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mircea_popescu: mike_c yeah ok, sure. facebook is paying 20bn for bitpay because gallipi
& his sister gave zuck such good rusty trombones.
mircea_popescu: on one hand, the legal principle that dorks a la mari reid
& her crew may be kept secret will logically extend to defendants, too.
mircea_popescu: i wonder how many people reading the logs just got a legal
& philosophical education.
decimation: her estate is suing pratt
& whittney for not having fixed the "forseeable" problem of the metal fatigue destroying a prop
assbot: G. Love
& Special Sauce - Nothing Quite Like Home - YouTube
thestringpuller: yea davout we are in R
&D got held up. the chef is going to bonnaroo this week. Took me a lot to train him.
davout: gambling
& porn is usually > 6% i hear
assbot: The Sovereignty of God Versus Man-Made Religions, Hollywood Movies
& Petty Emotionalism - YouTube
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& Cloud Backup Solutions
hdbuck: mircea_popescu hello MP, thx for the voice up, i came here with the hope you could help me apprehend that blockchain size issue (
& considering it is an issue). been reading tons of articles about that and people talks about 'industrial' supernodes and/or 'restructuring' Bitcoin.. cant make up my mind whether thats good or bad tho. any inputs? :)
assbot: Survant James - Design
& Engineering
mike_c: i don't do contract work. i've got some other insurance covering me, D
&O or something
nubbins`: not bad, backing up
& wiping my iphone so i can send it in for replacement
assbot: Neo
& Bee talk (spam free thread)
assbot: Neo
& Bee talk (spam free thread)
benkay: and i've talked to people who got their money out of BCS
&T - what of it?
assbot: Environment: Accelerate research on land creation : Nature News
& Comment
assbot: Computer becomes first to pass Turing Test in artificial intelligence milestone, but academics warn of dangerous future - Gadgets and Tech - Life
& Style - The Independent
assbot: BRI Wealth Management - Investment
& Portfolio Management
mircea_popescu: ately, but lead people to TAKE MORE RISK foolishly thinking they know something. [This is the reason I singled out Fannie Mae in The Black Swan as a firm sitting on dynamite
& the International Association of Financial Engineers as a society of snake oil vendors harmful to society]. After > 1 trillion in losses I can safely say that my statement that the banking system has been taking more risks than they thought SHOULD
mircea_popescu: "Having a risk number is not trivial. It does lead you to do foolish things, even if you knew that the measure was wrong. If I can show that, many people [who offered quantitative risk measures in finance] will have to be held accountable
& I can show that! One of Fannie Mae directors, a quack
& proponent of Modern Finance charlatanism, kept promoting scientific risk measurement methodologies that do not measure ri
mircea_popescu: "So, by tinkering, I figured out that I fare best under the following conditions: no breakfast, working out randomly (but in a lumpy way: long walks
& intense weight lifting without a scheduled time limit), "working" randomly, fasting when working out, avoiding modern carbs (and modernized fruits), avoiding contact with economists and finance idiots, taking red eye flights
& fasting during episodes of jet lag and similar
mircea_popescu: "Finally, beyond the current mess, I see no way out of this ecological problem, except through that tacit, unexplainable, seasoned, thoughtful, and aged thing crystalized by traditions
& religions --we can't live without charts and we need to rely on the ones we've used for millennia. Le 21e siecle sera religieux, ou ne sera pas!" << someone needs to shout bitcoin at him in such a way that he understands wtf we do here.
assbot: Tony Bennett
& Bill Evans - Young And Foolish - YouTube
bitcoinpete: i met CryptoConsultor at our local meet-up the other week and he asked for a q
&a… naturally i brought him here
Apocalyptic: fluffypony, that "volume" is essentially trader puming
& dumping coins