benkay: climbing el capitan with proto-burners, pre-burning man
benkay: i stand up and talk about esoteric shit for twenty minutes, go talk to these dudes, they buy me drinks all night and tell me war stories about breaking relatives out of the shah's basement gaeol
benkay: i don't fucking get it
benkay: none of the nerds are willing to step within ten feet of them
benkay: dudes foot the bill for the whole night
benkay: me: ?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
benkay: dev: "oh these guys have some boring business that makes money"
benkay: it's pretty sad man
benkay: i hope you're picking up on the sarcasm around 'business model and shit'
benkay: those with mastery of toolchains that enable productivity will help those with capital multiply it and everyone else will serve as labor in the oop salt mines?
benkay: uh
benkay: ya well there's a reason there's basically no technical literature on the company site
benkay: i actually may have hammered into the heads of some folks that maybe the 'dev team' is a joke
benkay: errybody's all "hey benkay benkay what ams a bitcoin eh?"
benkay: at the bar on the tab of some poor company with a business model and shit trying to recruit developers and whatnot
benkay: and WHAT DO YOU FUCKING KNOW
benkay: hey so i did this talk on lisp tonight
benkay: ain't no harm innit
benkay: let a kid joust, mp
benkay: i thought you got out of the consulting game!
benkay: timing's obvious, though. what other axes tend to show patterns in these problem spaces?
benkay: and also have you actually run the numbers on post timing?!
benkay: so timing's the obvious side-channel, what others have you looked at?
benkay: or some subset thereof.
benkay: plus these logs are a thing for posterity
benkay: no no you see i am actually retarded
benkay: like i'm five
benkay: okay, i'm an idiot!
benkay: enlighten me, oh sage
benkay: given thread, here are 10 replies. select one.
benkay: there are shortcuts
benkay: perhaps consider that the forum planting may be highly automated
benkay: pathologies of the welfare state?
benkay: a fuck it has an e these days
benkay: also who's making odds on when mp hires a twittr troll?
benkay: hey davout tunes?
benkay: mircea_popescu imma ragequit at you
benkay: and humbug to boot
benkay: bah
benkay: every derp face crafting their derpy 140 char dropping for the internet
benkay: such import over 140 characters
benkay: man fuck twitter
benkay: my lawyer has one job: keep my ass outta trouble.
benkay: har
benkay: twobit whatever?
benkay: well with who else would they be acting?
benkay: Bugpowder: sauce?
benkay: "u wanna get fucked? i wanna steak. i'm sure we can figure something out here."
benkay: guess that means you don't have to worry about any of this bullshit, eh, ThickAsThieves?
benkay: sounds like a thing havelock and the pt managers should really have thought about.
benkay: they can't do that?
benkay: wait why i am i doing mp's work for him
benkay: ThickAsThieves: http://mpex.co/?mpsic=S.MG
benkay: davout: i'll check in tomorrow, busy tonight
benkay: bahaha
benkay: davout: more tunes still on offer?
benkay: ping davout
benkay: bronycapitalism!
benkay: nigga a different thing
benkay: no no thestringpuller those are "niggers" in this channel
benkay: ;;ud skid
benkay: may the patenteers all find themselves impaled on golden spikes
benkay: never figured that tone out
benkay: balls in your mouth
benkay: bubble tea
benkay: you'd be well served by actually reading how they work, ThickAsThieves
benkay: everything is technology.
benkay: everything old is new again
benkay: mircea_popescu: are you familiar with SkySails?
benkay: robot ships!
benkay: heh i got that from you, mircea_popescu
benkay: the best way to keep people who shouldn't be playing with dangerous financial instruments from doing so is to just disallow them from it. this is the MPEx model.
benkay: "yes you will" "no i won't fag"
benkay: mircea_popescu coinpunk.org and coinpunk.com are indeed same folks
benkay: cads ##econometrics
benkay: gox is dead, correct? dead dead?
benkay: lo - a wild moiety!
benkay: lo moiety
benkay: is the world less insane today, boys?
benkay: !b 4
benkay: it was audible.
benkay: i once heard copumpkin use a closure to turn an Mac][ into a Genera
benkay: copumpkin: u has pm
benkay: it's not Bitcoin, it's just Gox.
benkay: i'm not even a computer science person
benkay: there is only lisp.
benkay: notrly
benkay: copumpkin: programming languages?
benkay: copumpkin: pl?
benkay: wowee
benkay: bloody pedants
benkay: in other news, i'm talking about lisp at the Portland Python night this month. if there are any Portlanders listening, you should come and NOT TALK ABOUT BITCOIN FFS.
benkay: unlike the vcs, i suppose
benkay: this is what is wrong with the planet
benkay: fuck everything
benkay: "cool to invest in a startup"
benkay: hoo booo whaaat qm without matrix operations?
benkay: settle down
benkay: now now greenspan_fan
benkay: copumpkin you missed the part about accumulation.
benkay: that's why the accumulation's important, mircea_popescu
benkay: they are accredited by virtue of having and accumulating bitcoins
benkay: an accredited bitcoin investor accumulates bitcoins
benkay: it's pretty easy
benkay: much drama and lulz today?
benkay`: ;;calc 696/1994
benkay`: givin me the heebie jeebies
benkay`: fuckin with production hardware again kakobrekla
benkay`: phoo
benkay`: wtf is this: <assbot> [MPEX] [S.NSA] CAPITULATION
benkay`: davout i would indeed enjoy those tunes
benkay: i can defo make some sea robutts
benkay: yeah 400 robots under the sea worth a stupid amount of money
benkay: and i at least spend five minutes evaluating markets into which i want to get
benkay: mircea_popescu i'm not about to just go work for some crazy exploration company
benkay: jesus christ man
benkay: le mob
benkay: the everyone
benkay: it's all the same thing, nubbins`
benkay: if a glacially slow typist.
benkay: coinverb
benkay: ;;later tell BitcoinSachs where'd you go?
benkay: type slower assholes
benkay: goddamnit
benkay: !b 2
benkay: hey BingoBoingo we got someone for you to meet
benkay: in my actual face, though.
benkay: BitcoinSachs: i get people all over my shit all the time
benkay: BitcoinSachs you gotta learn how to IRC, man.
benkay: sweet doge action
benkay: man i am into that
benkay: oh goodness i don't really know *who* knows about the little boys at this point
benkay: BitcoinSachs: tell me this isn't retarded http://imgur.com/elHxylT
benkay: (nothing personal r3wt it's for teh lulz)
benkay: r3wt's a little boy, BitcoinSachs, mind his delicate mind.
benkay: all the damn space
benkay: part of what makes this country so horrible
benkay: the suburbanization of north america has really atomized people B007 it's not like the eu at all
benkay: nubbins`: more arcade style "put in some doge! some lite! some bit! get stuff to use!"
benkay: grah infinite possibly fun things to do
benkay: makes me want to build a pay-to-play 4x webgame
benkay: just kidding, meta-nsa
benkay: i betcha US cops use windows systems. shouldn't be hard.
benkay: task for lurking do-gooders: liberate the list of police names and addresses in all of your hometowns
benkay: more along the lines of "who can muster a pickup full of men with shotguns"
benkay: you're saying we're headed clean back to horses?
benkay: the tanks'll have to change hands first.
benkay: bureaucrats
benkay: worse than suits
benkay: whole mining stack gets snatched up and taken over by the government.
benkay: i'll settle for the machines.
benkay: repudiation*
benkay: pardon, mp but repududiation?
benkay: they have sweet machines
benkay: pick up nautilus for pennies on the dime when they go under, mircea_popescu
benkay: rendered irrelevant by deep sea mining though
benkay: there is one major difference with nautilus, however.
benkay: "we're gonna strike gooooold!"
benkay: aren't all exploration stocks penny stocks?
benkay: yeah i bet nautilus needed a shitton of capital
benkay: but robots man! i've always had a hardon for robots. i'd like to get back to hacking on robots, and of larger scale too.
benkay: well, maybe holding stock is too much exposure
benkay: i'd kill for some. or to work with them.
benkay: nautilus shares?
benkay: nautilus minerals has apparently canceled their deep sea mining relationship with whichever tinpot country they were working with
benkay: i see i see
benkay: o yeah
benkay: for what now?
benkay: no, i think building robots
benkay: har
benkay: ocean mining is a thing i plan to do when properly capitalized.
benkay: oh the underwater mining routine?
benkay: does he make coherent arguments on the topic?
benkay: THE HORROR http://imgur.com/elHxylT
benkay: words fail
benkay: so dumb cannot comprehend their own dumbness
benkay: dumbest in the world award
benkay: wtf no deep link tweets?
benkay: but sheeeeit maybe
benkay: no, couldn't be...
benkay: oh my god bitcoinwife tweet feed or whatever they call is maybe worse than btctalk?
benkay: exits as in everything is ludicrously overvalued everyone going to cash this instant?
benkay: scammers scamming scammers
benkay: bahaha
benkay: (telegraf?)
benkay: outta mah FACE
benkay: someone tried to compare their shitty startup to google at me the other day
benkay: dude!
benkay: plus the mythology and cult worship around google/yahoo/msft/etc totally throws everyone's radars out of whack
benkay: well duh
benkay: so i just realized the outsized returns of "startups" blind the average street "angel" to kelly criteria evaluation
benkay: hah
benkay: so it is a simple product
benkay: value of above
benkay: 0.01% chance of winning 1B - how ams even calculate
benkay: risk pricing?
benkay: optimal risk something or other?
benkay: hey guys what's the notion of estimating how much of your pot to bet on a thing of known odds and payout called?
benkay: ?
benkay: from whom did this message originate, randomcloud
benkay: what, humanskin notebooks not sold for btc?
benkay: i wonder what fraction of shit sold for btc is sold to people who just want to spend their bitcoins to fuel the consumer tech self-validation angle
benkay: how is your DAC going to handle the problem of vetting pantie suppliers from pakistan, india, china, etc?
benkay: nicknode to within an order of magnitude
benkay: people don't use the script system in bitcoin not 'cause it's not turing complete but because the needs ethereum satisfies are entirely imaginary.
benkay: only if we figure out a way to use my poops as memory
benkay: compute my poop
benkay: turing my butt
benkay: no ether-fueled turing computers necessary.
benkay: those were driven just fine by humans.
benkay: that is precisely my point.
benkay: were/are
benkay: a local businessman asked me about Ethereum and its "distributed autonomous corporations" recently. i sent him back a tome the gist of which was "come on man you run a business do you really think these nerds are going to code up an AI that can handle the ambiguity and indeterminacy of what we do? it mighta worked for S.D. and J.D. but shit at the end of the day those were driven just fine by humans!"
benkay: the20year2: it's not "volume" if you're only selling.
benkay: something to do with neobee i gather
benkay: !t h neobee
benkay: MisterE: re: wages, old news.
benkay: well that was nice davout thank you
benkay: probably erring on the high side honestly
benkay: heuristic average neo trade size ~3B
benkay: lookit that, almost 3x rentalstarter
benkay: !t h rent
benkay: !t h neobee
benkay: neomoon
benkay: such demand
benkay: no
benkay: to the logs with you, dexX7
benkay: ding ding ding
benkay: i was joking that i want you to auth with gribble before i download your .zip
benkay: ;;gettrust davout
benkay: davout: it's public, i was asking something else
benkay: jkjk
benkay: davout auth plz
benkay downloads 60 megs of binary to disk from a stranger's dropbox
benkay: i think not coining words like that is mine.
benkay: sho nuff
benkay: cute
benkay: now there's some stimulation
benkay: .bait
benkay: a schtick as they say
benkay: that's just a joke jurov ;)
benkay: open ended question
benkay: bitcoinpete: what are your bitcoinspirations?
benkay: yeah man thats cool i'll always take good music :)
benkay: that is kinda neat
benkay: and i'm not setting that up right now - dick deep in java oop spaghetti