asciilifeform: sorta like the 'x % kills' (what fraction of the monsters you dealt with) shown at the end of a 'doom' level

asciilifeform: calculate, how much coin would i need to have on hand for it to be worth the effort in getting a coinbr account and making the gears go correctly

asciilifeform: (unless someone noticed that he's a god, and gave him a bag of coin for lulz. but that's outside the rules of the gedankenexperiment!)

asciilifeform: i merely suspect that no one, not even a god, could 'get rich' at 'investing' pocket change at mpex

asciilifeform: 'perfect info bot' is this abstract thing. a god.

asciilifeform: understand, interested here in 'theoretical best' of what a smart person with almost no funding could achieve ☟︎

asciilifeform: is depth really a concern for infinitesimal working sum ? ☟︎

asciilifeform: folks with a clue - comment, would the result have any useful connection with reality ? ☟︎

asciilifeform: as in, the maximum one could have hoped to earn on coinbr in a particular time interval starting with x btc

asciilifeform: incidentally, anyone ever try the exercise of writing a 'pefect knowledge' bot that tells you 'what could have been' ? ☟︎

asciilifeform: (i, for instance, wasn't interested at all until invited to write a review, using free demo. which i did. and in the course of said demo, realized that i've not particularly much to -do- with such a thing, on account of having approximately no coin)

asciilifeform: danielpbarron: if homo redditicus were only a problem because 'spamming the orderbook', that would be another thing. a bot could theoretically 'vacuum up the chump money' and that's that. But - they, as i understand, spam support lines, public fora, and overall poison the atmosphere in ways not outweighed by the pennies they bring in

asciilifeform: and you have to somehow come up with new btc once in a while

asciilifeform: danielpbarron: for an american gasenwagen, it is theoretically enough that you moved $int from your bank account to a known btc exchange at some point

asciilifeform: danielpbarron: what is a clean coin? i thought there is no taint in bitcoin << but there is in fiat.

asciilifeform: danielpbarron: aren't there 3.6k coins found every day that need to find a new home or else a miner can't pay his electricity bill << ^ quite a bill

asciilifeform: and one or more quietly produced a great many units which do not publicly exist except for their hash

asciilifeform: ^ that was my theory (though quite likely it's a formula obvious to many folks)

asciilifeform: price drops as supply exceeds demand << this is like finding a corpse and declaring 'he died from not breathing'

asciilifeform: this would result in exchange rate failing to to climb, but how would it lead to a drop ?

asciilifeform: mike_c: i still don't get why somebody buying a parcel of $maxint btc would affect the price on, e.g., 'btc-e'

asciilifeform: thestringpuller: afaik the only source of this hypothesis is mircea_popescu, who presumably has a clue, but understandably won't reveal source of said clue

asciilifeform: f someone like Emwazi, whom MI5 had been chasing for years, can simply disappear, only to reappear as the man beheading western journalists (though technically, the videos never show him doing so), then it suggests the entire dragnet is least effective when it is most needed. The Express’ ill-defined sources appear to want to tell a story about SIGINT succeeded rather then explain how it is that SIGINT failed (at least accor

asciilifeform: 'British intelligence sources are now claiming that the SIGINT hunt for Emwazi preceded the HUMINT one, and also claiming that a SIGINT clue — and the related SIGINT trail that clue uncovered — provided the breakthrough in IDing him. Which is almost certainly bullshit. But notable bullshit, for two reasons. First, because the current story — that the UK lost Emwazi — poses really big problems for the dragnet. Because i

asciilifeform: whole point of electrostatic cleaner is to make dust stick to things (in a well-constructed one, the 'thing' is the filter inside)

asciilifeform: kakobrekla: can always solder a controller inline with the cord

asciilifeform: or were you doing a cubometres/decibel thing

asciilifeform: (tip: if anyone else has a 'liebert' ups, and replacing fan, don't throw out old one. you will need to snip&solder the connector.)

asciilifeform: put a 'pabst' fluid bearing 80mm in there. golden toilet, should last.

asciilifeform: (it's a 'double-conversion' monster that runs inverter 100% of the time)

asciilifeform replaced a ~15 year old fan

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: ... #b-a actually banned ever? << mr spam, mr moarspam, others