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mircea_popescu: what drives
teh btc price in fiats ? ppl
trying
to get on mpex.
BingoBoingo: Try Coinbr.com if you can't afford
to register your own key.
herbijudlestoids: i swear, i know it sounds stupid but i had
tihs exact idea last night
herbijudlestoids: no i wanna invest in MPOE? isnt
that
the security for
the exchange?
BingoBoingo: herbijudlestoids: If you are buying securities on MPEX and justifying it on a dream I'd recommend
the S.NSA. It has a savory Umami
the S.MG lacks while still relying on some gamblin'
to anticipate success.
herbijudlestoids: the way i figure it, at least with
this idea i can invest in it
herbijudlestoids: nothin, but now youre on im gonna start
trying
to sign up and hassle you if it fails
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Well, Bayes catches good grammar and style. Gotta learn from
the spamzors.
herbijudlestoids: i consider myself
to be not retarded but
the instructions are intimidating
mircea_popescu: (and fail more or less miserably, painfully and expensively down
the road)
herbijudlestoids: i actually came on here in
the hopes
that youd come on and keep me company while i sign up so i can buy shares
mircea_popescu: you may be
the first
to actually
tell me it rather
than
try anyway
mircea_popescu: herbijudlestoids you might not believe
this, but you're by no means
the first person in your situation
mircea_popescu: (i also choose
to believe
that
the secret
to both is
to just not be doing it)
herbijudlestoids: hi mircea, i was just on here a little while ago complaining about how postmodern
the internet is, when i just discovered
today you had fully implemented (MPex)
the
thing
that i was
thinking about doing last night lol
BingoBoingo: It happens.
The
trick
to social media and viral seems
to be you just gotta beat Bayes.
angel: well,
the
trickiest part is not having just
the idea, but selling it :)
herbijudlestoids: i go on
twitter and
theres an article on wired about some geek whos gotten richer
than bill gates from selling alcoholess beer
herbijudlestoids: meanwhile he goes on kickstarter or whatever and within 6 months hes rolling in money selling "alcoholess" beer
to mormons or something
herbijudlestoids: angel here had
this idea, and my logical brain is coming up with reasons why its feasible or not
herbijudlestoids: because beer is
the product of fermentation of bacteria
that produce alcohol?
angel: if
there exist plastic penises, why not alcoholess beer
Duffer1: what kind of sick fuck would say such a
thing
herbijudlestoids: how about someone actually fucking commits some code
to secushare
herbijudlestoids: how about
this, a periscope for your car so you can see over
traffic
herbijudlestoids: constantly happening
to me "oh
thats a brilliant idea..." *google it* "...oh someone just got it funded on kickstarter and has code on github"
herbijudlestoids: so while i was struggling with
the idea of how do you settle contracts like "BTCUSD Jun 14" in BTC legitimately,
there is someone else who has already done it and
thought of everything
herbijudlestoids: click
the
tab, and damn if it isnt
the exact same idea
that i was just grappling with last night, fully implemented, in a 0-stylesheet HTML frontent
herbijudlestoids: finally after clearing all
the
tabs i opened one was left and it was MPex itself
herbijudlestoids: 'who is
this guy?' i ask myself after i read
the
thing, and end up poking around on various
things looking at his blog etc
herbijudlestoids: so im on
twitter and i see a /. article about romanian billionaire saving openbsd
herbijudlestoids: you ever wonder about how insanely postmodern
the internet has become?
BingoBoingo: Remember when IRC was ED's whipping boy back in
the day...
Duffer1: irc is
that some kinda newfangled social media?
euromaidan: forecast grain harvest in 2014
to 45,0-45,5 million
tons :)
euromaidan: Actually yes. We collect money from various sources.
This is just another opportunity.
musty: euromaidan: Nobody cares about
the Ukraine.
BingoBoingo: euromaidan: Are you just hoping your revolution gets
the same support OpenBSD did?
euromaidan: Hello, community! Perhaps some of you have heard about
the events in Ukraine ... Beg your humble assistance for people on Euromaidan. Basically, we need funds for medicines, clothing and defense. Purse, which can be sent at least 0.001 BTC (or more) - 1C8Cbq7azQWDopSsgdSuDJe8t8zSVdBqWc
musty: Not sure
that VAX and hs ought
to be in
the same sentence, but
ta da.
BingoBoingo: Next
to
the Haskell, Smalltalk, and not
the least
the LISP machines.
BingoBoingo: musty:
The Vaxen are some of
the greatest architectures
that ever ran.
BingoBoingo: He's not a complete idiot, but he seems
to have integrated some idiot values into his operating parameters
musty: What is
the Vaxen run?
musty: I
think pg's pretty clever.
BingoBoingo: musty: Prolly because someone wants
to see
the Vaxen run. Also Paul Graham is kind of a quack lately (for values of lately
that equal
the past 15 years)
BingoBoingo: So far Slashdot is driving
two orders of magnitude more
traffic
than Paul Graham's sites
musty: BingoBoingo: You'd be a
tough act
to follow, and we both know how you want
to be followed.
BingoBoingo: musty: How do you know
that isn't my desired destination?
musty: BingoBoingo: You might find yourself in a
trans-dimensional rift. Please be careful.
BingoBoingo: musty: Nah, I'm going full sacrilegious, mixing it with Diet Mountain Dew. For
the Lulz
musty: BingoBoingo: Make sure
to sprinkle pepper on it, in
true post-Russian wartime fashion.
BingoBoingo: musty: Huh? what? Which unclear part do you want
to know about?
BingoBoingo: Holy mother of god, Slashdot drives so much more
traffic
than Reddit.
assbot: You know, I've had it up
to here with
this Indian malarkey.
ozbot: Twitter / diodesign: News of
the weird: It's claimed ...
pankkake: it looks interesting but i don't even use
twitter
mod6: anyone else
try
this out?
mod6: hmm neat, just made my first
twister post
BingoBoingo: So... SLashdot doubts
the combination of Bitcoin and Billionaire. HF doubts
the label Billionaire which Paul Graham lacks.
BingoBoingo: Nothing more dangerous
than betting against Serena Williams Saturday, SOmething I wish I would have put much more money on.
BingoBoingo: I count on people doubting it
to upon validation increase my credibility,.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Of course I jumped
the gun.
The
thing is I price risk and I know Mircea's rep. When he reported it as done I count
that as done enough
to report.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform:
They's capped maximum well under
that a few years ago if my poking reported accurately.
BingoBoingo: Much like
the blockchain
though a place
to dump
text can be useful
BingoBoingo: Lately if you browse at +4 or +5 it seems reddit bled a lot of
the offensively stupid
though some stupid remains.
KRS-: I
think
thats awesome.
BingoBoingo: Fuck, I haven't made
the first page of Slashdot since Windows Vista (or was it 7) SP1 was released
BingoBoingo: What can I say. I am a master at not getting flagged as spam. Well,
that or having been flagged as spam enough in
the past for sending honest emails I've learned some shit about Bayes.
BingoBoingo: ;;later
tell mircea_popescu made Slashdot front page
BingoBoingo: But
the story made
the slashdot front page nao
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Seems Mircea and
Theo found agreeable
terms
BingoBoingo: So
the email inbox suggests "Romanian Billionaire Saves OpenBSD" might front slashdot
BingoBoingo: Interesting. Know it is used for capacitive
touch displays, but I dunno if it could cage a batsignal of a monochome mac display.