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mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal can take half an hour...
kakobrekla: TheNewDeal read the trilema article
dub: mike_c: its probably (as TheNewDeal said) lining up with the tax year? It does in some places by convention
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal try and see, this is like a totally real virtual reality.
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal you can specify them by block height and have a reasonable but outside resolve date
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal in principle one could propose and seed bets for each retarget
BingoBoingo: TheNewDeal: I played a variant of the Tuba so maybe I have too much lung
BingoBoingo: TheNewDeal: I dunno why... Nothing about Cannibais touches tobacco's awesomeness
BingoBoingo: TheNewDeal: Fucking county mounties on their high horse about last year's alleged misdemeanor
BingoBoingo: TheNewDeal: But the paranoia I'm feeling is "special"
BingoBoingo: TheNewDeal: Not yet
nubbins`: punkman and thenewdeal both ordered two, i think
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: TheNewDeal: Sure. I wonder how long it is though until someone starts getting the idea to sell NFL players suspension insurance << poster child for ininsurable risk.
BingoBoingo: TheNewDeal: The "serious schools" as there was a discussion of not too long ago here are essentially palace economies that dominate the surrounding geography.
BingoBoingo: TheNewDeal: Similar reason to why Nick Saban won't coach an NFL team. He has established a ridiculous value for himself at exactly one geographic location.
BingoBoingo: TheNewDeal: You can't do that though when the incident happens within months of your contract expiring, so Mizzou got to renew Pinkel at a discount
BingoBoingo: TheNewDeal: But... But... This was the "Man of Integrity" who chased Dorial Green Beckam into Oklahomo's open arms...
BingoBoingo: TheNewDeal: College Coach two years from becoming the school's winningest got boned on his next contract.
BingoBoingo: TheNewDeal: Still the Pinkel guy lost probably 4 million over four years since after he had some wine with dinner he got arrested.
BingoBoingo: TheNewDeal: Of course the moral hazard is that marginal defensive backs and linemen are going to TRY to get arrested when cut time comes around
BingoBoingo: ^ TheNewDeal That's also where the money is, college coaches
BingoBoingo: TheNewDeal: Sure. I wonder how long it is though until someone starts getting the idea to sell NFL players suspension insurance
BingoBoingo: TheNewDeal: Well, part of it is just quitting is so lucrative in his position
mircea_popescu: decimation: TheNewDeal: i've heard that black bears aren't so aggressive as long as you don't corner a cub << bears generally aren't aggressive at all. felides&canides are aggressive if very hungry or during mating season, but otherwise you can get out and people have for ages. animal aggressivity is a cost/benefit consideration, they';re not the convenient antichrist retarded human shamans preach.
decimation: TheNewDeal: i've heard that black bears aren't so aggressive as long as you don't corner a cub
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal tis in teh log
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal looking for boarcock
asciilifeform: TheNewDeal: trick. no typo.
BingoBoingo: TheNewDeal: What happened to the B1G, You don't play any of [Michigan. Michigan State, Ohio SucksCocks University}
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal so are you clear on wha happened there ?
BingoBoingo: TheNewDeal: Were you betting on No?
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal i have no idea why i have to drag it out of you. you';re the upset party, you're supposed to be naturally verbose.
BingoBoingo: <TheNewDeal> If I go to an atm at a casino, and I want to withdraw, where do i withdraw from? << Not ATM at the casino, gambling machines
jurov: TheNewDeal what bank account?
asciilifeform: TheNewDeal: let's suppose you have no idea how the machine works
jurov: TheNewDeal: they told him everyone will try to fool the machine
asciilifeform: TheNewDeal: likewise, if you give a sham benjamin to a living person, he might cry out for help before you can run off.
asciilifeform: TheNewDeal: the bar is considerably lower for fooling a machine. (until recently, the readers in american vending machines did not even contain colour cameras.)
asciilifeform: TheNewDeal: hooligan inserts counterfeit usd, walks away with btc.
asciilifeform: TheNewDeal: machine, in theory, pisses out btc when you insert usd ?
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal: has any numbnut admitted fault to the btc/eur fiasco on btce last night? << nope.
kakobrekla: TheNewDeal see backlog and estimate
kakobrekla: TheNewDeal you can do that yourself.
ThickAsThieves: <+TheNewDeal> ThickAsThieves any foia response? // None reported.
mircea_popescu: legitimate my foot and who the fuck would fly that. good call TheNewDeal
mircea_popescu: <TheNewDeal> Have you ever heard of a plane with a parachute? << um all of em ?
decimation: TheNewDeal: the Cirrus planes in question were prop driven if I'm not mistaken
decimation: TheNewDeal: I would like a parachute on a small plane, there are situations where it would save your life
decimation: TheNewDeal: what aerodynamic defect does it have?
BingoBoingo: TheNewDeal: Some sort of police cosplay conference or something...
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal a block has to ellapse between when bet is proposed and when it's accepted. for this reason the poster's counter bet would come out in a different weight from his zeroconf
jurov: TheNewDeal but pls read after yourself, you're clear as mud
jurov: TheNewDeal: both sides together are always 0.1 btc
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal there's a difference between form as you use it and form as used before. yours is the result of everything spurious being taken away, it's the form of livingthings chiseled in a million years of predition and ovulation.
BingoBoingo: TheNewDeal: Form and function aren't "things" though. Function is a requirement and form is a structure for implementation.
nubbins`: TheNewDeal pics of the last color perhaps
nubbins`: mircea_popescu TheNewDeal kakobrekla railzand Blazedout419 artifexd thestringpuller The20YearIRCloud etc :D
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal: Trying dig through the wot for some practice << not such a bad idea.
ben_vulpes: (you can tab-complete my name to ping me, btw TheNewDeal)
ben_vulpes: TheNewDeal: is usagi trying to get you to do biz with him?
Anduck: TheNewDeal: sup
thestringpuller: TheNewDeal: i have vi aliased to vim. but the underlying of vim (vi) is old
punkman: TheNewDeal, got some more lulz from that scammer in the end: http://dpaste.com/2T582KP
mircea_popescu: xanthyos: TheNewDeal: the site has a profit motive in having big showdowns. in cash games it increases rake taken on the hand. << it's not just that. most poker players are idiots. they like to see the pretty pictures. makes them feel better about themselves.
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal: xanthyos whenever I played SWC I also suspected that good hands came too often << as long as they come equally often for everyone, i imagine the argument goes, this isn'tr cheating but promotion.
thestringpuller: TheNewDeal: who me?
xanthyos: TheNewDeal: the site has a profit motive in having big showdowns. in cash games it increases rake taken on the hand. in tournaments it accelerates the rate at which people are eliminated, thus reducing server load
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal don't confuse digestion for simply passing things through the system untouched.
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal lemme put this in more readily digestible terms for you.
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal you familiar with the concept of "parallel construction" ?
smidge slaps TheNewDeal around a bit with a large trout
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal it's not supposed to be on your tongue, it's supposed to be on hers.
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal http://trilema.com/2011/moment-de-intimitate-n-baie/
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal: original yes on the brk-a bet is yielding 17.5%, not bad at all << also underwater atm.
mike_c: TheNewDeal: indeed, the site knew I was on vacation and has been throwing a tantrum. My apologies. I beat it appropriately and it is back on track.
mircea_popescu: !down TheNewDeal
Apocalyptic: <TheNewDeal> he has moved beyond ass & tities // he's now pumping some scamcoins yeah
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal yes well, what's that do you know ?
asciilifeform: TheNewDeal: i always suspected you could turn american beer into something like proper beer with a 'rotovap'
beetcoin: you must grow your own beetcoins, TheNewDeal
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal: russian would be a good language to learn. Some of the best authors wrote in russian << it's actually not nearly as hard as it seems.
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal: obummer ran on the pretense of "Change" << yeah but change that way not this way.
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal l2 trust must be > 0
asciilifeform: TheNewDeal: even if you don't care for languages at all - learn it, and it's as if copyrasty never existed
BingoBoingo: TheNewDeal: Identifying the language is the most fun part
BingoBoingo: TheNewDeal: I'm rushing to get to speaking, but dictionary assisted reading is like a nice puzzle
BingoBoingo: TheNewDeal: You've never chewed on strange languages before?
asciilifeform: TheNewDeal: engrish version << library?
asciilifeform: TheNewDeal: to usg, the only 'problem in bitcoin' is that it exists.
asciilifeform: TheNewDeal: wtf is a 'usg scientist' in this context? something akin to 'christian scientist' (TM) ?
asciilifeform: TheNewDeal: they like the status quo just fine, in most aspects. just not the present allocation of the loot.
decimation: TheNewDeal: good point. it would be a mistake to attempt to analyze pablum with logic
dsherm: TheNewDeal: They may understand bitcoin but do they understand the implications of it
decimation: TheNewDeal: the pro-state element (most of whom you named) certainly are not fans of hard money, insofar as it upsets the status quote (state controls money)
dsherm: TheNewDeal: i suspect those crypto were also libertarians
dsherm: TheNewDeal: well then a greater percentage of anarchists seem to have more than 5 brain cells
BingoBoingo: TheNewDeal: Well, a difference is who it appealed to and when
dsherm: TheNewDeal: Bitcoin is hard money which appeals to libertarians
dsherm: TheNewDeal: bitcoin and deflation
dsherm: TheNewDeal: i will probably be one of those guys. i gotta learn how to use this irc thing