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mircea_popescu: "guy with a pgp key and a bmezine archive" = cypherpunk
mircea_popescu: nubbins` did i leave out the psychoactives or somewhing ? whence the protest ? :D
mircea_popescu: phf it's funny to me, as a purely unconvinced observer of "culture" as a feeding epiphenomena, to notice just how fundamentally workable the whole species is. does it want a war ? it'll fucking fix the demographics and get it, and you can write any book you want - it'll help!
mircea_popescu: nubbins` srsly ? downshifting, hanging out with obscure bands and whatnoit making posters all day. whjat else ?
mircea_popescu: so, i see three things. 1) the actual rape culture as seen in "women are cattle" vory outlook on life and derivatives ; 2) the so-called "rape culture" wherein male dominance is generally recognised as natural within some bounds ; 3) the libertard nonsense, a recent reimplementation of the ancient socialist "great leaps forward".
mircea_popescu: i think we'd greatly benefit from defining things here, i'm getting confused.
mircea_popescu: phf "rapeworld". just because english tards use words doesn't mean much.
mircea_popescu: so the world as reflected in their eyes doesn't actually suck the way it does for usian born and bred.
mircea_popescu: phf gotta appreciate they grew up in a sane culture. you know, malecentric rapeworld of doom-evil thing.
mircea_popescu: n6 same way you learn any language - find a native girlfriend.
mircea_popescu: very simple math in my head, "is this one doing a better job at X than the last/best one we saw to date". obviously in empty lines this is trivial. also perhaps not for everyone.
mircea_popescu: (hostile messages won't be awarded points) << lol how da fuck do you police that.
mircea_popescu: mno. just recommended him to give them something to do hopefully less retarded than what they were doing at the time.
mircea_popescu: "how do we do this, we don't have a lot of money to spend on it" "just pick a significant number, that's how mp always does it. people will think hey, it's metasyntactic!"
mircea_popescu: The sum of Bitcoin prizes in the challenge is 3.14159265 BTC. hahaha
mircea_popescu: wywialm you gonna introduce eulora copper derivatives ? :D
mircea_popescu: (yes, back when i was 10 kids went to the cinema on their own. fancy that.)
mircea_popescu: i didnmt think to ask for a gpg sig. bought her an icecream and we even kissed!
mircea_popescu: tell you what, wen i was about 10 a girl that really liked me in schooil called me on the phone pretending to be this other girl i really liked, and she tricked me into meeting at the movies.
mircea_popescu: n6 either i'm slow today or something's amiss. i don't get what exactly you think you did wrong from this story.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` i always thought you're like the only cypherpunk here you know.
mircea_popescu: wywialm well i'm not entirely sure how that'd work, not like i'm against it or anything. but gotta come up with something specific.
mircea_popescu: wywialm i'm not required to allow trading of options. for as long as you hold some of the underlying, you can structure its ownership in any way you wish. such as through trading options on it.
mircea_popescu: wywialm it's not an illegitimate approach. i can't evaluate how practically useful it'll be, but then again that's what you folks are in for right ?
mircea_popescu: was another guy did something similar, trying to remember
mircea_popescu: wywialm best of luck. there isn't anything glaringly obvious to say else.
mircea_popescu: !v assbot:mircea_popescu.rate.wywialm.3:8bbdc73128302d7bd5c78c2e2521b516d2041fa396c65d8d866b13e26f149a02
mircea_popescu: !rate wywialm 3 Polish econ guy, trying to make quedex.net work.
mircea_popescu: what the fuck am i, jane fonda over here. talk to a woman in good shape, they know.
mircea_popescu: it's a forum, this. really very free passage throughout.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` iirc he narrowly survived that, a settlement being involved.
mircea_popescu: wywialm there's know and there's know. not something i can help you with - but know you are in fact taking your fate in your own hands and make the call as to these people in full light of that.
mircea_popescu: i guess all the effort to parallel-construct was no longer worth it seeing how "nobody" really bought it anyway.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform they finally giving up on all the pretense re truecrypt ? win.
mircea_popescu: er scammer runs witrh moey and the entire stack of noobs is left apologizing
mircea_popescu: the way this usually works, and it has worked about 500 times to date with 0 variance, is that scammer gets a coupla sluts and a coupla "credible people" to contact respectable, well meaning folk, launches project. from the perspective of the public the respectable folk form an impenetrable visual barrier. from the perspective of said folk, the coupla sluts and couipla salesmen idem. and a year to a year and a half lat
mircea_popescu: why're these people involved not in the wot for instance ? who are they ? how do you know any word they say is true ?
mircea_popescu: why would you wish to risk your reputation (which, whatever you may think of it, is significant enough that you can come here and have my ear whenever you want to) on this thing ? for all you know you're reliving the neobee nightmare. you remember that ?
mircea_popescu: if your future doesn't deliver it has a hole in it, sooner or later it'll infect and puss out. anyway.
mircea_popescu: (note that deferred salary payments and other promises make you a 3)
mircea_popescu: are you an outside consultant on a salary, a board member with an equity interest, a volunteer academic, none of the above.
mircea_popescu: what's the meaning of "collaborating on" in this context ?
mircea_popescu: problem being the market's illiquid enough to be easily pushed. but that's not something you'll manage to fix or really should be fixing.
mircea_popescu: shinohai will require a coupla engineers always on to watch the watchjer. this is unavoidalbe, bitcoin is a pos anyway.
mircea_popescu: but in point of fact, for your daily life, you'll have a much more annoying problem.
mircea_popescu: can function (irrespective of what idiots such as the eu central bank think). so there is that.
mircea_popescu: this will be the bane of your existence, on the general theoretic front. because like it or not, the unappealing dilemma is, either offer "renegotiable contracts", which is roughly what you're describing, and which fails at the only job futures have to do (ie, ensure the buyer of specified amount of specified merchandise on specified date), or else full reserve, which will kill your speculators without which no market
mircea_popescu: i bought 1mn in q4, yoiu're gonna give me 3/4 mn in q3 because hey, why not ?
mircea_popescu: "explain" and "make sense" of it all. because omfg, what if she just ditched the blouse o noes her mommy told her the sky would fall.
mircea_popescu: suppose i buy a million dollars to be delivered in q4. how do you resolve the part where you have to make sure whoever sold me the mn actually has it by then ?
mircea_popescu: for instance i had an open offer for a tsla short in here weeks ago, could it have filled it ?
mircea_popescu: "Thats like saying the dotcom bubble was a scam isn't it? You can certainly phrase it like that but is that really whats going on. An actual scam?"
mircea_popescu: what is this, woman being ravished by komodo dragon with military cap ?