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mircea_popescu: tiberiusiv amusingly, asicminer is using batch 2 chips to make up for blown batch 1 and avalon is using batch 2 money to pay for batch 1. it's like... all the same company.
mircea_popescu: MPOE has been trading btc/usd options since august 2011, there's published monthly reports etc.
mircea_popescu: or you mean, the rage as to what's a good something to pretend you're doing these days ?
mircea_popescu: Franktank really, they do ? i've not seen a good start-up in months.
mircea_popescu: Franktank i've seen some not so impressed people comment but i've not looked into it myself.
mircea_popescu: tho what he stated was "the current state of the art". well... the current state of the art is 356`139 option contracts traded this month.
mircea_popescu: there's been ~2mn notional traded this month, should count for something.
mircea_popescu: cads you can probably start by reading up on mpoe, yea.
mircea_popescu: "For this type of service (and most others) #bitcoin-otc is old and completely irrelevant."
mircea_popescu: you know they have "Executive toilets" in the states now ?
mircea_popescu: "a good deal is rarely time sensitive." that's plain untrue.
mircea_popescu: don't trust anyone from Argentina or Brazil; or Russia or Ukraine, etc.
mircea_popescu: now im gonna have to call my berber connection, kidnam moar circassian chix
mircea_popescu: Mar 22 19:44:50 <benkay> 99% of the time you're serious
mircea_popescu: wait. i forgot all about this. when was she scheduled to appear ?
mircea_popescu: see, kako is manipulating me into having sex with his gf.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, why do people say "let's do it again sometime" instead of "thank you" :D
mircea_popescu: (also i've been there miltiple times but this iirc was the first time when i was alone)
mircea_popescu: today waitress gave me check, made change, i refused it and instead of thank you
mircea_popescu: he has a point tho. narcissism, niceness and all the rest of the social proof stuff correlates with social engineers.
mircea_popescu: two years later it's "we've been lurking since two years ago"
mircea_popescu: "Later update : The article originally used the word “photochop”. This is wrong, because the more photoshop is consistently used the closer Adobe gets to losing that trademark through it becoming generic. Please help the effort of stripping Adobe of its assets by always referring to altered images as “photoshops” rather than anything else. Thanks."
mircea_popescu: mod6 he's talking about the 15% miner that used to make empty blocks
mircea_popescu: "1. The entity may have discovered a method for increasing mining ROI, and essentially, is earning its 50 bitcoins per block"
mircea_popescu: you know where all this gets started ? i bet you it's the insane habit of teaching kids to "guess" words based on context
mircea_popescu: "here's this thing i have no idea about. let me tell you how it goes"