mircea_popescu: lol

mircea_popescu: districkination.

mircea_popescu: pfff

mircea_popescu: ;;tricker

mircea_popescu: for isntance if you toss a coin, you can use l'hospital to calculate the odds of getting three heads in a row followed by four tails in a row

mircea_popescu: jurov l'hospital just tells you what are the odds of a certain distribution based on the odds of the process

mircea_popescu: but if you apply l'hospital you can calculate the odds

mircea_popescu: well you see, the house edge is just 1% or so

mircea_popescu: but anyway, i don't think there's any bug, just variance.

mircea_popescu: this may be different set.

mircea_popescu: jurov i recall rg saying he's making money on sd back in aug or so

mircea_popescu: iirc it was in like august

mircea_popescu: jurov iirc rg was just being lucky.

mircea_popescu: what bug ?!

mircea_popescu: lol

mircea_popescu: there's no practical way to do better than that tho, so.

mircea_popescu: if you had enough shares to qualify you got one (or more) else you got nothing

mircea_popescu: so we talked and he sent 100. 94 of these were actually distributed, 6 were lost in rounding

mircea_popescu: evoorhees sent 1 satoshi originally. predictably, nothing happened.

mircea_popescu: jurov here's the whole story :

mircea_popescu: ;;rate patrickharnett -10 Scammer of the Peter Lambert school. See https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=121915

mircea_popescu: myeah. kakobrekla you'll have to make an answer to that thing, it's ruining you.

mircea_popescu: myeah

mircea_popescu: this has all the makings of adventure

mircea_popescu: not afaik.

mircea_popescu: there rg you got fans https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=121027.msg1314499#msg1314499

mircea_popescu: but the big problem is usually the lobby stuff

mircea_popescu: true

mircea_popescu: (maybe community-driven)

mircea_popescu: yeah. anyway the only one with a prayer given that there's no standards body and compliance is voluntary

mircea_popescu: "have to have at least this much"

mircea_popescu: anyway, in general it's a minimum standards approach

mircea_popescu: that's not forbidden. but it would be weird to require exchanges to accept both json and xml imput

mircea_popescu: FabianB_ moreover, the spec is not restrictive. some exchange might decide to implement STATXML too

mircea_popescu: json would seem like undue burden

mircea_popescu: many of those commands are being issued by hand

mircea_popescu: people should comment

mircea_popescu: well no, it's a proposal

mircea_popescu: otherwise this exists as internal stuff for about a year now

mircea_popescu: well yes, since it was being discussed on the forum i wrote up a proposal

mircea_popescu: FabianB_ come again ?

mircea_popescu: haha cool

mircea_popescu: :p

mircea_popescu: yea

mircea_popescu: ya but mental retardation is like a positive defense

mircea_popescu: dub sure it is

mircea_popescu: indeed.

mircea_popescu: and telling people about how mpex is a scam.

mircea_popescu: yes.

mircea_popescu: heh

mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2012/towards-a-unified-exchange-protocol/ << RFC.

mircea_popescu: seems that way

mircea_popescu: not afaik

mircea_popescu: (maybe it changed, i haven't kept up)

mircea_popescu: no json afaik

mircea_popescu: anyway, fix uses some weirdo xml

mircea_popescu: that integers are strings :D

mircea_popescu: kakobrekla https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=102176.msg1313402#msg1313402 ?

mircea_popescu: that 75 ? that's a string.

mircea_popescu: – 75=20010618

mircea_popescu: • “Tag=Value”

mircea_popescu: The FIX Protocol has two syntaxes:

mircea_popescu: eh wtf they changed it ?!

mircea_popescu: jurov : did you know the FIX protocol also uses string representations of integers btw ?

mircea_popescu: lol wut ?

mircea_popescu: kakobrekla milk friday ?

mircea_popescu: http://i.imgur.com/04MFg.jpg

mircea_popescu: haloween futures ?!

mircea_popescu: yeah

mircea_popescu: lol i doubt it will have any impact.

mircea_popescu: it has been going kinda crazy.

mircea_popescu: realyl, the only month it lost money was the pirate august thing.

mircea_popescu: the bot is ahead anually, iirc

mircea_popescu: i used to think the mpcd series was, but that blew up.

mircea_popescu: well, mpoe bonds can make a loss, so they're not really safe in that sense.

mircea_popescu: you got the link ?

mircea_popescu: thestringpuller yeah, it lost money once so far. look at the monthly reports

mircea_popescu: indeed.

mircea_popescu: make sure you first read up on them tho.

mircea_popescu: so go ahead.

mircea_popescu: few days ago

mircea_popescu: prolly in a year the real battles start.

mircea_popescu: http://polimedia.us/dtng/c/src/135187123817.jpg i wonder how often he cuts himself

mircea_popescu: i wasn't following that closely.

mircea_popescu: has it ?

mircea_popescu: as long as you explain the deal properly

mircea_popescu: so go ahead

mircea_popescu: you need at least 50 btc to qualify.

mircea_popescu: where lol

mircea_popescu: you do undertake the risk tho. if the bot loses money you're on the hook.

mircea_popescu: well, an almost month. from last friday of one month till the last friday of next month.

mircea_popescu: a month.

mircea_popescu: last month it settled at 9%

mircea_popescu: Diablo-D3 it's open auction. as much as the filler asks for.

mircea_popescu: well, mpoe borrows to finance options trading. seems the only legitimate thing so far.

mircea_popescu: yeah.

mircea_popescu: you mean lend or borrow ?

mircea_popescu: lol, this is bitcoin lending in a nutshell.

mircea_popescu: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=119295.0

mircea_popescu: !ticker s.bvps