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mircea_popescu: in general you have
to do a lot of customisation
to make restaurant food fit for human consumption. in
their view, serving a
two pound steak with
three ounces of sweet potato fried in oil, and
then a pound of chocolate with dulce de leche mixed in is perfectly adequate asd a meal
davout: also
they seem smart enough
to serve a bowl of salad as a side
mircea_popescu: anyway, argentina is meat eater's paradise,
that's for sure.
davout: (and i also wonder how aged beef
tastes like, never had it)
mircea_popescu: well it's possible you had it imported, in which case
the shock won't quite rise
to
the level of epiphany
davout: i also wonder how it compares
to aged beef
davout: i can get really really
tender beef here, i wonder how it compares
mircea_popescu: the beef steak here is so
tender chicken seems game by comparison.
mircea_popescu: it literally is like europeans only eat 7yos, and
there's a world of 23 yo bananas out
there unbeknownst
to
them
mircea_popescu: much like you know, you
think you know what a banana
tastes like, but you're WRONG. you'll discover
the full body of flavour of
that fruit once you live in
the
tropics
mircea_popescu: much like i pity
the fool
trying
to eat romanian beef.
mircea_popescu: never
the
twain should fucking meet,
these people haveno idea of dairy at all
mircea_popescu: anyway, it's weird how
this works. i'm from
transylvania, where cattle is queen. dairy cattle.
mircea_popescu: i'd have killed young argentinian girls and sprayed
their virginal blood all over it
to win
the argument
davout: i'd have argued
the argentinian version doesn't have a soul
mircea_popescu: the wood box
they fucking made.
the camembert inside... who
the fuck needs it.
mircea_popescu: you
tell me
that you were here, and saw a local knockoff of a
tin of camembert and you wouldn't have paid
the $2.80
to see wtf is in
there.
mircea_popescu: constantly
trying out new
things and getting curious and whatnot
davout: what
the fuck were you
thinking
davout: i wanted
to make fun of you about your camembert, but i figured you were already punished enough
mircea_popescu: it's almost like i'm
the only one
that finds it hysterically funny or something
mircea_popescu: also, i am shocked, shocked and appalled i say,
that nobody;s said a word of la gayola
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Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
fluffypony: he hasn't started on it yet - he's busy
till
the end of
the month, so we're still fleshing everything out
davout: the more i
think about it,
the more similarities i see between bitbet and
the rota
mircea_popescu: fluffypony hey, when were you
talking about
the summarizing
thing ? was it
the 12th ?
mircea_popescu: you made
the vial dood, what do you want from me. when
the
time
to open it comes i'll feed it
to a cat and let you know.
davout: i'm simply asking whether
there's milk or poison in
the vial
mircea_popescu: pankkake well strictly speaking davout's
the king here lol.
davout: apparently
there's no king, bitbet is a court, in some sort of quantic superposition state
pankkake: so
the king is
the bet author?
mircea_popescu: you can definitely ask
the king
to
tell you wtf it intends
to do. because
the king is a sovereign, and
thus an agent, and
thus can have intent.
davout: i don't know about other countries, but
the law in france has
this mechanism where whenever you need clarification on
the law from
the
taxes administration, you can ask
them
to make a binding answer
mircea_popescu: davout anyway,
this is a solidly established principle of law,
that a court won't review possibilities and implications,
mircea_popescu: can't follow around constantly reviewing and clarifying
the wording every
time reality
twists some way or
the other.
mircea_popescu: bitbet reviews bets exactly
twice : when
they're entered, and when
they're resolved.
davout: what do you mean by "your
touching
the
things" ?
mircea_popescu: because you gotta limit your
touching
the
things. all business runs on
the principle of limiting responsibility.
davout: i'm just curious about
the point behind not clarifying bets when
their wording leave some space
to ambiguity
mircea_popescu: that's unfortunate. but you're not like
the bitbet mod, in
that... well, in
that you aren't.
davout: well, because i'm like
the bitbet mod, i didn't really realize it wasn't clear enough
mircea_popescu: in any event, bitbet comes last in
the sort. you don't change your actions by what bitbet says it's gonna do. you do what you do,
then when
the
time comes bitbet looks at it and calls it something.
mircea_popescu: davout because it's not dude. what
the fuck do i know what you'll be doing next. if you were going
to change
the
thing';s name why da fuck did you bet on it as it is etc.
mircea_popescu: that awkward moment when you write
to a estudio de abogados named X, Y, Z and K and
the next morning a reply awaits from Gonzalez X.
pankkake: I can create a source for volume info, from
the raw
trade data
davout: without a source for
the "volume" information, it is not possible
to univocally establish (vol > 100)
mircea_popescu: davout well if you were
to propose
that bet now it'd get rejected im pretty sure.
davout: "First and foremost, statements
that can not univocally be established as either
true or false at a certain point in
the future are BadBets and as such unacceptable on BitBet."
davout: is it impossible
today
to decide whether
the volume source will by X, Y, or Z ?
pankkake: but bitbet mods clarified bets in
the past
davout: mircea_popescu: i'm not asking anyone
to make me something, i'm asking how
the bet resolves, clear resolvability is a desired property is it not?
mircea_popescu: but srsly,
the bet is not up for resolution.
there's no effort
to be put in.
mircea_popescu: "refusing
to make me
tortoise soup, when asked well in advance, doesn't constitute good mothership"
davout: refusing
to clarify
this, when asked well in advance doesn't really constitute best effort imo
davout: volume
taken from where ?
davout: take
this for example : "or if 30-day volume drops under 100 BTC. "
mircea_popescu: pankkake because
they have a
theory as
to what it means.
mircea_popescu: but if i manage
to hire some
transcendents i might change it.
pankkake: well
then, why would anyone bet on
the bet now?
davout: aren't mods supposed
to enforce bet clarity?
mircea_popescu: the only approach is
to make bets clear an' stick
to it.
mircea_popescu: there's no way
to pull clarification. mods might push it, but you can't rely on
that
davout: mircea_popescu: so you're saying
there's no way
to ask for clarification regarding a bet wording?
mircea_popescu: davout
the supreme court does not offer advisory oppinions. it'll only consider cases where
there's a real controversy.
fluffypony: still,
this could make C# an interesting language
fluffypony: it means
that C# will play nice cross-platform, and coding for Mono will be
trivial
fluffypony: but since Mono already has a cross-platform implementation of
the CLR
fluffypony: just not
the CLR (Common-Language Runtime)
assbot: Microsoft C# chief Hejlsberg: Our open-source Apache pick will clear
the FUD
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xmj: anyone here know how long it'd
take
to incorporate in Hong Kong?
fluffypony: they bolt an FPGA inside a server
to offload specific
tasks
to it
assbot: Microsoft Catapults geriatric Moore's Law from CERTAIN DEATH
The Register
punkman: too bad
they didn't start
their own university
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