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ozbot: A Modest Attempt
to Ease AML Rules Side Effects - Bank
Think Article - American Banker
bitcoinpete: "AML regulations are meant
to stop drug cartels and
terrorists from using banks
to conduct criminal activity. But
the strict interpretation of
those rules may be causing inadvertent harm
to people in Somalia — a war-torn country where large numbers of people depend on money
transfers from friends and relatives abroad
to cover
their basic needs."
TheNewDeal: new
to reading
these
types of documents. Has
taken me MANY glances
to understand
the gist of
that
peterl: if you buy it, you can
trade
the shares for euros on bitcoincentral, I
think?
peterl: hmm, not a real hot seller, I don't
think
that is where
the mpoe action is going
BingoBoingo: Could be a reduction in enthusiasm due
to lack of MPEX chatter in mainstream press and X.eur and F.MPIF having whet
the appetite for new listings
peterl: or shaking out
the weak hands before he pumps
the price up again
peterl: change in mpex price is just mircea_popescu having fun messing with
the people
trying
to daytrade his stock
TheNewDeal: didn't
think
those were possible any more
Drew: thanks very much, ill save
that and check it out
tomorrow
benkay: well, you can't
talk in here
benkay: don't register until you've blown it away and restored it from backup at least
twice.
benkay: ping me if you get into
trouble.
Drew: theres no
time like
the present
Drew: i'll prolly be lurking around here
trying
to have a structured way of
thinking beaten into me eventually
mircea_popescu: anyway,
this is all for me. see you ~guys~ in
the morning.
mike_c: ok. so
the 'suicide' part is
that you have
to get within a pole's length of
the
tank :)
benkay: <mircea_popescu>
ThickAsThieves yeah. a good reason for bitcoin
to start ignoring patents
too. << bitcoin cares about patents
today?!
mike_c: asciilifeform: does
the soldier survive? it's not a kamikaze
thing is it?
Drew: 20 pages of sane financials like
that
Drew: one of my
team members
Drew: looking forward
to it
mircea_popescu: anyway.
this actually looks like a sane budget. who made it ?
Drew: free of
ticket fees....
Drew: one day i would like
to see a bitcoin
ticketing platform
mircea_popescu: can you believe, dear assets,
that
the
ticket mafia gypped him for almost 40% of
the rent of
the venue ?
benkay: <Drew> i would like
to
think
that i ended up with a structured
thinking process << hang out here and you might be so lucky as
to have one beaten into you
Drew: this format doesnt
transfer well,
that was a
test, brb
Drew: Cost of Goods Sold Artists463,350 Marketing184,600 Production92,300 Security46,150
Ticket Fee20,470 Venue52,775 Other0 Cost of Goods Sold859,645 Gross Profit (Loss)778,133
☟︎ benkay: <Drew> but while buying an idaho bun may
taste different
than a florida bun, a meyer subwoofer rented from idaho would be
the same as one rented in florida <<
the
tastes and social mores differ wildly across
the different regions. f'r instance, you'll have a mighty hard
time displacing red cube in portland (but again don't ever do anything in
this
town)
mircea_popescu: already working on it in
the us
to a distasteful degree.
mircea_popescu: maybe with
too many incentives stacked up,
they'll figure out a way
to do it, and
that'll be a horror worse
than any other.
mircea_popescu: "Let
the
trolls
try
to collect danegeld from a hundred million consumers!" <<
this may be dangerous, in
that putting
too much weight on something "that will hold anything" never works. like you know, 19th century poliution and
the ideas of "send fumes in
the air, it can
take anything" or "water will wash anyhing away"
TheNewDeal: ... re god help us if we end up executing code off
the data
mircea_popescu: benkay i dunno,
that's why
the producers hire research depts yo uknow ? not my jobsworth :D
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform now as far as programmable gpus go, o boy would computer games love
thids
benkay: <mircea_popescu> why portland and not boston ? << generally
there is only one reason
to locate in portland and
that is low-cost 'engineering'
talent.
mike_c: is nanotube responsible for
that?
mircea_popescu: "I really would like you
to contrast
that with what you have
to do with HTML on
the Internet. " asciilifeform re your article, god help us if we end up executing code off
the data
TheNewDeal: are you saying
testing123 is more memorable?
mircea_popescu wonders wtf
TheNewDeal is.
then has dejavu moment.
then remembers it's
testing123.
mircea_popescu: punkman favela if memory serves is
the precarious squatting living arrangements most south america enjoys
punkman: "You lost everything, you have no money, you have no career, you have no health insurance, you’re not even sure where you live, you don’t have children, and you have no steady relationship or any set of dependable friends. And it’s hot. It’s a really cool place
to be. "
punkman: "Favela Chic is when you have lost everything material, everything you built and everything you had, but you’re still wired
to
the gills! And really big on Facebook.
That’s Favela Chic."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well
that's my pov. i mostly care about, interact with and experience
the world
through womenz.
mircea_popescu: Drew
that was
the shittiest summary in recorded history.
try again.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform basically it boils down
to, your sorting algorithm of evil not matching
theirs.
Drew: in all likelihood we won't need
the whole 1.25 million but
there is a cushion of about 300,000 built in
mircea_popescu: if you have 20 bux spare you'll get a manicure, maybe you find some guy
that's not an asshoel.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: now
tell me about getting spare drives. when ? with what ?
mircea_popescu: and if you get fired you'll lose
the apt and
thus
the deposit and
thus homeless.
Drew: the 1.25 million would, in summary, be used for
the following over approximately 3 of
the 5 years mentioned for
the plan
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform frame
the question better : you've not had any decent sleep in a week, you gotta make it in
time
to work cause else it's your ass.
Drew: sorry, had
to grab a shower
mircea_popescu: this is like having a 40 yo chick come
to you for dancing lessons and you
telling her "missing ingredient is you being 20". why
tyvm, mr expert guy!
☟︎ mircea_popescu: yeah, seriously, it is so very difficult
to understand. couldn't have even predicted it, either. o.O
mircea_popescu: "It is likely
that
the success of LZW and its
thousands of implementations, especially among small developers, caught Unisys unprepared. Otherwise, it would be difficult
to understand how Unisys could first allow a very large number of small and big developers
to use LZW for years, and
then, after
the establishment of various standards based on LZW, change its attitude."
mircea_popescu: no, just, innocent of
the resources
to get a spare disk.
mircea_popescu: or else
they put up with whatever nonsensical demands expectations and assorted nonsense someone with a chicken coop available may wish
to put forward.
mircea_popescu: so
they either do it in
the bushes, with
the constant risk of a stray dog
taking a piss on
the couple during,
mircea_popescu: think of it
this way : most women alive
today can not afford
to enforce
the privacy of a room
to fuck in.
mircea_popescu: people are poor, and while
the little
they own is still all
they own,
the security
they can feasibly deploy is nil
mircea_popescu: people keep "everything
they have" in reach of
the government, and i nreach of a woman
they met
two weeks ago while drunk, and so on.
mircea_popescu: coupla years ago ukash was just
taking over from... i forgot who