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mircea_popescu: (trivial to code into your pympex or w/e you use, obviously)
mircea_popescu: if you know what your shit will be like atg the time of demise.
mircea_popescu: now this is true. course is risky, if your key falls in the fucking pit and dies, you're sol
mircea_popescu: meanwhile : 84 cases of the plague w/ 40% mortality in Madagascar -- it has morphed from the original bubonic plague to pneumonic plague, easily transmissable...
mircea_popescu: overall s.dice broke even on price and made bank on dividends, s.mpoe paid a little dividends and went up about 30x or so since listing
mircea_popescu: the financial half. you also gotta be able to talk to the exchange.
mircea_popescu: you're not buying something from me, you're proving something to me.
mircea_popescu: and if 40k is too high, then people should pay less per btc
mircea_popescu: 30 btc will still be 0.00000003% of btc in circulation. it's not a high barrier by any means.
mircea_popescu: they are, they just try to conspire to keep you away from the really good stuff see ?
mircea_popescu: <Duffer1> btc is almost certainly a better investment then X << ESPECIALLY if you don't really read/know what X does.
mircea_popescu: "i got no time and i gotta invest". H. Ellison's sequel.
mircea_popescu: ll be very sorry after you lose your btc, better hold on to it.
mircea_popescu: Duffer1 has a point, and so does jurov. don't rush it.
mircea_popescu: at this point you'd have to be off your rocker to do anything involving havelock.
mircea_popescu: sundun_ this chat is the heart and especially brains of btc finance. what do you need ?
mircea_popescu: jurov i don't imagine they'd look too kindly on you fronting for ppl on your own acct anyway
mircea_popescu: ;;everify freenode:#bitcoin-otc:ab62ac49dc6fe5b52726b421d41eb2c753a4056ad1457349660e8819
mircea_popescu: "hello i am your new waiter after eating here for three weeks i am now qualified to make food. the brainwashing is real good, please try it."
mircea_popescu: "I want to introduce myself. My name is Michael from Cloudhashing.com, and I have taken over the public relations work there after being one of their customers since August. I will be the only one writing from this account now. "
mircea_popescu: also just made them an offer to sponsor them, curious if they manage to find their way out of the paper bag.
mircea_popescu: well inasmuch as they don't really work for that which they are for, arguably it doesn't matter.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this is the first time a dns server has to handle 10gb of cruft to resolve a query.
mircea_popescu: diginforce is Gridseed total online sales agents, sales are now sold out yesterday, there is no development board conference
mircea_popescu: Hot Search: pumpkin baked cat butterfly KNC Bitfury Bitmine Avalon TMR
mircea_popescu: possibly. many people involved in mining are from the "old world"
mircea_popescu: natural language does not allow specification, and most fields of interest for humans do not allow formal language.
mircea_popescu: this is the exact equivalent of the "poorly specified bitbet bet" fallacy.
mircea_popescu: you are wrong to imagine this problem can be solved by specification.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform incidentally, do you know the story of the kid who wouldn't pass physics exam ?
mircea_popescu: as all cognitive tests, the one proposed measures more the bias of the tester than the subject.
mircea_popescu: "otherwise you need to use the 'code-cracking' part of your brain to try and infer a meaning from an unknown syntax."
mircea_popescu: incidentally, there is a good objection there : the example given seems very tilted toward people with experience in a C-like language.
mircea_popescu: either back into anorganic matter, or else chinese re-education or w/e.
mircea_popescu: inasmuch their problem is a relation to the self rather than to the world, the only way to have them relent is to change them
mircea_popescu: which in the end boils right back into the old trunk of crafting the perpetuum mobile.
mircea_popescu: it's not so different from the conviction one can patent medicine,
mircea_popescu: and he imagines this means the conclusions of the test only show how desperately the world needs more teachers.
mircea_popescu: check out this guy. he's a teacher who feels able to help people fake the test,
mircea_popescu: But to blame the poor education methods on students willing to acquire the knowledge is just ridiculous.
mircea_popescu: e to blame the students and not the teachers. Now if a student is *unwilling* to learn the material then that is another question.
mircea_popescu: "The interpretation of the results of the above assignment test make me feel angry. I am not a teacher but I am confident that I can teach (in less than 15 minutes) any person smart enough to be admitted to a computer science class how to pass the above test. The results speak volumes about the utter ignorance of educators regarding the nature of human knowledge and how to acquire it. It is a tremendous act of injustic