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midnightmagic: Of course were I pure hypothetical pure soul standing in front of many bags, into each one I could leap and choose what time I arrived, absent any cultural baggage and in any event viscera at all, perhaps I would think differently.
As I am now? Disease, sanitation, violence, injustice, cruelty, exposure, starvation.. these are alien pressures to any of us. A rare, rare few thinking they could achiev
mircea_popescu: your epithets are about
as interesting
as the miners calling you a confused youth with no real understanding of the world.
mircea_popescu: consider
as a simple example palindromes, a 2004 film by todd solondz. it tells the story of a plain, common girl aged 13 that wants to get pregnant. she is in this representative of a small but present throughout history minority. for living in any other time, she would have had a husband, children and a family and been perfectly happy. such
as is amply recorded,
as undesirious we might be to look at the records.
midnightmagic: I merely intended to convey the hypothetical notion of an actual life
as experienced first-hand. Even 100 years ago frontiersmen arriving to the Klondike,
as a more accessible example, lived a life so perilous and filled with hardship I doubt nearly anyone alive would choose to return to it.
midnightmagic: Either through modern weakness, or perhaps a lack of related distant observational choice of a pure soul about to be born, it would surprise me indeed to discover a current-era developed-nation citizen who when presented with a factual account of ancient human life would choose to return to primal ways. The romance of the garden of eden is similarly equidistant from fact
as is the romance of classic
mircea_popescu: ~nobody at any point in history was
as sad a lot
as the ~1bn dead souls captive in the said remains of "the western world"
copumpkin: it still shows me
as having MPOE holdings. Is that expected?
a111: Logged on 2016-04-20 23:17 mod6: this matcha tea isn't bad
as long
as its not clumpy
mod6: this matcha tea isn't bad
as long
as its not clumpy
☟︎ wywialm: no,
as i said before, i already have the automated market making algorithms, i look for expanding its funding
wywialm: generally, it will look
as follows: the CDSs have a specific maturity (possibly matching futures expirations). The person buys the CDS with a discount from the notional value, the proceeds from the sale of the CDS is locked until maturity. If no credit event occurs, full notional value is paid out. if it does, first the insurance fund from the exchange is used, and CDS holders are a last resort
wywialm: at present stage, the mechanisms i tried to describe are only capable of making the "short hairy jewish girl" scenario
as unlikely
as possible. what could make it really impossible, is to issue a CDS on the general liabilities of the exchange. The proceedings from the sale would increase the insurance fund in return for a compensation. If total amount of insurance fund and CDS issued is greater than potential losses, no haircut on profits would
wywialm: let me refer to your example. first A owns his contracts in the same way B owns them. if A has short positions, these contracts are not fully collateralized. if B's losses exceed his margin (here: 50%), and exchange's insurance fund, in that situation A's profit, but not his initial deposit will be diminished accordingly. in that way, the exchange acts only
as a intermediate between the counterparties
mircea_popescu: so far, i'm not
as much
as able to distinguish this from "here's my facebook clone", honestly.
mircea_popescu: you can't say you designed something and then keep pulling items from your sleeve
as discussion of your design progresses.
wywialm: if price moves far enough, the auction serves
as a circuit-breaker. Essentially, the only risk lies not in a noisy market or irrational, but in a large, certain but unforseen, and fundamental jump in the price
mircea_popescu: essentially, you see what the big boys are doing, and figure you'll just do it yourself. except - the big boys can do things BECAUSE they are the big boys, ie, there's bernanke there to "save the economy". you aren't, and i can lean on you. moreover, the big boys don't ever do this 2:1 thing. they do a little margin, and
as private financing, which is exactly how you should be doing it also.
wywialm: ok, let me take it directly c) no, in no case the actual deposits are used
as a coverage. The risk management has following steps:
wywialm: beggining from the last, c-1) yes, and
as far
as i remember, you removed a 'scam' warning from them
wywialm: i'm not sure that i understand what you mean. i offer margin
as i believe that the liquidation mechanism (including auction) will make sure that the losses do not exceed the deposits
wywialm: i designed the exchange, yes -
as i said then, all the economic and transactional aspects are designed by me.
a111: Logged on 2016-04-20 16:20 phf: both are fledgling processes, self contained by implicit tmsr rules.
as economic activities they could never the less grow and gradually eat more of the outside world
mircea_popescu: it doesn't attach to me, or to mpex. i'm doing things. it attaches to you, personally : you're not good enough. and you sure
as hell fore that reason do not belong opining in here. go learn how to do things that mpex may consider listing.
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-04-20#1454005 <<< it was explained originally and has to be explained periodically [because the flies have infinite hitpoints only in aggregate,
as the fly swarm, otherwise live for half a year
as individuals] that the principal point of the fee is specifically to keep fees away.
☝︎ phf: both are fledgling processes, self contained by implicit tmsr rules.
as economic activities they could never the less grow and gradually eat more of the outside world
☟︎ phf: mpex value hinges on long term viability of bitcoin
as a way to store and accumulate wealth
solrodar: and he admitted
as much when he said "By now its opacity verges on the ridiculous."
mats: it got a little harder when mpex stopped offering options, but s.mpoe had a lot of volume for a long time precisely because it was valuable and served
as a symbol for the exchange
phf: i actually did some maths and was ready to drop 50btc on an mpex account, but held off for the main reason that i don't see a solution (and there wasn't one found) to minor collusion problem. that conversation happened ~last october~ (or whereabouts), it was framed
as a hypothetical, but it was a long precursor to chinese miner conferences (that in turn was serious grounds to suspect potential cartel) and all that other stuff.
phf: that decision had causes that in turn took several months to form and manifest
as these things usually go
phf: any particular preferences if q=foo&q=bar should work
as grep foo|grep bar or grep foo.*bar?
mircea_popescu: if you say "
as implemented* (in sane places)" you've said "burn this thing down"
mircea_popescu: tbh epoch time prolly a bad idea. for one thing - it is fundamentally retarded in implementation and for this reason not actually usable
as intended (see discussion
as to why it should be UNIVERSAL and timezone applied on top of it not this random variable). for the other thing, it's not so friendly to humans, whereas the urls are intended and expected to be hand-processable.
mircea_popescu: yet after they were accused of stabbing the army in the back, they overthrew the government "without breaking
as much
as a windowpane"
phf: mircea_popescu: so i started working on a proper search, but that takes time, since need a query parser and a query compiler, that's maybe 40% done. but i can give you relatively soon an ability to pass multiple q parameters. so it'll be log-search?q=black&q=jews so that those will stack up, i.e. first grep is applied and the second one is used
as filter
shinohai looks for Asian therapists that double
as nurses ...
mod6: basically, you can't choose it, but they throw that in
as in, "hey, look, we're such good guys we're gonna give you the day off even though you probably would have taken it off anyway; nevermind that the rest of the "free" world has this day off too."
mircea_popescu: there's nothing illegitimate about preferences, inasmuch
as they're someone's preference.
mircea_popescu: suffice it to say that one thing leads to the next, and before you know it you're a robber on the lam with some dead nightwatchmen in your past, merely for "just wanting to". evil is fruit of the poisonous root, and for
as long
as one buys into the priors, one will end up in VCtron land willy-nilly.
trinque: it's not so much a payment
as it's a facebook "like"
a111: Logged on 2016-04-18 16:36 mircea_popescu: why is it that you think yourself the crystal dragon jesus of wrighting boats when you can't
as much
as punch out another chimp ?
mircea_popescu: this heuristic is about
as idiotic
as the heuristic that you consider men approachable for sex but women not.
mircea_popescu: why is it that you think yourself the crystal dragon jesus of wrighting boats when you can't
as much
as punch out another chimp ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: nevertheless you do not consider the former a feasible approach to the problem of tax ; but you without
as much
as batting an eyelash pull the former out fo ass in response to a challenge you hadn't even considewred!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not the point. the point was that YOU COULD, actually, wring a tax accountant's neck. you could not,
as a factual matter, plug a leak.
phf: asciilifeform: you really need to be a mythical la-fondian character from robert howard stories to pull it off
as "escape from rent", but then you won't be escaping to begin with, since you were never it
mircea_popescu: the reason this is so, is because
as you age you become enmoored to various idiocies.
phf: it seems like a fun thing to do when you're young though,
as long
as you don't sit in the dock all the time ermagerd
mircea_popescu: if you're going to do that might
as well move to rural georgia, pick a blondy and a mulatto woman and smoke meth for your remaining years.
mircea_popescu: you're going to fix leaks alone when you couldn't
as much
as buldgeon to death a puny taxman.
mircea_popescu: and if you can't talk to women - BE MORE SELECTIVE
AS TO THE WOMEN YOU TALK TO!!11
mircea_popescu: the notion that escape from rent is to go into a hostile element that's not self-sustainable is about
as retarded
as you'd expect from americans.
mircea_popescu: the point being, that the mooring costs of a small vessel are about
as relevant to such decisions
as the cost of toilet paper to choosing your eventual residence.
mircea_popescu: ah no, it's handled
as a round robin. you ask for it, dns server gives you the least loaded ip
mike_c: and 'registered', which is.. somewhat useful
as well
trinque: yeah, prolly
as a command too
a111: Logged on 2016-04-17 08:17 mircea_popescu: sooo, freenode is patently going to shit. their dns round robin list is about half
as long
as it used to be, with stuff in the same subnet even, never seen before. and half the shit dun work, like say 185.30.166/24
mircea_popescu: fucking republic, tax goes up 10x, nobody
as much
as notices.
mircea_popescu: sooo, freenode is patently going to shit. their dns round robin list is about half
as long
as it used to be, with stuff in the same subnet even, never seen before. and half the shit dun work, like say 185.30.166/24
☟︎ davout: yeah, i see the previous ones
as well on deedbot.org
mircea_popescu: henceforth i'll be referring to the poisonous delusion that there is or could be some kind of separation between technical ability and political standing
as science.
as in #bitcoin-asscience.
pete_dushenski: but don't take my hunches
as god's word, intel dept i'm not
a111: Logged on 2016-04-15 20:37 mircea_popescu: everything you ever saw said or thought or felt about rap
as a subcultural phenomenon, some romanian somewhere thought, said or felt,
as if they were his fucking own words, feelings and thoughts! and the groups respectively map, also!
mircea_popescu: because if you see it
as ?fixme=blabla you redirect it :D
mircea_popescu: everything you ever saw said or thought or felt about rap
as a subcultural phenomenon, some romanian somewhere thought, said or felt,
as if they were his fucking own words, feelings and thoughts! and the groups respectively map, also!
☟︎ mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo
as they explained, they've learned from lessons of the past and will be doing things differently or somesuch.
mod6: BingoBoingo & trinque; im not sure how i seem to stay connected for
as long
as i generally do. but i bet among us all, i have the longest running connection times; on average.
PeterL: aha, had it
as false and then changed to 0, oops
adlai: so mircea_popescu, your commandment will be fulfilled, but i doubt i'll title my blog exactly
as you wished. (sosumi)
mircea_popescu: davout i have no idea
as to what kakobrekla is ranting/raving about nor any interest.
davout: anyway,
as soon
as i receive the additional cash i'll craft the unsigned transaction and publish it for public review
mircea_popescu: eh, they all wanna be carrie bradshaw. except they don't even put
as much effort into it
as the average midwestern hayseed chick
mircea_popescu:
as the old guys die, there's no young guys to replace them.
BingoBoingo: Iterlude from the mines: "During the 9/11 attacks, more people died than should have because the obese people in the buildings could not move down 20 flights of stairs
as fast
as needed. FACT. Obese people moving slow (
as fast
as they can) in a burning building stairwell absolutely can cause people to not make it out alive. This is the most triggering one for me. I'm one of those people who volunteered in my office to help people escape