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Shakespeare: and impossiblly frustrating to educate the target audience i chose
Shakespeare: yeah i didnt have much luck with it myself
[KS]: mircea_popescu: I see your point, but it's an improper use of the word "scam". A scam is a fraud. A good corp in a bad market is just that. You made a bad investment and calling it a scam is just shifting the blame. Of course, don't try to explain them word things to "investors".
jurov: And I can't do the travelling,freelancing and squatting nomad either, attractive it may be.
jurov: Well, I could barely stand being an employee since I remember.
jurov: Dunno. If I want to have company and attract and keep talent, that's what i need to become
jurov: you're right, i'd be upset
Shakespeare: we're getting away from the spirit of the Quimby article i think though
Shakespeare: i think you'd find the working environment of successful "bean bag" companies to not be all espresso machines and fun
Apocalyptic: jurov, I saw the point as a real life exemple of the value of management
jurov: But that's beside the point. I saw the point "as do not treat anyone as exceptional"
Apocalyptic: I think it can
jurov: Apocalyptic if i consider them somehow,i'll behave too
Apocalyptic: I didn't see that in the piece
jurov: But I don't want to surround me with people I secretly despise!
jurov: Looks if i want to have more people around, I have to actually and mercilessly use them
Apocalyptic: I really liked the article
locksmith: I have actually never even spoken to ThickAsThieves, but this guy sees I come to this channel and so doees ThickAsThieves
locksmith: ok, also if you guys see ThickAsThieves let him know I'm his alt-ego
MisterE: 8-years ago I saw the writing on the wall
MisterE: hey I voted with my feet
locksmith: mircea_popescu I was trying to not sound too terrorist-ish - I'm not hiding my IP :p
locksmith: I'd hit the road man
locksmith: but I don't live in the states
locksmith: I'm thinking it's best to live with someone, and if you end up not liking each other just split up. what's the point of bringing the state into the whole ordeal
mircea_popescu: this "ima get married cause everyone else is" nonsense obviously can't work any better than "i'ma '''invest''' cause the rest of reddit thinks so"
chetty: God I hate feminists
locksmith: where I come from women are feminist by default. we change the configs though but some of them are using persistent state
mircea_popescu: most pleasant feminists i know are simply not interested in getting it on with a failed boy pretending to be a man
mircea_popescu: most annoying feminists i saw are butthurt cause you can't really make their boobs out among all the spare tires.
locksmith: so if I get this right, feminists are butthurt cos of having small boobs?
mircea_popescu: (but no, they're nice gals, i'm just being contrarian)
pankkake: I remembered them flatter
locksmith: oh alright, I was trying to connect the dots with a sharpy and see if you could be linked to violentacrez
mircea_popescu: locksmith pity you weren't around when i stil ran dtng, you could have spammed reddit with links to that
mircea_popescu: cazalla: CoinLab now goldmember, toite like a toiger << i remember in like early 2013 when i was like, ycombinator is running btc scams, and people were like nonono, coinlab and coinbase are not the same thing! and coindesk is relevant!
locksmith: yeah, I'm just trying to figure why that guy is connecting me to TaT though, beyond the fact that I've been warning people against neobee and also coming to this channel
mircea_popescu: i personally hold the latter responsible for it, because somehow it has been implanted in the head of every clueless fuckwit that how nice you are matters. it dun matter for shit.
mircea_popescu: trading 0.0050+0.0007 atm. i guess an article is in order.
chetty: hmm I gave them to MP
[KS]: BingoBoingo: I'm not really interested in the encyclopedic classification of scams but I can see where it has some value for clueless investors. I'm more into: 1/ it's scam, 2/ it still might be a scam or have same result, 3/ it's without a doubt not a scam and is a secure investment (like Treasury Bonds - although...looking at Argentina/Russia...). So far I have seen 1/ and 2/. Dank, RENT and others are 1/ no doubt. Neo and AM are 2/.
mircea_popescu: i know plenty of quite competend hedgies that don't even have an office.
cads: i want to teach math in a virtual pirate math university
cads: idea I've had for a while
cads: benkay: I live and breath jargon :)
cads: but that's because I tend to fill in the details with the actual real work I've read dealing with the terms
cads: another area I could improve on is being taken in by heavy use of jargon
cads: not a bad thing if I happen to also take measures to increase the effective bandwidth of the text I read
mircea_popescu: cads i can see it. needs practice tho
cads: mircea_popescu: I've always been a heavy reader, it's honest to goodness just the switching social contexts that do it
cazalla: i believe the summly kid is from australia
cads: about 60-70 wpm, I'm happy with that
cads: anyways, more recently I've heard about this 18 year old kid that sold his text summarization company Summly to Yahoo for 30 million bucks
thestringpuller: i should play sad music
cads: sometimes I use text to speech to help reduce to brain load
cads: sometimes I can barely keep up in real time with a medium load, 5 speaker IRC conversation
cads: I think I'm naturally half dyslexic and half autistic because I can't read fast, especially when you throw social contexts into the mix and especially when there are multiple speakers
cads: huh, I need to look into algorithmically summarizing the log file
bloctoc: thanks! now I can phone in my reports to the viceroy
cads: As a fifth tier entrepreneur, I have decided to rewire my mushy brain with the classic modes of thought!
cads: I'm glad I missed that.
mircea_popescu: cads i think you should detail your previous five failures on a blog.
cads: sorry I made that question _extra_ clueless, for humor.
mircea_popescu: "i love the tangibility of neobee's assets". "oops... they had no assets"
kakobrekla: >The Bitcoin Emerging Market Fund (BBBB) initiated a position in the Neo & Bee Payment Network (Havelock: NEOBEE) on 03/07 buying 18 shares. The fund will continue to increase this position in the near term. I love the tangibility of NEOBEE's assets. They have brick and mortar branches and will be providing vital financial services to an area that has traditionally been "under-banked."
bounce: eh, I made a boo-boo in the upper band. missing some 400k-odd, so 400k-800k. lemme check the numbers again.
bounce: looking at their membership page and the dues listed --in usd but payable in "bitcoin index", taking usd for reference here, and taking the yearlies for just one year-- I'm calculating a band of 405925 to 440225 USD-worth lower bound actually paid
mircea_popescu: bounce basically ver donated i dun recall, 3k btc was it ? back when btc was 50ish
bounce: ``Two other exchanges hit by the same problem, Bitstamp Ltd. of Slovenia and BTC-e of Bulgaria, resumed normal trading after working out a fix with software coders coordinated by the Bitcoin Foundation.'' (wsj) -- I don't recall the bitcoin foundation having much to do with it. case of inserting yourself for marketeering purposes?
cazalla: i thought dooglus would've run with the coins by now
mike_c: and for those sans javascript: http://i.imgur.com/6zFGjFP.png
Duffer1: lol i am not at all interested in restarting that conversation
Duffer1: Luke-Jr I called you an idiot earlier, I'm sorry
matthew_boyd: Anyway, it's late here, and I have to revise tomorrow.
matthew_boyd: I have about 1 hour to myself a day.
matthew_boyd: Haha, I am 16, however, I do not have that sort of time. :P
cazalla: lol not really, i was a shitkunt but i don't have the time to dedicate to it
matthew_boyd: I haven't been in this chat for like, a year?
cazalla: http://www.lolking.net/summoner/oce/302360 but i have not played in a while
matthew_boyd: http://www.lolking.net/summoner/euw/51811207#matches -- my match history. I had to quit, but before I did, I had an 18 win streak.
cazalla: i like leona for sup
matthew_boyd: I love that champion.
matthew_boyd: Oh, I play Riven :)
mircea_popescu: i dont even remember.
cazalla: mcquad is making yet another mmorpg, funded this time by kickstarter, i'm sure it will end just like vanguard though
mircea_popescu: i didn't like either.
mircea_popescu: i actually paid them for 6 months.
cazalla: i bought it when it came out, didn't really give it longer than a week though
khersonus: I'm still not sure that argument would hold up in court...
mircea_popescu: khersonus i guess you could.
mircea_popescu: i'd guess there's between 10 and 20ish people working 40 hour weeks at feeding my vast industrial complex with raw materials.
mircea_popescu: so i'm the largest crafter in rift by such a wide margin that the next two people are smaller than me combined :D
Mats_cd03: i feel robbed
truffles: i find some value in some of it though
truffles: well i agree its tough to shake off the religious stuff
jurov: Mats_cd03: i don
jurov: wow that triple entry... looks like something i wrestled with and reimplemented badly
mircea_popescu: "I believe the community demand is great enough to carry this idea onward, and I look forward to their success."
mrstickball: I am trying to make sense of it all, given so many bad actors and skeevy exchanges
locksmith: I need to know what these people are buying if not thin air. neobee/danny do not have any BTC left