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cazalla: hardly discouraged, a writer would earn a good amount of s.qntr
translating our english articles
Adlai is baffled by
this discouragement of widening
the audience
cazalla: as he said i meant
to say (i'm
tired)
cazalla: brendafdez, anyway i only ask you refrain from reposting english articles, if you wish
to
translate ones
to spanish, go for it but as mircea_popescu, perhaps give our own articles some
time before doing so
Adlai: ok,
to
the board, and
they can put it
to shareholder vote
Adlai: the only can opener in
town belongs
to qntra's editor in chief
cazalla: if qntra were
to ever publish in another language, chinesey and spanish would be
the
top 2 imo
mircea_popescu: Adlai because of
the can of worms
that "lesser share" opens
Adlai: why not have language sections on qntra, with some lesser share issuence for
translations?
mircea_popescu: well if it's english
to spanish it's necessarily not word for word,
they use different words en castellan
cazalla: mircea_popescu, i
thought she meant copy/pasta word for word, english
to spanish, i wouldn't have known unless she said so anyway
brendafdez: so, qntra
translations seemed cool :P, i atributed
them, of course, but i know
that's
technically not enough
Adlai: there is also no reason why qntra qldn't issue shares for
translations
mircea_popescu: it's a news site
tho. i dun see it'd damage anything if she
translates
to spanish, provided something reasonable like say articles are a week old.
cazalla: that's ok, perhaps we set you up as
the spanish correspondent
brendafdez: if
there aren't many sane voices in
the english bitcoin space, imagine what it's like in spanish-land
cazalla: if you stick around,
there is no reason why you couldn't write for qntra itself
cazalla: i would rather you didn't, but i'm not
the
type
to play whack a mole by sending dmca
takedowns
brendafdez: cazalla, are you
the guy i should contact if i want
to steal from qntra?
cazalla: perhaps australian
thing, sif i'd know
cazalla: sif she hasn't had her way with
the nigro garden over
the years
cazalla: don't mind
the darker areola, but
that's on account pinks are in oversupply down under
cazalla: such a
tease, but never delivers
the goods
brendafdez: youtube-dl was
the key
to finally going flash-free, such a handy
tool
mircea_popescu: but
this reduction is adequate given what's being contemplated here.
Adlai: this is reducing
the word 'strategy'
to
the same level as 'mobile strategy', 'social strategy', 'cloud strategy', etc
mircea_popescu: obviously
this is not philosophically correct, but for our purpose here imo sufficient
mircea_popescu: well, it could be deemed
to have a strategy , reducing
to "pursue
the shortest
term maximal gain"
Adlai: water doesn't have a 'strategy'
though, same way
that corn didn't plan
to enslave monkeys
to grow more of it
mircea_popescu: water is perhaps
the best example of strict local optimizer.
the water in your cup, much like
the water in
the hydroplant lake, would very much like
to go lower, however... for lack of a direct path,
there it stays.
mircea_popescu: for
that matter, people who
think in simple money
terms end up outsourcing
their industrial base
to china and
then wondering where
the country went.
Adlai: no,
this is actually how cancer works
mircea_popescu: this is an argument similar
to "there always comes a point when a
trusted party runs with
the money"
brendafdez: i always
think being
the intel asset is a bad deal, for said asset
that it.
There always comes a point in which using
that information is worth more
than keeping
the source.
Adlai: youtube fixed my
typo
mircea_popescu: i
thoughjt it was
the hungarian spammer effect, robert vigh or w/e it was
Adlai: brendafdez: we call it
the robert paulsen effect
mircea_popescu looks
through
the logs, sees
two womenz going "omfg you know" about wildly unrelated shit within
the next 10 minutes
cjc: building
the pyramids with
their minds
cjc: and it increased
the electromagnetic conductivity of
their body system by 10,000 percent
cjc: I surmised
the ancient Egyptians had monoatomic gold which
they snorted and ate --
BingoBoingo: The drugs
thing and
the bitcoin
thing especially don't mix well
brendafdez: there's potential for regret about
the
things i'm saying here. Shit could end up hitting
the fan, like it did with
the cam
thing.
BingoBoingo: indiancandy1: Could be worse. At least you aren't
the start meth lab in
the aisle at Walmart sort of addict.
brendafdez: can't confirm nor deny, not here at least.
This offer happened in mid 2013, before
the digicoins name was even invented :P
mircea_popescu: brendafdez it wouldn't be
that fat derp what's his face
Adlai: (when in venice, spell as
the roma do)
mircea_popescu: <indiancandy1> and
the god damn
thing aint healed yet << nipple piercings are horribru for
this reason.
Adlai: kakobrekla:
the sister advice
to what i
told indiancandy1 is
that if you have any money
to waste, waste it on btc :)
Adlai: (the
technical side of bitcoin has several parts which solve different problems)
Adlai: even if
the value goes up, and saner voices suggest selling for a profit... you'll want it
to go highir!
Adlai: indiancandy1: as mircea_popescu loves
to say, bitcoin is a priviledge for
those who can afford
to
throw away some money. mostly because you'll find yourself incredibly averse
to spending
them, once you realize
their value
brendafdez: I had a couple of opportunities
to work for/with someone else but
they didn't seem like a good deal, for instance one of
the local brokers who was
then dealing even lower amounts
than I was and who wasn't an intersting person, and had a past of dealing substances ("knew
the street") offered
to start a business
together. I rejected
the offer, it seemed more risky and not
the kind of people I'd want ot be associated with
Adlai !upped you for
that?
brendafdez: bought some bitcoins via
The Rock and VirWox with Linden Dollars, in
the beggining of 2013, which was would seem a lucky move, but I wasn't able
to do much with
that.
brendafdez: expensive
they would let me go without paying bc
they had more interesting stuff going on with other people, i had
to go
to
the post or bus station and make shippments. In hindsight
those were
the good
times and doing it wasn't hard.
Then I started dabbling with bitcoin, I had been reading
the forums on and off since 2011, i was
too stupid
then [not
that it has changed] and cpu solo mined, made nothing, didn't get
the
thing.
Then I
brendafdez: There was much less risk involved when I would sell shit, it was easier also, and besides I could bring many
things via post shipments form DX, eBay and such (so I could many
times spare
the middle man), and it was just listing on MercadoLibre (local ebay equivalent), and most would sell,
there wasn't much a way I could lose money, only it
the
thing didn't sell. I had
to go and wait hours at customs, many
times if
the items weren't
davout: *do you want
to keep it
that bad?
davout: do you
to keep it
that bad?
davout: nipple piercing...
thinking about it is already painful
indiancandy1: this peircing is such a ... dont even knw
the word
mircea_popescu: indiancandy1 defo. it's
the new world! raunchy an' rude.
indiancandy1: ahahah mp always have
to include something naughty
mircea_popescu: that's how you learn
to stop sucking at being your own boss, among other
things
mircea_popescu: brendafdez
this because you're in principle against being an employee ?
brendafdez: nplanned issues. Also form what arbolitos
tell me,
they can basically do
the
trade at 'the cave' basically at
the same
time if
they don't have both buyer and seller, and
they are running out of money on one end. But I couldn't do
that,
there were
times when I would in fact run out of money in
the exchanges and had
trades which i
took at my own risk, and
that was a very bad
thing.
brendafdez: most arbolitos work for a certain broker, i couldn't do
that, I was my own market basically, i had money on btc-e and bitstamp and made
there
the
trades i made with people here otc, like for instance, someone buys 5 btc, i buy 5 btc on bitstamp/btc-e, someone sells 2 btc i sell 2 btc.
That was
the
theory, of course
there was a spread and
to me one year ago
that soiunded like it could work, and sometimes it did, but
there were many u
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Ah. I'm also guessing
there you don't get SWAT called for okra
davout: mircea_popescu: "sounds more like he was
trying
to hit on you. i
think ~1mn people jaywalk each day" <<< massive understatement, unless you mean jaywalk and get fined for it
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo it's really like old new york, no fucking body cares what
the lights say.
brendafdez: i was with a friend, he sorted it out with
the cop
BingoBoingo: Here
they'd beat you for a $50 bribe because insulting
mircea_popescu: sounds more like he was
trying
to hit on you. i
think ~1mn people jaywalk each day