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mircea_popescu: "Here we are just a few short months later and we’ve heard from various people in
the industry
that we are quickly creating one of
the most reliable cryptocurrency news sites and we’ve gathered up a
team of kick ass volunteers
to help us grow
this madness out."
BingoBoingo: Yeah, So
the solution requesting money kickstarter style with... Ads as compensation... but no adult ads please (paraphrasing
their crowdfunding page)
mircea_popescu: "The fund which received regulator approval from
the Isle of Jersey back in back in July and was set
to launch
this month has joined
The Bitcoin Foundation as a Silver Member."
mircea_popescu: Sponsors : earn bitcoin for clicking ads, win bitcoins
today etc. so much win.
mircea_popescu: last several months by now. looking forward
to convergence
towards "two weeks"
mircea_popescu: "Mike (Executive Editor) - Mike has been following Bitcoin for
the last several months and got fed up of sites
that are full of advertisements and didn’t provide
the latest news"
BingoBoingo: * ChanServ removes voice from adrrr * assbot gives voice
to adrrr << Can't Chanserv and assbot learn
to get along?
steven-__: in
the same way b-a is sort of a internet chat room
mircea_popescu: ah cool. well it's
the first
time i see
this
thing, seems it appeared sometime last week. what's it, like some sort of internet radio show basically ?
steven-__: no it has nothing
to do with bitcoin
steven-__: its a news / comedy show but it also has a strong fan base
that sends in
tips
they broke
that bo birddog? story pretty much
the house it happened
steven-__: thanks, mircea_popescu any
thoughts on
the no agenda show? searched on
trilema but couldn't find anything.
assbot: BtcAlpha.com F.MPIF
Tracker estimated NAV per share: 0.00021697 B (Total: 474.46 B). Delta: -0.06 B. Last
trade for F.MPIF on MPEX was at 0.00021999 BTC [+]
atcbot: [CoinMiner Hashrate]: 0.03
TH/s [PityThePool Hashrate]: 3737.96 GH/s
mircea_popescu: but yeah, kinda surpriosed not more people are
trying
to arbitrage it, short brk bet on no sorta
thing
TheNewDeal: bet also presents a decent hedging opportunity. Speaking of which, I'm loving all
these active price bets lately
TheNewDeal: I don't know how much he actually does for
the company, but he is quite
the figure head
TheNewDeal: I am curious
to see how confident investors are after his death.
mircea_popescu: as far as i'm concerned, when
the luminaries of
the previous generation are careful
to avoid playing you, more recognition is not really needed. it'll come, of course, but it's moot.
mircea_popescu: yes. i mean
they claimed
to want
to invite someone who's short
their
thing, but
to not be able
to find one.
mircea_popescu: it already paid lulz in spades. buffett held his yearly meet, supposedly "couldn't find any short". just
the embarassment of
that...
TheNewDeal: no doubt. I
think it's a great bet, and a somewhat ballsy one as well
mircea_popescu: well,
the brk bet had
the major advantage of 1k zeroconf.
that has ~0% chances of being rejected.
TheNewDeal: just curious. I was
trying
to make a bet on MMM on a BTC basis in
the past, and it kept on getting rejected.
The brk-a bet surfaced not
too long after
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: ;;google senior executive service pay <<
these folk get options. whole different story, as bubbles happen 3-5
times in a lifetime.
mircea_popescu: otherwise
they may end up bamboozled by
the nonsense fetishism of pseudo-power
the ycombinator swamp is pusing, "in order
to interact with power acceptably you must give it away in exchange for
the
trappings of it".
tlp discusses
the matter extensively and well.
mircea_popescu: more importantly, gotta show
the kids what it means
to be
the boss and what a boss does.
assbot: An era ends
today. A new era starts
today. pe
Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform:they aren't rich, in
the customary sense - but not paupers. << compare what'd happen
to
the us bureaucrat pauper vs
the russian bureaucrat once someone in a hostile nation put
the kaibosh on
them.
they're paupers.
TheNewDeal: MP, whered you get
the idea for
the brk-a bet?
mircea_popescu: it's
the easiest skill
to recognise,
too. so... not much hope.
they're hiring people, sure, but people only google/microsoft/apple/amazon would hire if
they didn't.
mircea_popescu: decimation: at any rate it's not clear
to me
that clowns like Hayden or Alexander would even recognize skills if
they saw
them << precisely. suppose
they DO recognise
them, like, "this chick looks like she could suck a golfball
through a gardenhose." now what ?
the last guy
that recognised
that skill lost his job.
mircea_popescu: decimation: Hayden emphasized
that
the personnel problems are far less significant
than
the
technological ones << well, i disagree. now, from a bureaucrat pov, sure,
they generally can fill any jobs
they want filled, according
to
their selection process.
this however does not mean
they are gaining any sort of valuable human capital.
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mircea_popescu: and
the idea was only boring women get married anyway.
mircea_popescu: dude. lordosis just like
that is usually a pathologic curvature of
the spine.
teh lordosis ~behaviour~ is different.
ben_vulpes: is
that a function of having borne young or not feeling hawt?
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: in
that picture you said you could
tell who was wifed, as
they weren't displaying lordosis
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes if you mean
the lordosis ~behaviour~ it's
this female mammal response
to being hawt.
TheNewDeal: currently on
the search for a % base graph of bitcoin days destroyed
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: what's
the deal with lordosis?
mircea_popescu: all
these noobs going join/part are kinda lulzy by now
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BingoBoingo: decimation: it will be interesting
to see what happens
to
the bitcoin price when
the COIN ETF
turns on << "Paper" BTC sell
decimation: so
this means
the controller must poll?
decimation: probably worth
the price if you are in a hurry
assbot: IBM Model M F1 122 Key Vintage
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decimation: that's pretty much
the equivalent of breaking windows, replacing
them with more expensive (yet worse) windows (heh), and counting
the whole project as a net positive GDP
decimation: I still don't understand why serial
terminals went out of style, seems like
the perfect solution
to point of sale units, etc
decimation: ah
the model M
terminal keyboard
to usb hack is cool
mike_c: peterl: it looked like fabian was
testing mpex
tools.
assbot: Frequently Asked Questions about
the National Security Agency (NSA)
peterl: kakobrekla: You
think he has enough money
to afford
that much?
decimation: this goes back
to Mircea's point - USG "wants"
things, but it can't really afford
them - it's running on
the "fumes" of past memories
decimation: " Salary is commensurate with education and experience. Salary range: $52,146
to $116,90"
decimation: I wonder how many young
technical folks joining
the civil service are offered more
than $60k?
decimation: well, it depends where
they are on
the pay scale I guess
decimation: if such people exist,
they are probably pretty sad
these days, given
the point made a few weeks ago about how
they would have
to live as paupers
decimation: at any rate it's not clear
to me
that clowns like Hayden or Alexander would even recognize skills if
they saw
them
decimation: Hayden emphasized
that
the personnel problems are far less significant
than
the
technological ones: "The issue is not people but external changes. For
the N.S.A.,
technology is a
two-edged sword. If
technology in
the outside world races away from us -- at breakneck speed -- our mission is more difficult. It can be our enemy."
decimation: asciilifeform it seems
that
the meta-nsa doesn't exist in reality