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mike_c: i have the numbers with those bets in as well. not as different as you would think. the sum of btc isn't that high.
mircea_popescu: mike_c "as well as the starting wager of whoever created the bet." is this sound ?
mike_c: as far as ROI you mean
kakobrekla: as long as it has css you are good
mike_c: not as much javascript, a blog post:
Vexual: imagine yourself as a politician
mircea_popescu: it stands to reason you'd talk to them as if they were sorta obnoxious teenager at best
mircea_popescu: herpderp " Impatience is growing among some, as he continues to discuss foreign and domestic policy..." derpyderp the public does not care so here's some more of the retarded shit that preoccupies us"
diametric: (*) [ insert list of reasons that don't count as downtime ]
mircea_popescu: for instance : i get first dibs on any piece of hardware replaced-as-broken anywhere on the pipe to my machines
jurov: heh, reading that scrollback.. got an idea that maybe specifying sat solver itself as work function could work
truffles: No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were. Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
VanCleef: not as rich as MP tho who could buy and sell your family 10 times over
jurov: likely, he's among three named as "advisory board"
mircea_popescu: people using terms of art as if they were hired hookers these days.
truffles: there are ppl who view themselves as more significant than others i get that
asciilifeform: you can cut any 'weirdo' alt into two kinds of parts: actual mechanical parts - what will continue to work in just the algorithmic way specified, by 'byzantine' consensus of the participant nodes; and 'promises' - parts that depend on a handful of human doing as they promised
Duffer1: but i see evolution there as well
asciilifeform: crackpot hypothesis: every new cryptocoin can be seem as an attempt to 'replay' the history of money
asciilifeform: alts as the presently exist seem like a modernized version of 'penny stocks'
asciilifeform: as far as i can tell (by no means an expert view), the thing that mainly drives adoption of classic btc is precisely reliability-as-store-of-value.
KRS1: yes as Duffer1 said fascinating ecosystem
BingoBoingo: Well X-Ray crystallography is indeed a hard physical problem with varying and more expensive levels of difficulty. X-raying a mineral crystal isn't so bad. A given protein in fluid is a bit harder. Getting a good picture of a receptor protein as it sits in the cell membrane is an incredibly hard problem.
BingoBoingo: X-Ray crystalography as a useful work function?
asciilifeform: (actually coughing up a workfunction that does useful work is left as an exercise for the alert reader.)
asciilifeform: the 'memory hard' people are what is known in the armchair general community as a 'target-rich environment.'
fract4l: As a result, we have a protocol with unique potential; rather than being a closed-ended, single-purpose protocol intended for a specific array of applications in data storage, gambling or finance, Ethereum is open-ended by design, and we believe that it is extremely well-suited to serving as a foundational layer for a very large number of both financial and non-financial protocols in the years to come.
asciilifeform: as if DRAM had never been invented
kakobrekla: prolly as "the client"
pankkake: hmm "shortly you will be able to buy and sell Bitcoins and other asset classes from us as well"
mircea_popescu: An Oregon pimp that employed a pair of Nike shoes to brutally beat a man has filed a $100 million lawsuit against the athletic company for not labeling their product as “dangerous.”
Duffer1: hater threads prove the 'no such thing as bad press' theory? :P
gribble: Nick 'diametric', with hostmask 'diametric!~diametric@2604:3400:dc1:43:216:3eff:fe27:bf9d', is identified as user 'diametric', with GPG key id BDD47433133081CF, key fingerprint 0789CB4F508B384EB74CEFBFBDD47433133081CF, and bitcoin address None
truffles: cuz ure just as greedy ldo
jurov: *pankkake wants to get hired as mpex redactor
KRS1: police in a city not far from me arrested my friend because he ordered a police officer to pick up a broken bottle, as it was a public danger. he won like $50K in a lawsuit over that.
mircea_popescu: it's reasonable to expect significant hash growth as the us and chinese govts continue playing one upsmanship with each other.
kakobrekla: mkay, jurov who runs it is here on irc as well fyi.
pankkake: actually, as an investor, I don't want to be along the dumb ones
KRS1: no such thing as free dog
Vexual: i can come as a guest for fre
Vexual: ill have o be the wasp and do exactlyu as expected
Vexual: as so many wedding photographers will attest
Vexual: yeah sounds the same as the instrumental lp
Vexual: tomto garlic and mozarella must br fresh as you can get
Vexual: as traslated, but i gues mircea can read german
Vexual: ill look at as a sharp tongued half-wit if you like
asciilifeform: Vexual: about the same as apple's ipnohe-4.
the20year1: the best thing the RCM and US mint could have done during the metal increase of the 60s would have been to debase to 40% (As the US did) , then to 10% like mexico did, till prices came down
nubbins`: nod. as soon as the 20s sell out, you see them selling for $25
nubbins`: of which i have several as well
the20year1: Canada COULD absolutely kill the fiat market by introducing metal-backed money, as they have been doing in limited numbers
nubbins`: you might as well walk into a hospital with a kidney for sale
the20year1: because your bank realized they can make money on it....they don't buy it for retail, nor do they hold it as a reserve
nubbins`: as far as spot-value bullion coins go, there are really only a handful in both silver and gold
gribble: BingoBoingo was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 1 day, 1 hour, 37 minutes, and 42 seconds ago: <BingoBoingo> Just remembet I take a break as soon as hockey coems on
mircea_popescu: Duffer1 notrly. they don't do nearly enough sex to make the cut as a rule.
gribble: Nick 'diametric', with hostmask 'diametric!~diametric@2604:3400:dc1:43:216:3eff:fe27:bf9d', is identified as user 'diametric', with GPG key id BDD47433133081CF, key fingerprint 0789CB4F508B384EB74CEFBFBDD47433133081CF, and bitcoin address None
KRS1: ah ok that explains it..just as i thought
mircea_popescu: as in your ripples could as well be shares as anything else
pankkake: gpus can be put in microwaves and they're as new!
ThickAsThieves: but not show as such
Neil: Satoshi was quite forward-thinking; clearly saw the possibility of such high difficulties given the FP-like format "bits" is encoded as
Neil: Well, baggsied that as a new proposition, and funded it :)
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell benkay well, in the meta sense that setting what and how much clothing chicks wear in your town counts as natality allocation.
BingoBoingo: Just remembet I take a break as soon as hockey coems on
benkay: does the setting of interest rates by the US Fed count as 'capital allocation'?
asciilifeform: 'port holster' sounds like something you could spread as a rumour to start another 'Sepoy Rebellion.'
Vexual: chinese got here at the same time as britons
ThickAsThieves: but if you had one, and it was linked as appropriate
BingoBoingo: As asciilifeform hit on earlier though, if you aren't from the communist bloc, you aren't a scary opponent
truffles: just as long as the "we" = "I"
BingoBoingo: Dude as much as you resisted the inevitable
mircea_popescu: it's the 00s again ? as in, 0050s ?
truffles: uh something happened where game switched and now im playing as white hmmm
BingoBoingo: truffles: IRC carries the same information just as well
BingoBoingo: So... I sent the BBWAA an email asking for membership. I wonder if they will negligently accept me as Bruce Schneier's comment section did.
BingoBoingo: Ah, as of April 2012 I am rated 887
BingoBoingo: If the RNG plays as white for any first move other than 1 d4 and the other than 1 e4 and 1 f4 the RNG's winning chances are diminished at the start
BingoBoingo: Well the top player now Carlsen plays as though he just pulls whatever opening books reddit suggests he play
BingoBoingo: AnywaysI could lose to web wakers just about as easily as I can lose to Kasparov.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: what would you think if you had paid a little for, say, kasparov to play a game with you, and found out that he's taking a vote from web wankers as to each move instead of playing?
BingoBoingo: I have one of these already, but the description starts lying on the second word when it describes this thing as "sleek" http://www.overstock.com/Jewelry-Watches/Seiko-Mens-Orange-Monster-Automatic-Silver-Stainless-Steel-Watch/8338833/product.html
BingoBoingo: nubbins`: Ubuntu isn't bad for such uses so long as someone isn't betting their life on the machine
BingoBoingo: kakobrekla: Such a shame Roger Ver was so readily displaced as the used electronics BTC Jesus
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla anyway, that's kind-of culture shock. the chinese do that sort of thing in chinese all the time. very self-stroking culture, it's not quite as wow as in european terms
asciilifeform: considering the inclination of usg to run things at a loss (so long as said loss can be pawned off on some chump),
mircea_popescu: and as the inept leadership oif the us has been giving them absolutely all the techs in the most incredible transfer of wealth/spoliage in human history,
mircea_popescu: course reddit is about as likely to change weather patterns as it is likely to have any impact on this matter, but naywya.
mircea_popescu: someone will have to, as the 9 loaned out are loaned on terms and can't (in this example we use) be recalled.
mircea_popescu: just as balanced as it was.
mircea_popescu: that'd be rising prices. traditionally inflation is defined as that state where the monetary mass increases.
Vexual: hippies inventened the butterlfy affect as seen in humanity
asciilifeform: i think mp once mused about body parts as currency
diametric: the bible is full of references to foreskin as a currency
asciilifeform: 'warren buffett drinks the same coke as the street bum.'
nubbins`: when i read about it as a kid, the book claimed that the chassis had so far outlasted something like 4 engines
Vexual: those librettos look much the same as the predecessors with 0 colour, yes thats definately dot matrix screens
asciilifeform: same size/shape/weight as half a brick.
asciilifeform: same size & shape as modern 'netbooks'