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mircea_popescu: you're in this joining me, who's similarly not seen for a few months now.
mircea_popescu: all auctions must ~settle in something~. it is greatly beneficial to have unique settlement, on the basis of 100s of years of auctioning experiencve in teh commercial world. just like lloyds will trade in antique vases and modern soiled underpants, BUT ALWAYS SETTLE IT IN POUNDS, just so lobbesbot will deal in disgusting goop or unified dosidoes, but always settle in ecu.
mircea_popescu: notwithstanding this doesn't seem to actually be your position -- you do not in fact have the option to so wait, because you may not engage in this course that fucks over the record keeping and advertising obligations you have.
mircea_popescu: for SOME REASON you seem to be waiting for a (MUCH LATER) upgrade which would permit you to advertise ~i want to buy EXACTLY X fiats AND NO OTHER SUM NO MATTERE WHAT HAPPENS!!!~.
mircea_popescu: this, as far as i can tell, is perfectly useful to pizarro as things stand now, and perfecly approachable to everyone, and a permanent solution to the record and advertisement requirements people have.
mircea_popescu: the way auction bot currently works, and has worked for 100s of auctions worth 10s of bitcoin, is that any one party with some fiat, can say "i have this much fiat and will let it go for no less than this much ecu".
mircea_popescu: it ~seems to me~ this difference is not worth a postage stamp, if indeed i understand the description of pizarro's situation mod6 is making correctly, that is, "we have trouble finding lots of fiat to buy, not finding exact chunks".
mircea_popescu: what this development buys you is NOT that "i can now trade fiats", but that "i can now buy SPECIFIC lots of fiat, whereas before i was stuck bidding on whatever lots someone offered".
mircea_popescu: the way the auction will work, is that you will be able to both sell and buy any one thing you wish, also for ecu.
mircea_popescu: the way the auction works, is that you can currently sell any one thing you wish, for ecu, which are these account bitcoins.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i suspect what might've happened is that ~everyone is waiting indefinitely for arbitrary and unexamined expectations to be satisfied, and no public discussion available to remedy this.
mircea_popescu: i had formed the impression the main problem's finding lots, not cutting them to specified sizes.
mircea_popescu: to translate the difference between "i'm selling 8k fiats" and "i wish to buy 8k fiats" ? is the specificity of ammounts on pizarro side such a huge deal for you lot ?
mircea_popescu: can't say " !Qauction 1bn 168 8.2k wFF q0" because gotta say !Qrauction 1bn 168 8.2k wFF q0 instead ?
mircea_popescu: entirely not clear to me what's blocking about this. what's blocing about this ?
mircea_popescu: afaik all you get is reverse auction (at a significant later date, once he's well done with rewriting the whole thing).
mircea_popescu: so if jurov has a chunk of fiat, he can offer it and pizarro can bid and i guess trinque could bid more if he wanted to. this is dysfunctional ?
mircea_popescu: i dunno why this thing with the bot seems to satisfy me only. is it truly impossible to sell chunks of fiat for some reason ?
mircea_popescu: in fairness to jurov (whom, knowing the man, i can readily believe took a fx beating), wouldn't his implicit donation deserve the implicit recognition ?
mircea_popescu: how do i lean on him, "trinque, stick with the republican isp!" "but mp, LOOK WHAT THEY DID TO MY BABY!". what do i say at that juncture ?
mircea_popescu: if you do manage to lose his custom, that's what, 1/3 of your income ?
mircea_popescu: you had no options other than to keep things quiet that you knew sooner or later will have to make public and also knew the people you'll make them public to will take a dim view of your keeping them secret ?
mircea_popescu: is there some advantage i'm not seeing to the approach ?
mircea_popescu: mod6 is the idea jurov could not have done what i did,
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-07-27#1837995 specifically, because... what is it, he's decided not to speak in channel anymore and you had tjhe option of either forcing the point or getting the dough ? or is this just terribly mismanaged altogether, or what ?
☝︎ mircea_popescu: i guess i gotta get that girl a real machine now, so she can actually v and stuff.
mircea_popescu: just as long as we're clear "media-wannabes" includes everyone, from washpo and guardian to what have you.
mircea_popescu: i don't see a problem. maybe could be had warmer, but not clear that can be done without elongation. terseness' is a virtue, as ~nobody reads anymore.
mircea_popescu: i got the perfect monture supporting your summary, coming out in a few hours.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what i was looking for is our discussion of the old republic wrecking that was the "fugitive slaves act". you got link ?
mircea_popescu: in other lulz, black girl uninspiredly picked the nick "sashalotus".
mircea_popescu: it's built exclusively out of building blocks familiar to the cow and recognizable by it.
mircea_popescu: it doesn't look like your house. it looks like a cow's house.
mircea_popescu: cow holding pen has cow-facing plating on the inside. yes ? you ever seen one ?
mircea_popescu: give them emal and phones and telepheric or w./e the fuck they use.
mircea_popescu: i don't expect the cows to sit on couches as a resul;t of this.
mircea_popescu: this'll not only make for much happier cows, but it'll also permit the purchase of some fine china.
mircea_popescu: i would like the semi-domestic animals domesticated properly, and the china safeguarded. consequently republic gotta make the step up from mongol horde into settled civilisation.
mircea_popescu: hanbot because the situation in the republic currently includes semi-domestic animals running all over the place, and in the process threatening the china.
mircea_popescu: the design of the cow holding pen is built around bovine physiology and psychology, not human aesthetic values. because it's made to hold cows.
mircea_popescu: they are what they are, and that is very much not people.
mircea_popescu: let's not worry about "what if the barn animal starts talking", in the design of the cattle prods.
mircea_popescu: these have the ability to irc that heretofore was magically undiagnosed ?
mircea_popescu: ie, "i'm guessing you're still doing that, on the farm ?"
mircea_popescu: and, as it happens to all fashions, this one meanwhile became unfashionable.
mircea_popescu: to engage in any of it, at all -- you wouldn't discourse with the girls over the relative merits of pompadours or bangs, notwithstanding the lesser value items in the sack may very well want you to.
mircea_popescu: i was thinking of the other one. the file thing. brb fixing. thanks for insisting.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's simply not specified what the id is.
mircea_popescu: but for every byte i add, ALL packets henceforth carry it.
mircea_popescu: understand, i can readily make it 256 bytes, why not, i hold the hand that holds the pen.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile the storage's limited at iirc 200 items per category, and you can carry a further 90 or so, and well... so there's gonna be 100mn bits of flotsam out in the world ?
mircea_popescu: idea is that if collision happens ~in same client~, then can have some unexpected behaviour.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform cool, i get 1e12 accounts! what's a collision do iyo ?
mircea_popescu: client only ever repeats ids the server produces, see. server says "here's the tree of nodes" and client may ask "what is X node"
mircea_popescu: no cause to mention it, seeing how it's not in the protocol, it's server side
mircea_popescu: (more of the same old "omfg nobody gives a shit about our inconsequential nappy headed ho club ?!?!?!?!")
mircea_popescu: let the new hussies redo the old forms in their own flesh.
mircea_popescu: anyway, naked pics outliving in the public sphere the woman pictured seems morally dubious, exactly in the vein of old margo channing acting a "25 yo, age's unimportant -- [AS LONG AS SHES TWENTYSOMETHING!!!]".
mircea_popescu: im sure it'll be "bought" because "valuable assets" etc.
mircea_popescu: kinda why i even used tumblr. afaik the most stable of the heathentrons.