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mircea_popescu: so far it's ambiguously either of the two, and a bunch of other stuff needs reviewing about it
mircea_popescu: fluffypony yeah. except mpoe is incorporated as a zero asset corp, and bitbet may be migrated, once i have some time to dick with that.
mircea_popescu: punkman beauty is simply a sign of good quality genetics. all things equal, beautiful people are more likely to be intelligent than ugly people.
mircea_popescu: Or that more attractive people are judged as more trustworthy, or they arguments they give as more intelligent. << this is actually not that bad a bias.
mircea_popescu: libXfont to crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code in order to gain
mircea_popescu: metadata file parsing. A local attacker could use this issue to cause
mircea_popescu: Ilja van Sprundel discovered that libXfont incorrectly handled font
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: any posting a banable offense << i thought this forum already existed ? i haven't posted in it since 2011
mircea_popescu: god i hated the jetsons. that and scooby doo, worst fucking cartoons in the history of cartoons.
mircea_popescu: assbot: Bitcoin Bingo: What Ticker Will the Winklevii Pick for Their ETF? - Bloomberg << "we forgot to mention that mp said this in his mpoe reports for february. it just occurred to us, just like that, out of the depths of our ramen fed brainz."
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: I don't get the Ohio thing << ohio is the shithole state. i used it as a metaphorical derogatory, to help the guy understand that his vc circuit is a bit player in bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: mind adding it in here with a special rule to only dump bets > 1btc ?
mircea_popescu: benkay gotta talk to a woman about that, i can't help you :D
mircea_popescu: of fucking course they'll be back on the gamestation half hour later swearing up and down that they have, and the disorder apparent is just their implementaiton of order.
mircea_popescu: you didn't expect the dead to actually embrace their death, did you ? ever sent a teenager upstairs to clean up their room ?
mircea_popescu: bounce: next you'll need a bitcoin transmission licence to send (or receive) more than 1 bitcoin per day << in their own little koi pond where bitpay is the largest best first company and us side vcs matter, they can do whatever the hell they want, up to and including a plastic version of bitcoin to go with the plastic version of a steak.
mircea_popescu: Mircea Popescu @Mircea_Popescu · now @crampell That lifetime started in 1960 and ended in 2005. The next lifetime will be quite distinct. Fight the present, not the previous war
mircea_popescu: dude, seriously, why is every two bit stripper claiming to be working "in the press" ?
mircea_popescu: this twit has opinions on what bitcoin needs and its image.
mircea_popescu: this under the guise of the usual methods, falsely accusing these of "breaking the law", or fail that, "being racist"
mircea_popescu: bounce my understanding is that various govts/the bureaucratic interest are pushing to block or if not possible tightly control all shipments of precious metals among any independent entities, traders or not.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell thickasthieves who the fuck waits for hotel checkins, srsly.
mircea_popescu: so adding to the delights of weird shit happening to me, today... i got flooded.
mircea_popescu: well it was quite the ride. i wondere how much of it is due to bitpay's largest ipo ever.
mircea_popescu: i know, but jus' sayin'. it's a signal, but whatg's in a signal. whatsapp selling for 20bn is also a signal.
mircea_popescu: just because someone bets early or a lot doesn't mean they have a point.
mircea_popescu: after which he'll move to mexico or w/e, make that fair too.
mircea_popescu: and so... he doesn't want to bet anymore. but now "it's fair", he says, just, no fair he'd want any part of.
mircea_popescu: when things are changed to accomodate his worldview, then and only then can he see the stuff applying to him. because the libtard has 0 critical thinking ability. unless it's before him, he can't follow a counterfactual.
mircea_popescu: two bit webtrepreneur figures tis is GREAT because he's thinking of it happening to other people ONLY
mircea_popescu: classical socialist mindset. fat close buffer means a lot of risk for people betting early, because if something happens they won't be able to cover/adjust for new odds.
mircea_popescu: then when the close is a month before resolution date, they bet 28 bitcents, 99% less than the average diff bet.
mircea_popescu: so people keep clamoring about how the close should be much earlier than the resolution date.
mircea_popescu: why would a bunch of dorks with nary a clue as to the workings of the actual tools of their trade be even for a second taken seriously as "journalists" ?
mircea_popescu: yet they still think themselves journalists. what sense does this make ? a guy thgat can't turn on the stove and regularly cooks moldy chicken isn't a cook
mircea_popescu: they can't encrypt, they can barely read and rarely comprehend anything
mircea_popescu: these people can't math even to the degree of grasping the most basic points of statistics
mircea_popescu: "But it's true. He wasn't great at encryption. In common with most journalists working today, he had no clue about tools that would have allowed him to communicate with sources privately, without fear of NSA or any other snooping."
mircea_popescu: i wouldn't trust the uk to anything. it's basically the political equivalent of nevada. an uninhabited wasteland where you test nukes.
mircea_popescu: really instructive by contrast with actual economy, the economist.
mircea_popescu: "but all you really need is for the politicians to decide otherwise!111"
mircea_popescu: all you really need is for 1 = 2. after that, everything is one single step away.
mircea_popescu: something different aka, let's all be rich permanently for free.
mircea_popescu: easy: just have a political majority committed to something different. "
mircea_popescu: "The bitter truth is that central banks launch economies off the ZLB when politicians force them to. This was true of many economies in the 1930s, it seems like it will be true of Japan, and there is every indication that it will prove true of Europe and America. The ZLB is not an economic problem. It's not about deleveraging or inflation targets. It is a political problem. Preventing the kind of crisis and recovery is