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moiety: i'mmaking
a completely useless site for my own benefit re my new obsession (blame asciilifeform)
joecool: mircea_popescu: you ever consider
a tabloid-style sister site of trilema? "Writing dumb shit for the masses"
nubbins`: wreckhouse area of newfoundland set
a wind speed record earlier this evening, 183km/h
moiety: no, they group together and imprison
a lone female for months at
a time, taking it in turns
TestingUnoDosTre: yah
a year long gang rape? Dolphins copulate in like microseconds
qwebirc1010269: asciilifeform that was
a good read, but I'm unsure of how quickly this whole US default will occur
joecool: BingoBoingo: well the US lost
a bunch with toxic dart guns attached some years back
BingoBoingo: Maybe
a simple minded psychopath, but damned if you are deluded
ozbot:
A Business Idea | Chateau Heartiste
ozbot: Post-Soviet Lessons for
a Post-American Century
TestingUnoDosTre: Is this
a better written form of that slide presentation someone posted yesterday?
mircea_popescu: in this sense, i would say heroin addiction is
a fine analogue.
mircea_popescu: TestingUnoDosTre it's more of
a +iq effect. just being here makes one smarter.
rithm: and you would call that
a vacuum
rithm: if you had
a jar and closed and sucked all of the air out
rithm: WHAT IN THE FUCK CAPS LOCK OH shit kids can't breathe in
a vaccuum they turn dead
TestingUnoDosTre: wait wait wait. How is
a lowly engineer below an elderly engineer or businessman that's mortgaged up to the gills
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you mean like,
a dual php/grad student with no assets ?
mircea_popescu: mike_c i spent ~5 years or so in
a tropical paradise doing... nothing.
mike_c: i don't call running
a 1m btc business retired, regardless of motivations.
TomServo: Either I forgot how to read
a graph or gribble and ozbots' diff stats don't match sipa. What am I doing wrong?
pankkake:
http://www.overcomingbias.com/2014/02/fail-faster.html It is rare for
a startup to admit it isn’t going to work out, and give some cash back to investors. […]
A great application of prediction markets is to give better and clearer warnings of upcoming failure, to enable better mitigation, such as quitting.
mircea_popescu: so basically
a rehash of the old "pirate pass through" scam
ozbot: Wu-Tang Clan will only sell
a single copy of their new album | The Verge
ozbot:
A Precaution on Vanity Addresses | Blockchain Blog
dhenson: Makes me wonder if FC is one of the private investors with
a portion of the 60k private shares.
ThickAsThieves: is it more than
a PMB? is it any less exposed to diff increase than other mining?
ThickAsThieves: if he is on the AM board, how is
a fair price determined
ozbot: Sa ne jucam de-
a investitiile-n bitcoini. pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
Apocalyptic: <dhenson> not yet, they are going to build
a UI just for trading their shares. << classic
dhenson: not yet, they are going to build
a UI just for trading their shares.
benkay: bitcoin-assets: is
a lockup like this auto-scam?
dhenson: 15k shares pre-sold in blocks of 2000+ before the public IPO so they sold out before most people had
a chance to buy in.
dhenson: They opened up 3750 shares for
a public IPO at noon china time and they all sold in 13 seconds.
mircea_popescu: there's no consensus of what makes
a better language, other than edge cases such as ergativity
mircea_popescu: "Nobody likes you, generally speaking, and the presumptuous, misguided sort of nonsense I'm responding to here is
a prime example of why. Romania is
a large country, populated by
a lot of distinct Internet users. Comparatively, wikipedia is
a small shithole populated by
a lot of indistinguishable idiots. Please stop getting into everyone's day."
dhenson:
A friend of mine's wife was arrested for assault, so not sure that's known by my local police if true.
adolf_fishler: fact:
a woman in Afganistan has more freedoms than
a male in America.
VanCleef: fact:
a woman in Afganistan has more freedoms than
a male in America.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell nubbins` maybe tshirts with "
A loser is You!"
mircea_popescu: plenty of people trying to make
a career out of doing the wrong thing.
mircea_popescu: much like
a singer won't win if they're good. they must suck to win, in order to "represent" the idiots watching at home.
mircea_popescu:
a large part of the entire "start-up success" fantasy by now is specifically NOT having any sort of technical merit or actual value
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves somehow this discussion is
a strange rehash of the older "platinum records / musical talent" thing.
VanCleef: we're definitely in
a bailout bubble atm
VanCleef: i think these are signs that market is topping and everything over valued bubbles etc and could see
a decent crash this year
VanCleef: yeh that candy crush ipo is
a joke
Duffer1: maybe they want to offer
a vr platform for minigame devs?
Duffer1: aren't they allowed already through
a DPO?
benkay:
a toss up as to which is better value: likely worthless paper vs. entertaining gizmo
Duffer1: i believe that's more an effect of
a consumer mindset rather than
a common sense mindset that would naturally want equity instead of swag
ozbot: Oculus rises to
a $2B exit while its Kickstarter backers are left with cheap swag | PandoDaily
FabianB: has it been discussed yet why Huobi is paying ppl that were just too foolish to market sell into
a too shallow order book?
bounce: bit of
a problem then that from the outside you can't see just how the exchange's innards pick their condiments
bounce: so now we have
a bunch that did their own coind and customer funds went AWOL. and
a bunch that used the reference client and customer funds went AWOL. now, digital finance is unforgiving, but I'll say that it's not purely operator error in
a hostile environment; looks like the machinery is dangerous too.
mircea_popescu: well then you should hold on to it and spend
a year or so reading.
benkay: well with
a softball pitch like that why wouldn't he
Mats_cd03: benkay mp is about to brag about mpoe just give it
a second