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jurov: FTFY: build enough audience and capital to buy ukraine
mike_c: yes. there are stages. stage 1: provide better news than others. stage 2: build enough audience and capital to send people to ukraine. stage 3: profit.
ThickAsThieves: if qntra wants to task me
asciilifeform: jurov: nah. obola's currently my exit 'strategy' if you wanna call it that.
nubbins`: ThickAsThieves: on spec, tho?
asciilifeform: qntra, that is
asciilifeform was under the impression that some of the people here intended to make this item happen
asciilifeform: wasn't meant to be a specific hypothesis
mike_c: asciilifeform: major newspapers send reporters to syria to get captured. but not on day 1.
ThickAsThieves: i dont think they know exactly what it is
asciilifeform: or will the 'news' be cut&paste just like everybody else's.
ThickAsThieves: and yes advertisers who exposure to the kind of person interested in that spectrum would advertise
asciilifeform: which one of you is planning to fly to, e.g., donbass (ukraine) and ask the soldiers if they're using btc?
ThickAsThieves: people who want curation and updates on that portion
ThickAsThieves: qntra provides content of a certain portion of the spectrum
asciilifeform: but imho those are the only kind of actual news (when genuine!)
assbot: Logged on 15-10-2014 19:26:50; mircea_popescu: this is not news stan. this is science publications.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu objected to the examples i gave as 'scientific journal'
mike_c: yes, they will expect diminishing returns. i don't understand why this is a problem.
nubbins`: as opposed to qntra, where investors will expect diminishing returns
asciilifeform: no, the whole concept of a 'news' that is of interest to a gigantic mass of people without being pablum.
mike_c: then you don't believe that "mass media" is the problem, just the way it has been executed.
nubbins`: mike_c: why, that describes me!
asciilifeform: i wasn't intending to (with what, ha.) just ringing the bell to possibly wake up folks who think they can achieve a new result by doing the same thing as was done for 100 years.
mike_c: um, then investing in qntra is not a good fit for you anyway
asciilifeform: the whole thing is an ad.
mike_c: nobody despises the NYT because they run ads.
asciilifeform: once q transforms into the kind of thing which is presently lucrative, it will cease to be distinguishable from the despised competition.
asciilifeform: the only thing lacking, unless i'm mistaken, is people who actually want to pay for any of this.
asciilifeform: but qntra is meant to be a chopping block for them, not a cafe
cazalla: mpmcsweeney, i saw coindesk pumping gawminer advertisements yesterday, what's up with that?
asciilifeform: because they push scamz.
asciilifeform: who is to buy the ads?
BingoBoingo: Well, the way I see it people bidding for s.qntra shares are going to be bidding for a percent of future revenue
ThickAsThieves: i think it can be nothing more
mike_c: hehe. you think the bid was random?
mike_c: like all of my articles, they are mostly for me anyway. but i think that one stands up. i didn't cheat either, i was surprised how close my guesstimate came to that bid on mpex.
ThickAsThieves: i do appreciate the effort, but i'ma just watch and see
mike_c: well it does show you a methodology. if you don't like the assumptions, change 'em.
ThickAsThieves: i'm saying i'm not sure this is even tea
BingoBoingo: mike_c: You know tat always consults the tes leaves
mike_c: ThickAsThieves:being that you had to make up numbers AND timelines << hm, how else do you make investment decisions?
devthedev: BingoBoingo: The guy on the bottom of that liveleak screenshot's Landon Merrill
BingoBoingo: devthedev: You are covering the moolah.io beat, correct?
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Maybe printed, I'm thinking where the noise is though
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> or pedal? << Pedal, as in the pedal tones on a brass instrument
asciilifeform: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/15/us-lockheed-fusion-idUSKCN0I41EM20141015 << monkeys fly from my arse if this is true.
devthedev: Bitcointalk: "Due to a recently-discovered flaw in the TLS and SSL protocols, you may want to change your password, especially if you accessed the forum using Tor."
ThickAsThieves: i'm surprised btc isnt rallying harder with all this
asciilifeform: 'although Wall Street managed to peddle back...' wtf?!?!
ThickAsThieves: i'm largely ignorant to bonds market
ThickAsThieves: i'm reading this http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/15/us-markets-global-idUSKCN0I402B20141015
ThickAsThieves: "Everyone's animal spirit is dead. This is a pretty dramatic move when everyone was expecting higher rates"
BingoBoingo: Bigger change than Lehman or Atta begat
BingoBoingo: Maybe take a look at it
BingoBoingo: ThickAsThieves: You see what happened in Bonds today?
mpmcsweeney: wait til the sick season hits public schools
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> BingoBoingo: as if trains will not fall under same bureaucracy if the fuhrer wishes it. << No, being under the same bureaucracy is why the trains will run.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: as if trains will not fall under same bureaucracy if the fuhrer wishes it.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: By this time next month Amtrack business will be booming. US air travel is on its way out.
BingoBoingo: Lorde must be happy. She named that song after George Brett
BingoBoingo: Oh, the Royal did win the pennant
Kansascity: KC is just the cinderella team though
BingoBoingo: Kansascity: How about those royals?
asciilifeform: (the former, a very special trololol)
asciilifeform: wait is this 'amd celeron' , 'miowmix', etc ?
assbot: Did Obama Just Raise The Ebola Threat Level? | Zero Hedge
BingoBoingo: Oh * JerryFish (~HDMIVGA@c-24-34-9-201.hsd1.ma.comcast.net) has joined #bitcoin-assets << has interest in this channe
assbot: Toleration and other essays/Poem on the Lisbon Disaster - Wikisource, the free online library
gribble: Poème sur le désastre de Lisbonne - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Po%C3%A8me_sur_le_d%C3%A9sastre_de_Lisbonne>; Toleration and other essays/Poem on the Lisbon Disaster - Wikisource: <http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Toleration_and_other_essays/Poem_on_the_Lisbon_Disaster>; Le séisme de Lisbonne (Portugal) en 1756 Polémique ... - Euromedina: (1 more message)
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gribble: Sermon 129 - The Cause And Cure Of Earthquakes - The Wesley ...: <http://wesley.nnu.edu/john-wesley/the-sermons-of-john-wesley-1872-edition/sermon-129-the-cause-and-cure-of-earthquakes/>; Charles Wesley on 'The cause and cure of earthquakes ...: <http://methodistthinker.com/2011/03/14/charles-wesley-cause-and-cure-of-earthquakes/>; John Wesley, Earthquakes and God's Providence - (1 more message)
asciilifeform: ;;google the cause and cure of earthquakes
BingoBoingo: !up TheClitCommander
Freen0deAdmin: i demand to be an op in this room?
bounce: look up "colour temperature" some time
Freen0deAdmin: why do some names have a color next to them?
Freen0deAdmin: whats the purpose of this bitcoin room?
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform> the point of a gambit such as drilled coin is to avoid being noticed. << Nah, you drill some coins to force a search for more of the same
asciilifeform: the point of a gambit such as drilled coin is to avoid being noticed.
asciilifeform: see also the tungsten-cored gold bars thread
asciilifeform: these things probably do electrical impedance / and/or acoustic profile.
BingoBoingo: Maybe there's 8 hollow nickles. 5 have just grease, 3 have porn
asciilifeform: nah, they put them through a bank's coin sorter
BingoBoingo: Maybe have a few "hollow" nickles, pack with proper density grease, soon you demand hours of inspector's time as they pour over pounds of nickles looking for an interestign one.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> BingoBoingo: hollow coins in real life fool no one if examined individually - given the way they are made, the ruse is quite obvious when seen from the edge. << Takes visual inspection though.
asciilifeform: there are a few interesting gibblets in there.
mircea_popescu: roughtly reads to me like a disertation on surgery written by waiters next to the hospital on the basis of what they overheard during their jobs would read if i were a surgeon
asciilifeform: it isn't a wiki in the usual sense
mircea_popescu: seems to be some sort of wiki
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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it hits the uncanny valley for me
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TheBroker: ;;gpg eauth TheBroker
mircea_popescu: !up TheBroker
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what is this meatballs bs ?
asciilifeform: if someone suspects a diddled coin, and one is there, it will be found.
asciilifeform: at any rate, there isn't room for any locking mechanism, really
punkman: proper way is to place the cut on the inside of raised edge, can do with most coins
asciilifeform: (where the milling - invention of sir newton... is.)