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cads: anyways, more recently I've heard about
this 18 year old kid
that sold his
text summarization company Summly
to Yahoo for 30 million bucks
cads: sometimes I use
text
to speech
to help reduce
to brain load
cads: sometimes I can barely keep up in real
time with a medium load, 5 speaker IRC conversation
cads: I
think I'm naturally half dyslexic and half autistic because I can't read fast, especially when you
throw social contexts into
the mix and especially when
there are multiple speakers
cads: huh, I need
to look into algorithmically summarizing
the log file
bloctoc: thanks! now I can phone in my reports
to
the viceroy
cads: The first known individual
to which a mathematical discovery is attributed.
cads: BingoBoingo: seems like
this guy is good
to read as part of one's culture studies
cads: As a fifth
tier entrepreneur, I have decided
to rewire my mushy brain with
the classic modes of
thought!
benkay: sorta
thing drives me
to productivity
cads: I'm glad I missed
that.
benkay: this channel really burnt a solid day
talking about sky faeries?
cads: mircea_popescu: haha,
that would be a lovely blog
mircea_popescu: cads i
think you should detail your previous five failures on a blog.
cads: sorry I made
that question _extra_ clueless, for humor.
BingoBoingo: [KS]: Understanding
the difference between usagi and dank is critical for classing other scams
cads: in my famous and well loved series of clueless questions, what are some books
that you guys
think any entrepreneur should read after his fifth failure, right before making it big!
mircea_popescu: our due dilligence, loving
the
tangibility of newbie assets.
mircea_popescu: "i love
the
tangibility of neobee's assets". "oops...
they had no assets"
kakobrekla: >The Bitcoin Emerging Market Fund (BBBB) initiated a position in
the Neo & Bee Payment Network (Havelock: NEOBEE) on 03/07 buying 18 shares.
The fund will continue
to increase
this position in
the near
term. I love
the
tangibility of NEOBEE's assets.
They have brick and mortar branches and will be providing vital financial services
to an area
that has
traditionally been "under-banked."
benkay: odd
thing is
that other people are now letting me hear about where else my blatherings are popping up o.O
benkay: had
to wait for some other
twuser
to let me know
benkay: hey mircea_popescu
thanks for
the front page
tweet
bounce: eh, I made a boo-boo in
the upper band. missing some 400k-odd, so 400k-800k. lemme check
the numbers again.
bounce: looking at
their membership page and
the dues listed --in usd but payable in "bitcoin index",
taking usd for reference here, and
taking
the yearlies for just one year-- I'm calculating a band of 405925
to 440225 USD-worth lower bound actually paid
mircea_popescu: a few forum muppets split a coupla hundred btc between a
thousand or so heads
mircea_popescu: bounce well, shot
the only guy on
the authors list with any sm exposure a
tweet.
bounce: what's
the speshul extra spendy memberships cost again?
bounce: treacherous use of "official"
there
bounce: ``The Bitcoin Foundation is basically
the official establishment of a loose collection of
technology geeks, businessmen, and big-government skeptics from around
the world.
The 18-month-old group has
thousands of members, plus roughly $3 million in dues and donations contributed in bitcoins.''
bounce briefly wonders if
there'd be legitimate purposes for a "bitcoin foundation", and what sort of people you'd want in
there,
then.
mike_c: last
three months, 425k wagered.
bounce: too bad journos are suckers for
that sort of crap. and apparently
there's good dues revenue in it
too. nice racket.
mike_c: yeah. but since
then it has largely
tracked expected returns
mike_c: it is heavily skewed by nakowa,
the huge lucky bettor.
mike_c: yeah, could be. it's just not interesting enough
to hold people's attention. customer churn is higher
than new customer acquisition.
mircea_popescu: sdice showed
the exact same hump pattern over its lifetime
mike_c: not sure what
to make of it.
bounce: ``Two other exchanges hit by
the same problem, Bitstamp Ltd. of Slovenia and BTC-e of Bulgaria, resumed normal
trading after working out a fix with software coders coordinated by
the Bitcoin Foundation.'' (wsj) -- I don't recall
the bitcoin foundation having much
to do with it. case of inserting yourself for marketeering purposes?
cazalla: i
thought dooglus would've run with
the coins by now
mike_c: thx. hopefully not a good btc investment headed for
the crapper.
Duffer1: lol i am not at all interested in restarting
that conversation
matthew_boyd: Anyway, it's late here, and I have
to revise
tomorrow.
matthew_boyd: Haha, I am 16, however, I do not have
that sort of
time. :P
matthew_boyd: Haha, oh well, it's only a game,
then again. :)
cazalla: lol not really, i was a shitkunt but i don't have
the
time
to dedicate
to it
cazalla: mcquad is making yet another mmorpg, funded
this
time by kickstarter, i'm sure it will end just like vanguard
though
cazalla: hopefully EQN is a great game, have not sunk much
time into mmorpgs since wow/eq days
cazalla: same deal with swtor, interesting how
they both went f2p
cazalla: i bought it when it came out, didn't really give it longer
than a week
though
mircea_popescu: this is
the smaller shard.
there's 2 larger ones, plus a few smaller ones
cazalla: surely
there are only 5 people left playing rift? :P
khersonus: I'm still not sure
that argument would hold up in court...
khersonus: so, btc is not
the only "game currency" you have found success in
khersonus: can you make money off of
that somehow?
mircea_popescu: i'd guess
there's between 10 and 20ish people working 40 hour weeks at feeding my vast industrial complex with raw materials.
mircea_popescu: so i'm
the largest crafter in rift by such a wide margin
that
the next
two people are smaller
than me combined :D
truffles: i find some value in some of it
though
truffles: well i agree its
tough
to shake off
the religious stuff
jurov: maybe other people are robbed because
then
they can't understand zealotry, who knows
ozbot: The Overprotected Kid -
The Atlantic
cmyers: "But george lucas PRODUCED
the
technical manual, he is biased, lolz"
cmyers: "Everyone knows
the death star would *totally* destroy
the enterprise because
the
technical manual says so!"
cmyers: wow, epic scrollback history. It's like watching a star wars versus star
trek argument.
jurov: wow
that
triple entry... looks like something i wrestled with and reimplemented badly
stompysteve: lol whoever got
those 10k shares at .000000000000001 is gonna have some fun with neobee over
the next lil while
ozbot: The Baldwin Project:
The Red Fairy Book by Andrew Lang
mircea_popescu: should be in
the wiki imo, either as-is or mildly rewritten
psterryl: how many individual
trades
there were
mircea_popescu: "I believe
the community demand is great enough
to carry
this idea onward, and I look forward
to
their success."
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