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herbijudlestoids: i guess ot make a good bot would require similar investment to having good people
mircea_popescu: hft bots aren't a magic amulet, like "bitcoin makes me anon so i can buy drugz"
kakobrekla: bah fuck you, now i replied.
Duffer1: i wouldn't know, just a thought ^.^
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Right, but I imagine most sports bettors never had the money to make a dent in the 2B difficulty bet.
kakobrekla: "Hi, im a brick, i have opinions."
BingoBoingo: truffles: I'm net up on the past year
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo you know, i burned a lot of cycles on the subject of why the fuck sports bets are faring so poorly on bitbet.
BingoBoingo: I am sad to announce that I don't want to bet on this superbowl. When the most interesting player is the fucking underdog's cornerback... I'm out.
kakobrekla: first time i hear it
mircea_popescu: btw, i hear you should be hacked.
mircea_popescu: no i know the generalities.
mircea_popescu: i mean... i don't get it, i consider myself educated and so forth but i can't come to a conclusion
mircea_popescu: from cnn right after the O speech last night: I think I’ve said before that I think a speech by Barack Obama is a lot like sex. The worst there ever was is still excellent, and I thought he gave a very competent performance tonight”
mircea_popescu: i guess this is why, gotta keep changing the machines
mircea_popescu: i bet you there's good money in that.
mircea_popescu: and speaking of ideas, i can't believe nobody invented the spots solarium yet.
mircea_popescu: btw, if anyone wants to see me with a fro... http://trilema.com/2011/fototeca-de-haur/ i just dug it up
punkman: mircea_popescu: not sure I got it from here, but google says: http://sebastianmarshall.com/friendliness-and-politeness
punkman: I like this: "being friendly: looking out for your interests. being polite: obeying social decorum."
mircea_popescu: i happen to like them. but wtf is with all these weasels!
mircea_popescu: the obnoxious part is that i wear suits. always have. i was a highscooler with a three piece suit.
nubbins`: i was ruminating on this the other day
nubbins`: fun fact, i once refused to make a code change on moral grounds
punkman: BingoBoingo: of course they do, "hey guys dog ate my key, can I change to this new one?" "ok"
punkman: I'll just take it
punkman: I like that it still takes a few phone calls to steal whatever
mircea_popescu: this is the reason i do not wish to live in a world without opression, and this is why bullshit like "social justice" is outright immoral.
BingoBoingo: I watched the State of the Union so You don't have to http://www.thedrinkingrecord.com/2014/01/29/the-worst-state-of-the-union/
BingoBoingo: I don't even know how he can talk about immigration reform without rescinding airport rape stations.
herbijudlestoids: he asked me if i could convince a friend of mine to accept bitcoin
BingoBoingo: Kind of what I imagined. Dunno how many ways there are to imagine such a thing though.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: reminds me of an ancient chinese weapon i once read of
mike_c: i'm sure they were poor. i did not pay much.
BingoBoingo: Maybe my world has been small but I have never seen quality work transcibing done by those who are not extremely poor and brown or the other extreme which is incredibly professional court reporters.
mike_c: you might be surprised. i've hired some odeskers for transcribing before and it worked pretty well. hit and miss though i'm sure.
BingoBoingo: mike_c: Being 10 minutes out from catching up with the Day's proceedings I imagine Odesk will probably be too slow and too shitty (the second point is never a question with Odesk)
BingoBoingo: My big complaint about these hearings is that the only thing close to "I don't know how your assumptions could be so broken that you describe reality with such retarded lenses" seems to be coming out of the fucking regulators on the dias.
BingoBoingo: Maybe if Illinois has one of these things I could find myself invited. Illinois is rather similar to NY. Both States are giant wastland with Giant cities occupying a small portion of the waste.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I imagine such chances are low. That is why I kind of hold this out as a bit of a dream.
BingoBoingo: I wonder if any of these people speaking has ever had to handle a classroom where one has to anticipate any degree of retardation and ignorance from student questions.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Sure. I would like the chance though to add some theater to one of these circuses though. A chance to go on the record seems like it could be fun (even though right nao by being in this channel I am on the most important record atm.)
BingoBoingo: I would like to advance at one of these hearings the position that "bitcoin doesn't much care about you"
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I'm following the circus because I think appearing at a later incarnation of one of these hearings might be a fun way to break my pseudonymity.
Duffer1: i'm having trouble figuring out which circus is being discussed here
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I think this is the first time you said so in such a blunt way. Before it seems you pushed people to read between the lines.
BingoBoingo: Carol VanCleef and "passing the private keys" might be worse than Mr Litecoin. I though only Cascascius moved BTC by passing private keys around.
BingoBoingo: Huh, I should have went to this NY DFS hearing.
Duffer1: i feel there's comedy in there somewhere
punkman: I thought they were conjoined
BingoBoingo: I have to wonder is a single Winkelvii incapable of undertaking any action on their own?
BingoBoingo: mike_c: You are welcome. All of these verbal tics... I dunno if I can actually transcribe this chairperson. Maybe wait for official transcripts or Odesk, then correct the inevitable mistakes?
mike_c: yeah, but i couldn't see the video because it was on edgecast. on a different connection now and it works. thanks for the link.
mircea_popescu: KRS1 i went through a few of that and game of thrones during an hour once
Apocalyptic: nor do I, but i'm kinda sure you'll like this
mike_c: i hope you weren't saying you didn't enjoy boiler room. granted, it's not good film, but it is enjoyable.
mircea_popescu: i don't really do tv series
pankkake: actually that's how I started to learn English outside of education :D
pankkake: I'm not used to read long things on a computer. Except amateur porn stories I guess
pankkake: I wish there was more emphasis on the actual financial part
pankkake: anyway I liked TWoWS, weird as I both dislike movies about drugs and di caprio. technically the movies good without making sense
pankkake: maybe I'll read that Asylum thing on my ereader
pankkake: hm. so I should get a slave to TL;DR it for me
pankkake: I am so many trilema articles behind
pankkake: I saw The Wolf of Wall Street. first part felt like Bitcoin
mike_c: pigs i can't help with.
mircea_popescu: reason i ask is, recently the government was embarassed to all hell
mircea_popescu: so i google to find if i ever reviewed boiler room, the movie. what do i find ?
BingoBoingo: punkman: A number of the AMD Thinkpads don't or at least shouldn't have that (May lack that and possess something else). I think the X140e is the newest of that bunch.
asciilifeform: i'd dearly love to hear of a current www browser that hasn't gone to shit.
ThickAsThieves: i think i figured it out
ThickAsThieves: hmm Gmail won't let me be in two accounts if I use Opera now
mircea_popescu: i guess the greatest loser there is me.
turbo_ac100: I'm off getting the necessary funding. start-up life sucks. later
turbo_ac100: That's why I'd like to have an office there...
turbo_ac100: Well, I heard it about Sofia that developers are often times willing to study somewhere in the EU and go back to Bulgaria despite way lower wages. Maybe it's the same in Bucharest?
turbo_ac100: I like the austrian way but prefer a real business obv.
mircea_popescu: i don't.
mircea_popescu: last time mine broke down it was fun, i taught teh girlz electrics.
mircea_popescu: turbo_ac100 i meant the impersonal you. whoever's machine breaks
davout: i just read that "it's an engine and three contracts" XD
ThickAsThieves: if i fixed all the things i could fix myself myself, would i still be american?
turbo_ac100: lol I don't need romanians for that
punkman: yah I'm waiting for the official repair guy to get the damn part
mircea_popescu: washing machines, at least what i've seen, contain a 20 to 50lb piece of concrete
ThickAsThieves: i got mine "fixed"
ThickAsThieves: i started not paying attention
Dimsler_: well i jus tdon't like how gavin has that bitcoind sourceforge key
punkman: though I agree, throwing away a perfectly good TV with a blow capacitor is an incredible waste
Dimsler_: i honestly hate the bitcoin foundation
turbo_ac100: azi`: that's what I think, too.
mircea_popescu: i am surprised fixing your own iphone isn't against the tos.
turbo_ac100: appliances is the proper term I think. Phones, laptops, Xboxes and so on
mircea_popescu: so what'd i repair ?
mircea_popescu: you may find decent elec engineers on the cheap, but i doubt they'd have much practice fixing stuff. tinkering on their own more like it.
ThickAsThieves: i should get into bitcoin business brand mgmt
turbo_ac100: I have a repair business and want to find stuff in eastern europe
turbo_ac100: electronics I mean
the20year: Revised the 5 year projection numbers, assuming i get my cut, they look (IMO) fantastic for investors , first year APY of 10.86% , 5th year return of 104.96%
mircea_popescu: i have the world's best roast in the ovben and it is KILLING ME