Quote from: Pmalek on May 05, 2021, 03:51:58 PM

Below are My 30 Questions for theymos.

None of your questions are bad Pmalek - and sure, maybe there are some further questions that could be asked, too.

Could you imagine if theymos actually answered around 70% or more of the 30 questions with somewhat satisfying responses? Likely it would not be good for OPsec... and even though historically some folks have been probing about theymos, you gotta hand it to him that he has maintained pretty decent Opsec..

Also Pmalek, I have noticed from some of your further elaboration/responsive posts, that you seem to be attempting to get some substantive answers from theymos while at the same time attempting to avoid OPsec breaches, and surely it could be difficult to achieve both - even though the linked-reddit AMA thread from Rikafip did show that theymos has had his moments of opening up in ways that likely go beyond expectations (or even good judgement regarding some of the seemingly better OPsec practices).

Surely it is possible that some of us have passed theymos in the mall without have any kind of meaningful clue that such rl person had happened to have been theymos.. congrats theymos regarding such an accomplishment, to date..

I am having some difficulties imagining that theymos would ONLY maintain a couple of accounts on this here forum, so there seems to be decent likelihood that theymos has been various other member(s) too.. besides the two accounts that have his name contained therein.

Regarding this thread and the permissiveness of the forum allowing such thread to continue, for sure there are way more power to put together various stories that are way more powerful than any single member or set of members could accomplish on their own... For a variety of reasons, theymos seems to be much braver than me for allowing this thread to continue to exist.... a playing of 3d chess? not sure, and not sure if it really matters very much in the whole scheme of things?

Quote from: Pmalek on May 05, 2021, 06:59:06 PM

I should have added this question as well:
- Have you ever claimed a bitcoin fork?

I see no reason not to add questions (or reformulate questions) at your own discretion.

Have you locked into your originally formulation of 30 questions for some reason? No reason NOT to update.. .or add more or make the existing ones better (if such a thing is possible)... maybe convert to 50 questions.. or 44 questions, if there might be some value in that? or even going the other way? 18 questions?

Quote from: icopress on May 05, 2021, 08:24:47 PM

My two cents ... As far as I know, Theymos personal data is not a secret, so it seems to me that the first question disappears.

Surely there is a difference between various evidentiary assertions regarding theymos or anyone else and actually admitting specifically to such evidentiary assertions to change the confirmation level of such information.

Furthermore, I have seen posts from theymos in which he has wittingly or unwittingly admitted to certain personal pieces of information (even beyond the reddit AMA thread)... nothing wrong with that I suppose... and for sure, theymos could choose to respond to these 30 questions in his own way - yet again, there seems to be very little reason for theymos to actually encourage such forms of interrogations by actually responding (but surely I had been surprised in some other threads to see him respond to some matters that I had thought that he would not respond)... so yeah doesn't really seem to hurt to ask some of these kinds of questions... whether theymos perceive them as relatively polite and reasonable or if theymos might have other reasons to have reservations to clarify some of these matters...

For example, some of the questions are forum substantive regarding the progression of the merit/trust systems, and surely there are times in which some members in these here parts seem to be quite justified in receiving some explanations regarding some progress (or lack thereof) in the system, so surely sometimes we have been left hanging regarding the extent to which some of these systems may be achieving forum goals or to have some contrary to forum goals within how they might be used, from time to time.

Sometimes, we might perceive that some aspects of these systems will continue, then BBBBBaaaaaammmm, substantive and material changes are put into effect that had not really been announced in any kind of meaningful public way.... by the way, in this regard, can you even imagine theymos telegraphing that there seems to be a problem regarding x, y and z practices, but if he mentions those problems publicly (even though many folks might already anticipate those to be problems), then the announcement does not really help to resolve any aspects of the problematic areas, so there is some value in just NOT saying anything.. or maybe even saying the opposite or having some misconceptions to persist, perhaps? perhaps?

Quote from: icopress on August 25, 2021, 01:36:05 PM

Although speaking in the abstract, he is 1.66 times younger than Vod and he is twins in the horoscope.

I never claimed to be any kind of math wizard, but for me, this is a weird way of expressing a smaller number as compared with a bigger number.. so in that sense, I am confused regarding how to calculate such 1.66x number.

It seems to me that the more straight-forward way to express a relatively smaller number would be to express it as a fraction rather than as a multiple. What am I missing? How is this 1.66x number calculated.

Let's say that theymos's age were to be somewhere in the ballpark of 30 years old, then 1.66x of 30 would be 49.8 years old (for Vod)..,. However, why wouldn't you just proclaim that theymos is around 60% the age of Vod? Were you trying to say 60%, icopress?

I am asking more of a mathematical expression question rather than really wanting to know the actual underlying numbers. Did you mean to say 60% rather than 1.66x because wouldn't the actual calculation of 1.66x lead to a negative number, and we would not want a negative number as our results, would we? Unless we believe that theymos has somehow discovered the fountain of youth, and is not sharing that information with us, not even via pm.. that would not be the right thing to do, right?