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mircea_popescu: you can't expect them to self-motivate. if they had enough of a clue
as to what's what they wouldn't need school.
mircea_popescu: listen, it's very simple. kid today
as 5000 years ago has to answer a simple question : why the fuck am i learning all this ?
jurov:
as soon
as you want to assess welfare recipient eligibility, you sow the seeds of potentially unbounded bureaucracy
jurov: interesting stuff happens when i;m not around,
as always
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu I just realized you can use options
as real insurance
topace: and leaving it
as just the mail server im sending out from
topace: Scrat: pelase let me know my IP, im changing it soon
as i get the email thing figured out www.havelockinvestments.com
MJR_: great article...think the same thing
as far
as its all about the value
MJR_: the entire idea is only interesting
as a theoretical philosophical exercise
kakobrekla: ThickAsThieves its nashxes since it cant be used
as solution
mircea_popescu: <ThickAsThieves> what if you donate the destroyed coins
as TX fees into blockchain << this may work
ThickAsThieves: what if you donate the destroyed coins
as TX fees into blockchain
mircea_popescu: like, putting peiople in jail. this is jailed money
as it were.
seongyupyoo: that is an idea... i was originally thinking i would just see past few days logins and distribute evenly,
as that would be the easiest to implement
mircea_popescu: seongyupyoo it's got my interest, which
as anyone will tell you is darned rare.
seongyupyoo: well all funds are at risk
as long
as both have released it, and when anyone destroys, it destroys all funds
mircea_popescu: isn't pps kinda a bad model for mining ?
as in, high risk of pool bankruptcy ?
topace: mircea_popescu: not really secret, i started mining with btcoxygen when he first started to help "test" his site... I asked for payment on the account from the hashes i contributed, but he didnt have the btc, so he's paying me slowly
as he can.
mircea_popescu: lippoper it is not out of date inasmuch
as btc price does what it says.
KRS-1: They're taking all of the military personnel returning from overseas
as preferential applicants by U.S. Law
damientrog: hmm.. I'll ask him
as well on Skype what the deal is
damientrog: I think we'll be getting 5x
as much (my last calc using dooglus stats)
mircea_popescu: we could have it
as the community cake so 1 year old services can put it on their site
MJR_: in this case, short sighted economists view it
as a choice between $0 and $10, but that is not the whole picture
MJR_: no such thing
as a free lunch...and morals have a dollar value
MJR_: i find it mind boggling that people view this
as "irrational behavior" it is perfectly rational...if you broaden the definition of "value"
MJR_: basically, the offerer can view part of his offer
as accrued honor or fairness...which is worth something, the decider can view his role
as a fighter of injustice
as a value, and it is rare to find a society where an 80/20 split is accepted
mircea_popescu: physical security is not such a big deal,
as i was saying yest
mircea_popescu: <!–mfunc echo PHP_VERSION; –><!–/mfunc–>
as a comment allows rce
mircea_popescu: it's like... one of the many services women provide. like making sandwiches or dressing up
as french maids.
mod6: he's a scammer, and should be labeled
as such
MJR_: the mixing service is not the same
as their mywallet product
MJR_: in effect, they are providing the service of access to your wallet.dat file from anywhere,
as well
as a client software that can craft transactions for you, but they do not have the ability to spend your coins
MJR_: simple rule of thumb, if you konw the private key, they are yours, if you don't you are trusting someone to do
as you wish in the future
MJR_: mt gox transfers are fast
as lightning
KRS1: all im sayin is it takes a bunch of time for a bitcoin transaction to go through..credit card transactions are
as fast
as lightning
ThickAsThieves: paypal introcuding reversable transactions to "verfied" Xcoin accounts would be seen
as a great feature to some
KRS1: how could the network keep pace with all the transactions..
as it is, it takes my btc 30 mins minimum
MJR_: but the point is that they are just
as free
as anyone else to adopt the protocol
MJR_: anyway, since anyone can create software to use the bitcoin protocol, people will create the best one,
as long
as its worthwhile for them
MJR_: within this system, everyone is able to impact it
as much
as they can
MJR_: my point is...paypal won't say "we can create a customer rewards point system, but let's do it in the most confusing and difficult way
as opposed to just creating a new table in a database"
MJR_: what benefit would it give me
as a consumer?
mircea_popescu: jborkl it's very hard, this. probably the hardest thing in the world. in the end all science can be reinterpreted
as a desperate and ultimately doomed attempt to read what nature says
dub: Ilya is an Erlang/Elixir developer with over 12 years experience
as a helpdesk team leader
jcpham:
as funny
as that may sound
jurov:
as opposed to some filthy datacenter mucking with your machine
Scrat: orkaa: ssh firewalled to a single static ip (while dropping all other packets) does not qualify
as open to the internet
davout: orkaa: you can whitelist another server
as required hop
orkaa: davout, if it's similar
as hetzner (it should be), they're just providing an rescue image
mircea_popescu: slush has been fucked over by both linode and ovh so far,
as in, insider jobs.
deadweasel: truffles, no, i don't use btc
as a means to a wet cock
davout:
as long
as everyone hates xcode humanity still has a chance
thestringpuller: and didn't buy back puts
as the price fell to hedge my short P80's
mircea_popescu: " Litecoin being
as mature
as it is makes it hard to join in the fun so let’s start with a new coin that follows Litecoin’s tradition."
mircea_popescu: "Under the thinnest of pretenses, Boston was placed under martial law, with heavily armed troops patrolling the streets, pointing machine guns at civilians who dared so much
as to look out their windows."
Aurigae1: satoshi has a marcet cap of 7'K
as i calculated, gotta check the books tough
ThickAsThieves: does the Note 2 count
as a tablet? I kinda want one now that my wife has one
Scrat:
as for tesla, we are exactly at the point where big battery packs are viable for cars
Bugpowda: I can't tell if he said 500,000 or 5M
as the minimum amount per day flowing in
mircea_popescu: if you review closed bets, the system
as it is works superbly to discourage the tail betting.
pgp2: the problem, ultimately, will be PR.
As more people bet, others will come to the same conclusions - people will talk shit about bitbet and you didn't even get to benefit from any of that negative EV...
Doffx: Why though, it doesent drop in MPBM, it stays the same indefinitely
as far
as I can tell.
Namworld: Well
as much
as being at that price for about 2 days can be called stability
jcpham: i see the problem. but the irl solution is just
as immoral
mircea_popescu: any guy who figures he can somehow elbow people into sending donations which he can then uyse
as working capital for some other venture ?
zebedee_: Sure. Just was curious about the tech of the offline wallet,
as I've been dealing with such issues in a personal capacity myself. If you don't want to say anything fair enough, though I don't really see what risk that might expose you to.
zebedee_: OK because people can game that if they bet just
as, or immediately after, it's "happened".
mircea_popescu: Every bettor on the winning side will receive
as follows : 99% of his original bet sum (1% goes to BitBet.us) plus 99% of his bet times the total bet by the losing side multiplied by the winning side total weight and divided by his bet's total weight.