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mircea_popescu: one of the best cartoon characters of all time. always naked from the waist down, always funny pants reference names, a whole pants thing
mircea_popescu: what's wrong with it ? (just curious, i dun do forums anyway)
mircea_popescu: dexX7 you may be the last one using .org, people kinda moved to .lk
mircea_popescu: To get voice (ie, to be able to speak), first identify with gribble and then send "!up" to assbot in a private message. If you do not have a WoT account, try politely asking one of the voiced people for a temporary pass.
mircea_popescu: maybe s/To get a voice, a permission to speak/To get voice (ie, to be able to speak),
mircea_popescu: anyway. the bed's just filed extradition papers so ima have to bid you a very good laters!
mircea_popescu: But in either case, the race is on : the governments are mining, boys and girls. (The good news, of course, is that they’ve started about at the same time, which means we have cleared the ONLY roadblock Bitcoin ever seriously had in its path. We’re done here, we’ve won.)
mircea_popescu: (for new people : mtgox failed miserably a year ago, this time. their lag was routinely in the half hour range. it's all in the logs. their response ? "we are a victim of our own success!!1"
mircea_popescu: ahaha. ty bitcoin-assets wiki, i had forgotten this one
mircea_popescu: anyway. epic article, all the lulz one could want for an evening.
mircea_popescu: Finally, its worth noting that Y Combinator has funded a total of 564 companies. More than 150 of those companies are less than 18 months old. Therefore, 80% of the companies are older than 18 months and have not been acquired.
mircea_popescu: SocialPicks. "SocialPicks provides individual investors with a trusted online investing community where they can invest smarter together."
mircea_popescu: kiko. Kiko is a web calendar for anyone who wants to keep and share a calendar online. Kiko excels at three main things:
mircea_popescu: Divvyshot. "Divvyshot allows groups of friends to share their photos easily, at their full resolutions. It was a Y Combinator participant."
mircea_popescu: actual crunchbase profile. fucking written by $.75 an hour indians that thing.
mircea_popescu: Whereoscope. Whereoscope is a service designed to help parents keep know where their kids are.
mircea_popescu: "a company for carrying out an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is"
mircea_popescu: Parakey. "Parakey was founded in early 2006 by Blake Ross and Joe Hewitt of Mozilla/ Firefox fame. Little has been revealed about."
mircea_popescu: TextPayMe. "Founded in 2005, TextPayMe is an SMS payment service that lets you send money to other people using cell phone."
mircea_popescu: cgcardona_ i mean for curiosity's sake, re-do the same graph but not in log(10). in log(1024) instead. fucking flatlines.
mircea_popescu: on a log scale any two things are within an inch of each other.
mircea_popescu: if those two fit you're basically saying that anally inserting a pea and a horse's head is roughly similar.
mircea_popescu: because what appears "close" is way the fuck out over there. as in the original graph, midway. the thing's all over the place.
mircea_popescu: it takes a minimally trained eye to notice gross unfitness in a log graph.
mircea_popescu: artifexd I do understand your point that << that's only half the point. this much is valid, but!
mircea_popescu: cgcardona_ their job was easier, as they prolly hadn't invented the adversarial system either, so they could actually reach some sort of a decision.
mircea_popescu: that's what i fucking had in mind. im entirely unsure why i thought /log(x) is a homomorphism of a log scale, but anywa
mircea_popescu: "munch on me, munch off me, either way lunch is on me!"
mircea_popescu: like you know... all the functionality of being on chatroulette without being on chatroulette.
mircea_popescu: SocialCam. "Socialcam is the easiest way to share video with your friends and on social networks."
mircea_popescu: VoiceGem. "Voicegem is the easiest way to send a voice message to anyone."
mircea_popescu: dude fucking hell. if it were, call girl services, so you can eat your powerlunch on a naked arts major, it'd have made more sense.
mircea_popescu: Munch On Me. "Munch On Me is a food discovery portal that connects people with great food at great prices in local communities."
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller no. to the pki they tried toi get in "for verifying merchant's addresses" in spite of... everyone's objections.
mircea_popescu: cgcardona_ things degrade naturally, the same vicious circle as exhibited by used car markets that lemon laws try to fix : any seller with above-average value is disincentivised from participating.
mircea_popescu: The Fridge. "The Fridge is a platform for lightweight single serving social networks for the functionality of Facebook without being on Facebook."
mircea_popescu: joecool i heard the same thing but notrly substantiated.
mircea_popescu: TestingUnoDosTre because the server bleeds memory, in principle you can decrypt their 2fa challenge as well as anything else.
mircea_popescu: Cardpool. "Cardpool makes it ridiculously easy to buy and sell pre-owned gift cards. Customers can buy gift cards for up to 35% off or sell unwanted gift cards for cash ."
mircea_popescu: TestingUnoDosTre idjits srsly. 2fa would have done exactly nothing./
mircea_popescu: joecool kenna tried to relaunch, the girl told him where to stick it, he wasn't heard from since ?
mircea_popescu: GEORGE: It’s called Sendrax. They’ve got some new kind of technique for televising opera.
mircea_popescu: Gantto. Gantto is a web based planning application. Users can collaborate in real-time to create and edit Gantt charts.
mircea_popescu: then there's vircurex, tho that's probably a case of pebkac
mircea_popescu: well we had bad experiences. in bitcoin i mean. there was that atrocious hole last year, pretty much put bitcoin-central on its ass.
mircea_popescu: rails is like... o god. i think only php is moar hated than rails here