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mircea_popescu: and again : sean's dead. your argument is therefore invalid.
mircea_popescu: nothing in principle wrong with either approach, which was the point.
mircea_popescu: there aren't computers that don't depend on their compilers etc.
mircea_popescu: there are people who don't give a shit about some woman's spawn. more women, mopre spawn.
mircea_popescu: " machines are exactly as 'loyal' as their operator is clever and conscientious - men are not."
mircea_popescu: the only thing that's blatantly ridiculous is that beck forgot to mention where he got it
mircea_popescu: "Here's one that even The Onion would reject as too blatantly ridiculous: American right-wing radio and TV clown Glenn Beck believes that Sean Smith aka Vile Rat, the EVE Online diplomat who was killed earlier this month during the attack on the US embassy in Benghazi, was actually a CIA agent, relaying communications to his fellow undercover agents at Something Awful."
☟︎ mircea_popescu: or that schmucky someting awful kid, whatever his name was.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field see, this is how i distinguish a genius geek from a simple geek : the latter programs computer to interact with him. the former, to interact with the girls.
mircea_popescu: remember, any systematic weaponry can be turned around the operator.
mircea_popescu: so pick up nomenklatura daughters, have them do it for you.
mircea_popescu: there exist people, and not just in florida, who can get you a pellet of usd 100 notes on a half day notice.
mircea_popescu: your argument reduces to "i can't make a bottling plant out of a gallon of juice". sure.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field the guy's 11k are NOT a crate of dollars. barely one brick.
mircea_popescu: because why bother, when you can just wail and wait for tit.
mircea_popescu: just, you know, "consumers have come to expect". and they will die with that "expectation".
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski> thestringpuller: you can't use bitstamp ? or bitcoin-otc ? or one of those schmancy atms ? << it's bs, all of it. people can trade ~infinity btc/usd without any problems PROVIDED THEYRE IN THE WOT
mircea_popescu: how well this works in practice... well... nothing works well in practice.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field> mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and then << the general concept being that people will find themselves under so much pressure as the thing advances, that marginals (ie, people who depend on paychecks etc) are prolly in a very weak position to participate anyway.
mircea_popescu: motherfucker this guy totally beat me to the punch reviewing kerouac.
mircea_popescu: i dunno man. that 11k the guy reported lost would have paid 1year rent + hardening measures.
mircea_popescu: (in the case of ethanol in the us, include ALL agricultural subsidies, not just the direct for ethanol stuff)
mircea_popescu: saifedean a particularly interesting metric, other than the 5.5bn eu / 6.5 bn us (which by now is more like 10 anyway), would be subsidy per joule.
mircea_popescu: aha. Preliminaiy version: do not quote without author permission. << ironically, only typo is in the warning
mircea_popescu: soo... if i want some laser handcarved items that were cut out of a log with an axe by adrunk sailor
mircea_popescu: <nubbins`> if there's one lesson bitcoin teaches people mercilessly... << exactly. "if you don;t know the owner, the thing doesn;t exist". exactly contrary to how the us currently works, all impersonal and "it's our policy" and bs.
mircea_popescu: well i intend to, depending how this dignork thing works out.
mircea_popescu: the problem with teleologists is that they misstate both the problem and the solution.
mircea_popescu: i also don't see how email will ever get enough interest if the only problem it solves ios "we'll save you the 9.95 a plastic maibox costs"
mircea_popescu: mike_c also, they play limit headsup, which... nobody plays.
mircea_popescu: mike_c a bot that knows the distribution tables really well has an edge. sure.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron “We define a game to be essentially solved if a lifetime of play is unable to statistically differentiate it from being solved at 95% confidence,”
mircea_popescu: but if you want a statistical model, play with someone like this : three cards face up, two in the hole for you, two in the hole for them, a ten card window for them you can't see.
mircea_popescu: mike_c collusion and bots are different topics. however, because collusion offers a small but systematic bonus, it's what makes bots always win. in the .5 to 1.5% range, depending.
mircea_popescu: this is like asking "who sent this bitcoin transaction"
mircea_popescu: if you have 500 human players, you're running 500 tables, with a total of 3k "players"
mircea_popescu: why "avg" ? you always fill the table. why "80" ? bot plays all the tables. all of them.
mircea_popescu: unless they were looking at making an offline site o.O
mircea_popescu: live rake is not going to have 6 man collusion either, is it!
mircea_popescu: just generally. poker hand is a commodity, like pork bellies.
mircea_popescu: you've been playing poker in north idaho with college admins it seems.
mircea_popescu: yes, i pay more rake. that's there but not really significant.