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benkay: BingoBoingo: i strongly recommend you not fill your cup with
those idiocies.
there is a strong push
towards
things
that are easy, but
taking
the easy route now sets you up for a whole shitton of unnecessary unlearning later.
benkay: you wouldn't go learn
to do
things
the wrong way just
to hear your sensei
tell you
to pour out
two years of practice, would you?
BingoBoingo: benkay: I'm
trying
to put myself in a position
to appreciate
the better
things when I have
the background
to leverage
them.
Duffer1: oh ya politicians say
things but all i hear is bbzzzzzzzz
fiat500: i mean given
the notion
that a downgrade 'changes nothing' - seems like he should be arguing it was undeserved, not
that it is meaningless
fiat500: what is
the point of having a rating at all?
fiat500: "The downgrade “changes nothing,” President Francois Hollande of France, Europe’s second-largest economy,
told reporters
today after a summit of European leaders in Brussels."
Duffer1: have you seen
the hanger footage on youtube?
Duffer1: star citizen needs
to be a real
thing right now
that i can play
Duffer1: howcome
there isn't a MP coin?
Duffer1: seems like
they're
trying
to increase volatility
to get better margins as
they fleece suckers on cryptsy
Duffer1: the first 6 months it will peak at 12k block reward
then fall
to 8k block reward during
the following 6 months
Duffer1: they made
the block reward like a 12 month long sin wave because.. who knows
CuWireBeard: How many Earthcoins do I need for a
tree
to be planted in my name on Earth Day?
Duffer1: Earthcoin just launched if anyone here is interested in LTC clones
that have zero innovation
kakobrekla: and so
the power puff, errr, new word was born.
mircea_popescu: hello sir. i am with fortune a business company of
the united states and would like
to short blong
BingoBoingo: blong being a away
to say long on btc could make
the20year and his real estate venture shorting blong
Duffer1: i'm surprised it's on
the jd blog, highlighting
the
tragedy of gambling addiction would drive users away, or make
them more disappointed in
themselves for staying
mike_c: funniest part of
that article: nakowa donated 10btc
to
the people in
the chat room at
the
time, including
the author.
the author proceeded
to gamble it away immediately.
Duffer1: how did i know
that was going
to be about nokawa
fiat500: spoke
to him last week, he's around
fiat500: nah he
traded in some hw for 700 shares at ~0.2
fiat500: iirc goat was closer
to 140btc into
this
fiat500: thats 30btc im never going
to see again, breaks my heart really
fiat500: in my mind
this is worse
than a scam, its just sheer incompetence, how do you collect 900 btc for hardware purchases and end up sourcing only 28TH/s for delivery sometime next year?
mircea_popescu: CuWireBeard its one of
the original global scam exchange "investments"
CuWireBeard: "resurrected"? Is
that what
they're calling it nowadays
fiat500: im just imagining some dude with 1000s of BTC saying "yeah i want
to sell off super fast such
that i cause
the price
to plummet and in
turn lose a lot of money"
ozbot: NSA paid $10 million
to put its backdoor in RSA encryption, according
to Reuters report |
The Verge
KRS1: fwiw sources are saying btc market could correct down
to ~ $360 - $400's market price
Duffer1: well he can't get it on SR any more so where else is he going
to get hooked up?
mircea_popescu: anyway. i wonder how many shitty officers are breathing easy now, because
they won't get fired because well...
they dont' get drunk so it's all ok.
mircea_popescu: "I've never been more embarrassed professionally in my life with a senior member." aka, you should see
the junior members.
mircea_popescu: clearly
the man is not fit for any job. he is not bland, he is not overlycautious
mircea_popescu: Carey interrupted a monastery
tour guide with slurred speech, sulked on a group walk
through Red Square and later
tried
to sing with a band at a Mexican restaurant in Moscow.
They refused
to let him.
BingoBoingo: Obviously
this disciplinary case should have been referred
to me for adjudication
Duffer1: maybe he dissed
their vodka
mircea_popescu: who offended russians by drinking ? is
this alternate ustard reality or something ?
mircea_popescu: after his alcohol-fueled binge on a
two-day visit
to Moscow in July
that included a late-night meeting with local women and offensive behavior
to his Russian hosts.
Duffer1: push button
to end our species
pizzaman1337: no, I mean, something I can
trust more
than a shell on some else's box. I want root.
pizzaman1337: what's
the best bitcoin accepting VPS provider
these days?
ozbot: The Cubli: a cube
that can jump up, balance, and 'walk' - YouTube
mike_c: i assumed we were not connecting semantically on
the challenge. i did it for fun :)
mike_c: what, a counter-bot has
to be complicated? :)
mircea_popescu: mike_c da heck is
that, you're just recursing
the algo lol
mircea_popescu: aite,
they've been used for ~2 years
to cover
the options bot on mpex
mike_c: so you can play as normal, except it hints you what
to press next
wao-ender: what do you
think of? I just had
talk with some guy who is pro in risk assests managment
wao-ender: also, I have in my head some cat bonds, did you heard of
them?
mircea_popescu: twist :
that playing was generally a better use of
that
time
than
the alternatives
they had
mircea_popescu: ok, but
the game was beat your opponent not beat
the idea of chess
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
that was going
to be my killing blow once he failed.
mircea_popescu: i dunno what
that site
threw at me, but it didn't werk
mircea_popescu: pastebin.com ? dpaste.com ? something
that actually spits out
text
mike_c: you have JS on at all? i could publish
the html/js somewhere else
mike_c: i could publish an arbitrary number of long strings of numbers
that win