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mircea_popescu: mike_c da heck is that, you're just recursing the algo lol
mircea_popescu: aite, they've been used for ~2 years to cover the options bot on mpex
mircea_popescu: twist : that playing was generally a better use of that time than the alternatives they had
mircea_popescu: ok, but the game was beat your opponent not beat the idea of chess
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that was going to be my killing blow once he failed.
mircea_popescu: i dunno what that site threw at me, but it didn't werk
mircea_popescu: pastebin.com ? dpaste.com ? something that actually spits out text
mircea_popescu: but in the interest of sanity : obviously radioactive decay is purely entropic. the methods people use to try and extract that entropy however... tsk.
mircea_popescu: mike_c here's a bomb for you : there exists a sequence which makes the bot get 0%
mircea_popescu: you wanna be a car executive you don't show up at the vp meeting acting like you belong there
mircea_popescu: the correct way is to do for instance conference evanghelizing for s.nsa fior a uyear.
mircea_popescu: the current bs they do, setting up shop and pretending like they matter and exist is for the ducks.
mircea_popescu: mike_c gotta give the twentysomething enthusiasts a way in.
mircea_popescu: so if you see a lot of "plz to change gpg it is hard to use" you can guess it's them.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no see, if they can run a reflow line they get to sit at the table with the adults.
mircea_popescu: i stgill have mail going "whatg, 500 dollars for a seat ?! THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS!! HOW DARE YOU!!!"
mircea_popescu: ya, that strategy worked great for the ppl wanting accounts :D
mircea_popescu: benkay there isn't a fixed fee. you negotiate it when you list.
mircea_popescu: bwahaha asciilifeform look at that! you're now an authority!
mircea_popescu: irc is your life. you will honor it as if it iwere your life.
mircea_popescu: is it mostly your friends and family backing you so far ?
mircea_popescu: (mpex shares are non voting. as a result, the operator has to maintain majority)
mircea_popescu: s.nsa raised ~500 btc, if memory serves. s.mg ~10k. s.dice about 50k or so. s.bvps if i recall correctly about 100
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform fun fact : "tont" is one of the many ways to say dumb in romanian.
mircea_popescu: kinda why porn is so important. makes sex better for everyone.
mircea_popescu: you get better anal sex when the girl regards taking it in the ass as her own, personal victory.
mircea_popescu: his idea was that people will have incentive to keep killing each other so as to avoid ponzi effects.
mircea_popescu: pankkake the ponzi retirement system was invented by von bismarck.
mircea_popescu: bah, father. wasn't his father, they were barely related, nm me.
mircea_popescu: mike_c guy's father, carol 1st however, is probably the model monarch.
mircea_popescu: (since we're doing this : guy kept fucking around, and eventually married, aged 60. the woman's name was hardon)
mircea_popescu: you know before vichy he was the one guy in the top brass that objected to their nutty "infantry charge" tactics
mircea_popescu: the schmuck that joan of arc wanted on the throne ain't so good either, and then with the 1789 revolutions you got plenty of nutty socialists to pick from
mircea_popescu: france got hurt bad by hitler, perhaps worse by wilhelm,
mircea_popescu: stalin, hitler... small country in europe whadda ya want.
mircea_popescu: (paul little = max hardcore, the cheap makeup and vomit porn guy)
mircea_popescu: possibly us entertainment sucks so bad to this day because him.
mircea_popescu: well, i have some respect for the variety tradition, but barnum is a sort of paul little without a cause.
mircea_popescu: making a list of "bad" people generally is really an exercise in measuring the weight of air, in air, with a scale and weights made out of air.
mircea_popescu: it's not "bad presidents", it's "people that hurt the us"
mircea_popescu: in general you'll find most damaging are the insiders, not the outsiders.