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dexX7: i think this is the original thread on btctalk https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=515932.0
mircea_popescu: i think pretty much everyone likes him by now.
ozbot: Say Hello to 2014, Bitcointalk. I created Bitcointa.lk, a real alternative to Bitcointalk.org. 5 mil
dexX7: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/208sss/say_hello_to_2014_bitcointalk_i_created/
nubbins`: pankkake: i think thermos is, so he can cut and run with the forum upgrade funds
nubbins`: i get a 500 error upon first connect, without fail
pankkake: I removed a lot of friends this year actually
mircea_popescu: kinda why i love nanotube. he's a geek, and he's not making the wot any more social than it is
pankkake: I've been endorsed for skills the people endorsing me knew nothing about. that's because it bugs you to endorse people…
nubbins`: yeah, i've had people i worked with 3 years ago "endorse" me for skills out of the blue
TestingUnoDosTre: I've had some Indian dude that I briefly hung out with at work like 3 years ago ask for endorsements on his project management skills. I complied...
nubbins`: i'm suspicious of people who add me on it
TestingUnoDosTre: I absolutely hate recruits on linked in. It's like they believe their likelyhood of staying with a company depends on how many contacts they have
pankkake: people accept anyone's friendship in linkedin. I always get recruiters as shortest paths, it's useless :(
mircea_popescu: and that's quite why i;'m so distrustful of various "Experts" and "ceos" and whatnot that don't have one.
mircea_popescu: i can cut through the chase in about ten minutes because of it,
TestingUnoDosTre: too much thinking. I'm going to go create a web of likes and dislikes ;)
mircea_popescu: and i go "well maybe X or maybe Y" etc.
mircea_popescu: and i tell you "we've done a bunch of 0.0001 trades and i trust him to so and so and back and forth"
mike_c: thanks for rating mp. i have found wot useful even for someone like me with a small graph. you rate people you trust, and then can leech off their ratings.
pankkake: but I could trust someone I know nothing about
nubbins`: i think the highest rating i've left anyone is maybe a 2.
TestingUnoDosTre: I'm confused though
mircea_popescu: conversely i could keep someone at a 1 even if we trade millions, if it's a hit and run affair and i couldn't really tell them from adam.
mircea_popescu: so in this sense, pankkake, i can mark as 10 someone with whom i only do 0.001 trades, inasmuch as i judge that i can 100% describe them to whoever asks
pankkake: I see
mircea_popescu: and the individual score is not "how trustworthy is this guy" but "how well i am acquainted with this guy", ie, how valuable my input may be to a third party asking for references.
pankkake: no, I just take them as trust
mircea_popescu: pankkake how do you know how i score things ?
pankkake: I'm holding like 0.1 BTC worth
pankkake: I don't qualify for this
TestingUnoDosTre: a little bit late, but this was an awesome comment in the california hacker article "It IS relatively easy for an nationally/regionally accredited operation to advertise a degree program, collect tuition, and then provide low-quality education. Somehow I see a deep parallel, and the problem is what again??"
ninjashogun: I asked about accepting bitcoin for shares on my site - since it's "play money" (monopoly money) that is PC software and anyone can run it (like a video game) to generate the virtual internet coins.
asciilifeform: ever since, whenever i see the english word 'opportunity' in the idiot press, i think of just this.
mike_c: that's weak. it does measurements for you. i guess timezones aren't as popular
dexX7: ty, i guess it's only a matter of the right question ;)
dexX7: haha i know
mircea_popescu: as far as i can remember i always used tos as toilet paper and never suffered for it.
diametric: mircea_popescu: though, I guess they ultimately did me a favor. It broke my addiction to MMOs and gaming in general, though I do play casually from time to time.
diametric: well, I was never actually in danger of getting fired, I just did not enjoy having that much personally identifiable information hanging out there.
diametric: I have since decided maintaining a linked in profile is a bad idea.
diametric: mircea_popescu: i didn't sell gold, but i did other things that caused them to actually track down my place of employment via linkedin and try to have my fired. I should actually state it wasn't Blizzard. Blizzard was not bad about it, it was the brass as Activision.
diametric: though after they banned me I was very tempted to rape their policies in as many ways as I could.
diametric: in my experience, i was special banned, and almost sued
bounce: I don't suppose there'd be a way to get a ban for selling wow gold overturned on the grounds that blizzard isn't paying taxes over it
mircea_popescu: i dig BingoBoingo's twitter background
mircea_popescu: my friend freud says that since you said it just as i was going to bed, clearly it's the case.
B007: I wish
Mats_cd03: i find the boobies to be the most erotic part of the woman
mircea_popescu: bounce i used it as a metaphor for a guy who says "you do what i tell you or i kill you" and then proceeds to stick to his word.
bounce: this the bloody-handed dead guy or some metaphor I'm missing a reference to?
mircea_popescu: bounce i suspect that risk is mostly mitigated by stalin
bounce: hm think I read about it elsewhere
mircea_popescu: i guess.
mircea_popescu: come to think about it, i don't know there's something in the world i ever hated more than a mac, and in this sense a ms-dos pc seems a muchly preferable alternative.
mircea_popescu: i'll readily grant that it didn't operate in any kind of free market in the 90s. but your statement was as of product
mircea_popescu: the free market leg however, i do not.
mircea_popescu: so now, the "competition on technical merit" leg of your statement, i see
mike_c: ^ i think you are underestimating what it took to build the monolopy.
asciilifeform: i suppose ms turdows being mandatory os of usg is also free market ?
diametric: i miss os/2.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i do. what part of that is not free market ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i presume you know the story of msdos
mircea_popescu: i think it'll be hard for anyone born after 1990 or so to even understand fear.
bounce: TestingUnoDosTre: I didn't say that
mircea_popescu: (if not, graham explains it better than i could : http://www.paulgraham.com/yahoo.html )
mike_c: hey, i was nominated for two webbys just 3 years ago :)
mircea_popescu: mike_c ya but you know what i mean. or do you ?
asciilifeform: i think everyone east of berlin knows that joke
mircea_popescu: i wonder how long till #bitcoin-assets gets the webby awards for the coolest place on the web
mircea_popescu: i know i would have, congress be damned.
asciilifeform: morloch << molloch worshipped by morlocks? i like it
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ThickAsThieves: it's also an absurd degree of taxation: say i buy a Walmart Gift Card with btc, i should pay sales tax, gains tax, then the seller reports profit and is taxed, revenue used to pay employees is taxed. then you tack on the accounting burden on both sides, plus the seller's burden as tax collector
mike_c: i do see your point, but i agree with ascii. it makes no practical difference since the bureaucrats will not recognize said difference.
mircea_popescu: stock is a portion of the business, so i get a brick out of the building that is represented by the stock
ThickAsThieves: Dota 2 gets intricate too, the more i play the more items i get, they provide a market for selling items for USD credit
mircea_popescu: mike_c yep, i can.
asciilifeform: i think everyone here is aware of the practical difference btween btc and cement. but the bureaucrats aren't - or will pretend, at any rate, for as long as it remains possible
bounce: well, as long as they steal the tax obligation with it, I suppose I can live with it
mike_c: if my employer pays me in stock, i owe taxes. can't hit me in the head with that
diametric: I've done a lot of things with WoW over the years before I quit about 3 years ago
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this is true. but, again, with pb i can hit you over the head.
ThickAsThieves: i bought both gold and accounts
asciilifeform: my understanding is, if i'm shot walking on the street, i theoretically owe 9g of Pb worth of tax on the windfall of perfectly good lead.
ThickAsThieves: i used to
ThickAsThieves: i dont play anymnore
ThickAsThieves: to maintain the value of the gold i hold?
diametric: ThickAsThieves: I don't see why not.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform again : i can hit you over the head with the cement.
diametric: which I said those selling the wow gold are liable for taxes
mircea_popescu: o i know what they believe.
diametric: I'm not disagreeing with you, I'm telling you having actually talked to Blizzard's legal team what they believe
ThickAsThieves: more like if i sold you my checkign account password
bitcoinpete: ThickAsThieves: I've been keeping up with the logs at least :)
diametric: mircea_popescu: in the same way if I stole your TV and sold it, you're not responsible for capital gains on it.
mircea_popescu: oh i see. but some WoW gold IS sold for usd.
bitcoinpete: I'm just going to quietly leave this here: http://bitcoinpete.com/2014/progress-pies-and-profit/
ThickAsThieves: i wonder what my tax penalties will be for all that unreported WoW gold
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i dun think they recognised the face.