benkay: well then give him all your isk
benkay: admin at bitcointalk
benkay: (^^ nubbins`)
benkay: i would put the a.c. outside for the night if that hit my radar unsolicited.
benkay: it's not a subcommittee, it only reports to me.
benkay: nubbins`: art because your lord said so. money by the same.
benkay: opc0d3: what's the options volume on icbit?
benkay: enlighten me opc0d3
benkay: which is moronic given that all currencies are only such by consensus
benkay: i think the implication is that it's a currency by consensus
benkay: dub: as in "are you on crack"?
benkay: i find myself trying to convince people of stuff again dammit :(
benkay: 'cause "it's backed by math, idiot" isn't working
benkay: i'm still trying to formulate an argument against people who hold that bitcoin is fiat currency
benkay: how does one trust the issuer of such cc to back it fully and not descend into fractional reserve behavior?
benkay: just thinking about the concept shows it riddled with the holes of weak minds
benkay: not by my parsing.
benkay: meaning in the absence of a functional commodity-backed cc?
benkay: "so far"?
benkay: given that i can take my buttcorns down to ye local banker and turn them into commodities, this is idiocy on idiocy, right?
benkay: "commodity backed cryptocurrency"
benkay: the bounce is back
benkay: cray like fox.
benkay: but occasionally i find myself confronted by a wall insufficiently arted
benkay: (high quality and, you know, appeals to my taste etc)
benkay: unless they have cogent reasons for to not, obviously.
benkay: nubbins`: when a thing strikes me as being of high quality, i generally submit it to the aesthetics comittee for discussion and then instruct said aesthetes to purchase the thing
benkay: on an entirely different topic, i fly to argentina tomorrow. i'd be glad to act as a proxy in buenos aires for, you know, not *anyone*, but people in this channel with btc-related inquiries
benkay: very definitely a delegable task.
benkay: can't be arsed to go shopping though
benkay: i exercise veto all the time, man. neural nets need feedback to work correctly.
benkay: there's some irony in there.
benkay: nubs, why u mad, brizzo?
benkay: and i only deploy capital against aesthetic things when it's going to have some sort of caloric return. eg: "babe, take this small pile of capital and deploy it making this space look nice. that way when clients come by they won't be horrified by my abysmal decoration and might actually be impressed by my aesthetic committee's performance"
benkay: i did find the line about equivalency between aesthetic value and caloric value amusing
benkay: it's like the f=ma of power dynamics
benkay: which is baseline true
benkay: the only opinions as what matter terribly are those as what emanate from the powerful
benkay: ain't nothing to it, really
benkay: this art discussion, yo
benkay: i'm still mulling over how to integrate cardanos into my existing key mgmt scheme
benkay: bought some cardanos, kakobrekla?
benkay: nubbs how do you obtain food credits outside of IT these days?
benkay: mod6: gotta re-read it three more times.
benkay: amusing that gox is still default for ticker
benkay: .bait
benkay: but pankkake that doesn't prevent to corrupt innovate
benkay: all wrapped in a lovely strawman
benkay: and 1 year an arbitrary timeframe
benkay: haven't you heard, it has mining for the undercapitalized
benkay: naw.
benkay: from the ceaseless litecoin hype frothing from your face?
benkay: your secretions are safe with -assets
benkay: i'll secrete something
benkay: always got my ears out for a new hustle
benkay: what's your budget, skinnkavaj?
benkay: amazing mail!
benkay: skinnkavaj: what do these percents imply?
benkay: tee hee
benkay: oh that thing
benkay: i am missing so much context
benkay: -ass has a points/karma thing now?
benkay: 'twasn't me.
benkay: what ams these point?
benkay: put a big enough engine on a brick and *presto* i guess you have an orbital insertion vehicle too
benkay: (it's an orange juicer, for those not in the know)
benkay: better you than me. i stopped writing about this highly subjective stuff back when i decided to stop convincing people of things.
benkay: what is art? what design? what is product? what is art?
benkay: is this art or design?
benkay: how about an analogue
benkay: i find some of j's wordplay rather elegant, myself
benkay: some mainstream rap may even be art to some people
benkay: mainstream american rap is product. there are rap artists. there are rap producers. there are humans in between.
benkay: everything exists on a spectrum.
benkay: can't have a reasonable conversation in black and white, mp.
benkay: some may think they are, in the same way that some americans think they're ceo's when funded by idiots
benkay: my point is that rap isn't art. it's a product manufactured for americans.
benkay: you can't expect me to have opinions about real art like dali
benkay: hey man i'm an american idiot
benkay: what does that have to do with rap?
benkay: the capitalists never do
benkay: the artists always do
benkay: i've yet to meet the artist who's a better capitalist than the jiggaman.
benkay: still just moving product.
benkay: "artists"
benkay: twerk miley miley miley miley miley
benkay: mostly just the good-looking ones.
benkay: i would very much like a cardano into which i can put my own keys. and also to sleep with all of your sisters.
benkay: of course.
benkay: mircea_popescu: is it true that exercises aren't assigned until end of month?
benkay: yes you will if you are programmatically running bookkeeping
benkay: you'll know if you get exercised against, mike_c. if you're calling stat regularly enough.
benkay: get all the forex guys into btc.
benkay: nothing odd.
benkay: and an etf?
benkay: oh but really?
benkay: kidding, kidding.
benkay: kakobrekla: listing on mpex?
benkay: don't quite recall why i asked for one from smickles
benkay: i've picked the entities from whom i've asked for ratings carefully.
benkay: heh.
benkay: $depth S.MPOE
benkay: mired in their own paradigms
benkay: "what ever will we do with our chargeback fraud department?"
benkay: american banks are going to ignore cryptocurrencies until their lunches are thoroughly et
benkay: and with my OTC reputation, it'd be largely worthless
benkay: i can sign a promise to pay you some money
benkay: why do i care about cryptographically secured debt of american banks?
benkay: has it not been exhausted, b0n1, draining wealth from the foolish already?
benkay: lol at 1337 @ 0.00015
benkay: does not work for assets?
benkay: what's the command to see how much the price would move for an asset given a specific buy/sell size?
benkay: ;;market
benkay: ping mircea_popescu please see pm
benkay: !help
benkay: ;;help
benkay: i'll just blithely claim ignorance
benkay: if i knew what that word meant i'd have a mob at my door i think
benkay: not that i even know what a 'nigger' is
benkay: rounding error
benkay: gay black community is like
benkay: being that most gay black men tend to join the gay community
benkay: both imho
benkay: big nono in black american culture
benkay: it starts with degrassi
benkay: it's a long story
benkay: yeah
benkay: this for starters: http://25.media.tumblr.com/0d090af1bcf9b06b11b137a86e35d860/tumblr_mugjnb6V4X1sczgpmo1_1280.jpg
benkay: drake the type of nigga to safely eject a usb stick
benkay: oh yes
benkay: no sauna
benkay: goodness
benkay: i would have enjoyed it more had i embraced my sadistic side earlier in life.
benkay: the only upside to that gig was watching the shop operators grow more and more uncomfortable around me and my robots during my tenure
benkay: comprable
benkay: mega personal happiness penalties from programming in proprietary ladder logic though
benkay: far more fun to play with than the industrial type
benkay: but only after shunting lots of electrons and making lots of api calls and getting the odd human involved
benkay: the widgets for which i'm responsible ultimately move atoms around
benkay: the cloud robots.
benkay: nearly a year and a half!
benkay: no, i got shot of actual physical fucking atoms a year ago
benkay: the robots hate me today
benkay: a full day of fighting stupid computers
benkay: oh wot as well
benkay: wa
benkay: ;;ident benkay
benkay: anyways there's decades of breeding in the pot plants that i find it hard to imagine getting around with gmos
benkay: 'cause that's how one prevents a pot plant from going to seed
benkay: actually now i'm curious what an unpollinated tomato would do
benkay: why would you put those genes in a plant that fruits?
benkay: on the same note, everything that increases agricultural output is a bad thing 'cause it leads rather quickly to more humans
benkay: especially given what's coming out about the common nature of organic viral-driven lateral gene transfer
benkay: i'm quibbling about what it means for a thing to be a "genetically modified organism"
benkay: (mircea_popescu: yes)
benkay: ams gmo?
benkay: f.ex: an organism identified to carry a certain set of genes bred with another organism some breeders would like to see that gene in
benkay: i just want a little more subtlety in the conversation
benkay: what ams gmo?
benkay: what ams devil?
benkay: dat binary thinking
benkay: y'all should see their new tirades about GMOs
benkay: amazing soap
benkay: point is this human is no tiberiusxiv
benkay: he even got you worked up a few times
benkay: tib was a class act
benkay: tib?
benkay: my mistake
benkay: talking about the link in the "research" dropdown
benkay: you may want to take down the link to btctc dexX7
benkay: coinflow has all data - thanks dexX7
benkay: i see none such
benkay: mircea_popescu: that last one only has a month of history.
benkay: stretching back further than a month...
benkay: is anyone charting assets listed on MPEx?
benkay: litecoin - it's for gamblers!
benkay: ;;tslb
benkay: and make smart investments
benkay: but mircea people are basically good
benkay: tee hee us bitcoin "foundation" rejected like a tryhard
benkay: http://bitcoinmagazine.com/7643/bitcoin-in-israel-interview-with-meni-rosenfeld-and-ron-gross-part-2/
benkay: "None of us, none of the people in that room want to just accept these kinds of conditions written in a top-down fashion by the Foundation that is effectively today a US foundation."
benkay: a whole ten shitbucks ;)
benkay: not to mention the power to burn behind fpgas
benkay: at this point i'm inclined to take it on faith but otoh what's the basis?
benkay: " A good chunk of the recent hashpower is split roughly evenly between the Chinese and the US "
benkay: wow and also
benkay: if not, don't.
benkay: if in desire of traps, acquire and enjoy.
benkay: with enough practice and demonstrated competence in rearranging, one doesn't even need to gamble on whether a given whore is a trap or not.
benkay: but carefuly rearrangement of atoms can lead to some pretty spectacular machines
benkay: you can never get more energy out of oil than is in there to begin with
benkay: this comes back to leverage
benkay: and just computing hashes strikes me as a poor use of natural gas
benkay: i think that what i'm trying to say is that i enjoy and profit from building machines that take in energy and do work upon the environment, disadvantaging some market players and advantaging others.
benkay: more chardonnay is called for
benkay: i am not making this point clearly at all
benkay: and while one can extract a certain amount of value from turning a pile of well-ordered things into a pile of less-well ordered things, the art of business construction is largely that of building machines that work against the entropic gradient.
benkay: well, yes, Nature does certainly prefer some arrangements to others. those highly ordered arrangements are very useful to people, though.
benkay: "security"
benkay: also
benkay: it could also be possible to emulate quantum circuits on VN architecture chips
benkay: "could"
benkay: there's only marginal profit to be made in just increasing entropy
benkay: nonsense
benkay: with the end result of impenetrable chaos noise on all lines
benkay: it's far cheaper to promulgate uncertainty and craziness than specific angles
benkay: nowadays every channel is stuffed with shills
benkay: once upon a time there were channels
benkay: how can one know anything on the internet these days
benkay: not a terrifically interesting deployment of capital
benkay: meh
benkay: a trapman i see
benkay: straight for the pooper? what is this, amateur hour?
benkay: that's a pretty weak counter troll
benkay: daww BingoBoingo
benkay: killer feels bro
benkay: dear mircea can you please give me a bit of background on what you mean by future automatic lifting of the US debt ceiling?
benkay: wow it is hilariously quiet in this parts
benkay: ugh english. too late for me :(
benkay: it's a poor troll, admittedly, but at least in the states we can abuse our childrens education
benkay: aka industrial babysitting
benkay: "school"
benkay: ;;later tell mircea_popescu http://dailycaller.com/2013/08/31/the-perils-of-homeschooling-german-police-storm-home-seize-four-children/ ah yes the glorious superiority of european everything
benkay: wamp wamp
benkay: durrrr
benkay: ;;vwap
benkay: tee hee standard asic chips
benkay: but how do the market cap to profit ratios of exxon mobil and facebook make sense in the same universe?
benkay: obviously some businesses need software
benkay: some days i think the whole american software industry is engaged in an epic scam
benkay: but do they know that?
benkay: point taken
benkay: dahahaha
benkay: aircap you mean? what problem are they actually solving?
benkay: at which point even if you did a really good job at drying it whatever small amount is left will indubitably condense back out
benkay: until you rapidly expand it
benkay: they hate it when you demonstrate that a fancy american degree doesn't grant any actual goddamn engineering skills
benkay: but don't tell the stanford grads that
benkay: far more effective to just freeze water and then use that as the heat sink for a turbine if you have local waste heat
benkay: among other reasons
benkay: condensation
benkay: compressed air energy storage is the most horrible idea
benkay: thanks jurov. i realized that shortly after asking
benkay: an interesting question is how many btc would be required to buy enough GPU/FPGA horsepower to effect a 51% attack