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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
mircea_popescu: bearing is what you to to said chicks once you start supporting their body weight.
mircea_popescu: Azelphur i'm talkin' about the lot o yuz, but hey. in another year tops it'll be more like good around-the-fire stories
mircea_popescu: and i lost count on mnw, is the guy meanwhile scammy or unscammy ?
mircea_popescu: arguably the difficulty exponential has washed all that into irrelevance, but anyway.
mircea_popescu: the funny thing is that if a bunch of oldtimers whom we won't name didn't think themselves smarter than me back in 2011, and said no to teh pirate guy when i said no to teh pirate guy,
mircea_popescu: it's more a case of "am i going to say "honey wait just a second i need to jot some words down" and look like a dork or am i going to remember it when i'm done with her ?"
mircea_popescu: (generally, a ton of naturally occuring uranium is about 1/3 curie or so)
mircea_popescu: incidentally, most of the us could produce radon gas by the bucket.
mircea_popescu: that way you can time even when offline. also good in space.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform re the 30 minute thing : maybe time to include some nuclear power.
mircea_popescu: did they cover in the end as promised or how did that end up ?
mircea_popescu: jobs as organised by people who don't customarily use weaponry would necessarily degenerate in the equivalent of the female chimp flea picking fest.