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mircea_popescu: well i guess it's
a great time to try it out, have him dump the files and we'll figure it out.
thestringpuller: model format, modeller I know submitted
a goblin he's been working on, some screens
mircea_popescu: anyway : the work of the intellect is to make the world intelligible. not necessarily to make it something else. to some degree it could be argued making it something else is proof of not having understood in the first place, which is why technology alone is
a hard argument to bring.
Kleeck__: But, dub may have
a good point, in that these American companies are good at recruiting foreigners. :)
Kleeck__: While technology, and the fields of study necessary to do what the American technology companies do, is not the end-all of intellectual persuits it certainl does make up
a good portion.
Kleeck__: Would the preemenance of American technology on
a global scale not not indicate an "intellectual relevence"?
mircea_popescu: Kleeck__ if you think microsoft is somehow intellectually relevant we have
a problem.
Kleeck__: I could've assumed that was the intended meaning, but I wanted to make sure. What do you have to say about world-leading operations like Microsoft, Apple, Google, to name
a few. Would the preemenance of American technology on
a global scale not not indicate an "intellectual relevence"?
mircea_popescu: kleeck_ relevance is the property of
a construct of holding interest in
a particular context.
gribble: Error: "nerd" is not
a valid command.
dexX7: i will start
a share transfer to teh litecoin exchange
dexX7: oh dispite the "here is
a random address, we don't have proof that we are the owner" card
mircea_popescu: which means it has
a finite lifespan as they don't have infinite bankroll.
ThickAsThieves: that thread still gets like 30 pages of posts
a day or somesuch no?
mircea_popescu: so basically they have
a 99.9x% househeld asset now, which can in principle go to any price, like .1
ThickAsThieves: are they assembling
a chorus of day traders to leave holding the bag someday?
Duffer1: i think that's
a reasonable conclusion pankkake
pankkake: labcoin team might be
a big part of the traders?
pankkake: I wonder why no one makes
a real alternative
mircea_popescu: you can steal
a move from the mpex book, it will always be .1
mircea_popescu: then you can sell .btc domains for
a fixed fee, like .1
a year
pankkake: there was
a study of top searches on yahoo and google. google has
a lot of yahoo searches and yahoo has
a lot of google searches
mircea_popescu: anyway, for
a while all the forum experts were like complaining about my us domains
pankkake: amazon is asking for
a lot of things
pankkake: at that point it just seems to be
a way to get more money
ThickAsThieves: not sure why i never asked this before, why does bitbet have
a .us ?
mircea_popescu: then again everything is
a jew thing so i gues goyim may be excused from not knowing >D
ThickAsThieves: whats the name of that thing that called itself
a stock trading game? i forget
ThickAsThieves: I guess it might cool if assbot printed
a sum of any trades on
a asset occurring successively
dexX7: is there
a way to sum
a block of trades?
mircea_popescu: at most
a trollency it is. there's no curs in bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: and btw, all the retards raging about how bitcoin is
a currency :
dexX7: i think jurov has
a point
mircea_popescu: srsly. so it is
a year or two late. coulda been worse.
Luke-Jr: 0.9 *does* have
a more modular codebase though
jurov: lol i don't mean such interface. i mean real API which can be
a good interface built on
Luke-Jr: jurov: the RPC crap is just bitcoind; Bitcoin-Qt has
a slightly okay interface, which hopefully will improve much by 1.0
Luke-Jr: I think at least Armory has received
a few grants
jurov: more easy to use and secure means to have
a sane interface, not that RPC shit
mircea_popescu: Luke-Jr one day you'll learn it's
a bad idea to involve yourself in name only.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves it's
a piece of shit, practically. why, just last march, just as Luke-Jr & friends were trying to mount the entire "sdice is bad" offensive, they got cut down by
a sudden fork!
Duffer1: bah i'm tryin to eat wings here, can't have
a convo like this with wing sauce all over
mircea_popescu: it's not
a sort of rara hate america thing, but moreover... those people have run themselves into
a corner already.
ThickAsThieves: when did we even accept that new features are
a thing the community at large even wants
Duffer1: i believe it's important for such
a board to exist for the sole purpose of ensuring america doesn't get left in the dark ages, i see no real value for it to exist for anything else btc related
Luke-Jr: ThickAsThieves: just as the "men vs women" is
a tactic Elizabeth is using
mircea_popescu: until we have
a majority of the aircradft carriers on the oceans, it'll be this muppet strawman thing.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves you're missing the part where in no way will an open, above the ground political party of bitcoin interest can exist or makes sense to exist before bitcoin is
a world dominating sovereign.
ThickAsThieves: really that's more of
a problem for the foundation itself
Luke-Jr: sure, it's
a majority, but it's certainly not one-sided
Luke-Jr: that might not be
a bad idea, but it works against Bitcoin's globalism
Luke-Jr: local groups, on the other hand, have
a much better chance. I'd rather bet on them.
ThickAsThieves: if BF can be
a force to mitigate the fumbling of goverments attempting to regulate bitcoin, then i might support it
ThickAsThieves: when
a problem feels unsolvable, you might be solving the wrong problem
ThickAsThieves: in your system, the current Almighty Dev Team becomes
a stronger and stronger centralized influence on bitocin dev
Luke-Jr: I was thinking perhaps allowing
a no-fee membership option\
Luke-Jr: at the very least, we can setup
a polling interface
Luke-Jr: I think it's more practical with
a Foundation, than without one.
Luke-Jr: "By funding the Bitcoin infrastructure, including
a core development team, we can make Bitcoin more respected, trusted and useful to people worldwide."
ThickAsThieves: luke-jr can you see how your comment sounds
a lot like
a nicer version of mine?
Luke-Jr: no, I consider it
a way for people who want to support Bitcoin, to not have to do their own research on how to best spend the money
ThickAsThieves: so you consider it to be
a scheme to fool people into giving to dev of the software?
Luke-Jr: basically so people who want to support Bitcoin have
a way to donate
dub: sorry 'establishing
a bitcoin chapter in every country'
dub:
a bitcoin foundation in every country, wtf
dub: correclty inferring that the election is for
a small role in
a small circle jerk
ThickAsThieves: Joerg doesnt want Foundation to turn into
a US bitcoin-business club
ThickAsThieves: Trace badmouths LukeJr for not allowing Jon Matonis as
a press contact of bitcoin foundation