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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 Preliminaiy version: do not quote without author permission.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.
mircea_popescu: i guess we go at this the other way then : we play poker, you see five + two cards, i see five + twelve cards.
mircea_popescu: well so if you play 1k hands for an average of 1k a hand and come out 7k ahead is it a good game or a bad game ?
mircea_popescu: mike_c you jus' sayin' or you actually thought about this ?
mircea_popescu: it's been a decent replacement for teflon for a while now.
mircea_popescu: Joseph Bekken was arrested and jailed on charged of attempted misuse of public funds, attempted procurement of prostitution, burglary, using a computer in a scheme to defraud and bribery."
mircea_popescu: "The financial aid director at North Idaho College was arrested this month and fired for offering to trade scholarships for sex with a student. However, the student wasn't real.
mircea_popescu: that guy was probably doing them a favour, whoever they were.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski no but he has a point. making an irc bot excellent coding exercise. i agree, good 1st time thing for intelligent person.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and then when we start hiring, we hire slaves, like anyone hiring. and then the slave-born cry and whine that "oh look, bitcoin's no better".
mircea_popescu: "no you schmuck, you couldn't. as proven by ? didn't."
mircea_popescu: a decade later or w/e, the world can be as full of "i too could have been in" as it pleases, for all the good it'll do anyone.
mircea_popescu: early days of the republic are ALL ABOUT barriers to entry.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i need that like i need more women that'd date me if i paid them a salary for it.
mircea_popescu: he means well, but he doesn't have the tools to examine himself with.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform at the time this was put in, the blockchain was mb not gb.
mircea_popescu: hopefully this alleviates with better pogo density on the network.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron which setup is this again ? pogo and sata ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform my construction (which obviously could be wrong) is that "the authorities" refuse to disclose it "citing privacy concerns"
mircea_popescu: they've really built the most hallucinant re-enaction of the soviets : the guy doesn't have the right to anything EXCEPT he has the right for no one to know how the government fucked him over.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no because see, "to protect identities" this is not reported.