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nubbins`: mircea_popescu
the majority of people on irc who don't work in
tech are generally on some form of social assistance
☟︎ nubbins` imagines
that most of
the lurkers in here assume he's on welfare
mircea_popescu: (women, contrary
to what
they project, would biologically prefer
the smaller imposition)
nubbins`: i do, incidentally, like
the smell of ink, but only water-based acrylic
nubbins`: actually, i print because
there's a very basic yet powerful reinforcement in holding something of beauty
that you've created with your own hands.
assbot: Logged on 11-06-2015 12:18:37; nubbins`: i've been
trying
to sell a single bitcoin in -otc for
three days
nubbins`: mats i live
the life of
the carefree boheme, as alf would put it
assbot: Logged on 11-06-2015 14:13:10; nubbins`: but i was set
to gain either way
nubbins`: tying up 5 btc for 6 months
to earn 0.7 isn't particularly lucrative; if i were
to do it again, i'd do a shorter bet
mats: asciilifeform: OSX has so many skeletons, from NeXT, Mach, and
the PPC days...
nubbins`: mircea_popescu it
took me about a week
to figure out
the nuts & bolts of it.
allahisgreat2000: I'm
trying
to figure out if
there could be a system
to combine pool betting and livebetting/betting exchange
nubbins`: note how
the weight is lower for each successive bet
nubbins`: allahisgreat2000:
the earlier 5 BTC bet won ~0.7 BTC
nubbins`: had
to monetize
that warrant somehow
nubbins`: that last bet put 8 BTC on
the line, but only earned 0.2 BTC
nubbins`: a last-minute bet will
take some of your winnings, yes, but
they'd have
to bet an enormous amount and get chump change in return
nubbins`: allahisgreat2000: early bets have higher weight and are
therefore worth more.
nubbins`: allahisgreat2000: generally
the weight will decrease as
the bet gets closer
to close.
mircea_popescu: allahisgreat2000
they get lower weight for betting later.
allahisgreat2000: what stops people from betting more when
the results start getting obvious and ruining your bet?
nubbins`: asciilifeform language in general suffers from loss of reading mechanisms over
time
allahisgreat2000: I'm having
trouble figuring out how weight for a bet is calculated
mircea_popescu: "we don't ban ideas, we just ban anything
that's unbowlder, for bowlder is us"
nubbins`: i learned recently
that shakespeare invented
the name "jessica"
mircea_popescu: we now nothing of proper shakespeare, for
this reason.
nubbins`: asciilifeform no, but
that's sage
nubbins`: it's "magneto-optical" so i'd say fairly
transient
nubbins`: they use
the phrase "engraved in stone" a few
times
nubbins`: from what i can glean from marketing hype,
they use special dvd-rs and ramp up
the laser strength
to make "permanent" optical media
nubbins`: any of you familiar with
this "M-DISC"
technology?
nubbins`: but i suppose i should wait and see if
that's a necessary
thing first.
nubbins`: altho i'm somewhat
tempted
to put my SSD in
this disc duplicator instead
nubbins`: until
the next
time some shit cloud device get liquidated
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
that's scheduled for after
the build's ready
to go.
mircea_popescu: ‘There is no right not
to be offended’ <<
this is broken, ftr. "there is no right
TO not be offended"
nubbins`: i'm still working on porting 0.5.3.1
to IBM i
assbot: Logged on 11-06-2015 01:20:23; mircea_popescu: alternatively we could just leave
this be for now and focus on CLOSING
things rather
than opening new
things before we closed anything.
nubbins` has laughably little hands-on experience with
the nuts & bolts of
this math
nubbins`: one of
these days i'mma read up on exactly wtf phuctor is doing
nubbins`: quote in
title from salman rushdie