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ThickAsThieves: <Dimsler__> ThickAsThieves, unless you're one of the top 100 wallet holders who really cares <<<< i missed something?
ThickAsThieves: "I want to thank you for making this day necessary." -- On Yogi Berra Appreciation Day in St. Louis in 1947.
ThickAsThieves: maybe i should make a bot that combines yogi quotes with coelho lines
ThickAsThieves: i knew being a yogi berra fan would pay off one day
mircea_popescu: well i dunno where it is ;/
KRS-: I mean..who fries winkies? Oreo cookies? Who knew?
jurov: i don't think we came up with any definite numbers
ThickAsThieves: i'm not sure, but i'm re-interested either way
mircea_popescu: actually should i dig up the old discussion of that or were you around ?
jurov: yes i put the ad there
mircea_popescu: "cause i worked thirty years for this house"
mircea_popescu: "gee son, i hope all that pot herping you did was a lot of fun"
nubbins`: i'm a huge fan of bay leaf
ThickAsThieves: He was this plucky, short Jewish guy from Brooklyn who had computer skills and decided to start his own company, and he was living the Entourage life. I envied the kid up until a few days ago.
nubbins`: i'm actually still not sure why it tastes good
nubbins`: i've been making this ghanaian dish lately, groundnut soup
ThickAsThieves: i love ginger so much
nubbins`: i do like spicy
nubbins`: i'll think on this, might be a nice experiment for the winter
Duffer1: i'm down to 1.5 jars of gramma's pickled cucumbers. needs to last 6months
mircea_popescu: nah, it's different i tel you
nubbins`: i even have a subscription to Mother Earth News ;(
nubbins`: i've also been making sourdough bread for about a year and a half now
nubbins`: i keep beer down there too
nubbins`: i do some dehydrating and keep a root cellar, grow some veggies in the warmer months
mircea_popescu: i'm romanian, stuff like this is like grounds for religious wars.
mircea_popescu: i dont like the way they pickle.
nubbins`: what can i say, sheltered life
mircea_popescu: there's at least a dozen different sorts of pickles i can't do without ☟︎
nubbins`: i know a few groups of hippies that do canning
nubbins`: altho i did see a young couple walking two goats recently, so i suppose really it's more a question of motivation
mircea_popescu: i got a driver, he can take the groceries back and i can carry on in town
mircea_popescu: i got access to engines and shit
mircea_popescu: i don't think i have this decade.
mircea_popescu: i kinda prefer farmer markets tho. who buys groceries in a store ?
ThickAsThieves: i only use them if no one is around
nubbins`: i personally fuckin hate 'em
nubbins`: http://i.imgur.com/IG4ZDRn.jpg
nubbins`: i actually signed up for an account on kraken after reading all this
mircea_popescu: <nubbins`> drops what they're doing and runs to table <<< i usually just dump the money on the table if the girl fed me or on the nightstand if she fucked me.
nubbins`: i guess a better analogy would be
nubbins`: anyway, i bellowed laughter at this:
nubbins`: i was reading a thread yesterday about this guy who ate at a restaurant that accepts btc
ThickAsThieves: i wonder how often we'll hear of that hack again
nubbins`: "Normally I'd ask for a share of the profits but this time it's free"
nubbins`: "Hay guise I have an Idea™"
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves "and now here i am, surrounded by all this brown shit"
ThickAsThieves: when i was young, men were women, and holes were black!
ThickAsThieves: <nubbins`> well what is "black", really <<< something about dark matter and absence of light, still sorting it all out i think
mircea_popescu: a ? i thought it was a mid 90s thing
nubbins`: i thought hoffman died in 89
mircea_popescu: bit parts mostly, but i'm sure his debut must be like 1990 or something
nubbins`: i advance that nothing in your line of sight is black
ThickAsThieves: "Exactly! I want to buy a pizza with 10k ATC and regret it later. I'm even willing to throw away a fraction of a Bitcoin (and regret that later too) for the experience."
mircea_popescu: i guess.
herbijud1estoids: dude i am not gonna sit here and try and come up with a more evil cow related name than that
ThickAsThieves: <mircea_popescu> i tried to watch capote and i couldn't get through the whole thing. --- mme too
herbijud1estoids: i think rambo4 and charlie wilsons war should be mandatory viewing for all american citizens :P
herbijud1estoids: my fav movie with him in it is charlie wilsons war, but i guess its a subject matter thing
herbijud1estoids: never seen it before, some of the scenes at the start i thought was amazing...like the first time the guy catches his wife cheating on him
mircea_popescu: i tried to watch capote and i couldn't get through the whole thing.
herbijud1estoids: i watched it cos hoffman died and it was his first movie
mircea_popescu: anyway. i do believe it's more about what it'll hopefully blossom into than what it is yet.
herbijud1estoids: anyway i should really bed. was supposed to wake up early and hassle some engineers in san fran but i got distracted watching boogie nights
mircea_popescu: you know ppl sort-of bitched at me about it, and i think they still don't think it's right but mostly take my word for it.
herbijud1estoids: i only looked at pympex today and when i was reading the FAQ about "SPLIT" i thought goddamn genius
mircea_popescu: herbijud1estoids no. i have a personal education in finance.
herbijud1estoids: the twitter feed is fucking gold. i will learn how to pull data from it tomorrow and see if i can make some interesting graphs
herbijud1estoids: like i said, if i borrow a million for the endeavour of trading mean reversion model on MPOE at 3%, then my returns are only dependent on MPBOR in the sense that MPOE is the business handling MPBOR
herbijud1estoids: also its 2am here and i might be more retarded than normal
herbijud1estoids: wheres it listed i cant see it
herbijud1estoids: ThickAsThieves: i would check the model to make sure its not broken and if not probly trade on a volatility adjusted level...i like ~15%/pa STDDEV
herbijud1estoids: jurov: i really dont have the time to push this much further than i already am with work and other projects but if i get motivated and time i will definitely appreciate any help
herbijud1estoids: well, i dunno if it will last obviously
mircea_popescu: fuck me, i'm like shocked.
mircea_popescu: a a yes i see.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo dunno, do i count ?
ThickAsThieves: i mean live
herbijud1estoids: also mircea_popescu i tried to query do a STAT with pympex but it didnt work, said i need to sign the key (which i obviously did), are you *sure* i dont need an account to run the queries?
herbijud1estoids: i dont have enough datapoints yet to build the accompanying regime filter which tells you when market conditions are good or not for this model
herbijud1estoids: so i have enough datapoints (assuming the ddos didnt disrupt my timeseries too much -- looks like it didnt) for a simple mean reversion model which works well in markets without market-makers/specialists/HFT bots
mircea_popescu: but srsly, i think bitcoin has fucked with your heads to the degree you have no idea what work money commands.
pankkake: if I was her brother I'd be mad too, she can't sell herself properly
mircea_popescu: it's just a brainfuckfest with him, i wish i understood how is it that people can never, absolutely never, no matter what happens make all the right choices,
mircea_popescu: "Hoping colored coins takes off. I've heard mastercoin has a few cool features but that doesn't matter if its centralized."
mircea_popescu: Duffer1 he's really a poster child of 2013 retardation. i've had his history reviewed, he's pretty much all about all the wrong choices.
Duffer1: i have taken to trolling him via haiku, i hope he keeps posting, i have more
jurov: i hope he won't sell it to panama :D
kakobrekla: i dont know who since even this fact that its being sold was leaked but i do know the supposed date
mircea_popescu: (i wonder how many people noticed the general pattern where people start doing deals with known scammers putting them in a fiduciary capacity as they're preparing to plausibly-deniably close up shop)
mircea_popescu: davout i once heard anal sex momentarily paralyzes the colon. so if you do her in the pooper three times a month...
kakobrekla: at this point i think phantom has all gox btc
mircea_popescu: i thought he just makes them
mircea_popescu: i didn't know girls farted.
mircea_popescu: i didn't realise static addies were usable or useful.
davout: i didn't realize the addy was static
pankkake: it already is, I think
davout: MAYBE I GOT A PAYOUT !
davout: i can't recall the name of the site that did the exact same thing in 2010
kakobrekla: no, all is ok here, but i need to go back home to take care of some stuff