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fluffypony: well we're talking about establishing
a baseline
BingoBoingo: fluffypony: What are your thoughts on this unescrowed bet as an entante that might establish
a measure of trust?
BingoBoingo: "ah that's bad form,
a man honours his debts" and "assbot removes voice from Ukyo" Fortuitous? Maybe I am just drunk and dense?
HeySteve: ah that's bad form,
a man honours his debts
joecool: Matthew N. Wright is
a former Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.
numerisTrade: ok, I'll prepare something. If you aren't on the channel then, I'll leave you
a message, I'll be on the channel up till 21:00 GMT, or we'll meet tomorrow same time as today
BingoBoingo: I'd also be open to considering sports where you might have the knowledge advantage provided you can specify
a decent resolution source.
BingoBoingo: Since this is
a kind of novel thing it may be best if we keep the stakes low at 0.01 BTC simply because unescrowed bets have such
a poor history in BTC so far thanks to MNW
BingoBoingo: 5) If you win the bet you get coins and lended trust, or you lose and pay for trust for being
a person of word in this matter
BingoBoingo:
A number of students were shaken the rest of the morning after I broke the news
BingoBoingo: I was In front of
a classroom when Prince Albert betrayed us.
BingoBoingo: numerisTrade: Well, since lending is about pricing risk I was going to suppose
a challenge where you might price risk for trust
BingoBoingo: numerisTrade: Pick
a baseball game happening tomorrow
numerisTrade: well, I don't trust them with
a lot of money, but everything seemed ok
BingoBoingo: Wait TheRock is
a thing? I made an account there once hoping to dump freexrp without
a colonoscopy, but... seemed sketch
BingoBoingo: I'm
a bit tipsy, but I'll take
a look at it.
bloctoc: does that mean it's
a secular thing? I've seen some NMC services.
Apocalyptic: I haven't said this, but I think the new policy is
a good idea, ty mircea
bloctoc: seems like the price of bitcoin went up quite
a bit with this new voice policy
bloctoc: do I get
a prize or something?
joecool: there's
a process to go through to appeal
a fine in this sort of situation
joecool: hired
a better firm this year, they went over it and warned us we had to file, paid the filing fees from last year, and warned us to expect
a letter from the IRS asking for damages
mircea_popescu: kinda stupid, why not use the year to create
a tax liability
mircea_popescu: actually
a VERY similar thing happened here last year. i arrive at my accountant's office, usually
a quiet place with maybe 1-2 other people present, cause the gal is nuts abour scheduling, to find it in complete turmoil, bunches of evidently panicked people.
mircea_popescu: basically, as
a us citizen you're better off if your accountant runs off with your money than if your accountant misfiles your taxes.
TomServo: asciilifeform: I've actually been here quite
a while (2+ years I'd guess). Hard for me find conversation as stimulating as what happens here.
TomServo: BingoBoingo: I'm
a lowly network engineer, looking for my niche.
TestingUnoDosTre: just make sure it's from
a person on the Wot, then they'll give you
a rate
BingoBoingo: TomServo: I'm
a forgetful person, what sort of stuff do you do?
mircea_popescu: maybe we'll hold
a yearly vote at the conference to add more to the l1 list
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
a fitting punishment for they who refused to acknowledge doom.
TestingUnoDosTre: asciilifeform - there was
a book burning or what the hell happened?
mircea_popescu: nubbins` i had
a self-adhesive print last ~2 years on
a facade.
nubbins`: so i went out to have
a drink earlier, stumbled across
a poster we printed last november, still stuck to
a pole
dub: how many times has the national guard deployed
a gunship in the history of gunships
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: To be fair this wasn't
a Flag officer, but Flag enlisted
BingoBoingo: TestingUnoDosTre: I'm from the general region, just
a more rural part
BingoBoingo: Carl Officer has
a rich history of creating the lulz
TestingUnoDosTre: and he had to make
a SuperPac that was called Dems and Independents for Rauner, because he figured that those groups wouldnt want to contribute to
a fund called "citizens for Rauner"
mircea_popescu: the anon experts are
a very valuable signal, turns out.
mircea_popescu: "Well the answer is the IRS is extremely strict about property taxes and nobody in the United States is going to want to use Bitcoin after
a 20% tax on it. That combined with Bitcoin rumors about China banning it means we won't see $525." << anon expert, april 15th around noon.
mircea_popescu: mod6 because nobody could have imagined that the terrorists would use
a plane as
a dildo.
TestingUnoDosTre: I would like to purchase
a 3d printing maching, but I want YOU to buy it!
mod6: twitter had
a melt down yesterday because some girl had
a toy plane in her snatch
mircea_popescu: "Her first patent was
a plastic jewelry organizer for earrings which generated $500 million in sales."
mike_c: she's
a regular on shark tank
mircea_popescu: “In the decades ahead, should we be as white as we are today, we will be relentlessly driven toward mediocrity; or, become
a sad shadow of our current self,” Mr. Shepard said in
a recent blog post
mike_c: thestringpuller: that is
a good point.
mike_c: right, but instead of having
a 1 in 1eBigNumber chance, they have
a 1 in (1eBigNumber - attempts) chance
mike_c: ok, two people said no.. there is
a small better chance they find it in the next minute after failing for 36 minutes. the search space has been reduced.
mircea_popescu: <TestingUnoDosTre> If miners have been hashing away for 36 minutes, do they have any better chance of finding
a correct hash in the next minute compared to minute 1? << no.
nubbins`: somebody with
a soldering iron up their ass?
TestingUnoDosTre: If miners have been hashing away for 36 minutes, do they have any better chance of finding
a correct hash in the next minute compared to minute 1?
thestringpuller: that's
a nice bot, did smickles make that? or what's the story behind it...
mircea_popescu: also, is it twitter generally ? does it do the same off
a phone ?
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: You forget that for some 1984 is
a manual
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo wikipedia certs are
a good avenue of attack because most neckbeards have it whitelisted
BigBitz: You're getting
a Wikipedia Cert. Nice.
gribble: You rated user BigBitz on Mon Dec 2 11:10:58 2013, with
a rating of 3, and supplied these additional notes: gives me the worst rates ever ಠ_ಠ and makes me hate myself, owes me beer, but he can be trusted to send
a couple g's USD.
joecool: mircea_popescu: believe it or not i've been in wot for
a long time
mike_c: this from the guy who floated
a bajillion btc options over the last two years :)
mircea_popescu: mike_c the 400 bet. at first i thought you hjad
a legit complaint
mike_c: is there
a time decay on bash points?
artifexd: It would be nice to be able to retroactively !b
a part of the log. The conversation with Naphex about 5 hours ago was pretty interesting.
mircea_popescu: <samantix> hi i was directed to you regarding
a ban on bitcoin-pricetalk
BingoBoingo: Oh, Meni Rosenfeld is
a speaker and/or panelist