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mircea_popescu: TestingUnoDosTre i dunno, do you see BingoBoingo as <BingoBoingo> or <BingoBoing> ?
mircea_popescu: davout im not that new, i'm like almost bitcoin bodhisattva rank here.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` clearly not even the google works in canada now that they fired the snowplows.
mircea_popescu: davout how the fuck do you have more activity than mpoe-pr
mircea_popescu: into half a sandwich which for some reason has some packing peanuts glued to a jello tin
mircea_popescu: amir speaking in an amir-designed microphone would be a decent approximation
mircea_popescu: it's more that you can't figure out what it doesn't make sense about.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` revenge of the cheerleaders thing is basically "rent an old space opera B set, make some floozies run naked around it"
mircea_popescu: possibly worse than canibal holocaust. also tits and ass.
mircea_popescu: "Daca eram gropar te ingropam drept in ocean si-apoi la vaduva-i bateam, zimbind, cu pula-n geam." if i were an undertaker i'd had undertook you straight to the ocean and then i'd be arround knocking in the widow's window with my inflamed schlong
mircea_popescu: "Daca eram un canibal si te prindeam cu o urata te luam la pula-n scurt baga-mi-as pula-n ea de strimba."
mircea_popescu: nubbins` anyway, the comment was a contrived "you should see it multiple times"
mircea_popescu: prmised the mark 30 bucks out of his inexistent check,
mircea_popescu: hey, anyone recall that iconic confidence scam scene where the guy pretends to be an ex marine waiting for a money order ?
mircea_popescu: o wait wait... the 3k btc worth of server can be slowed down ?
mircea_popescu: it's getting harder and harder to argue with that chick
mircea_popescu endorses you for your girlfriend. and also endorses her.
mircea_popescu: kinda why i love nanotube. he's a geek, and he's not making the wot any more social than it is
mircea_popescu: and that's quite why i;'m so distrustful of various "Experts" and "ceos" and whatnot that don't have one.
mircea_popescu: i can cut through the chase in about ten minutes because of it,
mircea_popescu: and i tell you "we've done a bunch of 0.0001 trades and i trust him to so and so and back and forth"
mircea_popescu: conversely i could keep someone at a 1 even if we trade millions, if it's a hit and run affair and i couldn't really tell them from adam.
mircea_popescu: so in this sense, pankkake, i can mark as 10 someone with whom i only do 0.001 trades, inasmuch as i judge that i can 100% describe them to whoever asks
mircea_popescu: and the individual score is not "how trustworthy is this guy" but "how well i am acquainted with this guy", ie, how valuable my input may be to a third party asking for references.
mircea_popescu: the only thing someone's aggregate score tells you is how likely it is for you to have someone who knows him in your network.
mircea_popescu: that's not what they are. they're statistical dampeners.
mircea_popescu: pankkake it seems you're labouring under the misapprehension that these ranks are sort-of like school marks
mircea_popescu: ;;rate BingoBoingo 3 blogger, my ATC investment banker
mircea_popescu: ;;rate FabianB 3 Ruby pympex extension, some trades etc
mircea_popescu: ;;everify freenode:#bitcoin-otc:15fe50f1e823040fe9f0418e90b7848df01f4b2a7052ce1bb09784ba
mircea_popescu: which is the fundamental reason why stuff like the wot and otc trade and so forth are so important.
mircea_popescu: the problem with this, of course, is that it doesn't actually work.
mircea_popescu: on one hand they're scum anyway, so not likely they'll suddenly discover a backbone, and on the other hand even if they were to try you already have enough on them to put them away for a long, long time.
mircea_popescu: as far as the alphabet soup is concerned, the ideal situation is to have everything penetrated by people like kenna.
mircea_popescu: in that you can always have them inform on anyone else stupid enough to be in business with them.
mircea_popescu: eh, currently the usg policy is something along the lines of "well why put away the scammers, they're useful players"
mircea_popescu: and now imagines somehow he'll be allowed to hold customer funds.
mircea_popescu: and then tried to come back to bitcoin for more and got smashed
mircea_popescu: and then ran off and made a real estate development which floundered