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a111: Logged on 2018-10-05 01:53 BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> afaik all you get is reverse auction (at
a significant later date, once he's well done with rewriting the whole thing). << This is what I recall. Reverse auction denominated in ECU
mircea_popescu: you're in this joining me, who's similarly not seen for
a few months now.
a111: Logged on 2018-09-09 19:00 mircea_popescu: lobbes forum schmorum, if you de-ecu it ima kick it off #eulora and have someone else make
a different one.
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: 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: 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 ?
mod6: After for sure. I don't have the exact date, but I'd say it was in the last week of september -- I reached out to
a few people directly since I wasn't getting any takers in either #pizarro or #trielam.
trinque: and it's not as though I can't eat +-5%, but why, when learned folks have
a process for narrowing those kinds of gaps, and don't need
a bot to do it.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> afaik all you get is reverse auction (at
a significant later date, once he's well done with rewriting the whole thing). << This is what I recall. Reverse auction denominated in ECU
☟︎ mircea_popescu: afaik all you get is reverse auction (at
a significant later date, once he's well done with rewriting the whole thing).
a111: Logged on 2018-09-09 19:00 mircea_popescu: lobbes forum schmorum, if you de-ecu it ima kick it off #eulora and have someone else make
a different one.
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 ?
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> BingoBoingo: aside from the problem where mod6 proclaimed one on 17th and nobody came forward << This is
a problem
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Hand cranked auction has long history of being
a thing
trinque: I suppose all I know about jurov right now is silence, which is
a related problem.
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 ?
trinque: I could've weighed the decision to buy against your discount, which would've put you in
a better position than your deal with jurov, and meanwhile saved you from the perception that you're not all that clued in on what the forum does.
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 ?
mod6: I'd love to do this
a different way. I just felt like, other than alf spending money that he had saved for
a possible emergency trip, we didn't have
a lot of other options.
mod6: Since we were getting
a bit desperate to get some fiat purchased, I offered to him to send the coins first, and he could mitigate that FX risk. We worked out the details in
a PGP.
mod6: Last few months, jurov took
a heavy hit on FX when he would quote us, send the wires, and then we would finally send him the coins at the end. He also was apparently butting up against some possible fiat limits.
trinque: you came to
a price point with jurov where?
mod6: It was not pulled out of our "asses". We had
a difficult time finding takers to sell us fiat this month. Late in the game, we came to
a price point with jurov. This was the quoted amount.
trinque: I thought the point of doing business in
a WoT was to avoid that kind of thing.
trinque: gotta say, I'm eventually going to cancel my service if this "we pulled the price out of our asses, and here it is" thing doesn't turn into
a process somebody surfaces on
a blog somewhere.
☟︎ mod6: hanbot: Thank you, I really like both of these. I don't think I would change
a word. Nice job!
mod6: Yeah, I wanted to get
a bit of background here before I do. On-deck next :]
mircea_popescu: i guess i gotta get that girl
a real machine now, so she can actually v and stuff.
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.
hanbot: ty asciilifeform. BingoBoingo also take
a look?
a111: Logged on 2018-10-03 23:51 mircea_popescu: hanbot lend the fellows
a hand ?
mircea_popescu: i got the perfect monture supporting your summary, coming out in
a few hours.
a111: Logged on 2013-03-01 22:30 SudsyForce: Two slave brothers, one black, one an albino, discover
a treasure map which is taken from them by their foreman. They take it back but are pursued by the foreman. Originally, the foreman seeks the aid of two bounty hunters who pursue the protagonists throughout the film. At the end, both the foreman and the bounty hunters catch up with the two escaped slaves, and the foreman has
a change of heart, helping to kill the bounty hunters.
hanbot: can be
a sorta moiety-lite
hanbot: ahaha, okay. i haven't seen the inside of
a cow holding pen, no, fancy that.
mircea_popescu: it doesn't look like your house. it looks like
a cow's house.
mircea_popescu: i don't expect the cows to sit on couches as
a resul;t of this.
hanbot: here's
a question for the forum at large as i'm thinking about the missives on my plate for today: if tbf outreach is
a goal, and talking to people
a primary avenue of same, given the rocky road to voice in #t these days, should the foundation host its own castle-channel?
BingoBoingo: ;tl didn't click: Picture of
a "Genderbread Man" graphic
BingoBoingo: I return from
a local IT business networking event. Admission and pizza were free. Everyone else was either
a full stack developer who does Machine learning and e-commerce, or independent consultant of unclear purpose
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: asciilifeform cool, i get 1e12 accounts! what's
a collision do iyo ?
mircea_popescu: (more of the same old "omfg nobody gives
a shit about our inconsequential nappy headed ho club ?!?!?!?!")
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!!!]".
a111: Logged on 2014-04-03 13:30 asciilifeform: truffles: it was
a minor subplot. they find these critters on jupiter, living in the gas, and decide to study them. by building
a machine which transforms people into them, so they can see what their life is like. and then, for years, no one returns to be converted back. eventually one fellow comes back. and tells how much more fun it is than being human. end result: mankind vanishes, converted to lopers.
mircea_popescu: kinda lulzy how june 2014 gets to count as ancient in my head some point on or about july 2015. year-and-
a-month!
a111: Logged on 2015-07-05 22:31 mircea_popescu: if that 1% doesn't feel the state like
a glove, the state's gone. kinda like my ancient "the state may exist inasmuch as and for as long as i can't tell it's there."
a111: Logged on 2018-09-17 19:24 mircea_popescu: trinque is this something you'd be interested in doing ? expand deedbot thusly, maybe charge chans
a fee ?
mircea_popescu: "but mp, i know who you or mocky are, i don't know these random names!" "so ?" "so the random names are spam" "congratulations of having
a wot. now try without."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform incidentally, gave
a look at eulora log recently ?
mircea_popescu: yeah but we were using
a "standard" figure. what's pizarro charge, i don't recall ? was it 10% ?
a111: Logged on 2018-10-03 23:51 mircea_popescu: hanbot lend the fellows
a hand ?
mircea_popescu: so i'm saying... it's not 0, whatever the actual ratio. and if i concede
a 0.1, you're still not gonna produce the 5bn hypatia.
mircea_popescu: the 2bn they burned in 2017 comes out of
a ~51bn piggy.
mircea_popescu: "there's
a whole list of what people said about the thing you're wanting to see ?" jesus.
mircea_popescu: and yet tesla got to pretend it's worth 300
a share ; and 2bn
a year spending money out of the "shareholder"'s piggy. where's the mamie with 2bn to spend, i wish to see this.
mircea_popescu: let's take the 2012 tesla s lulz : 581 kW theoretical powerplant ; 100 kWh theoretical battery pack. it's like
a bmw with
a two ounce tank!!!
mircea_popescu: as long as "engineering" and computer pseudoscience and tesla and deeply dysfunctional entirely-not-
a-chance-in-hell-of-ever-working-why-don't-you-talk-of-hp-anymore "electric" cars get money... on what grounds can you deny it to irigaray and her brood ?
mircea_popescu: the logic is sound, if you think it through : "we fat sexually worthless females, in
a word we the mamies, have the following grievance : back when the clever boys discovered new lands and made train engines, you priviledged them for this reason. now -- they do not. why can't we also have the payola they get ?" "uhm..." "and if you don't like this simple formulation, we can add 10mn words of rephrasings ?" "fuck"
BingoBoingo: Meanwhile
a couple journals,
a couple "centers of study", and
a book series has been reduced to...
a book series
mircea_popescu: the notion that the 1920s produced
a whole lotta churchgoers is exactly of the same cloth as the notion that the 2000s produced
a whole lotta academics, "discourse", "awareness" and what have you.
mircea_popescu: so the notion that somehow it could be undone by meaning... item exists economically. all the women "liberated" from depending on
a male are still just as dependent. much like all the slaves "liberated" from slave owner are just as much slaves.
mircea_popescu: the whole thing is basically social payments extension. there's
a lot of idle schmuycks who expect to get government freebies under the title of "doing" this crap.