : polished, with literary reference, transfixing ad aeternitatem the environment of London clubs and Oxford jolly good old boys and whatnot, but just as deeply funny. A sampler :
But the river...chill and weary, with the ceaseless rain-drops falling on its brown and sluggish waters, with a sound as of a woman, weeping low in some dark chamber; while the woods, all dark and silent, shrouded in their mists of vapour, stand like ghosts upon the margin; silent ghosts with eyes reproachful, like the ghosts of evil actions, like the ghosts of friends neglected...is a spirit-haunted water through the land of vain regrets.vi
Stuff in a shop window.
Fried corn, and actual baked chestnuts. I've never found these outside of Turkey and I've despaired of the search. They're irreplaceable, once you've had the genuine article you can't anymore take seriously the puny offerings of other places.
The 13`875th Cat Regiment of the Foot reporting for catuty. Do you has any things that are bacon and also are fish ?
A collection of items and other things.
And thus this post ends, my dear reader. And next one, in Jerusalem!
———In the words of the very amiable Mehmet Y. (hi! :D), he's done a lot for the country, but the people are just sick of hearing his voice anymore, which is kinda sad and pretty unfair but what're you gonna do. [↩]Perhaps worth pointing out that at roughly 12 million, Istanbul actually exceeds the sum total of Romania's urban population. And if you think administering a spaceship that large is no small feat, consider that New York isn't actually that big. Or that nice, but that's an argument for another time. [↩]The heart of the old city pretty much, between Aysofia, the Blue Mosq and Topkapi. [↩]And since we're on this "you vs them" kick : I landed on Ataturk, got off the plane, looking for a place to pick my bags. There's a huge immense swarm of people and an information desk. So I ask the girl, where do I pick my bags ? Through passport control first, she says. Where's that ? Get in the line, she says.
Apparently, God have mercy, the zerg swarm was a... queue. So I walk a quarter mile (I kid you not nor do I exaggerate : 700 steps of mine are a quarter mile pretty much exactly) to the end of the queue, ready to shoot somebody. Turns out, it was going pretty fast. You probably have no idea what "pretty fast" means in Ataturk, so let me point out that I was through the entire thing in about half an hour. The entire thing, which does not mean the quarter mile queue, because you see... once I was back where I started fifteen minutes later I discovered that the swarm of people was actually... a queue, wrapped up nine thick over about 50 yards. So... another quarter mile. Ataturk frontier police processes just about 5k people an hour. And they have to, because in the half hour I was there a total of five major landings were called (ie, 300 passenger and over Airbuses) not to count dozens of smaller flights, like my own. That's just about 3k people or so.
And then I hired a porter, which is a standardized service costing 10 bucks, whereby you get a guy that knows the place, with a cart, to find your bags and hail you a cab and get them loaded up. The whole thing took me fifteen minutes, and involved trying to keep up with this guy. Porters, you hear me ? Until the so called "civilised" West provides me with servants to carry my bags from the terminal to the car, Istanbul is the fucking capital of the world. Not New York, not vomitstain London. Istanbul.
I'm not even kidding, I fully intend to route all my future flights through there, including a few days of layover to take in the shisha and shish-kebap.
This is how the world ends : by another world being so much better that the people who actually matter simply move over. I wouldn't as much as fart in the direction of protecting France or the US or whoever the fuck else from anything whatsoever, including an invasion of terrorist slugs from outer space. I would however cut your throat with my own hand and watch you bleed to defend Istanbul's porters and hookahs from you. So there. [↩]And as to Bingo's remark : I read the whole book on the plane, among naps. It was about 6k lines, which means three days' worth of logs. And they're not even full lines, like the logs'.
The realisation scared me, like I hope it shall scare you,too. [↩]You are not expected to understand this. [↩]
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Monday, 26 May, Year 6 d.Tr.
Is it better to have missed once and never known it than to have never missed at all ?
Her You can't miss what you don't know you want.
Me Yeah, you can. This is the fount of all tragedy.
Her That's missing it later, when you realize, and it's gone.
Me Nope. That's just cheap us dramolette.i
Her What tragedy features a dopii that never knew and so never cared?
Me Never knew, did care. Tried, failed, curtain call.
Her How's that possible?
Me Right ?
Her I mean...yearning without aim is merely a symptom of boredom or misapplication or something equally mundane and addressable.
Me Nope. Let me quote something to you.
KNIFE FIGHTING
By Major Rex Applegate
In sentry killing, the approach is from the rear and is naturally noiseless. At the time of rising a few feet in the rear of the victim, the knife should either be taken from the sheath where it has been during the approach crawl, or taken from the teeth where it may have been carried. The attack is launched from a distance of not less than five feet and is initiated as soon as the attacker has arrived at that spot. This swift and sudden attack is important because of the animal instinct which usually warns the victim that someone is approaching or watching him. The upward thrust of the knife into the middle of the back or the right or left kidney section is executed at the end of the leap.
Her This is exactly what I mean, though. So look behind you ffs.
Me Lmao. Are you looking behind you now ? "Behind" is "where you're not looking". Moreover, the point there is that EVEN THE FUCKING ARMY FIELD MANUAL is aware that people can know that which they do not know.
Her What is this "o I could have perhaps sensed that there was a something in the direction I've chosen not to see because no particular reason, and now all is lost".
Me "Animal instinct" eh. It's the tragedy instinct. Perfectly unanimal.
Her I sayiii people know a thing or they don't. This unexamined inclination towards a suspicion or whatever is just a tool people themselves use to argue they weren't clueless, if it serves them, or a tool for an oppressor to suggest the ignorant had a clue and ignored it wrongfully. Ah, unexpected random beeps that sound like they emitted from one's room and yet have no logical source.
Me What you say exists, but it's not this.
Her I'm sure I'm wrong, for what it's worth. I just don't see the sanity of this thing in practice.
Me It's not sane. Which tragedy are you most familiar with ? Macbeth, is it ?
Her Or Hamlet, or Romeo & Juliet.
Me So re-read Macbeth, sometime, in the perspective of looking for all the (numerous) places where the characteriv clearly understands both sanity and this insane knowledge, and goes on.
Her Kk. That's an issue though, between drama and life itself.
Me Tragedy. Drama is pisswasser.
Her Wherein players have a moment available for reflection and humans themselves have however long they choose within the span of their lifetimes. Would Macbeth figure it out if he had five years instead of fifty seconds to mull?
Me This is not unlike saying a whore has more children than a wife because she spends longer being fucked. Art cuts to the chase and only renders the moment of ideal conception. It does not go into a slog of fifty years' mulling. Large part of why modern crapolade is so utterly devoid of value or importance - "hey let me tell you about myself". Tell your girlfriend, I don't care.
Her Right. But the slog is important. Maturity, knowledge, ability, these take time.
Me Art gets to come to the laid table. Sort-of like a slavemaster - won't raise the child, takes the young woman.v
Her Sure, but in that particular way, it can't really represent life.
Me It can represent it fine, it just can't BE it. Nor does it want to be it.
Her Well that, I'll have to mull over. ;)
———Whatever you call kitsch (which literally means small) in this context. [↩]Dop is Romanian for cork. It is a term of art, after a fashion. You pronounce it as /dop/, because Romanian truly is the only language read as it's written. [↩]After enough practice the slave understands that the best thing she can do for her own education is to be wrong, specifically, and pointedly. Hence, "I say", aka "here is where I'm making a mistake, if indeed I am". So then she can get in trouble for it, and the faster the better, if there's indeed any trouble to be had there.
This goes pointedly against the noobie slave's attempts, mostly directed at avoiding punishment. In this enlightened perspective, "free by default" or "free because not challenged" people barely meet the bar for a noobie slave, their kitsch freedom is a matter of "not even advanced enough to enter slavery" rather than anything else. Which sad state of affairs is of course papered over with the delusion of superiority born out of the complex of inferiority, which in turn brings us full circle : if the "free" people don't know they're inferior even to last week's slavegirl, why would they bother to pretend they're superior ? So they do know what they "don't know", then ? [↩]Not necessarily the title character, either. [↩]The antifather, if you wish, the opposite of "raises the child, doesn't take the woman". Division of labour, yo! which leads us straight into How I was wrong : Cuckolding, or a story about sigmas. [↩]
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Tuesday, 28 October, Year 6 d.Tr.
iPad King's Bounty, the strategy guide
So I said things about balance and whatnot last time. Well, I was wrong. The game is as broken as shit, here's the simple recipe to own it.
Step I. As you've just started, follow the quest line to level 16 or so, taking you to Eastern Fort or thereabouts. This is good because it gives you an idea of the exceptional game this could have otherwise been, and also because you pick up a number of useful items as quest rewards - mostly units and unit bonus packs. Keep in mind that you want diverse units, rather than strong units.i Save your money : don't upgrade anything, not units, not spells (save the spells, for that matter - there's no reason to cast anything so far). Maybe buy a few units here and there from the villages, but make sure you have at least 10k or so as a reserve.
Step II. Forget the quest line, you will now be doing raidsii. You ~only~ pick fights you can win with no losses, which is extremely easy to do because in spite of the game being coy about unit counts ("Party", "Several", that sort of thing) it nevertheless displays an exact count of the experience you will get.iii Unless you've done everything terribly wrong you should be able to take anything up to about 100 or so EXP, going all the way to 2-300 if you're any good at this kind of thing. You do at least 100 raids. Should be able to go through 20-30 an hour, seeing how most battles are one round, so it's not as bad as it sounds.
Step III. Take the colored balls you've collected doing all those raids and make ~100 or so Runes of Health. This is a major game breaking item that allows you to recoup your losses in a duel without having to pay any gold.iv Take the parchments and whatnot you've collected doing the questing and make a few Mercenary Licenses (50% more gold for 3 hours).
Step IV. Time to duel. Whether you win or lose, each battle yields the same 5k gold (10k as you level over 20), to which your 50% bonus is added, of course. The costs to you ? Nothing. So you can just start the duel and walk away, the game falls to autoplay on its own, and when you come back later set it to fight again. Obviously your units will run out of morale after six battles, but don't be using any bread. Instead, just swap them out for other stacks. If you have a couple dozen stacks you can't actually use up your morale as fast as it regenerates doing duels. You also get EXP and, should you kill any units (no need to win the battle) you will also get the respective duel-only drops, the chevron thingies.
That's it, your 100 runes mean 100 battles, with no losses no matter what happens. At a very conservative 10k gold per battle (really, I've been pulling about 20k with the licenses) that's one million gold pieces, which is enough to fill up all the stacks being sold in the villages, upgrade them to level 3 or 4, plus get all your spells starred as far as they'll go. After which you can start using them.
Not that it's clear why you'd want to use them, or anything else for that matter, because any sort of difficulty you may encounter in the field can always be solved with more dueling. Which "dueling" doesn't actually take any sort of effort on your part, just clicking a button now and again when you remember / are in the area is all that's needed, the game will "fight" on its own and get you the "rewards" for whatever the hell is not clear exactly. You can actually tell the players that are really fucking stupid because they're the ones using runes other than Health in a duel. Srsly guise ? Volcano, +50% damage ? Shitspun shield, 10% defense ? Well done lol, an unsavvy winner is you!
And of course what you can do others can do too, so everyone's got full stacks of everything upgraded through the teeth, because why not ? Thus instead of having a game, with an evolution and a flavour and an enjoyment and so on and so forth... well... you don't. God forbid some retard somewhere is left behind while the rest of the world is having fun or something!
So... yeah, whatever. This could have been an excellent strategy game, but then some fucktarded "business person" somewhere figured out that hey, if it's an excellent strategy game that necessarily means most people will suck at it, and knowing what we know of just how scummy "most people" are, if they suck at it that'll mean they won't want to play it. Because that's the "most people" solution : avoidance. God forbid they stop sucking or anything.
The net result being an utterly game breaking "rune of I suck" added, because "si noi avem dreptul la sansa" or something. Which sucks, in the abstract, and is quite concretely the only reason nothing good has been made since WW2. Trying to pander to "most people" as they are is pernicious to cultural production, always and everywhere an affair for people as they should be.
Sad story.
———It's the natural tendency of the seasoned player to try and get good units. This may work well everwhere else, but it's exactly the wrong approach here. As counterintuitive that may seem, "but MP, then I'll have that many more types of units to fill up, more work", blabla save it. It's wrong and I don't wanna hear it. [↩]This is the type of PVP where you fight an opponent's garrison, run by the AI. The AI sucks, and more importantly, you get the option to initiate the fight or keep looking. Obviously, plenty of people don't bother to garrison their town. [↩]Strike one. Who the fuck thought the original design needed this hole added, huh ? [↩]Strike two, three and infinity. Who the fuck thought this was a good idea ?! [↩]
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Monday, 01 December, Year 6 d.Tr.
Introducing the qntra
First, a little bit of history (from irc, of course, quoting in relevant part) :
September 30, around 5ami
mircea_popescu Cazalla listen, we need someone to make a proper bitcoin news venue. Instead of linking to a coindesk piece, just rewrite it so it's no longer FUCKTARDED, publish it and link that. Win-win.
cazalla I looked elsewhere but it seems he spoke to them about it.
mircea_popescu Only reason anyone's speaking to them is because of this false perception of "leadership", exactly same reason derps flock to tardstalk. It's a shithole of the first degree, and it only continues to exist because everyone's like... meh, whatever, ragazinesii. It wasn't so bad back when the Bitpay & co set of scammersiii that had stolen Bitcoin Magazineiv were still hoping that brand's not now dead, but meanwhile...v
cazalla Is that an endoresment to start one?
mircea_popescu Definitely. I'm sick of reading fucktarded goop because that's where people link for a story like that because apparently nobody else wrote it. It's like having all fruit glacee'd in shit. How about someone start a greengrocer already, we don't need any of this glacee business.
kakobrekla Mostly only people who already know the real story are interested in it, not your average reader.
mircea_popescu The average reader'd be interested in where his butthole is, if he could strain his brain enough to learn he even has one.
Vexual I'm thinkin paywall.
kakobrekla I think the question 'who are you writing for' is in place. For us - redundant.
mircea_popescu Hm. Problem is if you let this shit continue indefinitely you'll have an endless stream of idiots with firmly entrenched idiocies. "99% don't give a shit about gavin's latest stupidity, but this is not a signal to stfu and go home". Before that, "99% didn't give a shit about bitcoind 0.7 or .8 or .9, but CORE DEVS!!!" Well done, core devs for a project that massively ignores you.
kakobrekla Way too much stuff continues to continue and noone can do shit.
* BingoBoingo wonders where a managing editor might be found. Experience with this seems to be the scarce piece.
mircea_popescu The problem is the sort of drive. What's needed is someone willing and able to put 16 hour days into this for years. An Arringtonvi is what's needed in this space. And by god this is the chance for someone like that to become something like that.vii
dub What we really need is btc onion.
mircea_popescu Nah, SA got that covered.
BingoBoingo This is true.
cazalla I'll have a think about it, I don't want to say yes unless I'll actually commit to it and have a plan of attack.
mircea_popescu Ideally a team.
kakobrekla And lots of CSS.
mircea_popescu No CSS.
Vexual RSS?
dub Bootstrap?viii
kakobrekla HTML3 and CSS5
mircea_popescu And none of the fucktarded retardation of that guy what's his name, the wanna-be competition for coindesk and co. The guy that was here for five minutes but then concluded he has better things to do, with the same stupid head that then generated that entire "taking full responsibility" fiasco.
cazalla Coinfire?
mircea_popescu Right.
cazalla It became even stupider. coinfire.cf/lets-get-meta-site-ownership-via-token/
assbot Let's Get Meta with Site Ownership via Token - Coin Fire
mircea_popescu It's been going to shit ever since the guy ran out of his 6 months of timeix and "had to make revenue". His attempts are so naive and idiotic it pains. Definitely sunk the modicum of credibility he had amassed within two weeks. Which is what I mean. No movements like that. You run into management problems, come here and ask. And it's unfortunate, too, because all that was easily avoidable. But Tim gotta Tim all over the Tim.x
kakobrekla You defo need a few persons for this and compensated for.
mircea_popescu You can just exploit the current idiots. Read and rewrite Coindesk and co.
cazalla That would be enough to get it off the ground until it has traction.
Vexual That Huffington lady got richer with her news aggregator than she did maring into shipping.
mircea_popescu Exactly. And you'll know you got the traction cause they start bitching. And it'll be a fine thing too. Hurting stuff like Coindesk is worth it just on that basis alone.
BingoBoingo I dunno that Coindesk puts out enough material... Too many non-stories.
mircea_popescu To add salt to the cuts you can do a weekly roundup and mock their unpublishable shit.
kakobrekla Go ahead and try then.
mircea_popescu Cazalla see if danielpbarron feels like it. JuliaTourianski what are you doing these days ?
cazalla I would want to run something like that by myself at first and bring people in later, too many chefs and all that
Duffer1 What would be written about that isn't already covered by bit-ass?
BingoBoingo cazalla: I'd be up for some story authoring, contributing to the cause. The too many chefs problem isn't about having too many people so much as a shitty heirarchy.
mircea_popescu BingoBoingo has it I think. Just don't try and run "teams", you'll be fine.
BingoBoingo It's the editors/writers problem that among other shit killed Coinfire. Like the Chefs/Cooks problems that makes most people's restaurant dreams fail
thestringpuller What is Coinfire?
BingoBoingo Coinfire is this site that was promising for a week and a half then turned full derp.
cazalla Most importantly, do I name the site prefixcoin.com, coinsuffix.com or perhaps even bitsuffix.com
That was part one of the show. Then around half past six that same morning,
mircea_popescu thickasthieves> just make the b-a blogroll into a magazine and we can appoint an editor for choosing which stories are big on the homepage :)
Monday, 06 October, Year 6 d.Tr.
Introducing the D. series
Two years ago about this season I used a set of synthetic devices to crush the toys of a bunch of people clueless enough to remain unaware of their own irrelevance in the Bitcoin space. The method worked admirably well, and by November their social club with pretensions of a "stock exchange" was belly up, and they scattered to the four winds to talk the bad talk about my PR agent and lick their wounded accounts. Plenty quit, some are still bystanding spectators to this great thing of ours.
Today another bunch of people, equally clueless, equally deluded as to their own irrelevance are going to get their toy crushed. It will go like so :
For everyi Series A / seed funding announced by the circlejerk that is either in excess of 1 million USD or for a company valued through such funding over 100 million USD, I will create a synthetic asset on MPEx.
I will be offering these assets at a discount, to be established on a case by case basis.
Anyone holding such asset at the time the underlying is floated on an actual exchangeii will receive the equivalent value of the average trade price during the first month of tradeiii as the sole compensation for having held the MPEx asset.
That's it, short and sweet. You want to invest in some of these "valuable" things the V"C"s are doing ? Now you can. For less than what it costs them.
Who knows, maybe you'll even make a profit doing it. My money is on the contrary position.
———Every in the sense I'll do all the "good", "first/biggest/best" ones, not in the sense that I'll deem myself somehow bound to list every dubious piece of crap the circus spews out. [↩]So far, NYSE or NASDAQ only. The list may be expanded. [↩]Example : BitPay raises 30mn, which values it at 160mn. I create D.BPAY, consisting of 16mn shares, selling less than 0.016 BTC each. One year later, BitPay is listed on NASDAQ, for a total 3.2 mn shares, trading at 8 on open and at 1.13 after 30 days, for a VWAP of 2.74. D.BPAY holders on MPEx are entitled to and will receive 0.65075 dollars' worth of Bitcoin, whatever that may be at that time and the asset will be discontinued. [↩]
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Category: MPEx
Friday, 13 June, Year 6 d.Tr.
Introducing S.QNTR
You probably remember Qntra. It was listed today by MPEx, as S.QNTR. The most innovative part of the entire deal is in my opinion to be found within 3.2(d) :
S.QNTR shares will be issued through the following procedure : before the 5th of each month, a total wordcount of qualified articles published by Qntra during the previous month will be announced by the Editor in Chief, alongside a per-author list including that author's GPG fingerprint and total word count ; MPEx will issue twice that count of shares, allocating half to the Qntra board block, and half to the respective authors. This process will continue indefinitely.
Basically, have your piece accepted by the editors, you will be getting some shares. Prefer to be paid in cash ? Sell the shares. Prefer to keep an interest in the thing you're publishing for ? Keep the shares. Wish to strike a balance ? Strike the balance that best suits you.
I believe this model is far ahead of anything currently available, sufficiently ahead to not only provide ample financial and political incentive for the very best talent in the space to coalesce around this project, but to actually destroy the antiquated and antisocial Gawker model.
That'd be all for now. Here's a pic of a chick eating out another chick :
« Money, fucking and lying
Here's why we don't like how the world currently works »
Category: S.QNTR
Monday, 13 October, Year 6 d.Tr.
Introducing F.DERP
To complement the low risk F.MPIF, MPEx is going to list F.DERP, which is going to back high risk speculative shorting of purported Bitcoin start-ups (DERPs).
The two such DERPs available currently on MPEx are D.BPAY and D.BTGO. The first recently acquired 50`000 BTC investment ($30 mn) at an implied valuation of 266`666 BTC ($160 mn). The second acquired 20`000 BTC investment ($12 mn) at a total valuation of 58`333 BTC.
As a first step, F.DERP will be backing the issuance of 10% of each of these, for which I have provided it with 32`499 BTC in backing. If the market conditions warrant, it will be provided with further capital and will sell further tranches, either in the already listed DERPs or in freshly minted ones.
Similarly to F.MPIF, F.DERP will not distribute dividends as a matter of course (but may distribute at the general manager's option). Because of the sensitive nature of this fund, I will be managing it personally. Also because of the sensitive nature of this fund, I will be charging it a performance fee equal to 10% of the NAV gain each period - irrespective if the fund is "up" or "down" from any arbitrary point in the past. To maintain liquidity, all ASKS under NAV will be bought up once during the 24 hour period after the fund reports. There is no particular obligation or promise that shares will be sold or available for sale at any particular price or at any particular time.
Expect the contract published sometime over the weekend, and then regular statements like for any other asset. F.DERP is also considering OTC trading Call or Put options on any of the DERPs in its portofolio. Should you be interested in such an arrangement please get in touch. Note that all such deals will be published as a matter of course by F.DERP.
That is all, really.
« X.IDIFF.JUN has settled.
Con Alma De Tango »
Category: F.DERP
Thursday, 19 June, Year 6 d.Tr.
Interacting with fiat institutions, a guide
Subject: Message for Mircea Popescu from U.S. SEC
From: "Waxman, Daphna A."
Date: Fri, February 14, 2014 1:20 pm
To:
Dear Mr. Popescu
My name is Daphna Waxman and I am an attorney with the Enforcement Division of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.
The Commission staff would like to speak with you concerning the listing of shares of SatoshiDICE on MPEx.
I would appreciate if you would contact me directly by email or telephone. Please see my contact information below.
Thank you,
Daphna Waxman
Daphna Waxman
Senior Attorney
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
3 World Financial Center, Ste 4300
New York, NY 10281
(212) 336-1012
Waxmand@second.govi
Subject: Re: Message for Mircea Popescu from U.S. SEC
From: "'
Date: Fri, February 14, 2014 2:10 pm
To: "Waxman, Daphna A."
Go right ahead.
All the best,
Mircea Popescu
Subject: Message for Mircea Popescu from U.S. SEC
From: "Waxman, Daphna A."
Date: Fri, February 14, 2014 2:15 pm
To:
Dear Mr. Popescu
Would it be possible to schedule a time to speak via telephone?
Thank you,
Daphna
Subject: Message for Mircea Popescu from U.S. SEC
From: "'
Date: Fri, February 14, 2014 2:20 pm
To: "Waxman, Daphna A."
The best we can come to if you absolutely need real-time communication would be #bitcoin-assets on Freenode. (You can connect via http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=bitcoin-assets in your browser if you do not have a client). I'm usually around.
Bar that, there's nothing a call can carry that a letter wouldn't carry as well, is there ?
All the best,
Mircea Popescu
Subject: Message for Mircea Popescu from U.S. SEC
From: "Waxman, Daphna A."
Date: Fri, February 14, 2014 2:31 pm
To:
I'm unable to connect to freenode so email will have to do for now.
As part of our investigation of SatoshiDICE, we would like to request that MPEx voluntarily provide certain documents to us: (1) a list of all SatoshiDICE shareholders prior to the sale of the company in July 2013(preferably by name, address, or BTC address); and (2) an account history for Mr. Erik Voorhees showing the sale of shares, payment of dividends etc.
Does MPEx have such documents and would you be willing to provide them to the staff?
Thank you,
Daphna Waxman
Subject: Message for Mircea Popescu from U.S. SEC
From: "'
Date: Fri, February 14, 2014 2:45 pm
To: "Waxman, Daphna A."
In general, MPEx maintains a vast outreach program intended to help members of the general public understand the topics involved in this novel field. MPEx also complies with all legal requests.
So far our relationship is of the first kind, so inasmuch as you'd need help with any particular topic please feel free to ask. Inasmuch as you're soliciting private information you will have to sufficiently establish your authority to do so, which includes defeating specific challenges of jurisdiction that on a cursory examination seem to bar the institution you claim to be associated with from making these specific requests.
So far all we have is an email address, something which is spoofed on a regular basis - I get numerous notices of various sorts each week purporting to come from all sorts of banks and other institutions I've never had any relationship with, for instance.
All the best,
Mircea Popescu
Subject: Message for Mircea Popescu from U.S. SEC
From: "Waxman, Daphna A."
Date: Fri, February 14, 2014 2:50 pm
To:
I'm happy to provide any additional information that would verify who I am and my association. Also, feel free to search my name on the Internet and call my office phone number to listen to my voice mail message or the SEC's front desk at (212-336-1100) and ask to be connected to my line.
Subject: Message for Mircea Popescu from U.S. SEC
From: "'
Date: Sat, February 15, 2014 2:37 am
To: "Waxman, Daphna A."
Perhaps we misunderstand each other. Should you wish to establish your authority on the matter you would have to present all of :
a) the legal basis upon which the SEC is investigating a Bitcoin enterprise, whichever that may be. This would customarily come in the form of an Act of Congress specifically authorising the SEC to review MMORPGs and online activities involving such computer games and their virtual currencies, be they WoW gold, Linden Dollars, EVE Isk, Bitcoin, etc and so forth. Absent that, it may come in the form of a court ruling - definitive and irrevocable or whatever the equivalent of that may be at common law - judging the SEC has such authority. This, of course, is a thornier issue.
b) the authority upon which the SEC is making requests of personally identifying information from me specifically, which would necessarily include solid grounding in both Romanian and EU law.
c) the authority you personally have in the matter. This would customarily come in the form of an order or other such instrument signed by the officer in charge of your department directing you to investigate. Employees of all kinds do indeed often have a phone link in their office, but this is entirely irrelevant in this discussion.
Should you understand you have no authority in the matter but nevertheless wish to pursue some sort of amicable understanding, you will first have to appreciate the difference between legal and illegal requests. In this sense, asking someone to pick up your daughter from school is a legal request (as far as I know of the rapidly deteriorating legal environment in the US, at any rate). Asking them to pick up your daughter and throw her over a cliff however is an illegal request. The difference between these is, broadly speaking, that the party satisfying the first type of request exposes themselves to no liability, whereas the party satisfying the second type of request does expose themselves, perhaps to significant liability, both civil and criminal.
Secondly, yet perhaps as importantly, you will have to appreciate the fact that MPEx has to date, and long before the SEC as much as heard of Bitcoin, pursued with some success if with different means roughly the same agenda, which is to say the exposure of scams and the protection of the general public from scammers of all sorts and types*. In the particular case you brought I must confess I have my own suspicions, which I do not necessarily have either the means to verify or in any way enforce.
I was from the onset and remain for the indefinite future strongly committed to discouraging scams in Bitcoin finance, while nurturing a vibrant, diverse and free marketplace - and this commitment engages MPEx as well as a variety of other Bitcoin institutions and groups. It is on this basis that I would very much welcome a working relationship with your institution, as I believe our respective strengths complement each other superbly. Nevertheless, the commitment to freedom is not merely verbiage, but quite as strong, and on this basis I perceive we may encounter difficulties going forward, especially taking into account the confused legal environment and occasionally misguided political choices coming out of the US.
In the spirit of candor, let me make it perfectly clear that what's being discussed here is nothing else and nothing short of the SEC's ultimate relevancy and importance in the Bitcoin space, and so far I am not particularly impressed. Let us work together to improve upon this shaky basis if at all possible.
All the best,
Mircea Popescu
---
* References :
- exposing the Pirate scam :
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=50822.msg854918#msg854918
- exposing the Patrick Harnett set of scams :
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=121915.0
(unfortunately the Australian equivalent of the US SEC has been uniquely
unhelpful in this matter so far).
- exposing the Labcoin set of scams :
http://trilema.com/2013/the-anatomy-of-a-scam/
- general informative bulletins as warranted by market conditions :
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=106391.0 ;
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=435263.0
and we'll stop at that for the sake of brevity.
Subject: Message for Mircea Popescu from U.S. SEC
From: "Waxman, Daphna A."
Date: Mon, March 3, 2014 11:22 am
To:
Dear Mr. Popescu,
I have attachedii a formal letter requesting that MPEx voluntarily provide certain information and documentation to the SEC staff. I hope that the information contained in the letter satisfies your below concerns.
I appreciate your willingness to discuss these important issues and am available to discuss any additional questions you may have.
Thank you,
Daphna Waxman
Subject: Message for Mircea Popescu from U.S. SEC
From: "'
Date: Tue, March 4, 2014 7:43 am
To: "Waxman, Daphna A."
While I appreciate your efforts to qualify for an information exchange agreement with MPEx, as well as your narrow satisfaction of the response timeline I publicly outlinediii, and while these constitute in my estimation significant progress towards building a solid platform upon which to further our shared goals, nevertheless substantial hurdles still remain to be overcome in this process.
As a key step, the commissioners of the SEC are to at their earliest convenience adopt a resolution, to be jointly drafted at expert level, which is to include a) a plain statement of the SEC's lack of jurisdiction with regards to Bitcoin, thus alligning itself with the position of the US FED and the US GAO ; b) a statement recognising MPEx' regulatory authority over Bitcoin finance as a SRO ; c) an appointment of any one of the commissioners as authorised Bitcoin liaison, which would include the creation of a dedicated PGP key and a Web of Trust membership, which would be recognised as such by MPEx, and on the basis of which all further communication is to be conducted, as well as minimal technical provisions for the operation of this system ; as well as further points as the parties may deem expedient.
This will both provide a solid basis for future, continued cooperation as well as conveniently insulate either party from unwelcome legal and technical complexities. Kindly let me know as soon as you are ready to proceed.
All the best,
Mircea Popescu
In short : Bitcoin is a sovereign. Accepting this matter of fact is a sine qua non prerequisite for playing. No exceptions.
Update, March 19th : the pdf in question, since people seem to really want it for some undiscernible reason. Note that I've not checked it in any way, and so if as a result of opening it you end up unwilling participant in whatever RETARDED ALLCAPS USG-sponsored dataclub I disclaim any responsibility.
———I have no idea where that domain came from either. It doesn't resolve, perhaps it's just a typo (?!). [↩]This email did in fact come with a .pdf attached. In stark contravenience to Section 508 mandated accessibility compliance, it consisted of a single image, testimony to the sad fact that even trained of counsel for the SEC has trouble following in integrum the morass of USG regulation. [↩]The reference is here. [↩]
« Hey, stupid women ? We need to talk. Smart women don't want to be with you anymore.
Cum s-a incadrat in colectiv ? »
Category: Activism
Tuesday, 18 March, Year 6 d.Tr.
Interacting with fiat institutions, a guide
Subject: Message for Mircea Popescu from U.S. SEC
From: "Waxman, Daphna A."
Date: Fri, February 14, 2014 1:20 pm
To:
Dear Mr. Popescu
My name is Daphna Waxman and I am an attorney with the Enforcement Division of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.
The Commission staff would like to speak with you concerning the listing of shares of SatoshiDICE on MPEx.
I would appreciate if you would contact me directly by email or telephone. Please see my contact information below.
Thank you,
Daphna Waxman
Daphna Waxman
Senior Attorney
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
3 World Financial Center, Ste 4300
New York, NY 10281
(212) 336-1012
Waxmand@second.govi
Subject: Re: Message for Mircea Popescu from U.S. SEC
From: "'
Date: Fri, February 14, 2014 2:10 pm
To: "Waxman, Daphna A."
Go right ahead.
All the best,
Mircea Popescu
Subject: Message for Mircea Popescu from U.S. SEC
From: "Waxman, Daphna A."
Date: Fri, February 14, 2014 2:15 pm
To:
Dear Mr. Popescu
Would it be possible to schedule a time to speak via telephone?
Thank you,
Daphna
Subject: Message for Mircea Popescu from U.S. SEC
From: "'
Date: Fri, February 14, 2014 2:20 pm
To: "Waxman, Daphna A."
The best we can come to if you absolutely need real-time communication would be #bitcoin-assets on Freenode. (You can connect via http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=bitcoin-assets in your browser if you do not have a client). I'm usually around.
Bar that, there's nothing a call can carry that a letter wouldn't carry as well, is there ?
All the best,
Mircea Popescu
Subject: Message for Mircea Popescu from U.S. SEC
From: "Waxman, Daphna A."
Date: Fri, February 14, 2014 2:31 pm
To:
I'm unable to connect to freenode so email will have to do for now.
As part of our investigation of SatoshiDICE, we would like to request that MPEx voluntarily provide certain documents to us: (1) a list of all SatoshiDICE shareholders prior to the sale of the company in July 2013(preferably by name, address, or BTC address); and (2) an account history for Mr. Erik Voorhees showing the sale of shares, payment of dividends etc.
Does MPEx have such documents and would you be willing to provide them to the staff?
Thank you,
Daphna Waxman
Subject: Message for Mircea Popescu from U.S. SEC
From: "'
Date: Fri, February 14, 2014 2:45 pm
To: "Waxman, Daphna A."
In general, MPEx maintains a vast outreach program intended to help members of the general public understand the topics involved in this novel field. MPEx also complies with all legal requests.
So far our relationship is of the first kind, so inasmuch as you'd need help with any particular topic please feel free to ask. Inasmuch as you're soliciting private information you will have to sufficiently establish your authority to do so, which includes defeating specific challenges of jurisdiction that on a cursory examination seem to bar the institution you claim to be associated with from making these specific requests.
So far all we have is an email address, something which is spoofed on a regular basis - I get numerous notices of various sorts each week purporting to come from all sorts of banks and other institutions I've never had any relationship with, for instance.
All the best,
Mircea Popescu
Subject: Message for Mircea Popescu from U.S. SEC
From: "Waxman, Daphna A."
Date: Fri, February 14, 2014 2:50 pm
To:
I'm happy to provide any additional information that would verify who I am and my association. Also, feel free to search my name on the Internet and call my office phone number to listen to my voice mail message or the SEC's front desk at (212-336-1100) and ask to be connected to my line.
Subject: Message for Mircea Popescu from U.S. SEC
From: "'
Date: Sat, February 15, 2014 2:37 am
To: "Waxman, Daphna A."
Perhaps we misunderstand each other. Should you wish to establish your authority on the matter you would have to present all of :
a) the legal basis upon which the SEC is investigating a Bitcoin enterprise, whichever that may be. This would customarily come in the form of an Act of Congress specifically authorising the SEC to review MMORPGs and online activities involving such computer games and their virtual currencies, be they WoW gold, Linden Dollars, EVE Isk, Bitcoin, etc and so forth. Absent that, it may come in the form of a court ruling - definitive and irrevocable or whatever the equivalent of that may be at common law - judging the SEC has such authority. This, of course, is a thornier issue.
b) the authority upon which the SEC is making requests of personally identifying information from me specifically, which would necessarily include solid grounding in both Romanian and EU law.
c) the authority you personally have in the matter. This would customarily come in the form of an order or other such instrument signed by the officer in charge of your department directing you to investigate. Employees of all kinds do indeed often have a phone link in their office, but this is entirely irrelevant in this discussion.
Should you understand you have no authority in the matter but nevertheless wish to pursue some sort of amicable understanding, you will first have to appreciate the difference between legal and illegal requests. In this sense, asking someone to pick up your daughter from school is a legal request (as far as I know of the rapidly deteriorating legal environment in the US, at any rate). Asking them to pick up your daughter and throw her over a cliff however is an illegal request. The difference between these is, broadly speaking, that the party satisfying the first type of request exposes themselves to no liability, whereas the party satisfying the second type of request does expose themselves, perhaps to significant liability, both civil and criminal.
Secondly, yet perhaps as importantly, you will have to appreciate the fact that MPEx has to date, and long before the SEC as much as heard of Bitcoin, pursued with some success if with different means roughly the same agenda, which is to say the exposure of scams and the protection of the general public from scammers of all sorts and types*. In the particular case you brought I must confess I have my own suspicions, which I do not necessarily have either the means to verify or in any way enforce.
I was from the onset and remain for the indefinite future strongly committed to discouraging scams in Bitcoin finance, while nurturing a vibrant, diverse and free marketplace - and this commitment engages MPEx as well as a variety of other Bitcoin institutions and groups. It is on this basis that I would very much welcome a working relationship with your institution, as I believe our respective strengths complement each other superbly. Nevertheless, the commitment to freedom is not merely verbiage, but quite as strong, and on this basis I perceive we may encounter difficulties going forward, especially taking into account the confused legal environment and occasionally misguided political choices coming out of the US.
In the spirit of candor, let me make it perfectly clear that what's being discussed here is nothing else and nothing short of the SEC's ultimate relevancy and importance in the Bitcoin space, and so far I am not particularly impressed. Let us work together to improve upon this shaky basis if at all possible.
All the best,
Mircea Popescu
---
* References :
- exposing the Pirate scam :
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=50822.msg854918#msg854918
- exposing the Patrick Harnett set of scams :
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=121915.0
(unfortunately the Australian equivalent of the US SEC has been uniquely
unhelpful in this matter so far).
- exposing the Labcoin set of scams :
http://trilema.com/2013/the-anatomy-of-a-scam/
- general informative bulletins as warranted by market conditions :
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=106391.0 ;
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=435263.0
and we'll stop at that for the sake of brevity.
Subject: Message for Mircea Popescu from U.S. SEC
From: "Waxman, Daphna A."
Date: Mon, March 3, 2014 11:22 am
To:
Dear Mr. Popescu,
I have attachedii a formal letter requesting that MPEx voluntarily provide certain information and documentation to the SEC staff. I hope that the information contained in the letter satisfies your below concerns.
I appreciate your willingness to discuss these important issues and am available to discuss any additional questions you may have.
Thank you,
Daphna Waxman
Subject: Message for Mircea Popescu from U.S. SEC
From: "'
Date: Tue, March 4, 2014 7:43 am
To: "Waxman, Daphna A."
While I appreciate your efforts to qualify for an information exchange agreement with MPEx, as well as your narrow satisfaction of the response timeline I publicly outlinediii, and while these constitute in my estimation significant progress towards building a solid platform upon which to further our shared goals, nevertheless substantial hurdles still remain to be overcome in this process.
As a key step, the commissioners of the SEC are to at their earliest convenience adopt a resolution, to be jointly drafted at expert level, which is to include a) a plain statement of the SEC's lack of jurisdiction with regards to Bitcoin, thus alligning itself with the position of the US FED and the US GAO ; b) a statement recognising MPEx' regulatory authority over Bitcoin finance as a SRO ; c) an appointment of any one of the commissioners as authorised Bitcoin liaison, which would include the creation of a dedicated PGP key and a Web of Trust membership, which would be recognised as such by MPEx, and on the basis of which all further communication is to be conducted, as well as minimal technical provisions for the operation of this system ; as well as further points as the parties may deem expedient.
This will both provide a solid basis for future, continued cooperation as well as conveniently insulate either party from unwelcome legal and technical complexities. Kindly let me know as soon as you are ready to proceed.
All the best,
Mircea Popescu
In short : Bitcoin is a sovereign. Accepting this matter of fact is a sine qua non prerequisite for playing. No exceptions.
Update, March 19th : the pdf in question, since people seem to really want it for some undiscernible reason. Note that I've not checked it in any way, and so if as a result of opening it you end up unwilling participant in whatever RETARDED ALLCAPS USG-sponsored dataclub I disclaim any responsibility.
———I have no idea where that domain came from either. It doesn't resolve, perhaps it's just a typo (?!). [↩]This email did in fact come with a .pdf attached. In stark contravenience to Section 508 mandated accessibility compliance, it consisted of a single image, testimony to the sad fact that even trained of counsel for the SEC has trouble following in integrum the morass of USG regulation. [↩]The reference is here. [↩]
« Hey, stupid women ? We need to talk. Smart women don't want to be with you anymore.
Cum s-a incadrat in colectiv ? »
Category: Activism
Tuesday, 18 March, Year 6 d.Tr.
Inflation, deflation, economic regulation.
All economic activity is a negotiation between the representatives of two sides, unmoved, eternal, inescapable. One side is "that which is". The other side is "that which will be".
The Marxist conceit, for instance, entirely rests on misrepresenting particular and conveniently chosen sets of representatives of these two transcendent sets as "capitalist burgeoisie" and "proletariat" respectively.i While the definition of the "parasite class" may be sufficiently large to correctly include one category, the actual proletariat as a representative of "that which will be" in the economic discourse is obviously both partial and defective. As such it will necessarily pretend to "come from the future" and be all "revolutionary" and so on and so forth - as far as speech is concerned that is ; merely as an empty vocal exercise to compensate for the quite painful missing parts, much in a manner an impotent man curses a lot. That's, fundamentally, your proletariat : a guy with an insufficient penis fixing the problem by doing lots of speaking on the topic of intercourse. In practice the system fails to work at all, and exactly for the predicted reason : as the proletariat isn't in fact a very good representative of "that which will be", proletarian regimes collapse under the weight of the technical and scientific backwardness they entail. The future necessarily happens in other places, as it were.
Even without this, or any other conceitii, the problem remains and is fundamental : you either eat your pie now, or save it so you may control tomorrow (at least under the limited aspect of having a pie to eat). It permeates life at all levels, it reaches in all nooks and crannies. Whether the orb spider comprehends "economy" in any sense, nevertheless whatever caught fly he eats today won't be in there to be eaten tomorrow. The spider regulates this matter transcendentally, which is perhaps the only correct way to resolve a transcendental problem : it's not his, it's his genes', the spidey itself is not much more than an automaton regulated deterministically by stuff happening much afore it was born.
Not so with people, of course, at least for as long as the freedom of choice conceit holds. People, being people, have to make a choice. And people, being people, aren't satisfied with merely making a choice, not in the slightest satisfied. First and foremost, if only rarely, they wish to know if they've made "the correct" choice, and thus is born economy. Obviously a "correct" choice does not in fact exist, all choices being equally capable of yielding results in the future and thus being, on the face of what Nature tolerates, equally the same one thing. And yet... it's not the same to the agent choosing, which of course is not the same agent after the choice as afore it, nor over the passage of any stretch of time. So how is a choice to be judged on such flimsy grounds ? Well... that's why economy aspires to be a science. The questions it aims to answer seem, superficially, to be of the sort sciences entreat. In point of fact however they are not, and that's how economy ends up tinged with a lot of psychology - which is no science, nor could ever be, for the deviliii himself doth not know the thought of man - and bundled with the so-called social "sciences", as if.iv
Second and for shame, they all the time wish to know what choices others made, and above that to limit and control the choices others make so as their own comfort not be much intimidated by the better if more personally demanding solutions implemented by foreigners. Thus politics is born, and in case you're wondering why all stable political systems degenerate, or in case you're wondering why a "United Nations" or otherwise global government arrangement is a horribly bad and utterly suicidal utopia : the only point of politics is to make the Flunker's Convention. It's named that in recognition of the lazy US schoolchildren, who noticing that their test results are normalised, so the top answer in the class receives the top mark, quickly realised that it is against their test-taking interest to have anyone give too good answers, or good answers at all. A top of the class will exist regardless, and why make it hard on everyone by forcing them to chase a real performer ? Better if nobody throws the curve.
That's the Flunker's Convention : that nobody shall learn, that nobody shall read, that nobody shall put any effort whatsoever into it, and let the teachers sort it out as best they can. After all it's they that are paid to sort school stuff out, not the students. So let them do just that, and earn their keep.
This is what politics is and was, and forever will be : a convention as to what is "acceptable" behaviour, which necessarily narrows down possible behaviour so that third parties are forced to forego direct economic benefits they may incur in exchange for saving effort across the board. In some circumstances this is a net positive proposition, in that the localised benefit is far exceeded by the global costs.v Even so, in other instances it is a net negative proposition, and as the matter of politics is neverending (as no politician to date stepped down saying "we've done everything worth doing, there's nothing left to do") sooner or later the practice of politics will run out of the first category and move into the second. As the costs (of opportunity) mount and the benefits dwindle, the people are forced into pathologicalvi behaviours which sooner or later become economically untenable, but much before that become quite fucking ridiculous. Which is why locals had been laughing at the US tourists for many decades by the time the US actually collapsed in a pile of the rubble of its own ridiculous political conventions.
So now, in this encompassing theoretical framework, we have the ability to meaningfully represent inflation and deflation. Inasmuch as the currency is a measuring stick for the relative values of "that which is" and "that which will be", inflation is a devaluation of "that which is" in favour of "that which will be", and across the board. The idea is that a future Bitcoin is worth a lot more in things than a Bitcoin's worth of things today are. Inflation is fundamentally an economic sign of optimism, and it's the natural result of the expansion of credit (which means strictly faith, placed in the future). What inflation says is : all you have today is naught compared to what you'll have tomorrow. It favours those who do (which is at least in part the proletariat) in spite of those who have ; it favours those who will in spite of those who are. It is consequently dangerous, as all optimism, and liable to be pushed too far, as all optimism, and in principle capable to doom us all. As all optimism.
Deflation, contrarily, is a devaluation of "that which will be" in favour of "that which is", its motto is "better an apple in the sack than a pineapple in the jungle". The future Bitcoin's worth of things is seen as not worth the mention, and the things themselves valued dearly, for what they are. What deflation says is : all you hope to one day achieve is naught compared to what we already have. It favours those who have in spite of those who do, and those who are in spite of those who will. It is economic pessimism, and as all pessimism dangerous, for it may yield depression, and with it paralysis and eventual death.
These two should be naturally occuring aspects of the same self-regulating, eternal coin. Unfortunately, due to the intercessions of politics, and its good (if unwelcome) sister economics, the coin isn't self regulating. The governments everywhere imagine, and clueless economists everywhere afirm as it were true, that merely behaving as if you were optimistic will not only make you optimisticvii but actually improve the future. Does this sound kind of stupid, once laid bare ? Sure. In point of fact all governance is, presently, nothing more than an exercise in implementing the Law of Attraction, as if it were a law or something to be taken seriously rather than a laughingstock. We have in fact degenerated intellectually, as a cultural space, to the degree that ideas the barbarian pagans our christian forefathers laughed at for being unrefined and primitive would decry and derride as unrefined and primitive are nevertheless our secretly held, deeply entrenched beliefs. So dear, in fact, that you don't dare say it out loud, for superstition, and neither does Obama, or Krugman, or Bernanke, or anyone. Children to the children of our children, pets to the pets of our pets, slaves to the slaves of our slaves, that's us today, that's what we've been reduced to, not many centuries hence that slavery was first enforced.
These are the bitter fruits of politics, which is not a science, akin to the bitter fruits of learning to not throw the curve, which is no topic of teaching in any school in the history or geography of Earth and nevertheless the only topic in which white kids today receive any sort of passible instruction whatsoever.
Or, as the other meaning of the word "regulation" goes, we're fucked.
We're well fucked.
———And various nuts like say Althauser imagine this is somehow a stroke of genius. Putting new hats on old lions and bears, this is genius now. God help us. [↩]As if such were possible at all. [↩]This devil reference is not, as you may imagine, spurious, a testament of the very colored manner in which I tend to write. It is in fact a learned reference, very much in tune with seven centuries of meditation of the topic of "whence science comes". Review the scholasts. [↩]Not only aren't they sciences, much like psychology isn't a science, not only aren't they ever going to be a science no matter what happens, much like psychology isn't ever going to be a science no matter what happens. They don't even seem, in any way and to any degree, scientific. At all. Which is something that both psychology and, to a larger degree economy, at least do manage. [↩]For instance, if nobody steals, the savings realised by not having to buy locks or anything of the sort far exceed the benefits of all the thieves added together, which is why isolated communities always move towards a "no stealing" reality. [↩]Anything not natural is pathological, for the record. This includes your tendency to piss in a white bowl and in a white bowl only - as far as we're judging your behaviour from an ideologically neutral perspective you're quite the perverse sickie. This would be why there exists no insanity outside of the cultural norms of the individual's group, at least not in the psychology that still aims to functionally identify with a science. [↩]An idea pop psychology shares, for that matter. [↩]
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Category: Actiuni si Optiuni
Tuesday, 28 January, Year 6 d.Tr.
In which codewhores and camwhores
First, the camwhore.i
Her Someone should of said something! lol
Me I could have, but I enjoy watching you discover things. Apparently, you're smart.
Her That is a terrible rumour. I'm a natural blond.
Me Did you go to school ?
Her Yes I did. And finished :P Yay me.
Me What ?
Her I didn't drop out?
Me What did you finish I mean.ii
Her I finished all the years needed for school.
Me So highschool, no college ?
Her I am studying via correspondence. Home schooling. I have 2 modeling diplomas (don't judge).
Me Studying what ?
Her Senior bookkeeping. I have a beginners programming certificate. I wanted to go to college to study and become a photographer - they lost my application and I just left it. Was also too late for me to register again.
Me I think you're probably smart enough to work with computers.
Her Sometimes I am the wrong colour.
Me How's that ?
Her Affirmative Action. You have to hire black people. Some companies don't have another choice.
Me Ridiculous. But! Listen to me : a) you can actually teach yourself to code, it's not hardiii and it doesn't cost anything ; b) if you can code you can work over the Internet, so bullshit nigger-politics don't matter.
Her I'm not racist, but the government are money spending idiots.
Me That's pretty much everywhere.
Her Hey found a site offers free bitcoins. What's to lose? I'm the type to believer every cent counts.
Me That's how your type ends up enslaved, ayeah.
Her I will not be a slave :/
Me But you are. Here, let me explain it to you : ever drank a glass of water ?
Her Yes....
Me But you know that water likes it on the floor. In fact, if it had a choice, all water would always be on the floor. Now... how come you can drink a glass of water at all ? Why doesn't it jump out to go on the floor ?
Her Does the water put the lotion on the skin?
Me Lol. You see, water is the type to believe every cent counts. So it predictably won't go over the tip of the glass. Because every cent counts. Even if the floor is right there, a milimeter away. And so it sits in glasses and safely behind dams.
Now, the codewhore.iv
Me
They could at least vaguely describe their process/tools.
And you'll believe?
For the record, description is not strictly a belief-driven phenomenon. Consider at its most basic, schooling. Teacher describes to you grammar. Do you believe ? No, if you're in any way sane, not right off. But eventually what was a hypothesis gets tested out. The wot, incidentally, works on exactly the same premise. One can make any declaration one wishes. It's not believed per se, but that's irrelevant. As time goes by confirmation either mounts or does not.
Himv In this case - belief.
Me I don't see how a case can be different from any other in a system where "one can make any declaration".vi
Him Namely, in the case of the physical coins, the only way to know whether you'll be fucked is - when you are.
Me Business is not a matter of certain truth. The way to know how long your cock is is to ask god, because obviously measurement will yield an error.
Him Let's rephrase - the only information you will ever get re: being fucked, in the case of the physcoins, is being fucked.
Me Not so. This is like saying "the only way to identify boys from girls is as you're moaning".
Him How exactly can Mr. Physcoin prove that he did not use mersenne twister for N....N+k for some N?vii
Me You can at the very least obtain the "most likely to fuckceed" information on a set of identifiable, different providers.viii
Him How?
Me Compare fuckhistory. (Incidentally, it occurs to me that while some start-ups succeed, a vast majority suckceed.)
Him For physcoins - that's like measuring proton decay. Hasn't happened, afaik.
Me This is much weaker than your original statement tho.
Him If I recall, that was, that none of these folks have much incentive to speak up re: process.
Me And this is a cognate of "there's no point getting in the wot, I have real world friends"
Him Lol.
Me Similarly of, "I have no interest signing other people's code". Which, incidentally, Ima make a post about, cause this is starting to coallesce in my head.
* has interest! but not for phree.
There's very little more to say, but let's say it anyway. There are three randomlyix chosen processes here. One is learning [how to code]. The other is taking your clothes off [online]. The third is starting a relationship.
They all have a very similar structure, in that they require actual commitment, certain and expensive, and offer no guarantees. They are, in that order, the gatewaysx the child encounters on his road to maturity (aka death) : learning, stripping, fucking, if you will. And if you won't, you'll will something else at some point or other, somewhere or other, because the name for "not" in this context is "autism".
So now : the camwhore is going to take my advice and spend her time to learn "how to code" which is something she can't evaluate, or not. Everyone is going to take my our advice and get into the WoT, which is something they can't evaluate. Or not. The codewhore is going to take nobody's advice and start auditing other people's code and sign on the results.xi Not for free, of course, but for the signature. The benefits of which one can't evaluatexii, the drawbacks of which are certain.
After people take the jump and undertake certain effort for unevaluable payoff there can be such a thing as the city, and culture, and ginger and spice and everything nice. Before that there can be nothing except the village, which mysteriously is a place all kids hope to leave as soon as humanly possible, with its three goats and a coop.
I sincerely hope I am not the bearer of bad news in this matter.
———Which she isn't, but when has that stopped anyone ?! [↩]Because I live in a world where of course you got whatever worthless, pointless college degree. Yay me. [↩]It isn't. And I don't mean the sort of webretardation the redditard monkeys think of, either. [↩]Obviously. [↩]Girl brains are visually oriented, see ? So of course coderwhore'd be a boy. Right ? [↩]Think about it. How would you distinguish cases ? [↩]This path is not useful, incidentally. Not all problems are to be approached directly. [↩]This is enough to break the "all information you'll ever get" statement. [↩]Stochastically, really, but it's the same damned thing isn't it. [↩]Most stories, and certainly the stories that I grew up with, have the young prince on "the road to Damascus" encounter three monsters. A coincidence, which is to say random occurence, which is to say stochastic, which is to say obviously. [↩]My idea was that signed commits are no good - signed reviews are required. See the discussion here. [↩]They are however present - as one risks one's neck one develops a reputation, that reputation is valuable and the basis of employment. Not the common sort of employment, as a three ring bound slave, but the proper, as an independent agent, capable to make his own decisions and expected to do so. [↩]
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Tuesday, 28 October, Year 6 d.Tr.
In defense of the troll
Five years ago, back when I was a very large fish in a very tiny puddle - the so-called Romanian blogosphere - I was also the only to verbally and programmatically defend trolling, and more generally freedom of expression. All expression. Such as the expression of your mother being a streetwalker, which is how you've learned everything you know. Obviously this comes second place to people who defended it by, you know, actually doing it, but what can you do.
Anyway, there were all these fucktards representing (in their own mind) "the community", and common sense, public good, all that stuff. They never amounted to a significant fraction of my circulation, but then again that never ever stopped anyone, from anything. They are meanwhile mostly disappeared and thus forgotteni - yet at the time they agreed, perfectly impervious to their irrelevance, with that fecalous consistence typical of fucktards impervious to their irrelevance, that "trolling is bad mkay" and that "everyone agrees trolling is bad mkay mkay" and so on and so forth.
I abandoned that space, mostly because Bitcoin is an all-devouring eater of worlds. So now I write in English. Guess what happens in English ?
@ligayaya "Behind every troll is pain." Community wisdom @nrrrdcore #PassionProjects
@Mircea_Popescu This is like saying "behind every nigger is stupidity"
@ligayaya actually, I don't think it is. at all.
@Mircea_Popescu Of course you don't think so. Oppressors honestly think they're just being nice.
Surprise, surprise. The exact same thing happens in English that happens in Romanian : fucktards representing (in their own mind) "the community", and common sense, public good, all that stuff come to agreements as to what's what. Agreements that are perfectly divorced from reality, yet in their own mind binding "for the entire world". Apparently self-sufficient stupidity is not culture specific.
To be clear, there is no difference between a nude and rude assertion of an imaginary right to be stupid and an attempt to blacken the sacred, hallowed name of the troll. Anyone saying "trolls are bad mkay" is in fact saying "my stupidity is acceptable and must be accepted, by everyone". That's all it is, nothing else, nothing more. If the speaker weren't stupid, the troll couldn't exist in the first place.
The situation is exactly homologuous with the debate around trade tariffs. If your industry didn't suck, if you weren't lazy and useless, if you didn't make shit products, if you weren't wasteful and a scourge upon humanity you wouldn't be going to the government to ask for protection because otherwise "the foreigners are bad mmkay" will drive you out of existence. Quite on the contrary, you'd be all over the foreigners, driving them out of existence. Any appeal for trade tariffs is, simultaneously and in the same breath, a declaration not only of failure, but moreover of the programmatic, deliberate choice to fail. Equivalently, any complaint about trolls is not only a declaration of stupidity, but moreover of the actual intention of the stupid party to remain stupid for the indefinite future.
Beligerent stupidity, much like organised mendacity or entrenched lazyness have no place in civilised society, from which they exclude themselves by the very nature of their being. And exactly by the same token, nobody who complains about trolls can be part of a community. Any community. Because the things people who complain about trolls are part of aren't communities. Circle jerks aren't communities.
Grow out of your playpen already, dare set foot into the real world, dear everyone. The water is lovely.
———Tell me not how many "views", I do not care. Tell me not how many people you imagine follow your whatever, I do not care about that either. Tell me instead how many people will be following what you do ten years after you've stopped doing it altogether. Tell me whether that number is larger than today's or not. This is the sort of stuff that matters, and this is the sort of stuff you ain't got. [↩]
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Category: Cocietate si Sultura
Saturday, 22 February, Year 6 d.Tr.
I'm fresh out of titles, try again tomorrow.
Let's start with something light :
There's always habits available in Ideal Hotel, and doesn't that look like the crummiest thing you ever did see ?
But moving on, long tree is long :
Check out Mr Bird guy :
Unfortunate human captured by a technologically advanced tribe of dogs and forced to live in their midsts :
~ Intromission ~
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To whomever it may concern,
This is to certify that in my expert opinion, Aaron Rogier's absence from the Timisoara conference, 2014 edition has cost him in excess of one million US dollars through missed business opportunities and other opportunity costs.
Therefore signed,
Mircea Popescu
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~ Extramission ~
I confide I oft times finish in creamy. And speaking of creamy : suppose ginger wasn't the pulp of a plant.
Suppose instead ginger were the flesh of an animal, like some sort of little songbird. Suppose that the bird was therefore farmed extensively, suppose that the farming consisted of stuffing the little birds in plastic tubes, in the dark, because the plastic prevented their plumage from developing and the darkness made them all fat and juicy. Plus the fixed size of the tube made automated gutting of the bird and cleaning of the ginger much cheaper. Tens and tens of millions of birds, like three heads for every ounce of fresh ginger.
Would you still eat it then ?
That is a proper breakfast I say!
This is me supporting the entire weight of the tree of life, knowledge and everything else. On my head.
Where my thoughts are.
Mujer comes from the same root that yielded muiere in Romanian. Yes, it's derogatory.
Whereas curve simply means whores.
So now you know.ii
This is the entrance to this nice place I've found (not that it's hard to find)
This is the bar I found in this nice place I've found (not that it's hard to find).
This is the best table in the nice place. Far enough from the stage so you don't need to move your head much, angled correctly so you can sit comfortably rather than crane your neck. Simply optimal.
This is the bottle of champagne I found. Chandon Brut Rose it was called. It sucked.
And that'd be it for now. Extradition, as they say, has its advantages.
———Speaking of which, you aren't using one of those shitty non SHA-512 hashes for signatures are you. [↩]Speaking of which, do you realise that a) the Taj Mahal is a monument to a woman's cocksucking abilities and b) there's nothing else in existence that comes close ?
Yeah, that's right : the greatest female accomplishment in human history to date was that chick in India that ate a mean snake. [↩]
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Category: La pas prin lume
Sunday, 08 June, Year 6 d.Tr.
I'll tell you what impressed me today.
There's this Romanian junior tennis player, her name is Simona Halep.
Back in 2009 she was fifteen or something seventeen, and the proud carrier of a damned luscious, top shelf rack. At the same time she was also a mediocre tennis player (out of the top 100 at any rate). Neither consideration is particularly noteworthy, there are millions of seventeen year olds with nice tits, there are millions of seventeen year old mediocre athletes.
However, she decided to cut herself, because that extra gallon of pectoral fat, as delightful as it may be to my taste, was getting in her way. So I wrote an opinion piece at the timei wherein (and especially in the comments) I deplored the woman's choice as to how best use her own body.ii
Nevertheless, she did do it, and after a year spent convalescing she came back for the 2013 seasoniii, and she jumped through the charts like a massive load was just taken off her chest.
So I figured, well there goes, woman was right, I was wrong, she obviously made the right choice, she's obviously a talented player with a lot of potential, good for her and good luck. And, as an ancient and sort of bizarre supersition I guess, in token of this failure I made a slight sacrifice, which is to say I put a Bitcoin on a BitBet bet about her winning the Rolland Garros. I did this with the full expectation that I'm throwing it away, obscure player in obscure sport, BitBet regularly doesn't give a shit about marquee events in major sportsiv, no way my Bitcoin is ever getting covered.
This turned out to be false : two months in (and five!!! prior to the event) there's already >6 BTC on the other side, which means that my implied odds are 6:1. Now get a load of this :
Jan 07 03:06:08 {mircea_popescu} BingoBoingo you're better at this than mev, can you get me what the bookies say on this prop ?
Jan 07 03:12:09vi {BingoBoingo} mircea_popescu: A lot of fiat books are showing longer odds that Halep wins.
Jan 07 03:12:33 {mircea_popescu} longer like how long ?
Jan 07 03:12:49 {BingoBoingo} mircea_popescu: 15-17.5 to one
There is, of course, a lot of space between 6 and 17.5. However, there is also a qualitative difference at play here : the correct odds are now debatable. It is certain the correct odds are neither exactly 6 nor exactly 17.5. It'd have to be somewhere in between, and the fact it'd have to be somewhere in between is all it takes for BitBet to be an actual contender. Not in the narrow, stuffy space of pseudo-female pseudo-IT-expert pseudo-CEOs like this fuckwit, but in the actual world at large.
So now, is the 6 on BitBet overly reflective of the betting demographics' love of Halep's tits ? Perhaps. Is the 17.5 in some anonvii Vegas venue reflective of the bookie's ossified, millitant ignorance of the greater world around them ? Perhaps.viii "Nobody could have predicted" she'd use tits as a rocket to set the court on fire, right ?
That's what impressed me today. It's not the first time I throw away some Bitcoin on BitBet and the market moves to give me arguably correct odds. It won't be the last time. But for a year-old business to be this god damned fucking powerful... well what can I say ? Son, I am impresst.
Mazel tov.
UPDATE, two hours later : Someone just laid out 460 BTC on the current star difficulty bet. In one go, just like that, bam. Let that sink in for a minute.
———Indicatively, the title reads Catastrophe : Simona Halep to mangle her bosom. [↩]A relevant bit of conversation going on there :
roxana, Vineri, 29 Mai 2009
And if she doesn't, and fails in her chosen career, wouldn't she regret that later ?
Mircea Popescu Vineri, 29 Mai 2009
True.
On the other hand, if she does cut herself and then in Spring 2009 gets injured or breaks something and can no longer play tennis ? She gets bored and no longer feels like playing ? Finds a dude and prefers raising children ?
If in five years she ends up with mastitis, or with a mastectomy due to breast cancer will she consider the "shit, if I had just minded my own business maybe I'd have not had this problem now" angle ? Even if there'd be no likely connection, people still think this way.
In theory it sounds trivial, "reduction", but in practice it's a sort of putting the breast through the grater, even an augmentation intervention, which clinically is much simpler, can have the most unpleasant effects. If she loses all sensation, and later on holds her baby to her breast but doesn't feel it at all, how's that gonna be ?
Absolutely shitty situation, honestly, I'm quite happy to not have to make such decisions.
[↩]The loss of that time interval alone is a massive loss for an athlete in that sport, but hey, mother nature ain't a loving sort. [↩]Selected reading for your convenience :
Jan 05 17:59:30 {mircea_popescu} it would stand to reason that this navel grazing is in fact indicative of bitcoin's nicheness. as bitcoin diff bets start getting less interest than sport bets we will know that bitcoin is pretty much reached its secular price.
Jan 05 17:59:37 {mircea_popescu} until then, upside is still likely
[...]
Jan 07 02:46:28 {mike_c} i agree with mp, once football bets are popular on bitbet we will know the gold rush is over.
Jan 07 02:47:57 {mircea_popescu} certainly not this silliness where bitbet lays a quarter million bucks on any diff bet easy,
Jan 07 02:48:06 {mircea_popescu} and you struggle to get 1k together on football prime time events
[↩]Yes, many people are better than me at many things. Just because you don't know any doesn't mean they don't exist, it just means you spend way too much time on retard venues. [↩]This is why the Internet is powerful : ask a question, get an answer in time. Of course it would have to be the cool Internet, the Internet where I hang out, not the sordid web ghetto where most of the world myspaces around. But I care naught for such distinction, for I am not a Berliner. [↩]Yes, anon. Pointedly anon. We are not here to play, we are here to take over. Everything. Forever. [↩]Ever seen Glengarry Glen Ross ?
Stocks, bonds, objects of art, real estate. What are they? An opportunity. To what? To make money? Perhaps. To lose money? Perhaps. To 'indulge' and to 'learn' about ourselves? Perhaps. So fucking what? What isn't? They're an opportunity. That's all they are. They're an event. A guy comes to you, you make a call, you send in a card. 'I have these properties I would like for you to see.' What does it mean? What do you want it to mean. Do you see what I'm saying? Things happen to you.
[↩]
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Category: Zsilnic
Tuesday, 07 January, Year 6 d.Tr.
If you're one of the numerous Buenos Aires printing shops I'll be harassing over the day
Here's the card in question :
It should be printed on splendid quality, silken cunt-colored pink or I guess otherwise black paper, using either gold ink or embossed gold leaf. I'll be paying cash.
Cheers!
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Category: Zsilnic
Friday, 13 June, Year 6 d.Tr.
I Suspect There Is More To This World, or A Story Of The Unindustrious.
**** BEGIN LOGGING AT Sat Jul 5 18:09:25 2014
indiancandy1 1C2GHDcNxzZfnVBD9EyY95WPuhXtatJDfa
indiancandy1 here
mircea_popescu put it in chan.
indiancandy1 oh
indiancandy1 sowhats up
mircea_popescu nothin' much.
indiancandy1 what time is it
mircea_popescu noonish
indiancandy1 its 4.12 here
indiancandy1 im hungry
indiancandy1 do u go back2 romania often
mircea_popescu nope.
indiancandy1 did ulive there
mircea_popescu yeah
indiancandy1 nice
indiancandy1 do u no inna
mircea_popescu yeah
indiancandy1 shes from there right
mircea_popescu yeah. poor girl from the sticks.
indiancandy1 she made it though
indiancandy1 atleast she didnt become a brassi
indiancandy1 like 7 out of 10 girls
indiancandy1 from ther
mircea_popescu i like whores.
indiancandy1 most rich men do
indiancandy1 i paid 4 sex
mircea_popescu really ?
indiancandy1 when i was 18
indiancandy1 i swear
indiancandy1 me n ma friend
mircea_popescu lol cuz you're so ugly ?
indiancandy1 called a male agency
indiancandy1 no
indiancandy1 it was experience
indiancandy1 im actually not ugly
indiancandy1 im pretty good looking
indiancandy1 so i hear
indiancandy1 lol
mircea_popescu aha.
indiancandy1 not to blow my own trumpet
mircea_popescu anyway, i'd have thought most rich guys hate whores.
indiancandy1 no
indiancandy1 most rich guys
indiancandy1 fck prostitus
indiancandy1 coz there the ones
indiancandy1 who can bllow
indiancandy1 grands
mircea_popescu hm.
indiancandy1 ya
indiancandy1 do u mind
indiancandy1 if i ask u
indiancandy1 ur age
mircea_popescu 35
indiancandy1 cool im 23
mircea_popescu cool
indiancandy1 how many kids
indiancandy1 u got
mircea_popescu none lol. what's this kids thing
indiancandy1 lol
indiancandy1 how many wifes
mircea_popescu i don't do wives. i do slavegirls.
indiancandy1 ellaborate
indiancandy1 dont tell me
mircea_popescu you know what bdsm is ?
indiancandy1 your a dominatrix
indiancandy1 wt
indiancandy1 wtf
indiancandy1 u no
mircea_popescu well no, that's women. i'm just a dom.
indiancandy1 is there some pattern here
indiancandy1 i keep meeting
indiancandy1 male doms
mircea_popescu yes. powerful people are powerful people.ii
indiancandy1 i did a sub cam show
indiancandy1 few weeks back
indiancandy1 it was amsuing
indiancandy1 amusing
mircea_popescu how come you're doing this schizzo thing anyway ?
indiancandy1 which
indiancandy1 sellin my tit
indiancandy1 pic
mircea_popescu well you're trying to camwhore but don't wanna camwhore.
indiancandy1 or cam shows
indiancandy1 i do cam
indiancandy1 but
indiancandy1 i dont wanna
indiancandy1 i need the money
indiancandy1 its okay i suppose
indiancandy1 i mean
indiancandy1 i do it on tv
indiancandy1 im not a journalist
indiancandy1 lol
indiancandy1 i work on a topless tv show
mircea_popescu so then what do you care lol
indiancandy1 in the uk
indiancandy1 and i dance in indis
indiancandy1 india
indiancandy1 i guess i do enjoy it
indiancandy1 to some degree
indiancandy1 as there are other forms of earning
mircea_popescu so stop being nuts, either do it and then do it 100% or else do something else and do that 100%
indiancandy1 but i cant
indiancandy1 coz im goi
mircea_popescu why not ?
indiancandy1 n
mircea_popescu what's that
indiancandy1 2 be actress
indiancandy1 in bollywood
mircea_popescu yaya. so wqhat ?
indiancandy1 ppl
indiancandy1 put shit online
indiancandy1 and ive made 2 many mistakes
indiancandy1 in my career
mircea_popescu get out of here. both the two bollywood chicks i fucked were ex hookers. nobody cared.
indiancandy1 already
indiancandy1 get out of here
indiancandy1 u want me 2 leave?
mircea_popescu it's an expression. like, you're out of your mind
indiancandy1 lol
indiancandy1 this is me
indiancandy1 [redacted]iii
indiancandy1 google
indiancandy1 im not that pretty
indiancandy1 im ok
mircea_popescu lol what a retarded name :D
indiancandy1 pornstar nae
indiancandy1 name
indiancandy1 right
indiancandy1 i started doin adult content
indiancandy1 then got scouted 4 bolywood
indiancandy1 but they told me id have 2 stop
indiancandy1 the adult stuff
mircea_popescu ah
indiancandy1 and focus only on bollywood
indiancandy1 get my head out the dirt
indiancandy1 but i need 2 earn
indiancandy1 like money dnt go on trees
mircea_popescu 
?
indiancandy1 yh
indiancandy1 thats quite old
mircea_popescu you gonna put it on chan or is it a secret ?
indiancandy1 secret
indiancandy1 i know
indiancandy1 i could get lots of traffic
indiancandy1 but im scared
mircea_popescu cazalla may want to fuck you, actually. he's bored.
indiancandy1 like even when i do cams
indiancandy1 i dont sell sex
indiancandy1 babe
mircea_popescu well, ever been a mistress ?
indiancandy1 oh
indiancandy1 virtual fuck
indiancandy1 ahah
mircea_popescu i doubt it lol. but he's in oz.
indiancandy1 i could do sigital sex
indiancandy1 digital
indiancandy1 i thought the rreal thing
indiancandy1 yh
indiancandy1 i did once
indiancandy1 well
indiancandy1 i have a few times
indiancandy1 with a friend
mircea_popescu well yes the real thing. you go visit for a weekend or so now and again. like sane people.
indiancandy1 omg
indiancandy1 i know a footballer
indiancandy1 in oz
indiancandy1 whose into dom shit
indiancandy1 i could kill 2 birds wid 1 stone
indiancandy1 lol
mircea_popescu so there you go.
indiancandy1 im goin bk
indiancandy1 2 india in few weeks
indiancandy1 i start my films
indiancandy1 so no time
mircea_popescu aite.
indiancandy1 babe brbv
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indiancandy1 back
indiancandy1 jus had lunch
mircea_popescu that was quick. what did you eat, an olive ?
indiancandy1 potato
indiancandy1 tuna
indiancandy1 salad
indiancandy1 im on a diet
indiancandy1 not that im fat
indiancandy1 its more maintaining
indiancandy1 dekker isnt my pimp lol
indiancandy1 his a helpful guy
indiancandy1 like moiety is a helful girl
indiancandy1 helpful
mircea_popescu o, she's my slut.vi
indiancandy1 pshh
indiancandy1 u wish
mircea_popescu lol k
indiancandy1 maybe
indiancandy1 on a digital scale
indiancandy1 dont u just love the internet
indiancandy1 u can digital date
indiancandy1 its nuts
indiancandy1 u must love argeentina
indiancandy1 the chicks r pretty
mircea_popescu yeah.
indiancandy1 do you travel much
indiancandy1 do you just sit on a pc every day
mircea_popescu a bit of both.
indiancandy1 like most of the ppl
mircea_popescu trilema.com/colonia-uruguay/
indiancandy1 is that u
indiancandy1 ur pic
indiancandy1 at the top
mircea_popescu yep
indiancandy1 nice
mircea_popescu in turkey.
indiancandy1 u kinda look greek
indiancandy1 but then
indiancandy1 romania greek
indiancandy1 all those places
indiancandy1 look similar
indiancandy1 i think
mircea_popescu yeah kinda i guess
indiancandy1 ur blog is in spanish
indiancandy1 right?
mircea_popescu my blog is in romanian and english
indiancandy1 so mircea is ur real name then
mircea_popescu yes.
indiancandy1 ohhh
indiancandy1 wow
indiancandy1 nice
indiancandy1 my name is [redacted]vii
mircea_popescu now that's rare in india isn't it ?
indiancandy1 im half greek
indiancandy1 half punjabi
indiancandy1 well
indiancandy1 actually
mircea_popescu o really ?
indiancandy1 its more xomplex
indiancandy1 complex
indiancandy1 my father is greek
indiancandy1 my granmom on my mom side is half african tanzania and india and my grandfather is indian
indiancandy1 so my mom is 3 quarter india 1 quarter black
mircea_popescu i see.
indiancandy1 so what does that make me
indiancandy1 and i grew up in uganda
mircea_popescu i guess it makes you norwegian. so did you have a lot of sex in uganda ?
indiancandy1 ha
indiancandy1 i left when i was 9
indiancandy1 my dad was the greek ambasador
indiancandy1 of uganda
indiancandy1 but my parents divocrced
indiancandy1 so sadly
indiancandy1 i didnt see any of money
indiancandy1 to be fair i dont really like black guys
mircea_popescu no big ding dongs for you ?
indiancandy1 ha
indiancandy1 well
indiancandy1 who says
indiancandy1 only black guys have big ding dongs
mircea_popescu hehehe. i actually knew a black guy, he was like realy black and really big like almost 2m and he had a... well not really small, but more like below average cock. he was really stressed out about it
indiancandy1 well i know a indian guy
indiancandy1 whose got a 9
indiancandy1 from punjab
mircea_popescu a 9 what ?
indiancandy1 inh
indiancandy1 i prefer white men
indiancandy1 though
indiancandy1 i actually hate indians
indiancandy1 ahah
mircea_popescu lol apparently most indian chicks do.
indiancandy1 im doin the bollywood
indiancandy1 thing
indiancandy1 2 get a name
indiancandy1 2 come back 2 the uk
indiancandy1 and get this lady
indiancandy1 2 make me a brand over here
indiancandy1 she charges a lot
mircea_popescu lol such a shitty plan.
indiancandy1 u got a better idea?
indiancandy1 :(
indiancandy1 teach me
indiancandy1 how 2 make digital money
indiancandy1 and il be ur sub girl
mircea_popescu lol
indiancandy1 i signed 2 films in india
indiancandy1 1 bollywood 1 south indian
mircea_popescu any good ?
indiancandy1 havent started
indiancandy1 will do
indiancandy1 in few weeks
indiancandy1 i like the dancing part
indiancandy1 its really fun
mircea_popescu cool.
indiancandy1 ya
indiancandy1 do you have a office
indiancandy1 or work from home
mircea_popescu i have offices all over the world. i don't go so often.
indiancandy1 check you out
indiancandy1 lol
indiancandy1 boss!
mircea_popescu well yes.
indiancandy1 are you self made
mircea_popescu myeah.
indiancandy1 sooo
indiancandy1 u didnt like my proposition
mircea_popescu it's really hard to become my subbie. a lot harder than getting some uk sham to "make you a brand"
indiancandy1 noo
indiancandy1 there is a lady
indiancandy1 shes the best publiccist
indiancandy1 in the country
mircea_popescu right.
indiancandy1 she charges big money though
indiancandy1 so i need 2 wait
indiancandy1 guaranteed results
indiancandy1 pr makes ppl
mircea_popescu exactly, except actually, and bigger.viii
indiancandy1 but also
indiancandy1 it gets u more paid tv work
indiancandy1 which is fine
indiancandy1 coz i find tv work 2 be quite easy
indiancandy1 4 me
indiancandy1 rather then doin a office job
indiancandy1 or whatever
mircea_popescu you're 23. that's a bit late.
indiancandy1 yh i kno
indiancandy1 old lady
indiancandy1 :(
indiancandy1 i used 2 do
indiancandy1 hair dressing
indiancandy1 b4
indiancandy1 i becamme a topless model
mircea_popescu aha
indiancandy1 r u laughing
indiancandy1 at me
indiancandy1 ahaha?
indiancandy1 :(
indiancandy1 fine
indiancandy1 be mean
mircea_popescu aha just means aha. like, i see
indiancandy1 oh
indiancandy1 i see
indiancandy1 nice
indiancandy1 LOL
indiancandy1 my convo is pretty shit compared 2 other ppl
indiancandy1 right
mircea_popescu yeah :D
indiancandy1 who do you live with
mircea_popescu i live with my slavegirls.
indiancandy1 do you
indiancandy1 so you proper
indiancandy1 live the life style
indiancandy1 of a dom
indiancandy1 do you have a cloak
indiancandy1 how many u got
indiancandy1 have you got a inhouse dungeon
mircea_popescu yeah
mircea_popescu lol what cloak
indiancandy1 yea
indiancandy1 you have a inhouse dungeon
indiancandy1 or yes you have a cloak
mircea_popescu yes i am living the life.
indiancandy1 my god
indiancandy1 wait
mircea_popescu i don't really do dungeon stuff, but we sometimes go to this large event
indiancandy1 vladmire impaler
mircea_popescu lol
indiancandy1 was romanian right
mircea_popescu yea
indiancandy1 u must be relatives
indiancandy1 lol
mircea_popescu no lol
indiancandy1 hugh hefner of the dom world
indiancandy1 check you out
mircea_popescu lol
indiancandy1 in london
indiancandy1 there is a dom fetish
indiancandy1 event
indiancandy1 on a yacht
indiancandy1 called torture gardenix
indiancandy1 you should go some time
mircea_popescu yeah but meh. you need space. anyway.
indiancandy1 i went
mircea_popescu orly ?
indiancandy1 yea
indiancandy1 it was interesting
indiancandy1 i got licked out yea
indiancandy1 LOL
indiancandy1 some random came up 2 me like can i lick u
indiancandy1 so i thought fuck it
indiancandy1 n he did it
indiancandy1 then randomly
indiancandy1 i had some large audience
indiancandy1 i couldnt stop laughing
indiancandy1 i didnt get turned on
indiancandy1 it was so funny
indiancandy1 lol
indiancandy1 u no
indiancandy1 if i call u a nerd
indiancandy1 is it offensive
indiancandy1 ?>
mircea_popescu well i don';t care. but im not a nerd
indiancandy1 ok
indiancandy1 so
indiancandy1 i dont think its nerds
indiancandy1 anyway
indiancandy1 but
indiancandy1 yea
indiancandy1 there is no such thing
indiancandy1 i guess
indiancandy1 lol
indiancandy1 u see im that bored
indiancandy1 i come 2 this type of places
indiancandy1 4 kicks
mircea_popescu aha
indiancandy1 ahaha
indiancandy1 is that sad
mircea_popescu well it's not really anything.
indiancandy1 but
indiancandy1 nothing u guys talk about
indiancandy1 i understand
indiancandy1 hence y dont participate
indiancandy1 but u interest me
indiancandy1 with ur dom lif
indiancandy1 lif
mircea_popescu why's that ?
indiancandy1 life
indiancandy1 tell me more
indiancandy1 because
indiancandy1 i keep meeting
indiancandy1 dom males
indiancandy1 only after
indiancandy1 i watched this film
mircea_popescu you know you can write your words out in a sentence like this, don't have to hit enter every 3.
indiancandy1 nymphomianc 2
indiancandy1 ahahah sorry does it annoy you
mircea_popescu it's kinda stupid yea
indiancandy1 so yea i watched a filmm about a woman who got addicted 2 visitin her male dom and it was really interesting coz she would leave her baby n stuff at night and she lost
indiancandy1 alot due 2 her addiction 2 being domed
indiancandy1 and theni met a male domiantrix and now i met u so its amusing because i only thoight there was lady doms before
mircea_popescu well, cool :)
indiancandy1 do you have whips and chains .. have you read the story of o
mircea_popescu yup
indiancandy1 what are you saying yes to
mircea_popescu both. well i didn't read it, i saw the film.x
indiancandy1 you know i have this vision of you
indiancandy1 lol
indiancandy1 drinking red wine wearing a velvet blazer sitting on like a high preist chair on the dinner table with a bag of girls
mircea_popescu sorta
indiancandy1 do you ever have normal sex
indiancandy1 am i asked to much personal things
indiancandy1 sorry im just curios you fascinate me
mircea_popescu what's "normal" ?
indiancandy1 dick in pussy
indiancandy1 thrust thrust
indiancandy1 ejaculate
mircea_popescu well sure. how else ?!
indiancandy1 so your in a polygramous relationship may i ask how may people
indiancandy1 ladies
mircea_popescu a few.
indiancandy1 2?
indiancandy1 i thnik il stop asking questions as they wont stop
mircea_popescu lol k
indiancandy1 im way 2 interested its really fascinating for a spectator
indiancandy1 you should write a book
mircea_popescu well my blog is like a book.
indiancandy1 so you write about what you do to them and stuff
indiancandy1 ?
indiancandy1 i would like to see more if you dont mind
mircea_popescu trilema.com/cum-se-bate-femeia/
indiancandy1 google translate option hasnt come
mircea_popescu "how to beat women"
indiancandy1 no i mean i would like to read the whole thing
mircea_popescu find a romanian speaker ?
indiancandy1 no transslate option is available
mircea_popescu go to one of the prostitute girls lol
indiancandy1 oh no why did you do this
indiancandy1 on purpose isnt it
mircea_popescu lalala
indiancandy1 my god you are a character glad i met you
indiancandy1 i can learn so much from you i belive
mircea_popescu true.
indiancandy1 have you never thought of writing a book ? get it published
indiancandy1 i mean after the success of 50 shades of grey you could be onto something
mircea_popescu i have, and it was published. see on the blog, "i wrote a book"
indiancandy1 can you give me a free copy babes
mircea_popescu yup. it's linked there, you can read it
indiancandy1 can you send me direct link please sir
mircea_popescu trilema.com/asylum-chapter-one/
indiancandy1 this is not a co incidence
indiancandy1 that i met you i dont think
mircea_popescu really ?
indiancandy1 it cant bexi
indiancandy1 brb reading ur book
indiancandy1 it wil take time il do it later as im trying to get into trust thing and it keeps failing me
mircea_popescu kk
indiancandy1 wow mircea im impressed
indiancandy1 with you
indiancandy1 so where do you find the ladies did you ship them from romania
mircea_popescu nah. generally, i find them doing stuff.
indiancandy1 doing stuff what does that mean
mircea_popescu like, with you. how did i find you ?
indiancandy1 you didnt find me
indiancandy1 i started chattin 2 u because i thought u was a rich nerd
indiancandy1 but now i think wow
mircea_popescu exactly.
indiancandy1 im amused impressed
indiancandy1 so you meet them online and some aggeee 2 come to argnti
indiancandy1 what if there not what you like do you tell them 2 leave
indiancandy1 is it paid ? do you pay them or is it for a life of luxury i will do anythin for you
mircea_popescu i don't pay them, and it's not really for a life of luxury.
indiancandy1 so they must be into it
indiancandy1 do you have a nice house? free house free accomodation
mircea_popescu well sure, but they also work.
indiancandy1 work ? for you
mircea_popescu yeah.
indiancandy1 as programmers etc
mircea_popescu well whatever they do well.
indiancandy1 so you wait for a girl to come in here
indiancandy1 then if shes gd at watever you hire them and also make them your slave girl
indiancandy1 how many bedroom house you got if you dont mind me asking?
mircea_popescu as many as i need lol. i don't keep a single house.
indiancandy1 so you dont have a permanent residence?
mircea_popescu not really. i can go wherever i feel like going.
indiancandy1 so do you have have a few properties
indiancandy1 that you put the ladies up in
mircea_popescu something like that.
indiancandy1 can we be friends? i feel like honoured to know you
mircea_popescu lol sure.
indiancandy1 wow
indiancandy1 okay but
indiancandy1 are the girls good looking or dont you care about looks
mircea_popescu depends. but it's more important if they love each other.
indiancandy1 etc
indiancandy1 do they have sex with each other also?
mircea_popescu yes.
indiancandy1 i mean only because good looking women tend to have millions of options of guys and tend to be quite stuck up right and so i dont see them comin on herexii
mircea_popescu and why not ?
indiancandy1 i didnt say anything
indiancandy1 so you into lesbians then ? or is just like one big family are you the only guy or is there more
mircea_popescu well as to the girls, yes, they fuck. and as to the options, so what if they do ? this is still the better option.
indiancandy1 im all for lesbians
indiancandy1 my producer on tv is a lesbian she tells me all her sex stories
mircea_popescu did you fuck her ?
indiancandy1 i dont like the idea o licking pussy but i got liked out once by a girl but we was high it wasnt by choice she begged me more kinda thing
indiancandy1 i dont like the idea of a wet thing in my mouth
mircea_popescu so how do you drink ?
indiancandy1 i mean like u no the texture of pussy and it drippin in my mouth doesnt arouse me i have actually questioned my sexuality but i like dick
indiancandy1 fully
mircea_popescu so do they. pussy's still nice :D
indiancandy1 for you
mircea_popescu well they like it.
indiancandy1 i dont even like fingering myself i hate texture man
mircea_popescu rly ?!
indiancandy1 ye like i rub my clit
indiancandy1 but no insertion its to warm n gourey
mircea_popescu ahahah
indiancandy1 goueey
mircea_popescu goey
indiancandy1 im seriose
mircea_popescu so do you swallow ?
indiancandy1 u can finger me though
indiancandy1 ahahahahahah
indiancandy1 i shouldnt flirt wit u il have a bunch of slave girls after me for messing with there man
indiancandy1 baby
mircea_popescu yea ?
indiancandy1 wat u doin
mircea_popescu writing.
indiancandy1 code or dominatrix stuff
mircea_popescu a blog article.xiii
mircea_popescu ttys.
indiancandy1 ttys?
mircea_popescu talk to you soon
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indiancandy1 hi
indiancandy1 sorry i fell asleep
indiancandy1 then i came back
indiancandy1 and was havin trouble
indiancandy1 for ages
mircea_popescu lol k
indiancandy1 hi
indiancandy1 i missed u
indiancandy1 lol
indiancandy1 joke
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indiancandy1 iggnoreee me
indiancandy1 are you on skype
indiancandy1 im leavin here
mircea_popescu laters!
indiancandy1 so u dnt have skype
mircea_popescu nah, i don't waste my time with it. i prefer th echannel, much easier to cut the crap.
indiancandy1 i gotchu
indiancandy1 mircea
indiancandy1 can u send me ur book link
indiancandy1 i exited by mistake
mircea_popescu trilema.com/asylum-chapter-one/
indiancandy1 have u got hard copy
indiancandy1 or just online
mircea_popescu it's been out of print for like 10 years.
indiancandy1 u stil have any
indiancandy1 lieing around
mircea_popescu not really.
indiancandy1 well ur rich enough
indiancandy1 to get 1 re made
indiancandy1 and gift me for
indiancandy1 my bday
indiancandy1 my bday
indiancandy1 oops
indiancandy1 come on mercia
indiancandy1 mircea
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[indiancandy1 has address ~indiancan@cpc15-finc13-2-0-cust106.4-2.cable.virginm.net]
indiancandy1 hiya
indiancandy1 how does authorisation work
mircea_popescu which you mean ?
indiancandy1 to join the web of trust
mircea_popescu there's a wiki explaining it somewhere.
indiancandy1 ok
indiancandy1 how are you today
mircea_popescu not bad!
indiancandy1 nice
indiancandy1 i got work soon
indiancandy1 :(
mircea_popescu have fun
indiancandy1 do u use whatsap
mircea_popescu nop
indiancandy1 oh
indiancandy1 ok
indiancandy1 i find u fun 2 talk 2
indiancandy1 i read ur book
indiancandy1 i think u should make a film
indiancandy1 u could direct it urself
indiancandy1 cast me as lead girl
mircea_popescu i probably will.
indiancandy1 will you cast me
indiancandy1 ?
mircea_popescu i have no idea. i'll post on my blog when i do the casting tho, that's for sure.
indiancandy1 do u get alot of traffic on ur blog
mircea_popescu yeah.
indiancandy1 from the bdsm world
mircea_popescu from many places.
indiancandy1 nice
indiancandy1 what you up to
mircea_popescu stuff.
indiancandy1 :(
indiancandy1 you not being friendly like yesterday
indiancandy1 u dont have 2 be scared
indiancandy1 i dont bite mircea
mircea_popescu im not scared lol. i'm just not very interested.
indiancandy1 :(
indiancandy1 why not
indiancandy1 ok whatever
mircea_popescu well what am i to be interested in ? gotta make yourself interesting.xiv
indiancandy1 ur interesting
indiancandy1 ok
indiancandy1 im not
indiancandy1 watever
indiancandy1 i eont bother
mircea_popescu laters.
indiancandy1 wont bother
indiancandy1 :(
Jul 06 21:21:49 * indiancandy1 has quit (Quit: Leaving)
And now let us take a minute to meditate together on what "there are 7 billion people alive today" actually means.
———Heh. [↩]This has been covered in the bibliography : Erotoghid pentru femeia adulta ; Cum gestionezi abordarile ? Ghid pentru cetatencele de sex opus etc. [↩]Some random ok looking Indian chick. [↩]Decent pic of forementioned chick, in high heels and underwear, sitting on some stairs [↩]You know India had discovered this "power of attraction" BS just about fifty centuries ago ? The entire Western world is currently predicated on the flimsy footing of "If you call a tiger a cow you'll be eating its milk and cheeze rather than feed it your own blood". A notion so amusingly naive, so niggardly primitive it was actually familiar to, and laughed at by, the ancient Greeks.
That's what you get for following the "culture" of the US : you're back to mongoloidism. Is it fun ? Is it what you really always wanted ? [↩]mircea_popescu did she ask you if you were my slut yet ?
moiety no she hasn't
mircea_popescu girl's trying really hard to make friends
moiety she did ask if i did cams or pics though, just in general
moiety yeah shes been in pm for hours lol
mircea_popescu anyway. nice of you!
moiety seems genuine enough though
mircea_popescu yeah seems ok.
moiety thats really her in the pics too
mircea_popescu yeah. [↩]Dude I'm like the NSA over here. [↩]Slavery makes people. PR makes shells of people. [↩]A garden on a yacht ?! Who the hell names these things! [↩]Fuck me, THAT was actually a book first ? How. [↩]Psychology 101, today "how to valorize events". [↩]Sometime one wonders what parallel universe chicks live in. This is almost as lulzy as poor people imagining the rich don't wear socks or don't use spoons or something. [↩]That's right, dogetards : I was taking a break from some random camho hitting on me to write the piece about how pleasant it is to bathe in your tears. Now what ? [↩]This, by the way, is hard. [↩]
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"I saw, and was saddened."
mircea_popescu BingoBoingo turns out rabite decided to go derp instead. log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=08-06-2014
BingoBoingo mircea_popescu: I saw and was saddened.
mircea_popescu people can't think. Anyway, I won't touch it now, so I guess time for publishin' archives.
So here we go :
**** BEGIN LOGGING AT Tue Apr 22 12:18:41 2014
Apr 22 12:18:41 rabite yes hello weev here
Apr 22 12:18:57 rabite all my shells are banned from this network
Apr 22 12:19:50 mircea_popescu heya
Apr 22 12:19:55 mircea_popescu that's nuts.
Apr 22 12:20:03 mircea_popescu you can use tor, of course.
Apr 22 12:20:23 rabite they ban all my shells but not tor? crazy
Apr 22 12:20:36 mircea_popescu which is why i said. but no, many people in chan are on tor/sasl.
Apr 22 12:20:40 mircea_popescu anyway, do you know who i am ?
Apr 22 12:20:55 rabite not really
Apr 22 12:21:04 mircea_popescu okay. i run this thing : http://mpex.co/
Apr 22 12:21:12 mircea_popescu it's named after me.
Apr 22 12:21:28 mircea_popescu it's a stock exchange, bitcoin's equiv of the nyse. so far in its history it has seen ipos worth > 10k btc,
Apr 22 12:21:43 mircea_popescu it's traded something like 1.25mn btc worth of notional btc/usd derivative exposure
Apr 22 12:21:45 mircea_popescu and so forth.
Apr 22 12:21:54 rabite thats pretty rad dude
Apr 22 12:22:00 mircea_popescu i am, for your purposes, jpm, citi and everyone else rolled into one.
Apr 22 12:22:16 mircea_popescu now, about your hedge fund intel thing ?
Apr 22 12:23:00 rabite yes i am not ready to make an offering yet, just got out of prison obviously, still have to get the legal stuff worked out
Apr 22 12:23:32 mircea_popescu that's less the concern. more's the concern, what exactly the fuck is it supposed to be ?
Apr 22 12:23:55 rabite i have, more than once, shifted the market capitalization of publicly traded corporations by the billions
Apr 22 12:23:56 rabite so
Apr 22 12:24:12 rabite i am going to continue doing that and profit in positions of leveraged put options
Apr 22 12:24:13 rabite while i do that
Apr 22 12:24:42 mircea_popescu yes, but have you shifted it by publishing legit info they kept secret,
Apr 22 12:24:47 mircea_popescu or by being an asshole ?
Apr 22 12:24:56 rabite a little of column A, a little of column B.
Apr 22 12:25:05 mircea_popescu can you stick to column a ?
Apr 22 12:25:26 rabite unfortunately, I have a/b tested this extensively
Apr 22 12:25:44 rabite there are thousands of people releasing disclosures about issues in software
Apr 22 12:25:48 rabite none of them have moved markets
Apr 22 12:25:59 mircea_popescu the problem is this : i can support you, and i can help you build this thing into a reference point for the history of the western world, like say arrington's shit was at some point.
Apr 22 12:26:06 rabite I move markets because the manner and tone surrounding my disclosures is aggressive
Apr 22 12:26:16 mircea_popescu not so much if it's conclusively shown to be a fud&shilling campaign based on nothing
Apr 22 12:26:22 mircea_popescu tone i don't care about.
Apr 22 12:26:23 rabite oh
Apr 22 12:26:27 rabite its not based on nothing
Apr 22 12:26:29 rabite its always truthful
Apr 22 12:26:31 mircea_popescu understand what i mean by asshole.
Apr 22 12:26:35 rabite but I am still a dick about it.
Apr 22 12:26:45 mircea_popescu you have not, i imagine, read anything by mpoe-pr ?
Apr 22 12:26:55 rabite no
Apr 22 12:27:00 mircea_popescu maybe google her sometime.
Apr 22 12:27:09 mircea_popescu dominated the bitcoin forums for years, doing exactly that.
Apr 22 12:27:20 mircea_popescu i've recently retired her through the process of telling their main mod "fuck you"
Apr 22 12:27:48 mircea_popescu https://bitcointa.lk/threads/maged-permabanned-mpoe-pr-because-she-swore-shock.292615/
Apr 22 12:29:02 rabite okay
Apr 22 12:29:06 mircea_popescu and yes, i have sunk companies. look in the neobee thread. these fuckwits raised 10k btc, bought advertising for it (at ratecard prices) and disintegrated.
Apr 22 12:29:28 mircea_popescu she sunk pirate, she sunk a number of crapola. so basically, i've been doing what you propose to do, except for btc, and for years.
Apr 22 12:29:34 mircea_popescu i defo want to see this done for fiat.
Apr 22 12:29:36 rabite yeah
Apr 22 12:29:46 rabite the btc market is definitely ripe for manipulation
Apr 22 12:29:48 rabite no doubt about it
Apr 22 12:30:12 mircea_popescu okay. so now, do me a favour, get a (WORKING!) tor relay and get registered with gribble so you're in the wot
Apr 22 12:30:26 mircea_popescu i'll rate you and that will allow you to voice yourself in #bitcoin-assets
Apr 22 12:30:32 mircea_popescu people WILL ask you to prove you're you.
Apr 22 12:30:53 mircea_popescu after this, the rest will fall in place.
Apr 22 12:30:59 rabite okay
Apr 22 12:31:24 mircea_popescu i'm here almost every day, and you're high enough on my lists, so. drop a line whenever.
Apr 22 12:31:36 rabite will do
Apr 22 22:05:43 * rabite has quit (Ping timeout: 240 seconds)
And that was exactly the last I've heard of the guy. Which is not how you behave. Irrespective of how cool you think you are for whatever uninteresting reasons.
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