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ThickAsThieves: it's like $2800 for 1000sqft in San Francisco and $800/mo for
a 1700sqft house in north Florida
mircea_popescu: the "half
a house" comment probably references older discussions re the housing market in central ohio
mircea_popescu: point remains, there is
a LOT of variance in both housing prices and salaries in the us.
herbijudlestoids: just checked to confirm US avg salary is $52k USD and AUS avg salary is $73k AUD, evens out to be about 50/70 on
a PP basis
mircea_popescu: ro gdp/capita is like 8k. average salary is like 500, minimum wage is
a whopping 150 dollars.
herbijudlestoids: in aus the house price to avg salary ratio is double the US, so 100BTC is like, 20% at best for the value of
a house here :P
nubbins`: that's like almost half
a house!
nubbins`: i'd be nervous with 100btc on
a DICE SITE even if it wasn't down
nubbins`: "OP made me feel quite ashamed of how
a lot of the listed qualities that i find so disgusting in of the mindsets of some the crypto following, so succinctly described my own actions which i never looked closely, instead just looking at others in contempt."
nubbins`: if you can pay to remove bans, posts like that should entitle you to
a get-out-of-jail-free card
mircea_popescu: you're not getting
a pass. which is you know... wtf, this guy PASSED ?!
mircea_popescu: so are drugs. now, would you take
a 20 dollar hit the day of
a 20k exam ?
nubbins`: actuarial exams are
a paid-for thing usually, as well
nubbins`: in which case the crash and burn would be more like
a smouldering fire
nubbins`: not being american nor
a stock broker, can't say that i have
ThickAsThieves: "If I was inclined to have
a boyfriend, I would select one my height and weight to save having to readjust the driver's seat position. I am not interested in doubling my wardrobe as I wear the same outfit everyday to facilitate speedy identification should I ever be in
a boating accident."
nubbins`:
a guy really does lsd in that wall street movie and writes an exam and passes it?
ThickAsThieves: is it really
a prediction if it was the plan all along?
mircea_popescu: tho it's
a huge task, you can't even read all the deluge of today
mircea_popescu: this is BECAUSE
a democratic view to specialist fields is harmful for everyone involved :
davout: wouldn't "forecasting" be
a better match?
mircea_popescu: you will find
a marked decline in the average quality.
mircea_popescu: and
a few old people left over. once they die that's it.
mircea_popescu: herbijudlestoids there's
a subtle point involved here : back when information cost money you had
a bunch of ignoramuses clearly labeled as such and lots of educated people.
mircea_popescu: then they still hate you but
a) you're having fun and b) they also love you.
herbijudlestoids: mircea_popescu: i think there is
a lot to be said for systems with high friction
mircea_popescu: herbijudlestoids what rattles me is this : how can you sit there and propose democracy as anything but
a horror, with this experience ?
mircea_popescu: this is starting to sound
a little too much like popular bitcoin finance.
BingoBoingo: herbijudlestoids: No need to own
a still. Time spent operating
a hypothical or alleged still could be better spent on other ventures.
mircea_popescu: everyone copes in his own way. apparently there's
a huge premium the internet puts on coping by insulting and publicly humiliating the stupid
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves it gets way better. "They're not hidden, they're on
a shelf. Obviously you're going to say my design isn't very good so you can justify charging to redesign it. Everyone who has seen the current brochure has said it is amazing. Ive got
a degree in fine arts and I've done an advanced course in Adobe. I probably know more indesign than you do. Art is subjective. I branded it to appeal to our customers, the
herbijudlestoids: ThickAsThieves: he mentioned to me that he is putting
a bunch up soon
Duffer1: why do i get the feeling that guy took
a fat shit in your inbox ..
BingoBoingo: herbijudlestoids: I was indeed very drunk.
A little drunk is what I am nao that I am contemplating bedtime.
AleksG: Mircea Popescu, I gotta go, I'm waiting for
a letter from you on agclear.energy@gmail.com
herbijudlestoids: BingoBoingo: the other night you and vexual convinced me to get
a WoT account which i dutifully did. i think you were
a little drunk. why did i do that?
herbijudlestoids: i told him to get
a bitpay account and bitcoin cunts would support him just for accepting bitcoin
herbijudlestoids: vexual is from aus, he lives near
a friend of mine and asked me if that friend accepted bitcoin for his jewellery so i convinced him to get
a bitpay acct and he did
mircea_popescu: if you can't wait
a week or w/e it takes pay someone who already did it, if you don't like paying wait, whatevs.
mircea_popescu: but srsly, the data is free, query mpex, get the jsons, store them, in
a week or w/e you have your sample.
truffles: this is about arguing with
a wall
truffles: sure take 1 or 2 examples to make
a point that is unsupported then call it fact right
mircea_popescu: no, i mostly use you as
a cockpuppet to illustrate the concepts involved for the general readership.
mircea_popescu: as presented your statement readily reduces to "that which people do which isn't reducible to our own idiocy and our own idiocy don't mix", which further reduces to nonA is disjunct from
A. which it is. whoop.
mircea_popescu: "greed" is
a meaningless symbol only defined in your own system. it's about as important as flogiston, generally.
AleksG: Hello, Mr. Mircea Popescu. I wrote to you about cryptography. I wrote to you about cryptography. Here you can download
a video presentation of the world's absolute cryptographic protection
http://rmxcrypt.com/ herbijudlestoids: if its too hard, nw, just
a thought that popped in my head then my plan was always to use the algos on BTCUSD in the future :)
herbijudlestoids: i dont want
a subscription to the feed, i can append to it manually as necessary but i just wanted
a one off dump of the existing EOD data
gribble: Error: 'infinity' is not
a defined function.
mircea_popescu: and
a few people are doing more or less something with the data, but there's always room for more
mircea_popescu: herbijudlestoids you don't need
a mpex acct to read the feed im sure.
herbijudlestoids: quantmod has
a function getSymbols() so i can pull say, 2000 bars of EOD data for an ETF and run various analysis against it
herbijudlestoids: you sould send
a couple of BTC to the guy who writes quantmod for R to add feed support for MPEX :D
herbijudlestoids: i have
a whole farm of algos, waiting for vols to die down on bitcoin before i try them out there
mircea_popescu: i mean if you're into trading then ok, you got
a penny stock market.
herbijudlestoids: all the others you need to click an ad or watch
a video or whatever
herbijudlestoids: seems unlike other bitcoin faucets in that it really just is
a faucet
Duffer1: it looked like
a space themed desktop background rather than
a game
Duffer1: i "watched"
a live stream of the battle on twitch.tv
herbijudlestoids: ThickAsThieves: i read about that on slashdot, some interesting comments, some people put the value at half or less,
a lot of people mentioned how reading about EVE battles is better than the battles :P
kakobrekla: is this how eulora is going to go down? "
a village ripped in Eulora, 2000 BTC btc carriages destroyed and horses burned"
herbijudlestoids: im
a professional spruiker but i already got
a job i like and also much further away from vegas :P
BingoBoingo: ThickAsThieves: If I still was active on Eve the best I could have supplied for that would have been
a gnat like thing full of viscious, still more gnat like things.
kakobrekla: BingoBoingo, that comment from happy wheels is
a spam, you do know that rite?
mircea_popescu: get
a friend, make pitches each day, send me one
a week, i'll tell you when you're good for vegas.
ThickAsThieves: Rated Hashrate: 12.8GHash/s per chip, with
a wide range of overclock/downclock options
mircea_popescu: people are more
a resource than cash, yet people steal cash way more often than people.
mircea_popescu: anyway, anyone here with
a salesman's slick and within distance of vegas ?
mircea_popescu: am shares shed
a degree of magnitude, nobody's particularly fazed.
mircea_popescu: in fairness the fallout is
a lot less than i imagined this summer.
mircea_popescu: no, that's the beauty of it. i won't need
a joe pesci.
Duffer1: you'll need
a joe peschi though too