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Azelphur: I decided not to do it as I don't like my code handling large amounts of money
_Fireball: he doesn't understand even basic financial stuff as we saw above
_Fireball: as a trader, after speaking to such person, I would keep away from anything closely related to Popescu
_Fireball: mircea_popescu, do you realize there is such thing as arbitrage?
lucidlepidoptera: thank you kakobrekla, i think highly of you as well ;-)
mircea_popescu: yes yes. you settle daily inasmuch as you keep moving margins around.
mircea_popescu: there's no such thing as absentee blackmail.
mircea_popescu: the article stands on its own, as far as i can tell.
_Fireball: "Their volume is listed as 320k USD, which makes absolutely zero sense" - all trades are logged, however obviously it's not daily volume, but total volume of a contract.
smickles: < mircea_popescu> https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=124441.msg1340625#msg1340625 << why doesn't he take that OP as a suggestion and move on? does he really think your pr lady is making the world a worse place?
_Fireball: ah, so you're talking about the day before. There were no scheduled maintenance back then, order entry was working as expected
mircea_popescu: other points are that the complexity of implementation might perversely make the exchange more attack-worthy (as in, more code that could maybe be fucked up ?)
mircea_popescu: it's true some people got it as cheap as 9k satoshi
thestringpuller: Someone liquidated early holdings of mpoe that last couple of days as it is gaining value
thestringpuller: I'm using coinbr as my mpoe portfolio for now
thestringpuller: I'm finally at a machine, as you can see I am typing much faster
smickles: thestringpuller: my bad joke aside, did you really mean those 3 blank lines as some kind of significant communication?
thestringpuller: doesnt have the same ring as mr smickles ;)
smickles: jurov: well, i'm in a bit of a pickle, 'cause i can't get my btc off of there without taking such a huge loss on the contracts that I may as well just keep it there
jurov: as the saying goes, don't assume malice in something that can be explained by incompetence
smickles: heh, kakobrekla, well, the cynical me took it as "heh, well, keep trying, we'll keep taking your btc"
jurov: i read it as "i don't log when someone places an order"
smickles: Ok, please use the service as usual, however if you notice problems again - let me know, and then we will try to investigate it thoroughly.
thestringpuller: not as bad as the money usagi lost people
smickles: heh, it sounded like a good point as i read it, it was jut very humorous too :)
mircea_popescu: possibly the last thing those people expect to find in their inbox as they go to work monday.
mircea_popescu: new hampshire population dropping at accelerating rate as millions unable to live free die.
EskimoBob: http://www.soundclick.com/bands/page_songInfo.cfm?bandID=24002&songID=243091 "This one goes out to the delusional Canadian wanker named Oliver Richman. We know we can't fool one such as he with our happy wanderings, because HE knows the Tao (chuckle)."
EskimoBob: wtf is SuprTiggr and why it reacts to '|' as a start of a command
mircea_popescu: the primary utility of the blog is documentary. say the boys start discussing women as slaves. i have a handy link of two girls chained to a shopping cart.
mircea_popescu: works as a convenient way to gather together your output
mircea_popescu: "as well as a comprehensive solution for having them verified and signed online."
kakobrekla: i mean, as to serve it in teh btc world
pigeons: might as well pump that one if we're dumping the others
Chaaang-Noi: no such thing as g spot, lulz
mircea_popescu: you can pretty much use the later as a test.
mircea_popescu: as per usual, stereotypes be wrong.
Chaaang-Noi: i think it would be more difficult to get the average american girl to do the same as the average thai girl...
Chaaang-Noi: in norhtern thailand for a group of people they sell their daughters into marrage for 40,000 baht as a high average, thats about $1,300 usd
Chaaang-Noi: people in the west think of this as human trafficing but its normal part of the culture
Chaaang-Noi: im shocked they lasted as long as they have
mircea_popescu: flooraccount : you chances of selling anything for as much as 10 btc here w/o a solid wot are nil.
mircea_popescu: but by now i could probably write a book as to all the many countless things that were wrong with it.
EskimoBob: yes. sending huge pkg as CTCP ping
mircea_popescu: i was asking more along the lines of, "when will everyone be forced to put glbse shares as 0 in their books"
mircea_popescu: smickles well, not rly, seeing how the point of issuing was to get btc to use as their own
smickles: heh, "so how long until i can just start using this btc as my own" (from the issuer's perspective), is that what you're asking mircea_popescu ?
dub: yeah, colleague near me insists on using one, annoying as hell
smickles: ok, shipping computers to other countries for disposal or donation is illegal as of 1 year after those pics were taken
smickles: resale and donation would stop it from being classified as hazardous
mircea_popescu: as in, those unfortunate fucks are both more respectable and more human than the average us office drone
mircea_popescu: heh so as usual the socialist are actually the racists.
mircea_popescu: no. idiots who invest in pirate and masquerade as "smart" "know" these "things"
mircea_popescu: far as i can see it scales just fine.
mircea_popescu: in fact, as recent as 100 years ago london was so covered in coal dust they had coal storms
kakobrekla: its stupud as its useless
mircea_popescu: not everyone belongs in a palace. most people belong in the huts, so as to have palaces. for just a few.
jurov: so both are allocated as appropriate part of total exercises?
Atomic-Closed: He stated he had a plan if nef didnt do as promised
smickles: i may even go so low as tax prep, if you entertain me. jurov i can do non-public auditing legally
mircea_popescu: in what sense ? in bitcoin your bitcoin will be worth just as much
Diablo-D3: potc may be his most famous role now, but its sure as hell not a difficult role for him
mircea_popescu: so joel katz was actually trying to con rather than just being dumb as rocks ?!
Garr255: That would be cool, but I think it'll be best to keep it as straight forward as possible.
Garr255: definitely don't ever treat a game like this as an "investment"
mircea_popescu: Lyspooner do you even have currency exchanges in your country ? as an independent business i mean
Lyspooner: you posted it as collateral
mircea_popescu: jurov but i think in a world where absolutely NO OTHER measure exists or is used, this measure, flawed as it may be, is much better.
smickles: shouldn't we be calcing the free float market cap (or as close as we can get to it) rather than implied value?
kakobrekla: sent him a pm as well
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell btc-mining would you be so kind as to post in https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=121915.220
jurov: i'm maxed out my bank+creditcard already.. and it does not accept s.mpoe as collateral
mircea_popescu: then things like buyouts etc will make sense financially, both as size and as risk.
mircea_popescu: loans will exist as a market after behemoths a la s.dice/s.mpoe etc are fully floated and held by 1000s of people.
smickles: augusto c may not accept text on a screen as credentials
jurov: guess having kakobrekla as contestant added some inspiration :P
EskimoBob: so they had to get women as witnesses to even help that kid
mircea_popescu: he and the girl can argue till one drops dead as far as i'm concerned
mircea_popescu: as oposed to what ?
kakobrekla: that could be easily interpreted as two boobs
mircea_popescu: now, if these two are maybe having an argument about politics, i could see it as a thing you say, you know ?
mircea_popescu: just drama as per ususal.
midnightmagic: looks as though the process to create superphosphates is the more environmentally damaging..
mircea_popescu: you have to be at least as nice as my sick hound pr chick
Diablo-D3: as long as you're not an executive officer
mircea_popescu: mislead me as to what ?
mircea_popescu: and hilarity will ensue as nobody will know the inside joke other than the insiders, which will bother the outsiders.
pigeons: no i don't see much as far as a forum thread, just this: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=87002
mircea_popescu: the blackmailing kids are just as ridiculous tjho
pigeons: did you read the symantec emails, where the cfo said they would pay the ransom so long as it was in paypal
mircea_popescu: the server didn't care, and i wrote it off as noob/script kiddie, but if there's any pattern in btcworld that's interesting
smickles: dub: well, the 686 i have once served as my sidearm in case a bear came after me
mircea_popescu: or else, if you are employed as a guard in some very limited set of functions
smickles: ah, state owned as well
mircea_popescu: and i'm about as straight as a coffin nail.
kuzetsa: even though I'm not "a straight male", and my boyfriend is a trans guy, I'd almost certainly prefer "B" -- she's pretty hot as far as trans women go.
mircea_popescu: i wonder how many people try to use bitcoin to get around those rules put there exactly so as to protect them from themselves.
kakobrekla: maybe i should allow 0 conf as well for limited amounts
mircea_popescu: not as far as i know
rg: i doubt sdice would be as popular if it waited for confirms