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assbot: Logged on 22-03-2015 02:22:03;
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the problem with jurisdictions discussed recentlier is deeper than it seems. plenty of usians do not think other places are "real places".
ben_vulpes:
mircea_popescu: oh hey can we do the whorehouse cafe?
felipelalli: right lists, and the right rates. I really want to understand better why you guys dislike it so much. In my country the interest rates are very high. In my bank, for example, I can get a loan with 7% per month MIN! APR 125% and in BTCJam I made some tests and I could get my first loand with 3% per month (42% APR) and then the second 2.8% (39% APR). The loan is so fucking high in bank that I can say like
mircea_popescu said: "we are
felipelalli:
mircea_popescu: "felipelalli it actually already works like that." << what exactly "works like that"? Sorry, I couldn't link it. --- And thanks for the links, I'll read it.
felipelalli:
mircea_popescu: "felipelalli it actually already works like that." << what exactly "works like that"? Sorry, I couldn't link it. --- And thanks for the links, I'll read it.
felipelalli:
mircea_popescu: a P2P lending system totally based on OTC WoT system would you consider a fraud as well or it could be something good?
felipelalli:
mircea_popescu: just one question mark: do you call fraud what does not have the "min. quality expected for that service" or something else?
felipelalli:
mircea_popescu: thank you for the answers and the link. I'll have a look on it before comment again.
assbot: Logged on 25-04-2014 17:49:10;
mircea_popescu: "After scoring a major grant awarded by the Bitcoin Foundation, Coinpunk’s beta version is finally available. The project, which is being developed by the veteran startup founder Kyle Drake, intends to build the first fully open-source, self-hosted do-it-yourself Bitcoin wallet service that you can run on your own server."
assbot: Logged on 20-02-2014 19:47:58;
mircea_popescu: why "you" ?
assbot: Logged on 31-01-2014 16:43:16;
mircea_popescu: since you can by design make zero-delta bets, and since the fee is 1%... bitbet is partly the reason why mixer services sort-of died last year, i'd guess.
assbot: Logged on 13-06-2014 02:34:16;
mircea_popescu: anyway, the fact that bitcoin is not actually traceable, and all the sophistry of taint can at most produce persuasion is one of the largest points of pressure applied by bitcoin to human society. it may result in the "reasonable doubt" standard being taken out.
assbot: Logged on 14-02-2015 18:06:59;
mircea_popescu: lol kay.
assbot: Logged on 19-03-2015 21:32:58; fluffypony: "release the money to
mircea_popescu if I send the money to
mircea_popescu" is about the sum total of it
funkenstein_:
mircea_popescu, i thought it was interesting, but i guess not enough to finish it
assbot: Logged on 21-03-2015 07:35:50; cazalla:
mircea_popescu: im thinking cazalla bingoboingo thestringpuller danielpbarron right off the bat, cazalla lemme know who else should go in the magic dozen. <<< pete_dushenski, PeterL might be interested, personally i think while nubbins` would do a great job, it's something i would look at once, put in cupboard and forget about
chetty: <Tetra113>
mircea_popescu, how does one get in on bitcoin company shares?// bitcoin company???????????
Tetra113:
mircea_popescu, how does one get in on bitcoin company shares?
Tetra113:
mircea_popescu, mostly sites that appear written by you lol
assbot: Logged on 18-03-2015 05:09:03;
mircea_popescu: " Content preview: Dear Alare Kool, thank you for registering at Bitstamp exchange service! At this point you have just contributed a great deal to future of decentralized monetary market."
assbot: Logged on 20-03-2015 21:10:47; felipelalli:
mircea_popescu: Where can I find objective arguments against BTCJam? As a lending service and reputation system? And what are the alternatives for P2P lending or we don't have? They have 113,000 users, should they be ignored?
cazalla:
mircea_popescu: im thinking cazalla bingoboingo thestringpuller danielpbarron right off the bat, cazalla lemme know who else should go in the magic dozen. <<< pete_dushenski, PeterL might be interested, personally i think while nubbins` would do a great job, it's something i would look at once, put in cupboard and forget about
☟︎ nubbins`:
mircea_popescu guy's protecting himself from the cemetery he's flying over
assbot: Logged on 20-03-2015 23:54:55; asciilifeform: and then
mircea_popescu walks in with a '45 and asks which one to shoot
decimation:
mircea_popescu: "pregnancy comes from copulation" is a fairly workable theory
nubbins`: <+
mircea_popescu> you become more like your "true self", which just happens to be dead. <<< oh ho ho ho, i like this
nubbins`:
mircea_popescu just checking to see if anyone was paying attention 8)
nubbins`:
mircea_popescu i never understood the concept of a "paper erection" until i got into this biz, ya know
nubbins`:
mircea_popescu say 600 bezzlars for a dozen people to get 250 cards each, design + shipping at actual cost
assbot: Logged on 17-03-2015 19:25:54;
mircea_popescu: "Citizens ask for permission, expats ask for forgiveness" << maybe he should ask for a nailgun.
felipelalli:
mircea_popescu: Where can I find objective arguments against BTCJam? As a lending service and reputation system? And what are the alternatives for P2P lending or we don't have? They have 113,000 users, should they be ignored?
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 20-03-2015 20:38:54;
mircea_popescu: felipelalli if you write some apologetic pos about how toejam is an actual service it's not getting published.
trinque:
mircea_popescu: when imagining overt dictatorship I'd think so
trinque:
mircea_popescu: hm is this where the declining soviet population went? a different x% croaking on the street per year?
Adlai:
mircea_popescu: how's that work, you're saying homeless people have longer life expectancy?
assbot: Logged on 03-03-2015 09:14:51;
mircea_popescu: i don't think anyone in the wot ever actually starves.
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: speaking from the chumpatronic jail here, just about any schmuck can get at least 5 digits of loansharkamatic without breaking a sweat
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: rifled projectiles for smoothbore barrels are sold in every hunting shop in usa
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu ^ consider for use on n00bz
trinque:
mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=20-03-2015#1059635 << which is the manual ? << tried geting rid of that colon by making the bot parse all messages for commands, not just highlights, and making deedbot- the command. didn't work, seems it should. I'm going to poke tenyks' author today to find out what's smart
☝︎ assbot: Logged on 20-03-2015 13:02:49;
mircea_popescu: a whole range of french (president ?) and italian cheeses ?
nubbins`:
mircea_popescu understand that this is akin to discovering jam is made from berries
nubbins`:
mircea_popescu:for that matter, suppose some asshole runs around throwing banana peels right before people. and he gets busted for "assault with a dangerous weapon". <<< now you're just shoehorning
cazalla:
mircea_popescu, and sydney, yeah
cazalla:
mircea_popescu, not many down under, not like i'll ever leave
cazalla:
mircea_popescu, because she fucked around with shit like tramadol
davout:
mircea_popescu: to be honest, a strategically banana peel might be more effective in this particular case
davout:
mircea_popescu: i hang around a bit on /r/flying, also watched a few vids of ATPs being lasered and yes, it does look pretty dangerous
cazalla:
mircea_popescu, the pollie that said that got busted for gay sex like a year later, clearly didn't want to play ball anymore (or did)
assbot: Logged on 19-03-2015 20:22:56;
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=19-03-2015#1057738 << it is. people (especially people kinda too lazy to study things in depth) have all sorts of theories about privacy and keep pestering me for special addresses etc. it's a fashion is what it is, one i don't aim to encourage, and i'm stuck because w/e, serving teh customer.
cazalla: the old
mircea_popescu pic complemented trilema, but this new one is difficult with MP staring at you while you read
assbot: Logged on 20-03-2015 00:58:04; asciilifeform: possibly the most dangerous animal to be in the lands of usg (and au, as i understand, is a kind of target practice range for usg idiocies) is the fella with just enough to be worth skinning, but three or four zeroes short of
mircea_popescu-esque atomic dirigible where he can hit back
BingoBoingo: <
mircea_popescu> decimation from what i recall reading on teh topic, the 14nm process was a total debacle and 10nm is a theory only thing << This
decimation:
mircea_popescu: you are betting against lithography?
BingoBoingo: <
mircea_popescu> "It's wise to keep track of what your mortal enemies do, and there's little that more exemplifies Pure Evil in this world than Eliezer Yudkowsky." << Dude is harmless can't even kill the little girl without a troll
decimation:
mircea_popescu: one cannot speak with certainty about the whereabouts of a single electron, even with infinite bezzlars to dispose on the task