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mircea_popescu: thestringpuller i have no idea what that is. what's a reddit gold ? a dollar ? 2 ? 10 ?
mircea_popescu: for this application! not for treating his blepharospasm
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform he's making a poc, for himself, as the first thing. he can solder later if he can't solder now
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller this theory is in fact long standing practice, it's just that the derps filling up the www with their words don't know what they don't know
mircea_popescu: this is true but misleading : in fact you know the fiats will inflate to all shit. and you know start-ups will dilute to all shit. in absolutely no proportion to "Words added" or any other sort of metric.
mircea_popescu: the qntra dilution argument is similar to the bitcoin inflation argument, saying something like "bitcoin is set to inflate at a fixed rate, fiat currenciesa are not"
mircea_popescu: and for that matter... a) in fact qntra is set to have MUCH LESS dilution than absolutely ANY start-up.
mircea_popescu: this is like telling me that a dollar's not worth 1/100 of a hundred dollars.
mircea_popescu: ;;LATER TELL mike_c but logically a share can not be differently worth from mktcap/sharecount.
mircea_popescu: but your point seems self contradictory to me. on one hand, oh, this is irreplaceable, on the other, oh, this is not worth its market value
mircea_popescu: mike_c you wouldn't need to hire them specifically, but you would need someone. and as there's very few people outside of b-a with brains working worth two shits...
mircea_popescu: ie, control and ownership are really separate concerns.
mircea_popescu: there's really no logical reason to buy it unless you got a better way to run it
mircea_popescu: conceivably they could run it as it runs now, which brings us to the point :
mircea_popescu: i think you at least theoreitcally could make a buyout offer.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i suspek jurov is perhaps in the best position to write you a short of some kind.
mircea_popescu: it's a nonsense statement, "mkt cap is fine, stock price too high"
mircea_popescu: anyway jurov may be able to write you a contract, seeing how he probably has a large chunk
mircea_popescu: however, betting against qntra being worth w/e, 5 btc ? seems insanity.
mircea_popescu: mike_c 158k includes whole shebang, 50% are issued, i'd guess 20-30k more likely for either cazalla or bingo
mircea_popescu: didn't the atms recently get shut down or is that a different country ?
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron: this one might not need soldering? << really, it doesn't NEED soldering, you can just glue it in contact, with conductive paste, whatever.
mircea_popescu: sely because the longer he stays in any one place, the better chance he'll be discovered to be a loser. Time to go where the grass is greener, somewhere people don't know you're there to crap on it.
mircea_popescu: The entire spirit of the book can be summarized by Dean's words: "Sal, think of it, we'll dig Denver together...!" That's what a man who is trying to con a woman into running off with him would say. Denver, really?? Really? Why? Because it starts with D? I'd at least momentarily entertain the theory that D cities are great places to get to, but the real reason he wants to get to Denver, or anywhere else, is preci
mircea_popescu: cazalla fwiw, exactly nothing in ro press re voxility srl.
mircea_popescu: this, fwiw, is patently false. even now is being advertised a device which, iof placed on tank, will make the car not use fuel.
mircea_popescu: "There are no homeopathic automobile repair shops, that try to repair your car by putting infinitesimal dilutions of rust in the gas tank. There are no automotive faith healers, who lay their hands on the hood and pray."
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller incidentally, exactly how teh neanderthal got wiped out.
mircea_popescu: wer sind sie eigentlich, dass sie einen befehl, den ich gebe, zu missachten wagen!!??!?!!!?! etc
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i merely am pointing out that your jumps go over lenghty stretches of weak bridging
mircea_popescu: could the roman empire have mandated its legions wear the fucking scutum, pilum and thorax ?
mircea_popescu: im sure all sorts of adults tell stories that happened to me as if - them.
mircea_popescu: im sure all sorts of romanian kids claim to know me for their own circle ?
mircea_popescu: there may be some relation even, and some factuality to the claim and existence to the group. nevertheless...
mircea_popescu: it holds the same logical strength as "the very reason why 'identity theft' is a real problem for anybody is that women are whores"
mircea_popescu: you know you WILL end up having to come up with "the only reason sun raises in the morning is usg" at some point
mircea_popescu: at least software has the excuse it takes any retarded kid.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i suppose a better framed debate would then be this exactly, as above. "is this engineering or is it just dumbery"
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller move to wash dc, put up craigslist "Black man looking to humiliate married white women. Husband may be included.". watch how you make more money than alf.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller why ? and if so, join some swinger's club.
mircea_popescu: how do you think the gmo stuff is made ? same principle, different lego blocks
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the substantial difference between ENGINEERING and GAMBLING is important here
mircea_popescu: i can readily live with a complete demonization of chromogambling. it would not do anything, in my head, to either engineering or genetics.
mircea_popescu: bons being synthetised. the plan kingdom is, historically, the largest producer of poisons on the planet and to a large degree a controller of animal population counts and animal species survival rates, which is why you even need a liver in the first place - notice that your imune system doens't REALLY have an organ (thymus, w/e)." this is not "genetic engineering", this is chromogambling.
mircea_popescu: decimation: out, that we should think very carefully about eliminating or demonizing genetic engineering." << to a large degree, the debate is sorely misstated. nobody is seriously discussing "genetic engineering". what's being discussed is, "let's make random combinations of genetic material we do not at all understand and see what happens. this will necessarily result in novel/ununderstood proteins and other hydrocar