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Bugpowder: so
a whitepaper on bitbet might not be in the cards
Bugpowder: starting tomorrow I am going to be spending
a lot of time on
a startup idea
mircea_popescu: i was just about typing i'll send you
a modest btc sponsorship
Bugpowder: What is the optimal decay rate for
a single event at
a scheduled time in the future
Bugpowder: The cool thing about variable delay is that the decay basically functions as
a vig for the early bettors (like the proposer)
Namworld: That means bets under
a 10 BTC total are
a loss
Bugpowder: This is not
a bad point "Sounds like
a dumb idea, until you realize that Chuck E. Cheese and similar businesses have, for decades, been using
a similar tactic to avoid running afoul of gambling laws: You're not playing for gifts or money, you're playing for worthless tokens!"
Bugpowder: Namworld, you might want to get
a drink... we are still 103 minutes away
error3477: I'm too high or it's
a 100btc ipo ?
jurov: apparently
a blip, someone just wanted to buy 4k in one go
kakobrekla: well i been living from selling coin for over
a year now
Bugpowder: Unless I somehow acquire >$200,000 worth of coins, then I will take
a little off the table
jurov: just yest i sold
a chunk on bitstamp... for $13.50 :/
jcpham: there was
a lot going on
Bugpowder: well if it stays over it for more than
a few hours, It will be ther first time since Aug 2011.
Korbman: happy to see we're breaking the $14 mark...haven't done that in
a while
Bugpowder: SP500 can move that much in
a session
mircea_popescu: in fairness, the only other bond that was
a bond in btc was yochdog
Bugpowder: if you have
a floating rate based on profits, and you have an insane month, seems possible
jurov: Sertuerner, i'd ask for some endorsements from existing customers, for
a start
Bugpowder: Well, BitVPS has had months of
a 4% / mo div
Sertuerner: But 1.4% seems still
a bit too good to be true
Sertuerner:
A Bond, pays 1.4% weekly, funds the purchase of servers of the company issuing it
gribble: (ticker [--bid|--ask|--last|--high|--low|--avg] [--currency XXX]) -- Return pretty-printed mtgox ticker. If one of the result options is given, returns only that numeric result (useful for nesting in calculations). If '--currency XXX' option is given, returns ticker for that three-letter currency code. It is up to you to make sure that the three letter code you enter is
a valid currency (1 more message)
Bugpowder: I think its
a real swedish talkshow
mircea_popescu: BREAKING : Josh found
a crate of old high end ASICs by the grocery shop parking lot
Ukto: until someone posts
a pic of us out drinking together @ the strip club
dub: who incidentlayy commits what most civilised people would call rape on
a regular basis
mircea_popescu: dub that's just
a rehash of frenology,
a thoroughly discredited load of bunk
mircea_popescu: even the notion that someone looks like
a rapist is
a product of this imbecilic outgrowth of pop culture.
dub: that guy, who incidentelly looks more like
a rapist than any other person I have laid eyes on, has
a point though
mircea_popescu: "This data is not unexpected. I have been writing
a great deal over the past few years about the toxic psychological impact of media and technology on children, adolescents and young adults, particularly as it regards turning them into faux celebrities—the equivalent of lead actors in their own fictionalized life stories."
kakobrekla: i just input some code and give it
a go
mircea_popescu:
A new analysis of the American Freshman Survey, which has accumulated data for the past 47 years from 9 million young adults, reveals that college students are more likely than ever to call themselves gifted and driven to succeed, even though their test scores and time spent studying are decreasing.
dub: its not all bad, the old job I worked from home 90% of the time and since home is near the beach I 'worked' from the beach
a fair bit
dub: so I left and got hired immediately by
a customer for
a shitload more
dub: they said ok and did nothing for another couple of months, so I calmly resigned. They shat brix, offered
a decent retention package but no real improvement
mircea_popescu: yes I had
a few drinks before I posted that post (last night) - I was fucking heart broken, some of you look at my like im
a fucking scammer and it kills me - I helped start some of the infrastructure Bitcoin runs on today, and have set many Bitcoin firsts
mod6: good things will happen. I'm pretty good at getting this stuff figured out, its just
a matter of time.
mod6: I'm working through them, but lack of time has slowed me down
a lot.
mod6: The encryption stuff has been
a nightmare.
mod6: well, maybe I don't exactly care what the community says exactly. I do care that the users have
a good experience and it doesn't fuck up their account at MPEx or allow for loss of private key.
mod6: Well, there is
a model, kind of, that I've been kicking around. I've thought about the donation thing -- if donations were accepted, they could go straight to the developers who help.
mod6: trying to get me to go to Yoga and drink
a fucking vegtible smoothie.
mod6: Well aside from not wanting to be
a cog in the wheel of Google, I never want to live in California.
mod6: what
a disappointment.
mod6: yeah, lots of headhunters call me up... talk to at least 2 per week. no one has anything thats more than
a 6 mo. contract...
mod6: yeah, its not too bad if we ever do something right and get it to the market... but thats
a few years off.
jurov: i don't get it. if you really do the work of 3 seniors, it's not like they can find
a replacement in
a week
mod6: jurov: well, its not desperation really. its that im stubborn when I feel like I'm being taken for
a ride.
mod6: omg thats such
a long story. i haven't owned
a car since 2007
mod6: which is why I cant drive or even own
a car.
mircea_popescu: about
a third managed to dig themselves back out, the younger ones mostly.
mod6: i dunno. its
a big problem.
mod6: well, im describing it poorly. its my problem. i've told these people off
a lot, but the money keeps coming in, and there arn't
a lot of other options for
a guy like me.
mod6: see, i get
a base, but I'm supposed to make some more off the sale of the equity or whatever.
mod6: and... its nuts, can't catch
a break on anything. I want to do bitotter full time, but if I did that, I'd be out on the street.
mircea_popescu: "march seems like
a long way away but its really not and besides i was not going to set another possibly uni obtainable date and than fall short."
mod6: My day job is basically 3 sr. dev jobs rolled into one. It didn't go as planned, we were supposed to make
a lot more money and have
a staff by now to alivate the pressure
dub: well there is
a superceeding rule
markedathome: so is bASIC bitcoinasics.com, or is that
a different one? and is or isn't it being sold?
markedathome: I'm in chrome, and I don't see the view market link. however in the source to /assetlist I can see
a href=/market (line 92)
dub: I select all'd and don't see
a hidden element, nor is firebug showing any failed calls
dub: can you maybe screenshot with
a big red circle around it? clearly I am malfunctioning
dub: oh cool, maybe
a link to that somewhere
Bugpowder: just trying to figure out the best way to compile data for
a few areas of LA to test some price prediction software
smickles: and that
a large rental agency rushed to finialize 2.8 billion (?) in purchases
smickles: 22:26 < kakobrekla> we have
a block << this happened right after I fired up my cpuminer
gribble: Error: Something in there wasn't
a valid number.
smickles: have there been
a couple in
a row of 1 hr?
smickles: wow, i've made roughly
a 50% gain on s.dice
Bugpowder: If they were
a stock I would panic sell