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Bugpowder: the math woks out such
that
the owner
takes 55% of
the final deposit in cume fees
Bugpowder: owner gets
to borrow
the last deposit
smickles: that applies
to code
too (sometimes)
smickles: remember how someone said something like, 'if i seem great, it's only b/c i have stood on
the shoulders of giants'
mircea_popescu: that precious moment when one realises he's been climbing
the wrong hill for
the past
two days
mircea_popescu: in retrospect i shoulda made
this stuff a lot more complicated
smickles: ther's a 'd' in
the middle of
the boobs
too
smickles: he has
the parser for a regular stat
smickles: are you not using a json parser for
that?
Bugpowder: need
to parse
the orders into cells
smickles: one sec, i'll post
the one i use
smickles: Bugpowder: do you need
the regex
to break down option mpsics?
Bugpowder: regular expression extraction of data is
truly an exercise in aligning
the precision of what you
think you are saying with what you actually are saing
mircea_popescu: like, refund your bfl order, are worried
they may ship ? put a yes on
that bet, get a little back.
mircea_popescu: i
think few people just yet realise how
to use bbet for hedging
Bugpowder: do not underestimate
the idiocy of bitcoiners
Bugpowder: there are people betting 4000 btc at a
time on s.dice
Bugpowder: in bitcoin world has
this idea been implemented
mircea_popescu: this one is self limiting, as price goes up
the sorts of ppl who'd like
to play can't anymore.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla no it's not. biggest fish allows
the poor
to play.
mircea_popescu: can't do
that sorta
thing, cause site op can just put 1k in and whoop.
Bugpowder: everything we know about
the bitcoin community supports
this
Bugpowder: I really
think
the gem is going
to hit 1000BTC in a week
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla well no, blockchain affords erik
teh immunitah
mircea_popescu: it's funny just how many problems bitcoin resolves.
there's not
that many internet businesses which can build
themselves ddos immunity.
mircea_popescu: this was pretty high bw, so it finally made move
to
the proxy system
Bowjob: I'm sure he has a bitcointalk name. He must be having a rough
time right now still..
Bowjob: Did we ever find out who
the unlucky sap was
that sold 500k S.Dice @ 0.0018?
jurov: mircea_popescu, buying of february bonds is open
till
today midnight UTC? Ukto
tries hard
to confuse me :D
JWU42: markedathome:
that is
the first one since
then
jurov: we'll certainly hear more from him... untill
they keep him under drugs :D
jurov: visited parents
today, watched him being funny
together
mircea_popescu: check out
that guy, bet 5 cents on zeman came out like 600%
mircea_popescu: i hurt feelings as if
they were fish roe at a japanese restaurant
Schadenfreude: what do you expect? '68 came, everybody's
the same and has a right not
to get
their feelings hurt
mircea_popescu: what are annoying are
the people who know better but prefer
to "be polite"
mircea_popescu: they're not annoying, it's what
they do. a cow chewing cud is not annoying.
Schadenfreude: normal idiots doing
this are annoying, politicians voted in by
those idiots using
the same
terminology
to push for insane laws, now
that's different
mircea_popescu: "everyone i know
things i'm right, for any values of everyone = 0, which is how many people i know"
mircea_popescu: wields with conviction
the almighty weapon of universal agreement with himself.
mircea_popescu: no, i mean
that every single idiot no matter how irrelevant, marginal or outright stupid
mircea_popescu: this socialist delusion is possibly
the most amusing
thing i've ever seen
mircea_popescu: I'm calling it now and you can count on
this : When everything Bitcoin related will go big, Mircea, MPEX and Satoshi Dice won't. Stop worrying , it is a non-issue.
Schadenfreude: it's like somebody complaining
that a mugger gambles
the money away he robbed instead of buying food for it
Schadenfreude: though really, aslong as upto 80% of people's income are being
taxed away under various pretenses, where
that money goes
to isn't
that important
mircea_popescu: there's no actual private university in
the us.
there's just different
types of graft financing.
Schadenfreude: was it
tax money or money actually earned by a university with
tuition fees etc?
mircea_popescu: Schadenfreude it being useful is not in discussion
tho. it being useful enough
to justify
the costs is.
Schadenfreude: pretty much every kind of research except for political bs like manipulating data
to prove an agenda pays off in
the long
term, knowledge is useful
mircea_popescu: and in general men's ability
to detect it is a good indiator of mens ability
to get laid.
Schadenfreude: meh,
they
tried
to prove
that men can detect on a subconcious level
the cycle phase of women
Bugpowder: but
the knowledge of it is growing
gribble: Error: Something in
there wasn't a valid number.
mircea_popescu: A mixed-model analysis of 296 work shifts (representing about 5300 lap dances) showed an interaction between cycle phase and hormonal contraception use. Normally cycling participants earned about US$335 per 5-h shift during estrus, US$260 per shift during
the luteal phase, and US$185 per shift during menstruation. By contrast, participants using contraceptive pills showed no estrous earnings peak.
Bugpowder: people are going
to hit it pretty fast for now
Bugpowder: I
think
the gem is going over 100 by monday
mircea_popescu: "Ovulatory cycle effects on
tip earnings by lap dancers: economic evidence for human estrus?"