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Wed Oct 08 14:15:26 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> thickasthieves: so basically concert organizers change to appease crowd, no one comes. wisdom of the crowd! << quite. the worst thing you can do is listen to the idiots. just because they do with the mouth doesn't mean they actually want any of it implemented. what's next, cow barns made according to cow moos ?
Tue Oct 07 19:31:23 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> thickasthieves: Note that it's ironic that I actually made this purchase by mistake because I thought the "Deposit" button meant , yknow, depositing funds, not exchanging currencies. Your system of dollarifying all numbers is obnoxious. Let people type in bitcoin amounts and understand it as a separate currency. You're just confusing things." <<< they're not JUST confusing things.
Tue Oct 07 17:41:05 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> we have not, because we did last time and well, it just seems to encourage this sort of thing
Fri Oct 03 04:01:06 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> <mats_cd03> why does freenode suck so much << because they essentially gave up ? just riding things as they are into the night, as it were.
Thu Oct 02 21:28:02 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> davidlatapie i have nfi idea what monero is because in spite of being invited fluffypony doesn't want to give the group a presentation. the comment is just as to the improbable nature of the name. why mew and what's someone not in on the jokes to make of it.
Thu Oct 02 12:21:31 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> the controlling point here being that just because no toddler should be in control of the world, it doesn't follow that nobody should be.
Wed Oct 01 21:24:55 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> course that's easier in theory than in practice. i know i'm making real efforts to not start hating gays just because these fucktards imagine they can claim it in their doomed but vapid quest for appearing speshul.
Mon Sep 29 05:15:45 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> just because the idiots you normally shill at can't read japanese doesn't mean you actually get to propose nonsense in here as fact.
Thu Sep 25 19:03:51 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> just because they meanwhile fell off doesn't mean you didn't need them to get here.
Mon Sep 22 07:11:14 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> "Just because someone says he suffers, does not mean he does, and even if he does, that does not mean it is anyone's business. Quite the contrary, a lot of really bad people successfully manipulate others by lying about how they suffer and exploit the natural tendency of better humans to feel compassion for sufferers."
Sun Sep 21 16:42:53 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> "I wish people would get more interested in _knowing_ the world they want to change. I can't keep lecturing obnoxious morons forever just because they have these wild-eyed desires that they think can be accomodated if they start a revolution or something."
Sat Sep 20 20:41:53 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> you can't become prickly just because people are idiots. it's giving idiots too much say.
Sat Sep 20 19:38:31 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> decimation the 1800s worked because at the time europe was mismanaging human resources, and so you could actually get free value by just taking its rejects. then early 1900s worked because the whole country obeyed its betters, so carnegie, rockefeller et co could create a monopoly on the world.
Sat Sep 20 15:29:35 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> <moriarty> mircea_popescu, UK, sorry to disappoint you in not being able to introduce fine latinas << nah it was because i was just laughing my ass off at this "galt's gulch" disaster.
Fri Sep 19 03:54:56 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> just because you can "buy umbrella insurance" doesn't mean it's not there.
Fri Sep 19 01:56:56 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> just because they're after you doesn't mean you're not paranoid.
Thu Sep 18 17:06:01 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> o hey bitcoin outlets ? there've just been a quarter million dollars worth of btc bet within an hour. this is not news because you don't know where news in bitcoin breaks or because you don't know what news actually is ?
Tue Sep 16 20:22:56 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> in fact items as expensive as 50k are consumer products just fine, because of the finance economy.
Tue Sep 16 20:22:09 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> in point of fact people can and do spend 18k just on financing for a car they don't need (either because they live in ny, or because it'd be the 3rd family car etc)
Tue Sep 16 15:30:50 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> <punkman> pete_dushenski: tabular data can be easily exfiltrated. Problem is when you have multiple sheets, VB scripts and other custom derpage. << vb scripts being untranslatable because of just how retarded vb is