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mircea_popescu: plus people will be able to do soft futures on its basis
mircea_popescu: schelling point. needs to have the property of direct obviousness and no other.
mircea_popescu: that's what a schelling point is. suppose you're abudcted by aliens, with a bunch of other people you never saw in your life. the aliens put four cards face up in front of each of you, the same cards, and say yo ucan go if you all pick the same card
mircea_popescu: "i will pay joe 1.5 btc for this car on may 16th, provided x.eur settles under 0.03. otherwise, 1.2 btc"
mircea_popescu: well, yes. you're in a fine position to establish a signal settlement price.
mircea_popescu: davout so, you publishing the x.eur settlement anywhere ?
mircea_popescu: the rainbows off a 80mn wide space fit on any hdd ffs.
mircea_popescu: so basically any gpg key / wallet / anything ever generater on node.js could be cracked trivially, within hours.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo afaik that was never THAT narrow. 10^8, srsly ?
mircea_popescu: write this up, in mucho detail. i bet you all the shitty "paper wallet" js implementations rest on node.js
mircea_popescu: this fucking "x will need to" replacement for "we would like for x to" is a riot.
mircea_popescu: Naphex so then they just made a bitcoin to usd gateway
mircea_popescu: decimation: it's sad that there's not mechanism for multicast on the general internet <<< god help us. lomic ?!
mircea_popescu: Naphex they can't integrate bitcoin, because i will never id to use it.
mircea_popescu: same exact thing can besaid of tcp/ip, or anything else that works.
mircea_popescu: decimation: IRC is kind of a creaky old protocol. it works, but it's like hitching a ride on a Cuban 1950's Ford truck <<< there are two kinds of protocols : the "creaky old" stuff which is good and the new shitty stuff which is bad.
mircea_popescu: ebay is rimm cca 2005. who wants to tell the people with 401k's that mp will make a killing with puts on their savings ?
mircea_popescu: the alternative is, "bitcoin will kill us in a matter of years. please keep buying our stock"
mircea_popescu: that thing says exactly nothing at all. whence bullish ?
mircea_popescu: so reddit, made out of people who have no idea how to read pr statements, got all excited ?
mircea_popescu: is this the first case of a bit* site that's pre-bitcoin ?
mircea_popescu: SUSAN: Yeah, that's the way Russell is. He doesn't like to play games.
mircea_popescu: GEORGE: Well, don't they make a counter offer? How can they just cancel the whole deal like that? What kind of a maniac is this guy? I mean he just, he says no, and that's it?
mircea_popescu: "We cannot wake up or fall asleep, remember or forget our dreams, summon or banish our thoughts, by deciding to do so.
mircea_popescu: We think our actions express our decisions. But in nearly all of our life, willing decides nothing.
mircea_popescu: well so how would you like a managerial position in mpif ?
mircea_popescu: he's got every other gadget in his 400 sq feet of "living" space
mircea_popescu: chick that's not been allowed to wear pants for 5 years now or something, tried on one of my pairs for fun. she looked incredibly hot in them.