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mircea_popescu: uh. a broadsheet is like .4 sqm. what's this, 250 gram paper ?
mircea_popescu: except they're about as intellectually indolent as the mexican stereotype goes.
mircea_popescu: buncha 20something year olds, "designers" and "web experts" and whatnot, with their bike and their 0.18 btc in some sort of wallet that cost them .28
mircea_popescu: for the record, bitpagos is some delaware start-up, looking to be bought out. it's playing the numbers game. the numbers are based on what numbers usually are based on, in fraudlandia i mean the internet.
mircea_popescu: sure, some guy kinda remembers someone buying him a beer to say something or the other with coinsomething in it. last year.
mircea_popescu: if you look at it isuperficially it appears there's "hundreds" of places in a 12 million inhabitant town, which is somehow notable (srsly ?). if you actually investigate it, you soon discover they're all fictitious.
mircea_popescu: absolute fucking astroturfing. idiot faux-bitcoin-foundation types push this sort of arrangement where i dunno, they buy an empanada to random people to say they're "accepting bitcoin" then populate all sorts of crudiferous web2.0 apps, maps and random websites.
mircea_popescu: but ba bitcoin market is in complete shambles and im getting sick of it.
mircea_popescu: anyway, anyone got a localbitcoins account that they're using ? is that thing any cereal ?
mircea_popescu: mats_cd03: what a useless discussion of trust <<< that's what fucking happens with noobs ALL THE DAMNED TIME. But they know better! But why won't people who do thinks professionally consider their input! But amateurism is a do-ocracy! But reasons! But considerations! But he's not read five years of tardstalk so five years of tardstalk has never happened. Let's do it again!
mircea_popescu: badon: My experience has been that these trust models are useless. <<< you are wrong. period and full stop. swallow this and change or get lost. also full stop.
mircea_popescu: "hey, I want to do x" "so get in wot" "but i have no need of it". well...
mircea_popescu: badon: But I don't trade bitcoin, I have no need of gribble. << lmao
mircea_popescu: course bakc when i was a kid we had this breadboard with springed clamps
mircea_popescu: im starting to suspect buterin is actually a manufactured identity.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: Ah, lawyer backed off from needing an expert in Bitcoin after I posted rates. << how much did you post ?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: with this kind of design it's trivial to turn end over end and stop extremely quickly. <<< someone's fascinated with dragonflies.
mircea_popescu: isn't jp-4 the thing that gets a lot of static if it flows ?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: master bitcoin repository repository is currently at 295000 << bitcoin ovopository ?
mircea_popescu: On average, experts charge significantly more for their time while testifying at trial and deposition than their time while conducting file reviews and preparing. The average hourly fee for all experts was $385 for in-court testimony, $353 for depositions and $254 for file reviews and preparation. The average hourly fee for trial testimony is 52% higher than the average hourly fee for file reviews and preparation.
mircea_popescu: Expert Witness Fees for Trial, File Review and Depositions
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: So, a lawyer is inquiring what my hourly rate is as an expert witness... What does everyone else charge? << go for 40. too low you won't seem that expert. too high they'll just get antonoderp.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: Comming from Transylvania I'm sure mircea_popescu has experience slaughtering vampires with sunlight << actually vampires are your friends.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform:they almost certainly laboured under an illusion of one kind or another. << that illusion is "money"
mircea_popescu: i only played civ 1, but nukes were a splendid tool to destory ships
mircea_popescu: actually i think it's related to forcing whiny nerds to defend their fucking civ1 cities,
mircea_popescu: “While the videos at issue in this litigation do not in my opinion depict any improper treatment of the detainees, but rather the lawful, humane and appropriate interaction between guards and detainees,” wrote U.S. Navy Rear Adm. Sinclair Harris, “persons and entities hostile to the United States and its detention of enemy belligerents at Guantánamo Bay are likely to think otherwise.”
mircea_popescu: isn't this the guy that's active on like twitter and stuff ?