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mircea_popescu: he had found it, at their 2nd town appt, where the girl's grandmother lived in the summers, which was atm empty being winter.
mircea_popescu: so the father of this cute schoolgirl gives me back my watch.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony i once lost my watch. the only one time i lost my watch. i was completely wtf'd as to where i could have put the thing ?! or maybe... justmaybe... some handslight actually got it off me and now i'm never going to hear the end of "o lalala i stole mps watch lalala" *whack* ?
mircea_popescu: punkman: fluffypony, because someone smart left the keys on the door (on the inside) << were these... gpg keys ?
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: BingoBoingo: yeah, good food definitely wasn't on their priority list of "cool places to show Riccardo" << so what happened, her two boyfriends took you around town to party ?
mircea_popescu: bitcoinpete: fluffypony: i could see people who aren't writers/thinkers being perfectly ok with the "cleanliness" of buried urls << yeah, because to the idiot everything that he doesn't grok is dirty.
mircea_popescu: who the fuck cares about some shitty us corps already, jesus christ on a popsicle.
mircea_popescu: i will burn apple and facebook in urine before i give up the url.
mircea_popescu: "Perhaps URLs are just destined to be an implementation detail that the next generation of users won’t even know exists. Maybe I was crazy to think that URLs were a permanent part of our culture. Still, I’ll miss the damn things. Let’s pour one out for the URL."
mircea_popescu: "I've been a few months there and no problem. If only they allowed btc/usd trading..." uh color me fucking confused. isn't that EXACTLY what bit4x does ?
mircea_popescu: someone not reading the logs is making a conscious and deliberate move.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves: while this is a public place, it isn't necessarily fairly distributed to shareholders << that is an option the shareholders take on their own backs.
mircea_popescu: well this has been a productive morning. and outside... it's sunny, but rain drops are falling
mircea_popescu: pankkake it's more of a "go to college my son, not so you can do great things, but so you may understand why the men doing great things are laughing at you, and laugh with them."
mircea_popescu: numerisTrade if you'll stand the statement, i'll say that this has been an illuminating exercise as to the value of higher education. while you're a trained economist and the average forum dweller is a highschool drop-out, you and them are both about equally inept in business. the one difference is that your higher training allows you to understand what i say, and their lack of education denies them same.
mircea_popescu: whether the bridge is built well or badly is not related to whether it currently rains
mircea_popescu: numerisTrade but "currently" can not stand as an argument in a strategic matter.
mircea_popescu: pankkake the x.eur has the advantage that being supported by push txn and exchange sigs, you can enter into derivative gpg contracts of infinite complexity and actual otc quality on its basis.
mircea_popescu: preventing such a fate for bitcoin, for instance, has been 90% of all the work of 2012 and 2013
mircea_popescu: and a wrong side, where mostly the blacks were quartered.
mircea_popescu: it's an us idiom. old style (esp southern) towns had a "right side of the tracks", where respectable people lived
mircea_popescu: which is exactly what strategic planning for businesses is : "foreseeing" these problems and addressing them.
mircea_popescu: that is, what if all the good business flocks to one and all the scammers to the other ?
mircea_popescu: and the unrepresented risk you have here is that if there's two slightly different products addressing roughly the same market,
mircea_popescu: well that is also a point of strategic failure. because competition it is, definitely : one wanting to short btc can either buy euros for delivery on bc at his option, or enter in your cfd.
mircea_popescu: well technically yours is not otc either, it's on ripple.
mircea_popescu: moving on : how do you expect to compete with stuff like x.eur (which also gets no volume worth the mention, come to think of it)
mircea_popescu: the sort that are surprising to everyone except you know, businessmen.
mircea_popescu: but if you fail to even identify them, that's a strategic failure. failure to talk to them compounds operational failure on top of strategic failure and is how "surprises" happen
mircea_popescu: you gotta be able to identify all your stakeholders, and you gotta have at least talked to them.
mircea_popescu: well, this points to a structural problem in your business planning process.
mircea_popescu: no, whether you went to whoever runs bitstamp and said, "hey, this is what we plan to do, do you see any problems and can we rely on you for it."
mircea_popescu: numerisTrade but did you check your plan with bitstamp
mircea_popescu: pankkake because nobody gave a shit yet because they have bigger fires to put out because nobody uses ripple.
mircea_popescu: well, did you check this product you're offering with them ?
mircea_popescu: what if bitstamp locks your account for engaging in money laundering ?
mircea_popescu: numerisTrade so if the guy gives you the ripple iou and walks what do you do ?
mircea_popescu: ok i have to say that is the most obnoxiously stupid thing i heard all year. wtf.
mircea_popescu: for instance : i would prefer to go live with the goddess of fuck than with some boastful hipster that ~is destined to fail and die~.
mircea_popescu: pankkake i know right ? an even split turns through the meta ear of humanity into an 99.99999% - 0% split. goes to show just how cultivated your average human alive is.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony odin gets half the dead. freya the other half.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony of all the people i know that lost their cockthread thing whatever you call it, all lost it to a puckered butthole.
mircea_popescu: pankkake well you could have made an arrangement with anyone with an acct in the interim i guess, but srsly : you won't conceivably be locked out of shares, so. nothing to worry about on that score.
mircea_popescu: so far it was selling excitedly at ~1% over nav, then panacea announced losses and it chilled.
mircea_popescu: i can destroy all the shares, and will if price diverges under.
mircea_popescu: i can issue an infinity of shares, and will if price diverges upwards.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: how would that work ? this is a managed asset, it's not supposed to trade much off its nav
mircea_popescu: on coinbr when jurov gets around to it, which should be any time nao
mircea_popescu: this is why you do not negotiate, and you do not stop until the enemy is destroyed. not just dead, destroyed.