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nubbins`: you've certainly got
a bee in your bonnet
mircea_popescu: BitcoinSachs do you know who you're making
a fool of yourself in front of ?
BitcoinSachs: Bunch of cowards sitting behind
a IRC chat talking shit on someone.
BitcoinSachs: I was told there was
a fair amount of BitcoinWife bashing going on in here.
nubbins`: as
a canadian, it doesn't mean jack shit to me
mircea_popescu: in fact, im not even sure i fucked
a romanian this year.
mircea_popescu: it used to mean shomething, 500 years ago. now i'm more likely to fuck
a foreign chick than
a local one.
nubbins`: set up
a money exchange in eulora
benkay: makes me want to build
a pay-to-play 4x webgame
mircea_popescu: oh my game was "M.
A.X: Mechanized Assault and Exploration"
chetty: The holding up
a mirror to the police was pretty good
benkay: more along the lines of "who can muster
a pickup full of men with shotguns"
mircea_popescu: benkay i doubt that'll end up mattering. as it is right now, nobody cares who can ride horses or owns
a pair of chaps
nubbins`: the guy in charge at the time was
a real hothead
nubbins`: i picture
a room full of suits furrowing their brows and wondering aloud if they can un-expropriate things
mircea_popescu: (obv the russian govt side would very much argue that they did
a splendid job, protected it via diplomacy.)
mircea_popescu: repudiation is the unilateral rejection of
a claim. like what companies do on havelock,
mircea_popescu: and moreover, even if they strike it big, repudiation is
a major concern.
mircea_popescu: randomcloud i used to have
a well paid consultancy before bitcoin swallowed me.
nubbins`: once
a year the canadian government sells titles
mircea_popescu: randomcloud im
a businessman. i know business. it's what i do.
nubbins`: the process of procuring
a claim here is
a bit of an odd thing
mircea_popescu: pretty much all fields have
a few majors in this business.
mircea_popescu: once
a claim is actually worth enough, the majors buy them out.
benkay: yeah i bet nautilus needed
a shitton of capital
benkay: but robots man! i've always had
a hardon for robots. i'd like to get back to hacking on robots, and of larger scale too.
mircea_popescu: when i was
a kid i loved
a game, something like 3max or somesuch. it consisted basicalyl of this, you built robot metallic things, and fought over land an water against enemies.
mircea_popescu: yeah but you'll need
a coupla aircraft carriers +
a bunch of nuke subs
benkay: ocean mining is
a thing i plan to do when properly capitalized.
mircea_popescu: nevertheless it's
a fact that oxygen saturation in atmosphere has been dropping for the past coupla centuries.
mircea_popescu: lar system is free oxygen. If there will ever be
a "peak" in the inputs to hydrocarbon combustion in the solar system it will be in free oxygen -- which as
a natural occurence is extremely rare beyond Earth's atmosphere, and is rather expensive to make artificially.
mod6: its
a never-ending parade of idiots commenting on twitter about bitcoin
nubbins`: the dogs got into
a fight and we all started barking at them
mircea_popescu: totally infantile these people. and i mean, the bitcoinwife being
a clueless bint is one thing
nubbins`: well, everything's
a burden to some schmo
mircea_popescu: nubbins` you know, just because for w/e reason you don't perceive it as
a burden
nubbins`: chetty: sometimes my mouth gets tired, but only when it's
a really delicious meal that i feel i need to eat quickly
nubbins`: if eating is
a burden, you're doing it wrong
mircea_popescu: business is
a burden, children are
a burden, womenz are
a burden, fucking eating is
a burden
the20year: Used to be quite profitable, I made quite
a bit of c oin hiring philipinos to blog for companies
mircea_popescu: people with any smarts need to be convinced to start blogs. people who already have blogs... dun wanna use the noggin. it's
a dilemma.
nubbins`: although there's
a shockingly high number of really good albums that come out of it each year
nubbins`: but it's an excuse to submit
a dick surgery to the CBC
mircea_popescu: what's so hard about making an album in
a month. 3 days/song is over the average for pro pop these days.
nubbins`: we decided to make
a Dick Surgery album for RPM this year; listening to it now
KRS-One: well? who else had
a coin named after them?
mircea_popescu: fucking despicable abuse of women to
a degree not the loweliest slave in the most obscure african harem endures.
mircea_popescu: so as
a bonus exercise for he who was smart enough to find the important spot, write an alternative future or description of what the prayer should hgave been
mircea_popescu: you call one of these schmucks names it's like
a cataclysmic event in their little brain.
mircea_popescu: i mean, she thinks it's because she's
a woman, but it's merely because she's dumb.
dignork: mircea_popescu: i assume it's known since it creates
a lot of media noise in russian language. media noise can be inflated as well, it just costs more than "views"
mircea_popescu: benkay no exists as in, and i quote, "you lost me, all I said was WHO will start investing, didn't name an exit price, have
a lovely Sunday :) "
mircea_popescu: then i point out that this bs deal put the bar way wya topo high, which means there won't be more sales, as old money has more of
a clue
mike_c: kelly criterion is simple on
a 1:1 payout - you bet your edge. that is if you have
a 60% chance of winning on
a 1:1 payout you bet 20% of your bankroll.
nicknode: how much to bet then becomes
a question of expected value (or rather excess value, or "edge"), variance and account size
benkay: so it is
a simple product
benkay: hey guys what's the notion of estimating how much of your pot to bet on
a thing of known odds and payout called?
randomcloud: It said someone sent
a message 20 hours ago saying I was wanted in -assets
randomcloud: I got
a saved message that I was wanted here for some reason
dignork: mircea_popescu: gpg-contracts is
a beautifull article. Thank you.
benkay: only if we figure out
a way to use my poops as memory
benkay:
a local businessman asked me about Ethereum and its "distributed autonomous corporations" recently. i sent him back
a tome the gist of which was "come on man you run
a business do you really think these nerds are going to code up an AI that can handle the ambiguity and indeterminacy of what we do? it mighta worked for S.D. and J.D. but shit at the end of the day those were driven just fine by humans!"
thestringpuller: blogger: "omg crytocontracts are new, they'll change things" bitcoin-assets: "Uh we've been using them for
a few years now, we know."
Jere_Jones: I've been reading
a lot of trilema so it may take me
a minute to find it.
thestringpuller: i just thought mircea_popescu would find that article interesting since he talkeda bout teh concept like
a year ago
cazalla: karpeles is
a loser and i think he is
a booser
bloctoc: note to self, if offered
a seat on the board, run.
bitcoinpete: ;;later tell mircea_popescu cluck, cluck! Also, for the sake of curiosity, I'd be more interested in
a car registry than
a car club per se. Also also, ce nu the omoarà the intàreste. Noroc!
davout: dexX7: the tranny porn is in
a private folder
benkay downloads 60 megs of binary to disk from
a stranger's dropbox
bitcoinpete: It's
a stimulating space, that's why I'm here
benkay: that's just
a joke jurov ;)
davout: i love to compare interpretations, sometimes it feels like the differences make for
a completely different piece
davout: gimme
a minute, imma install dropbox