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ninjashogun: benkay`,
the guy in
the biker shorts for you, eh? :)
ninjashogun: mircea_popescu, are you one of
the richest Romanians by valuation (net worth) or were you around peak BTC price?
ninjashogun: I'm an American but have some background from Eastern Europe. I always wondered about
the animosity between some of
those countries - and
the friendship between
the others.
ninjashogun: just saw romance-language like words
that I didn't understand on your blog. (I do speak some French, Italian, Spanish so knew it wasn't
those)
ninjashogun: I didn't realize you're Romanian either. I
thought you were Brazilian :) (I don't speak either portuguese or Romanian)
ninjashogun: so,
thanks for saving openbsd, mircea_popescu.
mircea_popescu: like any good
tool, it can be used by people as smart or as dumb
they may happen
to be.
mircea_popescu: the great advantage of
the irc is its splendid flexibility.
ninjashogun: well, not "valuation" just what I
thought of
this channel. By
the way
this is called 'saliency bias'.
ozbot: Romanian Bitcoin Entrepreneur Steps In
To Pay OpenBSD Shortfall - Slashdot
ninjashogun: I guess basically I wasn't
taking
these projects as "seriously" as other parts of
the startup ecosystem. But perhaps it's
true
that "silicon valley has a lot
to learn from bitcoin"
mircea_popescu: anyway.
the arduous
task of reading -assets logs / lurking is at least offset by it being... interesting.
ninjashogun: It's
totally different from
the ecosystem I knew before. Also,
the fact
that you post logs and do a lot via IRC.
That surprised me a great deal.
ninjashogun: yes, I agree with you. I was just surprised
to learn
this!
ninjashogun: mircea_popescu, sorry, I don't know
the details. I just see
that you're active on IRC and was just going by how you
talk and participate. You also have a lot of
time here.
mircea_popescu: i can
take an investor on any
terms i want in 2013, seeing how i'm already valued at a billion, with him or without him.
benkay`: of course, asking for a
thing from someone in
the WoT without having your own identity is a bit el oh el, but whatever and airplanes etc.
ninjashogun: Instead he got 30K btc as an investment, valuing his
thing at one point around $1B.
This is just
totally different from what I was expecting.
benkay`: ask your counterparty
to sign a declaration
they'll not publish records of your conversation
ninjashogun: For example I
thought mirceau completely bootstrapped his
thing, had no investors of any kind, since he doesn't deal with
them
the way startups I've seen do.
ninjashogun: benkay` I am making
the
time, because it is important. I'm also surprised by some of what I have learned about bitcoin-assets.
benkay`: anyways ninjashogun if you want privacy on IRC
this is what you do
mircea_popescu: benkay` as per
the earlier linked
tlp article, narcissus got hooked by entity not returning his love.
benkay`: ninjashogun weren't you just derping about not having
time
to derp in irc?
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: You mean you don't run
that bot on your nick?
benkay`: general heading of "shit
this firm is not
touching with a nine-meter pole"
mircea_popescu: ninjashogun sheep have no privacy, nor crabs nor birds. privacy is a construct of
the human mind, and it is built upon identity. which you don't currently have.
benkay`: asciilifeform your chumpatron essay came up at lunch
today
mircea_popescu: the philosophical problem would be
that privacy is impossible without identity
benkay`: ninjashogun:
there's no minimum IQ required for participating on
the internet.
ninjashogun: asciilifeform, I will say
that I am glad I was on guard with you. Anyone who builds anything has
to manage building it with
talking about it.
ninjashogun: asciilifeform, I considered
that a private conversation.
kakobrekla: ThickAsThieves i made a deal with him before he went all mental, whats
the issue? he paid. at least what we agreed on
the end.
BingoBoingo wonder how long it
takes
to catch with ninjashogun on
that BingoBoingo did not merely link
the linking article, but wrote it
mircea_popescu: anyway, you're right, it was parry
that was
the souped up eliza
ozbot: Eliza and Parry: When
the machines
talked
to each other
mircea_popescu: i read
them and feel roughly on par with a good session of reading
the
torah
moiety: felt like forwarding several
things
to doctors from my last hospital
moiety: honesty and reality amongst psychiatrists in
this manner is rare, love
the way he
talks
moiety: oh i love
this blog. i was on
there for ages other day after you linked it mircea_popescu
ozbot: The Last Psychiatrist:
The Second Story Of Echo And Narcissus
mircea_popescu: i
threatened my bank's clerk with having her write me one penny cashier checques for a few hundred lei coupla weeks back
nubbins`: if it was 3
they'd round it
to 5
nubbins`: they don't even make pennies anymore. if you cashed
that at a bank, you wouldn't get anything.
moiety: omg insult
to injury or what
ninjashogun: “I extend
the apologies of … everyone in
the government
to his mother. And we
thank
this individual for
the service
that he gave his country,” he said, "and are saddened by
this grave error.
The check was never meant
to go out. Mrs. Stark, please accept our sincerest apologies - and by all means, keep
the penny."
mircea_popescu: i imagine
the costs of "making sure
this never happens again" will be happily borne by everyone
then
nubbins`: two and a half years after your son kills himself,
the government sends him a cheque for a fuckin penny
nubbins`: also brutal
that some scumbag politicians used it as an excuse
to blast
the government in
the house of commons
moiety: you just gave me
the answer!
ninjashogun: mircea_popescu, yeah I was just
thinking how close
that basic looks
to Perl. Leaevs you with
the same impression :)
ninjashogun: okay, I'll bite. What does sp and sk and k1 stand for? I'll assume p1 and p2 are
two...points...
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform a wait,
this is
the source for
the markov chain predictor innit
ninjashogun: asciilifeform, wtf - did you write
that basic code?
mircea_popescu: who
the fuck ever saw basic look so close
to lisp anyway
mircea_popescu: you are possibly
the worst pedagogue i have ever seen.
mircea_popescu: moiety you ever managed
to compile bitcoin or any altcoin from source ?
ninjashogun: Chapter 1) <h1>Hello</h2> Chapter 2) p {color:black;text-align:center;} Chapter 3) alert("I am an alert box!"); Chapter 4) Putting it all
together: Opening your own online exchange