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mircea_popescu: I did not. I stayed because I had a family
to support, and secondly I wanted
to see how far
they would
mircea_popescu: their gravy
train needed
to end. Many employees were not happy about
this. A few resigned over it.
mircea_popescu: needed for
the company, and
that most of
these publishers were ripping Google off anyways, and
that
mircea_popescu: payout, we were
to ban
the account right away and reverse
the earnings back.
They kept saying it was
mircea_popescu: publisher had accumulated earnings exceeding $5000 and was near a payout or in
the process of a
mircea_popescu: have
to pay
them a single penny. We were
told
to go and look into
the publishers accounts, and if any
mircea_popescu: "Google reaped both sides of
the coin, got money from
the advertisers, used
the publishers, and didn’t
random_cat: and here i
thought
taake was a lame norwegian black metal band
mircea_popescu: but b)
that he's fucking moved on from bitcoin and now is reduced
to
trying
to leech geeks a la cody wilson.
that's a net positive.
mircea_popescu: this plan isn't working,
the guy lived in squalor in 2004 and lives in squalor
today and will live in squalor in 2024
too
mircea_popescu: anyway, it's refreshing
to see
that a)
taaki is continuing his gofer career, because
that's what
the guy does, much a la gmaxwell : he
tries
to associate with important projects in
the hopes
that people with money are stupid enough
to go by what fucktarded ragazines publish, and so maybe he can get some.
ozbot: What We Do in
the Shadows - Official
Trailer - YouTube
mircea_popescu: "learn
the secret nigerian dairy farmers hate : how an Edinburgh mum built a functioning goat out of
tooth paste and some wood shavings"
mircea_popescu: fluffypony actually it ended
there. what was he doing
to say.
mircea_popescu: ok
that's fucking it. wired is under embargo from now on.
mircea_popescu: "Taaki is an Iranian-British free-market anarchist and developer of high-profile bitcoin projects like
the decentralized online marketplace prototype DarkMarket"
mircea_popescu: awkward moment ensues, im
trying
to recall if
the girl's 16 even...
mircea_popescu: he had found it, because he was
there with his wife... and
they...well...
they got a little frisky
mircea_popescu: he had found it, on
this particular bedside niche hidden spot
that's only accessible really if you're lying in bed
mircea_popescu: he had found it, at
their 2nd
town appt, where
the girl's grandmother lived in
the summers, which was atm empty being winter.
mircea_popescu: so
the father of
this cute schoolgirl gives me back my watch.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony i once lost my watch.
the only one
time i lost my watch. i was completely wtf'd as
to where i could have put
the
thing ?! or maybe... justmaybe... some handslight actually got it off me and now i'm never going
to hear
the end of "o lalala i stole mps watch lalala" *whack* ?
fluffypony: I'd have loved it if she had
two boyfriends who
took me out
to party, at least I would've had a godo
time
mircea_popescu: punkman: fluffypony, because someone smart left
the keys on
the door (on
the inside) << were
these... gpg keys ?
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: much worse
than
that - her dad played
tour guide
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: BingoBoingo: yeah, good food definitely wasn't on
their priority list of "cool places
to show Riccardo" << so what happened, her
two boyfriends
took you around
town
to party ?
fluffypony: Google Ultron is a MUCH better browser
than Chrome
pankkake: no one should, but
that's not
the point :)
mircea_popescu: bitcoinpete: fluffypony: i could see people who aren't writers/thinkers being perfectly ok with
the "cleanliness" of buried urls << yeah, because
to
the idiot everything
that he doesn't grok is dirty.
pankkake: chrome devs even refuse
to make it an option
ozbot: Bitcoin
Transaction 6ea5c6f1a97f382f87523d13ef9f2ef17b828607107efdbba42a80b8a6555356
mircea_popescu: who
the fuck cares about some shitty us corps already, jesus christ on a popsicle.
mircea_popescu: i will burn apple and facebook in urine before i give up
the url.
mircea_popescu: "Perhaps URLs are just destined
to be an implementation detail
that
the next generation of users won’t even know exists. Maybe I was crazy
to
think
that URLs were a permanent part of our culture. Still, I’ll miss
the damn
things. Let’s pour one out for
the URL."
mircea_popescu: "I've been a few months
there and no problem. If only
they allowed btc/usd
trading..." uh color me fucking confused. isn't
that EXACTLY what bit4x does ?
mircea_popescu: someone not reading
the logs is making a conscious and deliberate move.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves: while
this is a public place, it isn't necessarily fairly distributed
to shareholders <<
that is an option
the shareholders
take on
their own backs.
pankkake: I don't
think OpenBSD has
the same, and nor does Linux of course
pankkake: and
the many OSes which copied
that
TCP stack
fluffypony: lol, pankkake, someone commented on
that - "INB4
Technology blogs
think
they're clever naming
this FreeBleed."
pankkake: so
today's big news is
that zuckerberg drops
the hoodie
mircea_popescu: well
this has been a productive morning. and outside... it's sunny, but rain drops are falling
numerisTrade: nevertheless, it's
true
that we're still learning
mircea_popescu: pankkake it's more of a "go
to college my son, not so you can do great
things, but so you may understand why
the men doing great
things are laughing at you, and laugh with
them."
pankkake: I would have
to agree on economists being inept at business. not
that it's bad,
they can be good economists, it's just another domain
mircea_popescu: numerisTrade if you'll stand
the statement, i'll say
that
this has been an illuminating exercise as
to
the value of higher education. while you're a
trained economist and
the average forum dweller is a highschool drop-out, you and
them are both about equally inept in business.
the one difference is
that your higher
training allows you
to understand what i say, and
their lack of education denies
them same.
numerisTrade: but you are actually right
that x.eur is a good base for otc derivatives
pankkake: nor do I get much lower
trade fees on coinbr (0.5 vs. 0.59)
mircea_popescu: whether
the bridge is built well or badly is not related
to whether it currently rains
pankkake: well, perhaps, but I can't and don't need
those
things yet :)
mircea_popescu: pankkake
the x.eur has
the advantage
that being supported by push
txn and exchange sigs, you can enter into derivative gpg contracts of infinite complexity and actual otc quality on its basis.
numerisTrade: returning for
the while
to
the competition issue, currently,
the main problem is
the volume, not
too
tight competition, as I believe
mircea_popescu: preventing such a fate for bitcoin, for instance, has been 90% of all
the work of 2012 and 2013
mircea_popescu: and a wrong side, where mostly
the blacks were quartered.
mircea_popescu: it's an us idiom. old style (esp southern)
towns had a "right side of
the
tracks", where respectable people lived
numerisTrade: obviously, we're scammed,
then :) by
the way,
thanks for pointing
the stakeholder issue
mircea_popescu: which is exactly what strategic planning for businesses is : "foreseeing"
these problems and addressing
them.
mircea_popescu: that is, what if all
the good business flocks
to one and all
the scammers
to
the other ?
pankkake: though for my use I don't see much of an advantage vs.
trading on B-C directly
pankkake: I should write a "price
translator" for X.EUR. perhaps combine it with my existing B-C bot
mircea_popescu: and
the unrepresented risk you have here is
that if
there's
two slightly different products addressing roughly
the same market,
mircea_popescu: well
that is also a point of strategic failure. because competition it is, definitely : one wanting
to short btc can either buy euros for delivery on bc at his option, or enter in your cfd.
numerisTrade: so we didn't
think of it as a competition actually
mircea_popescu: well
technically yours is not otc either, it's on ripple.
mircea_popescu: moving on : how do you expect
to compete with stuff like x.eur (which also gets no volume worth
the mention, come
to
think of it)
mircea_popescu: the sort
that are surprising
to everyone except you know, businessmen.
mircea_popescu: but if you fail
to even identify
them,
that's a strategic failure. failure
to
talk
to
them compounds operational failure on
top of strategic failure and is how "surprises" happen
mircea_popescu: you gotta be able
to identify all your stakeholders, and you gotta have at least
talked
to
them.
mircea_popescu: well,
this points
to a structural problem in your business planning process.
numerisTrade: no, not yet. It is a good idea
though,
thanks.
mircea_popescu: no, whether you went
to whoever runs bitstamp and said, "hey,
this is what we plan
to do, do you see any problems and can we rely on you for it."
numerisTrade: If you're asking whether we
tried it out,
the answer is yes.
numerisTrade: mircea_popescu, you're right. But
there aren't many other possibilities
to
take collateral
pankkake: as with ripple, you can clearly
transfer fiat IOUs between accounts, no funny internet money in between
mircea_popescu: pankkake because nobody gave a shit yet because
they have bigger fires
to put out because nobody uses ripple.
pankkake: which is actually why I'm wondering why Ripple is still a
thing with
those big exchanges