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mircea_popescu: decimation: I would like to put in a good word for KnC miner. << so it actually works out to them booking a nominal loss because of spot movement ?
mircea_popescu: generally that point should be made by the man's name, not by idle adulation by (other) anon entities.
mircea_popescu: anyway, who is this "integrity unquesitonable" guy we forget to mention ?
mircea_popescu: "I know the the responsible for the conference, and his integrity is unquestionable."
mircea_popescu: "rights = just like freedom, except when you might need them or wish to use them. then they're like a cock up your ass."
mircea_popescu: it's actually a very good idea, and i'd still like to see it done.
mircea_popescu: yeah, that's an idea we were going to develop but didn't actually get started on.
mircea_popescu: xanthyos: thestringpuller: what if we created a #bitcoin-assets pokerstars home game club and had a way that every account generated was tied to a gribble-authed account, and use it as both a gaming platform as well as a record-keeping ledger for off-blockchain track of wins and losses <<< check it out kakobrekla
mircea_popescu: "we have a billion bitcoins, can't afford advertising, here's a link you have to c/p"
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: cazalla: Gordhan is a smart man, but they're doing exactly as expected - they're just going to copy what everyone else is doing << your definition of smartness is very tolerant.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: so due to this thing called new year there is 57 bets waiting resolution. good luck to the mods. << i'd say they did pretty okay!
☟︎ mircea_popescu: kakobrekla he probably even struggles in opposition of bathing as much as the usual dog.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: gossip from the glider club: guys in construction (yachts etc) are talking about 5% cogs increases every month for the past 3 << translate the significance of this for the aerodynamically innocent ?
mircea_popescu: why not ? maybe he's a gimp slaveboi. he certainly looks it. heck, maybe i put it all on weekly powerpoints.
mircea_popescu: i especially loved the "it might have". yeah, and i might have fucked obama in the ass.
mircea_popescu: just... has to cover his bets, because he might be old but he suspects he'll outlive teh muppet show.
mircea_popescu: sonable to assume that its analysts are in pretty deep. The agency might have intelligence on the planning process for the hack. It might, say, have phone calls discussing the project, weekly PowerPoint status reports, or even Kim Jong Un's sign-off on the plan."
mircea_popescu: TomServo: I'm surprised ol' Brucey Bruce isn't parroting the "OMG NK!!1" line. << "Tellingly, the FBI's press release says that the bureau's conclusion is only based "in part" on these clues. This leaves open the possibility that the government has classified evidence that North Korea is behind the attack. The NSA has been trying to eavesdrop on North Korea's government communications since the Korean War, and it's rea
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: kakobrekla: b/c man living as man was meant to << seriously, man was meant to live like that ?! i dunno...
mircea_popescu: such as, the womenz. maybe he ran into a few adolescent bosniac sluts on his recon visit
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: Why does my brother pretend he has not the slightest bit of racism in him yet when he moves to the city chooses a Bosnian neighborhood over a black neighborhood? <<< i can see a few reasons right off.
mircea_popescu: "I learned a valuable lesson here though. Don’t trust .gitignores and gems like Firago for keeping your data safe,"
mircea_popescu: o look at that, the exchanges quoting under 300 ? lol. k.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: OMG MP vacation has been one of the best things to happen to MPOE price... aside from saving OpenBSD. << my lyf ;/
mircea_popescu: Pierre_Rochard: Hi, I was starting to miss this place << preach it sistar!
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo incidentally, qntra ever cover the btcexchange thing ?
mircea_popescu: was a funny exercise in "so i shouldn't make emacs easier to use for the people already using it because this will lower the barrier to entry for idiots and ruin the party ? what are you, insane ?"
mircea_popescu: if they didn't mostly lose, they wouldn't be "homicide da union", they'd be the cupcakes and crumpets core.
mircea_popescu: in which case at most we can't say whether it's a good or bad idea, and shouldn't bother with it at all ?
mircea_popescu: this will increase failures from F to F+y, where y/F > x/U > e/X
mircea_popescu: this increases the pool of users from U to U+x. the average sophistication of x is < than the average of U. in fact it's common even if we won;t rely on it that the peak of x is under the lowest of U.
mircea_popescu: okay. suppose currently robot has use cost X, expressed in some translated value of he sophistication/time/etc needed to use it.
mircea_popescu: i can readily construct a scenario where it harms, if it helps.
mircea_popescu: this has little to do with the software in question mind.
mircea_popescu: errything to do with what every senator knows and fears at home.
mircea_popescu: generally, people tend to hurl as insults/bombs/damage to others what they're most afraid of themselves. there's a very good reason color revolutions exist, and it has nothing to do with ukraine or gaddafi.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: they go out, same as in usg-sponsored 'colour revolutions', because 'there's action tonight' << quite. which is why it's so lulzy to watch.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: But... the 3d printed gun dude says burn it all down is an ideology... << i agree. it is.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: kakobrekla 1 because it's the smallest amount of number.
mircea_popescu: (and generally, moral thought proceeds quite strictly : 1) is this a good thing or a bad thing ; 2) how much of it ? there's no overalpping these stages)
mircea_popescu: let's put it in more general terms. you're proposing to lower the bar of what constitutes a qualified investor.
mircea_popescu: nothing at all. (note that i use "moral" properly, not in the bastardized form common among the plethora of would-be stalins without the ballsack.)