asciilifeform: apparently cosmic rayz luuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuv 'The Sherpany Investor Service lets you include your shareholders in advance of the General Meeting, recognise early what matters to them and facilitates new ways of voting (eVoting).'
asciilifeform: 'SUCCESSFUL WOMEN HAVE A NEW FRIEND. AND IT IS NOT WHO YOU THINK' << lel
asciilifeform: 'Sherpany is the first independent platform that facilitates close, personal and tangible communication between companies, boards of directors and investors. Modern companies can solidify the loyalty of investors, focus on their work in the board of directors and increase corporate governance with Sherpany.' << wat.
asciilifeform: ;;later tell BingoBoingo in other nyooz, saw ad for quite intact row house for 26k-usd. then looked on map - it is across the street from the infamous pharmacy that was epicenter of bmore riot! go, buy ?
asciilifeform: or were we not still on the eth thing
asciilifeform: trinque: the last time they elected a fella who actually thought the buttons were connected, they had to shoot him later
asciilifeform: then entirely electable as an obamatronic muppet.
asciilifeform: (then again it is quite possible that all of 'his' money is denominated in buffettola, and he's entirely compliant, i have nfi)
asciilifeform: trump is no moar electable than perot was, and for same reason - will try to push the buttons that aren't connected to anything, and get belligerent, and has the resources to attempt to do something about it
asciilifeform: utinely publishes breaking changes - note the trouble node.js has had tracking upstream.'
asciilifeform: 'I'd like to ask specifically about Fare's criticism of large jets. Since it's highly unlikely that the Hoon implementation is bug-for-bug compatible with the native markdown parser, is including that parser in a jet an "unprincipled exception" to Urbit's vision of deterministic functional purity? An even better example is the possible future inclusion of a native JS or Lua interpreter... V8 in particular is a massive project that ro
asciilifeform: 'For example, I would love to offer my own children a filtered Internet experience where I owned and controlled the filter. Ideally, that would mean an MITM proxy running on my own cloud server. I would not trust anyone else to MITM me or my children, but I feel quite comfortable MITMing my 8-year-old daughter. So that's another long-term use case.' << also mr mold
asciilifeform: 'Urbit has a strict membership code. No pedos and no Nazis. And especially no pedonazis.'
asciilifeform: a washington metro pass in moscow ? etc
asciilifeform: what is arcade token worth outside of arcade ?
asciilifeform: it is difficult to discuss 'it is worth'
asciilifeform: sorta like that famous (in certain circles) case where u.s. mint 'sold' crates of coins, at face value, and folks bought'em, putting it on a cc with 2% cashback, and loop
asciilifeform: not problem until he picks up the handset and nobody answers
asciilifeform: if his ar latifundista thing goes sideways
asciilifeform: my understanding is that turner is living in a mental 1950s when he thinks he can pick up red phone, united fruit style, and call us marine corps.
asciilifeform: ^ not that it was ever a secret, was announced quite clearly on day1
asciilifeform: 'We'll announce specifics of a crowdsale soon, so I'm gonna dodge just a little. (Honestly, we're still deciding exactly how to do it). I can say, the idea is to sell a small number of stars and to cap the total number anyone can buy.' << finally the altcoin sc4mz0r motive.
asciilifeform: if yer feeding the monkey regardless, why not have it do tricks.
asciilifeform: in urbit's case, usg (in its andreessen horowitz face) is paying to keep a dozen bois fed ('press the clown face for a food pellet') and housed (subsidies to silicon valley land racket.) so about 1/1000th of a google.
asciilifeform: not like his boiz are spending turkey dollars in bolivia.
asciilifeform: no moar than my electric co is in the hole. goes in, and mostly back out.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: last i heard (but this was years ago) he had some sweatshop with a buncha college dudes.
asciilifeform: 'Urbit has a very good profiler (language integration makes up for a lot of elbow grease), and our attempts to squeeze out performance are usually successful. In extremis, anything can be jetted and probably will.' << yarvin
