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mircea_popescu: notwithstanding
that btc prices have doubled five of
the past
twenty months, and grain prices have not doubled any one of
the past 1500 months
mircea_popescu: if however you say "give me half a bitcoin and you can have
two if bitcoin doubles in a month" he will consider
this expensive
mircea_popescu: i meant something more along
these lines : if you go
to a fellow and say "pay me a dime and you can get
two dollars if
the price of grain dubles in a month" he will consider
this cheap.
Duffer1: your options participants are speculators above all else, it seems natural for
them
to consider
the fiat value of btc
mircea_popescu: i suspect
the human brain can't quite cope with btc volatility so
then
they seem "expensive"
mircea_popescu: amusingly, people
tend
to buy more options when
the market is flat
than when it moves.
toffoo: I'm somewhat surprised
that during
the last huge price spike/crash
that your options market wasn't more active
toffoo: is
that a lot less
than what it used
to be?
toffoo: I haven't seen many of
those options
trades
that used
to print in
this channel. has volume dropped a lot?
toffoo: what happened with
the mpex options market?
ozbot: MPOE, December 2013 Statement pe
Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
nubbins`: and
then
the next day, i was given a few pounds of moose sausage
nubbins`: honestly
this all came about because i was eating some nice pepperoni in here when you mentioned something about dried salami a few weeks ago
nubbins`: when i
try something new, i go full
throttle
nubbins`: anyway,
the collagen will do for now until i find a source
mircea_popescu: nubbins` not really much bigger
than what you're used
to
nubbins`: "he came with just enough blood
to make a sacrifice"
mircea_popescu: "how come an animal has just enough guts in it
to make sausage ?"
mircea_popescu: this is how people ended up religious in
the first place
nubbins`: it's like if pizzas were born with boxes inside
them.
nubbins`: nod,
the ultimate convenience food
nubbins`: you also don't get
that nice "snap" when you bite down into collagen
nubbins`: i've popped a few links because of
the collagen's lack of give
nubbins`: yeah, real guts are much more flexible
too
mircea_popescu: actual guts actually help you a lot with shaping
the sausage
nubbins`: guts are actually hard
to find
ozbot: imgur:
the simple image sharer
nubbins`: slowly learning
to plump up loose fills by adding links of appropriate length
nubbins`: mircea_popescu: funny,
that ;)
mircea_popescu: never had occasion
to use except
to fix girl's improbable cleavage clings and now
to catc hgnats.
nubbins`: stick a contact mic on
the bottle and record
their death screams
nubbins`: if it's not full of corpses
tomorrow, consider paper
nubbins`: mircea_popescu: i wonder will
the foil confuse
them
nubbins`: i
think generally
the listing requirements for mpex are a bit more stringent
than other places
mircea_popescu: nubbins` well i made one out of foil and double
tape, lessee
nubbins`: not knowing anything about it, i don't
think much of it
nubbins`: and it's listed because
they own it
nubbins`: granted,
the reading is a bit dry, but
that's just because
they haven't commissioned any of
these documents
to be remade in graphic novel format
nubbins`: very difficult
to get lost on
that website, it's pretty straight forward
nubbins`: just click
the link and read :D
nubbins`: i invite you
to read
the respective IPOs, but
they're all funds for various business-y
things
nubbins`: judging by
the picture, rotting fruit works
too
nubbins`: red wine is
the classic bait, but it's a bit of a waste of wine
mircea_popescu: no, see, it's just
they have very specialised sensing apparata
nubbins`: this is how lobsters are caught
too, incidentally
nubbins`: ^ you can also cut a plastic beverage bottle in half
to construct much
the same
thing
mircea_popescu: so i left my erlenmeyer
tuica glass with a little on
the bottom and went
to bed
nubbins`: admittedly only skimmed
the rest of
the article beyond part 1
nubbins`: few people make
this identification
nubbins`: "the courage
to ignore orthodoxy in favor of
truth"
mircea_popescu: it actually
took a fluent romanian speaker / native english
to make
the first draft and half hour of my
time
to correct it
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Much more polished
than my attempt.
jurov: checking
this serial won't help with diddling, but allows
the attacker only one
try
jurov: yes, we're
talking about connecting cardano
to (remotely) pwned server
jurov: and hell raised if
the value is not expected
jurov: maybe you can put
the serial right inside signature's date field.. so
that it can be checked
jurov: iirc
there will be serial number of files encrypted/signed?
benkay: not as a disk no, but
to decrypt a file of environmental variables describing cluster provisioning.
jurov: asciilifeform: it will be used
to sign resulting binary or
tarball?
mod6: i did `65'
the first
time.
benkay: secrets in
the repository.
benkay: and put it back in
the safe after application has been booted.
benkay: yes, of course.
this is why you pull C out of a safe when booting new application instance.