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jurov: don'
t fart near open fire
BingoBoingo: Imma be lucky if my farts don'
t kill me before I wake up tomorrow afternoon
gribble: Error: User doesn'
t exist in the Rating or GPG databases. User must be GPG-registered to receive ratings.
BingoBoingo: MisterE: Like staking sports betting, Similar to how poker is staked. The challenge is doing it in a way that the staked party can'
t fake the results into an honest looking loss.
ozbot: Don'
t panic, but that public Wi-Fi is coming from ... inside your house - TwinCities.com
mircea_popescu: at which point the chick points out that there's only seven midgets and you point out that she shouldn'
t be making that kind of noise.
mircea_popescu: why didn'
t they make the straight shooter guy into a twink then
mircea_popescu: he doesn'
t want to. cause admitting how fucking stupid he is would burn.
ThickAsThieves: "You a female; I'm a dude. I'm not learning nothing from you. I just want to see you. So whatever you're talking about, I probably don'
t really care. I wanna just look at you."
mircea_popescu: i mean a) it clearly labels you as a scammer, as only they do it ; b) it can'
t possibly give roi, even as a scammer ; c) srsly.
mircea_popescu: perhaps it doesn'
t have as much to do with the environment as one'd think
ThickAsThieves: i think some people don;
t realize corruption has a broader definition than "paid off"
mircea_popescu: say, a U Chicago grad can do no economically productive work at all but still be paid to use Instagram? Let me be explicit: my question is not should we do this, my question is that since this is precisely what's happening already, is it sustainable? What is the cost? I don'
t have to run the numbers, someone already has: it's $150/mo for a college grads, i.e. the price of food stamps. Other correct responses would
mircea_popescu: the guy can'
t evaluate if you were in fact harming no-one
ThickAsThieves: my wife thinks a drive too slow, except when i don'
t see nonsensical speed signs
mircea_popescu: which is why sane people (ie, germans) don'
t have upper limits,
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves well, that reasoning doesn'
t work in a town (because if you go fast enough whether you run into someone or not becomes a matter of luck), but it does make sense of highways
decimation: "A poll by the General Social Survey indicates that about 1/3 of Americans trust each other. This is a big step downward from a 1972 survey that indicated that about ½ of Americans trust each other. Around 2/3rds say that ?you can?
t be too careful? dealing with others. "
mircea_popescu: just, the vc circus hasn'
t yet found out, because we don'
t finance the circus.
ninjashogun: so I didn'
t realize how much money is sloshing around the bitcoin ecosystem. Question: do you think with WoT this ecosystem (e.g. this channel, etc) could substitute for the actual VC market completely?
benkay`: can'
t imagine that means what the top suggestion from my suggestion machine suggests it means
mircea_popescu: well, that i don'
t. however, i do understand quite well when i don'
t understand something.
KRS-One: I always thought it was slow, but that isn'
t really the case. If it runs slow its because someone didn'
t know what they are doing.
mircea_popescu: the guy has some very specific sexual hangups. it's all centered on rape, can'
t see violence, can'
t see submission, he's impacted.
mircea_popescu: elevant as the skin color. Not irrelevant for now, not irrelevant "until the economy improves"-- irrelevant forever. The economy doesn'
t care about intelligence, at all, it doesn'
t care what you know, merely what you can produce for it. The only thing the English grad is "qualified" for in this economy is the very things s/he is already doing: coffeehouse agitator, Trader Joe's associate, Apple customer... and spouse
mircea_popescu: When we see a welfare mom we assume she can'
t find work, but when we see a hipster we become infuriated because we assume he doesn'
t want to work but could easily do so-- on account of the fact that he can speak well-- that he went to college. But now suddenly we're all shocked: to the economy, the English grad is just as superfluous as the disenfranchised welfare mom in the hood-- the college education is just as irr
mircea_popescu: "magine a large corporate machine mobilized to get you to buy something you don'
t need at a tremendously inflated cost, complete with advertising, marketing, and branding that says you're not hip if you don'
t have one, but when you get one you discover it's of poor quality and obsolete in ten months. That's a BA.
moiety: i don'
t see the site as a chumpatron, after listening. i just like to make things work is all
mircea_popescu: i mean there's no requirement that the chump don'
t enjoy it
moiety: BingoBoingo: there's a difference. you don'
t always get dinner at the restaurant you work in
benkay`: i don'
t hate it - it's just another dumblang
ninjashogun: just saw romance-language like words that I didn'
t understand on your blog. (I do speak some French, Italian, Spanish so knew it wasn'
t those)
ninjashogun: I didn'
t realize you're Romanian either. I thought you were Brazilian :) (I don'
t speak either portuguese or Romanian)
ninjashogun: I guess basically I wasn'
t taking these projects as "seriously" as other parts of the startup ecosystem. But perhaps it's true that "silicon valley has a lot to learn from bitcoin"
ninjashogun: mircea_popescu, sorry, I don'
t know the details. I just see that you're active on IRC and was just going by how you talk and participate. You also have a lot of time here.
ninjashogun: For example I thought mirceau completely bootstrapped his thing, had no investors of any kind, since he doesn'
t deal with them the way startups I've seen do.
benkay`: ninjashogun weren'
t you just derping about not having time to derp in irc?
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: You mean you don'
t run that bot on your nick?
mircea_popescu: ninjashogun sheep have no privacy, nor crabs nor birds. privacy is a construct of the human mind, and it is built upon identity. which you don'
t currently have.
nubbins`: they don'
t even make pennies anymore. if you cashed that at a bank, you wouldn'
t get anything.
moiety: no i haven'
t attempted it
ninjashogun: BingoBoingo - trust models can'
t be programmatic, or they will be games. For example someone will set up $10K just to spend on interest as they do hundreds of transactions with trusted members over a year - the only goal being to be given a $200K transaction that they then walk off with. You can'
t build trust programmatically.
BingoBoingo: ninjashogun: People don'
t have a "WoT score" they have personalize networks. The score is the least relevant part of a WoT
ninjashogun: I don'
t need 'any size loan' and we could look at the budget breakdown together as well - I would expect it to be based on real world identities and paperwork, not IRC.
nubbins`: ninjashogun: don'
t worry about it, i was kidding anyway. go fuck yourself
mircea_popescu: but if you gave it up suddenly the post office wouldn'
t be floundering anymore.
BingoBoingo: Unfortunately he didn'
t anticipate mircea_popescu's preference whereby wives be naked
mircea_popescu: you have to be incredibly fucking retarded to go "hey guise, i don'
t give a shit about you bye"
mircea_popescu: "Feb 25 08:13:06 <ninjashogun>guys I've received some suggestions to "lurk" and "read logs" here, which I wouldn'
t really have time to do. It was nice meeting you all though and I may be back as the project progresses. Overall I don'
t think I will be spending a ton of time building WoT, advisors, etc - as I have real-world references for the moment that I would expect anyone to consutl."
pLambert: I don'
t understand, why would you take a personal loan to finance your business instead of having your business get the loan it needs?
ninjashogun: to myself, as a personal loan. I would like to do it this way because the company has become much more valuable, has assigned IP assets, etc. It doesn'
t make sense to raise a small amount of company by the company.
ninjashogun: mircea_popescu, well, considering that the startup has already been financed to an extent, your statement is false. Something can'
t be unfinanceable if it has been financed.
ninjashogun: asciilifeform, I don'
t think a bank loan can be used to finance what I'm doing. If it could there would be no need for angels in the world.
ninjashogun: last week or w/e I also connected with people. Didn'
t find the right match. Different people could be in here now.
moiety: asciilifeform: there was a couple here built an amazing house and they had to tear it down becauseit didn'
t qualify
moiety: mircea_popescu: exactly! discovering containers aren'
t really 'up' though now XD
moiety: asciilifeform: couldn'
t you sort of paint the inside iof it with cement?
moiety: i bet they don'
t look like that mircea_popescu
benkay`: china ships 'em over and then doesn'
t want them back.
benkay`: BitcoinPropagand: austerity has neat type design, i just don'
t care about austerity at all.
benkay`: didn'
t you just pay to less than the nominal float?
mircea_popescu: as mpex won'
t let you pay for less than the records show, and you don'
t want to pay for more.