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benkay: fun programming exercise: make
a thing that demonstrates "real" chaos
mike_c: oh, so it only triggers
a capital need if the price moves adversely?
mike_c: you confused me the other day when you said the put sales didn't trigger
a capital need by mpoe
mike_c: it only matters if investor returns on JD are predictable. which 1) they are if there are
a bunch of small bettors, 2) they are not if there are whales.
davout: hang on, gonna fish that book about chaos i read
a while ago, really really interesting read
mircea_popescu: once it has
a mean, any element of that set has
a sdev
davout: any finite set has
a mean
davout: talk to me like i'm five, or
a golden retriever for that matter
nubbins`: i had
a dream that i visited romania last night
mjr_: mircea_popescu: i just saw you have
a euro future, nice
mike_c: i know how to quantify jd risk. mpbor i'm still floundering
a bit..
pankkake: you might want to do
a whilelist instead
pankkake: "Someone who provides
a very needed service for the community"
ThickAsThieves: "Even at
a 10 billion dollar market cap — the peak achieved by Beanie Babies in 1999 — bitcoin is almost irrelevant in financial terms."
pankkake: well it would have shown "
a woman with the morals of
a man"
ThickAsThieves: "The only way to quickly buy bitcoins requires cash:
a consuming, hastle-prone step." how you know an article is garbage
mircea_popescu: in
a sense they had been slowly being decoupled from btc economy since april 2013.
mircea_popescu: inb4 karpeles comes out in march with
a "well we can't say anything but not even bitfunder said anything yet so"
mircea_popescu: nubbins` but what if you were solidly anchored in
a 9 inch solid steel
nubbins`: asciilifeform, using
a laptop on
a treadmill is brutal
benkay: sitting on
a ball isn't going to fix the health problem of being obese.
jurov: If you are interested in becoming
a Coinsultant, this is
a right time for you. Coinsulting family is growing same as Crypto Currencies do. In case you consider yourself being the right one, please send us your CV at careers@coinsulting.net
mircea_popescu: nubbins` when you're fat and you dork with computers
a lot your lower back suffers.
nubbins`: you trust
a guy who sits on one of those, you deserve what you get
jurov: Our firm Coinsulting Ltd. is first Crypto consulting agency specializing on compliance services for Bitcoin businesses. We advise our clients how to do their business legally all around the world. On March 22nd 2014, we are organizing
a Bitcoin event in Shanghai, China called BTCrisis conference.
mircea_popescu: now and again i take one of their guys, send him flying through three sheets of frozen glass, distribute the photos. it's really
a lot of fun.
nubbins`: "hey
a new canadian exchange! great!"
gribble: Error: "fuckit" is not
a valid command.
deadweasel: So
a guy who calls himself "Magical Tux" and describes himself as "PHP Developer working on some weird stuff, like
a mail server (POP3/IMAP4/SMTP) written in PHP" was not able to build
a reliable worldwide exchange?
mircea_popescu: <nubbins`> ehh, it's been dead for
a while. still coughs up blood every now and again tho <<
deadweasel: sounds like
a sex act of dubious value
nubbins`: ehh, it's been dead for
a while. still coughs up blood every now and again tho
mike_c:
a centralized altcoin. there's an innovation for you.
Mats_cd03: now mod6 can retire to
a private island
mircea_popescu: okay, the first to name
a 90 year old blind general that took part in actual field hostilities gets 1000 ALTs
joecool: US census still has
a "draw
a picture of your address" section
joecool: "i live in
a cardboard box down the street next to the guy who lives in
a shoe"
mircea_popescu: dude that's
a fucking address. why can't i have an address like that.
mircea_popescu: i guess you could run quite
a kickass restaurant on cans only
mircea_popescu: also there are
a bunch of terrines which you pretty much prefer canned...
punkman: deadweasel, catching an octopus is just
a great way to start the day
mircea_popescu: suddenly she opens the hatch, pulls out
a fishing cane
mircea_popescu: lol i just had this idea for
a short. typical airline interior, superhot stewardess, seamed stockings
punkman: fish in sauce in
a can always tastes awful for me
punkman: no mostly just open it, dump it on
a plate and serve
mircea_popescu: punkman you mean they cook already opened cans or do you mean they offer
a selection of stuff like canned tennis balls etc ?
deadweasel: it's true, I get my beef from
a local farmer, it's not gray, it's actually Red!
deadweasel: mircea_popescu: you're probaly right. the fresh shrimp aren't so bad, but I'll always prefer
a grassfed beef cow.
mircea_popescu: fresh from the hands of
a greek chick i nthe water... diff story.
mike_c: bitcoinaverage had
a button to remove gox price from inception. can't wait for them to die, it will be better than SR dying.
the20year3: With as much money as gox had coming in/going out , they should have had
a full time seucrity team doing nothing but looking for weaknesses
ThickAsThieves: guess who writes
a great line like this "The news is only the latest in
a nearly year-long series of shocks to hit the once seemingly unassailable exchange. "
mike_c: i had some lulz yesterday reading the logs with people talking about how easy it is to get 9's on
a system :)
nubbins`: kako accidentally sent
a file to some clients with that name
moiety: i keep getting told "it's
a thing!" but no explanation on niggers.txt
nubbins`: she was in the middle of writing
a proposal that she had "temporarily" named "beat-off.doc"
ozbot:
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moiety: yep it didn't work before because there was just
a 'u' missing
MisterE: let them build
a strong case too
ThickAsThieves: "Murder-for-Hire, the most sensationalistic and damning allegation of the government, was NOT
a formal charge in the arraignment of Ross Ulbricht yesterday. When Ross stood up and pled “not guilty” to each indictment presented by the judge, there was no mention of murder at all. We have always known this claim was false. Now it is merely an “uncharged crime,”
a component of the
ThickAsThieves: in tradinviews, is there
a way to get it to always show the date you are hovering over
gribble: Error: "eath" is not
a valid command.
KRS1: hah love this part: examined Gox’s code to some degree, and remarked that they are using
a strange “hodgepodge of technologies that are really not suitable for running an exchange.”
ThickAsThieves: it tx ids are malleable why rely on them for
a private system?
ThickAsThieves: but really their implementation was not robust enough to work properly and they have
a web to untangle
ThickAsThieves: On
a personal note, I am not at all happy about this outcome."
ThickAsThieves: lol @ dr greg "Due to the fun of repeatedly chasing my tail for several minutes, backing out of positions left unhedged by the BTC.sx delay, and eating the spread both at BTC.sx and at ICBIT as
a result, the fund has taken
a haircut of just over 2% -- enough to erase all our gains to date."
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