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ninjashogun: No, it's not ridiculous. By any definition of "competent" for which benderp's statement holds true ("
a vanishingly thin slice of everyone is competent, and everyone else is constantly justifying their incompetence to themselves and each other.") it is absolutely true.
ninjashogun: Most American teachers are "incompetent". Yet America has
a near 100.00% literacy rate.
benderp: nonsense ninjashogun.
a vanishingly thin slice of everyone is competent, and everyone else is constantly justifying their incompetence to themselves and each other.
dexX7: i give luke much credit. he may be
a troll (it's only what i heard several times), but his pool is remarkable for the different transaction policies and the only one to push non-standard stuff..
mircea_popescu: or maybe he's just
a random dork with no better entertainment options.
dexX7: i sent him
a bait some weeks ago, but he didn't take it
Shakespeare: "The participants could then each do
a standard algorithm to generate consistent state. This might seem like
a fantasy, but Byzantine algorithms like Bitcoin [Andreesen 2014] and Namecoin show that such systems are possible today."
praeconium: Bingo, I am really
a bit more into talking with existing crowd.. :) but nice idea.
mircea_popescu: which you won't likely, because it's
a lot harder to predict turbulent flow than any one other thing
dexX7: there is
a company that offers
a quantitative model about btc (if that's the correct wording).. let me see, if i can find it
mircea_popescu: praeconium there was
a guy by the name of herbi, doingsimilar things
praeconium: I am not really
a quant, I know some basics and have knowledge of finance.. not so complex, tbh
BingoBoingo: benkay: Sure, but for some
a physical campus with ammenities like horsehair robes and doors locked from the outside can provide motivation
praeconium: Is there
a channel where people trading on quantitative models talk?
mircea_popescu: "Based on the toxic and self righteous writing style, i'm pretty sure it's him. He would never admit it though, as the account has always made fun of anyone calling it
a man."
mircea_popescu:
A revealing exchange about an exchange that isn't revealing?
BingoBoingo: I've always wondered why more marksmanship classes aren't taught with
a mirrored target
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Well, if you need
a trained Librarian.
dexX7: "Why is Havelock Investments in the SEC's crosshairs? I made an account with them, but never bought anything. Should I be worried?" "Can you get in trouble for just
a few mBTC?" ...
dexX7: wow.. some people can turn everything into fud: "If you have ownership of BTC-denominated securities such as those traded on Havelock or MPEx (such as NEOBEE, S.DICE, S.MPOE, etc.) now would be
a good time to talk to
a lawyer."
nubbins`: are there any other OOP rags looking to make
a comeback?
nubbins`: i thought that was just the name of
a miles davis song D:
BCB: mircea_popescu: I'll have
a pink carnation in my lapel
BCB: asciilifeform: they don't need
a trial. Just and indictment
BCB: mircea_popescu: I don't think you'll have
a choice in the matter.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Is the cellar
a wine cellar?
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Ethanol is
a crude anti-convulsant and is rather neuroprotective against these things.
novusordo: mircea_popescu: yeah, I looked at the CSS because I thought it was
a fall-back font
novusordo: until recently, I'd never visited trilema.com on
a windows machine
mircea_popescu: this, however, is
a head of the hydra burried for another two decades.
mircea_popescu: for what it's worth the opinions i have re likely romanian court reaction would be that should
a signature be repudiated you have about 2:3 chances to get the judge to process the pgp part of the text.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` but otherwise you can just you know... show him
a mpex contract
BingoBoingo: Eh, Maybe I'll find out about Missouri's version of this thing in time. Jefferson city is
a more pleasant drive than Springfield anyways
nubbins`: surely there's an article written on this, anyone got
a title handy??
nubbins`: [14:50:31] <Inkata> can anyone point me to
a modern way to sign contracts? real-life contracts with crypto?
nubbins`: figured i'd sweeten the pot
a bit
nubbins`: does it usually take
a while for initial bets to appear?
mircea_popescu: BCB As the wolly-haired Melanasians of Papua, New Guinea once said, (Makes
a series of clicking and popping sounds)
ThickAsThieves: "Today, however, founder Tim Sweeney is announcing
a new business model: Epic will charge just $19
a month, and 5 percent of
a game developer's gross revenue, for access to the complete Unreal Engine set of tools and even its source code."
BingoBoingo: Shit might be useful if people announced things were happening today on
a timeline with greater advanced notice than
a single day
mircea_popescu: i should take
a bet for when this mpoe-pr = mp thing finally dies.
ThickAsThieves: best evidence i have is "last I heard from
a chinese parent in my kids chinese class (which was maybe
a few months back) in that in China EVERYONE was into litecoin."
mike_c: if difficulty increases stay this low, cap won't be
a problem
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I know the benkay and bitcoinpete readings of the emails are that the SEC will crash into you. I like to think that decoding your last email has been assigned to
a few committees and all of the summer interns
benkay: i informed him it'd make for
a downright wacky marketplace.
benkay:
a man once spoke to me about explicit collateralization of options.
mike_c: there were only
a few bids up above the cap. the seller was likely probably one person :)
thestringpuller: infinity is not finite, it's unreachable someone might as well physically deliver you
a printer
mircea_popescu: if there existed
a way to physically deliver we wouldn't have this problem at all.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves so i don't cap it. you come to make
a contract, have to deposit infinity btc.
mircea_popescu: but it was clear to everyone that 2.9x times previous cover would be
a top limit i would imagine
ThickAsThieves: "I see myself forced to conclude the contract is not well understood by market participants, which is
a problem that will have to be addressed."
nubbins`: thestringpuller was commissioning
a portrait of you for the conference, but he sat on his hands too long and it won't be ready
ThickAsThieves:
a friend of mine actually is one of the scientists working on these kind bug killers
nubbins`: i find i digest information most easily when it's crammed into
a fuckin one-inch column
nubbins`: zerohedge sure does know how to make
a comment thread easy to read
only: asciilifeform: isn't 28
a bit kindof early?
LordPutin: i would like to see
a bitbet that australia wontwin
a single group match for the world cup this year
nubbins`: putting out
a murder-for-hire does indeed break the rules
kakobrekla: its
a pass the bomb kinda thing, nefario and ukyo failed on that
topace: November 1, 2013 officially the operation of havelock was handed off to the panama fund s.
a.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` there's no sauch thing as poor wording in
a contracxt.
mircea_popescu: as
a result their contracts say exactly what they mean : LMB is responsible for any havelock theft etc
sheldonthomas: no exploit -- but i must admit, that's
a surefire way to turn off
a prospective investor