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PeterL: thestringpuller: first line of your article, s/
a place where transactions/
a place where transactions happen
mircea_popescu: ascii_field> mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and then << the general concept being that people will find themselves under so much pressure as the thing advances, that marginals (ie, people who depend on paychecks etc) are prolly in
a very weak position to participate anyway.
danielpbarron: i don't get who would actually type in his password at gunpoint -- or, yet another reason to not do bitcoin from
a smart phone
thestringpuller: i don't see how this point is irrelevant due to cannabis being
a physical good and bitcoin being
a digital good
thestringpuller: setting up
a shop is what cannabis shops have done and crime rate has gone down from relaxation of regulations
pete_dushenski: thestringpuller: i'm saying that
a physical presence is simpler to manage for
a digital asset than
a physical one
danielpbarron: i can see how draining this would be if my free time was limited to
a couple hours nightly
thestringpuller: pete_dushenski: see the difference in mitigated risk between the overbearing nature of War on Drugs in state such
a Virginia or Texas, vs say Colorado or Washington in regards to cannabis shops. Yes the risk involved in transit (large sums of money between shop and "bank", and transit of goods being guarded by ex military sekurity)
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and then when we start hiring, we hire slaves, like anyone hiring << simply wanted to point out that all of the #b-
a projects (with possible exception of kakobrekla's work) are powered
a hundred percent by the fiat economy's surplus - that is, free hours of various folks involved - and to some extent are at the mercy of their day job fortunes (see, e.g., the demise of moiety)
danielpbarron: is this something i should be able to teach myself in
a reasonable amount of time?
ascii_field: danielpbarron: the netbsd kernel and userland are sufficiently compact (vs linux) to make this
a worthwhile exercise
☟︎ ascii_field: danielpbarron: at present time there is no support whatoever for the eeprom in netbsd. this means that it can be used, but only if the userland (yes, all of it) is baked into
a ramdisk baked into the kernel (which in turn is loaded by uboot in one shot at powerup)
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 17-02-2015 03:22:43; asciilifeform: nubbins`: what state's your beast in now << stuck on crafting the ramdisk (in-ram root fs) for netbsd. as of
a week ago. haven't the time, presently, to do anything
pete_dushenski: there are (were?) in fact
a few such operations in canada
pete_dushenski: thestringpuller: these brokers could have
a physical shop
saifedean: in fact, if you think about it, you can't really even calculate
a subsidy per joule, since the moronic process probably consumes more energy than it produces, so the more subsidies, the more joules are wasted!
mircea_popescu: saifedean
a particularly interesting metric, other than the 5.5bn eu / 6.5 bn us (which by now is more like 10 anyway), would be subsidy per joule.
mircea_popescu: soo... if i want some laser handcarved items that were cut out of
a log with an axe by adrunk sailor
danielpbarron: not that they don't have
a cash game option, but it would let players rebuy without any accounting, which made linking to bitcoin impossible
mike_c: ok, i'll reserve comment until then. and you're
a teleologist.
mircea_popescu: i also don't see how email will ever get enough interest if the only problem it solves ios "we'll save you the 9.95
a plastic maibox costs"
mike_c: mircea_popescu: not teleology, I just don't see how
a poker site gets enough traffic if the only problem it solves is "we'll host your weekly poker game".
dignork: mike_c: yep, it's close to impossible to get
a hard proof, but statistical violations are good enough, with
a very small false positives.
danielpbarron: in fact we figured out
a way with pokerstars home game
mike_c: so i'm playing with stranger, he runs good or makes
a couple good bluffs, and so i negrate him?
danielpbarron: well now i feel like
a dick for having recommended people play only heads up to prevent collusion
danielpbarron: all of this is
a moot point anyway if the pre-requisite for playing is being in the WoT
mircea_popescu: mike_c
a bot that knows the distribution tables really well has an edge. sure.
mike_c:
a bot's winrate can be bumped up by collusion, but it is far from the biggest factor in its success or failure
mike_c: my point was collusion isn't what makes
a bot win.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron “We define
a game to be essentially solved if
a lifetime of play is unable to statistically differentiate it from being solved at 95% confidence,”
mike_c: you going to beat
a bot at tic-tac-toe because you know its algorithm?
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: gladly suck our cock if only we
a) didn't bang hotties and b) validated their self-hottie delusions. << These are usually the girls who start false accusing despite being squelched.
mike_c: what's the emoticon for sticking
a tongue out?
danielpbarron: if you realize you are heads up against
a bot, couldn't you use its algorithm against it?
mike_c: for example,
a bot will destroy you in headsup hold'em because it is now
a solved problem.
mircea_popescu: but if you want
a statistical model, play with someone like this : three cards face up, two in the hole for you, two in the hole for them,
a ten card window for them you can't see.
mike_c: that is not what makes bots win. it simply gives bots
a small bump over what their skill would be otherwise.
mircea_popescu: mike_c collusion and bots are different topics. however, because collusion offers
a small but systematic bonus, it's what makes bots always win. in the .5 to 1.5% range, depending.
nubbins`: i used to work for
a national insurance company, every corporate machine was
a lenovo
dignork eagerly waits for the day when there will be
a discovery on diddles bios on Lenovo
mircea_popescu: if you have 500 human players, you're running 500 tables, with
a total of 3k "players"
mike_c: 80 because that's
a common number of hands per hour at online
mike_c: colluders are paying $66 an hour to play at
a $1/$2 no-limit game
danielpbarron: if someone's in the WoT and they want
a bot to play for them, I say go for it
danielpbarron: dignork, i don't see what the problem is with
a bot that doesn't collude
mircea_popescu: just generally. poker hand is
a commodity, like pork bellies.
dignork: mike_c: collusion is insignificat for
a poker shop in financial means, it's
a PR problem when discovered, and consequently the lose players/source of income.
danielpbarron: i'll gladly play against non-colluding bots any day;
a bot can't out-bluff
a real person; the whole point in having bots is that they share info with each other
mircea_popescu: well so if you play 1k hands for an average of 1k
a hand and come out 7k ahead is it
a good game or
a bad game ?
mike_c: i have thought. i have played
a lot of poker in my time.
mircea_popescu: it's been
a decent replacement for teflon for
a while now.
danielpbarron: i also coded
a thing that would simulate players having to learn each other's language by speaking to each other to build up understanding; had the effect where
a group of friends could talk in long sentences that strangers couldn't understand; strangers would have to talk in very short lines like "yes" "no" "here" in order to understand each other
mircea_popescu: Joseph Bekken was arrested and jailed on charged of attempted misuse of public funds, attempted procurement of prostitution, burglary, using
a computer in
a scheme to defraud and bribery."
mircea_popescu: "The financial aid director at North Idaho College was arrested this month and fired for offering to trade scholarships for sex with
a student. However, the student wasn't real.
mircea_popescu: that guy was probably doing them
a favour, whoever they were.
danielpbarron: fwiw, i have actually coded things that worked before; I made my own minecraft plugin that used
a database to keep track of credit/debt between players when they took items from chests / it broke when an update totally revamped the inventory control system and I abandoned it / also, it was java :/
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski no but he has
a point. making an irc bot excellent coding exercise. i agree, good 1st time thing for intelligent person.
mircea_popescu:
a decade later or w/e, the world can be as full of "i too could have been in" as it pleases, for all the good it'll do anyone.
danielpbarron:
a legit collusion free poker site would make
a lot of money; seals wasn't dying for lack of players. they just all flocked to pokerstars play money where collusion was not profitable
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i need that like i need more women that'd date me if i paid them
a salary for it.
BingoBoingo: danielpbarron: The Seals release on the matter makes it seem he's clearly already decided on
a course of action
danielpbarron: i sent him
a tweet reminding him you tried offering him
a job last year; maybe this mess has snapped him out of it
danielpbarron: is it about 10k
a day << more like 5k: 183012, 189051, 194563, 200106, 204520, 210431
assbot: Logged on 05-03-2014 02:48:01; asciilifeform: next day,
A calls again 'we found the spoons. but the stain on your reputation... it remains.'
assbot: Logged on 05-03-2014 02:47:40; asciilifeform: 'we're short of
a few silver spoons. shame on you';
assbot: Logged on 05-03-2014 02:47:31; asciilifeform: there is
a related soviet joke. abramowitch (generic jew, not the oligarch) calls
a friend who was over for dinner last night:
mircea_popescu: "t’s devastating to think of
a student being unable to walk around campus without having to risk being traumatized by reminders of her rape."
assbot: Male Student Allegedly Banned from Campus Because His Resemblance to
a Rapist Was Triggering? - Hit & Run : Reason.com ... (
http://bit.ly/1z5nPVa )
mircea_popescu: "every hand can be
a new post. and hwat, you password protect it, so there's security"
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: so anyone wants to make
a poker site ? << actually yes.
BingoBoingo: Right. Then again gaddafi was
a softer target