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nubbins`: badon i don't have much time to lead projects, but like i said, spotcoins is pretty much the definitive resource
nubbins`: i sort of just ended up with a bunch of apple devices
mircea_popescu: i dunno, i never used one. his claim.
badon: nubbins`: I'll repaste them, one sec. I started keeping a list of examples based on mircea_popescu questions.
badon: nubbins`: Did you see the examples that I pasted here earlier?
nubbins`: i've got some coins with very low mintages
badon: The CC isn't really a search engine. I guess you could call it something like a correlation engine.
nubbins`: but yes, i understand what you're saying
badon: People come up with new stuff I hadn't thought of.
badon: The CC does things that I don't even know it's doing.
nubbins`: can i buy and sell coins on the CC?
nubbins`: badon: "i wonder if this bob dylan album i bought at a flea market is a first pressing?"
badon: As far as I know, there has never been anything like the CC before.
badon: I don't know what that is.
mircea_popescu: i thought it was a defining interest.
nubbins`: i've got some neat physical bitcoins, some strange bullion pieces, etc
nubbins`: anyway, i can only assume my name was brought up because i have a passing interest in numismatics
nubbins`: i guess we can just call you "the guy", then
badon: Yep, that's me. They used to call me the silver guy, or the palladium guy, or the art guy, or whatever it was I was making money in back then.
mircea_popescu: perhaps even why i like it in the first place.
mircea_popescu: i dunno how they manage to be this stupid.
mircea_popescu: i mean seriously, the intelligence ~of groups~ ? wtf does that even mean.
mircea_popescu: i find this quite scandalous. the "everything of value comes from socialism" narrative is pernicious enoughm
badon: adlai: Haha, yeah, I thought that was snappy!
jurov: i was under impresion it was, dunno why
mircea_popescu: jurov why is it supposed to be anything i nparticular ?
mircea_popescu: i'd pay fiddy bucks for one, and that's generous.
mircea_popescu: decimation:cazalla: I use 'generic' rewards card << but... why ?
mircea_popescu: mike_c: for "my" safety. except i'm not liable for fraud. so actually they are being a pain in my ass for their safety. fucking home depot. << haha EXACTLY.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: decimation: and aha, these aren't piss-ant led lights either. ccfl tubes - which means they can't be cranked down all the much (and stay lit) <<< this is the deal breaker for me. i actually run the monitors at about 50% gamma.
mircea_popescu: decimation: why should I trust some derp who 'volunteers' for arch over the upstream creator? <<< so very much this, o lordy.
badon: I can't remember what movie.
badon: I think there was a movie scene that showed something like that happening too, which was interesting.
badon: Most of it is secret information, but I seem to recall an event in the 1990's, but I don't remember where. There might have been one more recently too.
BingoBoingo: I'm just wondering if there's any risk someone might start up production on a scale that hypothetically/allegedly would tank its value
badon: Myself and a guy in Canada were the only people in the world to publish a prediction about palladium. He got lucky. I kept doing it over, and over, and over, for 10 years and counting.
mircea_popescu: dja know tort uh, i mean, r pietilla ?
badon: I made ridiculous money on palladium.
badon: mircea_popescu: I have a lot of enemies at the china-mint.info forum. They have tried to find fault, so ask them if I delete my own posts.
mircea_popescu: well, how would i know ?
badon: I don't have that, because I don't delete any of my published posts, including the ones I would prefer to go away.
badon: You'll have to look, I honestly don't remember how far back it goes. I have hundreds of articles, and I think there's a chronological list somewhere...
badon: mircea_popescu: That's when the discussion group was founded. I'm not sure how far back my articles go. At least to 2009, for articles that are still online on the SMF forum site.
BingoBoingo: I'm gassy. I probably shouldn't have had an entire broccoli
badon: Well, I'm not going to publicly acknowledge it as mine, if it were :)
badon: I don't know.
badon: For example, when I was investing in silver, I called the direction and timing of market changes with 100% accuracy. I made a convenient chart of my predictions somewhere, let me see if I can find it.
badon: I don't publish everything I'm doing, but what I have published is very impressive if I do say so myself.
badon: I've been doing it far longer privately.
badon: In other words, please investigate what I'm saying. It's valuable info.
badon: mircea_popescu: I call my shots publicly. Check my track record at LBC. No financial analyst in any market ever in the history of ever has been as accurate as I am.
badon: If I remember correctly, the comparison still held for both.
mircea_popescu: yeah but i mean... who cares.
badon: For example, if you look at a wikipedia list of the largest empires, I think the Romans don't even rank in the top 10.
badon: mircea_popescu: No, I'm talking about in general, historically, not only now.
mircea_popescu: i had no idea.
mircea_popescu: !!!!! helps in business i find.
badon: I could create a project for it at the CC, if someone wanted to oversee it. I'm not qualified to do it myself, and we don't have the funding to have the CC team do it without some major help.
mircea_popescu: " I don't mind over paying a little as the wise man baden always says, to get what I like but I have limits & they are based on potential of growth, 10% is better than bank interest but I would rather a potential 50% - 2000%!!!!! (savvy or greedy?!)"
mircea_popescu: davout i can do that, sure. just, hadn't seen you in a while wanted to see if you still move or what.
punkman: badon, I mean bitcoin-themed physical coins
badon: punkman: That's an interesting idea, but I haven't been able to envision a way to make that work. Do you have something in mind?
mircea_popescu: "I try to identify & buy into the hype in the beginning or as it is happening (the pro's would be about 2 steps ahead of me) but not after the initial rush because of the lower potential for price rise."
badon: Today I was just notified that someone is sending me a few hundred dollars worth of free coins to me, solely because he likes them and he wants me to write about them more often.
davout: if there's a day you weren't around i would be able to identify this particular day, yes :-)
mircea_popescu: davout yes, but can you find a day i wasn't around ?
mircea_popescu: davout if you're around on the 15th i dun see any reason for it to take more than a few minutes.
davout: mircea_popescu: btw i'd be interested on feedback wrt http://fr.anco.is/2014/11/21/x-eur-november-20th-2014-statement/
mircea_popescu: actually, what i see : you've got a passion for coins and are throwing software at it. nothing wrong with that.
mircea_popescu: badon i see.
mircea_popescu: badon i mean there's all sorts of kids reading the logs (ie, the "Webinar" lol)
badon: I think I'm register in WoT. What do I do next?
mircea_popescu: badon listen, get registered in the wot, i'll rate you just for nubbins` pleasure.
badon: mircea_popescu: Yes, I love SMF.
punkman: http://i.imgur.com/4y4rW0J.png
badon: mircea_popescu: Here's a real world research excursion I embarked on: https://www.livebusinesschat.com/smf/index.php?topic=5632.msg38430#msg38430
mircea_popescu: stuff the w3c has been doing long after everyone stopped paying attention i guess.
mircea_popescu: afaik it copies wikipedia even to the "need donation" point. i really can't discern any structural difference ?
mircea_popescu: dja know what i mean by the "one-blockchain" reason ?
badon: I'm getting asked this more often.
badon: I should really keep a handy thing of usage examples.
badon: "External" people (as you say) can request an account of course. We watch what they do carefully, and I'm planning on creating a class of users that can only edit info, not add more pages. It's much easier to fix mistakes on otherwise correctly entered data.
badon: I plan on giving people access to it via a browser plugin, so it will automatically show interesting data about something whenever you're looking at it.
mircea_popescu: i'll think you're a playwright or something.
mircea_popescu: well no, if you make an engine and i ask "show me the part that'll make me grok wtf this is" you don't wanna show a leaflet.
badon: I hope that's good, but I really don't know since I haven't gotten any feedback about it yet.
badon: mircea_popescu: I used my silver (and palladium, etc) profits to fund investments in rare modern Chinese coins, which I'm still doing.
badon: mircea_popescu: I was investing in silver when Bitcoin was $0.25.
badon: punkman: It was pretty obscure until a few months ago, so I'm still reacting with surprise when people ask me about it out of the blue.
punkman: badon, I've come across coincompendium a couple times, is that your thing?
badon: I'm still here because I'm trying to figure out what this chan is about :)
badon: mircea_popescu: Me? I'm badon.
assbot: Logged on 09-10-2013 03:46:03; mircea_popescu: i am amused at the noobs that still don't grasp why their average bitcoin lifespan is less than a year.
mircea_popescu: leia*. for some reason i keep conflating her with the dog.
asciilifeform: as i understand, 'carpal tunnel' and related disease result from 'poor life choices'
mats_cd03: i developed it by 18. sigh.
asciilifeform: bad enough that i end up having to talk to people once in a while.
asciilifeform: decimation: i'll go perelman before i talk to a computer.
ben_vulpes: i'll pass on this particular electric fence.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: i bow to your wisdom