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ThickAsThieves: i was
a layout guy at the paper, thrown into editing some cuz i was not so dumb
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves well no,
a business plan is
a commerce thing. you just need to fill in the specified spots.
ThickAsThieves: mp, question/advice-seeking: for someone wanting to take an "idea" and turn it into
a respectable business plan, or at minimum, some sort of white paper spelling out all the pieces, what would be the best way to approach it? the default would be
a stream of conciousness writing process to where you can work from what you make to categorize and sort it all, polishing it over and over
nubbins`: have
a chew on the fact that rarely in history has "the best thing" ever ended up at the top of the pile purely on its own merits
nubbins`: almost as well as putting up
a lonely blog post worked at fetching judges
nubbins`: chetty: well, we're both sidestepping the issue that nobody in btc space is nearly competent enough to serve as
a judge of any sort
nubbins`: heaven forbid you build
a bridge
nubbins`: ehhh, for someone who goes on about the sham fiat courts so much, i'm more than
a bit surprised you gave up on the idea after the first bump in the road
nubbins`: shame to let such
a cute baby starve
nubbins`: man has
a round hole,
a square peg, and
a round peg
mircea_popescu: nubbins` if he doesn't trust the court to fairly apportion the fees, he has no reason to trust the court with
a farthing.
nubbins`: so he's risking
a negative judgment, and this is the reason to pull the plug on the whole thing? O_O
mircea_popescu: they're still around, grumbling. fortunately, they have no btc to show, so it's mostly
a vocal exercise.
Apocalyptic: "to discredit their competition." // they are already doing
a fine job themselves
nubbins`: mircea_popescu: what's
a defendant risking by participating? his trust rating? that's on the line whether he participates or not!
VanCleef: so obamacare website ws
a complete fail today
ThickAsThieves: anyone happen to know the way to look up
a UK business license, ive done it before but now i cant recall how
mircea_popescu: but looking at bitcointalk, im realising it may have been the converse : to your average monkey of 500bc, anyone with
a brain probably looked like the sockpuppet of the one guy with
a brain
mircea_popescu: all through modernity this was recounted as
a "look how monastically humble those folks were" sort of tale
mircea_popescu: which was kinda funny seeing how the guy had been dead for
a while.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, here's
a fun story : the original pythagoreans all claimed all their discoveries were made by... pythagora.
mircea_popescu: be nicely seeded with
a bunch of good porn, not the shit ozpot spits out
pankkake: I'm still thinking of doing
a 4chan-for-bitcoin but I have other better things to do!
pankkake:
a bunch of mods are scum too (sorry davout!)
VanCleef:
a. make it less of
a sausage party b. provide some insight on bitcoin securities in real time
pankkake: just need
a way to import my watchlist now
VanCleef: make it less of
a sausage party
Neil: It's
a little over 23 MB of data I think
Neil: mircea_popescu: Yeah; was initially connecting to
a US node; it took 2 minutes. Looked up
a Japan node and it just screams.
Neil: Geez. I've written the beginnings of
a bitcoin network node. It downloads and validates all 293400 block headers in 16.544 seconds.
pankkake: this is so sad… the few shareholders that still had
a brain are all over it
chetty: yeah -
a bit confusing how they manage that with no warming the last 15 or so years
novusordo: cover the shit with
a layer of epoxy
VanCleef: i was at
a party and shat in someones bong once
VanCleef: geez that would be horrible, shitting in
a bullet type casing and freezing it and then firing it into someone
mircea_popescu: VanCleef and you shoot it with
a freezefull explosion ?
mircea_popescu: and i assure you had mishima had
a better candidate available, he'd have picked that one.
mircea_popescu: they survived ww2 and hiroshima as
a traditional society.
mircea_popescu: so now,
a cogent argument can be brought that japan was wrecked by its deflation years.
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wywialm: and what is
a good way of building trust then?
mircea_popescu: hm, bitcoinpete's adventure is quite important : everyone with
a WoT account : make sure you turn enforce on with nickserv.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla it's how you manage muppets,
a la bitcointalk forum crowd.
mircea_popescu: nubbins`: i don't think borrowing and repaying is
a particularly good way of building trust. < it's awful really, more likely to diminish the trust of the rater than to improve that of the rate'ed.
mircea_popescu: the20year1 it's all
a question of who do you want to deal with. to me, forum trust means exactly zero. to the forum, wel... they don't even know whjat the wot is, they're barely discovering chan logs these days.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` you're deluding yourself. whether there's
a fee for participation or not, the defendant's risking something participating.
dexX7: <Ukyo> whitty: give me
a min. jsut doing some testing
dexX7: it's only
a very, very wild theory
dirt_: I thought it was odd too. Mixing personal/business, and blaming
a public forum? what, bitcointalk?
ThickAsThieves: Public investors currently hold 5,042,638 LMB Holdings shares (31.5164875% of the profits), whilst LMB Subsidiaries Limited (UK) shall hold 10,957,362 shares 68.4835125% of the profits), for
a total of 16,000,000 LMB Holdings virtual shares, which represent 100% of the global profits of the LMB Subsidiaries Limited (UK)."
ThickAsThieves: “My silence is for
a very valid and personal reason, all the rumors that are flying about are false and couldn’t be further from the truth. I haven’t moved from Cyprus or anything of the kind I am TEMPORARILY out of the country resolving some big issues that were made much worse by people stating incorrect facts in
a public forum.”
antephialtic: investing in neo was basically
a highly leveraged bet on the price of BTC itself, with the risks completely outweighing any possible benefits - assuming the business was completely legitimate
antephialtic: I didn't invest, even if it wasn't
a scam, it was
a pretty bad business plan
antephialtic: though I think this will be bad for BTC stocks in general - this was
a fairly elaborate scam, and many will probably not trust btc denominated investments for
a long time
moiety_: lol @ "too honest for
a sgady logo"
moiety_: kakobrekla:
a wiki? :D if you want me to proof it periodically, or anything else, send me
a log in too :)
MisterE: I just need
a prompt to do it each day really
benkay: dunno MisterE automating gpg sounds like
a recipe for disaster
MisterE: /quote PRIVMSG is
a great thing
MisterE: Server connection commands is
a better term... My client can perform functions when connecting to
a network like i have it set up to auth with some bots that control channel access so I dont have to mess with it each time I connect.
MisterE: I should make
a join command to ident
joecool: bitcoinpete: yeah you had
a squatter on your nick :P
bitcoinpete: seems this guy is
a nicksquatter patrolman of sorts
MisterE: in thailand your fee is
a percentage of the damages you seek
the20year1: There have been courts historically who charge the plaintiff large fees to file
a case
nubbins`: bounce: generally historic courts did not impose
a 10btc fee on the plaintiffs, only 9btc of which will be returned in the event of
a win.
bounce: you know, there's
a long history of (non-bitcoin) courts and such, and also
a long history of abuse in various forms. question then is why and when doesn't such
a system get abused (or at least not too much, and then what is this not too much you speak of)?
nubbins`: "i got
a loan and paid it back" is just another way of saying "i'm not going to pay back the first loan that's big enough"
nubbins`: i don't think borrowing and repaying is
a particularly good way of building trust.