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cazalla: i guess maxcoin has run its course
gabriel_laddel: xinxi: inital impressions of your service: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=xz45zSPZ ☟︎
cazalla: i left him a note anyway, i'm sure he will see it eventually
mircea_popescu: i think this should be ok, yeah,
xinxi: I need to go for lunch, ttyl.
RagnarDanneskjol: I'm going through it - will get back later
xinxi: RagnarDanneskjol - Thanks. I just saw you registered.
mircea_popescu: i guess utbit'd have been a worse choice.
mircea_popescu: i'd have expected no less.
xinxi: I actually have built the exchange.
xinxi: i solve problems, not matter how simple the method I use.
xinxi: when I do research, I do not look for excitement.
xinxi: I think there is somekind of bias in the article about the phds.
xinxi: RagnarDanneskjol - yeah for vanilla options, it is too risky, but I don’t see any problem with binary options technically.
mircea_popescu: coming back to college and letting the boys consult me as an experienced man of affairs. And having finished this process of “thinking” I wired Carroll that I was ready to join him."
mircea_popescu: but anyway : "I was flattered by his interest, so I thought it over. That is, I indulged in what young men frequently mistake for thought. In imagination, I saw my name over the door and myself in a fine glass office looking out and watching clerks taking in money. I had, in anticipation, the thrill of buying one store after another and going from town to town on tours of inspection. I tickled my fancy with the idea of
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mircea_popescu: i was like, having prop bets while watching it. "does he fuck the teenager"
mircea_popescu: xinxi look, proof is a problem of the observer. i listed two major counts : one that it never went anywhere before, the other that it's already done, by bitbet. neither of these impressed you.
xinxi: mp, I very much want to know your point.
xinxi: my favorite programming language is C++, because that’s what I learnt when I was in my high school.
mircea_popescu: for you, i imagine not.
mircea_popescu: xinxi all the things you don't say are informative. i'm a mage of silences.
xinxi: thta’s why i did not get many ratings.
xinxi: …i know that I did not trade using bitcoin-otc.
xinxi: I am also a honest person that people can trust, but i know this is hard to prove.
xinxi: and I am a phd in computer science.
xinxi: i have been trading for more than 7 years.
xinxi: yeah, but i want to change the situation by building a fair exhcange.
xinxi: yeah, right. I know the situation.
xinxi: yeah, i know.
xinxi: but as vanilla opitons are too risky. I am right now focusing on binary options.
xinxi: i am building an options exchange actually.
xinxi: I see.
xinxi: I am just wondering what happend to MPOE? it used to be good.
xinxi: thickasthieves, can I know more recent volume?
RagnarDanneskjol: I assume you are asking if anyone here offers options trading?
X-Rob: mircea_popescu: I was going to ask that, and then I realised that I didn't want to know the answer.
mircea_popescu: <thickasthieves> http://i.imgur.com/BF4kg6u.jpg
BingoBoingo: As I heard the story out, the kittens were not crucified in the end
thickasthieves: http://i.imgur.com/BF4kg6u.jpg
BingoBoingo: So I refuse to learn Andreas's last name. as a style guide is developed... Does Andreas the Greek work as a canonical term? Is it unambiguous enough?
ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: what to expect << i expect nothing, and so to be pleasantly surprised. is this a contradiction?
cazalla: BingoBoingo, he will be in town next month, perhaps i take the video camera for an exclusive
BingoBoingo: cazalla: he called me troll because I said true he spread malware
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> o look... i made a pun! << had to look twice
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes i didn't miss templeos!
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo true << I really can't blog drunk nao without excess effort and no golden toilets were purchased. FUKU NBC
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes that's just a spec i bet.
asciilifeform: http://i.ytimg.com/vi/0cazxPOCcdQ/0.jpg
mircea_popescu: i struggled my entire childhood with captain comic
X-Rob: Well if they could hold off for a while, I'm off to the US this week for a fortnight
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> !up PinkPosixPXE << now this is one of the better handle's i've seen lately
X-Rob: asciilifeform: I have some kids. They're... 9 and 6. These kids will never know what it's like to not have internet. This AMAZES me.
asciilifeform: microphone << as a kid, i had some cassettes from my brother, who had bk-0010 at school. all i could do was throw them in a tape deck & listen.
ben_vulpes: how can i dissipate max energy with other people's public keys, i ask you
kakobrekla: just thought i would fit in
X-Rob: I was so happy.
X-Rob: I made one of them!
BingoBoingo: WTF did I miss.
BingoBoingo: <ben_vulpes> <danielpbarron> proof of infection << now i want a coin with proof of infraction << artery, needle, glue
X-Rob: asciilifeform: I played around with the Vortrax when I was a young bloke. That was a precursor to that I believe.
ben_vulpes: <danielpbarron> proof of infection << now i want a coin with proof of infraction
asciilifeform: original (which no one i know ever touched) --- http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/90/Covox_Speech_Thing.jpg ; typical clone --- http://www.ferrit.fi/images/covox%20full.jpg
asciilifeform: i bet BingoBoingo built his own 'covox speechthing' clone in the '90s like the rest of us.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo you're only computing one variable. his superficial fans aren't realyl worth all that much << On this axis. I've met fans of his IRL which I can't understand.
X-Rob: asciilifeform: I'm a collector of old Z80 hardware.
BingoBoingo: The truly scary thing is that as periperal as Andreas is... I think he has more fans than compromised Gavin and Hearn together.
mircea_popescu: o look... i made a pun!
X-Rob: asciilifeform: so now I'm intrigued and trying to find one myself, and ... you appear to be right
BingoBoingo: @aantonop Wait, you are the one with victims, but I am the troll? @DanielJonss @DorianSatoshi @newsweeklied @ethankirschner
asciilifeform: and, last i tried to buy, wasn't even available where claimed.
Luke-Jr: nubbins`: nice, I spent $0 on marriage ;P
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: he was probably talking about a gizmo i was considering building long ago - an esdi hard disk emulator (for use in ancient 'symbolics' lisp machine.)
kakobrekla: 20:21:35: <ehird> I hope asciilifeform open sources his FPGA flash disk card < heh, somewhere on irc, in 2009.
thickasthieves: i dont remember this video at all, lol
timeaftertime: i dont care
Luke-Jr: I'm Catholic
thickasthieves: i had a christian punk band on my label in the 2000s
mircea_popescu: i mean it did mate with rock to yield that xtian rock thingee
luke-jr_: yeah, I was going to object to cult, but the dictionary says it's okay
decimation: I'm a Christian
thickasthieves: i guess it's all pattern recognition, i'm a true american!
thickasthieves: i also like pointing out people that look like people
thickasthieves: yeah i do that a lot
thickasthieves: i had to look up Pareidolia
mircea_popescu: today i learned that my name in chinses (米炮) has cannon in it!
kakobrekla: hm, i heard that before.
decimation: Thiel implied that facebook was a general failure << http://conversationswithbillkristol.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Thiel_conversations_transcript.pdf << "And so we would like to say Facebook is a specific success, it must mean some general success. And so Facebook is a great business,and therefore it will solve all the world’s problems. And I think the modality I prefer to think of is, that there are specific
thickasthieves: i knew these austrian guys that used to say "i made a castle" when they made a big shit
mircea_popescu: oops, i mean... it was butt from the security up with a ground mind
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform> declaring social media users chattel and starting markets for their buying and selling << this is sorta SOP already... << I mean Thiel was an early facebutt investor
thickasthieves: zonky: "yeah i wrote a calculator in ether, now i have to pay my computer to do math. ether is the future"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i meant physically.
mircea_popescu: i mean, pheasant tongue only takes decadence so far.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` i wonder how much btc for a lb of human clits.
cazalla: BingoBoingo, i will update it
BingoBoingo: Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if obola was a greek thing
mircea_popescu: idiots are so inventive, i swear.
mircea_popescu: "knock knock" "who's there ?" "i am from b-a ma'am. i bought your daughter on otc. bring her out, don't bother packing anything"