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mircea_popescu: i was kinda curious to see if teh community organises something like the nobel prize awarding, but with quarters instead of pens
mircea_popescu: TradeFortress yea. some people actually need 1 year lead time.
mircea_popescu: well most women aren't particularly interested in going to clubs
mircea_popescu: i really despise the sausage fests bitcoin conferences are. who da fuck wants to hang out witha buncha doods.
mircea_popescu: it's okay to punish stupidity, especially if wilful. it's not okay to abuse honest misunderstandings.
mircea_popescu: the most cogent argument that can be brought is that such stuff will turn off people we actually want/need based on what's fundamentally a misunderstanding
mircea_popescu: there's nothing wrong with making a proof of concept, but the average person with an actual college degree and no prior experience of anything bitcoin should be able to understand from the very text what the score is.
mircea_popescu: insert some fucking disclaimers in the text of the damned thing
mircea_popescu: TradeFortress what is it, like your private bond offering ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, i take it this is mostly still being worked on.
mircea_popescu: but anyway : i don't see any serious flaw in it, have the guy explain exactly wtf he wants it to be used as or w/e.
mircea_popescu: MPOE-PR um did they nix their system already? trust stuff no longer shows up under ppls names
mircea_popescu: then +1 the few people who actually aren't idiots in there
mircea_popescu: go back through her posting history, -1 everyone "starting up" dumbass businesses she had to drop a see here post to, linking to that post
mircea_popescu: and since you can introduce 0 btc as risked i think i'm going to make it be something like this :
mircea_popescu: i'm still working out the rules. i see there's a reference field, which is nice.
mircea_popescu: i think pretty much everyone trust's nanotube tree by defgault in wot and still there's muich variance and no true global.
mircea_popescu: no, because even if they trust theymos' tree by default, just bvy adding a couple other users they get very diff end results
mircea_popescu: anyway, if it's 3 it will diverge rapidly, there won't really be a global rating.
mircea_popescu: lol 0-3 so 2 is 3 mkay. theymos is so weird in places.
mircea_popescu: TradeFortress but positive/negative to your account so diff people see diff coloring ?
mircea_popescu: well the one thing they did right is they took away the [1,10] cruft
mircea_popescu: is there some way to actually check the web of trust behind the rating ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, so back to the trust thing on bitcointalk (i'm trying to discern if i'm going to add using it to the girl's workload)
mircea_popescu: " An administrator or exchanger is not a provider or seller of prepaid access, or a dealer in foreign exchange, under FinCEN's regulations."
mircea_popescu: somebody should tell that fucktard he's completely misread the fincen clarification
mircea_popescu: yeah. but what it displays is the actual sum total of trust ratings
mircea_popescu: wait i thought that what it was, a global score ? as in 0/-0 we
mircea_popescu: a ok. do you know how it's implemented or is it documented anywhere ?
mircea_popescu: TradeFortress hey, you involved wiuth the new trust thing on btctalk ?