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wyrdmantis: mircea popescu told me that in order to improve my rating in the wot i have to work FOR someone already in the wot
diana_coman: wyrdmantis, start by reading the logs I suppose
Vexual: i send money to people i dont know
Vexual: i still dont understtand
BigBitz: I don't quite 'get it'
BigBitz: It was $4x for sure. I didn't think it quite hit $5x though.
kyuupichan: Playing on bitcoinwisdom I see a $48.48. Might be higher with more resolution
Vexual: reallly 50 bux? i ignore it
cazalla: i sold for like $3
cazalla: depends when you bought them i guess
Vexual: wehn considering improvements to the valve system i imagined a better concrete pump
Vexual: but diverted apter i ruined my kitchen
Vexual: i attempted the engine from ore thing
mircea_popescu: i'd prolly visit just for to shoot new trilema header.
mircea_popescu: i kinda am rooting for them to invade italy, force italians into sex slavery in morocco
punkman: I just lol'd at title+url
mircea_popescu: i'm sure the schmuck is sitting in a bar somewhere right now, all radiant of his greatness as he imagines it.
mircea_popescu: (5% of your under bet, which we are assuming it is 100 EUR) unless it is HT where there is no danger. If you place bets for 2 EUR profit, you need now 50 arbs to recover the losses and i doubt that you will make any money.
mircea_popescu: me statistics of collected data from such bets could reveal more, but this 1/20 goal scoring assumption seems to be close to reality. Base on my own stats the probability of the goal is 1,8% , which means that 1,8 goals are scored in 100 bets. My net profit is smth like 65% of my total profit, the rest (35%) is the loss i have suffered from goals being scored in pending time. You must never place bets less than 5 EUR
xmj: how do i see ratings between users?
kyuupichan: Does anybody maintain a BTC market cap as % of all coin cap? I think it must be near a 2-year high.
mircea_popescu: "I admit freely enough that, by careful breeding, supervision of environment and education, extending over many generations, it might be possible to make an appreciable improvement in the stock of the American negro, for example, but I must maintain that this enterprise would be a ridiculous waste of energy, for there is a high-caste white stock ready at hand, and it is inconceivable that the negro stock, however caref
mircea_popescu: decimation> man I thought mircea was hard on the guy but after reading a few pages of the book he deserves worse << and importantly, i read no pages of the book.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron i wouldn't bother.
mircea_popescu: <decimation> I just mentally edit his posts with s//gold/bitcoin/ << that's a way to go about it. prolly would have made hitler quite palatable too
decimation: I'm trying to figure out what his angle is. What rich prince (perhaps in his mind) wants poorly-written anti-bitcoin pablum?
BingoBoingo: decimation: I toldl you.
decimation: man I thought mircea was hard on the guy but after reading a few pages of the book he deserves worse
decimation: I just mentally edit his posts with s//gold/bitcoin/
decimation: he thinks usg will stop bitcoin - I don't find that a very credible thesis.
decimation: I'm riffing a bit, he was talking about gold mainly
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Honestly I often spend more time trying to make the stupid posts less stupid then say fuck it and hit publish
mircea_popescu: i wasn't aware curtis switched camps to pro-btc
BingoBoingo: I've spent anywhere from 30 minutes to a day and a half depending on the post.
mircea_popescu: <mike_c> i don't know about you guys, but my blog posts are done when i can't stand to look at them anymore. << i take about half an hour.
mike_c: i don't know about you guys, but my blog posts are done when i can't stand to look at them anymore.
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asciilifeform: e=3 >> this is a schoolboy mistake - even schneier's red book as i recall warned against it
BingoBoingo: ;;later tell TimSwanson I don't have to be a Bitcoin Taliban to understand how it works << Actually the model is more like ISIS
BingoBoingo: ;;later tellTimSwanson I don't have to be a Bitcoin Taliban to understand how it works << Actually the model is more like ISIS
mike_c: hm. novels are fiction, right? i guess not.
mircea_popescu: i thought it was a book
kakobrekla: i just got the other message.
BingoBoingo: I mean if you are making love to knowledge Logos is basically the tits
BingoBoingo: When I tried philosophy grad school everyone got in pissing matches over who read Whitehead or Russel, but how many other gave a shot at their Principia they did together? 0
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> this is how one comprehends a text. << Rarely taught in US. Surprised classmates when in Spinoza class I told them my secret weapon was posterboard for mapping things to other things.
mircea_popescu: it's what i have the slavegirls do when in doubt.
BingoBoingo: Basically for a Trilema I map the grammer and then dictionary the words
BingoBoingo: I doubt I could read much non-Trilema romanian though.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Nah, my romanian is shit. I can't speak it and barely translate it. My reading though is improving.
mike_c: that is true. i guess he only pisses off people that don't matter
mircea_popescu: lol i guess so.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i say one thing, derp reads what's preloaded in his stupid head. then i say "you're too stupid to understand what's being said", derp figures i'm "attacking" him.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: for example "TimSwanson: I work doing market research for Bitcoin companies" << He studies mosses and Lichen
BingoBoingo: TimSwanson: You said I was a "environmental scholar" << You are whether you admit it or not.
BingoBoingo: ;;later tell TimSwanson Hello http://www.thedrinkingrecord.com/2014/08/04/malpidity/ Sorry I was too drunk last night and passed out before we could meet
BingoBoingo: TimSwanson: I know reading is hard in caves in Romania << Where is dude's intel department?
ben_vulpes: thestringpuller: <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: i don't believe 90%+ of the derpage emitted by "advertising industry" << precisely this. as i understand, cargo cult.
mircea_popescu: i hear it's a thing to behold.
mike_c: yeah, i'm not demanding that.
ben_vulpes: "i could but fuck it"?
mircea_popescu: one day i'll figure out the basics of being nice.
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> eventually. once ben_vulpes figures out the basics of how to install servers and stuff << i've got the basics down pretty well. sifting through the midden without bringing the whole heap down on oneself is far beyond basics.
TheNewDeal: I couldn't care less about URO, hadn't heard of it until the bet.
peterl: yeah, I just grabbed one to get started, I am planning on rewriting most of it as I go
BingoBoingo: I dunno mircea_popescu you're being awfully harsh on downs syndrome patients comparing them to the economist
TheNewDeal: ooooh I get this now
kakobrekla: i dont have a better explanation.
BingoBoingo: Still I plan on keeping to Illinois this weekend.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I think Fergeson is the application of the Boston lessons.
mircea_popescu: i guess at the basest, anticonsumerism consists on making businesses not dependant on consumers and the govt dole that supports them.
mircea_popescu: for the admittedly slanted view from my tower however, i can definitely say that i would trade a billion visitors from twitter for a thousand visitors fro whatever,
mike_c: i dunno. luckily we don't have to come to agreement because we will see what happens. i do agree it is something worth trying.
mircea_popescu: so my rationale is, make a place which actually only lists legitimate venues, people won't have the problem i had anymore.
mircea_popescu: and the thought in my head was "i'd buy the whole book, if i had a guarantee your book is all respectable folk, no mfa, no shit. no torrents w/e"
mircea_popescu: i bought on oglaf and other respectable comics. why ?
mircea_popescu: what did i buy on ? i couldn't care less about the "numbers"
mircea_popescu: from the position of the ad buyer, i was more than once confronted with endless lists of "venues" to buy space on.
nubbins`: get this: i buy music :0
mircea_popescu: ten or fiddy or i don't remember.
mircea_popescu: i played solforge, some card trading game, and as for the past 500 games i played for more than 2 hours, i paid them something
mircea_popescu: i mean, reality being complex, evaluating how you make money becomes untrivial.
mircea_popescu: have i made money supporting openbsd ?
mircea_popescu: well... there's apparently reasons. have i made money ?
mircea_popescu: mike_c your adhominem religious leadership aside, this whole discussion dovetails neatly into the converse, ascii's curiosity as to why am i giving bitdimes to random sluts.
nubbins`: all i gotta pay for is casings
nubbins`: as an above-average canadian, i cannot say with any degree of certainty
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> to get back to fucking, ever left money on the nightstand of a woman that ~wasn't~ a whore ? << SUre, I wanted cigarettes when I came to
mircea_popescu: that said, i have nfi. we're mostly guessing here.
mircea_popescu: i have no idea if it helps them make money or not, but it allows them to get places they wouldn't get otherwise.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i don't believe 90%+ of the derpage emitted by "advertising industry" << precisely this. as i understand, cargo cult.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: i confess i'm somewhat suspicious of anything which suggests to 'monetize' my site, which is more or less the polar inverse of 'monetizable' in the usual sense. << in fairness, i don't believe 90%+ of the derpage emitted by "advertising industry" in any way applies to van stuff.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i get a ludicrous amount of traffic from google images
mike_c: ah ascii, i can see you are beings sucked in. join the crowd! peer pressure!
mircea_popescu: mike_c one of the things i did was have ppls prepare code so i can show ads to non-cookied users only.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: i'm open to it, so long as serious money and i don't have to promise any kind of detectable result to anyone. << van is kinda tailored for that last part, at least.
mircea_popescu: i don't net buy or net sell based on what i want, but based on what everyone else is doing
mircea_popescu: mike_c it's more like, van is a piggy bank. if i start pulling money out rather than pushing money in it'll prolly debalance it.
mircea_popescu: i thought you just liked the enchiladas.