mircea_popescu: "Its not just Johnsons attitude toward people of color whove been victimized by cops. Johnson in general likes to retaliate against certain individuals by publishing their personal information (a.k.a. doxxing). A recent example: After the New York Times published a copy of former Ferguson cop Darren Wilsons marriage certificate, and named the street on which he used to live, Johnson published the home addre
mircea_popescu: ascii_field iirc they were something like averypoorlynamedbedandbreakfast.com originally
assbot: What Is Chuck Johnson, and Why? The Web’s Worst Journalist, Explained ... ( http://bit.ly/1Y3b5vx )
mircea_popescu: http://gawker.com/what-is-chuck-johnson-and-why-the-web-s-worst-journal-1666834902 << gawker has a story on some twitter brigading or w/e.
BingoBoingo: Johnson has occasonal moments of lucidity, but otherwise seems to largely have been caught up in the otherside of USG propaganda machine
mircea_popescu: https://arenavc.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/airbnb_2nd_budget.png << best lulz. srsly, this is why they need excel ?
BingoBoingo: He's the derp who is somewhat aligned with weev
mircea_popescu: otherwise, who's chuck johnson and what's gotnews.com
mircea_popescu: i see the facebook feed's dead, but can't be arsed to look into it
mircea_popescu: in other news, trilema used to have a fb and a twitter where some webapp (that no doubt is a great success) dumped the rss
mircea_popescu: sounds a lot like the story of the man upset that he went to the brothel, and they touched him in a sexually suggestive manner.
ascii_field: 'Twitter is a natural monopoly. Outrageous Chuck Johnson is still banned after all this time. They're showing why they need to be regulated.'
ascii_field: nor will you, other than at some considerable expense and choice of constrained envelope - have a linear one.
ascii_field: j. strong's 'methods of experimental physics' covers the basics; the whole b00k is somewhere w4r3z3d in the logz.
mircea_popescu: <nubbins`> (they still flaked, saw it with mine own) << there's a reason thermosensors are made out of two different materials stuck to each other. that reason is that this problem of geometric affixing is INCREDIBLY hard.
nubbins`: i've only seen poor quality ones in the wild so far
nubbins`: today, for the first time outside of casascius' blog, i see a photo of an un-lasered sticker in an auction on the gooftalk forum
ascii_field: and you don't even need to remove the sticker.
nubbins`: the holo stickers for the 1btc silvers were too large for the space on the coin & tended to lift at the edges, making for very easy solvent insertion -- most stickers were then burned around the rim with a laser to make a fried-on messy ring that allowed the sticker to lay flatter and ostensibly would reveal tampering more easily (they still flaked, saw it with mine own)
ascii_field: nubbins`: do you remember the thread where i described how to trivially rape such a coin ?
nubbins`: i expect this to be the minimum going forward
nubbins`: for those who are interested in matters of pedigree, i just sold a casascius coin and the buyer paid an additional 1btc to have the pgp chain of custody extended
ascii_field: iirc they're about 800 usd.
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BingoBoingo hasn't been to Paris, Kentucky either
mircea_popescu: i guess just like new york in the 50s
ascii_field: phun phakt: at the u.s. army derpery where i once worked, aerons were MANDATORY
mircea_popescu: back before all the midwestern carrie-bradshaw-wannabes showed up
mircea_popescu: from what i hear from the locals it used to be great
ascii_field has never even been there as a tourist. oughta go some day.
mircea_popescu: if it isn't in scamicon valley THEN ITS NOT REALLY TECHNOLOGY
mircea_popescu: "La 27 de ani, Vladimir Oane a riscat şi a reuşit. În doi ani, a pus pe picioare o afacere prin care monitorizează diverse reţele şi oferă statistici marilor branduri. Contractele au început să curgă." <<< for the lulz. romanian "airbnb could buy all of russia" thing.
mircea_popescu: guys at the local bar, you know, watching shark tank on tv...
mircea_popescu: im sure there's also a paris, kentucky vc scene.
mircea_popescu: heh. check this shit out "Not all investors are created equal. The winners are persistently the same relatively small groups of investors time after time. Success not only has positive signaling effects in attracting the factors that drive success, but also talent enhancing effects for the venture capitalists themselves." << now why exactly would this be ? successful sicentists aren't "always the same small group time
mircea_popescu: When I found Airbnb I was a nobody in the investing world, but I spent the next year afterward traveling around the US meeting founders and investors. I attended and hosted several dozen events and I talked to just about everybody in tech I could. I read voraciously and learned as much as possible from one-on-one conversations. I put in a full year of hard work before I did my next deal."
mircea_popescu: "Losing a deal like Airbnb can be painful. Great lessons came from the rejection at the very end, however. After getting the cold shoulder, I realized I needed to go out and build some valuable knowledge, needed a more robust network, and needed to craft my own brand as an investor.
mircea_popescu: yet the guy's own conclusion, in his own terms ?
mircea_popescu: i suppose this matters to some, what the title is.
mircea_popescu: or if you will, they executed what groupon executed : a maddof in the background, in this case named graham, scammed some old ladies and wrote the details in a notebook bearing this title
mircea_popescu: they executed... nothing.
mircea_popescu: the funny skit in that paige craig piece being that if paul graham and his merry band of spammers & conmen hadn't "invested", the thing would be worth tgoday what it it;'s been worth throughout : four digits in someone's shitty excel.
assbot: Gender critical trans women: The apostates of the trans rights movement. ... ( http://bit.ly/1OiMJbH )
ascii_field: http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2015/12/gender_critical_trans_women_the_apostates_of_the_trans_rights_movement.html << from earlier fishwrap
ascii_field: ty for cutting the wire in time.
ascii_field: the
ascii_field: the
mircea_popescu: in this sense, if there's ANYONE that appears above, then that's someone above lenin. which they can't have. and so...
mircea_popescu: you're guaranteed to get it, the higher accomplished you are. it correlates with your visibility because the point, from the niggers' perspective, is exactly to try and make it a thing by sticking it to people.
BingoBoingo: "perhaps the most decorated elementary-school teacher in the country, the only K-12 educator ever to receive the National Medal of the Artshas been accused of sexual misconduct in shocking documents released Tuesday by Los Angeles Unified School District."
mircea_popescu: in the pathological sense of crazier.
mircea_popescu: not EXACTLY a tall tale, like the canadians got. crazier.
mircea_popescu: anywya, it bears pointing out, to round the "us www guide fiction" thread, that the donner party was the unfortunate result of that typically american literary genus, the wild west guide fiction.
mircea_popescu: notwithstanding that the premier indicator of not-real-case is exactly "sting!!11"
mircea_popescu: by now i suppose the prosecuting attorney will suspect the case may not seem like a "real" case w/o one.
ascii_field: and somehow a sting/entrapment op was in the mix, even
mircea_popescu: but these are places that've been continuously inhabited for a while, where the space of possibilities has been a little more explored.
mircea_popescu: i mean... this is what the village idiot would be in ro
mircea_popescu: it all really proceeds on the same great page of "i ain't got much lernin but i seen them buttes, here's how you too can get there!"
mircea_popescu: ) that he's very much a son of his country and a man of his age. there is still a very strong vein of "guide literature" from wild west in us fiction writing to this date.
mircea_popescu: unrelatedly, it occurs to me looking through tucker max's sad history past decade (random guy on the internet, thinks "he invented a literary genus" because wrote some bland, unoriginal "debauchery stories" ; burned out of that [the tucker max makes a movie in hollywood shit was pretty lulzy] then moved on to... being an investor! burned out of that, now writing advice books on how to be the perfect mate for some woman
BingoBoingo: theoretical neurology much more practical
mircea_popescu: now, granted that clinical neurology is still the vastly more important thing, but anyway.
ascii_field: weinreb was ok before he went barmy and then died
mircea_popescu: you don't really like ANY of the classics lispers do you.
ascii_field: i once tried to read his other shit, and barfed
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-12-2015#1339543 << r. gabriel was the 'worse is better' guy.
mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> << mircea_popescu hasn't made you make the "programmers spigot" plain-old-html view yet huh? << this is hate speech.
assbot: You rated user adlai on 08-Nov-2015, with a rating of -1, and supplied these additional notes: As best as I can tell, the individual is either mentally retarded, or else expends significant mental power to emulate mental retardation..
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes https://gcaptain.com/watch-tug-smashes-passenger-vessel-in-argentina << god bless the argentines << they're talented folk. just, not at anything that correlates with survival.
assbot: The nigger, a practical exercise. on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1OiHJUu )
mircea_popescu: amusingly, there's actually a trilema about that derp.
adlai unearthed the "report" he wrote on the cork industry in 5th grade last night while throwing out old schoolwork
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gribble: (search <word>) -- Searches for <word> in the current configuration variables.
ben_vulpes: adlai: out of curiosity what's the difference between 'plastic' and plastic?
ben_vulpes: then followed a long explanation of the horseshit dow is putting into screw-top wine bottles and synthetic corks
ben_vulpes: "cork is the sustainable bottle-stopper"
assbot: Logged on 09-12-2015 14:24:59; Naphex: ben_vulpes: xotika has a full rest-full API while the angular js is static html that just connects to the backends
assbot: Logged on 14-11-2015 02:25:48; mircea_popescu: seriously, let the dumbass tech kids get away with this stupid shit ?
jurov: ben_vulpes: mp is fine with api that can be accessed by curl (but dunno if xotika is the case)
adlai: positive-sum wonderlands do not involve carcass-treading; they are instead eaten in a feast, with portions rationed by participation; but "everybody has a share"
assbot: Logged on 09-12-2015 14:24:59; Naphex: ben_vulpes: xotika has a full rest-full API while the angular js is static html that just connects to the backends
ben_vulpes: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-12-2015#1339611 << mircea_popescu hasn't made you make the "programmers spigot" plain-old-html view yet huh?
adlai: but "the whole ['opponents' thing] is a false dichotomy"
adlai: so far i must say, the humans have been surprisingly efficient
adlai has paid more "tax" than he'll "owe" in the next ~year, barring persistent s.mpoe trader idiocy
adlai: and if that's lost on you... well there are some classics that were written after marie lost her head
adlai subscribes to the pledge of "gimme eat"
assbot: Logged on 09-12-2015 09:44:52; adlai: moderator: "Oh so it can then be taxed as a currency and a commodity, and [Dr CSW] said, 'neither'" << clearly has not signed the pledge of allegiance yet
adlai at least can still put two and two together
jurov: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35025814 some are picking up coffee cans, some the real stuff
adlai: he could ECDSA sign a message saying "any further coinbases were mined by impostors, frauds, and early adopters, or all three simultaneously"
gribble: The operation succeeded.
adlai: ;;later tell pete_dushenski PGP signatures don't prove identities to people who don't trust the keys. repeated attempts to establish trust lines to satoshi's purported PGP key have failed
deedbot-: [Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski » Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski] In which Sam Biddle, Andy Cush, Andy Greenberg and Gwern Branwen fail to learn anything from the charred corpse of Leah McGrath Goodman, or how to tell if you’ve actually found Satoshi Nakamoto. - http://www.contravex.com/2015/12/09/in-which-sam-biddle-andy-cush-andy-greenberg-and-gwern-branwen-fail-to-learn-anything-from-the-charred-
ben_vulpes: https://gcaptain.com/watch-tug-smashes-passenger-vessel-in-argentina << god bless the argentines
thestringpuller: nubbins`: as they say CREAM
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-12-2015#1339455 << brings to mind the 16th-17th. c. idiots who pushed themselves as 'great alchemists', ended up taken captive by some lord who wanted phr33333 g0ld, and eventually guzzled lead on the public scaffold for charlatanry
mircea_popescu: and in other weird news, http://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/2015/12/08/thousands-coffee-cans-wash-up-indialantic/76969680/
shinohai: not so nifty then
mircea_popescu: in other news, http://41.media.tumblr.com/107461376f815e227c81d6da9b7fce16/tumblr_ni02qz5D4W1td0y0yo1_1280.jpg
asciilifeform: 'PINE A64 includes a quad-core ARM Cortex A53 1.2GHz processor, dual-core Mali 400 MP2 graphics..' << aaaaaand dingdingdingding we get to the requires-closed-driver-turd-just-to-run item 10 seconds in.
asciilifeform: the design of gpg rng subsystem assumes extreme entropy-starvation. this is plain as daylight from 10 minutes of reading the src.
asciilifeform: and how, where the state consists of solely how long the thing has been churning, naturally it stows a turd
mircea_popescu: and in random eulora stuff, http://dianacoman.com/Eulora/map1.script << check out the awks!
mircea_popescu: punkman seed for the internal prng iirc
punkman: ".gnupg/random_seed. A file used to preserve the state of the internal random pool." any clue what this thing is?
Naphex: i only cover chrome for the most part, firefox got really left behind..
Naphex: ben_vulpes:and think what you will, constraining the operating environment to just chrome is a pretty sensible cost-reducing move.
assbot: PINE A64 is a $15, 'high-performance' take on the Raspberry Pi ... ( http://bit.ly/1M2ZcPb )
Naphex: ben_vulpes: xotika has a full rest-full API while the angular js is static html that just connects to the backends
mircea_popescu: this is actually indicative of the very fucking problem : ethics means, how to live. such as for instance, how to drive a fucking airplane i nthe tax office if you live in the us. that's ethics. meanwhile the carefully-debilitated ustards actually think ethics means the exact opposite of what ethics means. to them ethics is "the ways to inconvenience your life".
mircea_popescu: but whatever, fight "patriarchy", not the incredibly unhealthy system that makes you be dumb in the few spots it handles you by so your smarts in the rest of the spectrum can be best sucked dry.
mircea_popescu: so well selected for the convenience&perpetuation of the stupidity she comes from, one can hardly believe it's not deliberately trained.
mircea_popescu: oh right, and i forgot, "c) there's a shortage of you suckers [and really, alot of money you can give right back to us is "chasing" this deal. totally.]"
mircea_popescu: these indians have time, the nature of which they also fail to understand, and well... it's the funciar good today.
mircea_popescu: which happens to be exactly what's happening, too. indians "had" land, the nature of which they failed to understand, but it was the funciar good for good reason back then.
mircea_popescu: yeah, totally. what you want when doing a start-up is to "raise" a lot of money so you can pay the people who you "rose" it from rent so their real-estate sidelines do really well (in exactly the opposite fashion of what's preached here), while "not optimizing for your size of the pie".
mircea_popescu: "here's the things we want you to think : a) that you need us ; b) that you shouldn't look out for yourself".
mircea_popescu: http://25iq.com/2015/03/28/a-dozen-things-ive-learned-from-startup-l-jackson-about-venture-capital-investing-and-startups/ << quarterly review of the whole "start-up" gargle as amusing this quarter as the last, and the many before that.
adlai: leaving your mark on the world, like a pissing mutt, rather than breathing life into a new one
mircea_popescu: there's something very appealing to idiocy about this process of "invention" through kidnapping a princess and dragging her through the mud of one's orcish abode.
mircea_popescu: all "rock" throuyghout the 60s-90s is simply us music set to [bad] localised lyrics. and contemporary "rap" is just about the same.
mircea_popescu: the crayfish, frog and pike story counts in romanian as "wholly original content by al donici", notwithstanding it's a plain as day translation of previous generation ru material.
mircea_popescu: all romanian literature, +- 2 or 3 people in the entire history, consists of translations and imports passed off as original.
mircea_popescu: and pretend like they have no clue about it, too. "i just got this idea".
mircea_popescu: https://angel.co/syndicates << in other news, every proprietary scamsystem/kickstarter out there will be sooner or later building a bug-ridden, half-baked, ad-hoc implementation of the common wot.
adlai: http://roland.iwasno.net/lisp/datoura/datoura.html "set of data graphing lisp routines that generate postscript output. Generating postscript eliminates the need for X graphics libraries, but you must have a postscript viewer installed"
mircea_popescu: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CLIMATE_COUNTDOWN?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-12-08-15-02-36 << in more random lulz, Cardinal Peter Turkson, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace who helped draft the pope's June encyclical on global warming, said "If it gets to a stalemate or whatever, [...]". valley girls prevail.
adlai: "College is a place where a professor's lecture notes go straight to a student's lecture notes without passing through the brains of either" - Samuel L Clemens
mircea_popescu: http://exple.tive.org/blarg/2011/12/22/astrophysics/ << "Doing the math we can conclude it will take 1.7 x 10^17 years for our sun to generate the same amount of energy as the dietary value of one cubic light year of cheese."
mircea_popescu: https://www.jwz.org/blog/2008/03/most-positive-bignum/ << in his defense this is actually pretty lulzy. ESPECIALLY the microcode loop part.
mircea_popescu: in other news, would any of the brighter minds present explain the jwz piece to me ? i have the feeling he thinks he's being clever, but i lack the resources to comprehend the intricate minutia of his idiocy.
mircea_popescu: i guess reuters, wired & all correctly judge that there's absolutely no brand value left in their shit and so why worry.
mircea_popescu: which is great, i guess, if you're at that level of stupid, but otherwise would seem kinda damaging.
mircea_popescu: anyway, so the point of the "is random derp X ?" (no) article was so that reuters could run a piece saying "Australian police raided the Sydney home and office on Wednesday of a man named by Wired magazine as the probable creator of bitcoin and holder of hundreds of millions of dollars worth of the cryptocurrency, Reuters witnesses said."
mircea_popescu: it's not like their own unsufferable personalities ever bite them. it's just these damned dogs everywhere all the time!
mircea_popescu: that sciencemag bit is hysterical tho. idiots who buy into the whole "ip is needed for to creativity with!" hook line and sinker are displeased when it turns out "ip only exists for people to arb the process, and make money out of the money intended to support creativity". but it never occurs to them what the problem is. because hey, why should scientists be any better at thinking than random five year old, "dog bit me
mircea_popescu sees the wisdom of asciilifeform now, to his chagrin.
mircea_popescu realised immediatelyt thereafter with some sadness that he can't actually be arsed to go into the anthill and impose sense upon it.
mircea_popescu just realised that what he should be doing with this time these days is interview isis derps.
adlai can't believe he watched the entire panel, but it has the perfect blend of pseudoscience, technobabble, and hopium
mircea_popescu: hey, that's exactly what the republic of china's government hopes in china are. har har. they'll tax the mainland off taiwan!"
mircea_popescu: yeah dude. totally fucking suspect, that you film on my premises without paying me and then don't get to benefit from the product. so suspect it almost makes me wonder why the fuck would i even bother owning shit.
mircea_popescu: "Who filed the claim? Gamma Phi Beta and Kappa Delta, two large national organizations of sisterly love, whose houses and members were featured in the video. This was highly suspect."
mircea_popescu: kinda how adolescents the world over do their dating. "hey, wanna go out with me ? no ? oh, i was only joking. ha-ha."
mircea_popescu: <assbot> Should we rename the blockchain Craigs List? : Bitcoin ... << pretty much the core of why redditards are so lulzy. THEY are going to RENAME things ? like what, their imaginary gf ? isis ?
mircea_popescu: l with us like the belief god may change your coke to pepsi : because it's easy, and because it caters to the specific lacks and infirmities of the "white" mind.
mircea_popescu: <adlai> just phrase it as pinpointing the nature and inception of the anthropocene era, their eyes will glaze over and they'll back out of your territory instead of pretending to understand the issues <<< this is an exceptionally retarded approach to keeping idiots in check. it has a lengthy history of being deployed by "white" people ever before white people were invented, and it always failed. nevertheless, it's stil
adlai: "as a recovering government bureaucrat, i'll refrain from commenting things i know nothing about" ed moy wins the panel
adlai: https://twitter.com/BitcoinBelle/status/674365484029059072 (panel moderator, seems to have been the bait that fished out the good doctor)
adlai wonders whether we'll first see a fork fail soft or hard
adlai: aha so at 20:37 cowboy hat cites jgarzik for an idea of softforking turing-complete opcodes... i'd like to see miners lemming their way along with that soft fork
adlai: moderator: "Oh so it can then be taxed as a currency and a commodity, and [Dr CSW] said, 'neither'" << clearly has not signed the pledge of allegiance yet
punkman: -morhpic, -genic , who cares, the first few letters look right
adlai: just phrase it as pinpointing the nature and inception of the anthropocene era, their eyes will glaze over and they'll back out of your territory instead of pretending to understand the issues
adlai tends to forget the years Before Coin
adlai: (from comments) "Please add a "+1" button to each topic post. It doesn't have to and probably shouldn't do anything except maybe flash once if you push it." << reminds of the crosswalk impatience vents
adlai: it's reassuring that we've not had another gox-scale gox since gox... yet
punkman: adlai, did you try any of the chinese exchanges yet?
punkman: raid supposedly not related to bitcoin, but obvious what would happen to the real satoshi
punkman: where's cazalla with the scoop
adlai: huh, so tradeblock.com (dynamic web2.0++ horrorshow, be warned) flags bitfinex as "operating unreliably", butt has no problem giving okcasino over 50% weighing in their price index
BingoBoingo: http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2015/12/04/shkrelis-chagas-maneuver << Also important to note Chagas is an emerging illness in the United States
assbot: We spoke to the 'Cuse artist whose cult video pissed off Greek life ... ( http://bit.ly/1NhEddb )
ben_vulpes: http://thetab.com/us/uconn/2015/12/07/exclusive-interview-artist-pissed-off-greek-life-1908 << victoria valentine actually went so far as to file a Fair Use doctrine appeal. doesn't appear that vimeo gives a shit, though.
liquidassets: These Usian Disney chicks keep using 'love' like it's this thing one gives to another to substitute for what one lacks, or a tool for filling a void or getting what one wants. Maybe the word they're actually looking for is cock! Do you cock me? Well sure I do baby.
gribble: The operation succeeded.
ben_vulpes: gamma phi beta and kappa delta are abusing the DMCA to take down videos that portray them in ways in which they do not like.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> iirc a certain ver. of 'wordpress' also shat 'magical' quotez << All of them seem to force it unless suitably corrected
mircea_popescu: anyway. i'm off to bed. looking forward to part 2 of the xotika discussion once Naphex shows up.
mircea_popescu: "oh i know, we've never done the stupid thing THIS WAY before!"
ben_vulpes: welcome, mircea_popescu, to the new new new new web
mircea_popescu: so i guess there's a new microsoft huh.
ben_vulpes: everyone already has chrome, there is no "download".
mircea_popescu: moreover, unless google;'s paying for this, why the fuck am i dirving their dumbass product on my dime.
ben_vulpes: you can make the consumers "come to expect" anything, unless mgmt insists pigheadedly on cross-browser support chasing "lift" or "conversion" or some such, chrome should be adequate.
ben_vulpes: and think what you will, constraining the operating environment to just chrome is a pretty sensible cost-reducing move.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes afaik their major weakness is an inability to run in anything but chrome atm
ben_vulpes: also "software" should be depreciated on a goddamn 2 year schedule it rots so quickly. especially these single-page angular things; they're exceptionally more expensive to maintain as time goes on.
mircea_popescu: i thought it was a one man show originally too, but apparently there's at least another guy (this CoraCrisT fellow) doing something in between ceo and pr.
mircea_popescu: i would expect it's a historical value of the software
ben_vulpes: some hand-wavey value of the software?
mircea_popescu: that i recall the discussion of. i asked if it has resale/license value, and he said yes.
mircea_popescu: the one problem i see in there is that if there's 73 deposited and 35 withdrawn, the difference is unearned income, and improperly reported as shareholder equity.
mircea_popescu: just as long as they're paid fairly (ie, by share ownership proportion) they can be any arbitrary value between 0 and entreprise value
ben_vulpes: like i said kakobrekla the 'board' can pay whatever in divs apparently
mircea_popescu: they're not really related tho. so the site paid 35 btc in withdrawals (by performers) and 9 btc in dividends
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla and where's the problem ?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes no, it's an accumulator value. everything not otherwise accounted is shareholder equity.
ben_vulpes: but that has nothing to do with the topic
mircea_popescu: whiterock try the log eh.
ben_vulpes: whiterock: find the topic with /topic
whiterock: hi guys i cant back read the topi. if its ok, may i know what is being discussed?
kakobrekla: yeah these numbers dont make any sense to me still.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i dun recall what they charged, a few % but sliding scale
ben_vulpes: board can authorize divs of whatever size they want to?
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla that's just the guy putting money in from his pocket.
kakobrekla: what are these private investments? do those investors get same shares as (will be) on mpex?
ben_vulpes: monthly is an adequate frequency for inspecting operators commitment to the project.
kakobrekla: i rather confused reading this statement but i may be thick
mircea_popescu: that's actually kinda the idea.
ben_vulpes: not that i'm even going to look at the blockchain on the latter, but they should at least show up on the balance sheet, even if they are going directly into naphex' pocket
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes they should, yeah
assbot: Logged on 06-10-2015 19:36:34; mircea_popescu: <Naphex> https://xotika.tv/static/report06102015.html << speaking of which, plox to give the guy's numbers a good shakedown, because im considering listing xotika this month.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu, Naphex: are the xotika reports living at predictable urls?
asciilifeform: holy fuck is there not 1 paragraph of text on the net without a uniturd or eleven in it.
mircea_popescu: I wrote a new book, and its out now. Butits not funny stories of getting drunk, hooking up and yelling curses at people (though its sort of related, a little). Its different than that. Its called Mate: Become the Man Women Want, and its the definitive guide that will help guys understand women and dating"
mircea_popescu: "New book is out: MATE: Become The Man Women Want
kakobrekla still on the map afaik
mircea_popescu: iirc maintainer dropped off the map.
jurov: what's the status of mpex submission by irc? fell into disrepair?
mircea_popescu: well... someone lies alright! on the internet.
jurov: they told me it's down
jurov: me nor they don't
mircea_popescu: https://myspace.com/tuckermax/mixes/classic-my-photos-377465/photo/105857810 << blondie there.
mircea_popescu: i suspect the stoolie is a tucker max fan.
asciilifeform has nfi what was meant by the stoolie