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ThickAsThieves: it does seem
a bit silly when you consider any mail client made for encryption essentially exists to remove the bother of copy-pasting
ozbot: The sound of
a princess... on the toilet | CNN Travel
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that'd be
a good study. i'm also curious.
davout: mircea_popescu: lazyness would command to get
a chamber pot instead
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that's not
a fair test. i own my cock, but it's also too big to wiggle.
mircea_popescu: ndiose master Mircea Popescu (ie, me), without anything like that ? O, why, because you’re
a special little trainflake of brilliance and genius who can ? Really ?
mircea_popescu: meanwhile back at the other side of mean : "Problem 4 : Permeating all the foregoing and sufficiently so to become
a problem in its own right is the incredible arrogance of the recently liberated corporate slavebois working as independent coders. Seriously, start working on the BTC securities trade system of the future without ever having worked for MPEx, without having humbly presented your inept ideas to the most gra
davout: fluffypony: yeah, that's just
a clever way to present the data
mircea_popescu: it's almost as if thery go to
a dedicated university to be stupid, these people.
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: yep for quite
a while, great game
mircea_popescu: Naphex so basically what is it, an address with
a sum that signed
a message ?
ozbot: Sniffer mice have
a nose for explosives - tech - 03 February 2011 - New Scientist
davout: ;;rate tcatm 1 bitcoincharts, been around
a while
ozbot: Scent of
a Man | DiscoverMagazine.com
gribble: You rated user tcatm on Tue Feb 28 12:40:39 2012, with
a rating of 2, and supplied these additional notes: bitcoincharts fellow, sold me adspace..
rammy2k2: ill idle around here if thats ok , i have
a feeling we can have some nice chats
mircea_popescu: in the area where someone with 10 years' experience being an aff manager, and whom i can verify worked with programs i know and delivered results, is looking to start
a biz.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform gribble had
a glitch so it went offline so it lost auth sessions
ThickAsThieves: ;;rate jurov 3 CoinBr, Coinroll, helped me transfer shares at times, kept me safe during
a Bitfunder scare
mircea_popescu: course you need
a pretty large air sample to get anything usable at the ppb range
davout: "
a nerdier man would have brought home air samples." <<< lmao
ThickAsThieves: ;;rate mircea_popescu 3 MPEx and other businesses,
a most reliable voice of reason
ThickAsThieves: <+fluffypony> ThickAsThieves: home safe? /// i think the airport gifted me
a cold
Naphex: bit of
a stage fright there i figure
davout: next year might be quite
a longer drive :-)
Naphex: its only
a 1.30 -> 2h drive to there
davout: Naphex: i was
a little disappointed to not see you in timisoara
mircea_popescu: replacing that with
a financial cost only works if you live in
a functioning market economy,
mircea_popescu: <HeySteve> well, in terms of WoT there is
a time cost to registration with gribble << more like an intellectual cost. this is good, because idiots don't manage to figure out how to do it, which serves us and them.
dexX7: <mircea_popescu> someone with 10 years as an aff manager has to make fucking bitcoin clickbank < what is
a clickbank?
mircea_popescu: discovered they have to suck my cock for
a soup each day they wish to eat
a soup.
mircea_popescu: then suddenly they ran out of money, the bottom fell out of the market, and the 20-30k or so idiots who really thought there can exist such
a thing as
a "career in media" upon the basis of which they could like... take bank loans and buy houses and cars
mircea_popescu: think about it, you give
a schmuck 1bn and legal immunity, you'd fucking expect he can pay you 100mn
a year for the rest of all eternity.
mircea_popescu: this schmuck was given something to the tune of
a few bn usd, and ten years later he had to have
a very embarassing 100mn sent to him in the middle of the electoral campaign,
mircea_popescu: one of the best examples is
a fellow known as varanul, ie dan voiculescu
☟︎ mircea_popescu: their investments fared about as well as neobee's,
a few degrees of magnitude larger.
mircea_popescu: one of the edge cases of that moral hazard were idiot "business men" who thought they actually have
a clue, but in fact were products of
a fortunate environment like that.
mircea_popescu: if you had any sort of
a clue and could talk the talk of business, you just got money.
mircea_popescu: to translate this, some history : romania was
a communist country. to get it on
a capitalist system, anyone not fucktarded enough was simply given money, from the state.
HeySteve: well, in terms of WoT there is
a time cost to registration with gribble
mircea_popescu: HeySteve it applies to the problem of putting
a cost on the user.
fluffypony: Naphex: it's going to be tough to incentivise affiliates without that, rock and
a hard place scenario
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: one of the directors of
a small group of companies, of which OpenRigs is
a part
mircea_popescu: that's actually one major thing to do. yo fluffypony what did you do for
a living ? or cazalla ?
Naphex: while we're talking incetives, any opinion on
a good referral system for bitcoin exchange users?
mircea_popescu: i can respect your desire to build
a better process for refining hahnium, or for resolving doppler aberrations in telescopy.
fluffypony: I won't pay to use the system when there's
a perfectly good free one I'm already on :-P
mircea_popescu: and so through adding
a cost you're actually skewing it towards scammers.
mircea_popescu: because the cost is not
a discouragement to the sybil, if it has
a way to turn
a profit
HeySteve: right, to register an identity within this system there would be
a BTC cost
fluffypony: all I need to do is create
a number of fake actors and claim they only did good deeds today (each fake actor supporting the other) and I receive average yearly income * the number of fake actors I've created
mircea_popescu: i own more money than the entire village is worth,
a million times over.
mircea_popescu: let me make this point clearer through an example. suppose i go to
a village in somalia. this village has 100 people and they're all normal people, they do good and bad things by w/e definition of good and bad.
HeySteve: I have
a further idea to incentivise non-scammy behaviour too
mircea_popescu: i know nanotube was working on
a wot 2.0 that'd be distributed and not depend on him
mircea_popescu: HeySteve so like
a sort of
a db backup maintained distributedly ?
mircea_popescu: fluffypony and in the case of btcjam, because they know they're running
a scam platform. it'd make no sense to take any steps that make this more obvious than it actually is.
HeySteve: been working on this for
a while
HeySteve: sure, but putting the identity and associated ratings into
a blockchain
HeySteve: mircea_popescu, quite so. I spoke to nanotube about integrating WoT with
a cryptocurrency
mircea_popescu: dexX7: bci allows to push signed transactions but no signing << there's
a reason for this. you shoulodn't be providing privkeys.
mircea_popescu: HeySteve: I was
a seller there, it's unfortunate there's no way to migrate feedback from shuttered markets... << which is why wot.
Naphex: yep you get filtered down and placed in
a bubble
mircea_popescu: and simply replaced with
a handwritten list, either our friends or everyone else.
mircea_popescu: Naphex but see, that's the snag : they used to do it as
a per-domain page rank thing.
mircea_popescu: basically it has
a shortlist of websites that it gives preferential treatment to.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell bitcoinpete you're #10 on
a google search for "bitcoin pete". while your twitter acct is #1.
mircea_popescu: so basically, if they actually allowed the uplink they'd have to have
a filtering datacenter.
bounce: depends on how the transit agreements work. some places actually liked generating more bandwidth "the other way", as it pushed the balance
a bit more towards evening out
mircea_popescu: actually upc arguably started as astral, which you know... got started by the father of
a chick i was doing back in hs
mircea_popescu:
a btw, to bother everyone : local isp just unveiled its easter surprise w/e.
mircea_popescu: some peeps' first encounter of the proper european lunch, where you spend
a few good hours with your food.