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cads:
mircea_popescu> this could be understood on a macro level as "if there are outside constraints on your pow process, you'll need that many more iterations"
cads:
mircea_popescu: lets leave aside the author's obvious retardation and focus on prime coin and the idea of doing externally useful work as a side effect of the cryptocurrency.
cads:
mircea_popescu: I got it. What do you call a cryptocurrency based on protein folding?
Dimsler:
mircea_popescu, how was your vacation?
joecool:
mircea_popescu: wall builders are usually good at that
joecool:
mircea_popescu: i would guess it doesn't really matter what, but there will be a lot of whatever what is
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: US only really advertised the MIGs as potention OPFOR... Prolly for morale reasons
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: Well, there's the B-2... ANd that's about it.
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: Crimea was sealed in the NATO Libya intervention when the French Raphaels outperformed the new US aircraft
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: SO you get the ATC fund's status.
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: Sometimes, but the blowjobs are above par
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: Well, for some circumstances.
Azelphur:
mircea_popescu: hehe, I still think people aren't all assholes ;)
MisterE: what is not a bad read
mircea_popescu ?
BingoBoingo_: ;;later tell
mircea_popescu ATC trading statement has been mailed.
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: Legality wise I'm sure I could just say the book is part of the "Enhanced Reality game Bitcoin" like Micon does
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: The biggest obstacle I'd face putting together a book, especially a BTC one would be getting lines and bettors on those lines such that I could make vig intsead of propping up the otherside of every line.
ughlol:
mircea_popescu: mind if I pm?
benkay:
mircea_popescu: your footnotes make for inconsistent line heights
imsaguy:
mircea_popescu: they mostly come out at night, mostly
benkay: you know what you did
mircea_popescu. you shattered my faith in the ever-victorious empire of capitalism.
ughlol: thanks for enlightening me
mircea_popescu ughlol:
mircea_popescu: constructive approach how?
ughlol:
mircea_popescu: is that for me?
ughlol:
mircea_popescu: you wrote one scary-ass post
Neil:
mircea_popescu: It's nice, but nothing special. Just a self-adjusting mechanism. I think the economics / incentives of bitcoin are the smartest part. And the fact (other than block size which was a short-term expedient solution to a short-term problem) that so much was left to just float (including the creation of altcoins for example). I think that took balls and real insight. Satoshi was a cool dude for whom I'd love to buy
TomServo:
mircea_popescu: Thanks for the nudge to look at the Berkshire letters. Interesting stuff there.
Neil:
mircea_popescu: So do you ever take a holiday? Or is your life so fulfilling doing your thang that you never want to chill out so that delivering statements in the first few days of each month is never an issue? Is that job subordinated to anyone else yet?
bitcoinpete: ;;later tell
mircea_popescu very sorry about the dubiousity. it's been corrected… the formatting on this one has a mind of its own on the blogs-b-a site but seems to be working well on the blog itself. my guess is the copy/pasting messed it up. thx for taking the time to read it and provide feedback!
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: I plan on covering most of the sports. Next is probably Basketball because it is the least betable.
Neil:
mircea_popescu: Meaning what exactly?
Neil:
mircea_popescu: Coz you spent a huge output for the big payout on bitbet; it wasn't an input to anything plausible on bitbet in its history. So bitbet's wallet it definitely being mixed with something else - yours or mpoe's or ...
pizzaman1337:
mircea_popescu: yeah, because in practice it can't all be turned into real btc at market rates
Neil:
mircea_popescu: You mix wallets right? Inbound on bitbet could be outbound on mpex and vice versa.
mircea_popescu: "Odi Kosmatos 2m @bitcoinpete @
Mircea_Popescu (previous knee-jerk tweet deleted) Hi Mircea, are you the guy who thinks everyone else is stupid? Appropriate!"
Neil:
mircea_popescu: Does the Romanian govt not bother you? Are they not interested tax-wise in your activities?
benkay:
mircea_popescu: orders of magnitude you say? does this apply to intelligence? o.O
mircea_popescu: but
mircea_popescu is shorter than the original block.
artifexd: Just as much as you could claim it is
mircea_popescu artifexd:
mircea_popescu how does doubling the block size quadruple the work needed to get equal security? If a certain lock on a certain box provides XX amount of security, how does increasing the size of the box make the lock worth less?
Neil:
mircea_popescu: It'd be the end of bitbet with fees that high.
Neil:
mircea_popescu: No way in 2016... I don't see blocks with 12.5 BTC fees, and certainly not at 1MB
Neil:
mircea_popescu: More than I thought... I keep a record of it all
jcpham:
mircea_popescu it's over 9000 I just checked
dignork:
mircea_popescu: я русский бы выучил только за то, что им разговаривал Ленин. :(
MAKABEakira:
mircea_popescu, experian will have a whole new report to sell
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: Less Bitcoin's weaknesses then its necessary inefficiencies
MAKABEakira:
mircea_popescu, show staff wd log in on behalf of users most likely
MAKABEakira:
mircea_popescu, wp. i didn't consider that at all
MAKABEakira:
mircea_popescu, i'll update you after i due dilly on this plan a bit.
MAKABEakira:
mircea_popescu, we are pretty visible, kinda hard to run from the romanian a-team if we burn y'all
MAKABEakira:
mircea_popescu, we have a prod team who can has assigned a staff for that if it is externalizable
MAKABEakira:
mircea_popescu, we wont do it if we cannot. i didn't even consider this idea till you brought up bitbet, but i like the prospects.
MAKABEakira:
mircea_popescu, live TV project needs live TV timeframes
MAKABEakira:
mircea_popescu does the bet stand even w/out gox in the pix
MAKABEakira:
mircea_popescu, is hreniuc a common surname in RO
joecool:
mircea_popescu: i never can tell if you're serious or trolling most of the time, imma roll with it though
MAKABEakira:
mircea_popescu, i am not up to speed on bitbet. are they buy|sell|trold?
moiety:
mircea_popescu: how to prove a publisher knew something was illegal when they advertised it though?
B007:
mircea_popescu: your paywall on your blog is lel. and easy to get past
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: Maybe they need intel people for their intel department?
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: Ponzis buying ads on the forum openly is no new news.
joecool: !rate
mircea_popescu 1 seems legit
Plaxant:
mircea_popescu I don't know
thestringpuller:
mircea_popescu: MPOE will still pay dividends from new sign up fees no?
joecool:
mircea_popescu: skimmers are a bigger threat if you can duplicate the magstripe, but most non-US countries figured that out and went chip and pin
joecool:
mircea_popescu: not like a CC carries any sort of personal info other than name and address which are often already public record
joecool:
mircea_popescu: it's fairly easily reversible, just claim the charges were fraud
joecool:
mircea_popescu: cc over the phone is less bad in my opinion
Neil:
mircea_popescu: What happens to MPEX if you're run over by a bus?
Neil:
mircea_popescu: Visit kako, place the bet in person over a beer of course
Neil:
mircea_popescu: So you have no intention of improving the address thing, even if it starts to be taken advantage of?
Neil:
mircea_popescu: Great. I'd have thought (apart from signatures) the site it automated, including transaction generation. I guess someone corrected it?
Neil:
mircea_popescu: I don't remember you taking a 1% fee on such cancellations before on Bitbet.
moiety: or ʍǝɯ
mircea_popescu!
nubbins`:
mircea_popescu: because your sin pokes holes in them