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mircea_popescu: friend calls you on the phone, "hey, i'm stranded at the airport" "well... get in your car and here's driving directions"
mircea_popescu: yeah, it's always funny when people resort to definitions in an argument with the avg redditor.
mircea_popescu: a lot of newbs playing around introduce distortion in the marketplace.
mircea_popescu: the ability to make bad deals is what teaches people to stick to good ones.
mircea_popescu: MJR_ nothing wrong with him as far as tv personalities go.
mircea_popescu: i was mostly trying to figure out if your mom told you. seems not. whew.
mircea_popescu: yeah lol, but why not continue something dumb into the ground :D
mircea_popescu: yea, because a. they listen and b. they even comprehend wtf the words you just say mean
mircea_popescu: nothing's more dangerous for a new issuance than a large number of clueless investors.
mircea_popescu: My trade idea earlier in week of parking a few $150 priced BTC in Silver is paying off nicely.
mircea_popescu: benkay max keiser is in particular a funny one. day before yest he was like, o, i predict, 300 dollars per btc.
mircea_popescu: "@maxkeiser 1h Despite state-orchestrated massive DDoS attacks on BTC exchanges this week; BTC inching up toward record high territory." jesus twitter is just like reddit
mircea_popescu: "Hey @jimcramer can we set up a time to chat about Bitcoin? If your not convinced, I'll give you 5 BTC for free #Bitcoin #BitInstant"
mircea_popescu: i'd be worried if it's anything other than a second anyway
mircea_popescu: mpex solves it by the "fu, all times are construed to our best advantage" solution
mircea_popescu: whenever there's three entities moving payments on the internet there's this classical well documented problem of the doublespend.
mircea_popescu: guy down the road being massacred is no consolation to me.
mircea_popescu: there's a difference between "you can get" and "developer assures you it's workable"
mircea_popescu: but his stat would necessarily be a little off the actual divtime
mircea_popescu: can you rely on time for mpex matching havelock's server time ?!
mircea_popescu: to make a push request so that the time on it shows he got in early to deserve dividends on PT
mircea_popescu: jurov if you go by the mpex issued timer, it would be (at least in theory) possible for the user to at least attempt
mircea_popescu: it will become possible if difficult to try and time it so he appears to deserve it both ways
mircea_popescu: but seriously, consider the converse approach : user is actually incentivised to time-attack the entire system
mircea_popescu: we do not have the resources to sustain a consumerist attitude on the users.
mircea_popescu: i think that outlook is crucial to allow us further development cheaper