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mircea_popescu: i have nfi how he managed it, but apparently his early cuntoo actually works for practical purposes.
mircea_popescu: trinque going to chiraq to sample thatbitchlola 's wares ?
mircea_popescu: " ben_vulpes took a dozen hookers and a truck of beer to the nevada desert and was never heard from again "
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron so what's the dirt, what happened between the david fish fellow and the al soto fellow ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: almost like larping, "one magic spell they used was..."
mircea_popescu: "Darwin also went to The Master's College library and checked out a stack of MacArthur's books about 18 inches high. Normally, they would not allow so many volumes to be lent out all at one time, but in this case, for some reason, they made an exception." << "they were secretly hoping he steals them"
mircea_popescu: hm. i can't help but read this passage as "on my way i got waylaid by these fellows who saw i had dough and well..." ; but then again i'm a cynical sort.
mircea_popescu: o wow, so you were going to brazil and then ended up living with the true church folk ? i had nfi!
mircea_popescu: also, you should probably come do karaoke here. for one thing, there's hookers. for the other thing, they're so enamoured with the idea of english they'll like it whatever it is (not that they'd know). and soo n.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron it occurs to me you should prolly wear your scandalous shirt in your header or something.
mircea_popescu: it doesn't even get that bad until it tries to pee on it.
mircea_popescu: "A couple weeks later, I get accosted by some drunk chick who heard from a friend that I “think women shouldn’t be allowed to speak.” She argued with me alongside one of her friends — that is, I argued some perfectly valid points, while she got increasingly beligerant; much to the friend’s dismay, who even expressed that I was coming off as the victUAL". jeez this guy's saturday nights!
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes incidentally, did p.bvulpes cross the mn mark yet ?
mircea_popescu: gotta watch what you say, teh investors are eager to misinterpret!
mircea_popescu: or is this your discreet way of proposing pizarro's bust :D
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes moreover, tbf involvement with pizarro was an investment, not a grant. it got equity didn't it.
mircea_popescu: trinque that works also, keeps things cleaner in a sense.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes the reasoning wasn't tbtf, but rather community-benefit terrible-cost-structure
mircea_popescu: mod6 you can't afford to pay for development. i appreciate the sentiment, and i'm not saying his work is negligible, but if you count all the IMMENSE amount of devwork the republic has produced, however you add it up you'll either a) be on the hook for more than the foundation has, significantly more, or else b) you'll be stuck taking lowball to the level of insulting people.
mircea_popescu: if he manages to lose it we can have words about maybe another one ; but it'd better not be this year.
mircea_popescu: just give him a bitcoin to seed his hotwallet, and call it a day.
mircea_popescu: if he doesn't get popped, it needs no renewal, it's permanent. and if he does... well...
mircea_popescu: i'm guessing if it covers his original hotwallet it's all roses.
mircea_popescu: specifically being able to say, "oh, yeah, segwit, whatever, the power ranger's version of deedbot's !!pay, right ?" is a tmsr-wide benefit.
mircea_popescu: whereas this, it's more a case of carrying a knife up your ass. it decides when and what.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: nevertheless, you know aforehand, when you sit down to read through a patch, that you're gonna spend so long with it, and you'll stop when you stop.
mircea_popescu: well, the idea is that indeed he's on the hook, for a particular type of cost. obviously writing code, reviewing code, testing things, design, graphic or systems, all sorts of things are useful and valuable, and they take people's time. if you spend an hour reading through patches you can't spend that hour petting your dog/kitten/kid whatever.
mircea_popescu: trinque you might be overdramatizing ; what, you think i've never lost a team ? what am i, made of pure energy ? shit happens ; gotta have plans in place and move on.
mircea_popescu: now, kako for all his weird was certainly technically competent, so it's not the case that "there lay a trb in the rain".
mircea_popescu: (1 btc worth, it was actually 10, but they came to about 5-10k or such)
mircea_popescu: now, i am in the fortunate position of having valuable experience : bitbet's hotwallet was 1btc ; and it was never popped.
mircea_popescu: you're stuck investing $hotwallet-size * $failure-odds into the business that it could be, like it or not. just like your time.
mircea_popescu: trinque the line i was going on with the "what odds do you give" is that CDB is indelible from the book, stays there in red. cost of carry of capital, goods or otherwise, and so on.
mircea_popescu: kinda the dilemma of "democratic society" aka "people have rights / are best judges of how to deploy their own resources" etc. you end up with the walmart world and either you chase the britney spears fanbase or else can't cover costs.
mircea_popescu: problem with it is that such a thing only pays after getting large enough.
mircea_popescu: but, to be plain, it is a lot of work, and very useful, and very finnicky / highly qualified / high responsibility. so absolutely you should make bank for doing it.
mircea_popescu: generally should be able to guess at the time you'd do it today what time'd be convenient tomorrow sorta deal
mircea_popescu: you ~could~ add a deedbot command like !!pending which'd list all pending items and the estimated next send ("Next tx push on Fri, Apr 14 at 8:14 pm -- in 25hours). gives people something to do with their time.
mircea_popescu: that way a) you get automated txn bundling, reducing fees and b) you don't have to keep doing it.
mircea_popescu: trinque anyway, one reasonable measure to cost control is to do all txn once a day, every day. ish.
mircea_popescu: kinda how my reasoning went, "he's pretty good at getting tx fees optimized, chances are users won't even notice they're paying, when comparing with $average-webservice."
mircea_popescu: (consider that these are uncharacteristically generious txn, most of the world still operates on the 19.95 walmart standard.)
mircea_popescu: i can't imagine half dozen tx/day sorta debit can in any meaningful sense "pay for itself".
mircea_popescu: contrariwise though, there's not that much per-tx cost the system can bear.
mircea_popescu: ~ example of question to be answered correctly above ~