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gribble: Error: "totalbtc" is not
a valid command.
mircea_popescu: "it was only sometime between 1910 and 1912 ...that
a random patient, with
a random disease, consulting
a doctor chosen at random, had, for the first time in the history of mankind,
a better than 50-50 chance of profiting from the encounter."
benkay: is there
a gribble command to get issued coins?
mike_c: obviously $8bn is
a joke. it can't stay there.
mike_c: all I'm saying, is that if you create
a BA REIT, it will decline in BTC value over the next couple years.
gribble: Error: "bc," is not
a valid command.
mike_c: there is
a universe available. some people buy t-bills.
mircea_popescu: well, because if there isn't
a universe available and everyone rides on thesame pole we'll sink.
mike_c: if you have identified
a small set of awesome investments, why would you put money in something else that is worse?
BingoBoingo: ADM is basically
a bank whose currency is grain
other_mp:
a lot of those big bn figures are various consolidations
BingoBoingo: ADM basically runs on the Uber model, little actual infrastructure (
a few hub) and
a lot of subcontractors.
mike_c: it's
a fiat investment, not
a btc investment
benkay: brains
a little fried from an afternoon of porking and lifting
benkay: envisioning
a walled compound in bsas?
other_mp: perhaps had the whole thing been managed by
a corp into which the inerested parties could buy interest
other_mp: mike_c especially cxonsideringthe sinergies involved.
a successful plata valley would by and of itself drive up btc price, hurting the very thing that made it possible
benkay: there is the thing called buying the hole, where you buy
a building or some fraction thereof during/prior to construction for some 30% discount. whether or not the position is liquidatable later, i cannot speak to.
benkay: my intel suggests that residential is not
a good play. not enough buyers to support the market, too much inventory to support rents at
a rate that accomodates inflation, plus buyers favor newer properties over anything else
mike_c: i don't speak spanish, but i doubt that said "10x in
a year"
other_mp: what does the esteemed chan think, mike_c, fluffypony, los_pantalones : am i fucking insane to contemplate
a ba real estate investment vehicle for btc ?
benkay: re uber: it's the perfect way to roll out
a robo-fleet
mircea_popescu:
a woman willing to part with
a juicy set of hooters just to play tennis well probably will train harder than your average.
mircea_popescu: here's
a true story. when i was in hs they had
a sort of homecoming thing, picking teh prettiest chick at the party. as
a personal favour, tehy were going to proclaim the chick i went with miss our highschool.
mike_c: no one told them that triple
A mortgage bonds were worthless.
FabianB: makes sense to eat
a loss for the smaller part, gotta think about it why fractional reserve is needed when you have too much capital anyway
mircea_popescu: sadly i lack
a cutter shop in this part of the world, so we'll never know if mike_c had it and the mobos had stuff added.
mircea_popescu: (that's
a summary. the reality is more complex but not substantially different)
mircea_popescu: they eat
a -.1% on 20% so they may make 8% pon 80% or w/e it is they make
FabianB: anyone understands the mechanics behind fiat banks parking big integers at the ecb and why they would pay
a fee for it? is storing these integers in their own systems more expensive?
FabianB:
a technical trader in -analysis
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Is it possible your flying problem beast suspects the transformer is either
a buffet, or porn?
gribble: Error: "!mpif" is not
a valid command.
gribble: Error: "!mpif" is not
a valid command.
mircea_popescu: As stated before I will continue to pay out dividends to all invested. Thoughts of suicide have crossed my mind more than
a few times in the past week but I am unable to leave my investors high and dry due to my lack of control."
mircea_popescu: "well i have
a lots of tattoo the wings is spreading all over my chest and make it more bigger than the actual size and its very painful specialy when the needles hit my upper cleavage all the way down to the half of my boobs "
BingoBoingo: Anyone else remember the KingofSPorts lolcow who got 1BTC from dooglus for writing
a confessional about his gambling everything all the time and landing in rehab?
BingoBoingo: Seriously just buy ~$1000 in chips to just sit in front of you and play with
a $100 bankroll from that pile. And watch the drinks come in.
fluffypony: and as I sat at the table I was like "what in actual fuck. this is such
a scam"
fluffypony: managed to win
a few hands and build that up to $600, was super proud of myself
fluffypony: I tried gambling when I was younger - read
a bunch of books on playing Blackjack, played
a whole lot of games against the computer, and then went to the casino with my $300
BingoBoingo: I swear the most useful side effect of recommending
a 6 month reading and waiting period is to sort out the fucking Dice addicts.
fluffypony: "Most of which were used to purchase miners or cashed out and spent on drinks and VLT gambling at
a local pub where I was attempting to get the waitresses to come work for me."
mircea_popescu: "This is
a massive set back, which is entirely my fault.
BingoBoingo: The feeling was worse than anything you could possibly imagine.. Akin to losing
a family member or worse." -MrKlye
BingoBoingo: This was all in vain however, I watched my balance drop like
a stone in
a pond.. I remember as the balance hit zero..
assbot: Confession of
a Degenerate
danielpbarron: i saved all the old machines i've used over the years, and recently started gutting them for parts to build
a full node; glad I didn't throw all that stuff out
danielpbarron: <+mircea_popescu> who the fuck ever heard of this. << I had
a similar experience with the old hardware that's been collecting dust in my room for the last 10 years
pankkake: actually I remember
a bug with NICs, where you had to unplug the computer for
a few minutes to fix it (because it would force firmware reloading)
mircea_popescu: im fucking unsafe, aparently someone's burning obscure bits off my hardware with
a magical death ray
BingoBoingo: "Several years ago, I came across
a ranking of careers based on overall desirability. "President of the United States" was somewhere in the lower-middle of the pack, because it offers the most power and prestige, but also has the highest workplace fatality rate, terrible job security, brutal hours, and relatively low wages given what presidential-type people could earn on the open market."
fluffypony: the Intel Blue Hills boards in our experimental rigs have
a little 2 character LCD display
pankkake: some high end motherboards now have
a status display - much easier to check for errors than beeps
pankkake: I think I've had
a hard drive block the boot, but it was even preventing the PSU from powering on
pankkake: I don't remember wether it was
a card or
a hard drive
BingoBoingo: Or perhaps the desired effects, maybe some sort of "Annoyotron" is hooked up to
a JTAG port.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile other board won't see any harddrives. because fuck you, who said
a board should see hard drives ?
mircea_popescu: so i set up
a new desktop system, works fine. i go to bed.
BingoBoingo: fluffypony: It is
a market, not
a democracy. If you want to vote to to the BitBet comments like everyone else.
BingoBoingo: I guess I provide some
a five minute warning on an announcement concerning the sitting on the hands matter
sedeki: i have to make
a living somehow
sedeki: jurov are you looking for
a programmer?
sedeki: i'm
a python/django programmer
pankkake: so the fucker is going to keep
a nice profit for himself
TomServo: asciilifeform: So you have
a cat burrowing under your foundation and bird trying to fly through your window?
fluffypony: I paid someone on Fiverr to do
a voiceover
ThickAsThieves: as much as i have spoken against colored coins, i have come around to seeing how they'll probably have
a place
ThickAsThieves: right now coinprism has
a wallet and people can ipo, but there;s no exchange
mike_c: at some point
a significant holder will want to get out, or
a significant buyer will want to get in. jurov will be there waiting.
diametric: as fun as it is playing chess with pigeons, i'm going afk for
a bit.
diametric: this is
a perfect example of Poe's law happening
mike_c: not to keep sticking my nose in when you keep asking TaT, but i don't think more volume should be
a goal.
diametric: He loves you more with ever toss of
a stone.
diametric: danielpbarron: so at the time, when being gay was
a capital offense, and killing
a gay person was legal, if
a Christian killed
a gay person in Uganda, and believed, they're in heaven right?
diametric: danielpbarron: killing gays in uganda is legal, so people slaughtering them still have
a ticket to heaven?
mike_c: this being the goal of
a good market maker, not
a wall street huckster.
mike_c: lots of trading volume is not
a good thing, or the goal of
a market maker. goal of
a market maker should be to keep the price near the intrinsic value of the asset.
diametric: danielpbarron: i think you're in
a bindh ere.
mircea_popescu: the correct conclusion being that
a bystander is insane and the police officer cowardly.
mircea_popescu: "In the months of fear and shame that followed my being charged with contributing to the delinquency of
a minor, I continuously analyzed my own mind-set that day, trying to understand how I did something that both
a bystander and
a police officer considered criminally dangerous, and the best I could come up with was the theory that I’d been lulled by nostalgia into
a false sense of security."
mike_c: jurov: how are you trying to make it move? more volume isn't really
a goal is it?
mircea_popescu: ious banks, schools and offices, he was left alone in the front passenger seat of
a convertible Mustang for
a good portion of his childhood, primarily because he was shy and wanted to not have to meet new people. For people of our generation, living
a suburban childhood, the car was central to our lives, not simply
a mode of transportation but in many ways, an extension of our home.
pankkake: you managed to fuck
a billion women and had no kids?
mike_c: gribble needs
a _ operator
danielpbarron: diametric, it is not
a requirement of salvation to enforce the law of the old testement, but it isn't
a bad idea if you can do it
mircea_popescu: "I know that
a home with an unfenced swimming pool is as dangerous as one with
a loaded gun."