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mircea_popescu: <jurov>
that's what D.CBSE price implies << actually, no,
the price implies
they can't sell for over 350k btc at
the
time
they sell.
mircea_popescu: just because of btc/usd vagaries,
the original investment (which happened at 1200) lost 85% of its value.
jurov: yes, dilutive.. on other side, it increased
the number of people interested
to inflate it beyond all reason and
then release it
mircea_popescu: <jurov> you don't believe
they can IPO it at > 46 million? << you realise
this round was utterly dillutive right ?
jurov: i dunno, just asking. and don't want
to
tie more bitcoins for indeterminate
time in D.CBSE, either.
jurov: yes, maybe
they want just
to drive it
to
the ground
thestringpuller: you do bring up good question
tho: what is
the bezzle investors endgame (or what
they have in mind at least)?
jurov: imo
they can't afford
to wait either
jurov: and i'm curious why mircea
thinks
that won't ever happen
jurov: For D.CBSE long investment
to be even, it needs "only" $46m IPO or buyout
thestringpuller: they'd have
to raise more
than
their "implied valuation" right? like 100 mn+ ?
jurov: so if
they manage
to IPO coinbase, it can raise so much, no?
jurov: you don't believe
they can IPO it at > 46 million?
cazalla: i
think BingoBoingo wrote
that up if memory serves
cazalla: jurov, yeah
that's old news now
jurov: The
total raised by Coinbase has now hit $106 million. Coinbase, a San Francisco-based company reports
that
there are 2.1 million bitcoin wallets from a customer base of 1.9 million
assbot: You had
the last Philistine.
This one's mine.
jurov: btw have you seen
the "nyse
to invest
to CBSE"
tidbit?
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: gorgeous diagrams.
thank you.
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: homo redditicus << can I use
this in future qntra articles?
ben_vulpes: there's no reason why
these
things should cost $MAXINT, aside from
the prohibition on owning
the constituent materials for any not favorite son.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: "igla" << why must you
torture me
mircea_popescu: i see
the guy's been pouring out a coupla million words, which is more
than moldbug, but i won't be bothering
to actually read
the shit, it's
too stale.
assbot: Logged on 18-11-2014 15:38:39; asciilifeform: ;;later
tell mircea_popescu with regard
to
the 'abuse of statistical devices' outlined in note iii,
the accomplished master of
the art is a fellow named yudkowsky (search #b-a log). he isn't an idiot, bastard knows exactly what he's doing, and his cult is a veritable vacuum
trap for
thinking folks
mircea_popescu: anyway. if
there's anyone who actually had
the patience ot read all
this stuff and wishes
to proffer a summary please do.
mircea_popescu: imagine
the horror of
this. "i invented a machine which lets you live on for a billion years, so you can write stupid shit so
that stupid people keep on powering it"
mircea_popescu: "why are you spending your
time with cockroaches ?" "i kill
them" "yes. but you're still spending
time with
them."
mircea_popescu: why are all
these driven nuts so mentally simple anyway ?
mircea_popescu: al ability
to see
through
time. But death is a great evil, and I will oppose it whenever I can. If I could create a world where people lived forever, or at
the very least a few billion years, I would do so."
mircea_popescu: Transhumanists are not fond of death. We would stop it if we could.
To
this end we support research
that holds out hope of a future in which humanity has defeated death. Death is an extremely difficult
technical problem,
to be attacked with biotech and nanotech and other
technological means. I do not
tell a
tale of
the land called Future, nor state as a fact
that humanity will someday be free of death - I have no magic
cazalla: problem with playing D2 from australia was
that you could still only get dialup and it was better
to play on a fake battle.net hosted at your isp
cazalla: it's one
thing
they did really well but i
think poe made it more noob friendly
cazalla: i
tried
to sell orbs for btc in poe 2 years ago but noone had heard of bitcoin except 1 guy
thestringpuller: but srsly soj economy was so annoying.
the rune economy was a bit better
cazalla: for anyone
that has not played it, orbs act a little similar
to soj economy, but unlike d2, poe did away with gold drops and crap like
that, pure barter system
cazalla: punkman: re: path of exile, i like
that
the economy is based around orbs (at least it was when i was playing) but i quit after my hardcore char died in lower 90s
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mircea_popescu: and once i get my hands around
their
throats,
the "facts" will be slightly divers.
mircea_popescu: and so are plenty of other
things.
the guardian and washpo and
the rest of
the buzzfeed carrion crawlers aren't up
there because
they favorably compete with qntra on some sort of machine basis
mircea_popescu: but seriously, wikipedia is returned because "fact:wikipedia is what we promote" rather
than any "algorithmics"
☟︎ chetty: <mircea_popescu> chetty
this has been going on for a while actually.//it just sounds worse when
the internet is a public utility
thestringpuller: ^- didn't he end up eating green eggs and ham at
the end of
the book?
mircea_popescu: but back
to
the story : if your call on
the y fellow is correct, he makes for an absoluely perfect model of "chemistry usg".
mircea_popescu: people have
to fucking realise, for once in
their life,
that a_) fuck
them and b) it's not about what
they want.
mircea_popescu: well... stfu and get in
the wot. nobody, NOBODY is above
the intern work for a year.
mircea_popescu: in
this perspective, al's lament reduces
to
tim sweeney's lament. "oh woe
that not being in
the wot my ideas hold no value"
mircea_popescu: right. and here
the same : paste your
text as a "review", or publish it on your blog.
mircea_popescu: i have no guarantee
that
this goes into
the... canon, or w/e, fanon-type-45345
mircea_popescu: so asciilifeform, do you see how
the situation here maps exactly on
the uncle al and
the magical molecule situation ?
mircea_popescu: so ima have
two
things out of
this. first an arguent with alf,
then once laddel and
the rest of
the proponents of "intelligence" wake up, ima have one with
them.
mircea_popescu: jurov what is
this anyway ? i
thought some woman wrote harry potter ?
thestringpuller: I do wonder if we'll ever be able
to print IC's without being millionaires or wholesalers.
assbot: Logged on 17-02-2015 18:03:08; asciilifeform: it does no good
to
take extant ic fab practice and work 'down'