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BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: Well he started with two other noobs. One had sense to quit hours after my blog post. The other didn't quit until a few weeks ago. The one unfortunately stuck with the forum handle has sent me so much angry correspondence.
greenspan_fan:
mircea_popescu hi, I've been reading your blog and thought I'd check out the chat
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: I'm juggling 8 tasks, but is there a bounty on the post key apocolypse novel?
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: I imagine Breaking Bad takes place in an Alternate universe where Erdos had to cook his own amphetamines.
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: I might lean towards thinking the proof is valid, but could come in at hundreds of KB if only enough Aspies were locked in an attic with some meth.
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: You wrote before on the subject of stolen credentials like credit card numbers making a poor currency due to their short lifespan.
nubbins`: ;;later tell
mircea_popescu re: S.POT, canada is outlawing personal growing for medical marijuana patients in april, and the entire system will move over to private growers. legal at federal level. country full of world-renowned growers. number of licensed users expected to grow tenfold over next decade. nice business to have established when across-the-board legalization eventually comes around.
jurov:
mircea_popescu: yes, but i enjoy how clearly it's laid out there
Jere_Jones:
mircea_popescu Maybe add a part at the end of your latest post about not being a tard. "Steer clear of all tards. Don't be a tard. That is all."
gribble: You are now authenticated for user
mircea_popescu with key 8A736F0E2FB7B452
KRS-One:
mircea_popescu: there sure isnt any I.T. here in Florida..I've got to get my ass to California at some point.
pankkake:
mircea_popescu: some programmers check twice, or allocate a variable twice, to be sure. I'm not kidding.
benkay:
mircea_popescu you gotta fuck with dwarf fortress
benkay:
mircea_popescu: intellectual property
nubbins`:
mircea_popescu: romania has dolphins?!
cads:
mircea_popescu: math that kicked my ass 2 years ago is now super trivial, and yet the math that's kicking my ass today still seems tough
cads:
mircea_popescu: my claim is that media distributors like youtube and facebook profit from hosting this unlicensed community created meme content, which is typically considered much more entertaining in itself than anything like the cartoons, dvds, or plushies made by the company.
cads:
mircea_popescu: so 'moe' is a style of anime synonymous with "cute" and "budding" charachters that you want to lovingly "protect", and it's very popular with young girl audiences and middle aged male audiences.
cads:
mircea_popescu: Do you know about ponies?
herbijudlestoids:
mircea_popescu: worse they present the data as if it was clear cut that now people like salsa more than ketchup, but there is probly algorithmic/computational reasons more than historical ones
herbijudlestoids:
mircea_popescu: like i said earlier. i dont view this as an argument, when i question it is just to learn. i am always willing to consider an opinion or formula or whatever, even if i dont accept it in the end.
herbijudlestoids:
mircea_popescu: so, for the sake of experiment, we are not allowed to make assumption that MPOE price is locally efficient? thats stupid now?
herbijudlestoids:
mircea_popescu: store of value which is hoardable without restricting the economy, non dilutable, no counterparty risk, etc
herbijudlestoids:
mircea_popescu: showing what the market is implying the EPS growth rate will be on an infinite horizon...
herbijudlestoids:
mircea_popescu: i am totally fine with valuing MPOE on a book value basis. so what is the current P/B multiple?
herbijudlestoids:
mircea_popescu: i said *asset*. any of them, it doesnt matter.
herbijudlestoids:
mircea_popescu: if the price i pay today for MPOE is more than the total amount of gains that MPOE can bring in over say, 10 years, then it is a bad investment for people looking for assets to invest in for 10 years
herbijudlestoids:
mircea_popescu: why do i need to buy a security then? the rate of conservation for holding bitcoin is 100%
herbijudlestoids:
mircea_popescu: all securities have an internal rate of return
herbijudlestoids: mike_c: well it depends i guess.
mircea_popescu was telling me something about 1% being the natural RoR in bitcoin under one calculation but in a different calculation 1000s of %
punkman1:
mircea_popescu: is this month gonna have more new accounts than previous one?
punkman:
mircea_popescu: is wifi from satellite even feasible?
punkman:
mircea_popescu: I think so
Jere_Jones:
mircea_popescu And THAT is a beautiful language.
davout:
mircea_popescu: well that's kind of like mpex, "here are the rules; like it or not, but its how this thing works"
benkay:
mircea_popescu: that's the point. avoiding "all of those things" is an impossible task.
benkay: but if you just avoid all those things you can write rock-solid code,
mircea_popescu.
davout:
mircea_popescu: i told the owner, the kangasbros guy that bitcoincentral.com redirected to localbitcoins.com, a minutes after it gives me a blank page and starts working again as soon as i change IP
ThickAsThieves: <
mircea_popescu> hello multifacepalming logreader people. your facepalms have been foretold. /// as a mostly not programmer this aint so bad so far!
davout:
mircea_popescu: you'd be paying them fees for this
peterl:
mircea_popescu: could you publish your own average bitcoin price?
mike_c:
mircea_popescu: here's one reason: "PHP is built to keep chugging along at all costs."
Apocalyptic:
mircea_popescu, $ php -r "var_dump(is_array(false));"
davout:
mircea_popescu: guess you have a point
davout:
mircea_popescu there you go, PHP is the perfect randomness generator
r3wt:
mircea_popescu: if anything its a good place to learn
pankkake:
mircea_popescu: it does. but it's just a module, there's no quick access operator
davout:
mircea_popescu: the infamous "figure-it-out-yourself" operator
davout:
mircea_popescu: oh yes
davout:
mircea_popescu: why not?
kakobrekla:
mircea_popescu i think you would have hard time finding the nominees
deadweasel: ;;later tell
mircea_popescu no no, I just enjoyed their hometown cuisine with sake, nothing more. hometown cuisine is not a euphemism.
davout:
mircea_popescu: exactly, ty
moiety: i think i was
mircea_popescu moiety:
mircea_popescu: but don't they go looking ofr the missing (buried) person?
moiety: only the first 7
mircea_popescu ?
moiety: i learned big lesson today
mircea_popescu BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: I think too stong to the right people.
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: That side loads a full Usagi for me
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: Who said chicago. This goes to cour in East St Louis.
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: That is pretty much my legal defense.
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: On BIP 70 he doesn't make it that far
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: High School fucks want favors out of my sweet nothing.
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: And thousands of penny stocks have done that before. It is why wops that don't read are doomed to repeat history, because Ponzi was a fucking Guinea.
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: So far the altcoin trading isn't going bad.