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ninjashogun: sorry, I meant to write: without pay for my startup (and now startups) -
as I started working on the jobs site one after spending more than a month trying to collect the loan I closed
ninjashogun: asciilifeform, given my high-risk profile what APR would you (personally) extend me on between $7K-$22.5K (amount I take depends on APR) with no collateral except a registered Delaware C-Corp I'm currently full owner of (100%) going to 90% after an investment clears that I've committed to - the company has intellectual property including a patent that is pending and trademark that has been assigned,
as well the equipment I
ninjashogun: More to the point, at this point taking the employment you talk of would entail abandoning my team here, all of my work and living arrangements (about $150/month burn rate),
as well
as somehow moving to an expensive city and working full time there. My startup would cease to exist.
ninjashogun: I don't have the time to take employment, even temporarily. Two months ago I was invited to give a demo with the working prototype
as part of closing a $150K investment. I need to finish it.
ninjashogun: steve jobs could have borrowed $5000 from you and relent 500x
as much. But you wouldn't have been interested. That is $2.5M.
mircea_popescu: here's a little known anecodte, kinda instructive
as to the sort of guy jobs was :
ninjashogun: mircea_popescu, I've lived in Boston, New York, San Francisco, Paris, Berlin (a bit)
as well
as some Eastern European cities. I've been interested in startups in all of them, have worked for one in the first dot-com bubble in the 90's. I can tell the difference between different climates and how people behave in them.
mircea_popescu: the vc circus
as you represent it has not produced facebook, has not produced google, will never produce anything.
mircea_popescu: ninjashogun none of the examples you cut out of the real world and pasted onto your model
as "eventual upper bound results" have anything to do with the model itself.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what they use that
as a sort of cardano ?
ninjashogun: There was a story about an MVP with fake buttons that didn't do anything - they just said "Download
as Excel File" for example and see who clikced on it to guage interest.
ninjashogun: however
as I mentioned to you there are a TON of sources of interest to you once you have users.
ninjashogun: for example (this is laugh-worthy) I have just used vagrant to get a PHP server up. I've never used PHP (used Python a bit,
as well
as C++ and Perl).
ninjashogun: ughlol, however notice how many of those questoins are addressed if you juts create a business (with no funding) and start getitng users? Then you are already in some sense an experienced (if first-time)founder,
as well
as having a real track record of shipping code (sometihng benkay was asking about.)
ninjashogun: benkay -
as I probably mentioned, ughlol is not "founder material", today, in several senses. He is in India, with a very poor VC network, he is currently a university student who has never run a business, and he does not have a personal network that makes him investable. I don't necessarily suggest investing in him today.
mircea_popescu: your idea is principally of the second type, and
as such it requires the usual trappings of rent seeking (ie, power).
BingoBoingo: ninjashogun: The fact of the matter is that you can not recharacterize old text
as a misrepresentation of a bunch of new text, yet to be released
ninjashogun: mircea_popescu, yes, this is the big defense of trolls. That if it does succeed it's luck, if it fails then obviously it's because it was a dumb idea just
as shown by the trolls.
ninjashogun: Facebook could be called: "A myspace based on a radical idea. You can ONLY register if you have a .edu account! They have literally just blown myspace out of the water by getting AT MOST 0.5%
as many users, because at most 0.5% - one in one two hundred - people in the world uses an active .edu account."
ninjashogun: mircea_popescu, I saw your article on ughlol and think it completely misrepresents ughlol's idea and is extremely unfair.
As long
as it includes no identifying information, it's a simple troll and abuse of your power - which is fine. It will disappear off the Internet and nobody will read it again. However it is in no way accurate based on my conversation with him.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Thanks. WOnder how long it will take for the SEC position to align with the reality of MPEx
as SRO
ninjashogun: ughlol - access to mirceau (I just read the most recent few lines, haven't been reading scrollback) is,
as he correctly states, a VERY good opportunity
jurov: ughlol, such
as... bitcoins?
ninjashogun: In addition I've seen some of his skills in pentesting and security, and think he is the real deal in terms of what he can program. Here is his site, where you can see his photo and full name
as well:
ninjashogun: He is also an engineering student in India, and
as such he has access to a very good source of labor.
ninjashogun: Due to its double-opt-in nature, it is especially good
as a dating solution.
ninjashogun: so it would work (my words)
as an "introduction service" that - if two people both opt in - introduce each other.
ninjashogun: ughlol is working on an extremely interesting social network for real spaces, based on shared interests - for exmaple, at a bar if someone is into the exact same bands
as you, then you could both be notified.
ninjashogun: I was talking about how many billionaires/millionaires I know
as an American (just 1-2 of the former even if we include mirceau) :)
ninjashogun: guys, I'm watching htis channel
as actually in talking with ughlol I'm the one who mentioned mirceau
as being high-net-worth. he's from India and has access to a much poorer network of investors than some western countries
artifexd: My daughter had a passport before she
as a month old.
Mats_cd03: nate silver is well known
as a statistician
ThickAsThieves: "We may have gone from conceiving of government
as an entity that builds roads, dams and airports, provides shared services like schooling, policing and national parks, and wages wars, into the world’s largest insurance broker."
mircea_popescu: "women in tech", but only for just
as long
as a) they're stupid and b) they don't ever do anything let alone make calls.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: they're not
as much professionally sad
as professionally useless
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lopp:
as yeezus noted, we don't really know enough to say whether or not these numbers should be underwhelming. I'm of the opinion that we don't have enough insight into the load that the nodes are bearing.
midnightmagic twitches uncontrollably at mention of "bitcoin jesus" down in the Caribbean complaining about how slow it is to open a bank account
as a recent import from the US
hdbuck: what's with MP's statement on twitter saying there is no such thing
as Bitcoin core devs?! *mind blown 2*
mircea_popescu: no because that is actually intended
as a chump party.
mircea_popescu: inasmuch
as bitcoin protocol happily handles half a bitcoin
Dimsler: satoshi
as th elowest denomination
artifexd: There is reference to "satoshi"
as the base element in the reference client code. All the code uses satoshi
as the amount of accounting.
Apocalyptic: mircea_popescu, he could stay at a reasonable safe distance while still being close enough to show
as 1 spot on the radars imo
cazalla: i breed NZ whites for meat, some of them would do the exact same thing or even bite if i harassed them
as in that video
cazalla: patting a rabbit with an open palm (
as in the video) blocks it's vision which can make it become defensive
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform nah it's a lot more diffuse than that. i suspect many of them actually worked in a job that required them to dress
as an animal. they do that for parties/disne\yland etc.
diametric: i tend not to judge others on harmless stuff, though that shit must be uncomfortable
as fuck to wear.
mircea_popescu: Hirethestache if you say you have a cold wallet, you can just use that
as a bitbet outbound address
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benkay: test123: lotsa stuff happens here. some bitbet stuff
as well.
mircea_popescu: benkay
as an experiment i put a privkey in a window at some point in 2012.
khersonus: mircea_popescu: that there have been a large number of scams in bitcoin
as a result of the "owner takes all the coins" thinking
ThickAsThieves:
as i understood decentralized systems, they utilize new ledgers, maintained by servers
freeroute: what Bitcoin (for the most part) enables, is full "in the cloud" operation wherever you geographically might be positioned.
As long
as you're connected, you can do most of the stuff with BTC.
freeroute: WOT can be
as centralized or
as decentralized
as you make it, the trust could all lead to a central authority (or central authorities)
freeroute: the point is, that right now we have a distributed asset class / currency protected by cryptography. It shifts trust from centralized models to a distributed one. That could be seen
as step 1.
mircea_popescu: not because of improper nonsense, such
as "it couldn't gyp us".
mircea_popescu: inasmuch
as bitbet can resolve bets, it can run off with all btc whether you multisig or not.
cazalla: steven-__: he won't attend conferences unless they have a sexual harassment policy in place
as well, the guy is a total SJW
Mats_cd03: dont grace that with a response, he cant be so dumb
as to share a simplistic thought like that
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mircea_popescu: basically it's a graph walker.
as you're unconnected all your results will be 0 0 0
mircea_popescu: women everywhere are emphatically not
as stupid
as her.
mircea_popescu: dude how come every single obnoxious bitch out there imagines she's entitled to misrepresent her broken mental processes
as "a problem of women everywhere" ?
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mircea_popescu: i mean religion is one thing,
as a theological pursuit, you know, whatever, let's sit around and discuss the beard of the teapot in the sky
ThickAsThieves: due to them being the same day, i have an odd association with WWF and Catechism
as a child
Diablo-D3 never watched wrestling
as a kid, it was too much like soap operas for men
nubbins`: living
as a parody of pop culture is more common
ThickAsThieves: i aalways thought most people lived
as parodies of themselves
ThickAsThieves: in less than a year I learned a bunch of stuff about Buffet, and then the first letter I get to read
as it is release, reads like satire
balulasch: I visited bit777.com 2 days ago and looked at the total wagered Bitcoins. Cant remember the exact number but
as I visited today I could swear that the number was at least 10,000BTC higher. This means there must be a very huge volume. Considering the fact that bit777 is the property of casinobitco.in makes the companys stock worth on havelock seem heavily underrated imho.. I'm waiting for the new 2weekly statement like how I
dub: we could at least run bitconi for a year and the world would only be half
as retarded
mircea_popescu: "nobody is forced to talk to the da",
as exemplified by my earlier link, for one side of the coin. "wage slavery" equals forcing people to x y z on the other.
mircea_popescu: amex actually employs like... twice
as many ppl
as mc/visa combined or some shit.
dub: they are fairly small
as payment processors go right?
lnovy: it's will not be a storage of value, so feel free, but it's doomed to fail anyway, it's only a proof of concept same
as huntercoin :)
lnovy: electricity burned is almost directly transformed into network security which more or less directly affects price. The real problem and wasting is not with distributed mining but with nondistributed chain verification
as this needs to be done by every participant indepently and every new member of network need to check whole chain. This is a problem that will kill ethereum very quicky
as you are actually not paying transaction fee for inclusion i
mircea_popescu: inasmuch
as the flesh trade goes, nothing beats the flesh itself.
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