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akstunt600: yeah lol, java scares me anymore. Such a shame ecause i supported Java devs for years
as a systems admin
punkman: "Amir Taaki is listed by Forbes
as one of the top 30 entrepreneurs under 30 in 2014"
fluffypony: "Christian works
as a Senior Application Security Architect for a large Investment Bank based in London"
ThickAsThieves: "A unique category of property is money, which in some legal systems is treated
as tangible property and in others
as intangible property."
mircea_popescu: rmation. But if you trade on the information, is it insider trading ? The answer
as best I understand the law is NO. It is not insider trading. Why ? Because the CEO did not ask you to keep the information confidential. Nor did he ask you not to trade on the information. You have no responsibility to him. You can trade and tell the world about his deal if you would like."
cazalla: mircea_popescu: 32
As an aside, there are options contracts for delivery of bitcoins and bitcoin - denomina ted commodity futures being sold at the MPEx Exchange . Recent news reports suggest that the Commodity and Futures Tr ading Commission in the US is evaluating its role in derivatives contracts that are denominated in bitcoins.
mircea_popescu: holy shit there's 1mn pdf to html/etc converters online, NONE of them will take an url
as input
gribble: Error: The command "info" is available in the Factoids, GPG, MessageParser, and RSS plugins. Please specify the plugin whose command you wish to call by using its name
as a command before "info".
ThickAsThieves: i'll ask any of them whatever
as long
as it doesnt get me jailed and is an honest question
mircea_popescu: a stupid reason
as any other. well, anyway : who do you know that can rack muck ? can you get a team together ?
mircea_popescu: "But Teitelman came off
as being at once knowledgeable and approachable. He didn’t exude any of the “dysfunctional Lisp-programmer” type attitudes at all. (Not that anyone else did….)"
mircea_popescu: well they start
as idiotic webizens, exactly where you'd expect the average twennysomething to find herself.
mircea_popescu: point being, at least among sane people, it wouldn't come
as a surprise
jurov: they construe it
as "hate speech does not fall under freedom of speech" and/or "fredom of speech concerns only your relationship with govt, since we're not govt, we're free to punish you
as we see fit"
mircea_popescu: <fluffypony> so Havelock admitted to insider trading, of a sort? << no. they're just trying to make vague claims
as to anything. that they're registered, should that seem desirable. that they're mp, should that appear a value. that anything and everything, no matter what it may be.
fluffypony: Havelock say "We do hold the Bitcoins raised during their offering in escrow and only distribute those funds
as needed."
gribble: Nick 'JorgePasada', with hostmask 'JorgePasada!~JorgePasa@c-67-183-19-167.hsd1.wa.comcast.net', is identified
as user 'JorgePasada', with GPG key id F94255F4860A142A, key fingerprint A5DCC517069DDCB8F4D3050DF94255F4860A142A, and bitcoin address None
mircea_popescu: <benkay> These operations are run by what you could consider
as volunteers << can't tell if stupid or being ironic << it's idiotic.
bitcoinpete: i'd never really read nietzsche but he's on the fuckin money
as far
as -assets and bitcoin go
benkay:
as in, makes zero sense.
JorgePasada: It's 100% guaranteed to be a net value add to the system
as an aggregate
benkay: These operations are run by what you could consider
as volunteers << can't tell if stupid or being ironic
JorgePasada: Because a Bitcoin transaction can’t be reversed, it means that the party transferring value has no recourse within the Bitcoin system to reverse or dispute a transaction. Thus, someone who wants their money back has to go to court, and companies that accept Bitcoin
as payment aren’t above the law. This will move chargebacks from intermediary mediated settlements to small-claims court and higher civil courts
fluffypony: so very low impact on the server,
as nginx just ends up serving stuff that's cached in memory
gribble: Nick 'the20year', with hostmask 'the20year!~the20year@50.41.146.185', is identified
as user 'the20year', with GPG key id 359D91C634AE8E53, key fingerprint DF515FC27907A1FC3236C7E8359D91C634AE8E53, and bitcoin address None
ThickAsThieves: the20year,
as i hinted i wont voice people that should already know better
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves so
as constructed, jd can't steal from players.
fluffypony: thus
as it stands right now provably fair is "provably making payments", not provably fair in the absolute sense
punkman: that's not
as interesting-looking
mircea_popescu: and it also goes to jurov's q
as to the diff between pki and nanowot.
cazalla: it's not
as difficult to understand
as you think Curious_George
as if I can grasp it, surely anyone can
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: the problem is we come full circle back to the adoption problem -
as much
as you want to keep Bitcoin in the hands of the techno-competent, it is going to spread, and the n00bs are going to need n00bish solutions because they aren't going to learn to use GPG no matter how often people get hacked / lose money
BohemianHacks: "the profession or science dealing with the prevention and treatment of diseases and malformations of the teeth, gums, and oral cavity, and the removal, correction, and replacement of decayed, damaged, or lost parts, including such operations
as the filling and crowning of teeth, the straightening of teeth, and the construction of artificial dentures. "
mircea_popescu: this poor word invest. it happens to be a term of art in finance, of course, but it's been (recently, since the internet) been coopted
as a colloquialism
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: I invited him in here
as he was expressing an interest in investing in crypto-based stocks
jurov: no i mean mastercoins
as such
Naphex: vacation time in romania, might
as well have some fun
Naphex: you can use whatever
as long
as it rezolves and validates
fluffypony: dude you should seriously put this up
as a BIP for discussion
fluffypony: so the only way to do it
as a standard
Naphex: those extensions might
as well steal identity info, banking info, company secrets whatever else
BohemianHacks: I would like a single key and a cold storage wallet and then just not worry about it from there. So long
as I have a safe place to store some
BohemianHacks: Naphex: that it does, which is a bit iffy
as a tech company but they have some legit ideas
BohemianHacks: I think I'm mostly looking for options that are low risk low yield
as crypto already has risk built in
mircea_popescu: "To be perfectly honest, those jobs are reserved for my children, but yours might still be able to find work
as their personal bathroom assistants, if they are docile and pretty... let's pretend you didn't hear that."
mircea_popescu: if the us were a program, it'd be discarded
as unmaintainable.
mircea_popescu: which is why the entire mess is so difficult to fix : like one of those old products of mad artisanry, nothing works
as intended, everything's tied up in unrelated parts.
mircea_popescu: decimation yes. actual necessities. such
as food,
as opposed to fast food.
decimation: well, I mean "want"
as in "want of the actual necessities of life"
mircea_popescu: <decimation>
as you have found, moldbug himself is extremely reluctant to take any action that might have second or third-order effects that displease USG <<< that sorta thing.
decimation: "But
as the campaign has gained national popularity, its detractors have bristled at the effort, calling it a politically correct war on words that will stifle free speech and suggesting its true aim is to redefine terms to control public opinion and ? ultimately ? public policy."
decimation:
as you have found, moldbug himself is extremely reluctant to take any action that might have second or third-order effects that displease USG
mircea_popescu: decimation the way it works,
as far
as the orthodox tradition is concerned, catholicism is a bunch of ridiculous simplifications and barbaric nonsense.
BingoBoingo: artifexd: It's a nice thing for using MPEx
as a consumer
mike_c: there is going to be a stock that tracks the fund that tracks the bitcoin economy
as a whole.
peterl: mircea_popescu: mpex.co still lists S.MPIF
as upcoming, shouldn't that be removed now that there is a link to F.MPIF in the "funds" section?
benkay: something like 'this bet resolves
as yes if there's more yes than no'
mrstickball: odd that he believes that he wants to invest
as a hedge fund but not read up on exchanges..
fluffypony: artifexd: that came up
as part of the convo that night ;)
artifexd: Isn't that known
as "fluffing"?
fluffypony: and they were known
as fluffy puppy and fluffy bunny
mircea_popescu: this i personally regard
as a structural and significant improvement over berkshire.
mircea_popescu: <Naphex> we are planning on reaching regular folks
as well << tbh,
as long
as you ernestly offer the strong version, nobody can hold it against you that you also offer a convenient version.
BingoBoingo: 'They were developed
as a water rescue/lifesaving dog, but according to O. Krasnovskaya, "That was not a good idea
as [they] were not willing to save drowning people, but mostly were looking to bite them so this breed was never developed".'
moiety: that would obviously be forgiven
as soon
as she looked up manuls?
Naphex: we are planning on reaching regular folks
as well
artifexd: benkay If the yubikey registers
as a keyboard, how can it access the network?
benkay: can't vet the thing's behavior, artifexd. might
as well be squirting things written to those slots back home.
gribble: Error: Spurious "]". You may want to quote your arguments with double quotes in order to prevent extra brackets from being evaluated
as nested commands.
Naphex: well, i just use it
as a solution for OTP without handling private keys
Naphex: vendor Yubico
as mentioned before. Yubico acknowledged our results and has
jurov: thestringpuller: mpex did lose few bitcoins due to human errors, don't paint mp
as saint
dexX7:
as source for the data?
dexX7: anyway. Naphex: i did only follow the last lines, so i'm not 100 % sure, if your intention is clear to me -- if you are looking for a simple solution to establish some kind of "bitcoin based event notification system", you may use the (redirected) debug output
as basis which could be parsed and processed further
Naphex: make sure you use filesystem encryption
as well
pankkake: I see "How to fail gracefully
as a Bitcoin business"