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midnightmagic: dub: I'm at a loss here to meaningfully discuss this with you. I don'
t know where to start. If you're serious, I'm fairly sure we are so alien that there is basically no common ground on which to meaningfully converse for this topic.
dub: we'll I don'
t but based on past discussions I think its rather unlikely
midnightmagic: mircea_popescu: Eskimos don'
t like being called Eskimos. :)
midnightmagic: dub: I am not. ngzhang is extremely ethical, or else Icarus wouldn'
t exist.
mircea_popescu: but so far my belief is they just don'
t understand finance
midnightmagic: mircea_popescu: I would be very interested to hear from you if you discover that they aren'
t just clueless, but seemingly deliberately clueless.
mircea_popescu: midnightmagic well, i don'
t know the whole thing, but from this angle it looks more like they're clueless/haven'
t been thinking things through/haven'
t slept in weeks
Bowjob: I don'
t know the price yet
dub: theres only $633 worth of whiskey listed here, I don'
t think thats accurate
Eduard_Munteanu: mircea_popescu: I see the problem. Still, wouldn'
t an exchange / market-maker be able to eliminate all those delays for things traded within the exchange? Not sure how one'd deal with double spending if you don'
t wait for confirmations.
mircea_popescu: Bitcoin pride averages a 70% profit. Don'
t you want a piece of the pie too?
Eduard_Munteanu: But isn'
t there a crypto way to accomplish the same thing, perhaps different than BTC? You still need exchanges.
jurov: and yes, the shares don'
t go outside exchange. this is why we have all these passthroughs
Eduard_Munteanu: But then I suppose you can'
t trade shares outside the exchange.
jurov: can'
t remember any concrete outcome
jurov: like, tx won'
t be accepted if you didn'
t some little hashing yourself
jurov: i wonder why i haven'
t seen the idea of applying hashcash to *every* transaction
dub: strangely that word (as much as it is worth) doesn'
t appear in the profile
dub: Is it racist of me to ignore SebastianJu purely because I can'
t parse his linglinglish
Zedster: mirc won'
t let me list my touring polka band
Eduard_Munteanu: Hm, I suppose I can'
t see a list of assets until I deposit some BTCs?
Bowjob: When I double click on the .exe, it doesn'
t start
runeks: I have a hard time believing BFL will deliver within the next two months. but on the other hand Avalon won'
t either, probably (for new customers). so it doesn'
t look too good.
runeks: If I had $20k to invest in Bitcoin it wouldn'
t go to any ASIC company
mircea_popescu: women that don'
t get fucked often enough and raw enough get bored
swhitt: Ian doesn'
t sound very west virginian
runeks: mircea_popescu: I bet that wouldn'
t be allowed. I mean if they ban 69...
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: "How you gonna choke a legend ? You don'
t think I want to choke people ? You can'
t just choke all your problems, it takes hard work. If I had my way, I'd never work. I could stay home all day watch Scarface 50 times, eat a turkey sandwich and have sex all fuckin day. Then I'd dress up like a clown and surprise kids at schools. Then I'd take a dump in the back of a movie theater and just wait til s
mircea_popescu: jurov for my curiosity, the guy on reddit that "couldn'
t waiot" till another nonfee exchange opened
BitHub: just you know whatever you do, don'
t let those guys ruin bitcoin hey?
mjr_: ie. i don'
t have to worry abourt your funding, or settlement, i just worry about executing orders against the bitcoin exchanges
mjr_: and again, they just did a trade with their own money and it didn'
t really relate to their job at all
mjr_: the point is to be able to use the existing accounts so i don'
t hve to worry about their funding
mjr_: when i showed a trader what i was doing, he was like "why aren'
t you scalping this all day, like do it right now"
mjr_: my point is that everyone doesn'
t use nasdaq to trade aapl
mjr_: too long; didn'
t read: wall street professionals don'
t open up new accounts for all their trades, they use their existing high margin accounts
mjr_: traders don'
t do it at home
mjr_: and it isn'
t really their website
mjr_: i mean, their accounts with their money can'
t connect to my website
mjr_: professional traders can'
t get involved
BitHub: they don'
t need to, they just go to your site, type in a code or whatever and can see their balance
mjr_: but they can'
t press buttons to make bitcoins appear on their screens
mjr_: they couldn'
t invest outside of work
mjr_: they don'
t own their positions
BitHub: isn'
t it about to get alot easier for them
mjr_: ideally the mainstream end users wouldn'
t even be aware of me
mjr_: like i said, i haven'
t used otc yet
BitHub: don'
t get caught up in a rating war tho
mjr_: i don'
t plan on doing a lot personally
BitHub: then i wouldn'
t worry about WOT so much
mjr_: but if i were to leave...i couldn'
t leave it to someone else
jurov: and it isn'
t clear to me why/how would you want to manage separate webs of trust
jurov: the bitch ain'
t one
mjr_: but old people with cash can'
t mircea_popescu: "This is awesome! I didn'
t even know such an exchange existed."
jurov: i remember paying out s.bvps to someone who has withdrawn everything (perhaps thinking he'll avoid monthly fee which isn'
t the case)
jurov: you don'
t have to do anything. but it's good to check just in case
thestringpuller: jurov: is my account just inactive? I don'
t have to register and blah blah blah aain no?
thestringpuller: "mircea, if you were half as smart as you think you are, you wouldn'
t confuse coinbase and coinlab. you'd also have invented antigravity and a time machine, but that's beside the point." - whatcha have to say about that mr. popescu?
thestringpuller: You are my favorite scientist atm. Bill Nye ain'
t got nuttin on you.
mircea_popescu: well it was a good theory, but i don'
t think it meets the data so far
mircea_popescu: many times it was the case that large buys didn'
t match the theory
mircea_popescu: you're sure it must be in there somewhere, but you really don'
t want to dig it out
B0g4r7: I don'
t know the story, but if the fees are disclosed in the terms and he didn'
t read or agree to them, then tough hash.
mircea_popescu: mil and a half. somehow it doesn'
t look like much at all.
BitHub: don'
t let her go bro, follow your heart
mircea_popescu: <ThickAsThieves> but i also kinda fon'
t care about people trying to sneak bets in at low risk << this.
ThickAsThieves: but i also kinda fon'
t care about people trying to sneak bets in at low risk
mod6: gtfo you don'
t have any of those lol
jurov: pity that beercoin didn'
t catch up
jurov: i can'
t access mpex.co .. times out
Diablo-D3: Ukto: you don'
t accept bitcoins directly
jurov: well it's too broad scope... maybe they'll get banned in baluchistan and we won'
t know it
mircea_popescu: in obamaworld things that were never done and can'
t in principle be done apparently qualify.