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mircea_popescu: i don't get this. is he a hoster that doesn't understand hosting ?
Chaang-Noi: it was a bit faster 12 hours ago
Chaang-Noi: 27% jump, seems like we slowed down a bit
pigeons: get a bigger gun
pigeons: going outside = being a target
BitHub: company = being a target
Diablo-D3: BitHub: unless you;re a millionare, no.
pigeons: statefarm insurance is a good neighbor
mircea_popescu: ya well... that's fine, but you'll never go anywhere with a company.
mircea_popescu: then you should get a job
Diablo-D3: money, well, doesn't really have that much of a grip in me
Diablo-D3: google is a defective product.
mircea_popescu: it'd be of interest if i were trying to marry a google paycheck or something.
Diablo-D3: I dont even have a facebook account
Diablo-D3: I find large scale data storage a very interesting topic
mircea_popescu: i am technically minded, i just don't happen to be a hipster.
mircea_popescu: looks to me like a lot of newcomers drinking the visibility coolaid
kakobrekla: packing the latest one into a bot as we speak
smickles: kakobrekla: were you the one who mentioned working on a kalman filter based trade bot?
Diablo-D3: (oddly enough, I finally ordered a book from them for the first time, and I've done thousands of dollars of business with them over the past however many years)
Diablo-D3: its not because they're a successful bookstore.
Diablo-D3: the original plan I didn't show anyone in the bitcoin community was on the order of a hundred racks or more
Diablo-D3: kakobrekla: yeah, and I shouldnt have paired it down to only a dozen or two racks
Bugpowder: a grown man's fantasy?
Diablo-D3: I have a name picked out
mircea_popescu: i tihnk in about five years the cost of a seat on this chan will be like... 30 btc.
Diablo-D3: smickles: it just has a massive scope
Diablo-D3: smickles: this is still a startup
smickles: that's 'a startup' tho, they play by different rules
Bugpowder: it's just one perspective, but it a better one than you have right now
Diablo-D3: mircea_popescu: and its just bee a massive coverup ever since
smickles: Diablo-D3: heh, i have a simple business tho
mircea_popescu: 3 is the magic number. if you get a chick and you both do her especially.
Diablo-D3: I'd like to have a cofounder
Bugpowder: You just need to find a decent MBA dude to partner with
mircea_popescu: type a for asshole ?
Bugpowder: you need a partner
Bugpowder: you might not be good at starting a business
Diablo-D3: mircea_popescu: you're one of those type A personalities though
mircea_popescu: it takes what, two hours to pick up a chick get shown around.
Diablo-D3: I dont even own a fucking suit
mircea_popescu: train from maine to nyc costs you less than what you can panhandle in a day
mircea_popescu: pretty much a walking zombie could get 50k
mircea_popescu: Bugpowder has a point there. if organised freakshows / circus acts a la what gets funded by ycombinator can get 500k
smickles: Diablo-D3: actually, Smickles Accounting Services, a limited company is profitable as of today
mircea_popescu: believe it or not there is such a subset.
mircea_popescu: depends a lot on the sort of company you're starting.
Diablo-D3: smickles: it costs $50k to start a company the right way
mircea_popescu: Bugpowder i know a chick that went to humbolt. she hated it.
Diablo-D3: theres a few kids in jail too, but they were the drunks
mircea_popescu: what sort of fucking fantasia is this, a town with 6 cops and 6000 growlights
mircea_popescu: for 20 bucks worth of pot you've got yourself a friend.
Bugpowder: Diablo-D3: Why not go to your state's bar association website and use their legal referral service to find a local laywer that specializes in your field of question
Bugpowder: you need a corporate law transactional lawyer
Bugpowder: also there is a lot disciplines
mircea_popescu: the question of course becomes why arent YOU a lawyer
Diablo-D3: you'd think ONE of them would have become a lawyer
mircea_popescu: Diablo-D3 for people with a clue, which mostly means 10 years as a paralegal and up, it's a useful shortcut
mircea_popescu: smickles basically some guy made a trust, but didn't properly account for revocation
Diablo-D3: yeah, I think legalzoom really is a scam
mircea_popescu: the state doesn't do property taxes, they're a local concern.
tiberiusiv: ive lived in a bunch of US states
Diablo-D3: like, it was big news a few years back some dickhead graffitied on the side of a building
mircea_popescu: it's a list
mircea_popescu: often enough there's a tax on power distribution
mircea_popescu: it's a town witout revenue ? how does it pay fo the mayor/town administrator
Diablo-D3: iirc for practicing law in those states without having a lawyer from those states on staff
smickles: no need for legal zoom to be a scam, there's a big market for that service
mircea_popescu: when did legalzoom become a scam ?
Diablo-D3: Bugpowder: fuck legalzoom, that shit is a scam
mircea_popescu: Diablo-D3 here's a tip : if you live in a smallish town see who your town used to advise on their bonds
mircea_popescu: Bugpowder the problem is that in a field like "i wanna issue btc bonds" the opinion of a lawyer that makes 60k a month
Bugpowder: you could get by with a lower level of lawyer then
Diablo-D3: like, if I want to issue those corporate bonds, I'm going to need a lawyer
Bugpowder: A decent associate is around $300 / hr
mircea_popescu: there was a guy on the forum a year bacl
Diablo-D3: mircea_popescu: do we have a bitcoin lawyer yet?
mircea_popescu: and have, for a while.
kakobrekla: Urdă is a Romanian fresh white cheese made by reprocessing the whey drained from cheeses such as caş or telemea.
Bugpowder: Just tell the people "I'm thinking your 'NO' vote was probably a mistake"
benkay: although ten years from now this country will be all "wtf bitcoins? i thought that was a scam…"
Bugpowder: ALthough I will forcefully argue that it should be considered a longterm capital gain
tiberiusiv: low trading volume for a few days already
BitHub: they mix well when acting as a sheild or bucket
BitHub: i'm doing a bitcoin political party and religion under the same branch
pigeons: a bird in the hand is worth 2 in your bush
Diablo-D3: BitHub: well, Im seriously considering starting a religion
Bugpowder: Is a dollar at bitfloor = a dollar at mtgox?
BitHub: we need like a temple, and sacrifice a virgin every morning and ask the Satoshi Gods to name their price for the day
Bugpowder: BTCe has a different risk profile than MTgox
Bugpowder: MPOE has a different risk profile than S.DICE
BitHub: i was reading that the price on mtgox was suppose to crash once but mtgox halted and it and ignored it trying to avoid a meltdown
mircea_popescu: ima go make myself a dessert.
BitHub: oh you mean by like doing a forking?
kakobrekla: interesting that same thing is being discussed for the fifth time in like a week.
mircea_popescu: Diablo-D3 well... the one positive step forward is if we could move off the mtgox-based usd price to a community fixing price.
mircea_popescu: it's a sad state of affairs
pigeons: yeah woulod seem a lot of work to call each utility company and verify you didnt just change the name and address or date from an old one
mircea_popescu: Diablo-D3 yes, this is exactly the point. us citizens are becoming the underserved inhabitants of a financial ghetto.
Diablo-D3: pigeons: yes, because mtgox is not a bank