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mircea_popescu: anyway, you're
too new
to know, but
the way glbse croaked was like
this :
theymos announced a private sale of his glbse stock (+ some aussie scammer's)
ozbot: theymos comments on Founder reflects on
the closure of Bitcoin stock exchange GLBSE
dexX7: yeah, "this
time" is about pirate again
mircea_popescu: at some point
they were incensed about his reading pms on
the forum, earlier about his poor manageemnt of forum donations,
mircea_popescu: well, better question would be "why
this
time" i
think
dexX7: next question: people on reddit say
theymos is a scammer, why?
mircea_popescu: (also, fb IS a motherfucking scam. not at all in
the same sense, of course)
mircea_popescu: o, people love
to challenge me. because i'm such a snotty asshole see ?
Kleeck_: Then when you say, "That's bullshit."
They say, "No it isn't... Look at
this!"
Kleeck_: It help
to have a circle of intelligent people
that you respect.
mircea_popescu: in fact, i did *the exact same
thing* about bitcoin, it
took commebnters on my blog ~3 months
to get me
to look again
mircea_popescu: Kleeck_ i do
that all
the motherfucking
time. i am fortunate
to have people who love/hate me enough
to insist on
the
topic.
Kleeck_: Sometimes I don't read book because
the cover looks like shit.
mircea_popescu: i guess judging by
the site is a superficial approach
to life.
mircea_popescu: well what can i
tell you. yes silbert is well known, no we've not
talked, yes
that fund looks dubious
to me.
pankkake: companies who have no intention
to make
their investors richer would be a more explicit label ;)
Kleeck_: YES!
The "scam" label has reached an all
time low.
pankkake: zoinky> secondmarket did privates stock for groupon, facebook and
twitter <= so, scams
Kleeck_: Yeah. It's not for your everyday Joe.
That's what
the Winklevii are
trying.
mircea_popescu: seems
to me it's some random item on
their platform anyone could have created, much like
the other "open platforms" of
the sort
zoinky: before
they went public
zoinky: secondmarket did privates stock for groupon, facebook and
twitter
Kleeck_: I read an article about it a month or
two ago
Kleeck_: Because it's limited
to accredited investors only.
Kleeck_: Similar
to
the winklevi, but without
the need for SEC approval.
dexX7: i can't
trust what i read, so i can't
trust mp obviously :p
mircea_popescu: well
that's where it gets complicated. give an actual example.
dexX7: fine, but how do i verify something
then?
mircea_popescu: no, see,
this is
the problem. you don;'t start by believing what you read is
true,
dexX7: i'm just saying what i read and i have no reason
to believe
that it's not
true
mircea_popescu: and as far as
to
the "were
traded
there" : i can put up a website
tomorrow which claims
to be
trading your mom.
this does not imply anything about
the actual lady's probity.
mircea_popescu: so yeah. now you know kinda how
the mental process goes.
mircea_popescu: and what are all
those llcs being held by incs i never heard about.
mircea_popescu: but instead find a sales pitch intended for people with a financial iq corresponding
to about
the age of 15 ?
mircea_popescu: no, i have specific
things in mind. for instance, how come i can't find a name ion
the about us page,
dexX7: hm i don't know what it is exactly, but it's a plattform for accredited investors. afaik some big companies like
twitter were "traded"
there
mircea_popescu: also it looks scammy as all fuck, what
the hell is
that ?
dexX7: i heard
they are looking for people with many coins
mircea_popescu: i don't recall on
the spot. what would
this be about ?
[\]: It has
the same equivalent.
[\]: put it down
the garbage disposal.
[\]: mircea_popescu: don't feed
the
trolls.
mircea_popescu: VanCleef you know, for a site
that nobody uses i'm always surprised
to see public channels notice any hickup a minute before or a minute after
the
tech people whose job it is.
mircea_popescu: can anybody do anything on mpex yet? i see
trades on assbot, but nobody here seems
to be able
to
talk
to it (including me)? << atm proxies are dumping most of
the input because
they can't agree its valid
mike_c: btcjam is way easier
than mpex. i can sign in with my facebook account.
mike_c: bitcoincharts api is down
too
mike_c: they might do it
too :)
gribble: A market order
to sell 174000 bitcoins right now would net 14444712.8737 USD and would
take
the last price down
to 10.2000 USD, resulting in an average price of 83.0156 USD/BTC. | Data vintage: 0.0072 seconds
gribble: MtGox BTCUSD
ticker | Best bid: 191.03000, Best ask: 192.00000, Bid-ask spread: 0.97000, Last
trade: 192.00000, 24 hour volume: 20318.37757498, 24 hour low: 177.21000, 24 hour high: 198.89000, 24 hour vwap: 189.57829
gribble: A market order
to sell 144000 bitcoins right now would net 14029024.4938 USD and would
take
the last price down
to 23.3800 USD, resulting in an average price of 97.4238 USD/BTC. | Data vintage: 81.6503 seconds
mike_c: er, not
that its response is invalidly signed. it doesn't recognize me. (Unrecognized signature. Please email your public key first.) which seems
to be same as you guys were seeing 4 hours ago
mike_c: everything i get back from it seems
to be invalidly signed
mike_c: can anybody do anything on mpex yet? i see
trades on assbot, but nobody here seems
to be able
to
talk
to it (including me)?
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [XBOND] [PAID] 0.69348300 BTC
to 1`386`966 shares, 50 satoshi per share
mod6: jurov and I were having
the same issues.
mod6: are you having no
trouble executing orders or commands?
lurker: isn't mpex
the fastest and fuck you bitch? must be
the internet
then!
VanCleef: how is mpex suppose
to lag when nobdy uses it?
mod6: not me either... was about
to
test via dpaste.
jurov: anyone successfully placed a command
to mpex in past 3 hours?
mpexbot: jurov: (help [<plugin>] [<command>]) --
This command gives a useful description of what <command> does. <plugin> is only necessary if
the command is in more
than one plugin.
KRS1: he'll probably get it
too
dexX7: A man claims
to have found an injured, young rabbit under a porch one day, and
then nursed it back
to health. He
then named
the rabbit
Toby.
This individual swears
that he will have
Toby butchered and served for dinner on June 30, 2005, unless he is able
to raise $50,000 in donations or merchandise sales.
mircea_popescu: anyway, im sure
the
twitter in question is being run by some
teen having fun, otherwise unrelated
to anything
ozbot: GoDaddy Outage
Takes Down Millions Of Sites, Anonymous Member Claims Responsibility |
TechCrunch
dexX7: from
that point on he claimed he was behind "everything" on
the nets, but of course he wasn't
dexX7: this was
the
time
this guy popped up, claiming it was him, web news picked it up
dexX7: hmhm.. i'm not sure what exactly
the issue was, but do you remember when almost all godaddy related/hosted websites went black a year ago or so?
dexX7: it's a wonder
that he is still on
the nets
dexX7: @AnonymousOwn3r <<
this guy is a joke
mircea_popescu: meanwhile back at
the ranch, "Michelle Obama’s Princeton classmate is a
top executive at
the company
that earned
the contract
to build
the failed Obamacare website"
ozbot: MPOE, October 2013 Statement pe
Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
benkay: the only upside
to
that gig was watching
the shop operators grow more and more uncomfortable around me and my robots during my
tenure
benkay: mega personal happiness penalties from programming in proprietary ladder logic
though
benkay: far more fun
to play with
than
the industrial
type
benkay: but only after shunting lots of electrons and making lots of api calls and getting
the odd human involved