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mircea_popescu: <mike_c> i am an early fan. needs more pics of casascius coins though. << this is a point. topical, related, meaningful pics are a good add.
mircea_popescu: <mike_c> any insight into where qntra traffic is coming from? << cazalla ran off with a lass, but he'll be back midweek, ima push him to put quantcast in there, then you can see directly.
mircea_popescu: in other news, i got a spam comment from "Discount True Religion Canada Online". which seems just about right.
mircea_popescu: that's the model. that's the model that made video gaming a thing, where there was previously no thing.
mircea_popescu: tell you what. do your best, freeze it, see if it survives or dies.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform orly ? is this how the two hotties i had sundaes with earlier were made ?
mircea_popescu: apparently ##Linux which is fucking weird. i thought linus owned the term linux
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> herr poettering is quite close to destroying linux as a going concern, imho. << no. what he is close to is destroying the notion of "updates" as a going concern. which is a fucking brilliant thing, they should have died ten years ago.
mircea_popescu: it's all the idiotic faggoty dumbasses with "women's issues" and "being polite" and inane crap like that that are the problem,
mircea_popescu: midnightmagic> Linus is a drunk, I don't know why anybody expects anything different from him. << linus actually has a point.
mircea_popescu: <mod6> this qntra.net is p cool. looks good in lynx too. << it does! <dub> not sure about the pink << that's because of all the gay.
mircea_popescu: ;;rate lennart_poettering -1 should have been aborted.
mircea_popescu: speaking of which, "The term "palimony" is not a legal or historical term, but rather a colloquial portmanteau of the words pal and alimony coined by celebrity divorce attorney Marvin Mitchelson in 1977 when his client Michelle Triola Marvin filed an unsuccessful suit against the actor Lee Marvin."
mircea_popescu: it went up a whole .1% in twenty minutes, that estimation.
mircea_popescu: yea prolly gonna bust that 41 or 43 or w/e the bet was
mircea_popescu: lettuce never learn from the mistakes of asicminer. lettuce forever be speshul and cover the same wrong turns.
mircea_popescu: i guess ex-drpk bureaucrats can probably find job writing forum prospectuses.
mircea_popescu: "According to the report, a work for successfully enforcing the schooling has been dynamically pushed forward as the one involving the whole state, all people and the whole society and signal successes have been made in it."
mircea_popescu: <punkman> also "At least 8 GB of RAM." << that sounds like five ddoses waiting to happen...
mircea_popescu: TomServo> Holy shit this 'seamonster' "crash analysis podcast" is a train wreck. << but that's what you were there for right ?
mircea_popescu: ie, want to sell for 20, sell anywhere between 17 and 23.
mircea_popescu: still the major problem will be that while on average say it's an ideal market, 0% bias, that average has a poisson distribution of maybe 15% each way, so any individual buyer could see a price fuzziness as close to 30% as his luck gets.
mircea_popescu: and with this i'll have to take a meeting, but will be back in an hour or so. cheers.
mircea_popescu: which is a matter of the wot. lettuce find the relevant article.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, conceptually similar to your thing, sure. people agreeing on a trade and exchanging the money and signing the contract in a pseudonymous manner.
mircea_popescu: dionyziz it's not personal in any sense. signatures are pseudonyms for this purpose
mircea_popescu: dignork you can't have bias in a decentralized market. you will instead have volatility. bias happens in central markets like ebay deciding to side with buyer
mircea_popescu: dionyziz don't take things the wrong way, there's plenty of work to do for people wanting to be useful. it's just important not to waste the enthusiasm of youth on dead ends.
mircea_popescu: (and here's a riot, 1.2k asicminer full shares ? aka 6k btc at the peak ? history!)
mircea_popescu: pseudonymous parties agreeing on a trade, exchanging money and signing the contract.
mircea_popescu: anyway : this already exists, it's a solved problem. why are you resolving a solved problem ?
mircea_popescu: these two are not the same in any sense, stop using them as synonyms.
mircea_popescu: okay. im 35. but anyway : no, rented po boxes and drones aren't solutions.
mircea_popescu: but yes, for that thin sliver where carders and snowden wanna pass along secrets, there's something.
mircea_popescu: and in being controlling, it'll control. which means it'll shape the marketplace.
mircea_popescu: brianhoffman well sure, but it doesn't so much matter if it's a meatspace issue or not. what matters is that it's the controlling issue
mircea_popescu: dionyziz b ecause you're leaking information through the shipping. think of it in crypto terms, you're using a 8 bit key on an amiga as part of the process.
mircea_popescu: at which point you either go to jail or backstab your users
mircea_popescu: well, for as long as you're small nobody cares that you're moving contraband back and forth, because it's not meaningfully discernible from the general noise of the system
mircea_popescu: i think you maybe misunderstand how safety is effectually implemented.
mircea_popescu: and since you can't really tell people what to do, you will end up in that conflict whether you want to or not.
mircea_popescu: it's why silkroad collapsed, after all. you can't ship.
mircea_popescu: i gather. but the thing is, that challenge will unravel whatever model you may build.
mircea_popescu: dionyziz are you familiar with the discussion of multicentrality vs decentralisation ?
mircea_popescu: brianhoffman your proposition is to somehow weld them together, but because you can not practically remove the problem of 1, it'll still revert to something similar, inevitably.
mircea_popescu: brianhoffman no, it's not. looky here, let's model it. there are 3 items of interest. 1. the shipping of purchased items ; 2. the discussion of trade, ie, merchant and buyer meeting hteir minds ; 3. the payment for purchases. now, these 3 can be sorted in any which way. otc for instance sorts it that 2 is gpg over email or an irc channel, 1 is mail and 3 is the wot.
mircea_popescu: dionyziz i am keeping it in mind, which is why i asked diretly :)
mircea_popescu: but anyway! thanks, and dun worry about it, you're not being griled in the sense of having been a bad boy
mircea_popescu: you know i've done nothing much re bitcoin otc. it's mostly nanotube's thing.
mircea_popescu: well that was @ brianhoffman. you, i asked how you aim to improve the wot as it is
mircea_popescu: dionyziz that is rather basic, but anyway, much better than nothing at all.