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thestringpuller: either that or where it's getting it's average isn'
t available to us
BingoBoingo: mike_c: Maybe the bot knows something you don'
t?
benkay: sounds like something i'd do if i weren'
t busy acquring every btc in price
BingoBoingo: benkay: Just writing a blogging web ap for myself that I can confirm isn'
t running on x86
nubbins`: running mascara or it doesn'
t count
jamespeerless: seems like bit bet's method of calculating winnings is kind of flawed? it lends itself to horrible odds.. why would someone risk 1BTC to receive like .001 btc.. shouldn'
t they try to match bets of the same fixed odds and just return leftover amounts?
nubbins`: i guess that guy's hot sauce won'
t cut it, then
benkay: senior editor can'
t distinguish market maker from market operator.
mircea_popescu: well... the bot isn'
t particularly intended to be reliable.
pankkake: well he meant that MPEx was unreliable basically. having the quotes back doesn'
t change that
benkay: well, it's no surprise really - people don'
t understand even market capitalization.
Apocalyptic: but he didn'
t mention that and seem to have no clue so yeah
mircea_popescu: why is it the exchange's problem if the bot puts or doesn'
t put orders in
pankkake: at least he didn'
t mention that when he joined the discussion was about underage actresses
pankkake: I certainly don'
t mind the media talking about bitcoin, even if bad
pankkake: I don'
t even know what options are!
ThickAsThieves: "On top of all that, this isn'
t like trading on the New York Stock Exchange. Midday Wednesday, MPEx appeared to shut down, and the prices of the contracts disappeared. I was told this happens a lot. As of early Thursday, the exchange still wasn'
t listing prices. "
ThickAsThieves: "You can'
t currently do that with bitcoins. All of the bitcoin options and futures contracts are settled in bitcoins. This is a very bad deal."
Vexual: chinese pesants can'
t put bitcoins in the bank. am i reading correctly?
mike_c: i don'
t see how that prevents the semiconductor plants from being boss. they can still crank out the most work, regardless of what that work is.
mike_c: asciilifeform: i don'
t see how arbitrary work function helps. have you written something up on this? i'm missing the part where it keeps asics out of the game.
pankkake: haha and they don'
t accept litecoin as payment
mircea_popescu: davout yeah. if you buy the right to receive livestock in the future, as long as you can'
t actually take the livestock
davout: i'm not touching options, and i certainly won'
t write them
davout: benkay: i've been working on my financial education a lot recently still lots to learn, but isn'
t it much more dangerous to write options than it is to buy them ?
davout: i didn'
t come up with it, i think it comes from the simpsons
nubbins`: "yeah, auhhmmm, i want flowers like pandora vanderpump had at her wedding... but i don'
t want them to, like, cost a lot"
nubbins`: i can'
t remember either. rad tho.
deadweasel: "i want all niggers.txt screened out of my
t=shirt, please."
deadweasel: i can'
t make it up if I havne'
t followed the story.
nubbins`: but inkscape doesn'
t support CMYK print output (srsly)
nubbins`: would be nice if we didn'
t need it
nubbins`: it doesn'
t exist as a piece of art until it's printed
nubbins`: no, and in fact, i don'
t consider giclees "prints" in the traditional sense of the word
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves well if it's f2p it ain'
t that major namean ?
mircea_popescu: "but i vbought the game fair and square!!11 why can'
t i play it on my toaster!11"
mircea_popescu: you suppose anyone accused them of scamming because they don'
t also provide you with internet ?
TomServo: Appears to be unrelated. I haven'
t played it.
jurov`: Mhm...i can'
t follow,what has changed at havelock?
mircea_popescu: i;m too lazy to go into the endless debate as to why stupidity doesn'
t work. i'll just state the general point and shrug.
mircea_popescu: well, it's simple : if you don'
t trust the company don'
t let it list.
mircea_popescu: it's like... total complete bonehead. employees don'
t need to be paid.
mircea_popescu: "I have searched Google and I haven'
t found an answer to what it is am looking for. So here is the deal am looking for a MMORPG (not FPS) that I and a friend can play without the need of putting any money on it. It should be completely free (no one time buy, no need to put money to buy higher gear, no need to upgrade the account to open some other stuff and bag limits.) Also prefer if the game isn'
t from perfect world
mircea_popescu: isn'
t this the dork that was falling all over himself with mpoe-pr earlier ?
ThickAsThieves: I'd reason with the guy if I didn;
t think it'd result it point by point epic messages where he never gives in
nubbins`: then they realized the population wasn'
t finished with being upset
mircea_popescu: it's cute in the sense of 30yo unshaved woman that can'
t poledance pestering her cuckolded "bf" on xmas eve.
pankkake: gangsta rap should promote bitcoin. too bad casacsius didn'
t make bitcoin pendants
nubbins`: srsly, just cut the top off a faberger egg so my cat wouldn'
t have to drink out of a dish like some kind of fucking prole
ThickAsThieves: jamespeerless, the article basically says "We intend to buy bitcoins, please don'
t rally til we have."
nubbins`: you can'
t let people with teeth into the building
nubbins`: ah, i don'
t think he's gonna go to jail
mircea_popescu: pankkake i just don'
t acknowledge the relevance of the world past that point.
pankkake: I don'
t think he acknowledges his mortality
mircea_popescu: "I haven'
t been able to identfy the intrinsic value of Bitcoin - maybe someone else can...
pankkake: yeah, he said bitcoin isn'
t backed by anything!
nubbins`: noise cancellation ain'
t great for unexpected signals
pankkake: well it also must depend on people. I know I am very subject to weird stuff in my eyes. can'
t do that 3D shit or even images moving randomly
mircea_popescu: well... this doesn'
t sound that good on paper, either.
kleeck_: "Did you hear? xxKILLERSLUTxx didn'
t get an invite to the King's Ball!" *GASP!*
ThickAsThieves: it's now thought that the two men didn'
t know what was inside the truck, which was en route to a local storage facility, and only unsealed the material out of curiosity.
mircea_popescu: people don'
t read page 2 so let's fuck up the flow of page 1 by smashing in there a bad summary of page 2
Duffer1: i guess i shouldn'
t knock it until the amount of shares to be made available in this way is known, i'd be shocked if it was more than 2% of the company
Duffer1: i can'
t help but feel it's a pr stunt to drum up value to major investors
ThickAsThieves: We will also give you the same 24-hour head start our employees will receive, in order to ensure you have the earliest opportunity to reserve shares at the offering price. While many companies depend on their customers' support every day, those customers don'
t always get the chance to own a piece of the action at the same price as Wall Street investors. We're offering this exclusive
thestringpuller: so couldn'
t they easily avoid the real estate bubble they are creating?
thestringpuller: don'
t you think the chinese would have learned after building the first ghost city that it doesn'
t work though?
mircea_popescu: anyway, who knows. i don'
t trust my grasp of the chinese intricacies much.
mircea_popescu: so it's really more like, if you make a loss trading bitcoin we'll shoot you. if you make a gain we'll maybe promote you, we'll see about that, don'
t bet on it.
mircea_popescu: bloctoc the bot only quotes when it can get a datafeed. if it can'
t it doesn'
t quote, and its previous quotes expire