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VanCleef: wot is a fail
mircea_popescu: jurov lol gimme a second.
mircea_popescu: bounce that's for believers. for engineers, it's 120 pages for a lottery ticket in an unauthorised lottery with an alleged cash prize of 50k (conditions apply)
bounce: how to fill 120 pages worth of screenplay from irc logs? now there's a fiddy kay question.
bounce: 50k for 120 pages. hm. maybe worth a shot.
mircea_popescu: and ellison has had a few scripts optioned, so i guess he'd know.
mircea_popescu: i dunno dood, i don't even run a studio. chances are, it'll never get made anyway
VanCleef: anywho yeh you should develop your story a bit more
CheckDavid: Like a government official came here to offer it? Lol
ThickAsThieves: i guess, in a way, my blog *is* your blog, since you sparked it
mircea_popescu: what, you have a blog ?
ThickAsThieves: i'm gonna make a post in MY blog about the new ending, cuz apparently it's all the rage these days, blogging on top of what mp says ;)
VanCleef: i wanted to do a homage to 80's action films and do one about the most powerful groups of people that run the world today and they all work in this underground sex trade where they only use women as currency
VanCleef: to be honest its a lil over my head, i hvave to read it a few times to fully understand it
mircea_popescu: CheckDavid if you had read the logs, there was even a cushy us govt job offered.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves btw, if it makes you feel better : <chetty> your movie needs a sequel <mircea_popescu> well sure. <mircea_popescu> you wanna make money, always leave room for a sequel.
VanCleef: The term setpiece is often used more broadly to describe any important dramatic or comedic highpoint in a film or story, particularly those that provide some kind of dramatic payoff, resolution, or transition.
mircea_popescu: http://imgur.com/a/C2mhE < also
VanCleef: i think it would make a good tv show
ThickAsThieves: i propose a different ending for the movie mp
CheckDavid: Like there can’t be a larger binary digit than 1
mircea_popescu: if anyone fancies himself a screenplay writer.
ozbot: The idea for a great film… pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2014/the-idea-for-a-great-film/
mircea_popescu: ;;rate artifexd 1 Best story of a nick I ever heard.
TestingUnoDosTre: anyways, I must ponder this over a nights rest
benkay: you get 4n% for gamble a
TestingUnoDosTre: does anyone here catch a whiff of what I'm smoking?
BingoBoingo: Honestly given the type of site BitBet is, I would be more concerned with trying to win the bets outright instead of chasing a fixed return.
TestingUnoDosTre: I'm not saying you would for sure win these bets. I'm asking, if you did win these bets, what would be the answer for a BTC scenario
TestingUnoDosTre: if bet 2 had a return of 10%
TestingUnoDosTre: it's a thought experiment for jah's sake
benkay: you can't guarantee a rate anyways, TestingUnoDosTre
BingoBoingo: .5 on each side is probably a poor mix.
TestingUnoDosTre: what rate should I pursue (I realize I don't have a control in it), for the two returns to be "equal"
benkay: hah yes you do recieve a return for placing btc on bitbet
TestingUnoDosTre: but what I am asking is, what is the cost of locking up a bitcoin for a period of time
TestingUnoDosTre: so If I'm going to buy a stock option that expires jan 1 2015 of company A
BingoBoingo: If you want to lock up a bitcoin on Bitbet, the most important thing is having good information.
TestingUnoDosTre: lets just stick to the time value of having 1 btc locked up in a bet for 4 months vs 8 months
TestingUnoDosTre: so lets say I want to put 1 btc down on a bet that resolves 1 august 2014
TestingUnoDosTre: how much interest (in btc) should I need for a bet that resolves in half the time, to compare equally
TestingUnoDosTre: say I want to invest 1 btc in a bitbet that will resolve jan 1 2015
benkay: a bitcoin today is worth how many bitcoin next year?
bitcoinpete: mostly a rehashing of mircea_popescu's latest, with an added starcraft race
TheNewDeal: final question. How easy is it to get an online gambling license in Anitgua as a foreigner?
TheNewDeal: ;;rate nanotube 1 wanted to have my gpg key applied to a different nick, helped me achieve in a timely fashion. Muchos gracias!
nanotube: TestingUnoDosTre: well, if you wanted to do it without my intervention, you can just change key on your old identity to some new key, then register the old key with a new nick. or... you could just ask me to change your otc username.
benkay: nanotube: in wot one cannot register a key to two nicks. how would one change one's wot nick.
benkay: have you tried registering a new nick with that key?
TestingUnoDosTre: ok, slightly retarded here but... how do I register a new nick to an already registered gpgkey via gribble?
asciilifeform: 'Post-Soviet Lessons for a Post-American Century.'
asciilifeform: 'Having bits of the landscape disappear can be a rude surprise. One summer I arrived in St. Petersburg and found that a new scourge had descended on the land while I was gone: a lot of manhole covers were mysteriously missing. Nobody knew where they went or who profited from their removal. One guess was that the municipal workers, who hadn't been paid in months, took them home with them, to be returned once th
asciilifeform: 'Russia's post-collapse economy was for a time dominated by one type of wholesale business: asset stripping. To put it in an American setting: suppose you have title, or otherwise unhindered access, to an entire suburban subdivision, which is no longer accessible by transportation, either public or private, too far to reach by bicycle, and is generally no longer suitable for its intended purpose of housing and
asciilifeform: 'Russia's post-collapse economy was for a time dominated by one type of wholesale business: asset stripping. To put it in an American setting: suppose you have title, or otherwise unhindered access, to an entire suburban subdivision, which is no longer accessible by transportation, either public or private, too far to reach by bicycle, and is generally no longer suitable for its intended purpose of housing and
asciilifeform: basic course on russian privatization. 'your formerly state-issued flat is now yours. you are a millionaire!' - 'neato. but my salary hasn't been paid in a year. gotta buy something to eat. what does dinner cost?' - 'half a million.' ☟︎
asciilifeform: decimation: the asset-stripping thing is only a secret from u.s. schoolchildren
asciilifeform: if everybody in a given field is on the dole, what does that suggest about the field?
asciilifeform: TestingUnoDosTre: quite a few folks in russia are pining for the (distant) possibility of proper sanctions. where usa takes its pernicious cultural, economic exports and goes home.
ozbot: I sent a Freedom of Information Act Request to the FBI over a year ago. They just responded today. :
ThickAsThieves: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/24himq/i_sent_a_freedom_of_information_act_request_to/
asciilifeform: decimation: the system is capped by the intelligence of the dumbest contributor. which would be, typically... 10,000 people? there's bound to be a turdmeister.
asciilifeform: 'remove xxx to build new ver. xxx' won't build. spend a week to get a working box again.'
mircea_popescu: ecided he wasn't going to tell anyone that this was an error, because he's a dick, and now all your snowflakes are urine and you can't even find the cat."
mircea_popescu: "You discover that one day, some idiot decided that since another idiot decided that 1/0 should equal infinity, they could just use that as a shorthand for "Infinity" when simplifying their code. Then a non-idiot rightly decided that this was idiotic, which is what the original idiot should have decided, but since he didn't, the non-idiot decided to be a dick and make this a failing error in his new compiler. Then he d
asciilifeform: for quite a while.
asciilifeform: thing is, for sufficiently narrow tunnel, anything makes sense. flying into a flame makes perfect sense to the insect.
mircea_popescu: then make another one, and with the profitos from the first one, buy a a banner ?
asciilifeform: sorta like the occasional healthy fellow who ends up in a mental asylum
TestingUnoDosTre: I'm going to go create a betting website, go advertise on bitbet, then create a bitbet that my site will last throughout the year, then bet on NO
asciilifeform: he was a legitimate EE prof at MIT << profs. bolt, beranek, and newman quit to do... neat stuff. today, they leave to become spammers. 'that's where the money is.'
mircea_popescu: why not splurge and buy... a banner!
asciilifeform: in the east, there is at least a tradition of castes 'knowing their place' that they might potentially return to.
asciilifeform: they have a sort of scale model of u.s. idiocy going
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i bet you that if you asked indian teens today, the millionaire speaker ee guy is more interesting a worship idol than the physicist.
decimation: he was a legitimate EE prof at MIT, but apparently found it more profitable to separate idiots from their money
decimation: I'm sure being India there's a caste aspect to it too
decimation: there is a new bose, he just doesn't live in the east: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanu_Bose
asciilifeform: in the east, fix won't happen, for the lack of a new bose
asciilifeform: they'd be carefully marked with a crib sheet for the 'correct' measurement.
asciilifeform: decimation: for some reason, this reminds me of a tale my consulting partner (physicist, grew up in india, 1970s) told me. students would qualify on instruments that barely worked, but belonged, to, e.g. the great Bose. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: maybe when you're old and dying you pick a guy to bequeath your yurt line toi
asciilifeform: i spent a good deal of today checking list of things that won't be coming to new flat, and it includes virtually everything
mircea_popescu: it matches my lifestyle perfectly, i get to a new place, buy a set of the plastic shits
decimation: try buying a decent dishwasher or clothes washer in the us
decimation: kitchen appliances go from stainless machines that last for decades to cheap plastic shit that rots after a few years
mircea_popescu: decimation that's a major point of socialism : it uses technology to degrade quality of life
asciilifeform: plastic in the sense of a trash bag i once had the misfortune to keep some machines in - that fell into ten thousand pieces
mircea_popescu: w/o the welfare cheques, the "vc" bunch would be alone in a room.
decimation: well exactly. carry a 30 lb sack and bitch about it
gribble: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=cruft | cruft. 1. The dust that gathers underneath a bed, 2. Shoddily constructed or made, 3. Bad code, 4. Accumulated physical or virtual junk. Jim had to spend several ...
mike_c: artifexd: yeah, i don't know which way that bet is going to go, but it will be a bumpy ride.
mircea_popescu: something like that. as they say, a fart stinks up the entire room.
mircea_popescu: of course, a large part of hte problem is that if the derps running around on welfare checks debasing the cultural impoirtance of money,
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: but there's certainly a kind of creature, that usa is famous for, that this piece is inescapably about. and the only common attribute of the group, to the unarmed eye, is 'poor.'
mike_c: it is a fund. you give money to mpif, it invests it in various bitcoin thingies.
decimation: asciilifeform: http://www.bulldogtrust.com/index12.htm more ham strange (I enjoyed your diodes) -- "A wrought iron table 60 feet from the antenna will pick up enough energy to make a visible arc to ground"
mircea_popescu: this jd thing is becoming a fun passtime
mike_c: jd isn't even a year old yet :)
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo panacea's almost a year old, jd is almost two. these aren't histories, berkshire is like 50 years old.