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thickasthieves: i havent no
thickasthieves: i just cant sort why owning shares and holding them will ever be good
thickasthieves: i know you get them for others
thickasthieves: your own articles i mean
BingoBoingo: <thickasthieves> maybe i'll submit an article about the problem with qntra share dist model << Qntra shares embody MP view of wealth as % of math rather than number ot tokens
thickasthieves: maybe i'll submit an article about the problem with qntra share dist model
mircea_popescu: cazalla what, that means i'm in ?
asciilifeform: i could go on forever
cazalla: and gee i had a few too many last night
assbot: Re: "Well, I want to switch over to replace EMACS LISP with Guile." - Naggum cll archive
asciilifeform: one of the problems i always had with 'news' is the regurgitation
asciilifeform: perhaps i simply don't like the dish, and should not bash the cook.
mircea_popescu: i mean sure in time it can branch out and grow and w/e, but as an anchor, that's how it was born
mircea_popescu: i think mike substantially has it, tbh. that's pretty much the mission.
thickasthieves: when i worked at newspaper, headline writing was mostly editors job
mike_c: the lawsky title was a bit silly for my taste, but the content was useful to me. i'm glad i read what happenned.
thickasthieves: i think execution is part of it though
asciilifeform: i think in usa this is called 'framing'
asciilifeform: i'll give example
asciilifeform: thickasthieves: i'd argue that it isn't simply too new, or done improperly in some way. but - does wrong job.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: that's the thing, i couldn't possibly write one and have it be any more 'on subject' than yours above!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i can see your angle. if you feel like doing one sometime...
mircea_popescu: bounce lol i think im good either way, not about to starve if they reject my contribution :D
mircea_popescu: bounce think about it, if i never submitted anything to qntra wouldn't ppl want to know why i don't ?
thickasthieves: well the trying t be different, i thought, was to eschew now-common problems in news
thickasthieves: i think doing it for the equity is great
bounce: colour me conservative, but I expect news-writing on a news-site
ben_vulpes: i ain't no dissembler
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes i can see it.
ben_vulpes: nah, i got my own
ben_vulpes: i envy your playground mircea_popescu
thickasthieves: i'm having trouble seeing the value in S.QNTR shares
thickasthieves: well like we've both said recently, cazalla's problem i guess
mircea_popescu: i imagine like qntra
ben_vulpes: factually i got a blowjob!
thickasthieves: maybe i shouold shit more often
thickasthieves: factually i took a shit at the same time too
TomServo: I'd like to see qntra stick to the (published!) facts, personally.
thickasthieves: i feel like you arent really mp right now
thickasthieves: not sure i agree on that
thickasthieves: but i see no usable evidence
thickasthieves: i mean i'd love for it to be true
mircea_popescu: i dunno thickasthieves, let the editor figure it out neh ?
asciilifeform: nd I felt the secret influence of an idea that the two were destined to live and die together.'
asciilifeform: 'The exhibitor, Professor Faber, was a sad-faced man, dressed in respectable well-worn clothes that were soiled by contact with tools, wood, and machinery. The room looked like a laboratory and workshop, which is was. The Professor was not too clean, and his hair and beard sadly wanted the attention of a barber. I had no doubt that he slept in the same room as the figure—his scientific Frankenstein monster—a
thickasthieves: but i suspect there's a reason it aint done this way
thickasthieves: i mean i like the idea n all
mats_cd03: where do i lay suit?
mircea_popescu: i think ima submit my first qntra article. this should be fun.
mircea_popescu: i'm not sleepy and there is no place i'm going to
mats_cd03: Market indexes dive, erasing 2014's gains << good thing i only have to worry about BTC taking a dive
bounce: it's a ploy to get people to buy more cryptome dvds, I'm telling you
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i meant intel and apple.
mircea_popescu: "Of note is the 3.2GHz Pentium 4, coming in competitive with the G5, but significantly behind the Opteron and Athlon 64 systems."" << i wonder if these two share tech.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: it's a business owned woman << i think stating that is a top taboo in teh us.
asciilifeform: jurov: nah, i think the y2k crap has all been snipped out by now
asciilifeform: i'm not particularly interested in the chances of having died while 5
mircea_popescu: nubbins` as i was explaining to gabriel_laddel coupla days ago, averages are slippery. in sierra leone it's 35 because a bunch of retarded infants die young.
asciilifeform: majority, i think
nubbins`: i suppose i do, too
asciilifeform: in fact, i know many folks with less than 9 bits of usd at any given moment.
nubbins`: i had a prof get overcome once when a student presented a surprisingly succinct proof in ring theory
mircea_popescu: only thing i ever heard an excited mathematician say was
mircea_popescu: yes but what else is a life for, i ask you,
mircea_popescu: so in the end i only overturned the dumbass "regulation" they had invented in the first place.
mircea_popescu: and i said that either they drop it or i sue them and overturn THAT idiocy too
mircea_popescu: and in a dispute with the romanian immigration service five years ago or so, they brought this objeciton in court, specifically, that i can't sue them before i do arbitration
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i don't recall ever signing a contract iwth arbitration clauses.
asciilifeform: the particular contract i saw specifically waived the right to sue anybody for anything.
nubbins`: i guess i'm actually imagining it, because the nebulous thing in my head right now isn't really a picture
nubbins`: i'm picturing a repurposed bank vault with gpg access control
devthedev: I'm slightly worried about the Qntra shares. If the amount of S.QNTR shares double monthly wouldn't the revenue have to double as well to keep up with the inflation?
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron: a smart-wheel that spins itself based on distributed consensus << i dunno if you know or not, but this actually is a historical thing, proposed by Villard de Honnecourt. http://history-computer.com/Dreamers/VillarddeHonnecourt.html
nubbins`: "actually, i guess i'll have a seat while you find the fucking sheet"
nubbins`: "i guess we'll just start a new one"
assbot: Logged on 30-08-2014 16:11:44; asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: re: 'coinbase insurance' post - little story. recently i had occasion to rent a box at a bank (storage of various paperwork for firm.) the contract was a hilarious read. bank only insures a box for up to 25k usd. and specifically excludes damage from robbery, fire, water... virtually anything. ☟︎
devthedev: I still can't access Qntra from over here for some reason.
nubbins`: i have vague memories of both as well
mircea_popescu: i recall pete and maybe ben fox both did something
nubbins`: your writeup is great for the theory side, i'd like to marry it with something technical
thickasthieves: basically goat only knows how to say "i am awesome, i make lotsa coins, think of me as a financial beast plz!", but in 5000 different ways
nubbins`: colombians i think are an exception
xinxi: god, I should have known it a few months ealier.
thickasthieves: goat is satoshi i though
nubbins`: xinxi: the text i quoted earlier was from Robocoin
xinxi: i mean your company.
nubbins`: xinxi in here, i mostly just modify the S/N ratio. in meatspace, i print things
nubbins`: "i want to acknowledge that as with all bitcoin companies, we're a bunch of fuckups who took on more than we could handle and now we need pitchforks to shovel all our excuses"
thickasthieves: i know what it's like to have a vindictive customer turn a small problem into a worse one
nubbins`: "I want to first acknowledge that as with all bitcoin companies, we are working extremely hard, drinking from a fire hose and solving problems, stabilizing the platform AND continuing to improve every day."
thickasthieves: yeha i'm not defending them so much as leaving the door open to both parties being asses
mircea_popescu: nubbins`: october, the OFFICIAL breast cancer awareness month << i think in some us states it's illegal to get breast cancer out of wedlock, or on any other month.
BingoBoingo: I'm trying to hunt for new and "expensive thing was expensive" keeps introducing noise today.
thickasthieves: other than robocoin's shitty numbers, i dont think this while consumer ripoff report is all that convincing anyway
mpmcsweeney: haha I still use an iphone 2 :)
mircea_popescu: <TomServo> "I talked with the Guardian editors about publishing the manual. In the end, we decided not to, because the information in it wasn't useful to understanding the story." << lel
BingoBoingo: I'm probably going to have to replace the fan it the laptop again. This time I'll probably buy 5 or so
thickasthieves: i guess i could order one direct without trying it... seems foolish
thickasthieves: i got turned away at the herman miller place
thickasthieves: i tell ya, it aint easy buying a nice computer chair