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BingoBoingo: Bet both sides to control your maximum loss
BingoBoingo: I'd probably also bet for me though
BingoBoingo: I'm just thinking the natural direction for funds considering I'm a not particularly in shape middle 'Murican would probably favor my capture.
BingoBoingo: punkman: I'm not supposing it as a thing to be supposed yet.
BingoBoingo: punkman: And there is the dilema
punkman: BingoBoingo: but how would the bet be worded, seems tricky
BingoBoingo: I'd taked measures like letting the beard get unruly and rubbing myself down with meth to try to keep ransom cheap
BingoBoingo: punkman: I think price dependent I'd throw a BTC on "No" and put my best Eagle Scout skills into avoiding capture. I'd plan on using the bet as a hedge.
punkman: passing the Darien
punkman: BingoBoingo: how would that bet go
BingoBoingo might secretly hope for sufficient support to take the Darien in the name of crypto
BingoBoingo: Out of curiosity, are any other Norte Americanos considering an overland route to Conference v3?
gribble: Bitstamp BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 623.08, Best ask: 625.35, Bid-ask spread: 2.27000, Last trade: 625.35, 24 hour volume: 24619.40040858, 24 hour low: 568.57, 24 hour high: 629.4, 24 hour vwap: 606.685254236
[]bot: Bet placed: 1.75 BTC for Yes on "Bitcoin over $1000 before September" http://bitbet.us/bet/866/ Odds: 75(Y):25(N) by coin, 75(Y):25(N) by weight. Total bet: 5.32379439 BTC. Current weight: 94,165.
BingoBoingo: Apocalyptic: I'll look for it. It is no shame on him though. Was all his personal risk. The text makes up for the loss by leaps and bounds.
Apocalyptic: " Wrote seminal text on losing 90% in BTC stocks"
Apocalyptic: BingoBoingo, do you happen to have a linkg to that text ?
gribble: Rating entry successful. Your rating for user Duffer1 has changed from 1 to 2.
BingoBoingo: ;;rate Duffer1 2 Wrote seminal text on losing 90% in BTC stocks and admitted to it. Has very heavy balls.
BingoBoingo: deadweasel: Long time no see. Like seriously. How is stuff going
BingoBoingo: coingenuity: Are the rumors of you metals business being paperwork intense really that true
BingoBoingo: Ziggy9263: How are you today?
BingoBoingo: benkay: You see there is a substantial difference between AM1 and RENT. AM1 went as high as 6 BTC (not the havelock asset but the underlying) and served as the TardStar for 18 months now. It is now flirting with equity under IPO price. RENT was always questionable in price.
benkay: owie - haven't really recovered from that btc rally, eh theyear20* ?
BingoBoingo: Awfully close to their GLBSE IPO
BingoBoingo: If I man up on crossing the Darien on foot, I'll probably throw down coin on a bitbet hedge for ransom
BingoBoingo: Just enough on just the right longshots
BingoBoingo: benkay: I dun think you know how I play BitBet...
assbot: BitBet - Cardano to Ship in 2014 :: 1.08 B (98%) on Yes, 0.02 B (2%) on No | closing in 6 months 4 weeks | weight: 95`347 (100`000 to 1)
assbot: BitBet - X.EUR contract monthly renewal canceled in 2014 :: 0.44 B (88%) on Yes, 0.06 B (12%) on No | closing in 6 months 4 weeks | weight: 97`586 (100`000 to 1)
benkay: http://bitbet.us/bet/867/x-eur-contract-monthly-renewal-canceled-in-2014/ // at least mircea_popescu threw down on http://bitbet.us/bet/859/cardano-to-ship-in-2014/ , davout
BingoBoingo: Oh, benkay also, how do you like the blog's new look... Or did I ask already?
BingoBoingo: benkay: They hung Shrem for his Bong while Ve-suckadick still leads...
benkay: you underestimate how foul the foundation is
assbot: BitBet - Brock Pierce to resign at BTC Foundation :: 0.3 B (3%) on Yes, 10.08 B (97%) on No | closing in 2 months 3 weeks | weight: 86`742 (100`000 to 1)
BingoBoingo: I really think people are underpricing the things that could lead to Brock resigning http://bitbet.us/bet/854/brock-pierce-to-resign-at-btc-foundation/#c2974?ref=16wAZSsL8BFNFM8WCsrE8pwwFkhDErWiok
gribble: Estimated percent change in difficulty this period | 4.94192 % based on data since last change | 6.98341 % based on data for last three days
BingoBoingo: At some point it seems inevitable, but... BTC has a lot of untested territory still to test.
benkay: maybe diff doesn't actually fall, but the rate of increase in diff per time maybe does.
BingoBoingo: Well last adjustment was over 18%, but... it takes more and more hash to keep pushing difficulty
assbot: BitBet - Bitcoin difficulty to fall :: 6.66 B (17%) on Yes, 33.04 B (83%) on No | closing in 2 weeks 6 days | weight: 9`687 (100`000 to 1)
BingoBoingo: Especially at this low weight
assbot: BitBet - Bitcoin over $1000 before September :: 2.26 B (63%) on Yes, 1.31 B (37%) on No | closing in 2 months 3 weeks | weight: 94`201 (100`000 to 1)
BingoBoingo: Bastille day bet is more dangerous than ever to take though.
benkay: diff about to fall off a cliff apparently
BingoBoingo: I have a maybe bad habit of spending more on parts than I do on computers
BingoBoingo: Also the only one of the batch that I am sad that it produced magic smoke
BingoBoingo: benkay: This was one of several machines I picked up in middle school from school auction at $10 per machine
benkay: the space bar triggered the self-destruct, which was better than getting got by the in-game baddies?
benkay: i have vague memories of sitting on my father's lap and hitting the space bar in a game where we were looking for gems in a starfield or some such
benkay: (i kid, it's great. we build great shit for cool people all the time.)
BingoBoingo: benkay: If you ever try hipster computing A/UX on the SE/30 is actually nice, pleasant
benkay: it may be self-sabotage under the hood, as i run a 'mobile interaction software development shop'
benkay: i'm trying to take as little a dependency on the apple os as possible
benkay: it is the rock of my outlook on computer which is meager in a vast and stormy sea of chaos
benkay: the only fact i have in the sea of fud that is computer is that lisp-like stuff is kinda ok
BingoBoingo: benkay: Isn't haskel really just the C# of Lisp?
BingoBoingo: This past week I got pretty good at cwm, tonight I mastered xfce
benkay: also xmonad implies i'll be learning haskell, wrapping my brain around whatever crazy pretzels those assholes have constructure...
benkay: i've been considering trying xmonad for window mgmt, but i don't actually want to spend more time farting around with more distractions atm
BingoBoingo is really thinking MP was on to something about my needing to find a cleaner class of girl
BingoBoingo: One of my larger regrets about undergrad other than not taking further comp sci classes is not mastering emacs, seems to have everything...
benkay: irc, code nagivation, text editing, email, en/decryption facilities, rss...
benkay: i am a slave to os x
BingoBoingo: benkay: Most poorly kept secret in BTC is that Coinbase cheats on price swings
assbot: Unmasking The Columbia River's Mysterious Stealth Boats
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: One of the links suggested to me on the Vag article http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/unmasking-the-columbia-rivers-mysterious-stealth-boats-1583093889/+kcampbelldollaghan
BingoBoingo also wonders if I commit to crossing darien by foot if a BitBet relating to Bingo captured by militia (FARC or the others) might be in order...
BingoBoingo: Actual video of the demolition as opposed to gif suggest Western Kentucky accents
asciilifeform: since i generally avoid the 'redditum' birdcage liner, senses stay sharp
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: You seem to always get all of the interesting related links
assbot: Adult women react to seeing their own vagina for the first time
assbot: Amateurs demolish 100-foot tower using power tool, almost get crushed
BingoBoingo: Still, it is interesting to see the infinite hitpoints in action.
asciilifeform: afaik coinbase is famous for this. works as printed on the box: 'we fuck you raw.'
BingoBoingo: So the more I look at travel to conference V3, the more it looks like the only part drawing my interest in traveling is the Darien gap.
BingoBoingo: I thought it would take longer for someone to link the good ship Mircea
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I was waiting for that
assbot: Congo: All the Creeps Are Cheering
decimation: https://www.nsfwcorp.com/dispatch/all-the-creeps-are-cheering/ USG & friends don't look kindly on the actual humans in Congo trying to do something about their situation
assbot: Mircea (ship) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
assbot: USCGC Eagle (WIX-327) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
BingoBoingo: US still has war trophies in active use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USCGC_Eagle_%28WIX-327%29
decimation: The regulations were proposed on December 15, 2010, and published in the Federal Register of December 23, 2010[25] would require U.S. and certain foreign companies to report and make public the use of so-called "conflict minerals" from the Democratic Republic of the Congo or adjoining countries in their products. blah blah
assbot: Conflict resource - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
decimation: but the USG has employed many to define the undefinable
asciilifeform: every grab of the planet's crust is 'conflict mineral.'
decimation: The USG doesn't take kindly to buying "conflict minerals"
BingoBoingo: You take the raw materials and sell them into the best bexxel for your purposes
decimation: wheras the Chinese subsidize electronics manufacturing wholeheartedly
BingoBoingo: decimation: Only works if you have the bezzel points to avoid gasenwagen
decimation: Right, so my point about nest, TI, Renesas, etc is that the USG currently subsidizes the electronics industry through direct purchases
BingoBoingo: Well, you can't put a Lenovo chip that refuses to target the forbidden city in a Tomohawk missile...
BingoBoingo: TI has some safety as foundry for certain kinds of applications that demand US made parts
decimation: The ltspice guy said that over half of Linear's revenue was in power regulators
asciilifeform: pop open virtually any pc, you'll find at least a few ti parts.
decimation: I wonder what portion of their profit comes from selling to USG and friends
decimation: it is interesting how TI has managed to stumble into 2014 as a profitable hardware manufacturer
asciilifeform: ti makes an astounding variety of components that are found in just about everything.
decimation: apparently the DLP® products, custom ASIC products, calculators, royalties and legacy wireless products is about 30% of TI's revenue