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Bunnyh: it might take a while until i get to see that address in debian stable. even a 0.01 BTC donation should be huge then
davout: ok, i'll push it, i'll promise a 5 BTC donation, can I tell him I have already some folks who committed to donating ?
benkay: subject of, i recommend the new Gatsby flick.
benkay: i did enjoy new york, but i couldn't swing the burgher's fee.
mircea_popescu: actually something like that i'd like to see. costs you 100k a year to live in London. tyou don'ty like it, move to wolverhampton
benkay: with modern reputation tracking tools he'd be out of business rather quickly i imagine
mircea_popescu: i wouldn't want to live next to some random penny-ante inkeeper in his mind.
ThickAsThieves: my mom sent me this email today: "Subj: Klout.com - I just saw a thing on Nightline about it. Kinda like Linkedin I think....only they rate you with a number...not for me...lol....but I am curious what you think about it...?"
ThickAsThieves: i always called groupon as useless
mircea_popescu: anything under 1bn is a joke, i hope we're clear.
mircea_popescu: the funny thing is on one hand i told everyhone when they were here to be defensive players
benkay: and i'm not surprised that it's possible to make money shuffling things around
benkay: oh no i agree w/r/t marketing
ThickAsThieves: i guess
ThickAsThieves: but i digress
ThickAsThieves: and soon I will be sponsoring other people's efforts as well
ThickAsThieves: i also provide information
davout: hmm, i guess taking liquidity is also providing liquidity at the same time
ThickAsThieves: so i save time for some as well
benkay: i'm not saying don't invest
ThickAsThieves: i also help large shareholders unload their positions, small shareholders buy small stakes
ThickAsThieves: i provide a number of services
ThickAsThieves: i deliver value
ThickAsThieves: like most of us i assume
ThickAsThieves: i am trying to make money
gribble: I have 19 registered users with 24 registered hostmasks; 1 owner and 0 admins.
ThickAsThieves: i need to decompress now
ThickAsThieves: maybe I am projecting unnecessary expectations on sdice
mircea_popescu: as far as i know there's a total of three people actually qualified to be doing this.
mircea_popescu: the idea is that you perceive this medium as dangerous and i aim to make it safe.
ThickAsThieves: I'm saying the actual environment changes
ThickAsThieves: I'm not saying I wanna make babies with Friedcat
ThickAsThieves: i do think my positions need to be temporal
ThickAsThieves: and while i dont think of everyone as thieves in waiting
ThickAsThieves: i might think differently
mircea_popescu: ten years down the road things will have played out as i said they will, and they could no longer play any number of ways.
ThickAsThieves: as I see it, both sdice and AM could fuck me over any number of ways
ThickAsThieves: no I
mircea_popescu: the only way this divide will be healed is through time. so i'm not in any rush for anything to happen.
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, i won't have any of it, it's not what i'm building nor what i stand for.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves basically where you're coming from is this : "i'm here in the land of the thieves, better pack as much and run while i still have my legs"
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves as far as i can see, other than mpoe (which may well be oversold), sdice is the only investment available atm.
benkay: i like that attitude, that plans are not investors business.
ThickAsThieves: i want to put my money to work
mircea_popescu: i fail to follow this logic.
ThickAsThieves: it still can be i guess
ThickAsThieves: i tried to explain this
ThickAsThieves: i just find it insulting
ThickAsThieves: i want evolution
ThickAsThieves: i want to tinker, explore, develop, evolve
ThickAsThieves: not all the things I can watch be as they are
ThickAsThieves: I enjoy life because of all the things I can DO
mircea_popescu: jcpham yeah, i love the sprawl too.
mircea_popescu: i mean... enron grew.
ThickAsThieves: i wish for it to grow
davout: ThickAsThieves: buddhism teaches us that "not doing" is already "doing" if you see what I mean
mircea_popescu: i do not.
mircea_popescu: yeah but i don't think that's particularly relevant.
ThickAsThieves: i simply expect action
ThickAsThieves: i know
truffles: ThickAsThieves I think youre trying to reason with stubborn ppl who are comfortable with what is
mircea_popescu: i am persuaded louis ate the exact same thing.
mircea_popescu: for example : i am now eating a praline
mircea_popescu: davout i'd take that as a good proxy for how valuable a website is for sdice
davout: ThickAsThieves: like I said, someone who has a stake in this *will* put up a US accessible clone of the SD website
jcpham: well i think s.dice is dead and SD will be fine
mircea_popescu: and im not transferring the argument, i'm just not particularly interested in arguiubng about s.dice per se, i think the general point is more interesting
davout: i think sd markets itself for free on the frontpage of blockchain.info
davout: i had the sunglasses on my forum avatar first
ThickAsThieves: i care about noth
ThickAsThieves: i'll probably end up eating my words, but at the moment i have no problem saying that i think sdice is dead in the water
leotreasure: i lost message from scrollback
mircea_popescu: toffoo there was a dump back in january i think ?
Namworld: ~0.0008 I think
Namworld: I might buy 10-30k
Scrat: TAT: nop, b.i is buggy atm
ThickAsThieves: i wouldnt know how to doublespend on 0 confs
ThickAsThieves: am i that scary
ThickAsThieves: i love how people feel the need to wait for 6 confs when making deals with me
deadweasel: but i agree with you in spirit
mircea_popescu: what judgement went into that i wish to know
mircea_popescu: i mean wtf, they can't have insider information
mircea_popescu: this i don't get. i tried.
mircea_popescu: so 50 btc are bet against. that i can also understand
ThickAsThieves: i know, you are very excited about this
mircea_popescu: ok, tghat i can see. maybe he's trolling. m,aybe he's insane. maybe he has the chips. he'd know which, it's hios business
mircea_popescu: last i heard of them
kakobrekla: its about bitcoin days destroyed i think
kakobrekla: i have been doing larger txes for a while now, no fee and nothing waits. and not that i dont want to pay fee, its just default client doesnt say it needs it.
mircea_popescu: in fact i've looked, and i've not had a payment waited in >3 months
mircea_popescu: (node connectivity issue ? i dunno ianae)
mircea_popescu: i think either the miners are prioritizing or there's something else afoot
mircea_popescu: i can get my payments through no problem, in spite of 10k pending
jborkl: I think it just crashed everything imo
jborkl: 1mb I think - not 100 sure
Namworld: I hear so. Different game tho
Namworld: I guess that's decent
Namworld: Arf, I need to suggest dooglus to add betting volume since the beggining of the month
Namworld: dooglus' pic here http://i.imgur.com/RvpHgmA.png
mircea_popescu: i'm just saying, websites.