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mircea_popescu: mike_c it's not, but it's better if it's collared
mircea_popescu: that's your hard limit.
mircea_popescu: jurov : stay outside of 1% of nav on either direction.
mircea_popescu: actually! this brings a very useful clarification.
mircea_popescu: so why'd this look suspicious ?
mircea_popescu: anyone can go on top of that, at 5.1
mircea_popescu: so he has whatever, an order at 5.
mircea_popescu: but listen, he maintains the book.
mircea_popescu: how would someone frame him ?
mircea_popescu: it's still front running tho, and pretty visible
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves well one's fraud and other's breach of duty of care
mircea_popescu: jurov so you make losses in your pc acct ?
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves afaik.
mircea_popescu: jurov how'd it go ?
mircea_popescu: jurov how do you mean ?
mircea_popescu: i should hope
mircea_popescu: but yeah i get it, you wanted some numbers to put in a formula
mircea_popescu: FabianB you expect panacea to lose 1.78 twice in a row ?
mircea_popescu: related : May 01 01:46:17 <mircea_popescu>mike_c is like never on anymore, he's almost like a guy with a day job and 3 side projects + a small kid or something.
mircea_popescu: FabianB but mpif already reported no loss from panacea in april.
mircea_popescu: aok
mircea_popescu: a) that was for april and b) panacea is like 20%ish of mpif
mircea_popescu: FabianB but... ummm
mircea_popescu wonders what 9822 is
mircea_popescu: bounce who that ?
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves what'd he do exactly ?
mircea_popescu: ^ fluffypony on the topic of how good design begets business.
mircea_popescu: ie, exactly how markets work, because it's exactly how sanity requires.
mircea_popescu: and stuff like btcalpha.
mircea_popescu: right.
mircea_popescu: also desirable and unavoidalb.e
mircea_popescu: if you mean it removes the possibility of expecting to meet the performance of professionals on the budget and investment of an amateur, yes, this is correct.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves this is precisely why being a financial professional is... you know... a profession.
mircea_popescu: o that.
mircea_popescu: i thought you hated the +m originally >D
mircea_popescu: so wait, we're letting TOO MANY people talk ?
mircea_popescu: why can't oine be a passive investor ?
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves how do you mean ?
mircea_popescu: who's they ?
mircea_popescu: this is so by fiat.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves this channel does serve as the info distribution for all bitcoin finance.
mircea_popescu: mpif is also not obliged to put ALL its capital into pcs, it can keep a reserve
mircea_popescu: the weight of its book will eventually end up significant
mircea_popescu: mike_c i think it varies a lot over time too. for instance, pc4 is currentl;y very little exposed. but as a lot of bets are med term, 6 months, 1 yr
mircea_popescu: general manager even
mircea_popescu: mike_c dump some moar into jdice, for instance.
mircea_popescu: well yes.
mircea_popescu: mk ima add another 1mn shares then.
mircea_popescu: holy.
mircea_popescu: !t m f.mpif
mircea_popescu: not voiced here ?
mircea_popescu: aok
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla whichg post ?
mircea_popescu: http://zonadestiri.com/florin-popescu-a-cerut-70-tone-de-pui-pentru-a-le-da-cetatenilor-in-campania-electorala-2012-nitu-i-a-trimis-lui-cazanciuc-referatul-dna-pentru/ << florin popescu guy looks just like fucking karpeles.
mircea_popescu: lol the small amount of oppression. the oppressed don't even know about it!
mircea_popescu: which are like, the pre-pastafarian pastafarians.
mircea_popescu: the only thing that connotes in english is rastafarian
mircea_popescu: liberal is pretty much dead. libertard will probably survive.
mircea_popescu: same here. tovarasi was so commie-imbued in romanian it pretty much died out
mircea_popescu: wouldn't you find it odd if some othrodox country actually called the priest "cousin" ?
mircea_popescu: actually i do, but anyway.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the part where they call party members bffs ?
mircea_popescu: drugi srsly ?!
mircea_popescu: lol
mircea_popescu: jurov for a moment there i thought you may be off on something ungodly like i dunno, a 1st may vacatgion or something
mircea_popescu: win.
mircea_popescu: jurov hai.
mircea_popescu: (aka africa)
mircea_popescu: also ex french colonies
mircea_popescu: not just french.
mircea_popescu: now someone make a forum account put that shit up there.
mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2014/the-serious-ipo-a-moment-in-the-life-and-times-of-forum-investing/
mircea_popescu: +why
mircea_popescu: ok im republishing this shit.
mircea_popescu: "It involved skewing data in Google Analytics. They decided it was a good idea to alter the statistical data shown for websites. It first began with just altering data reports for Analytics account holders that also had an AdSense account, but they ran into too many issues and decided it would be simpler just to skew the report data across the board to remain consistent and implement features globally."
mircea_popescu: no soviets ever investigate teh crown jool.
mircea_popescu: punkman that's actually quite well matched to market signals. i wonder if anyone'll ever investigate these matters. seems sort-of like a probe in gazprom.
mircea_popescu: The new policy; "shelter the possible problem makers, and fuck the rest" (those words were actually said by a Google AdSense exec) when he spoke about the new procedure and policy for "Account Quality Control".
mircea_popescu: go."
mircea_popescu: I did not. I stayed because I had a family to support, and secondly I wanted to see how far they would
mircea_popescu: their gravy train needed to end. Many employees were not happy about this. A few resigned over it.
mircea_popescu: needed for the company, and that most of these publishers were ripping Google off anyways, and that
mircea_popescu: payout, we were to ban the account right away and reverse the earnings back. They kept saying it was
mircea_popescu: publisher had accumulated earnings exceeding $5000 and was near a payout or in the process of a
mircea_popescu: have to pay them a single penny. We were told to go and look into the publishers accounts, and if any
mircea_popescu: "Google reaped both sides of the coin, got money from the advertisers, used the publishers, and didn’t
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well this one parasite is ugly.
mircea_popescu: but b) that he's fucking moved on from bitcoin and now is reduced to trying to leech geeks a la cody wilson. that's a net positive.
mircea_popescu: this plan isn't working, the guy lived in squalor in 2004 and lives in squalor today and will live in squalor in 2024 too
mircea_popescu: anyway, it's refreshing to see that a) taaki is continuing his gofer career, because that's what the guy does, much a la gmaxwell : he tries to associate with important projects in the hopes that people with money are stupid enough to go by what fucktarded ragazines publish, and so maybe he can get some.
mircea_popescu: "learn the secret nigerian dairy farmers hate : how an Edinburgh mum built a functioning goat out of tooth paste and some wood shavings"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes. wired is below fucking daily mail.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony actually it ended there. what was he doing to say.
mircea_popescu: YOU PEOPLE ARE FUCKWITS GET YOUR FUCKING HEADS OUT OF YOUR FUCKING POOP CHUTES AND DO SOME RESEARCH.
mircea_popescu: ok that's fucking it. wired is under embargo from now on.
mircea_popescu: "Taaki is an Iranian-British free-market anarchist and developer of high-profile bitcoin projects like the decentralized online marketplace prototype DarkMarket"
mircea_popescu: awkward moment ensues, im trying to recall if the girl's 16 even...
mircea_popescu: and so...
mircea_popescu: he had found it, because he was there with his wife... and they...well... they got a little frisky
mircea_popescu: he had found it, on this particular bedside niche hidden spot that's only accessible really if you're lying in bed