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TomServo: king's quest was great until I found monkey island

BingoBoingo: It was the summer before I started High School. I had gone that long without a computer and decided fuck it, I'm getting several.

nubbins`: i remember upgrading the ram to 512kb to play king's quest iv

BingoBoingo: My first computers were this flock of old macs I got from the school back in 1999 or 2000. Maybe it was 2001?

nubbins`: had this golf game where you had the option to print your scores at the end. we didn't have a printer; my dad tried to explain it to me, and i couldn't wrap my head around it

BingoBoingo: I also have a few Mac Classics and Classic II's which had 1 MB of Ram. Cannabalized 4 of them to give one classic 4 MB of RAM (cheaper to get whole machines than sticks) Had to order RAM to beef up the SE/30 though

BingoBoingo: The old SE/30 was 4MB when I picked it up at a school auction for $10

BingoBoingo: I still miss 128 MB of Ram in a compact desktop sold in a time such things were rather unimaginable.

asciilifeform: herbijudlestoids: freebsd (what i had on it when i was a student), but didn't have the gigantic disk then

herbijudlestoids: asciilifeform: which OS have you tried so far? i feel like they should work

BingoBoingo: I imagine speed element plays in too. That may play into why so few in US casino industry are trying to fight to expand regulated sports and event gambling to new jurisdictions. The few hours it takes a sporting contest to resolve is something I don't know if they can comprehend compared to the seconds a slot takes. May as well be an eternity.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: (unrelated) i now sympathize with your travails re: that Mac SE

mircea_popescu: i tell you, it's the progressives.

mike_c: er, i meant to send that to BingoBoingo :) re: floorspace for slots vs table games

mike_c: asciilifeform: last time i looked at a casino profit chart it read like: 11b profit on slots, 1b on table games.

herbijudlestoids: thats good, whats happening today? i just came on to complain as usual

herbijudlestoids: well i saw today an article about cloudcoin/bitcloud lol these guys dont even realise https://github.com/bytemaster/tornet this exists already

herbijudlestoids: remember i was in here the other day complaining how postmodern the inernet is?

mircea_popescu: benkay i suspect it's the progressives really.

benkay: also lower labor overhead on the machines, i imagine

BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I've know a couple who do poker tournaments and have done the thing where you sit at the blackjack table and try not to lose more than you would have spent on the drinks.

mircea_popescu: i don't think i ever saw a pit boss play anything, ever.

asciilifeform: but it strikes me as plausible - i can see why they'd rather not risk it.

asciilifeform: i don't know for a fact that this is so - he never had the slightest desire to set foot in a casino.

asciilifeform: someone i know was involved in the design of video poker machines, long ago, and was told that his name will probably end up on the 'reject list' (turn out at the door)

asciilifeform: i always wondered if the de-facto rule in meatspace casinos is 'don't win more than it costs to have your body fed to pigs,' or the like.

mircea_popescu: i distinctly remember this rush where wynn was trying to somehow structure a deal to cover for an insanely lucky player over the weekend

mircea_popescu: benkay "I am currently using this fiction whereby the MPBOR established through the workings on one month is declared to be the central bank rate valid for the next month. This is obviously not particularly correct, other than the twin considerations that “natura non facit saltus” on one hand and that it works on the other."

jurov: i thought my bits are stored in ionosphere

Apocalyptic: truffles, i'm waiting

truffles: Apocalyptic i need redemption

benkay: i was shooting for 'implications of the above chart are that bondholders change their opinions about stuff leading to the following'

benkay: oh i should make that clear

benkay: well i made some graphs for y'all on the topic of mpbor etc: http://cascadianhacker.com/blog/2014/01/25_notes-on-mpex-historical-bond-rates-and-other-data.html

nubbins`: nah, i'm just being silly

nubbins`: but either way, from what i understand, the setup of jd lends itself to wild swings of luck, both good and bad

nubbins`: i'd be more suspicious if i saw an actual ingelligent, linear conversation take place

benkay: also thestringpuller i know you follow mpbor, if you have any ideas about what i'm missing it'd be great to straighten out

benkay: any clarification on what i'm not understanding today would be much appreciated

benkay: well i've gone and confused myself again. mircea_popescu jurov: the statements for say, december 2012 says that the MPBOR for dec 28-jan 25 is 4.99, but thats the rate paid against the december capital. similarly, the jan statement says that the MPBOR for jan26-feb22 will be 9.99 but i'm reading the reports to say that premium was charged for capital borrowed over the course of jan.

mircea_popescu: "game theoretic" in context i guess

mircea_popescu: GT i mean. game theory.

jurov: but if i'm right, i can get anything

jurov: if i buy a call and am wrong, mpoe gets only up to the price i paid

mircea_popescu: but as a game-theoretic construct i mean

Dimsler: i've read a bit about this

ozbot: Why I nixed p2p, colored coins and all that jazz pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.

mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2013/why-i-nixed-p2p-colored-coins-and-all-that-jazz/

mircea_popescu: ;;google why i nixed colored coins

Dimsler: i'm hoping on some of the eastern european development teams push multi sig and colored coins

mircea_popescu: jurov i was waiting for you to ok it as i had a 4th month

mircea_popescu: well w/e, i presume he means waves.

pankkake: well women should wear collars, but I disagree on the collar implementation

pankkake: I just see it as a better way to do <a href="bitcoin:whatever">

pankkake: I said it's OK except for the reliance on CAs :)

mircea_popescu: i don't know right off, but are you proposing that two years of mpoe covers the entire universe of possibilities, and nothing new will ever happen in the future ?

jurov: ok. i'm following.

jurov: i rather would like to see how you can get touched at that rate and *not* end up with a loss.

benkay: i was halfway joking jurov

mircea_popescu: i stil ldon't see how is loss guaranteed ?

Apocalyptic: I still don't get wtf Hearn is doing at the foundation's head position

benkay: right? unless i misread that spreadsheet

jurov: i mean, outside of that. and it's still far from profitable (for bondholders)

benkay: well the mpoe bot for one but i dunno if that counts for people

cads: yeah, earlier on I figured that I could probably do some awesome research in finance just by reflecting on bitcoin and continuing to learn math

cads: mircea_popescu: I'd imagine there are people that have already adapted models for things like the the bitcoin options trading house

cads: hehe, it would be neat to develop some pricing models when I learn that math

cads: I study at the university, and work as a machinist

mircea_popescu: bwahahaha this is great. "hey guise i am new to internet stuff, it's all fake rite ???"

mircea_popescu: "Thankfully, Coinbase said it would take six days to get my Bitcoin and so I didn't have it available to make an investment in the bankroll of the just-dice website."

asciilifeform: 'cyber security experts' are being supposedly minted here around the clock, and yet the folks i work for couldn't find one kid who could so much as operate 'ida pro', in ~6 mo. of trying.

KRS1: I'm always on the nudie side

mircea_popescu: KRS1 i thought you were on the nudie side.

KRS1: I'm not sure what side i want to be on anymore

KRS1: i think

mircea_popescu: litecoins worth usd, i still have trouble getting my head around it.

Mats_cd03: Oops...Graham Allison. I had HN on the mins

mircea_popescu: i had no idea graham became an academic meanwhile.

Mats_cd03: But yes one day I will find a nice local and make many mixed justice babies

mircea_popescu: Mats_cd03 i think a nuke will definitely be used too, whether in x time or not notwithstanding.

Mats_cd03: I spend a lot of time with active mil guys and policy analysts and I'll suspend my jokes to say that extremism is a serious transnational problem...there are academics like paul graham that believe a rogue nuke will be definitely be used in the next two decades

mircea_popescu: yeah well. i'll propose to you that perhaps your anticipation is more a figment of your virginal fears than actual experience of the world.

mircea_popescu: i don't mean as a tourist. i mean in the bed of local women.

Mats_cd03: I'm anticipating the day Muslim extremism _really_ takes off

mircea_popescu: i fail to see it. i didn't perceive much difference among the women i fucked when i lived in my own country or when i lived in countries nominally held by other people. suppose i visit france, wherein all MY women have already been overrun, specifically by the french.

Mats_cd03: I'm glad I don't live in the eu

nubbins`: okay, i've gotta go try to vacuum some of this mucus out of my face and get to work

nubbins`: "hey, can i see yours?"

nubbins`: "oh, cool.... thanks... i actually got you a little gift too"

nubbins`: i suspect that i'll be receiving a copy of the codex seraphinianus for my birthday next week

mircea_popescu: fuck you dude, i can't remember what i did with all my 50s

mircea_popescu: "I made a handful of these a few years ago. I currently can only find 2. I may have given the rest away or sold them, I cant remember. I'm asking $50 each for them shipped in the lower48 (at bitstamp rate)."

mircea_popescu: <nubbins`> "Well I'm black. So I guess I wouldn't." lmao

nubbins`: "Well I'm black. So I guess I wouldn't."

nubbins`: hahaha i have no idea

nubbins`: http://i.giflike.com/zOArEQC_dg.gif

nubbins`: also, i've decided that # is a suitable way to denote GBP on a US keyboard

nubbins`: i wonder when they'll tell him he can't anymore

mircea_popescu: jurov i don't mean you personally, at any point in this conversation, neither above (i was discussing the cofounder guy, whose responsibility it is whether he knows or not) nor here, it's not like you have to do due dilligence work if you have no experience, training or talent for it.

mircea_popescu: course if mr cotton had said "either you fill this bag with money or else i come with my lawyer and you'll have to fill HIS bag on top of mine, and on your own account"