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Sharkie posted:Interestingly, this is all that the AMPs that were purchased will be spent on. At least until Synereo is subpoenaed by ICE. the gently caress does immigration and customs enforcement have to do with this?
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evilweasel posted:the gently caress does immigration and customs enforcement have to do with this? Why would customs enforcement be interested in international drug trafficking under the guise of legitimate imports? 
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Do you think we could get radium's enemy on board with AMP support for SomethingAwful? I think we need to throw together a patch as soon as possible.
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evilweasel posted:the gently caress does immigration and customs enforcement have to do with this? Reddit recently got subpoenaed by ICE for user information because of "darknet" related stuff. Like ayn said, ICE is involved in prosecuting things ranging from drug importation, online drug markets, child pornography, etc.
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https://discuss.synereo.com/t/rule-change/53400quote:It wasn’t an easy decision, but we have resolved to make a change to the rules of the crowdsale. Bonus  quote:Social networks are the most important tool we have right now for getting an insight into the collective stream of consciousness and we need to be able to read it - as well as focus our collective attention - without the process being subject to the kind of manipulation that is inevitable when that consciousness is slaved to the financial goals of external shareholders. There absolutely cannot exist a social network that achieves this without the grassroots support of a community dedicated to making this a reality. How many autism kroners did they give Eripsa for shilling this I wonder ?
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jre posted:https://discuss.synereo.com/t/rule-change/53400 ^Too many. Eripsa should be paid to shut up.
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Presented without commentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pswRWPDzq6I
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Caros posted:Presented without commentary: Ignoring all other problems with it that GUI is ugly as poo poo.
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Who What Now posted:Ignoring all other problems with it that GUI is ugly as poo poo. I do wonder if they'll ever stop using other people's IP and/or names and likenesses to hock their snake oil. As a reminder this is what the US was 'supposed' to look like. 
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Caros posted:Presented without commentary: So Dylan gets paid amps when someone shares his post, and the person sharing it gets a percentage? But you can also spend amps to...make it show up first on someone's dashboard? So first, everyone's dashboard is spammed advertisements that they scroll past to get to "Aunt Jane had a baby friday" (because this is a social network afterall), unless they get in the habit of reflexively blocking everyone they don't know. And can you even tell what messages have been paid for with amps? Secondly, nothing in this supports Eripsa's thesis that this will change online behaviors. Wouldn't sexyassgifs and Mt.Dew will quickly accumulate an overwhelming majority of amps? And why should people bother with a decentralized network when they can do all of this with facebook/tumblr/etc. They're re-inventing the wheel while studiously ignoring how people use wheels.
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"The next generation of social networking... ONLINE!!"
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jre posted:[Another change we are making is that all coins allocated for this crowdsale and not sold will be destroyed rather than returned to their wallet pool. Doesn't this just scream 'decentralized'? A central group deciding by fiat to obliterate roughly 17% of a currency from existence. A central group who also is apprently keeping 10% of said currency for themselves.
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I bet he took the girl and turned her into coins. What a creepy loving robot.
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Sharkie posted:
As I understand it, the fundamental theory is that our social networks are broken because sexyassgifs is insufficiently powerful.
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Best Friends posted:As I understand it, the fundamental theory is that our social networks are broken because sexyassgifs is insufficiently powerful. Well actually, as it turns out- *five hundred word post comprised of a single run-on sentence in which the very beating heart of madness can be glimpsed*
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You guys missed the part where you can opt out of AMP'd advertising. Because it's decentralized you see.
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Mercury_Storm posted:
Man, that looks like some weird political sci-fi foto-op. The leader of The Free Collective of Netrunners shakes hands with Robo-Putin at the 3041 Neo-York data summit. Unironically loving it.
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eXXon posted:You guys missed the part where you can opt out of AMP'd advertising. Because it's decentralized you see. How many merits does that cost me?
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Doctor Spaceman posted:How many merits does that cost me? Beats me, I wasn't paying attention.
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So its been a week since I last checked on Synereo's crowdsale. Lets see how they are doing! Yeah... not so great. Looking at their sliding scaling and doing some back of napkin math this puts them at or around about $50,000 which is pretty embarrassing. At this point it is pretty fair to assume that initial $30,000 was an investment from the developers themselves, a fraudulent entry to try and spur demand, or something else because they've pulled in less than $20,000 over the entire remainder of the project. Its also some good old fashioned internet comedy to see that they've redesigned their crowdfunding page for a second time in the last nineteen days. Whether it was to remove the timer (likely) or to include the stupid AMP conversion thing I suppose we will never know.   But I don't just come to you with such grave news about their failing crowdfunding. No, I also bring news of just what it will mean when they quote:The Synereo crowdsale is capped at $1.2m. Here is what we’re planning on doing with the funds we raise over the next 6 to 12 months, depending on the final amount. Now it is important to note they aren't going to come close to even 115k. Barring John Galtian style investment (did he invest or just make things?) they are never going to come close to $115k. Extrapolating their progress pegs them at roughly $60,000 if they are lucky and donations continue at trend, which they will not. So it looks like it is going to take longer than six months for them to get anywhere at this rate. The real question is what they are going to do with
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Even the true believers on their forum are realising its dead in the waterquote:respectfully, i offer the following idea to this forum for input: quote:Hey Guys, quote:What do you think about the option of lowering the valuation - lets say to a third - giving everyone who's contributed so far triple the AMPs, and lowering the total cap? Effectively, this cuts the price we set to 33%, making the offer more lucrative, and provide everyone who's invested so far with a greater stake.
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jre posted:Even the true believers on their forum are realising its dead in the water The marketing guy made a long post about strategy - focusing on the fact that the available material didn't effectively cater to any particular group.
quote:Our main target audience for this crowdfunding campaign are people who already possess bitcoin We were hoping to sell some premined coins to a mixture of starry-eyed futurists and bubble-enthusiast gamblers. Unfortunately both of those groups have been burned recently. The completely unforeseeable failure of poorly-planned vaporware projects has left our get-rich-quick vaporware project in considerable peril!
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Well, that really explains why they thought Eripsa would make a good consultant.
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Who says "it was a bad time" when they fail? Fool it's the time you're living in. "We'll just have to twiddle our thumbs until we luck into your interest!" --Signed, the intrepid river pilots of the attention economy
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 Attention all doubters!So Synereo's crowdsale may have only pulled in about $60,000 over the first month, or 5% of its intended goal, roughly of which came from an initial investment from the developers themselves, but fear not! Apparently Synereo has reached an agreement to partner with an equally stupidly named company called Factom. At this point I honestly can't exactly tell you what Fucktom does other than somethingsomethingblockchaintechnicalrevolutionsomething but I will keep you posted with further information once I've read their whitepaper enough to give even a single gently caress. The really good news is that Fucktom actually succeeded in their initial grifting of idiot bitcoiners, so it is possible that they will invest some of that money in Synereo to keep the laughchain going for the foreseeable future. Good times.
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I've begun to wonder if the entire bitcoin phenomenon is a behavioral economics experiment- the prisoner's dilemma writ large. A network of thousands of neckbeards and sociopaths in a staring contest, spanning the entire globe.
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Caros posted:
I read Factom as Fatcom.
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Hey Reality Apologist come back! I demand you apologize for the reality of the horrible failure of the attempted application for your theories and the hundreds of pages in this and previous threads people wasted in failed attempts to help you realize that you're a completely out of touch moron who doesn't have anything to offer the world other than sub-worthless conjecture and condescension.
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Caros posted:
according to reliable sources, fatcom will: 1. take a file that you send them and create a hash of it 2. take that hash and add it to the hashes of all other files received in a given period 3. hash all of those hashes and store it in the blockchain that way, later, you can send the same file to fatcom and they can prove it existed at a certain time. or something. bitcoins!
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 Oh my god it's literally Factom...combined with the power of Synereo
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man i can't wait until it's 1998 and we can get our hands on all this future tech
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Eripsa: the movie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tMXKQdc5ZM
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I have a friend whos thinking about bitcoins. I told him that i vaguely heard it doesnt solve anything different from standard currency. That its unstable, prone to scams, stealing, hacking. And that it could disappear at any time. But overall Im mostly talking out my rear end any or all of that could be wrong and the real problem is something completely different. what should i tell my friend? also i tried to post a topic in the diet section of the forum but couldnt find a button for starting a topic do I need to be a member longer or something?
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There's also the fact that it's actually what bitcoiners erroneously accuse fiat currency of being: backed in value by nothing but the hopes and dreams of the people using it.
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logosanatic posted:I have a friend whos thinking about bitcoins. I told him that i vaguely heard it doesnt solve anything different from standard currency. That its unstable, prone to scams, stealing, hacking. And that it could disappear at any time. But overall Im mostly talking out my rear end any or all of that could be wrong and the real problem is something completely different. what should i tell my friend? Tell he him should buy buttcoins the same way he buys lottery tickets. The value fluctuates wildly depending on the time of day, the phase of the moon, and which large bitcoin op just got busted for laundering money/selling drugs/hiring internet hitmen. It may be hard to cash out a large amount when you really need to because chances are the Magic: The Gathering: Online Exchange (that is what Mt Gox originally stood for  ) or whatever the current bitcoin exchange of choice is is involved with the nerd drama that made you want to cash out right now, before the value drops like a stone. Oh and did I mention that bitcoin exchanges tend to Or maybe your friend is a lolbertarian captain of industry motivated by ideology who wishes to ~*~disrupt traditional banking~*~ or something in which case he should definitely buy a room full of mining rigs so we can laugh at him setting his house on fire with shoddy electronics and having no money because he spent it all on said shoddy electronics. e: just googled the current status of ~Mount Gocks~, they completely shut down after losing 
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logosanatic posted:I have a friend whos thinking about bitcoins. I told him that i vaguely heard it doesnt solve anything different from standard currency. That its unstable, prone to scams, stealing, hacking. And that it could disappear at any time. But overall Im mostly talking out my rear end any or all of that could be wrong and the real problem is something completely different. what should i tell my friend? No, that's a decent overview of the screaming madness that it bitcoin and by extension every other crypto-currency I've encountered. You might give the buttcoinfoundation a look if you want more specifics about why no one with even an ounce of sense should want anything to do with bitcoin.
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Captain_Maclaine posted:no one with even an ounce of sense should want anything to do with bitcoin. This is good advice. However, it is always fun to watch fools be parted from their money 
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Eripsa posted:Imagine that every human being alive straps a little box of marbles on their foreheads. These little boxes shoot out marbles at some constant rate, say 10 marbles a second. It shoots these marbles out at the objects you happen to be looking at. These marbles are a crude approximation of the marbles you pay. Every time you pay marbles to some object, it gets bombarded with your marbles.
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