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lurker: They don'
t want centralization.
lurker: mircea_popescu: there might be a way to attack this mathematically but I don'
t know if there is an exact answer to "how much". The extreme min. would be to have 2 trusted but untrusting miners.
mircea_popescu: i mean "BTC can'
t survive without being decentralized enough". what's enough and how do you know ?
lurker: BTC can'
t survive without being decentralized enough.
pankkake: centralization is often misunderstood. for instance, mining isn'
t becoming centralized
dexX7: because it wasn'
t clear what your role was
pankkake: I've been thinking about starting an xpm mining operation (there are some cheap deals you can profit from), but it certainly wouldn'
t be denominated in xp
dexX7: i don'
t know, but mp is the one who approves the listings, i guess
jcpham: shouldn'
t adviser be advisor
nubbins`: he obviously didn'
t do a dry run of his presentation before the real thing, hey?
KRS-: lol jurov i'm in I.
T. i feel your pain
kleeck: I can'
t deal with that level of fail.
mircea_popescu: yes, 99% of the time 99% of your shit isn'
t at work / needed.
bob_: we are trying to figure that out :) since you don'
t allow high-frequency trading anyway, nobody cares if it's < .1 seconds or < .2 seconds.
mircea_popescu: anwyay, mpex is very much an adaptive beast. it's the best i can do, honestly, because i don'
t know the correct way to build bitcoin systems
mircea_popescu: at some point the dilemma is, "either people will complain becauyse it takes too long, or people will complain because x edge case wasn'
t covered in the security design"
mircea_popescu: however, if the result of errors is not nil, you can'
t just shrug and move on
nubbins`: <mircea_popescu> jurov because at some point your system is either cenrtralised or it isn'
t.
nubbins`: but that didn'
t quite overcome her crippling lack of social skills or job knowledge
nubbins`: being happy *and* satiated? you've got it knocked. don'
t change a thing.
the20year: in modern society there's no problem, punishment or negative towards someone who doesn'
t want to do anything with life
nubbins`: but i think the problem in a lot of cases is that people just don'
t want anything
nubbins`: that's almost worse, spinning your wheels so slowly that you don'
t even notice you're sinking into the mud
jurov: but they can'
t get somewhere where they have maths! even if their life depends on it...
the20year: I don'
t know how many people I know with psycology degrees who are flipping burgers still
the20year: I asked him "Who are you applying to after college" and he didn'
t think he could get employed ,even though a logistics degree is amazing to have
the20year: My cousin went to school for history, then he realized he can'
t get a job there, so now he's getting another degree in logistics
the20year: I hate hourly pay, so what I typically offer is contract pricing, pay-for-performace models, so as they get better ,their wages automatically increase, and then if they don'
t work well they'll quit on their own without dragging down the company too much
nubbins`: you can'
t "keep" people motivated
mircea_popescu: jurov because at some point your system is either cenrtralised or it isn'
t.
pankkake: I wouldn'
t employ most of the people who got the diplomas I got
KRS-: nubbins: not sure if you went to college or not, I did and I learned a lot. A lot of what you said is true, but you can'
t discount a degree someone has attained.
nubbins`: spending six years learning that i didn'
t want to spend the rest of my life working in an office was the best learning experience i got
pankkake: didn'
t even bother coming back for the diplomas
nubbins`: mircea_popescu: one of the big problems with higher education is that students think "ok, i just attend these classes, get this degree, and i'm employable", which is just not true. getting a university degree, college diploma, whatever, doesn'
t mean you're employable, doesn'
t mean you have skills, doesn'
t mean you know how to do anything besides graduate from a program. the value isn'
t in the degre
bob_: looks like 10 days of data missing. well, those trades probably weren'
t important anyway :D
pankkake: well, I don'
t know really, of course it doesn'
t make sense. but something was reversed according to my tester
pankkake: I don'
t really see the relation with the article though
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t Like Ya Shit [feat. Billy Bunks] - YouTube
mircea_popescu: sent the pcb in the dead one to be cut apart, i'll have the results in a coupla weeks, i don'
t expect to see anything.
pankkake: I don'
t really like Guiness. Unlike women I like blondes better
pankkake: I wouldn'
t mind an opportunity to get out of France though
jurov: i don'
t see any such trades... or assbot censors them now?
pankkake: hm, so Armory signature didn'
t work, but brainwallet.org's did work
mike_c: but that wouldn'
t spook the bitcointalk crowd into pumping AM shares
mircea_popescu: how much were gen2 nre costs, and wasn;'
t there a gen3 that's supposed to be where the real hash comes from ?
dexX7: no, i see numbers, but i can'
t "rate" them
dexX7: well, i don'
t know. i have no reference to say "it's good or bad"
mircea_popescu: anyway. normally it could have recovered on the fly, but now chief engineer wants to see why it failed right now, and i can'
t argue with her.
jurov: but half a smartphone isn'
t very convenient to keep on myself all the time (for disposable communication-related keys and protection from unauthorized use)
FabianB_: i think ThickAsThieves didn'
t mean mpoe bot, since it doesn'
t trade s.mpoe, does it?
mircea_popescu: o, mpoe bot has a different interface to the trade engine, it can'
t be affected by this stuff
FabianB_: it's more of a depth bot, not volume, isn'
t it?
mircea_popescu: shouldn'
t happen again, at least not in exactly the same way.
mircea_popescu: anyway, it wasn'
t an attack of any sort or even related to outside influence. it was a problem stemming from the too stringent checking imposed on proxy synchronization after the last adventure, which in an edge case put everything in a paranoid state.
FabianB_: yeah, i wouldn'
t trade on mpex without being here or checking logs once in a while
mircea_popescu: i would imagine they see them in the log or don'
t care or something tailored to personal taste
mircea_popescu: i don'
t think they're doing anything bad, and heck, bitcoin can benefit from the attention of more people with financial expertise
dexX7: i remember very vague that many had "bitcoin doesn'
t care about the sec" or so in their signatures. was this after glbse?
mircea_popescu: the girl accused him of insider dealing, he swore he didn'
t have a clue wtf nefario was doing
Kleeck_: Then when you say, "That's bullshit." They say, "No it isn'
t... Look at this!"
Kleeck_: Sometimes I don'
t read book because the cover looks like shit.
dexX7: i can'
t trust what i read, so i can'
t trust mp obviously :p
mircea_popescu: no, see, this is the problem. you don;'
t start by believing what you read is true,
mircea_popescu: no, i have specific things in mind. for instance, how come i can'
t find a name ion the about us page,
dexX7: hm i don'
t know what it is exactly, but it's a plattform for accredited investors. afaik some big companies like twitter were "traded" there
mircea_popescu: i don'
t recall on the spot. what would this be about ?
[\]: mircea_popescu: don'
t feed the trolls.
mircea_popescu: can anybody do anything on mpex yet? i see trades on assbot, but nobody here seems to be able to talk to it (including me)? << atm proxies are dumping most of the input because they can'
t agree its valid
mike_c: er, not that its response is invalidly signed. it doesn'
t recognize me. (Unrecognized signature. Please email your public key first.) which seems to be same as you guys were seeing 4 hours ago
lurker: isn'
t mpex the fastest and fuck you bitch? must be the internet then!
dexX7: from that point on he claimed he was behind "everything" on the nets, but of course he wasn'
t mircea_popescu: they figured it's easy to do, and so didn'
t pay enough attention to the samples
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform nah, they can'
t actually sprout shitake.
mircea_popescu: monkey` i can'
t tell you cause you'll probably be mean to it.
mircea_popescu: somehow we must get this perfect middle where if you don'
t understand you ask but if you think you know better you stfu or get caned.