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mircea_popescu: he's
the guy you immitate at
the
table, if you don't know how
to eat at
the
table and were
told "just do what
they do"
mircea_popescu: no, actually,
the hype man is an outgrowth of
the shill in 3 card monte and such games, which is what all african entertainment is descended from. he's
there
to give an anchor
to
the viewer
to identify with, and immitate.
mircea_popescu: Discussing
the role of
the hype man in
the book How
to Rap, Royce da 5'9" describes how a hype man can contribute
to a live performance: "a lot of my verses be so constant with
the flow [that] I'd need somebody
to help me."[4] Lateef adds: "You're gonna have
to have somebody say something somewhere
to give you a breath... usually it's just a matter of getting somebody
to hit some line or some word in a line -
that's al
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mircea_popescu: oh. i
thought either one of
those gold chains or else cocaine
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davout: mircea_popescu: hah yeah, forgot about
that, notice how i mentioned an 'entity', not a 'company' :p
davout: kakobrekla: i
think
they're bulgarian
mircea_popescu: stuff like
the original blockchain inspector is still around.
davout: afaik
the oldest entity in
the bitcoin-sphere is btc-e
mircea_popescu: well dare i ask what
the fraction of startups NOT ON EXPONENTIAL GROWTH CURVE
that fail is ?
mircea_popescu: you know
those stats
that keep going 9x% of start-ups fail in
the first bla bla ?
mircea_popescu: there's a
ton of bitpay exceptionalism / captn of industry-ism flooding out of reddit. in point of fact, bitpay is a struggling start-up
that missed
the boat.
☟︎ thestringpuller: davout: i can see
the current leadership of bitpay being removed as a condition of VC investing more capital
mircea_popescu: what's preventing you from doing it
to start an antelope farm
davout: mircea_popescu: wrt point VIII : what would prevent bitpay from raising even more at an even higher valuation
to keep supporting
the vessenes foundation circus?
thestringpuller: I was
thinking more of
the confused retarded kid who mistakingly got an inheritance.
thestringpuller: very confused. wants more adoption, but wants majority
to stay away?
thestringpuller: anyone see
this snippet quoting Gavin, "Normal people, stay away from Bitcoin."
davout: mircea_popescu: yeah you have a point with
the coinbase maturation delay
mircea_popescu: sort-of like
trying
to calculate
the path lightning will
take
mircea_popescu: it's really hard
to evaluate
theoretically which is
the practical avenue
mircea_popescu: course,
the coinbase can't be spent for probably longer
tha nthe chain will survive
davout: (for
the purpose of double spending obv.)
davout: or creating a massive
tx
davout: no need
to get
through
the hassle of actually performing a double spend
assbot: Logged on 12-01-2015 15:02:29; mircea_popescu: davout: it occurs
to me
that
there's a rather
trivial way
to split gavincoins from bitcoins other
than randomly attempting a double-spend, simply include some coinbase-tainted coins in your
tx after
the fork has occurred <<
this is
true but it only works after you got some split.
davout: guess nothing
talks
to idiots as much as scamming other idiots
mircea_popescu: "I
thought
the Bitrush
team was crazy for offering free bitcoins... until
they actually showed up in my Blockchain wallet.
These guys are nuts.
Take advantage of it before
they come
to
their senses!"
mircea_popescu: "A friend
told me Bitrush was giving away bitcoins and I
thought, "What
the hell!" I gave
them my email and verified my account. Within 12 hours I received my first payout and have received many more since. Pretty nice of
them and
they even called me
to make sure everything was going good for me. No one from any Bitcoin related company has ever called me before and I was amazed at
the level of service for spending noth
mircea_popescu: you clever boy you
thestringpuller. i was just writing as
to
the stupidity of
that.
thestringpuller: We want both. And
there's no reason we can't have both. << i want
to be rich and poor
mircea_popescu: you know, doge dieing sucks because all
these fucktards are now misrepresenting
themsleves as involved with bitcoin
thestringpuller: i
think
the layoffs article has started a witch hunt
tho, which is never really healthy.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: can bitpay survive its own absence here ? <<
they'll eventually send an official emmissary.
mircea_popescu: "o noes, bitcoin-assets didn't care, let's see if
there's barely stable aspie boys somewhere else"
mircea_popescu: davout: it occurs
to me
that
there's a rather
trivial way
to split gavincoins from bitcoins other
than randomly attempting a double-spend, simply include some coinbase-tainted coins in your
tx after
the fork has occurred <<
this is
true but it only works after you got some split.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: fluffypony is
that
the derp
that was hanging out here, aiming for publicity ?
fluffypony: adlai: pasted from NewsBlur, forgot
to snip
the URL
davout: it occurs
to me
that
there's a rather
trivial way
to split gavincoins from bitcoins other
than randomly attempting a double-spend, simply include some coinbase-tainted coins in your
tx after
the fork has occurred
davout: ah yeah, i recall hearing of
that, don't know much about it
tho
mircea_popescu: was
this
the phantom one man "corporation" he funneled
the donations
through ?
davout: if i was in a playful mood i'd hop over
there and
troll
them with
the payments i received for being a mod
there
davout: cazalla: i liked
this one
punkman: "For
the amount of money
that
Theymos is paying
these four
twenty-somethings
to make forum software, he could employ Gavin Andresen full-time, six
times over!"
assbot: For
the amount of money
that
Theymos is paying for new forum software, we could run a bitcoin commercial during
the Super Bowl. : Bitcoin ... (
http://bit.ly/1yYx27h )
cazalla: if only
they stumbled across one of
the first
trilema's i came across.. boy and
the
tree which
turns into a stump for
the old man
to sit on at
the end
punkman: "So I make over a million dollars, use
this on
things which are clearly intended
to benefit
the forum and
the Bitcoin community instead of myself (even if you
think
the money could be better used elsewhere), and I get constantly attacked for it..."
mircea_popescu: " I
think
Theymos has done an awesome service for
the community in
turning
the forum into something of an institution rather
than not just pocking hte funds."
mircea_popescu: derp. it seems
to me "exchanges" rarely survive a straight year.
mircea_popescu: "It seems
to me
the bitcoin exchanges and companies like Bitpay will have a large say in how
this goes forward. "
davout: what's with all
the 'mp owns
the bitcoin wiki'?
mircea_popescu: and be heard because i was
there
to make
the points, and
the name calling.
mircea_popescu: let
then better men make
the same better points without
the name calling,
undata: but yeah as mentioned above I use Press on android so I don't see
the styles
undata: davout: minimal is fine but I otherwise disagree;
that one can go mad with CSS doesn't necessitate doing so
davout: fluffypony: aah, didn't
think of
that, reader mode is even somewhat smarter because it'll also detect
the actual content and do away with
the rest
BingoBoingo: Also... Qntra still for
the forseeable future does full
text in its RSS feed.
fluffypony: Mobile Safari has Reader mode for many pages, which is exactly
that
davout: the 'disable styles'
thing is pretty useful even on desktops
davout: what?
that
there is no such feature on my mobile?