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mircea_popescu: or else you can have sensitivity training and one huge diaper party for mentally stunted "adults" in name only.
mircea_popescu: you can either have teachers fucking students and people being called fucktards left and right a la mit 1950s
mircea_popescu: universities' capacity to create went out with the admittance of the special interest groups.
mircea_popescu: i doubt they do. they may inadvertently acquire "rights" to unrelated people's great ideas through the latter's negligence/cluelessness
mircea_popescu: kinda dead in the water, at least the anglo-saxon model.
mircea_popescu: i doubt anything useful, interesting or valuable is coming out of universities anymore.
mircea_popescu: "bhagenbeekdd@metaltrade.ru 7:00 am The first-rate method to gratify your girlfriend" << dude, metal trade ? poor girlfriends.
mircea_popescu: thompson financial is doing decent money simply by having collected and assembled all this data.
mircea_popescu: b0n1 but since you're talking about this, let me point out to you that this is a business model.
mircea_popescu: notrly a new point by any means. that's why the more sensible people have been saying all along that bitcoin isn't nor does it aim to be a visa competitor.
mircea_popescu: which is why there's not so much stuff in the midmarket, in spite of mpex being unbitcoinly friendlty to free entreprise.
mircea_popescu: i think you may be not the first to make that experience
mircea_popescu: on the other hand i can understand the disbelief, people with any experience looking at options are aghast to see mpex spreads.
mircea_popescu: let alone the OPTION spreads on the 2nd, which by their nature have to be wider than spot
mircea_popescu: obviously the spot spreads on the first will be way narrower than even the spot spreads on the 2nd
mircea_popescu: s.mpoe moved 20%ish over 9 months. btc moved 10000% over the same interval.
mircea_popescu: but let alone spread girth for a moment and think in avg prices.
mircea_popescu: mpoe moves relatively very little, i was just looking through early feb/march logs and it was trading 65-70
mircea_popescu: i wish there were more airplanes for 10k a pop on the market, for instance
mircea_popescu: i guess we all wish for more liquidity at better prices, but this is probably true universally.
mircea_popescu: this obviously is a distinction btc people would gladly blur, but i think it'd be pretty dangerous/irresponsible to allow it just yet.
mircea_popescu: if you are going directional then you are speculating not marketmaking.
mircea_popescu: well the idea is that if you're marketmaking then you're marketmaking. selling puts and calls.
mircea_popescu: (ironically, people paying for options last month made ~3k btc in aggregate)
mircea_popescu: Namworld you could write your own and list them of course
mircea_popescu: Oct 28 17:17:15 <thestrin1puller>but in all srsness i think i may fork over money for an mpex account
mircea_popescu: there's two types of arrogant people in the world, those who know they're much better than you and those that don't know you're any better than them.
mircea_popescu: the other way however... not so much. clueless noobs with delusions of self importance are pretty much a buyer's market.
mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic one bitcoin buys me at least 100 clueless noobs who have it all figured out.
mircea_popescu: and he can use his 9 years of financial experience to get a job flipping burgers.
mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic you can tell them that when i decide playground is over, i'll just shut down these4 alleged "central banks"
mircea_popescu: haha. i'm pretty certain they blew their one chance to be part of the taking over tghe world crew.
mircea_popescu: is he moreover using unfortunate terminology to denote "i'd rather know who the fuck the dukes are" ?
mircea_popescu: but doesn';t this seem a little... strange, so to speak ?
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves it's non-mpoe-pr-style pr. you know, like bfl used to do it.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "The only caveat is that we need KYC on the buyer"
mircea_popescu: BitPay processed 6,296 bitcoin transactions in a single day, making it the most popular day in the history of bitcoin commerce. On November 29, more than 6% of all transactions on the bitcoin network were spent on goods and services through BitPay’s platform.
mircea_popescu: what in bitpay's structure gives you the delusion of tax immunity ?
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves you realise avg purchase is probably 0.001
mircea_popescu: what;'s the branding, "the trade rag that sucked so bad we had to steal it from the original nuts" ?
mircea_popescu: i think it'd rather shoot some bowside snark and let it be at that lol
mircea_popescu: i think that's more of a ltc thing, no one cares but it can't hurt to have around.
mircea_popescu: not really related tho, from what i gather urbit was actually a from-scratch thing
mircea_popescu: the world has very little talent and most of it is sorely mismanaged.
mircea_popescu: not like it comes with the right/obligation to raise an army, administer justice and certify brides' virginity or anything
mircea_popescu: there's certainly no value in the scraps of an old dukedom.
mircea_popescu: seeing how the modern state has legislated itself into a corner, i don't see it i tell you.
mircea_popescu: a well i guess it has no other way to do it if you have no blockchain