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dub: just what was spent on land/kit/ip for a build out before deciding it wasn'
t going to return capital
Namworld: It doesn'
t require US tax ID but eh
dub: a contract with the manufacturer that they don'
t get paid if its not delivered
dub: mircea_popescu: doesn'
t sound far fetched at all
Bugpowder: In my limited experience with silicon mfg contracting, you send a detailed spec sheet. If they don'
t meet the spec, they don'
t get paid.
mircea_popescu: "Another delay we've had to endure is the fact that we have effectively tied the ASIC teams payment to the success of the chip. If the chip were to be a failure they don'
t get paid... so they have incentive to get it right but that has made them very cautious and slow to approve final masks"
mod6: need the
T|N on the end there thestringpuller
assbot: Hell, ain'
t we about more fucked than a whore at closin' time, huh?
Bugpowder: I made puts but the buyer isn'
t buying anymore
Bugpowder: well, that went ok for me, although it would have been nice if the asset prices hadn'
t crashed as people were racing to the exits.
Schadenfreude: Yea, but I meant the kind with terrible headaches and feeling tired for a couple of days, since I don'
t drink coffee if I don'
t have to
Korbman: Ha, I haven'
t seen that infographic in ages
Schadenfreude: If you don'
t want to spend more than 100BTC on the venture I'd recommend the mpex broker
Bugpowder: doesn'
t everyone want to know the latest :-P
Schadenfreude: might invest more if mpex stocks don'
t implode or somebody hacks coinbr into oblivion by next month
mircea_popescu: Bridge is such a sensational game that I wouldn'
t mind being in jail if I had three cellmates who were decent players and who were willing to keep the game going twenty-four hours a day.
Namworld: But which peers you communicate with doesn'
t change anything.
Dishwasha: Yeah, I get that. But there's no reason why you can'
t control which peers you communicate with.
Namworld: No, bitcoins don'
t work like that.
jurov: and even for that it wasn;
t necessary to hit it every half second
smickles: mircea_popescu: ya know, i was coding an mpex android client for myself, I couldn'
t find which font that 'M' is
OgNasty: Thanks for the advice. A logo wasn'
t a big concern obviously and the ssl cert works fine, it just is private. ;)
Korbman: I admit I haven'
t really looked at it that much though
Korbman: just hope it doesn'
t break...
pigeons: so basic isn'
t doing striaght up refunds, you have to chargeback?
mircea_popescu: i don'
t want ddos protection at all. i want basically a tiny vm to run a php mpex proxy
Schadenfreude: I don'
t think there's any mechanism in place to prevent me from taking various nicknames : p
Namworld: he can'
t sell his majority stake, but needed to quit. So he liquidated. Every share has right to part of that.
Namworld: doesn'
t it normally show paid dividends?
kakobrekla: >Yep, I've been working on it this afternoon. It's almost done and will be posted soon. I've tried to answer all the questions that have been asked so far and I don'
t think I've missed anything.
pigeons: i remember when i found out my parents are the tooth fairy. i still don'
t know how they afford to buy every kid's teeth and how they sneak into the bedrooms and get back
pigeons: remember kids, "if you don'
t believe in BFL, then you don'
t believe in bitcoin."
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller it was small, i wasn'
t there when it started up and it meanwhile folded
mircea_popescu: and the great advantage of the printing business is that you don'
t need to pay the author at all.
mircea_popescu: Namworld i don'
t think a couple million is enough funds
Schadenfreude: Most successful people wouldn'
t be successful if they didn'
t *accurately* gauge their abbilities
dub: #1: A chick I banged once and haven'
t seen since just added me on LinkedIn. #2: She wants you to give her 'the business' again.
jurov: eskimo, srs. can'
t you fap outside this channel?
mircea_popescu: jurov just ftr, MPEx doesn'
t care if you buldgeon people into a pulp.
mircea_popescu: were you asking me why mining doesn'
t happen or why i don;
t do it ?
mircea_popescu: interesting if eur/us wants money the eur/us can'
t steal
mircea_popescu: it isn'
t however the policy of the nbr to make it an intl reserve at all, and we're friends so, i wouldn'
t expose it in btc trade.
mircea_popescu: The problem with prediction markets is the market maker. If it is automated like the one that is on the GLBSE prediction market now then it will eventually lose money. That model is only used by places that don'
t use real money.
Schadenfreude: MPEX itself isn'
t that bad, its PR-chick is terrible at PR tho
Schadenfreude: It's the main reason I haven'
t invested anything significant in him yet
Namworld: It's not ridiculous if he funds servers with the funds... but I don'
t see why anyone would borrow at that rate.
thestringpuller: Network Difficulty under 20 million for 2 months...isn'
t that like a futures?
mircea_popescu: Coinster.info is a new search engine, the world's first specifically for crypto-currencies like Bitcoin. However, giving users a search engine isn'
t the main goal. Coinster is meant to be a connection platform, with emphasis on connecting people locally to trade goods and services.
Bugpowder: With regard to BTC refunds, I have sent all refund requests to Tom for processing. I have also processed all credit card refund requests at this time. I can'
t guarantee that the funds were there to back these refunds - I have no way to know this, and Tom never confirmed having done the bank transfer. At this point, if you are thinking of sending me a refund request, I recommend you do a chargeback instead.
mircea_popescu: if your "business model" doesn'
t allow it you'ren ot in business
Bugpowder: if your business model doesn'
t allow it, then let google do it for you
Bugpowder: JSTOR isn'
t paying the authors of the work
mircea_popescu: if this won'
t sink the entire copyright thing i don'
t know what will.
Bugpowder: I don'
t think anyone thought he could throw the ball so far
mircea_popescu: Bugpowder i rtell you this much, if you make a whatever killer and don'
t list it i'll be heartbroken
jurov: i mean, the rest of reply is fine, i like mpoe-pr. but i don'
t see any useful purpose to such statements
Schadenfreude: S.DICE seems tempting, dividend wise, don'
t know about any other MPEX-asset
Schadenfreude: Meh, mining bonds/stocks aren'
t too bad - early on.
Bugpowder_: mircea_popescu Awesome! Can'
t wait to throw up some serious coin on the next round. Maybe we will get some real sports bettors going now
StarenseN: ok but is it bullish (price seems lower to buyers) or bearish purpose (to lower the price each time it's possible) ? i can'
t figure it out
StarenseN: that lowers the price but i still don'
t figure out if it's a bullish or bearish purpose
mircea_popescu: i don'
t trust wireless. consequently all my stuff is wired.
jurov: at least you didn'
t go with microsoft. cause ITS TEH STANDARD
mircea_popescu: but anyway, this isn'
t an indictment of python in any way
jurov: surely someone did the crawl but can'
t find anything like it
jurov: i don'
t get the idea, sry. in all programming langs popularity reviews py is not so far behind