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mircea_popescu: That brings me to the final point. I initially intended to teach the community a lesson about trust, I did not expect anyone to really take the bets and thus I did not expect to keep any profits.
As the bets grew though, I was tempted with greed and I fell into a trap.
nyRednek: smickles, i was assuming it was a federal law,
as well, due to the interstate nature of the order
nyRednek: yeah, dumping s.dice through my proxy,
as well...give it an hour and it'll be a little lower
mircea_popescu: threatening a honest citizen with unwarranted prosecution if he refuses to break the law will be a tough sell
as good faith.
Luke-Jr: Bugpowder: he's in New York. running an online gambling site. openly.
as he writes anti-government rants.
Luke-Jr: EskimoBob:
as I understand it, mircea_popescu created a phony stock to resell GLBSE shares, then forfeited those GLBSE shares for some reason at the expense of all the MPEX phony-stock holder
jcpham: time is the only indicator i have
as a metric for scams
nyRednek: or just dump any securities i have that may be anyway linked with that exchange, considering that the site looks like it's run
as a scam
mircea_popescu: Bugpowder actually the 14th extra dividend was in fact acquisition cash payment
as per the contract
mircea_popescu: i honestly thought that the listing is probably bvps' largest asset. there is such a thing
as a reverse ipo for instance.
Schadenfreude: Half negress posing
as soldier, what's so special about it?
dub: lots of things I work on are more punitive, ie we start paying penalties for late delivery
as well
as not getting paid
mircea_popescu: in general you should be able to borrow to pay a fixed retainer rather than have to offer the laywer a %
as in personal injury cases
mircea_popescu: which is moot since he;'s arguing it
as a cost reduction measure
mod6: im talking about the same thing
as the guy was trying to sell from BTC FPGA
Bugpowder: I totally agree with this statement "It is, I submit, a lot easier to be a star in BTC than it is in fiat, simply because so many more intelligent people (that aren’t computer programmers!) are involved with the latter
as opposed to the former."
Bugpowder: shoulda got out
as soon
as that youtube video of him at the conference got out
Bugpowder: well, that went ok for me, although it would have been nice if the asset prices hadn't crashed
as people were racing to the exits.
mircea_popescu: i have this advantage that i get high on my own neurotransmitters,
as my sister put it. of course everyone wants to be friends with me.
Bugpowder: not
as 'fun' but effective for focus
Dishwasha: Namworld: But the idea would be that I want my service to receive the transaction confirmation
as quickly
as possible.
smickles: I thought it sounded better
as an unattributed quote
mircea_popescu: answer: "There's really nothing to it. Start
as a billionaire and then
OgNasty: gigavps I had a chuckle at that
as well.
Schadenfreude: I'm sitting on some cash which would best be put to work
as BTC, but I'm afraid I'll lose 5-10% on a price drop
gigavps:
as fast
as humanly possible
Ukto:
as a backup location
pirateat40: and
as I can have multiple clients open at once
mircea_popescu: the ron actually is pretty strong,
as far
as eu currencies go.
FabianB: i think that pirateat40 had the same ip/isp
as someone who just joined
mod6: ya.. i was wonderin if it would go the same
as BFL
Namworld: Also, what about basic?
As for Usagi, I'm pretty unmoved. He started getting active again and paying some BTC on his stocks. That's at least some more I'll be getting back.
Ukto: or just left it
as it was for now?
Bugpowder: I tried to make it
as accurate
as possible
mircea_popescu: the mob running las vegas in the 70s is nowherhe near
as incompetent
midnightmagic: mircea_popescu: 15:39 < mircea_popescu> with s.mpoe acting
as a sort of bitcoin federal reserve notes <-- careful making statements like that, unless you are deliberately trying to make a target of yourself.
mircea_popescu: with s.mpoe acting
as a sort of bitcoin federal reserve notes
jurov: It is purely internal, to wit, the fact that you are worthless
as a human being, have no point in this world and your opinions do not matter.
Schadenfreude: Ah, I assume the movie portrays commies
as the good guys?
Ukto:
as a weexchagne user
Ukto: FabianB_:
as I have todl the otherw
mircea_popescu: all over the place people using it to post msgs against each other, vote each other. first I was checking the website alot, to see what was there. then
as things grew, so did the drama, I got tired of trying to use the votes
as a usefull reference. almost all traded assets have some kind of negative mark, mud slung in their face, and its like getting opinionated scammer votes to me.
mircea_popescu: "Epic video on the way. BFL a total scam, they act exactly
as scammers would and I will show you a perfect side-by-side comparison of how a real business would look at CES vs. a total, utter scam."
dub:
as a present for my boss
dub:
as long
as theres a rubber fist
Namworld: Even when accounting potential growth, it's high
as heck.
mircea_popescu: not same second
as i erroneously indicated at the time
Namworld: I thought people would buy more progressively
as BitBet shows it can bring a cashflow.
Namworld: Breaking News: In an unexpected turn of events, MPEx is the host of a record breaking trade totaling over the total amount of bitcoins in existance. In other news, a 1 cm asteroid is heading toward Earth, which might just kill everyone in an fiery apocalyptic scenario,
as rendered by our artists in the following video...
Namworld: The 40 BTC withdrawal was for that. It was going
as low
as 0.009
mircea_popescu: but i know i sure
as heck don't want to have mpex trades stream in the same place with that dood's imaginary 1k basic "mining corp"
Namworld: Endorsing is not the same
as hyping.
Namworld: A fact, such
as a celebrity endorsing a product, can create a lot of hype for a product...
Anduck: A fad. A clever marketing strategy which a product is advertized
as the thing everyone must have, to the point where people begin to feel they need to consume it.'
Anduck: " The hacking collective doesn’t consider DDoS
as a form of attack and equates it to hitting the ‘refresh’ button on a webpage."
jurov: top 10 ideas with highest buoyancy
as teh manager say
dub: I predict it will last about
as long
Bugpowder: It is beneficial for the proposer to place
as much capital
as possible on the bet
Bugpowder: The cool thing about variable delay is that the decay basically functions
as a vig for the early bettors (like the proposer)
Namworld: Can't you at least make public announcement not require credits? Such
as MPOE statements and such?
Sertuerner: Well, the bond isn't nearly
as advertised
as the last ponzies I saw
topace: kakobrekla: im okay if you want to take out the 7D so its the same
as mpex (just 1D and 30D) or maybe mpex should add 7D :p
mircea_popescu: "This data is not unexpected. I have been writing a great deal over the past few years about the toxic psychological impact of media and technology on children, adolescents and young adults, particularly
as it regards turning them into faux celebrities—the equivalent of lead actors in their own fictionalized life stories."
mod6: for one of the orgs, the other two are now one,
as one of them was absorbed by the other.
mircea_popescu:
as long
as you keep working things will eventually settle.
mod6: My day job is basically 3 sr. dev jobs rolled into one. It didn't go
as planned, we were supposed to make a lot more money and have a staff by now to alivate the pressure
jurov: but
as it hear you complaining about layout instead, all seems well :)
Bugpowder:
as soon
as one of the whales goes on another bender.
kakobrekla: im doing some changes
as we speak smickles
gribble: Nick 'Namworld', with hostmask 'Namworld!~BTC-Minin@modemcable075.132-23-96.mc.videotron.ca', is identified
as user Namworld, with GPG key id F2758D83EEEDE453, key fingerprint F12DE6B4E1EF26F5768BE918F2758D83EEEDE453, and bitcoin address 1Namjies9JeJ4ugCzjkAj6dbaWrtjAFKCk
Namworld: You allow withdrawals
as low
as 0.0005 BTC? Isn't that catering to small transactions?
mircea_popescu: just
as it was best for mpex that all the glbse idjits hated it
Namworld: Well agreed that
as a vehicle for transfer of value for large transactions, bitcoins would be ideal.
Namworld: Well there's incentive
as to create and keep the small business running
as long
as that advantage for the owner exists.
Namworld: Your margins are lower for the business, but the profit is better for the owner.
As for employees, they're probably paid a similar pay.
Namworld: Just
as I see small providers competing with larger corps with better services. They still turn a profit and stick around.
mircea_popescu: go try and complain to your phone company,
as a fuine example.
Namworld: Yes. But
as far
as I know most most brick and mortar business have to do that bitcoin or not and while not all manage to succeed at it, many remain in business, wether small or large.
kakobrekla: >>See that picture ? The poor schmucks in that picture are likely more intelligent, more dilligent and generally better human beings than Gobry. Unfortunately for them, they didn’t have the obscene good fortune of being born in this part of the world.
As a result, they’re dicking around packing mud while this worthless fuckwit goes about farting self-delusions of “strategic global
mircea_popescu: such
as, for instance, explaining to those idiots on that article quoted why they're wrong
Namworld: I don't see that argument
as valid.
As the supplier, you set the price and service provided for it.
Namworld: We don't want them, we want the business. Why is apple making so much money? For selling easy to use and elegant products. And they milk their customer base
as much
as possible.