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ninjashogun: benderp - I'm sure
mircea_popescu can correct me if it's relevant
benderp: ninjashogun: how did
mircea_popescu fund his site?
ninjashogun:
mircea_popescu, I was very highly impressed by the way in which you funded your site, and I was interested in your thoughts on a funding model I am working on for the jobs website that I mentioned to you earlier. (Based on a back-end skills graph that knows that, for example, C# is close to C++ and Java, but very far from embedded electronics design.)
joecool:
mircea_popescu: are you a bot?
moiety:
mircea_popescu: i hear it's not very nice... a tea event sounds pretty cool though, to me
moiety:
mircea_popescu: random side note, have you had white tea?
ninjashogun: asciilifeform, for example
mircea_popescu could probably build a physical card that is a "lukewarm wallet" as you put it, he would have the funds, but I don't think he could get his R&D investment back - it would be money thrown away.
FabianB:
mircea_popescu: but probably true for jp, korea and china, more or less
FabianB:
mircea_popescu: that was a personal statement, not country statistics
moiety:
mircea_popescu: and they are so ugly. what ever happened to aston and jaguar
ninjashogun: There is actually one take-away from the above insights that
mircea_popescu 's quote led to here.
ninjashogun:
mircea_popescu, I missed your dollar shave example, what was it?
moiety: so
mircea_popescu, ThickAsTheives, can we conclude modern day styling is getting more minimalistic and less decorative because people are lazy/no servants/no time?
ThickAsThieves: <
mircea_popescu> (Side point- Art Deco's fascination with streamlining household objects whose actual wind resistance is irrelevant proved popular because levelling incomes led for the first time to a group of people who could afford good design but not household servants. It seems that a streamlined Art Deco lamp is easier to dust than a frilly Victorian one...) /// Nonsense.
ninjashogun:
mircea_popescu, you can also see a lot of that in Apple computers. For example, they are supposed to be very "easy to use" (yet are expensive). But this hides the fact that a lot of people use it to run accounting software that's also dumbed down to their level, and a load of similar extra-expensive things that let them manage their lifestyle. It's becaues they make enough money to buy Macs and to buy expensive dumbed-do
davout: benderp: yo, brb, zipping some leonard cohen for
mircea_popescu Perlboy:
mircea_popescu, ok, nice article though i'm glad there's someone like you able to push back
Perlboy:
mircea_popescu, yeah kiwi's are a bit more open
moiety: eww
mircea_popescu no one wants to see that much of their or anyone else's boss
benderp:
mircea_popescu: more credence accrues every day to the notion that consumer organizations accepting bitcoin only do so as they begin to circle the drain.
praeconium:
mircea_popescu: what do You think of indexing alts?
praeconium:
mircea_popescu: but don't You think that many new ones will trade with similar patterns to old ones upon introduction or change of diffculty etc?
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: Well, if you need a trained Librarian.
BCB:
mircea_popescu: I'll have a pink carnation in my lapel
BCB:
mircea_popescu: I'd be standing in the crowd during your perp walk
BCB:
mircea_popescu: I don't think you'll have a choice in the matter.
BCB:
mircea_popescu: SEC will fly you on their private jet
BCB:
mircea_popescu: why's that?
BCB:
mircea_popescu: I want to meet you when you come to New York.
novusordo:
mircea_popescu: yeah, I looked at the CSS because I thought it was a fall-back font
BCB:
mircea_popescu: you command of the english language is impressive
BCB:
mircea_popescu: ballsy
midnightmagic:
mircea_popescu: that's hilarious. :-) Thank you for sharing with us your SEC interaction; I hope you continue to do so. For what it's worth, I am being sincere.
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: I know the benkay and bitcoinpete readings of the emails are that the SEC will crash into you. I like to think that decoding your last email has been assigned to a few committees and all of the summer interns
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: I imagine that could be one of the happiest Bitcoins you could ever part with
thestringpuller:
mircea_popescu: there was no official registration except for VIP's
thestringpuller:
mircea_popescu: i thought we could just show up in romania on the 17th and just listen to what people had to say
nubbins`:
mircea_popescu: you ever get your mp-as-hitler portrait sorted after?
jurov:
mircea_popescu: you already liquidating it? just got something
mpexbot:
mircea_popescu: X.IDIFF.MAR 1 day: no data 7 day: no data 30 day: average: 0.00294764 high: 0.003 low: 0.00290837 volume: 350 btc: 1.031674
sheldonthomas:
mircea_popescu but upon further thought the sentence still doesn't make sense because of "nor" in the context of making an action-positive statement
Anduck:
mircea_popescu: negbombers. gettrust matters
Neil:
mircea_popescu: Yeah. Not sure if MP == MPOE, but yeah I realize most of that. I've felt it's not worth the effort (small group of people who know each other in real life has been enough so far) but I get the point, but not convinced yet.
Neil:
mircea_popescu: Maybe, maybe not.
Neil:
mircea_popescu: Kinda surprised by your faith in WoT. I'm not on it, but have had many dealings with reputable "players". Not sure I believe anything on it, given the rep it assigned to "pirateat40" just before he "did the inevitable".
mpexbot:
mircea_popescu: X.EUR 1 day: average: 0.00223045 high: 0.00223045 low: 0.00223045 volume: 600 btc: 1.33827 7 day: average: 0.00214782 high: 0.00223045 low: 0.00210539 volume: 2681 btc: 5.75829826 30 day: average: 0.00210992 high: 0.00226762 low: 0.0019005 volume: 7608 btc: 16.05227992
Neil:
mircea_popescu: I'm certain you're right.
Neil:
mircea_popescu: Was amusing to read your 1-way conversation with the SEC. Did they respond beyond what you posted, or did it just go silent?
mpexbot:
mircea_popescu: S.MG 1 day: average: 0.00010003 high: 0.000101 low: 0.00010001 volume: 6000 btc: 0.6001788 7 day: average: 0.00010003 high: 0.000101 low: 0.00010001 volume: 6000 btc: 0.6001788 30 day: average: 0.0001239 high: 0.000154 low: 0.00010001 volume: 11432 btc: 1.4163868
Neil:
mircea_popescu: Ah, absolutely. I intend to submit a bet soon but you or your stooges rejected my last one, so was waiting a while.
Neil:
mircea_popescu> Neil wanna bet on that ? << Time lapse, no idea what you're referring to.
mpexbot:
mircea_popescu: X.EUR 1 day: no data 7 day: average: 0.00212399 high: 0.00213452 low: 0.00210539 volume: 2081 btc: 4.42002826 30 day: average: 0.0020996 high: 0.00226762 low: 0.0019005 volume: 7008 btc: 14.71400992
davout:
mircea_popescu: tiny walls shouldn't really matter since if you place an order the mm bot will now trade against it
antephialtic:
mircea_popescu: I assume you are aware that Romania has a MLA treaty with the US
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: Maybe someone is playing with themselves and hoping to trap someone when they break pattern?
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: Noted for future reference
Mats_cd03: i hear
mircea_popescu is a fashionista
benkay: ;;later tell bitcoinpete let me know when you find the joke about
mircea_popescu's cock
benkay: ah so then i guess not really a product of the usg then,
mircea_popescu bitcoinpete:
mircea_popescu: guesses on what's up at bc?
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: The problem with drones is it is way to tempting to stick them in places where they don't belong.
diametric:
mircea_popescu: that picture is fantastic, i was literally just having a conversation about redheads with someone moments ago.
bitcoinpete:
mircea_popescu cool. just submitted it to smokinggun. what's hn?
ninjashogun: asciilifeform, by the way don't let the haters take anyting away. All of my suggestoin are at a single layer - and do not in ANY way impact the basic idea you've come up with with
mircea_popescu --- which is a VERY good one. I don't really add anything in my suggestoins - it is the same design. You should patent it.