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asciilifeform: there's a reason, for example, why e.g. a spammer will 'work 16 hours a day to make money while he sleeps'
asciilifeform: then see who is rich, who is a pauper
asciilifeform: e.g. if you have to drive a car to the plant, start the 'clock' from when you turn the ignition key
asciilifeform: 'One of various ways of organizing work that economists have identified, a tournament market "offers participants the chance of winning a big prize--an independent research career, tenure, a named chair, scientific renown, awards--through competition," writes Richard Freeman and co-authors. Tournament markets amplify "small differences in productivity into large differences in recognition and reward," Freeman an ☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: what a google grunt is paid is entirely uninteresting except in light of knowing what he pays to live
gribble: The Man Who Wasn't There | Science Careers: <http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_magazine/previous_issues/articles/2009_02_13/caredit.a0900021>; Marketing your first-year soccer tournament - TourneyCentral: <http://www.tourneycentral.com/marketing-your-first-year-soccer-tournament.html>; Five Keys to Marketing a New Soccer Tournament | The PTM Blog: (1 more message)
decimation: Of course, there is a "power law" effect in these kinds of things - only the best guys make bank, the rest deminish exponentially
asciilifeform: decimation: kanzure is a friend of a good chum of mine. as i understand, he made 'fuck you money' in one of the last 'dotcom' bubbles and wanders around the world.
decimation: when a 'house' costs 700-1000k, that's wave slavery
decimation: Everyone at our school knows who Dylan is. He comes and goes to lessons as he pleases, habitually swears at teachers, and is an accomplished playground bully. ... I was surprised to hear Dylan?s name announced. He had collected one of the largest amounts of ?reward stickers? in year seven, and was due to collect a prize. Many teachers, it turned out, had taken to bribing him with these stickers in a desperate attempt to appease his
asciilifeform: it's a great essay, but ought to have been named 'how to die to be rich'
BingoBoingo: ;;google site:trilema.com live to be a millionaire
BingoBoingo: In about 12 hours I have an interview for a job in the bezzel economy, so pumped
assbot: Planet Analog - Brian Bailey - Mohamed Kassem: Q&A With the Company Founder
decimation: yeah the problem is that even if you could get a chip made for free, the cost of reasonable tools to make reasonable designs are prohibative
asciilifeform: decimation: $500 << do they also have a bridge we can buy ?
asciilifeform: decimation: these are a dime a dozen. not very useful for fpga work, as the latter have proprietary pieces that, if you do not use, leave you with a monstrously bloated design that fits nowhere.
decimation: supposed these people will make you a chip for ~$500 https://www.efabless.com/ - long on hype and short on details though
punkman: moiety: yeah that seems to be a common theme where brits go to vacation
punkman: the "*me" bet in the screenshot is a hypothetical bet
TheNewDeal: here's a potential suggestion to ponder, we can talk about it more if I get back at you. Placing future bets to see how the pot changes
BingoBoingo: punkman: Maybe give it a new name then...
BingoBoingo: punkman: is this a whole new Bitbet.py
punkman: in a hurry
BingoBoingo: "get away with" at the cost of setting a horrible precedent
BingoBoingo: TheNewDeal: Sure I offered a discount, and I tried offering you the same as well. A discount and a synthetic weight though are very different animals.
TheNewDeal: well you did offer the buyer (mike_c was it?) a discount on the price
BingoBoingo: Even though the circumstances in which the actual underlying couldn't cover the synthetic would have been exceedingly unlikely... Trading on an artificial weight would have set a bad precedent.
BingoBoingo: Maybe if I MM'd MPOE options I'd feel comfortable offering a synthetic, but as a person who MM's ATC...
BingoBoingo: Well, there's also the problem whereing I lack the experience and reputation to feel comfortable selling a synthetic bet.
BingoBoingo: TheNewDeal: Well, it was a simple disagreement in pricing. Particularly how to price these things. We both disagree on how to do it.
TheNewDeal: bingoboingo, that we weren't able to strike a deal on the difficulty had little to do with wording. More to do with you placing your bet later than I trying to sell my Yes bets
moiety: TheNewDeal: yeah i get a note when manul is mentioned so i just returned a picture.... like a manual manul bot, if you will :D
BingoBoingo: It's why BitBet is a better court
BingoBoingo: Well, Obama's a lawyer so he just kind of holds these things himself
TheNewDeal: not really. never heard of a court mandated drone strike
BingoBoingo: The first time a keylogger was mandated may have come from one of those seekrit courts
TheNewDeal: so I was just reading about the sentencing of Sabu. does anyone know the first time a judge mandated a keylogger in the USSA?
benkay: pick a name you like and use it.
BingoBoingo: justlurking: You could do the thing I did, pick a silly name and then later find out you are stuck with it.
Naphex: lousy name for a product though, fire phone
asciilifeform: now a kitchen favourite in usa
TheNewDeal: what is the way to rate a dopamine reuptake inhibitor
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: snip it, add a methyl, ---> methcathinone
asciilifeform: mine must've had a good payola year, because they had costly hp units
asciilifeform: TheNewDeal: if you want a new unit with reasonable bandwidth - a few $K.
asciilifeform carried a fat oscilloscope and ominous-looking crate with sample boards through u.s, german, romanian customs; nobody blinked an eye
TheNewDeal: who's going to run a cnc shop? I work on cnc equipment at the moment
mircea_popescu: "This mechanism is easy to devise following a community discussion that establishes the principles"
mircea_popescu: The header is signed with the coinbase transaction's private key, and the hash (SHA256(SIG(header, privkey))) of that signature is smaller than a second difficulty parameter Y.
benkay: how to get a big-boy mill into ars?
benkay: seriously mircea_popescu how can one have a good time without CNC machinery?
mircea_popescu: "Overall, it provides a gentle fix to the recent GHash fiasco"
benkay: how on earth are you supposed to run a machine shop when they hold your mills at the border?
mircea_popescu: "Confirmado: no hay precio para el dólar. Nadie vende, solo compran a $ 12.30".
mircea_popescu: this is why corps that blow a round and surivive are so rar.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: No, but I assume it costs a lot of sweat and treasure... and equity
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo btw, do you know about how much a round COSTS ?
mircea_popescu: it's my estimation that he's like a russian hound running with pudels,
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: herr taleb alternates between ruminating on his personal sense of brilliance and excellent pedigree, and... punching a boxer's bag. how much fun to watch a man punch a bag? << kinda why i wanted him to come here.
assbot: There Will Be a Bitcoin NCAA Bowl Game
BingoBoingo: Bitpay continues burning money at an alarming rate http://valleywag.gawker.com/there-will-be-a-bitcoin-ncaa-bowl-game-1592534915/+laceydonohue
mircea_popescu: punkman: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7909791 << clearly usagi has a future.
mircea_popescu: for all the usg knows, we all have a copy, and the keys, and are sitting here lolling at their punk ass.
Naphex: here is a question, will USMS send the bitcoin to the winer or give him private keys/paper wallet?:)
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: they don't have the keys (at least not that they've admitted to), but once they have them they can beat the keys out of him with a wrench << this is a dubious proposition at best.
Naphex: romanian has a good way of adding feeling into writing :)
gribble: Octombrie 2010 pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.: <http://trilema.com/2010/10>; Lifespiel pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.: <http://trilema.com/category/lifespiel/>; La mormantul lui ARSENIE BOCA. Parintele a lasat cu limba de ...: <http://intamplarisavante.wordpress.com/2010/11/28/la-mormantul-lui-arsenie-boca-parintele-a-lasat-cu-limba-de-moarte-ca-nimeni-sa-nu- (1 more message)
Naphex: the cookie hashing scheme seemed a bit lacking
fluffypony: it would be a marvellous invention
punkman: yo dawg I heard u like difficulty: "The header is signed with the coinbase transaction's private key, and the hash (SHA256(SIG(header, privkey))) of that signature is smaller than a second difficulty parameter Y. "
mike_c: if only there were a way to verify who wrote an email..
asciilifeform: herr taleb alternates between ruminating on his personal sense of brilliance and excellent pedigree, and... punching a boxer's bag. how much fun to watch a man punch a bag?
asciilifeform: it is very reminiscent of the 'atheism books' one finds in u.s. shops. if you were never a christian, they're a total snore.
asciilifeform: ^ finally forced myself to read that book - not a fan. despite not really disagreeing with the arguments (to the extent the man bothered to make arguments)
fluffypony: chetty: it's like Bitcoin but centralised and it has a random annual inflation set by this centralised issuer. also no block reward, lame.
davout: chetty: "whats a dollar?" <<< just a letter away from a collar
chetty: whats a dollar?
fluffypony: Mats_cd03: I'm a regular prophet
FabianB: l337: if you lurk a few month you'll know better
davout: there are a few addresses that have no associated name, a couple folks that lead to multiple google hits
los_pantalones: and are you bidding or just asked them a question ?
l337: what would constitute a good price signal tho?
chetty: well he is making a point about not selling cheap if you got em to hold
assbot: People! US Dollars are not worth a fifth of a Bitcent. STOP SELLING! pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
l337: regarding this http://trilema.com/2014/people-us-dollars-are-not-worth-a-fifth-of-a-bitcent-stop-selling/
Naphex: so there is a list of bidders
mike_c: don't you need a space?
asciilifeform: 'Avarus, Inc. (“we”, “us”, “our”) was incorporated under the laws of the State of Delaware on September 20, 2010. The Company was originally organized as a “blank check” shell Company to investigate and acquire a target company or business seeking the perceived advantages of being a publicly held corporation.' << lol!
fluffypony: they don't have the keys (at least not that they've admitted to), but once they have them they can beat the keys out of him with a wrench
asciilifeform: los_pantalones: dpr might be sitting on a stake as we speak, coughing up the keys
benkay: <mircea_popescu> incidentally, what's the us black slang to denote a woman in her 20s that spends her life naked in the household of some local lord / trap star ? // video ho in the rap industry
assbot: People! US Dollars are not worth a fifth of a Bitcent. STOP SELLING! pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
benkay: http://trilema.com/2014/people-us-dollars-are-not-worth-a-fifth-of-a-bitcent-stop-selling/#footnote_1_55053 // not strong, someday smart.
asciilifeform: result was a miniature preview of the 'roaring '90s'
mircea_popescu: so it's really a blind alley : those on whom it'd work are probably the same set that think "bitcoin is bad" or w/e
asciilifeform: burn a registered company and walk away and start a new one << interesting historical degenerate case: russia during lenin's 'NEP' - 20s - folks would close a firm immediately prior to tax day, open new one the day after with same assets
fluffypony: like registering a business in and of itself makes it flawless
mircea_popescu: depends if you make a business of it or not.
fluffypony: I agree with that - it was more to show that personal liability is always an option on the fiat side (reckless trading etc.), so this idea that you can burn a registered company and walk away and start a new one is also flawed