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decimation: they have
a strange batman obsession apparently
mircea_popescu: <decimation> the bigger story is that 37% of fed retirment money is invested in
a "fund" that has returned %0.82 year-to-date. << and then we cuss out people for "investing" in glbse&co
decimation: the bigger story is that 37% of fed retirment money is invested in
a "fund" that has returned %0.82 year-to-date.
decimation: "The G Fund holds approximately 37 percent of all TSP balances held by the 4.6 million TSP participants. As most readers know, the TSP is similar to
a 401(k) retirement fund for about 4.6 million current and former government employees and uniformed service members. To make up for the deficit spending by the government, the Treasury has ?suspended reinvestment? or taken assets out of the G Fund to pay for other expenses."
decimation: USG pays its employees in its own scrip, and they think it's
a great deal
mircea_popescu: meanwhile the same government paid its own employees
a full 100%
decimation: asciilifeform you can avoid some of the 401k madness if your company offers
a "Roth 401k"
mircea_popescu: these are very insulted by
a flat refusal to allow chumps at table.
mircea_popescu: fifty milion idiots with 10 dollars each made britney spears
a reality.
mircea_popescu: well, he has the say of his buy or sell, whatever it is. that's
a say
decimation: imagine you are the CEO of IBM: you know whether you hold
a clown circus for your next board meeting or not, all the chumps are going to auto-buy your stock next Thursday
mircea_popescu: decimation i'd say it exists because
a wide nonoligarchy somehow got the mistaken impression it should have access to the market.
artifexd: I've never understood why hft is
a problem.
decimation: I guess the only reason there is
a front running "problem" is because only
a small oligarchy has access to the market
mircea_popescu: the funny part being that this hft thing is
a solved problem, mpex doesn't have it.
mircea_popescu: so there's been
a sexchange of bitcoin, experts and investors so far. who's next ?
mircea_popescu: Sep 19 23:03:52 <deizel>bitcoinsexchange.com (later
a hyphen is added to clear things up, bitcoins-exchange.com)
decimation: "This exchange, IEX, (it was originally to be called ?Investors Exchange?, but the founders realised that the obvious Internet domain name, investorsexchange.com, could be infelicitously parsed into three words as well as two), would include technological constraints (including 38 miles of fibre optic cable in
a box to create latency between the point of presence where traders could attach and the servers which matched bids and asks) which
artifexd: Ok. I'll chalk it up to you making
a typo and that the rules didn't change.
mircea_popescu: also
a little more risky, in the sense you may end up beaten to shit by the market.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> (one could, in principle, take its real-time published trades and attempt buy/sell, see if it is matched at
a particular offer, etc) << fake book != fake history.
moiety: would you rather see
a paste first before i plod around the wiki
moiety: ended up having visitors ive not seen for
a long time hence absence and no guide
moiety: theres
a rogue dot in there isn't there
taub: yea i suppose it's not
a big deal
mircea_popescu: the internet is, practically speaking,
a collection of frogs and cicadas arguing as to which one set is the true operatic singer.
taub: what
a joke, constant trades average size of 0.5 that happen between the spread outta nowhere
mircea_popescu: so today i learned that mra is
a thing. and in the process :
BingoBoingo: They always have, it's why NYC get
a commie mayor.
mircea_popescu: "CNBC Correspondent, alum @NYUStern (MBA) and @MiamiUniversity, country music & college football enthusiast --- livin' the NYC dream but forever
a proud Ohioan"
BingoBoingo: To where You can't trade
a single doge for
a satoshi
ryepdx: Hiro2: Not sure if this went through the first time, as I'm having connectivity issues. The reason (AFAIK) was to raise capital to produce their next-gen miners and chips. The next round of dividends are projected to come out on May 27th, at which point they'll be moving to
a monthly dividend schedule. Source:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=99497.msg6465166#msg6465166 mircea_popescu: well, they've been going to shit for
a while, but the slide is accelerating
mircea_popescu: <fluffypony> wasn't there
a kick up recently about Havelock not actually being registered in Panama? << yes.
mircea_popescu: <pankkake> try the electrified butt plugs << actually those are kinda bad for you. there is such
a thing as electric burns of the mucosa.
assbot: Need
a nickname, pankkake.
davout: if you're
a retard that doesn't have
a clue you'll take it at face value, if you know what the reactor pattern is and how evented IO is nice you'll read between the lines
fluffypony: davout: they're saying node.js is fast/scalable/efficient because it's powered by
a browser technology
fluffypony: wasn't there
a kick up recently about Havelock not actually being registered in Panama?
Mats_cd03: thestringpuller: digitalocean + Ghost (
a blogging thingmajig) works pretty well for me
fluffypony: my use case is 5-6 hours of sleep
a night + focus during waking hours
thestringpuller: I'm spending my downtime at work re-reading posts from when I was
a n00b
Mats_cd03: i remember reading about
a poker player consuming ridiculous doses, like close to
a gram, because he abused it for so long to gain
a perceived edge in training sessions and subsequently tournaments
Mats_cd03: fluffypony: i too have napped on it, but i consume 50mg during waking periods i use it to avoid developing
a tolerance
fluffypony: Mats_cd03: and it's
a gentle lift, not an extreme yank, which is nice
fluffypony: Mats_cd03: I found I was having
a nap in the afternoon
thestringpuller: start
a pomodoro and force people to stay on topic for at least 25 minutes
Mats_cd03: i live in america, its probably too expensive :( that would be quite
a firmware upgrade
Azelphur: BCB: got
a friend of mine and aldur1 coming down, gonna raise the collective IQ of the town by
a few points.
Azelphur: BCB: I had one for
a while, but I don't have anything high resolution enough to see detail :p
BCB: Azelphur: you should set up
a live-stream bikini-cam!
mircea_popescu: I've talked with Unisys by voice and E-mail, and the voice discussion was entirely unsatisfactory as I posted when it happened - basically the Unisys guy said anyone who sells code for $100-$300
a pop was
a total _____ for selling it that cheap.
BingoBoingo: thestringpuller: That's
a good question. I'm kind of delaying the issue atm due to some medical stuff. Busch should be fine though.
chetty: Chris Sevier,
a man from Florida, believes he should be allowed to wed his Macbook.
danielpbarron: BingoBoingo, so far I'm testing it out on one of the many old boxes that have been taking up space in my room; the one that worked is
a "Shuttle"
joecool: i ended up on obsd for
a couple years on my laptop cause they had the best reverse engineered wifi drivers
danielpbarron: i just installed openbsd with
a flash-drive, onto another flash-drive; so far this is the nicest OS i've ever had the pleasure to install
fluffypony: Americans say "toona" instead of "tyoon-
a"
danielpbarron: 18:40:56 <+mircea_popescu> decimation you know i just had this dispute with native speaker today ? because she said "tuna" with
a plain u like in cartoon << in english: when there is only one consonant in-between two vowels, the first vowel becomes "long" (usually).
nubbins`: bbl building
a $1bn techno empire
nubbins`: sweet, let's get 2bn chinese and pakistani kids together and throw
a rave
mircea_popescu: like you know, 14 yo indian woman raped daily is
a milennial too.
nubbins`: mircea_popescu
a bitcoin music festival?
nubbins`: we won't be doing
a huge amount of cutting, so
a ~$1k manual cutter is more sensible than
a $6-10k electric
mircea_popescu: nanotube "It is important to remember that the score associated to
a relationship does not mark the direct trust of the scorer for the scoree, but merely the scorer’s confidence that the information he has about scoree is correct, accurate, relevant and complete. All four."
mircea_popescu: because im not happy with the The contract operationalizes the trust values in
a currency-neutral
fluffypony: like is compatibility
a goal at all, for eg.
thestringpuller: ;;later tell nubbins` need to talk more about invoices etc. etc. been lazy recently gimme
a ping when you aren't busy