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pankkake: I didn'
t understand it that way
benkay: but this zone is filled with scammers who won'
t substantiate their claims.
benkay: if you hadn'
t made a claim, that'd be a different story.
mircea_popescu: just the fact that nobody can chargeback you and pp can'
t hold your wallet at ransom and that;s enough for anyone sane.
benkay: either that or he's playing some crazy game i don'
t understand.
bounce: can'
t you stuff flash in pdfs these days?
mircea_popescu: He could have taken off with all the money right after the IPO but he didn'
t."
mircea_popescu: If Danny really wanted to scam people, he would have done that right after the IPO but he didn'
t. He went ahead and invested money in setting up the office, hiring staffers, media campaigns, buying POS devices, sending his hired staffers to conferences and so on.
Duffer1: wasn'
t rent trading halted during that period?
mircea_popescu: but the same someone didn'
t buy 30 btc worth of rent all week
bounce: re strangecoin, I get the feeling I can stop reading after this: ``Of course, when I give you a dollar for a burger that's not really a zero sum transaction, because otherwise we wouldn'
t be motivated to enter into the transaction in the first place.'' -- conflating currency-mediated transactions with barter
bounce: can'
t recall if this is what I recalled, but it sounds familiar
bounce: a little perspective here, some tidbits there, add it together and the picture isn'
t pretty
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Apocalyptic: benkay, I assume it wasn'
t an intentional paste
mircea_popescu: bounce in the end this isn'
t such a very good argument.
bounce: if I'd wanted to be mean I'd point out that the space shuttle looked spiffy enough but didn'
t do a very good job of shuttling, n'mind at a suitably low price tag. not that hard to argue it set humanity's progress toward colonising space back a good score years or so.
bounce: leadership isn'
t easy to come by, no. random democratic and/or republican countries haven'
t managed it in a long time for the usual positions either
bounce: oh I get the point that there'll be some equilibrium or other (pterry's vetinary letting the crime guild regulate the crime) but I don'
t think the equation is that simple
bounce: f35 is a brilliant scam, actually. getting permission to deliver production planes when the prototype hasn'
t had its maiden flight
bounce: yeah no, I don'
t think it's straight up incentive, or at least not as strong as implied as there's strong pull the other way too. eg gangs don'
t extinguish themselves
the20year2: I'm curious what signfiicant tech the f35 produces that the f22/f35 didn'
t have
mircea_popescu: and by the latest reports couldn'
t fight against the russians even if it wanted to.
benkay: doesn'
t sound so novel.
mircea_popescu: but this recent "can'
t eat an apple with a spot" neurosis is not naturally occuring in human populations.
joecool: it still works for some merchants that don'
t have access to their own in-house mailing list
mircea_popescu: many lines aren'
t amenable to the supermarket model, but groupon tried to bring them into the same economics.
joecool: except they don'
t do anything but hold the money for awhile and gamble before paying the merchants
mircea_popescu: well obviously. the us can'
t quite afford to abandon the notion
benkay: another thing is, as i said to my colleague recently re a contractor: "ain'
t nobody motivated by money in the bank."
nubbins`: i don'
t want my airbag to have the power to decide whether i'm allowed to alter photographs :(
kanzure: so at minimum they have to pretend they have limits in order to not reveal that their cold storage sytsem isn'
t cold
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform amusingly, i had accounts on neither, but that doesn'
t prevent people from trying to phish and etc
mircea_popescu: i don'
t recall the last time someone gathered the guts to try and play a trick on me,
pLambert: I think they only offered 3, she said she wouldn'
t do it for 35
mircea_popescu: funny, they don'
t want to splurge 30 on a mpex reg, but they do want to spend 35 on the mpoe-pr.
mircea_popescu: i don'
t see anything substantially wrong with your 1.4%
nubbins`: this isn'
t the field of dreams -- you have to do more than build it for people to come
nubbins`: well i mean "open call for judges" certainly isn'
t the way to find 'em
chetty: there are competent judges, but they can'
t be bothered
bitcoinpete: Although some of you've read my latest blog post, I'm going to leave it here quietly for those who haven'
t:
mircea_popescu: well, i see not problem with it, but it ain'
t convincing me.
mircea_popescu: no, it's where someone proposes he knows all the alternatives, which happen to be two, of which one happens to be something that didn'
t work in the past and the other happens to be his pet theory.
nubbins`: square peg doesn'
t fit, so the hole is flawed
mircea_popescu: nubbins` you don'
t have to see "anything to the contrary"
nubbins`: no, YOU don'
t trust the court to fairly apportion the fees
mircea_popescu: nubbins` if he doesn'
t trust the court to fairly apportion the fees, he has no reason to trust the court with a farthing.
pankkake: yes, but I can'
t guess if it looks for tags or whatever, nor which
pankkake: (or other worse things to do I can'
t avoid)
mircea_popescu: up until yest we had this gentleman agreement of sorts that they don'
t delete the girl's posts and i look the other way on the endless stupid shit they did.
VanCleef: why doesn'
t hshe hang out on irc?
mircea_popescu: that's why they didn'
t go ahead and pretend it was the aliens.
mircea_popescu: wouldn'
t one be worried once his tits are better than the girl's ?
mircea_popescu: they didn'
t have teh... i dunno how to call it, the endometrium say.
mircea_popescu: they won'
t make it. just be replaced with some sort of short stocky chinese.
mike_c: well, the biggest debtor in the land is the govt. they aren'
t going to let things get deflationary.
mircea_popescu: terribly weak, i bet. didn'
t they pretty much take over and end of story ?
mircea_popescu: "oh, it may be the case everything will be more expensive in the future, perhaps, BUT!! don'
t worry about it, you read last month all about how low inflation is!"
mircea_popescu: jayk can'
t believe asshole teacher had the guts to x that answer.
mircea_popescu: nubbins`: i don'
t think borrowing and repaying is a particularly good way of building trust. < it's awful really, more likely to diminish the trust of the rater than to improve that of the rate'ed.
mircea_popescu: the20year1 it's all a question of who do you want to deal with. to me, forum trust means exactly zero. to the forum, wel... they don'
t even know whjat the wot is, they're barely discovering chan logs these days.
antephialtic: I didn'
t invest, even if it wasn'
t a scam, it was a pretty bad business plan
novusordo: you can message nickserv "set enforce on" to automatically kick people off your username after 30 seconds if they haven'
t authed
bounce: you know, there's a long history of (non-bitcoin) courts and such, and also a long history of abuse in various forms. question then is why and when doesn'
t such a system get abused (or at least not too much, and then what is this not too much you speak of)?
nubbins`: haven'
t tried ketchup from scratch yet ;D
nubbins`: i don'
t think borrowing and repaying is a particularly good way of building trust.
the20year1: Lucky for me, the bulk of my investors aren'
t on either, however it'd be good going forward to have good ratings on both
nubbins`: forum people don'
t give a fuck about otc ratings, and vice versa
nubbins`: i don'
t think there are any problems left ;D
nubbins`: tell me if people wouldn'
t be encouraged to solve their own problems rather than whining to btc dad
nubbins`: they don'
t make shit until their contract is up
nubbins`: anyway, you're arguing that salary doesn'
t work because pay-by-the-hour makes it seem like less of a chore
nubbins`: maybe the defendant doesn'
t have to pay a fee because we're not paying the judges per-case anymore
nubbins`: i can'
t keep up with them, you tell me :D
nubbins`: joke's on you, that doesn'
t damage my reputation
nubbins`: it couldn'
t lose if it declined to participate
mircea_popescu: i wonder why there doesn'
t exist some sort of magnetic heat extractor device!
pankkake: my case has filters, the case wasn'
t that dusty after months of operation