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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
mircea_popescu: at some point dodgy promoters are going to run out of angles to try and spamvertise donations. then what ?
mircea_popescu: as far as i can remember i always used tos as toilet paper and never suffered for it.
mircea_popescu: if some random schmucks manage to get you fired you're better off weithout the idiots anyway.
mircea_popescu: my friend freud says that since you said it just as i was going to bed, clearly it's the case.
mircea_popescu: Mats_cd03 meet my friend freud, he has some observations to make.
mircea_popescu: bounce well if you're dealing with stalin, you're not getting punished.
mircea_popescu: one of the chief complaints of my slavegirls is that they have no measure of control over x
mircea_popescu: bounce i used it as a metaphor for a guy who says "you do what i tell you or i kill you" and then proceeds to stick to his word.
mircea_popescu: (even should it come at a cost of a few genuine heads impaled)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform or moreover, to make sure that none of the imitators survive
mircea_popescu: bounce i suspect that risk is mostly mitigated by stalin
mircea_popescu: as in, well, this application will require a start-over anyway
mircea_popescu: this discussion neatly maps on the cellphone/landline discussion.
mircea_popescu: bounce also known as "plenty of people in the us cannot drive"
mircea_popescu: what's a free market other than an endless caleidoscope of a mexican standoff
mircea_popescu: you know, simply shot gates, instead of merely throwing pies.
mircea_popescu: mike_c my meta-point is that, even if not epxlicit, what it really did was it kept people like me pacified
mircea_popescu: in soviet russia this also has a name. vrag naroda etc.