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mircea_popescu: skinnkavaj learning
to read spoiled me for audiobooks.
benkay: guess zuck won
that one in
the short
term and lost it in
the long
term
benkay: o lookit
that spotify lets you sign up with email again
dexX7: let's ipo
the idea
mircea_popescu: someone write
the book so 50cent can make a song about
the movie based on it
skinnkavaj: TestingUnoDosTre: Leave him alone now I
think he understood my point and I like his intentions
CheckDavid: I heard mpoe was
the most legal of exchanges
skinnkavaj: SD is not legal and neither is MPOE, but I love
the fact
that you are not agreeing with me on
that
skinnkavaj: mircea_popescu: We live in a corrupt world you should know
that
mircea_popescu: who knows, maybe it somehow ends up cutting down on
the general nonsense
mircea_popescu: yes, my strategy in
the future is
to continue
to point out obvious nonsense coming my way.
skinnkavaj: mircea_popescu: Is
this your strategy in
the future?
mircea_popescu: you don't even know how many countries
there are, in
the world.
mircea_popescu: there's no such
thing as a "legal service".
there's illegal stuff, and
then
there's
the rest.
skinnkavaj: mircea_popescu: So you
think SD is a legal service?
skinnkavaj: I believe we will see more fake sells since it's
the best option
to clear your name, while still holding on
to
that money making machine
skinnkavaj: So he would not get into
trouble and can still operate SD
dexX7: why do you
think
this was smart?
dexX7: (i don't know how much
that was)
dexX7: who did pay
the shareholders
then?
mircea_popescu: i imagine
they contacted me because
they wanted
to
talk.
benkay: USG is slowly aligning
themselves with reality on
the ground
skinnkavaj: benkay: US
tax law was put into voluntary donation zone when Bitcoin was first launched in 2009
benkay: US
tax law which has put itself into
the voluntary donation zone?
benkay: US law, which is not law any more by dint of outlawing
the un-out-law-able.
skinnkavaj: And I dont
think much BTC business is "legal"
benkay: skinnkavaj: are you referring
to
the part where
they claimed
they'd be able
to protect cypriots from haircuts?
mircea_popescu: skinnkavaj ever pick up a chick
that looked good at
the disco only
to get scared in
the morning ?
skinnkavaj: mircea_popescu: But
the original prospectus was really well
thought
thru
mircea_popescu: very dot-com ish really, but history is only useful
to
the literate.
mircea_popescu: they're an outfit run by an incompetent if vain kid
that drank
the kool aid.
they got some btc
together, made some media buys and...
that's it.
mircea_popescu: benkay you've not asked
too many people, btw. as best i can
tell
they're neither a giant scam
trying
to run witrh a
ton of btc, nor a legitimate business.
benkay: at least
tell me i'm pretty
skinnkavaj: benkay: Do you have any reason
to believe it was not
that reason?
benkay: he'd have said something along
those lines when
the forum showed up and put him
through
the wringer
benkay: don't really
think it was
the work of
the
thing, skinnkavaj.
skinnkavaj: I guess he
thought it was
too much work
skinnkavaj: Maybe he quit also NEOBEE for
the same reason
mircea_popescu: "confirmed
that a bitcoin exchange
that holds client funds with a licensed overseas payment service provider is not required
to obtain a licence in
the country for its activities."
skinnkavaj: benkay: Didn't
TAT quit managing it long
time ago?
benkay: so how about
this: www.coindesk.com/isle-man-welcomes-digital-currency-exchanges-license-required/
benkay: skinnkavaj: not much. no more
trades on havelock,
ThickAsThieves no longer running
the 'fund'.
skinnkavaj: mircea_popescu: I have never understood how MPOE works, but anyway
the questionn goes how many
trades can you handle per second right now?
skinnkavaj: It's kinda fun with zero fees,
to really see how much your code and server can handle in
terms of
total
trades per second
skinnkavaj: I wounder how Huobi makes money
though
skinnkavaj: I am gonna make money by offering a really simple dice game on every altcoin
traded
skinnkavaj: Now I have decided
to offer it for free
skinnkavaj: I am opening a new altcoin exchange for Litecoinlocal, before I was determined
that we should have fee shares and
take fees on
the
trading
skinnkavaj: pankkake: On NEOBEE or what did you have
there?
decimation: I'm surprised
this hasn't happened with silicon valley already
decimation: well, a private corp would open
themselves up
to civil suits
pankkake: I have nothing, I
took my losses from havelock just because fuck it
mircea_popescu: yes but a)
the city of new york is a public corp and b) firemen and generally blue collar workers are hardly what we were
thinking about
decimation: the United States alleges
that defendant City of New York's use of
two written examinations on a pass-fail basis, as well as its rank-order processing of applicants, in
the screening and selection of applicants for appointment
to
the rank of entry-level firefighter, has resulted in disparate impact upon black and Hispanic applicants, is not "job related for
the position in question and consistent with business necessity" and does not otherwise
skinnkavaj: So boring when MPOE-PR on
the same
thread post
the same link all over again, instead of debating
skinnkavaj: mircea_popescu: Are you in bed with MPOE-PR or have I misunderstood
that?
pankkake: I was on a forum where we had
this ongoing conspiracy
that
there really were 2-3 users on
the forum and everyone else was sockpuppets
mircea_popescu: weren't
they supposed
to at some point release a report ?
skinnkavaj: That pankkake and mircea_popescu you are
the same person
mike_c: you don't know, yet it is a great
time
to buy.
skinnkavaj: And why is it closed in
the first place
mike_c: just one of many
things you are missing is
that no one can buy.
decimation: which put
them at risk of a civil-rights lawsuit
decimation: yeah and google gives what amount
to IQ
tests
mike_c: lots of blue-collar jobs give personality
tests before hiring
decimation: the point is, any
test
that would be given
to an applicant
to attempt
to detect his or her conscientiousness would be illeagal, like IQ
tests are (in
the US)
decimation: the problem is
that actually accomplishing
this would be racist
mircea_popescu: neurosis correlates with intelligence about
to
the same effects rot correlates with wood.
decimation: I read it as: "I hire only
those with high conscientiousness and low neuroticism"
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mike_c: he's not maintaining offices. just providing capital
to
that other company.