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jurov: can'
t find any supporting maths, looks like fully empirical
mircea_popescu: i mean to be clear, im not proposing linear timeweight is the absolutely correct solution. it's obviously wrong, life isn'
t linear.
jurov: can'
t black-scholes be applied?
mircea_popescu: so then what dio you do, have all these bets you can'
t bet on ?
ThickAsThieves: last i checked, taking candy from babies wasn'
t good for the rep
mircea_popescu: the20year2 and then you list the crap and get called a scam and don'
t understand why.
the20year2: If you were the issuer , why not? Investors typically don'
t read the
T &C , and if they do, few understand it
Duffer1: i can'
t imagine that will ever rio
mircea_popescu: jurov well you don'
t HAVE to settle, you can just sell it back later
FabianB_: didn'
t know any of them had anything directly to do with bitcoin
mike_c: tell him your code is C++, and therefore can'
t be a scam.
pankkake: well then it shouldn'
t crash at all
mike_c: coinbase is 1% too, although they aren'
t really an exchange.
jurov: TAT you made out on idiffs like a pig, don'
t cry now :D
lyspooner: he would sell 1mn contracts, and in the case that bitcoins were worth less than 1 eur and he didn'
t hedge himself, he would owe 1mn EUR. he would run off and people would get near worthless bitcoins
lyspooner: you couldn'
t allow a second market-maker
mircea_popescu: no there isn'
t. you've been looking at eurodollars too long.
lyspooner: so if i buy 1000 contracts at .0015 and the future expires at 10,000,000 eur on the final settlement day, and the short can'
t give me 10 billion euros, what do i get?
mircea_popescu: this obviously being a mm feature, don'
t expect it to happen for 7.8 eur or some bs
BingoBoingo: I don'
t know that Castling through check is legal...
benkay: asciilifeform: doesn'
t shitty code that gets hardware deployed against its performance problems carry more responsibility for that?
benkay: asciilifeform: doesn'
t immutability also help averagely-talented software teams operate in highly threaded environments?
benkay: granted i don'
t know anything about anything, and there's the whole keyboard and display thing to deal with
benkay: BingoBoingo: i don'
t know that i buy asciilifeform's ball-o-mud argument on urbit yet. given enough traction wouldn'
t it make sense to rewrite the important bits for fpgas or what have we?
the20year1: It'd be pretty cool to spawn off an altcoin backed by real estate through our bitcoin realestate business, but i don'
t know of any viable way to do it
diametric: mircea_popescu: yeah i don'
t know if you realized, but you left directory indexes on
nubbins`: i think the first thing i sold was a btc logo
t-shirt
mircea_popescu: you know exopy is much cuter than epoxy. i wonder why they didn'
t call it exopy.
mircea_popescu: or is it one of those, "we can'
t stand censorship that's not directed at the enemy"
mircea_popescu: "I haven'
t traded with this guy, but I've heard from people I trust that he has used legal intimidation to force censorship of people's ratings of him. "
mircea_popescu: the counter to this is that if you don'
t do this, anyone can end up -infinity by the effect of endless socks
mircea_popescu: so the argument that wot is broken says that you can'
t rate unless you're above 0 and idiots can get you below 0 ?
dub: rules say if your trust web with nanotube is <0 you can'
t use the system
dub: '
t get over one person (gmaxwell) being a fuckwit
pankkake: I believe they don'
t have the best interests of shareholders anymore
Duffer1: even if they aren'
t a scam just look at the track record of their offerings
pankkake: the "can'
t afford to lose" is certainly tired, and highly incomplete. you have to judge what is the risk and the potential reward
sundun_: don'
t invest anything you're unable to lose
sundun_: i didn'
t think it would be a big deal to invest in neo&bee
sundun_: you're saying that i shouldn'
t invest cuz i'm not completely knowledgable
pankkake: if you don'
t really know or understand what the thing is about, if ANYTHING is unclear, don'
t invest
mircea_popescu: <Duffer1> btc is almost certainly a better investment then X << ESPECIALLY if you don'
t really read/know what X does.
sundun_: and that's why you don'
t advise it?
mircea_popescu: Duffer1 has a point, and so does jurov. don'
t rush it.
jurov: so you aren'
t thinking about that anymore
mircea_popescu: jurov i don'
t imagine they'd look too kindly on you fronting for ppl on your own acct anyway
mircea_popescu: well inasmuch as they don'
t really work for that which they are for, arguably it doesn'
t matter.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform incidentally, do you know the story of the kid who wouldn'
t pass physics exam ?
mircea_popescu: if the box ain'
t functioning, there's no guarantee you end up with a web. even a not working one.
kakobrekla: > •8% of students didn'
t give a damn and left the answers blank.
pankkake: "most people can'
t learn to program" is really true. but it goes against the egalitarian ideology "you can do anything"
mircea_popescu: i wasn'
t kidding when i said they're turning into niggers.
sbp: 2013, the media still hasn'
t caught up with programming, let alone bitcoin
pankkake: so noobs are ignorants that didn'
t lurk moar
mircea_popescu: there's nothing new in this world except for the history you don'
t know.
pankkake: of course, because they haven'
t been actively misinformed yet :)
pigeons: yeah mermaids aren'
t weird
mircea_popescu: well see, the idea is that people to whom it looks weird don'
t get to buy.
mircea_popescu: upon rereading, KRS|Gotyawallet you realise "lmao fucktard" didn'
t mean you but the quoted kid.
Duffer1: and they don'
t even know you're actually trying to help them by paying her to do it
mircea_popescu: after all, he ain'
t socially marginal for nothing, he's socially marginal because he has mental habits that don'
t promote success.
Duffer1: most of their offers haven'
t even started paying divs
b0n1: that means i have a measurement point at
t and the next is at
t+x and the other next is at
t+y with x=!y
Duffer1: assbot doesn'
t give very good text though :(
BingoBoingo: "Disorderly" is merely legal speak for "We don'
t much like you"
bloctoc: copumpkin don'
t these people know that bbet has a bunch of bets expiring year end?
mircea_popescu: this is why we don'
t care about such. noobs don'
t get to start businesses.
mircea_popescu: if they don'
t want to use them... why's that a problem.
mircea_popescu: KRS|Gotyawallet you can'
t "scam the scammer" because the scammer has enough fucking sense to respect the first rule of investing, which is, don'
t randomly sent btc.
mircea_popescu: noob makes random thread on btctalk five weeks ago. he's nobody and his thing doesn'
t exist.
pankkake: because those certainly don'
t want to understand they will lose