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mircea_popescu: this follows in the mouthsteps of literally everyone before them up to this point.
mircea_popescu: a boy and a girl somewhere are about to kiss, for the first time in the history of the world.
mircea_popescu: this "first in the world" thing has come to its ultimate conclusion.
mircea_popescu: "The University of Cumbria in northwest England has become the first public university in the world to experiment with accepting bitcoin as tuition payment. It follows a similar move made by a private university in Cyprus at the end of last year."
mircea_popescu: pretty much what england itself thinks, at this point.
mircea_popescu: so basically what's this cloudhash thing, "give us btc upfront, get hash over time" ?
mircea_popescu: manchester is one of the few places in the world to have been a shithole its entire history
mircea_popescu: copumpkin better yet, start a low rent boarding house in detroit.
mircea_popescu: i dunno why people hate ohio, it's like the ukraine of the us.
mircea_popescu: and as these things are run, usually they got no actual cash.
mircea_popescu: dub pretty much the only people that'd care'd be the nucleus of original shills.
mircea_popescu: "what was before, the egg or the chicken ? before there was plenty." lol
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that may be a coupla bucks if you find the right ny decorator
mircea_popescu: Send BTC To This Address: 1NMgBp346DpMNR86ktuDWmtMruqXT4qVmM
mircea_popescu: Duffer1 the idea was more that letting people out of the straightjacket will result in a lot of idiots impaled on telegraph poles
mircea_popescu: probably a lot of performance art in unexpected places.
mircea_popescu: im curious how'll the world look once the small govt people get their way and all those guys get to make actual decisions for themselves and have to live with the results.
mircea_popescu: not in the sense that he fixes your teeth, but very good service.
mircea_popescu: dentist = scam. not a scam AS SUCH, in the sense that it does fix your money but a) you have to make appointments and they charge if you cancel them without notice and b) it costs money.
mircea_popescu: "I suppose you're right. It's not a scam as such, because it's all out in the open and delivers exactly what it promises."
mircea_popescu: dub safe to say she's not got any degree of sandwich then ?
mircea_popescu: yes, and it's worse. at least women you can get both in bet and it'll melt the j's.
mircea_popescu: it's easy, when surrounded mostly by other fat lazy westerners that have long forgotten how to even passibly pretend like they're trying
mircea_popescu: for every dorky white kid idly discussing "sexism in IT" there are at least a hundred olive kids willing to eat their own right arm to be in it.
mircea_popescu: pankkake you likely don't understand the drive of people from novosibirsk to mogadishu to be businessmen.
mircea_popescu: nah, the order is say buy 5 at 15. the engine says so, the proxy ends up with the idea the order is 99999995 at 15.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, heavy load favours it because it strains connections and so disconnects become more likely
mircea_popescu: fixing this has proven itself the most challenging one thing in the history of the exchange so far.
mircea_popescu: it has to do with what happens once it loses connection but doesn't yet know it has.
mircea_popescu: in some circumstances a certain proxy may end up misstating an order in that way.
mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic not really, what happens is that a whole shitload of 1s get tacked on to the actual order
mircea_popescu: but if legitimate stuff came along that legitimately couldn't afford it, im sure the service would pop.
mircea_popescu: for all i care, you can go through a specialist investment banker.
mircea_popescu: Azelphur well you gotta have an account to list is all.
mircea_popescu: i hear it's "buy niderauer an eggplant calzone these days,
mircea_popescu: "Why would a stock want to list on mpex for 30btc vs another exchange for much less?"
mircea_popescu: apparently reddit has decided mpex fee is now 50 btc ? shouldn't i at least be notified ?!
mircea_popescu: i hear vw got its start in business by making window wiper engines for cadillac