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ascii_field: or physically alter
the
thing, or
the coin, in any way.
ascii_field: and you don't even need
to remove
the sticker.
nubbins`: the holo stickers for
the 1btc silvers were
too large for
the space on
the coin &
tended
to lift at
the edges, making for very easy solvent insertion -- most stickers were
then burned around
the rim with a laser
to make a fried-on messy ring
that allowed
the sticker
to lay flatter and ostensibly would reveal
tampering more easily (they still flaked, saw it with mine own)
nubbins`: i recall a discussion in which it was posited
that a device
to read private key would be easy enough
to make
ascii_field: nubbins`: do you remember
the
thread where i described how
to
trivially rape such a coin ?
nubbins`: i expect
this
to be
the minimum going forward
nubbins`: for
those who are interested in matters of pedigree, i just sold a casascius coin and
the buyer paid an additional 1btc
to have
the pgp chain of custody extended
ascii_field: and had reasonably good pneumatics,
that didn't leak air
mircea_popescu: oh i see, it wouldn't be "real"
top quality if it weren't shit.
ascii_field: and i had a forbidden cloth-backed chair
that had
to be hidden during inspections
ascii_field: phun phakt: at
the u.s. army derpery where i once worked, aerons were MANDATORY
mircea_popescu: back before all
the midwestern carrie-bradshaw-wannabes showed up
ascii_field has never even been
there as a
tourist. oughta go some day.
mircea_popescu: if it isn't in scamicon valley
THEN ITS NOT REALLY
TECHNOLOGY
mircea_popescu: ascii_field do not
take
the name of
the dwwweb in vane!
mircea_popescu: "La 27 de ani, Vladimir Oane a riscat şi a reuşit. În doi ani, a pus pe picioare o afacere prin care monitorizează diverse reţele şi oferă statistici marilor branduri. Contractele au început să curgă." <<< for
the lulz. romanian "airbnb could buy all of russia"
thing.
mircea_popescu: guys at
the local bar, you know, watching shark
tank on
tv...
mircea_popescu: of course
that shit exists. it's about as lulzy an affair as "romanian press" or whatever, "romanian secret services caught romanian isis agent"
mircea_popescu: heh. check
this shit out "Not all investors are created equal.
The winners are persistently
the same relatively small groups of investors
time after
time. Success not only has positive signaling effects in attracting
the factors
that drive success, but also
talent enhancing effects for
the venture capitalists
themselves." << now why exactly would
this be ? successful sicentists aren't "always
the same small group
time
mircea_popescu: it's not like yc will be displaced by b-a, it's like his derpy www-persona has a chance and all
that.
mircea_popescu: i'm sure "building his brand as an investor" is going
to do exactly what "building her brand as an relationship expert" did for
tlp's fave gori lottlieb. or whatever it was.
mircea_popescu: When I found Airbnb I was a nobody in
the investing world, but I spent
the next year afterward
traveling around
the US meeting founders and investors. I attended and hosted several dozen events and I
talked
to just about everybody in
tech I could. I read voraciously and learned as much as possible from one-on-one conversations. I put in a full year of hard work before I did my next deal."
mircea_popescu: "Losing a deal like Airbnb can be painful. Great lessons came from
the rejection at
the very end, however. After getting
the cold shoulder, I realized I needed
to go out and build some valuable knowledge, needed a more robust network, and needed
to craft my own brand as an investor.
mircea_popescu: or if you will,
they executed what groupon executed : a maddof in
the background, in
this case named graham, scammed some old ladies and wrote
the details in a notebook bearing
this
title
mircea_popescu: "Airbnb has of course gone on
to execute exceptionally well and become what it is
today."
assbot: "You cannot fix a machine by just power-cycling it with no understanding of what is going wrong." on
Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... (
http://bit.ly/1QwJDpi )
mircea_popescu: derp wants
to
think
that hey,
this is how i got bumped out of a great deal
mircea_popescu: the funny skit in
that paige craig piece being
that if paul graham and his merry band of spammers & conmen hadn't "invested",
the
thing would be worth
tgoday what it it;'s been worth
throughout : four digits in someone's shitty excel.
mircea_popescu: in
this sense, if
there's ANYONE
that appears above,
then
that's someone above lenin. which
they can't have. and so...
mircea_popescu: you're guaranteed
to get it,
the higher accomplished you are. it correlates with your visibility because
the point, from
the niggers' perspective, is exactly
to
try and make it a
thing by sticking it
to people.
mircea_popescu: this is like being accused of "wrecking" in
the other-us.
BingoBoingo: "perhaps
the most decorated elementary-school
teacher in
the country,
the only K-12 educator ever
to receive
the National Medal of
the Arts—has been accused of sexual misconduct in shocking documents released
Tuesday by Los Angeles Unified School District."
assbot: Rafe Esquith, famous
teacher, accused of sexual misconduct and inappropriate behavior in school by L.A. schools ... (
http://bit.ly/1QwIdel )
mircea_popescu: not EXACTLY a
tall
tale, like
the canadians got. crazier.
mircea_popescu: anywya, it bears pointing out,
to round
the "us www guide fiction"
thread,
that
the donner party was
the unfortunate result of
that
typically american literary genus,
the wild west guide fiction.
mircea_popescu: notwithstanding
that
the premier indicator of not-real-case is exactly "sting!!11"
mircea_popescu: by now i suppose
the prosecuting attorney will suspect
the case may not seem like a "real" case w/o one.
ascii_field: and somehow a sting/entrapment op was in
the mix, even
ascii_field: earlier link features a chinese fella on
trial for supposedly pinching a priceless!11111 filesystem driver from ibm
mircea_popescu: but
these are places
that've been continuously inhabited for a while, where
the space of possibilities has been a little more explored.
mircea_popescu: i mean...
this is what
the village idiot would be in ro
mircea_popescu: it all really proceeds on
the same great page of "i ain't got much lernin but i seen
them buttes, here's how you
too can get
there!"
mircea_popescu: )
that he's very much a son of his country and a man of his age.
there is still a very strong vein of "guide literature" from wild west in us fiction writing
to
this date.
mircea_popescu: unrelatedly, it occurs
to me looking
through
tucker max's sad history past decade (random guy on
the internet,
thinks "he invented a literary genus" because wrote some bland, unoriginal "debauchery stories" ; burned out of
that [the
tucker max makes a movie in hollywood shit was pretty lulzy]
then moved on
to... being an investor! burned out of
that, now writing advice books on how
to be
the perfect mate for some woman
mircea_popescu: now, granted
that clinical neurology is still
the vastly more important
thing, but anyway.
mircea_popescu: minsky's probably
the more advanced work on
theoretical neurology
to date.
ascii_field: weinreb was ok before he went barmy and
then died
mircea_popescu: you don't really like ANY of
the classics lispers do you.
ascii_field: i once
tried
to read his other shit, and barfed
assbot: Logged on 09-12-2015 11:38:17; mircea_popescu:
http://dreamsongs.com/ <<< how
to be retarded.
today, richard "i don't have a name and i was born without a face, here's some salmon background" gabriel.
mircea_popescu: <adlai> ben_vulpes:
tell your hopeful i'm stealing his cannswer << yeah, it's a very good can.
mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> << mircea_popescu hasn't made you make
the "programmers spigot" plain-old-html view yet huh? <<
this is hate speech.
assbot: You rated user adlai on 08-Nov-2015, with a rating of -1, and supplied
these additional notes: As best as I can
tell,
the individual is either mentally retarded, or else expends significant mental power
to emulate mental retardation..
mircea_popescu: amusingly,
there's actually a
trilema about
that derp.
adlai unearthed
the "report" he wrote on
the cork industry in 5th grade last night while
throwing out old schoolwork
adlai: ben_vulpes:
tell your hopeful i'm stealing his cannswer
gribble: (search <word>) -- Searches for <word> in
the current configuration variables.
ben_vulpes: adlai: out of curiosity what's
the difference between 'plastic' and plastic?
ben_vulpes: then followed a long explanation of
the horseshit dow is putting into screw-top wine bottles and synthetic corks
ben_vulpes: "cork is
the sustainable bottle-stopper"
ben_vulpes: asked a potential hire "what do you know or believe
that few people agree with you on"
adlai: pls reread cited sections of 'congolese
trading window'
assbot: Logged on 09-12-2015 14:24:59; Naphex: ben_vulpes: xotika has a full rest-full API while
the angular js is static html
that just connects
to
the backends
adlai: ben_vulpes: see,
that guy just got a better price. i wouldn't call him an opponent.
assbot: Logged on 14-11-2015 02:25:48; mircea_popescu: seriously, let
the dumbass
tech kids get away with
this stupid shit ?
jurov: ben_vulpes: mp is fine with api
that can be accessed by curl (but dunno if xotika is
the case)
adlai: positive-sum wonderlands do not involve carcass-treading;
they are instead eaten in a feast, with portions rationed by participation; but "everybody has a share"
assbot: Logged on 09-12-2015 14:24:59; Naphex: ben_vulpes: xotika has a full rest-full API while
the angular js is static html
that just connects
to
the backends