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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform kinda different things.
asciilifeform: suppose $fill-in-the-blank splits << suppose we're all hanged tomorrow.
BingoBoingo: The predictive power of kakobrekla's soul slander has lead me to submit a bitbet for consideration.
jurov: why are they afraid to publicly link themselves to it?
mircea_popescu: now imagine that instead of the two parties, there was a 3rd agent involved on one side.
jurov: I wonder why the havelock IPO is not mentioned on neo-bee.com ?
mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2013/our-emperor-deliver-us/ << this is an instructive example, which was litigated in spite of the thing being quite public, and on a hell of a technicality.
mircea_popescu: anyway, as to the direct question, yes.
mircea_popescu: but as a rule of thumb, it opens up the agent to all sorts of liabilities.
mircea_popescu: there's about five yards worth of caselaw dealing with undisclosed contracts/relationships and what implications these have.
ThickAsThieves: are transfer agents sued in such examples?
ThickAsThieves: <Jere_Jones> Is that why you dropped AM1 and AM100? /// not specifically, but AM's ways didn't give me much reason to stay
pankkake: the only one I managed to finish was Full Throttle
mircea_popescu: that and planescape:torment prolly the best writing in game history.
pankkake: I have played other lucasarts games but not this one :(
pankkake: oh, dota as day of the dentacle. not the other gayme
Jere_Jones: Is that why you dropped AM1 and AM100?
Duffer1: ken having his head so far up his own ass he doesn't know up from down isn't the problem it's those terrible trolls pankkake and crumbs, payed by MP to slander ActM
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves seems to me you've put yourself in a rather untenable position there, if that's what you're asking.
pankkake: if only they spent that energy on researching scammers
kakobrekla: you dont understand that whatever you contract says you are associated with them in public
ThickAsThieves: you dont see a difference between the things my name is on and everyone else's yet?
mircea_popescu: pankkake the lulzy part is the guy has a dota avatar. wtf one could like dota and be that silly.
ThickAsThieves: of course it matters to me
kakobrekla: i asked you at what point, obviously you think its all good or else you wouldnt be doing the administration or does it not matter to you ?
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves if they get no roi on their advertising campaign what happens ?
ThickAsThieves: how the hell can you still be riding that
mircea_popescu: we're in the wot!
ThickAsThieves: i dont take over things
mircea_popescu: "small captcha-for-btc transaction". Two months later MP gave him a rating as a "python dev". MP also has a rating from
mircea_popescu: "Now, if you look at his Web of Trust ratings, you'll see that pankkake has a rating from user abc4btc with the note
kakobrekla: i guess my question is at what point would you say "thats too much of a scam for me to administer". would you take over a PPT?
pankkake: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=462370.msg5343174#msg5343174 some serious conspiracy stuff going on! (too bad I actually bought the captchas for the other guy, not the reverse)
mircea_popescu: and this is merely scratching the surface.
mircea_popescu: as they trusted you and your secret contract to protect their legitimate interest in the matter.
mircea_popescu: if the deal goes south in any way your secret contract fails to cover for it any havelock owner can sue you for breach of fiduciary duty
ThickAsThieves: i am only an administrator for them
mircea_popescu: at the very least as about five different torts.
mircea_popescu: is this published anywhere ?
mircea_popescu: suppose they get bought out.
mircea_popescu: "we never heard of any of this sorry"
ThickAsThieves: burn down the buildings and vanish?
mircea_popescu: S.NSA has a total of 4`737`075 authorised shares outstanding. The total assets per share implied value is thus 0.00009980 BTC. The cash+tangible assets per share implied value is thus 0.00009828 BTC.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves roughly. have you seen the s.nsa report ?
mircea_popescu: not very good examples, there.
ThickAsThieves: 1.0 par? you mena you refund the ipo price?
mircea_popescu: and people get ~1.0 par on their shares.
mircea_popescu: i force him not to
mircea_popescu: i distribute ~1.0 par on the shares and dissolve s.nsa
Apocalyptic: "<I_told_you_so> US Exchange Regulators needs to step in and Audit Mt.Gox finances to protect the US investors." seriously nao
Vexual: did you spec the suicide imagery?
mircea_popescu: suppose they split. what do you do then, apologize ?
ThickAsThieves: but that was just cuz i felt like it
mircea_popescu: so then basically you run the havelock asset but have no say in anything
ThickAsThieves: i helped with the new website, though it wasn't rendered entirely to spec
Vexual: did your cousins fit out the shop tat?
pankkake: I liked the neo payement receipt
mircea_popescu: well then.
ThickAsThieves: sometimes they listen
pankkake: Duffer1: I actually force myself to log out so I can do better things now
mircea_popescu: do you run the havelock asset ?
ThickAsThieves: i make my criticisms known to them when i have them
kakobrekla: as much as goat is not related to pirate
mircea_popescu: my understanding was that ThickAsThieves is not actually related to neobee ☟︎
ThickAsThieves: the terminal http://i.imgur.com/XeITiI6.jpg
kakobrekla: all of them
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla there was a business cca 2012, different guy
kakobrekla: i shathap then
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla again this ghostship of an idea ?
kakobrekla: what if btc plummets to shit
kakobrekla: Experience the investment potential of Bitcoin with none of the risk, agree to purchase a value of bitcoins over a pre-selected period of time and get either your original investment back or a prioritised share of the gains.
Jere_Jones: Reloading the page and seeing from the beginning makes more sense.
Jere_Jones: I only saw the final frame
BingoBoingo: Maybe the point is that jacking of meets those criteria exactly
mircea_popescu: Jere_Jones the well known headmash on kbd gif
mircea_popescu: derp, jacking off meets those criteria.
mircea_popescu: these self improvement idjits are ridiculous by now. "You want to do something that you enjoy every day and then the outcome doesn't matter."
Jere_Jones: What is the image at the end of http://trilema.com/2014/bitcoin-was-written-by-the-retarded-part-ii/ ?
Vexual: neo-bee.com has an image of a man with a rope standing next to a chair in the middle of a room
mircea_popescu: no, his ass is too big.
Duffer1: nice try crumbs
pankkake: the proof is in the beard
mircea_popescu: who broke the pipes
ThickAsThieves: the badoom tss was for 'give him a link'\
ThickAsThieves badoom tsss
ThickAsThieves: all you have to do is auto-include your "it all started on IRC, like all good things these days" line before you speka in public
mircea_popescu: nubsy should start that sausage blog already so i can give him a link
mircea_popescu: devthedev i think there's some bets about it
mircea_popescu: Vexual you're too kind lol
Vexual: everyone was poliely ignoring that mp
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves no i just went ballistic over idiot wannabes stealing shit totally forgetting to mention i got it from him
devthedev: Anyone think Gox will ever resume BTC withdraws? :P
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell nubbins`omfg you're right!
Vexual: tied in the celar
ThickAsThieves: did you leave him in a trunk or something?
mircea_popescu: holy shit i totally forgot nubbins!
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Jere_Jones: Rich? Eh. The depth on Havelock is so thin that I'd wipe out the entire orderbook down to 1 satoshi. So it isn't like I can actually cash out.
mircea_popescu: as anyone reading can attest, this chat is the randomest thing on the planet.
mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic actually, probably great way to get random data : select random day from log, select random portion of text, hash it.