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Results 57751 ... 57881 found in trilema for 'f:ben'
benkay: how was your process different then?
benkay: or 17?
benkay: do you remember much about programming when you were 16?
benkay: coming up on mastery, it sounds like
benkay: Diablo-D3 how long have you been at it?
benkay: did you grow into being able to see the right approach? or were you always a 90% think, 10% crank guy
benkay: in my development development :)
benkay: i'm at a point in my development where i need to fail and iterate rapidly
benkay: that's why i'm diving into clojure
benkay: i spend most of my time learning
benkay: you probably also spend more time programming than I do
benkay: but I find an upper limit on my creative productivity at like 32
benkay: bosses want like 40 hours per week out of programmers
benkay: what does a struck-out bondholder on the MPBOR list mean?
benkay: semantics
benkay: har
benkay: later all
benkay: and dogs
benkay: time to go bask in sun with wimmins
benkay: but that's because proles
benkay: big banks rig all of the things and it takes years for the proles to figure it out
benkay: but you have an edge in scale of conspiracy :)
benkay: i hold that eternal secrecy is extremely difficult to enforce
benkay: watman
benkay: wat
benkay: "big girls need love too"
benkay: wowee
benkay: failure in comms is ambiguity
benkay: success in comms is expressing things in a way that everyone understands
benkay: expressed shock at attitude of "who are you" when we know, like, MP
benkay: everyone has the right to question
benkay: no not question
benkay: but there's lots of noise in the market and some traders manage to beat the mean year after year
benkay: oh granted
benkay: that's more of a signal to noise claim, sir.
benkay: hm.
benkay: 0 information leakage is a secret kept by 1 person. some information leakage happens when more than 1 person knows stuff. eventually, all information will leak. infinity?
benkay: hah
benkay: and you anticipate maintaining the privacy wall indefinitely?
benkay: that makes a startling amount of sense.
benkay: got it. so everyone's doing this as a side job?
benkay: mp knows i'm actually trying to learn stuff
benkay: and which profession?
benkay: in the us? to an extent. in romania? no clue.
benkay: why can't they get involved? risking their licensure?
benkay: also I hate asking questions that have been answered already. aversion to repetition and all that.
benkay: but if you hire them and their compliance officer?did you contract with existing financial firms to do accounting and backoffice etc?
benkay: consider bitcoin what?
benkay: so this veers into philosophy and prognostication, but how much longer can anyone expect any information to remain unindexed?
benkay: and you're endeavoring to write new rules, I get it.
benkay: so returning to culture shock, I'm accustomed to things being indexed instead of known
benkay: image = f(transparency and other shit)
benkay: transparency, etc.
benkay: big American investors are obsessed with image.
benkay: big American companies are obsessed with image.
benkay: "but i lols so powerful image is nothing"
benkay: I guess I'm just bemused by the difference in approach towards image in your area.
benkay: oh of course
benkay: which induces a bit of culture shock, in that i generally expect people to be proud of the team they work with, and eager to show that they're above board and real grownups etc.
benkay: but if I say, 'dear mircea_popescu, where would I go to learn about the amazing team you've assembled to run your business?' your answer is 'do some research, child'
benkay: have not, not.
benkay: no demonstrations of past success.
benkay: no employment histories
benkay: no names
benkay: rly?
benkay: "exercise to reader"
benkay: "lead counsel"
benkay: "cfo"
benkay: but who are those humans?
benkay: nope
benkay: they're chat logs.
benkay: chat logs are not public declaration of team makeup.
benkay: i'm trying to highlight the double standard of "no pro-grade team called out on site, where team is expected to be called out" vs the MPEx approach which is "MPEx is run by someone well versed in power dynamics and getting people to do things. trust him to select the right people to do things."
benkay: chan's not terribly persistent or searchable
benkay: for all the bile and hate about children building technology from MPOEPR we have no idea who makes up mircea's team
benkay: GirlfawkesyBTC do you plan to trade actively?
benkay: and when money is involved as a core part of the business, many of your customers will in fact be bad customers without quality control.
benkay: not all customers are good customers.
benkay: I agree.
benkay: ibankers and whatnot
benkay: others do
benkay: most don't even buy the medallions
benkay: probably
benkay: it's not even that much money
benkay: asciilifeform what's the real name, then? medallions are a competition inhibitor, the exchange seat fee is just an "are you serious" check
benkay: thanks mircea_popescu, feel free to pm it over
benkay: at least I think that's what he wants. open to correction on that count.
benkay: mircea_popescu would be only too happy to have more traders on his exchange, he just doesn't want to deal with the riffraff. he wants others to aggregate riffraff orders and place them on MPEx.
benkay: no no no, the role of taxi medallions is to reduce the number of taxis on the street
benkay: and yet vipcoin doesn't break top page google
benkay: but i think we're making the same points.
benkay: except that the bureaucrat doesn't own the medallion organization, the mob does
benkay: fly them to romania on a carrier pigeon
benkay: print them out
benkay: you encrypt orders with gpg
benkay: they are different
benkay: rhetorical questions. too much for you to afford, and it's not.
benkay: and truffles, how is that related to their operating costs?
benkay: truffles, how much does a seat on the NYSE cost?
benkay: if we write it to minimize entropy, that would be cool
benkay: depends on how we code it
benkay: meh
benkay: <-- cloud ops
benkay: great way to keep your sysadmin costs high
benkay: ew gross owning your own data centers
benkay: ;)
benkay: just two?
benkay: and i don't feel like debugging a socket connection over code i didn't write myself tonight
benkay: i could get better numbers, but kako's socket's not responding :(
benkay: that latter's pretty likely, actually.
benkay: and may have broken through 1M contracts traded total this month
benkay: by my calculations, mpex has had over 300k of BTC wagered on options alone
benkay: here's a fun piece of data
benkay: apologies for wasting your time on something googleable.
benkay: yup.
benkay: that's what i'm thinking
benkay: what is the timestamp that comes off of the wire from kakobrekla's socket?
benkay: hey orkaa
benkay: i gather not.
benkay: is kakobrekla's socket up?
benkay: you forgot the barbed wire sandals, orkaa
benkay: +1 internet for you, sir.
benkay: *golf clap*
benkay: watman*
benkay: wat mat
benkay: nananananananananananana
benkay: watman
benkay: is mircea_popescu around?
benkay: ;;goxlag
benkay: ;;ticker
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