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gribble: mike_c was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 16 hours, 10 minutes, and 27 seconds ago: <mike_c> looks like neobeeq has settled in at
a 93% drop from suspended price. another win for havelock.
mikaeldice: I didn't read the article, but
a cursory glance at the title ensures me that yes, it must be true.
cgcardona_:
a third anecdotal evidence is my wife recently asked
a local music store here on kauai if they'd let her buy me an ukelele for my bday w/ btc and they basically laughed her out of the store.
cgcardona_: On the flip side I recently took on
a client in honolulu and he is incredibly tech savvy and wanted nothing to do w/ twitter integration
cgcardona_: depends what you mean by 'average' - I recently got
a new part time job in SF w/ some relatively tech savvy people. During the interview we talked about btc and I told them about my project. The team leaders response was 'I think bitcoin is cool. I'm just not sure if it's gonna be the winner' (fair enough i suppose).
cgcardona_: and the passphrase was 'aaaaaaaa' - it was truly
a nightmare :)
benkay: had
a machine lifted with passphrase cached
benkay: i had
a crypto nightmare last night
benkay: danielpbarron: do you have this 'hoarders will starve' thesis of yours written out anywhere in more detail than 140 characters including
a link allows for?
chetty: cause thats the way MP writes, he exaggerates everything to make
a point
nubbins`: well, your son's gonna be
a fuckin asshole
Shakespeare: was your intent to be
a net-based workplace?
Shakespeare: i have
a dictator in me, but it's
a muddled one and I still can revert to worrying about employees hating me, etc
[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".
Shakespeare: or, maybe your decision as
a good boss, migth be to hire
a better manager
Shakespeare: it was mostly about running
a tight ship, regardless of your experience performing the art
Apocalyptic: jurov, I saw the point as
a real life exemple of the value of management
Shakespeare:
a team does need
a leader jurov, but
a leader doesnt despise his men
locksmith: the most terrifiying thing about cyprus police is if you do
a traffic violation
mircea_popescu: never has
a thing as powerless as the state ever been invented.
mircea_popescu: and not just
a little afraid either. fucking petrified.
mircea_popescu: in most of the us the state involves itself anyway, provided you spend more than
a few years together. or have kids.
locksmith: heard of
a married couple the other day hasn't had sex in 4 years
mircea_popescu: they should be feminists. woman in
a harem eats
a degree of magnitude more clam than snail. god help her if she doesn't like girls.
mircea_popescu: most pleasant feminists i know are simply not interested in getting it on with
a failed boy pretending to be
a man
locksmith: yeah but they chop down wooden crosses without
a shirt on
mircea_popescu: ya srsly, the entire concept of femen is to form
a group of little boys that pretend to be topless women.
locksmith: oh alright, I was trying to connect the dots with
a sharpy and see if you could be linked to violentacrez
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!
chetty: those two items are enough to build
a conspiracy :)
mircea_popescu: then the debate "it's
a scam" vs "it's not
a scam" can rage indefinitely, opposing some people arguing "this is so stupid it'll never see
a return" with people arguing "these people are so honest and nice and trustworthy they don't even call women bitch ever!"
mircea_popescu: from the corp pov, "it's
a scam" to "it's
a legit business" roughly maps their honesty. in this sense, shit badly mismanaged by honest but clueless people is "not
a scam"
mircea_popescu: from the investor pov, "it's
a scam" to "it's
a legit business" roughly maps their revenue. in this sense,
a good corp in
a bad market is
a "scam".
mircea_popescu: want
a link to
a blog/social media acct/something from your nick ?
cazalla: CoinLab now goldmember, toite like
a toiger
chetty: tehfcuk, its
a kinda slow time of day, read some of the logs to get
a feel for the place
[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/.
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thestringpuller: that placing bets on bitbet is likely to have
a greater yield than with the scam mp just presented
cads: where our library is
a virtual library of pirated shiz
cads: i want to teach math in
a virtual pirate math university
cads: idea I've had for
a while
cads: not
a bad thing if I happen to also take measures to increase the effective bandwidth of the text I read
cads: mircea_popescu: I've always been
a heavy reader, it's honest to goodness just the switching social contexts that do it
cads: sometimes I can barely keep up in real time with
a medium load, 5 speaker IRC conversation
cads: The first known individual to which
a mathematical discovery is attributed.
cads: As
a fifth tier entrepreneur, I have decided to rewire my mushy brain with the classic modes of thought!
benkay: this channel really burnt
a solid day talking about sky faeries?
cads: mircea_popescu: haha, that would be
a lovely blog
mircea_popescu: cads i think you should detail your previous five failures on
a blog.
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."
mike_c: looks like neobeeq has settled in at
a 93% drop from suspended price. another win for havelock.
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:
a few forum muppets split
a coupla hundred btc between
a thousand or so heads
mircea_popescu: bounce well, shot the only guy on the authors list with any sm exposure
a tweet.
bounce: ``The Bitcoin Foundation is basically the official establishment of
a loose collection of technology geeks, businessmen, and big-government skeptics from around the world. The 18-month-old group has thousands of members, plus roughly $3 million in dues and donations contributed in bitcoins.''
bounce briefly wonders if there'd be legitimate purposes for
a "bitcoin foundation", and what sort of people you'd want in there, then.
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?
mike_c: dooglus seems like
a very standup guy.
mike_c: thx. hopefully not
a good btc investment headed for the crapper.
matthew_boyd: Haha, oh well, it's only
a game, then again. :)
cazalla: lol not really, i was
a shitkunt but i don't have the time to dedicate to it
cazalla: hopefully EQN is
a great game, have not sunk much time into mmorpgs since wow/eq days
cazalla: i bought it when it came out, didn't really give it longer than
a week though
mircea_popescu: this is the smaller shard. there's 2 larger ones, plus
a few smaller ones
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
cmyers: wow, epic scrollback history. It's like watching
a star wars versus star trek argument.
Shakespeare: "The company recently put up
a page for "Amazon Dash,"
a shopping accessory"
Shakespeare: "They’ve risen to the challenge, and have as
a first response opened up read access to our member forums to the public. "
Shakespeare: '’ve put forward
a challenge to the team: “Say
a lot more.”'
Shakespeare: management deficiencies in Department contracts/task orders with
a total value of more
jborkl: Who was it in bitcoin GLBSE that came up with
a. holds b. and b holbs c. and c. holds
a. and b. so there is no risk
[KS]: NEOBEEQ doesn't exist. If you had NEOBEE shares, Haelock has stolen them from you and turned them into HavelockCOins,
a Goxcoin derivative.
mike_c: goxbux got traded for
a little while.