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Willdude123: It's just
a quick python program they want me to write.
Willdude123: I have
a kinda job offer from someone willing to pay bitcoins.
Namworld: It's easier to have
a profit margin, but harder to get enough profit that it's worth the time.
Namworld: You'll get more who turn
a profit, but less which succeed.
Bugpowder: probably
a bad ideas benkay, most businesses fail
benkay: better yet, come up with
a business that generates coins.
thestringpuller: It's not really that much commitment. You can attach the shiggity to
a breadboard in
a day easy
Willdude123: Urgh. I have no clue what to do. I'm not sure if I should invest in ASICminer or buy
a BF
dub: ThickAsThieves: what I was not understanding is that you were making
a point too obvious for my point parser to identify
mircea_popescu: (they both being
a promise of performance made by the world at large)
mircea_popescu: from
a certain equitable perspective to present valuer you lose the same.
dub: make
a blog about bad analogies
dub: say I call and order two hookers but three show up, I bust
a load on six titties
dub: its
a loss of potential profit well over and above the profit I've already made
dub: for people like me that bought AM at <US$1 the risk is
a lot less than those buying in now at >$150
mircea_popescu: they may encounter problems of all sorts, it's
a tossup
dub: the risk is
a lot higher than any conventional investment
dub: you should keep in mind that nobody knows who AM are, they are operating an illegal business in
a country with no real laws
WILLdude: Is there
a reasonably good chance that I'd at least get my investment returned?
dub: that furkinap(?) dude has
a blog post about buing ma
ThickAsThieves: if you buy your shares from an exchange, some of the operators do take
a % as
a management fee
WILLdude: This is
a really dumb question, but if more people buy ASICminer shares, would I get less dividends?
mircea_popescu: sometimes it makes
a killing, like the 10k in jan or w./e it was
mircea_popescu: atm the market is flat and im making
a ton because people shortsold.
mircea_popescu: <benkay> b0n1: mp is running
a a financial operation that makes money when the market stays flat. << this isn't actually right
benkay: actually, this might be
a good time to subscribe to an MPOE bond issuance.
benkay: b0n1: mp is running
a a financial operation that makes money when the market stays flat. he'll want the market to stay flat.
jborkl: I got it from
a private channel, and reposted it
b0n1: but couldnt this happen
a bit more up?
jcpham: did he call kakobrekla
a cnut
jcpham: looks like
a lot of words
jcpham: tesla should just
a bitcoin client in the car
benkay: that
a thing happened.
mircea_popescu: tbh, it probably could be said that unlike the moldbug fellow i have the advantage of not reallty giving
a shiot avbout the us government
benkay: jurov, I think that's
a meta-joke. "none of this matters anyways because the thing I'm trying to tell you ruins your life regularly will ruin your life about this as well."
benkay: I don't know that MP cares about convincing
a small slice of the American technocracy that the USG is broken and/or dying.
benkay: but if you need to break through
a firewall...
truff1es: Mencius is
a contraian, how could i hate that
benkay: mircea_popescu: he has
a different agenda. using that word would drive off the soft-minded he's trying to implant viral ideas into.
thestringpuller: My political discourse usually involves: allowing people to have
a choice, vs. not allowing them to make
a choice.
benkay: no human with opinions worth paying attention to is
a strict any one of those
mircea_popescu: <thestringpuller> pop culture entrepreneurship involves creating
a problem that really doesn't exist and marketing
a solution to it, to grab the next round of funding from the daddy figure you never had growing up << amazinglty apt summary
thestringpuller: pop culture entrepreneurship involves creating
a problem that really doesn't exist and marketing
a solution to it, to grab the next round of funding from the daddy figure you never had growing up
thestringpuller: the key to true entrepreneurship means solving
a legitimate problem
thestringpuller: benkay: I did find
a shop where that is encouraged. Too bad capitalist countries don't condone true entrepreneurship
benkay: it's
a shame you didn't find
a shop where that kind of spirit is encouraged
benkay: get
a job as
a jr sysadmin
truff1es: have yet to read
a full article on there..
benkay: trilema's probably
a better education than whatever you're studying, thestringpuller
truff1es: students affect long term economy of
a nation
benkay: as I said to
a lady last night: "banks offer returns. students don't. end of story"
truff1es: benkay would u say its perfect time for
a nap?
benkay: is bitcoind team actively working on
a spec?
kakobrekla: 18:59.10 ( @dhill ) if you run godoc, that will give you
a lot of information
kakobrekla: 18:58.55 ( @jy-p ) we obviously don't have
a draft RFC :)
kakobrekla: 18:58.28 ( @marco ) it is looking like we will help getting the spec in order once development slows down
a little
kakobrekla: 18:58.18 ( kakobrekl ) so thats
a no then?
kakobrekla: 18:57.57 ( @jy-p ) if you check out the godoc and comments, btcwire encodes
a lot of the spec-related info