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BlueMeanie4: i feel better now :) lol
Apocalyptic: I'm amazed at the trust people put into PoS, but then again after seeing the investment section of bitcointalk it isn't that surprising
BlueMeanie4: generally warm to it, but i think piggybacking the block chain is ultimately doomed
BlueMeanie4: in particular i find crypto-bond markets interesting
BlueMeanie4: so I wanted to introduce them in a package called 'Virtual Corporations' which were a crypto way of having trustees over accounts and few other features
BlueMeanie4: great, I've been reading Mircea Popescu lately- enjoy his writings
danielpbarron: I think it's come up, but I don't think it gets more usable than this.
chetty: If this one actually blows its likely to be bigger, I think
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu maryland excepted. i have nfi idea what it's even for << it's where they keep ft. meade. (largest employer, largest consumer of mains current, per public stats.)
TomServo: sorry, I couldn't resist
fluffypony: I was trying out someone my age
fluffypony: well I was 20 or 21 at the time
fluffypony: so I guess I've always been an opinionated prick :-P
fluffypony: I once had a girlfriend break up with me because I kept correcting her 11 year old sister's grammar (kid's gotta learn before it becomes too ingrained, yo)
fluffypony: I guess he didn't like being corrected :-P
fluffypony: I wrote a couple there
fluffypony: Vexual: well I did marry a German...
mircea_popescu: hehe i guess that works.
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: I'm already a benevolent dictator in my own little fish-pond, so it's not like I need to concern myself with those governmental humans that consider themselves my leaders :-P
fluffypony: but beyond that I ignore them
fluffypony: so I'll comply with whatever I am obligated to comply with by virtue of my chosen country of residence
fluffypony: meh - I've just written human leadership off as flawed and unworkable
mircea_popescu: fluffypony personally, i'm looking for visionaries i personally know.
ThickAsThieves: i was waiting at the auto repair shop a few mos ago and an old man was writing and reading limericks to me
HeySteve: there's a few I'd trust to ensure basic infrastructure is maintained and expanded as necessary
fluffypony: I'll take mildly incompetent and a little greedy from having grown up poor and uneducated
HeySteve: yeah I'd say it's between South America and Australia / New Zealand
mircea_popescu: if that's the case i should be moving it the other way lol
mircea_popescu: chetty by now whenever i change it jumps, for crying out loud.
HeySteve: I can't say I'm optimistic
mircea_popescu: xmj i was talking the mob as in cosa nostra, not the mob as in mobile vulgus.
HeySteve: xmj yeah I intended it to say we have mobsters in charge here
mircea_popescu: i have nfi, i mean from where i'm sitting it looks pretty bad and with a worse outlook, then fluffy is all like happy go lucky everything will be fine.
HeySteve: well I'd say we have a kleptocracy here, and the results have been poor
fluffypony: aight, I'm busy making stew - having people round for supper
xmj: i'm currently reading my way through The Bell Curve, it's illuminating.
mircea_popescu: i doubt intelligence even figures into all of this.
fluffypony: I don't keep track
fluffypony: I'm oba-observing and seeing how things play out
mircea_popescu: but after the African Bank bailout, why would anyone pay up on anything they owe to a bank there ? uncollateralized i mean.
xmj: I don't know which extremese
xmj: I understand
fluffypony: I mean
xmj: nice, i have 15min more to procrastinate.
fluffypony: xmj: I think there will be a to-and-fro for a few more generations - whether it does a "slippery slope" on either side of the scale remains to be seen, but once its worn itself out and theres more social equilibrium it'll be stable
xmj: I don't have a helicopter
mircea_popescu: i wish i could find a way to bitbet this. "sa is going to shit in a handbasket"
mircea_popescu: and i dunno why zh is making such a big deal out of it. a bond anchored to gold. what's so strange about it ?
fluffypony: "this is such an amazing experiment, I'm going to try this when I next look for a job!"
ThickAsThieves: not what i meant
usagi: The only way I can imagine someone paying you to invest your gold with them is if they were selling it for an inflated price. I used to do that with TU.SILVER, I front-loaded my fee and the shipping cost into the share price
HeySteve: a secret buried treasure chest is a lot more secure than a bank vault I'd say
chetty: <usagi> Like if I promise to give you a thousand dollars at some point in the future, that has value//only if your promise has value
usagi: Like if I promise to give you a thousand dollars at some point in the future, that has value
usagi: I don't even know where to begin with stuff like that
Vexual: i aint the dalai lama
Vexual: dinosaur: i just got deja vu
punkman: I was going for an animal themed name theme
SuchWow: wow forget you all, sorry i even spoke
SuchWow: i won't, and i'm not an it, but thanks
SuchWow: i've never 'barked' here lol
Vexual: you barked, i didnt understand
Vexual: i v+d you
BingoBoingo: I often am +v'ing you
BingoBoingo: I have no idea who you are.
SuchWow: the people +ving me know who i am lol
SuchWow: all i said was
SuchWow: i've never once suggested that just anyone should get automatic +v
SuchWow: right i get that. what does that have to do with the conversation you all had with me earlier?
SuchWow: because i've read both, and i don't see the comparison
BingoBoingo: The SuchWow conversation was much like why I found this situation so lulzy https://bitcoinfoundation.org/2014/08/a-bitcoin-backbone/ when I linked it yesterday
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i was just thinking, wow look at that, all he had to do is ask.
SuchWow: fluffypony: yeah that's just about how i've felt both times
fluffypony: SuchWow: one of my dogs just epitomised my reaction to this entire conversation - http://i.imgur.com/nQujc5S.jpg
Vexual: yeah that t sounds approximately true, i don't know much
SuchWow: yet i was upped 20 times anyways lol
SuchWow: i've NEVER ONCE talked here lol\ ☟︎
fluffypony: SuchWow: I linked you to a blog post about it
SuchWow: i just wish someone could've explained it like that to me months ago when i first arrived :)
mircea_popescu: decimation i never really gas about the race politics in the us, so all this is news to me.
SuchWow: BingoBoingo: i get it. and as it seems, it ensures proper conversation is taking place
SuchWow: i get the ideal here
fluffypony: maybe - but then shouldn't I have 0 credits?
fluffypony: apparently I only have 4 trilema credits??
BingoBoingo: SuchWow: I'm sorry if it seemed like I was trolling. Didn't realize you were hammered too.
SuchWow: i'll stop bitching in the meantime
SuchWow: way too much work, and i'm too drunk.i guess just up me when you want, and should the day come that i care, i'll set all that up
SuchWow: i will read the wiki
SuchWow: it's cool i'll play the game
decimation: mircea_popescu: because blacks vote 99% democrat, therefore making their opinions on any political matter void << i dun think this is true. << what part, the 99% or the irrelevant?
mircea_popescu: no i was just explaining that even if you did it it wouldn't help you.
decimation: I guess I started all this. One way of remaining silent in the face of being upped - is to remain silent
SuchWow: and i will type that
SuchWow: ok someone tell me the command i need to use to id with gribble
SuchWow: i don't use -otc
SuchWow: yes i know that
SuchWow: clearly i am identified
SuchWow: i will ask
SuchWow: if i really have something to say
SuchWow: that's why i'm asking