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mircea_popescu: prolly end up more or less standardized by practice etc.
mircea_popescu: actually i imagine that'll become quite the lucrative market in the future.
mircea_popescu: since i can't read that language.
mircea_popescu: i would much appreciate any input.
mircea_popescu: by the way, if anyone speaks any chinese : here's a draft of mpex faq http://mpex.co/faq_cn.html
mircea_popescu: maek a lot of monyz ?
mircea_popescu: im excited about watching a film, so we reconvene once everyone's deexcited lol
mircea_popescu: the old "is it better to have tried and failed or to not have tried at all" discussion huh.
mircea_popescu: midnightmagic cleanner.
mircea_popescu: midnightmagic not really a crime.
mircea_popescu: jcpham no, you can't.
mircea_popescu: midnightmagic as much as it ever did.
mircea_popescu: but who knows.
mircea_popescu: i will be extremely surprised if anyone actually uses it.
mircea_popescu: Bugpowder not exactly a scheme, and not to that, no. it was more of a, let them drive see what they do.
mircea_popescu: dub there's no discussion of intent of deeds and acts made during trial.
mircea_popescu: dead fuckin babies everywhere.
mircea_popescu: ikr.
mircea_popescu: midnightmagic yes.
mircea_popescu: if i just said "fiogure it out" i doubt he;d have ever found his way rthrough in time
mircea_popescu: dub i do not know why. i was being stewardly, i guess. trying to help the person along, because otherwise
mircea_popescu: the whole fee.
mircea_popescu: midnightmagic yes.
mircea_popescu: pigeons i don't feel particularly criticised.
mircea_popescu: dub that's not in any way arbitration
mircea_popescu: midnightmagic the thing suggested in my argument, ie, 92.x% award. person gets his 130, has to pay fee.
mircea_popescu: dub i did no such thing ?
mircea_popescu: dub nah.
mircea_popescu: im not hoping for anything. teh case is resolved, it has shown the system to not be workable, that's what it is.
mircea_popescu: more generally, the rota can never work, in practice, because normal, honest, well meaning people have no way to reliably avoid falling in such tarpits.
mircea_popescu: this can never work, in practice.
mircea_popescu: the problem is the judges (unwittingly, i am sure) indemnified the active party
mircea_popescu: people humor and universe humor don't always mesh
mircea_popescu: hey, what can i tell you.
mircea_popescu: myeah.
mircea_popescu: well i guess it depends. dead babies are supposed to be funny.
mircea_popescu: midnightmagic nope.
mircea_popescu: dub which rule ?
mircea_popescu: im not upset in the slightest.
mircea_popescu: specifically http://trilema.com/2013/rota-post-mortem/ ?
mircea_popescu: midnightmagic but have you read the description of the problem ?
mircea_popescu: midnightmagic what srsly ? what straight answer is missing ?
mircea_popescu: there's 10 btc paid by the op and 10 btc paid by mpex. out of these 20, judges get 9, prevailing party gets 10.
mircea_popescu: midnightmagic there's 130 btc that was missent. this was returned.
mircea_popescu: im not even, midnightmagic is as usual late to the parties lol
mircea_popescu: bitcoin is anon.
mircea_popescu: jcpham how would you know ?
mircea_popescu: the judges ruled that anyone can take any ammount of money from mpex at any time at their option.
mircea_popescu: nope.
mircea_popescu: so no. if anything, i went into the suit so as NOT to have to keep it.
mircea_popescu: a. no. i specifically went into the suit as an alternative to the "i simply keep it" rule in force.
mircea_popescu: midnightmagic what's the overage ?
mircea_popescu: i can currently make no prediction whatever. that means no trust.
mircea_popescu: well, to trust someone means to believe they act in a certain way.
mircea_popescu: cuz i dun trust him.
mircea_popescu: ya well.
mircea_popescu: midnightmagic http://trilema.com/2012/gpg-contracts/
mircea_popescu: this wasn't supposed to be neither arbitration nor mediation tho.
mircea_popescu: it's just not practical to conscript people off the street for playing the legal scholar.
mircea_popescu: i think the best way forward is if one of the lawschools does a summer project for this
mircea_popescu: i think i'm done with experiments in the people range.
mircea_popescu: first at #1 wins!
mircea_popescu: :D
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla http://trilema.com/2013/the-title-is-in-the-pudding/ you in the race too ?
mircea_popescu: teh wow.
mircea_popescu: is a company valued at $8.9 million.
mircea_popescu: Operating expenses were minimal in 2012 and the company also paid monthly bitcoin dividends to ‘public’ shareholders which represent 10% of the total 100,000,000 outstanding shares. To invest in the operator and bet on the house, SatoshiDice shares are traded on the MPEx bitcoin stock exchange under ticker symbol S.DICE (see August 19th, 2012 Prospectus). At the current exchange rate of $17.00 per BTC, SatoshiDice
mircea_popescu: ;;ticker
mircea_popescu: cause it wouldn't work in the toilet, right ? so it'd be clearly shenanigans there.
mircea_popescu: with direct feed
mircea_popescu: im not entirely sure what'd appease them. maybe one of those go-pro cams attached to an employee's head
mircea_popescu: maybe it's just the cover
mircea_popescu: omg moar fan cases ?!
mircea_popescu: ya well he had something of a right idea.
mircea_popescu: a hey. hattip to Korbman
mircea_popescu: i wonder if bfl next step, after tackling the android miner market, is to make z80 miner software.
mircea_popescu: anyway, this was like 1988 and shit, not the early zilogs
mircea_popescu: and i believed it!
mircea_popescu: well at least that's what thye claimed
mircea_popescu: z80 was > 8080 iirc
mircea_popescu: he means 400 lol
mircea_popescu: yeah ui was gonna say, it was a good 8 bit design
mircea_popescu: im sure.
mircea_popescu: a was it ?
mircea_popescu: iirc z80s are 110nm ?
mircea_popescu: back in the late 80s
mircea_popescu: that box actually looks like the custom power unit i had for my old z80
mircea_popescu: Korbman you'd prefer a fan box running inaba's hot air ?
mircea_popescu: this is a deliberate attempt to drive people nuts.
mircea_popescu: o, wait, avalon ships from china ?
mircea_popescu: so did avalons arrive yet ?
mircea_popescu: another day, another dolla.
mircea_popescu: whoa nelly.
mircea_popescu: smickles https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=137923.0 there, that may be it.
mircea_popescu: then calls sold as the drop happened and puts covered/going long
mircea_popescu: days/week before the drop
mircea_popescu: then puts sold short
mircea_popescu: there was large open call interest since early days of month
mircea_popescu: o yeah, yeah i do
mircea_popescu: i don't even remember ;/