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mircea_popescu: i can't even make heads or
tails of wtf she's on about. basically google has created a new breed of hermetic nonsense.
mircea_popescu: "violet blue ® @violetblue · 12m
Tried
to disable all Gmail Labs
to
try and eclipse
the 707, but I get a Google server error message and can't save settings. Great."
mircea_popescu: it has a distinctively soviet flavour. "in our country you can buy anything yo ucan possibly wish for, on
the cheap."
mircea_popescu: i wonder how much of
the us economy will move on
that model.
bounce: could use one of
these:
http://thingm.com/products/blink-1/ -- cool
thingy, got kickstarter-funded august 2012. can you buy'em? in
two online stores! well, only one,
the other gives a page not found. and
their own doesn't sell
this one, it only sells
the mk2. well, pre-orders for
the mk2. which is on possible production problem hold. so, no,
they really don't sell much of anything.
davout: i'm off,
these cars don't just buy
themselves
davout: o yea, bitcoin,
the fastestest
mircea_popescu: davout anyway,
the discussion was re "why are you not faster bitcoin"
davout: on an unrelated note i'm buying a romanian made car
today
davout: sg subsidiary, fernch
technology, who's
to know
mircea_popescu: davout i
tell you, it's not a matter of it being reported
to me. cashier had no
trace of it.
davout: for example, due
to
the way
transferring btc out at BC works, you can have an executed
transfer
that's still marked as pending on
the web interface
davout: just because it wasn't reported
to you doesn't mean it wasn't
taken into account wrt what you could still
transfer out
mircea_popescu: yeah but in
this case i could have emptied my account and walked. at any point...
tuesday.
davout: the way banks handle dates is still shrouded in mystery
to me
mircea_popescu: no,
this was
their own direct interface.
the non-web ms-dos looking
thing.
davout: they probably have
two cut-offs for
transfers and periodically synchronized web interface
mircea_popescu: it's so unexpectedly absurd i can see why it'd be hard
to grok.
davout: ok,
the payment got reported later
mircea_popescu: sort-of like you buy 1mn shares of apple
today, hold
them
till monday,
then sell
them, and simply pocket
the difference, without any capital exposure.
mircea_popescu: this was announced on my account however, after
two full closes.
mircea_popescu: no. i made a payment
to someone, which went
through, and it wasn't stuck. monday morning.
davout: wat, you made a payment
to someone at sg and it's stuck ?
mircea_popescu: "o he's a good guy, let's just give him
three days' full credit"
mircea_popescu: it's a societe generale subsidiary,
too. i really would like
to know how
the fuck
that worked.
mircea_popescu: davout yeah, i used
to know it,
then someone perturbed me ;/
assbot: Sigsafe: An electronic key
tag for signing bitcoin
transactions
assbot: Sigsafe: An electronic key
tag for signing bitcoin
transactions
fluffypony: the widespread adoption pitch seems
to be a popular one lately
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: seems
to be more squarely aimed at
the "convenience" crowd
moiety: punkman: oh
that sounds really nice actually
moiety: and
they surprise
them all
the
time
too because
the gaps after
the hedges change, so if
there is no jockey,
they don't get warned early enough
to jump
assbot: Sigsafe: An electronic key
tag for signing bitcoin
transactions
davout: also some horses
that could be saved simply aren't because it doesn't make economical sense
davout: yeah, horses are pretty fragile,
they have
thin legs compared
to
their weight, no wonder it breaks so easily
punkman: moiety, I'd say it's kinda unique, a bit citrus-y, but I'm not good at describing such
things
moiety: recently,
there was a runaway horse
that had no jockey and it banged into another one and
they both had
to be put down
davout: moiety: if
they have something broken, i guess it depends on whether
they were medicated
moiety: do
the fallen ones get eaten?
mircea_popescu: moiety you don't always break
the horse's leg on a fall.
moiety: i don't like horse racing, when
they fall D;
moiety: punkman: what do loquats
taste like?
davout: it's like
they sort contestants by fouls (like
the bars
that
the horse
touches and make fall) and
then by
time
davout: but with
time
taken into account as well
davout: like i
tell her,
the horse does all
the work
fluffypony: "He said
their hardware wallet had many more features
than
Trezor"
mircea_popescu: jesus
these people know how
to
take
the fun out of anything
davout: she did her first pro contest beginning of
this weel
davout: also she hardly
turns her computer on, she's
too busy with her horse
thing exams
mircea_popescu: is
this afrikaans
thing spoken by sharpening metal blades on rocks ?
mircea_popescu: now how
the fuck can something sound uglier
than dutch
fluffypony: it's more guttural and a lot uglier sounding
than Dutch
mircea_popescu: you know, judging by
the average worldliness displayed by us folk you'd
think
that entire continent consists of one huge barn. wtf.
fluffypony: from now on I'm responding
to all questions asked here in Afrikaans
fluffypony: especially
to an English speaking audience
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: I got
the impression
that he can speak English really well, so he asked
the q in English
mircea_popescu: was byrne's chinese so bad
the guy didn't even recognise it ?
mircea_popescu: as contradictiory and nonsensical as
that may be, it's not intended for
thinking people
mircea_popescu: the implicit proposition is
that
they are already big but also new.
Shakespeare: cuz he responding
to a guy from china who wasn't speaking Chinese
fluffypony: "I’d like
to dual list on NASDAQ and
the blockchain"
mircea_popescu: that i read as
the only + in
there, at leastr man speaks chinese.
mircea_popescu: i guess it's great for all
these muppets
that i don't
tend
to show up at
these
things.
mircea_popescu: anyway,
the patrick byrne dood... he can't fucking read, derping about rousseau ?
mircea_popescu: "I got
the impression
that she is a savvy professional
that has begun
to wrangle in books
that were previously lacking." finally.
Shakespeare: well don't shoot
the noob liveblogging messenger!
mircea_popescu: was just derping about your post. man
that was painful
to read.
punkman: haven't
tried juicing
them before, but since I got so many
punkman: I'm gonna make some loquat juice
today
punkman: I don't
think
they usually add alcohol, just ferment as usual
punkman: elderberry wine uses
the berries
mircea_popescu: moiety might be
this with alcohol added, or an entirely diff
thing
mircea_popescu: it's quite
traditionally romanian/balkan, is
the deli owner from like constanta ?
moiety: I've had elderberry wine. i don't
think
this is
the same
fluffypony: they have it at one of
the delis here, it's delicious
mircea_popescu: in candor, i was sorta getting myself settled with popcorn
to see how your
thing will catastrophically fail by autumn.
fluffypony: critical failures, but failures
to learn from
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: I know - it was all
too haphazard and I didn't
think
things
through or
talk about
them here
fluffypony: the
takeaway for me has been
that
there are precious few business people in
this space, just a bunch of nerds
that
think running an ecommerce store == being a businessman
mircea_popescu: nothing could be further from
the
truth, and
this is experience not a guess.