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asciilifeform: more still, if you count the 'tax breaks' other usians get (e.g. mortgage) that i don't.

asciilifeform: jurov: i presently pay ~50% tax.

asciilifeform: jurov: nah, if i wanted to play, i oughta have played when i was 5

trinque: I'd say it has everything to do with the architecture of human societies.

asciilifeform: i have nfi how many mircea_popescus fit on one earth, but i doubt that even 100 do. ☟︎

trinque: (in all fairness to the rabbits, I'm aware of at least one instance of a rabbit eating the ears off his weaker brother)

asciilifeform: (i.e. 10,001 of 'you' will be caught and jailed, 1 - wins.)

punkman: asciilifeform: but briefly back to thread, imho it is important to understand that asking 'how to be mircea_popescu' is a fundamentally broken question, not unlike 'how do i win the lotto' << hey we just had the answer to lotto. you cheat.

asciilifeform: i recall he had a spiffy article, where he cooked up an alternative to the maslow 'pyramid' thing, with 'mystical domination - being right when there was no good reason you could be right' as #5

asciilifeform: but briefly back to thread, imho it is important to understand that asking 'how to be mircea_popescu' is a fundamentally broken question, not unlike 'how do i win the lotto'

phf: Anyway I can't communicate that point because I only infrequently manage it, and the results are always predictably +ev, but perhaps it's the idea that minimax requires painful break, but then possibility space opens up and a talented person like yourself will have a relatively easy (though not effortless) time exploiting it

asciilifeform: ah no i only read mircea_popescu's review of it.

phf: Maybe I got the name wrong, about young Arab in prison

danielpbarron: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-04-08#1448877 >> i routinely sit 3-4 h/day in car. << I knew a guy who went by train from Madison, Ct to NYC every weekday, and another guy who went from rhode island!! to NYC, also train. And to tie into current thread, there was a 3rd guy on the train who was mormon. ☝︎

phf: What I'm saying it wasn't always "eat a naggant or be awesome" ☟︎

phf: Actually I remember threads from perhaps 2014 where mp was trying to communicate mp-ness, my impression is that he gave up from lack of grokking

asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: i have nfi! never went!

asciilifeform: i used to work right next to it

pete_dushenski: danielpbarron: i hear you, i do. but it's sorta over and done with at this point.

danielpbarron: pete_dushenski, I'm just sayin' my bid was valid, and the first! I can sign something to this effect if anyone seriously doubts

asciilifeform: anyway i regard the algo as being ~entirely uninteresting.

ben_vulpes: slightly less time consuming than attempting to jump through the vault door, i suppose

pete_dushenski: haha i like it.

pete_dushenski: ;;later tell danielpbarron http://www.contravex.com/2016/04/07/that-time-i-let-outright-ownership-of-bitbet-slip-through-my-fingers/#comment-43166

pete_dushenski: not that i recall

asciilifeform: and also will probably not forget to remind that i am ~useless and will be pig food eventually

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu will probably, when he wakes up, remind me that i oughta learn a new profession, e.g, organ grinder

asciilifeform: a) there is ~0 demand for the things i know how to do among honest-work folks

asciilifeform: i have learned that:

pete_dushenski: and here i was thinking that we were #1 google hit besttimeeverytime

asciilifeform: in fact i got a call from no less than motherfucking ft meade the other day.

asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: i actually don't have much to choose from. 95+% of work in my field requires usg 'top secret'.

asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: i routinely sit 3-4 h/day in car. ☟︎

pete_dushenski: i, for one, couldn't imagine spending >1hr just to ~travel~ to work and back. each way. my mind boggles that millions in 'first world' spend 3hrs+ (this is sop in, say, toronto)

asciilifeform: dun understand why i should have to, to write motherfucking software ☟︎

asciilifeform: i'm simply tired of having to leave the house.

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-04-08#1448821 << on top of my usual doings i now also spend time looking for wurk... ☝︎

phf: old urls are still hijacked though, i think i'm going to disable that, and let just arrows do their thing

phf: jurov: that's obviously a bug and should be fixed :) i just want to have our priors straight

jurov: I expressly request that when i *today* drop #b-a URL , it should NOT be aliased to btcbase. ☟︎

phf: jurov: you're talking about this line "PeterL: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-04-08#1448483 << I said the same thing in the other chan a few hours earlier http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=07-04-2016#1443837" yeah? ☝︎☝︎

jurov: Whoever was waiting for coinbr withdrawals, mircea_popescu flushed some this morning, and I did the others now

phf: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-04-08#1448528 << jurov thanks i'll look into it. i mean, the http parser consists of search "http" and then search for a set of separators, it's as ghetto as it gets, but i had better results with that approach overall than using a regex ☝︎

pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: another reason why i wouldn't build my own bbet : the same reason i also wouldn't build my own cpu fab. i'm less 'inventor' than 'pro-scavenger'. i'm not 'early adopter', but rather 'fast follower'. to work to my strengths, i wouldn't start my own bbet anymore than you'd start your own strip club.

shinohai: BingoBoingo: link me to sauce? Will give it a whirl when I get back home.

pete_dushenski: ben_vulpes: i momentarily considered stan as an operational partner, but then quickly recalled the ongoing s.nsa saga and how it's basically made "two weeks" (tm) (r) his middle name. not that i fault the 'poor' bastard. he only has so many dr. octopus tentacles with which to do maffs and whatnot. ☟︎

BingoBoingo: Well whoever want lottery RBG story can take it. I'm not finding a sufficient outrage to attack it.

pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo: i think you're better off asking ivanka trump to write for qntra than shinohai. he just doesn't wanna, it seems.

pete_dushenski: e idea of changing min 0conf but never quite resolved that quandary myself... alas. it was going to be a steep learning curve to be sure, but i was up for the challenge.

pete_dushenski: ben_vulpes: anyways, at a management level i had in mind to increase the vig/fee and hold on to house bet winnings in an effort to increase revenue to compensate for mistaken txen, resolutions, etc., obviously appreciating that this may, at least initially, discourage some users. was also going to tag in some meatwot to assist with moderation and actively scour meatwot for potential bookies. toyed with th

BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I told you Trump was just a clinton stooge

pete_dushenski: ben_vulpes: ha! if i knew you'd be open to the idea, i mighta bet more ;)

BingoBoingo: I kinda though he was going to use BBet to teach pantagruel and himself how to code

pete_dushenski: ;;later tell danielpbarron http://www.contravex.com/2016/04/07/that-time-i-let-outright-ownership-of-bitbet-slip-through-my-fingers/#comment-43114

BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I'm not sure

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: incidentally, ianal, and i wonder what counts as proof of malfeasance in a lotto operator.

BingoBoingo: Anyways this is perhaps the most apt summary of journalism ever: "I kind of like the idea that he’s taught himself not to look because if he looks it’s just neverending, right? You have to know when, as Superman, when to intervene and when not to. Or not when not to, you can’t be everywhere at once, literally you can’t be everywhere at once, so he has to be really selective in a weird way about where he chooses to interfere."

asciilifeform: i'm not convinced that 'furries' actually exist. ☟︎

BingoBoingo: jurov: Also the only Furry I know anywhere near bitcoin is that fellow who does the mycellium fungus wallet marketing

asciilifeform: Apr 08 13:07:40 <BingoBoingo>But what if natural gas life is ignited by construction derps along your commute route? << as i pointed out, this dun happen 'round here.

asciilifeform: right now it is doing life & times of Peter I

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: personally i listen to 'радио звезда'

BingoBoingo: I'll get there when the coffee brews up.

ben_vulpes: mod6: i'll get you a dump later today

ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: i would *love* a copy of that

asciilifeform: i have profoundly nfi!

asciilifeform: i looked inside, wondering if anyone threw in used one, but - apparently not.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform should the performance not be avoided, for it not being avoidable or for any other reason, such as that i feel like blood that morning, the bill will be paid, both here and in heaven, by the fiat governments and no one else.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there's one dispute to be had. i doubt very much hitler was anything but a center of mass. yes roosevelt intuited that since he wants the bureaucracy, the right move is to blame hitler, and yes churchill went along with it. but in point of fact...

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-04-08#1448603 << i'm beginning to suspect that ~every~ subj has its shabbatai zev. ☝︎

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-04-08#1448652 << which is precisely why i call the thing 'nazi' and its hypothetical center of mass - hitler. ☝︎

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-04-08#1448586 << i have a scan of the canonical (j. barnes) 2012, if either of you want. ☝︎

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it was 'mortido' that led me to bid. i wanted to see if i could pull it off without getting killed immediately.

phf: mircea_popescu: if i end up finding it at all useful, i will. i used spacing to indicate when were the active parts of day, so i'm trying this graph to provide an equivalent functionality. it's a number of messages/hour of day histogram

mircea_popescu: i imagine you did some speccing work since you bid huh.

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-04-08#1448569 << this is sorta why i was astonished at the high sale price; buyer will have to build ~his own~ mircea_popescutron ☝︎

mircea_popescu: let the permanent record indelibly state that you people are driving me to drink. it is not even noon here, and what started as "shit i need breakfast to keep up with this guy. and some chocolate. more chocolate" is by now my 2nd glass of cognac.

mircea_popescu: ah, but i don';t mean it re germany specifically. could have said france or italy just as well. what i mean is, that a "rule of law" bureaucratic government with an economic presence is strictly speaking the nazi party irrespective of any consideration, chief on the list what they say or think they want. ☟︎

mircea_popescu: once that changes - they'll take it all. and i don't mean houses and cars, i mean blood and livers. they also have a market value.

mircea_popescu: i am for my needs persuaded that strictly the only reason germany does not today confiscate every fixed good in current possession of its peon population is that the net result is deemed less than continuing with the current nonsense. ☟︎

mircea_popescu: also re http://btcbase.org/log/2016-04-08#1448620 : i suspect that's actually the role corporate paper (generally stocks, or else bonds - corporate bonds being the EXACT equivalent of national currencies, by the way, supported in the same way) plays here. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: wywialm i sympathize with the "not every asset is a scam angle". but consider say apple. could it buy russia ?

wywialm: i still hold that is not possible that every asset is a scam

wywialm: yes, i'm looking from the investor's perspective (or at least try to)

mircea_popescu: i and i alone benefit from the priviledge of calling it "other risks". not them.

mircea_popescu: so in this sense the "split risks so i only undertake what i want to" works well in theory and on paper, but it is in practice always devolved to a luzly idiocy like "the gauss copula", direct equivalent to yesterday's discussion re the problem of computers

wywialm: but i suspect we may come close to a sort of tautology quite soon

mircea_popescu: this is the defense against the risks problem above usually deemed as rational. the problem here is that this in practice always devolves to a sort of "when confronted with the number e, i wish to be insulated from the part past the decimal point and underwrite the part before the decimal point".

mircea_popescu: or i guess more properly : "you'll be economically insulated when you're dead."

mod6: (04:07) <+ben_vulpes> mod6: i have a trashy pdf copy of dodrill's 95 ada instructional material. lmk if you want a copy. << sure! hit me with a link or we can talk in pm if you wanna exchange in other method. ☟︎

wywialm: i certainly agree with that observation

wywialm: yes i am familiar with the censor

mircea_popescu: jurov i have nfi why the peanut gallery got stuck on "0 fee tx", and i have nfi why you particularly wanna paint yourself in those colors, but w/e.

mircea_popescu: the immediate correlate of "oh, i can distribute my risk to unknown parties" is, "i'll right now!! put less thought into the matter proportionately". however, whether the risk distribution works or does not work is not actually known, or even computed, now. this impedance causes trouble.

mircea_popescu: but, currently, i am not even convinced the possibility of hedging is actually a wealth increaser.

mircea_popescu: apparently even the slightest insulation from risk is bound to be misinterpreted in the most extensively insane sense. i have nfi how the fed chairman sleeps at night.

mircea_popescu: if anything, the bitbet experience has taught me that i had been erring in the supportive direction, at any rate. ☟︎

wywialm: i hope you are right in this case.

mircea_popescu: i think the intention is for mpex to be neutral.

wywialm: i didn't even know this one