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the20year3: Got
the little cottage rented out, joy
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I imagine
there must be still more destitute
than
the vagrants
thestringpuller: so mircea_popescu you are retired from being retired? so
technically
that would still make you retired?
mircea_popescu: mike_c i spent ~5 years or so in a
tropical paradise doing... nothing.
BingoBoingo: Prolly six if you count
the people who aspire
to be
the vagrants
bitcoinpete: asciilifeform: well
there are at least 4 layers
bitcoinpete: mike_c: surely
there are
those who don't have
to work anymore, but choose
to. i call
that retired
bitcoinpete: i
thought
they wiki authors were retired or semi-retired, like many here
mircea_popescu: if
that were
true most wikipedia editors would not be unemployed.
mircea_popescu: bitcoinpete by now i can't separate
the "from
the ground up" automatism from
the earlier linked retards.
benkay: "to allow consumers and businesses
to use digital currency safe in
the knowledge
that
their governments will be able
to know everything about our customers without resorting
to
thermorectal cryptanalysis."
bitcoinpete: promise
to allow consumers and businesses
to use digital currency easily, reducing much of
the friction and risk
that is currently associated with Bitcoin."
bitcoinpete: "Circle is one of
the first companies built from
the ground up
to provide financial products for consumers
that harness
the power of Bitcoin
to enable faster
transactions, lower costs, greater privacy safeguards and increased protection against fraud and identity
theft while enabling more frictionless global economic activity and cross-border
transactions.
The company’s forthcoming products, which entered limited availability release
today,
mircea_popescu: o look at
that.
there's some sort of fiat competition
to bitcoin etc.
mircea_popescu: "We accept most international and local credit and debit cards as well as PayPal. Flattr use Euro as its base currency, but it doesn’t matter what currency you use, we
take care of
the exchange."
mircea_popescu: i
think
the us is optimised for involuntary humour
these days.
mircea_popescu: mike_c no, but
they may accidentally shoot some grannies...
mike_c: what,
the
tsa is going
to repel an armed attack on
the airport? please.
ThickAsThieves: the differences are all likely in
the chosen sample ranges
TomServo: Either I forgot how
to read a graph or gribble and ozbots' diff stats don't match sipa. What am I doing wrong?
ThickAsThieves: "Male university students in North Korea must get
the same haircut as
their leader Kim Jong-un, reports say."
pankkake:
http://www.overcomingbias.com/2014/02/fail-faster.html It is rare for a startup
to admit it isn’t going
to work out, and give some cash back
to investors. […] A great application of prediction markets is
to give better and clearer warnings of upcoming failure,
to enable better mitigation, such as quitting.
mircea_popescu: where's
the overlord-padishah-grandking or w/e his name was
mircea_popescu: so basically a rehash of
the old "pirate pass
through" scam
Mats_cd03: the bottom is going
to fall out at some point
ozbot: Wu-Tang Clan will only sell a single copy of
their new album |
The Verge
dhenson: Makes me wonder if FC is one of
the private investors with a portion of
the 60k private shares.
dhenson: You'd
think mining would be more profitable
than $1/GH
ThickAsThieves: they would only mine
themselves if it were more profitable
than selling
dhenson: But with new chips... everyone assumed
they would.
dhenson: I agree
TaT it seems shady
to me as well... especially if AM ends up not mining anymore.
ThickAsThieves: is it more
than a PMB? is it any less exposed
to diff increase
than other mining?
ThickAsThieves: i dont see why
theyd sell shares other
than
to push loss onto
the shareholders
ThickAsThieves: so you buy RM shares and
then slowly get your money back via AM divs?
ThickAsThieves: if he is on
the AM board, how is a fair price determined
ThickAsThieves: he's essentially
taking over what was supposed
to be something AM does, which isnt horrible per se, sure AM wants
to sell chips only, but why does he need all
that money?
ThickAsThieves: i personally find
the rockminer
thing
to be rather shady
ozbot: Sa ne jucam de-a investitiile-n bitcoini. pe
Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
benkay: mpoe
trades on mpex so mp can manip
Apocalyptic: <dhenson> not yet,
they are going
to build a UI just for
trading
their shares. << classic
dhenson: not yet,
they are going
to build a UI just for
trading
their shares.
benkay: bitcoin-assets: is a lockup like
this auto-scam?
benkay: dhenson: no
trading of shares?
dhenson: I wasn't around for
that. In what way,
the speed, or
the nature of
the direct purchase?
dhenson: not an exchange, direct btc deposit
to
their IPO btc address.
dhenson: 15k shares pre-sold in blocks of 2000+ before
the public IPO so
they sold out before most people had a chance
to buy in.
dhenson: They opened up 3750 shares for a public IPO at noon china
time and
they all sold in 13 seconds.
dhenson: regardless of
the validity of
the investment,
that Rockminer IPO was crazy last night... 13 seconds.
mircea_popescu: there's no consensus of what makes a better language, other
than edge cases such as ergativity
ThickAsThieves: has he actually
taught anyone
the language and studied if it isn;t worse for being so stripped down?
mircea_popescu: dude who
the fuck is
trolling wikipedia
to
this insane degree
mircea_popescu: "Nobody likes you, generally speaking, and
the presumptuous, misguided sort of nonsense I'm responding
to here is a prime example of why. Romania is a large country, populated by a lot of distinct Internet users. Comparatively, wikipedia is a small shithole populated by a lot of indistinguishable idiots. Please stop getting into everyone's day."
ozbot: Project Unspell: Why doesn't it use
the Latin alphabet?
ozbot: Project Unspell: What does one need
to know in order
to read English?
the20year3: utilization of
the letter so it doesn't become obsolete
ozbot: Southpark -
They
Took Our Job - YouTube
dhenson: At what point is it going
to stop being called 'English'? Referring
to
the divergant language in parts of
the US (south especially).
dhenson: Bumping into him was, she claimed running over his foot wasn't. Not sure what she
thought was going
to happen.
dhenson: Nah, she was driving away and bumped
the car into him and ran over his foot. just assault