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ozbot: 3-day Auction for Invite Code
to purchase Google Glass
mircea_popescu: you gotta be
totally
thermos
to imagine cloudflaring domain names does anything against ddos
Apocalyptic: providing
the girl with opportunities for moar lulz
mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic
together, with our powers combined, we make
team bitcointalk access
nubbins`: well, let's put a pin in
this and maybe chat a bit more about it when some more details are hashed out
ozbot: [Mpex.co]
The biggest scam in bitcoin history?
mircea_popescu: say a boar, you see for 5 minutes a day.
the fucking interface is
there 100% of
the
time
Apocalyptic: since it indeed redirects
to bitcoins.com with
the plain IP
mircea_popescu: generally
tho,
the faces are impiortant cause ppl spend so much
time gazing at
them
Apocalyptic: mircea_popescu,
the latter won't work actually
nubbins`: really like
the idea of a grapes/vines one
tho
mircea_popescu: either feed it into your dns autoresolver or else replace bitcointalk.org in an actual url wioth
the ip
nubbins`: altho
that might just be me projecting
nubbins`: wondering if it's worth exploring faces
that work stylistically with
the heraldry
trims, i.e. bone face, storm face, spider/tentacle face, etc
mircea_popescu: and obviously because of
the general look and feel considerations i'd want
the same people making each face
to do a lot of
the menu work
too.
nubbins`: d1 hud could lose like half its height in
the center and still be ok
mircea_popescu: maybe even with
thin wire frames on
the edges, 16px or w/e, and decor on
the upcorners
nubbins`: ah, sure, ok.
that leaves a lot more room
to work with
mircea_popescu: it shouldn't be "very big" but not
tiny either is
the best i can say
mircea_popescu: has
to also be easily schemable (i can see other
than gothic mablework a la diablo a alchemist-crazy machine chemistry set look and a nature grapes and vines look. perhaps even a
tesla
thing, perhaps even a zerg
thing -
that's already 5 faces)
mircea_popescu: has
to be elegant and somehow make sense with our SIX different fucking vitals.
mircea_popescu: something like
that, marble figurines suppoerting
the vitals, marblework bottom
nubbins`: ah yeah, i remember
the general look of it
mircea_popescu: well 3d models for flora and fauna, architecture, more
textures, a hud...
nubbins`: mircea_popescu: so what sort of art assets fall under
the "desperately need" umbrella for S.MG?
nubbins`: seems like
there's a fair bit of demand for
them,
too
nubbins`: my redeemed casascius coin is up
to $62 on ebay
gribble: Next difficulty estimate | 862504808.6 based on data since last change | 877503262.113 based on data for last
three days
pankkake: where is
the
thing using "last 3 days"
ozbot: BitBet - BTC network difficulty
to
top 1B before 2014
pankkake: if only
there was a Web of Ignore
truffles: the argument cads made was u might look silly
to ur friends or something like
that if u speak
to someone
that is "trolling"
mircea_popescu: did he say anything offensively stupid recently or am i
taking him off ignore ?
pankkake: man in
the middle,
they can inspect/alter
the content at will
jurov`: truffles: you have
to surrender ssl cert
to cloudflare so
that it works effectively
truffles: <pankkake> fuck, another bitcoin website using NSAFlare?>>> what does
this mean?
mircea_popescu: i like it how nobody has a clue what
that stands for anymore.
pankkake: so I'm
trying
to register with bitpay again
Apocalyptic: just
thermos decided
to switch
to cloudflare and
the new DNS entries don't redirect correctly
pankkake: and I feel like
they screen each
transaction manually
pankkake: I wanted
to use a French paypal alternative
to accept small donations without needing SEPA wires, but it
turns out
they made it even worse
pankkake: no easy procrastination
today :(
mircea_popescu: n been censured. It has been far safer
to steal large sums with a pen
than small sums with a gun.
mircea_popescu: As long as investors-including supposedly sophisticated institutions-place fancy valuations on reported "earnings"
that march steadily upward, you can be sure
that some managers and promoters will exploit GAAP
to produce such numbers, no matter what
the
truth may be. Over
the years, Charlie and I have observed many accounting-based frauds of staggering size. Few of
the perpetrators have been punished; many have not eve
mircea_popescu: of value for each dollar
they have retained. We consequently re-
mircea_popescu: shareholders, but overall we have garnered far more
than a dollar
mircea_popescu: decision
that our investees have made has not benefitted us as
mircea_popescu: nesses or by repurchasing
their shares. Obviously, every capital
mircea_popescu: capital
to great advantage, either by putting it
to work in
their busi-
mircea_popescu: truly outstanding businesses
that can often employ incremental
mircea_popescu: been included in
the earnings we officially report).
This pleasant
mircea_popescu: Berkshire asif
they had been distributed
to us (and
therefore had
mircea_popescu: our investees, in aggregate, have been as fully as beneficial
to
mircea_popescu: We have found over
time
that
the undistributed earnings of
mircea_popescu: about
there, but meanwhile found
this one you might like :
kakobrekla: yeah but us bitcoin nationality is less valuable
than eu bitcoin nationality
mircea_popescu: then honest operators do
the one least likely
to be mispriced, and dishonest operators (or US people) do
the other.
mircea_popescu: the judgement call is mostly "which of
these
two is
the market most likely
to misprice
to a larger extent".
mircea_popescu: anyway,
to close up
the dividend/buyback discussion :
the difference is really slight in an efficient market.
the only way either is "unfair" is if
the market is inefficient, and misprices
things.
dexX7: no doubt
that it's still a lot
dexX7: haha fine. i
thought you wanted
to say something like "look, we have more funds
than d3 consumed" and simply missed a zero or so ;)
mircea_popescu: pankkake
too much money is worse poison
than
too little for new projects,
that's damned sure.
pankkake: (in
the case of SMG, we can see it isn't being spent, so all is good)
mircea_popescu: rather
than perpetually dick around with labcoins and bitcoin gems.
mircea_popescu: ideally we will use it
to permanently and deeply change
the world,
mircea_popescu: this is
the sort of unprecedented power Bitcoin gives us.
mircea_popescu: think if some guy working in his garage had as much resources as 1/10 boeing,
to make his new plane.
pankkake: related I
tend
to
think "too much money" is a common reason of project failures
mircea_popescu: and yes, i don't
think it ever happened in
the history of computer gaming
that a new company with new management working on an indie game ever had > 10% of
the most expensive largest corp's budget.