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usagi: You don't even know what
that means, mircea
mircea_popescu: you have one hour. do something
that's not available
to c/p online.
mircea_popescu: so let's cut
this fish
then. usagi, pick a couple of stochastic processes of your choosing and demonstrate ito calculus.
usagi: Oh wow dub
that really does look like me
too!
usagi: Actually it is interesting
that you mention quants, I wonder if any of
the bots around here have any good math inside
them
copumpkin: everyone on
the internet is a pornstar
usagi: Everyone here is a
trader mircea
that isn't something special
mircea_popescu: they went
through customer roosters and picked people
to hire
to
train as brokers.
usagi: Yeah well see
this is what I am
talking about.
mircea_popescu: for instance, when
they made
the first large romanian brokerage house, way back in
the 90s
usagi: You keep saying how much you know about finance and how little
the people who disagree with you do
usagi: [06:12:20] <mircea_popescu> da fuck is
that. like a riemann ?
mircea_popescu: i dunno who
trusts
their "financial privacy" anymore anyway
mircea_popescu: BTC-Mining i
think
they're right in
the middle of
the german ring
dub: error: could not open database: /var/run/db/juniper.db:
Too many open files in system
BTC-Mining: Why switzerland? Because of
the financial laws?
rg: and i have a bunchof shit
to do
rg: im about
to eat lunch
rg: i bet
they'll all work
rg: api.browsershots.org
to be exact
rg: look at
the URL being loaded
rg: dude look at
the URL
theyre loading
rg: im on
the other side of
the country
rg: someone else view
that
rg: and
that 1 is your ruby process
rg: it shouldn't be
too slow
rg: someone has been syncing a bitcoind after i
told
them not
to
dub: I forget who but a reasonably big news outfit did a sting buy of chinese collagen which
tested as human derived
nefario: communism with "chinese characterisitics" is what
they call it
mircea_popescu: impossible
to discern
truth from journofiction in
those
tho
dub: there are stories of prisoners having
their skin harvested for collagen while still alive
dub: (biotech manufacturing plants are attached
to prisons in china)
dub: if
they complain
the'll probably end up being injected into an americans lips
dub: like simply having everythign
they have ever owned
taken by someone else with no recourse
dub: it doesnt matter if you
trust
them or
they are
trustworthy, an event
that seems unconscionable
to you is normal
to
them
mircea_popescu: they had a layered cake of conventions, deals and dealings a mile
tall.
mircea_popescu: i mean, i read
the logs. zhou was "not getting a salary" ?
mircea_popescu: there certainly is more
to
the friend
took money gave back story
tho.
nefario: ja still need
to be careful even with family
dub: you can't control what happens
to
them because
the entire country is corrupt
mircea_popescu: hmmm... isn't
this what
the chinese
themselves do ? only deal in family ?
nefario: funny enough is often how
things work
there
nefario: wouldn't
trust anyone else
nefario: I would only do business with family
there
nefario: you never had
the chance
to learn for yourself
mircea_popescu: i only knew a handful of chinese people, and never been
there
nefario: so I generally dont
trust any of
them
dub: because
they are baldfaced lying morons
dub: thing is its a perfectly reasonable story
to a chinaman
mircea_popescu: nefario wasn't slush hit in
that one
too ?
the vps
thing ?
mircea_popescu: dub it's such a stupid story
tho... who
the fuck knows anymore.
nefario: I haven't believed zhou since
the first hack
dub: you damn conspiracy
theorist
dub: nefario: so you believe zhou's story?
that his 'friend'
took
the money
then gave it back?
usagi: Do you have logs of
the ip who created
the
trade?
mircea_popescu: well
the story is
that someone connected
to a server
through which
they connected
to
the server where
they held unencrypted pws of
the wallet.
nefario: I hate all
this conspiracy
talk
usagi: and all
those big bad banks?
they were right all along
usagi: Bitcoins are a way
to drag hackers and
techies kicking and screaming into
the real world;
the wot
trust model doesn't work
copumpkin: bitcoins are like
totally awesome dude
mircea_popescu: if we
turn
this into a paranoid xenophobia we will just wither and die.
mircea_popescu: nefario : for sure we have HUGE obstacles
to overcome before
this is all settled.
nefario: people are able
to easily re-invent
their identity online
nefario: as
there is always someone who is willing
to do business with
them
mircea_popescu: historically it worked, with
the banishment. course we dunno if it ever can be made
to work again.
nefario: and even banishment doesn't work in an environment like
this
nefario: I
think
there is limits
to a WOT and OTC where
there is no enforcement of contracts beyond banishment from
the community
mircea_popescu: take
the
taming of
the shrew as a fine example. servant and master switch roles. everyone knows
there is a master, but nobody knows WHO exactly it is. except his own father.
mircea_popescu: why do you
think ? because
the entire economy was run as a pseudonymous wot.
mircea_popescu: most of
the classical art (operas etc) are based on mistaken identity