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pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: aww, ethereum only down 1% today ?
<< sun's barely up.
pete_dushenski: HeySteve: standard bank interest is about 6%
<< also uruguay ? or mars ?
HeySteve:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=18-10-2015#1301624 << there's nothing outside the paper rental contract at the end of the day. but i guess i'm still about foggy about what 'this' is
< haven't reached clarity yet myself but this discussion is helping a lot. basically a multiple of the rental deposit normally paid to the landlord gets escrowed in cryptocurrency.
☝︎ pete_dushenski: HeySteve: as high as 6x
<< that's. bananas. and not the kind for practising deepthroats either.
gribble: mats was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 1 week, 6 days, 12 hours, 22 minutes, and 48 seconds ago:
<mats> it was due for a few weeks
HeySteve:
<0.01% over a year's occupancy.
HeySteve:
<+mircea_popescu> no landlord makes a tidy living off scaming tenants.
<- perhaps I should say, "make frequent bonuses." there's a rental agency infamous for it in SA and also a few private owners I could mention. it's also very common for them to not keep the deposit in an interest-bearing account by law or to skim the interest. from that same rental agency, tenants apparently get back
mircea_popescu: HeySteve the point is there's a big demand for such a service
<< yes, but the demand is from people who aren't willing to take any steps to enforce it. and it's for you to magically oppress property holders on their behalf. this isn't how property works, the fact that the landlords hold that property "free and clear" specifically means that they are immune from a guy named heysteve and his plans for the future. this is
assbot: Logged on 16-10-2015 13:23:33; mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-10-2015#1300279 << so a) you'll spend your life driving between bickering nuts. this is a worse deal than what psychs get, at least there you gotta drive to his office. ; b) the blockchain and everything else is entirely superfluous here. your entire idea is "hey, make me the mp of renting in south africa". maybe they will or maybe they won't but you really don'
HeySteve:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-10-2015#1300458 < it's true that tenants can threaten to withhold keys and/or trash the place but if this was common practice then this type of deposit fraud wouldn't be such a widespread problem. what many tenants do is refuse to pay the last month's rent but this is only viable if the deposit is set at 1x month's rent. many places it's at 2x or
☝︎ mircea_popescu: "She can't understand why the ideal isn't the same as the average. So she wants to create reasons why the average is the ideal. "
<<< Elizabeth Cashdan, woman in science.
mircea_popescu: "TYRANNY IS A PREREQUISITE FOR QUALITY, APPLE RETCONNERS."
<< holy shit this may even actually be defensible.
mircea_popescu: "The Monte-Carlo approach to engineering, if you will, but with humans doing a really bad job of playing RNG."
<< how mp's view of VC world sounds, without any of the bile.
mircea_popescu: ALUMINUM DOESN'T CHIP
<< yes it does ben_vulpes ; poorly formulated aluminium's major problem is chipping. that's why it wasn't used in airframe fabrication from the get-go.
pete_dushenski: "Given today, October 17th, in the capital city of our beloved Republic."
<< why no year ?
pete_dushenski: "3. On October 16th, 2014 cazalla notified the board of his intention to take a vacation. "
<< it's 2015
assbot: Logged on 14-10-2015 23:45:16; mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-10-2015#1299071 << more like smart people do stupid shit all the time and often enough it happens that you're impressed with something someone does only to discover they "did it" by pure coincidence later on.
assbot: Logged on 17-10-2015 09:35:16; gabrielradio:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-10-2015#1300901 << pete_dushenski go right ahead. next on the list are /2011/in-sprijinul-eugeniei/ , /2009/insarcinati-va/ and /2009/ce-ma-intereseaza-pe-mine-intr-un-proiect/ . if you have any one in particular you were looking at, shoot!
mircea_popescu: funkenstein_>
<-- perhaps you'd also like to have girlfriends, but never see or fuck them
<< you don't understand what the internets is for, or what the mobile revolution all about.
funkenstein_:
<gabrielradio> i would like to have as many kids as possible, and ideally be involved as little as possible
<-- perhaps you'd also like to have girlfriends, but never see or fuck them
assbot: Logged on 17-10-2015 00:48:53; pete_dushenski:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-10-2015#1300614 << hey nice ! i was looking at this one a few months back as a potential victim for my rom-eng secret sauce machine. i think i might just take this translation as a more than adequate starting point, clean it up, and post it :)
funkenstein_: funk_add_privkey_wallet_tools.vpatch
<-- experimental patch sent to btc-dev mailing list
assbot: Logged on 16-10-2015 14:45:54; thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: if your mark is bad
<< what a british way to say "grade"
pete_dushenski:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=13-10-2015#1298016 << update: adam_obrien and i played golf this afternoon and chatted about pgp key-signing. in his excitement at discovering the command line tools, he tried out everything he could find (he's an enthusiastic kid!) and yes, signed my key. he was quite surprised to learn that this changed the key block on the sks etc servers.. fwiw
☝︎ mircea_popescu:
<pete_dushenski> whereas an fathering hero is me !
<< this too shall pass.
pete_dushenski: "The husbands were observed by their wives to be less sensitive to the kids than other fathers and helped less with parenting."
<< seems to be a crucial one.
ascii_field: * Written by Ulrich Drepper
<drepper@gnu.ai.mit.edu>, 1995. * * Heavily modified for GnuPG by
<wk@gnupg.org> *
<< l0l
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo methinks yo uchase way too hard.
<< Ah
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: if your mark is bad
<< what a british way to say "grade"
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