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awt[busybot]: $ticker btc usd
busybot[asciilifeform]: Current BTC price in USD: $19813.06
asciilifeform: seems to vary approx as much in recent times as the temperature in a root cellar, lol
awt[busybot]: Indeed. This move today feels like 5k up or down used to feel.
billymg[asciilifeform]: $ticker dxy
busybot: Error! Requires 2 parameters - Please see `man ticker` for usage
billymg[busybot]: chart looks great, where can i invest in dollar coin? what is supply cap? who are dev?
awt[busybot]: wow! wen moon?
asciilifeform unrelatedly, simplified pest spec , aboloshing the multiple buffers and most of the gnarly interning mechanics.
awt[busybot]: Oh. Will be interested to read.
asciilifeform: nao, msg only held up if a) a chain precedent missing, and we getdata'd for it, ~1s b) hearsay arrives with bounce > alltime_minimum(speaker) -- give time for immed/lower-bounce to arrive
asciilifeform: all other valid msgs go straight on
asciilifeform: oughta make for 'over9000x' faster propagation of broadcasts, vs. the earlier practice of sitting on erry hearsay
asciilifeform: ( if bounce <= alltime_min(speaker), add its hash to the in-mem dedupe cache, any further dupe of it is insta-dropped, and send it on its way )
signpost[asciilifeform]: $ticker btc usd
busybot: Current BTC price in USD: $19995.2
asciilifeform: wb signpost
signpost[asciilifeform]: asciilifeform: can't wait to read it.
bitbot[busybot|asciilifeform]: Logged on 2022-10-24 13:08:32 awt: http://logs.bitdash.io/pest/2022-08-28#1011760 << still ready
signpost[asciilifeform]: ah damn, they have the paywall for archivers now
asciilifeform: yea
signpost[asciilifeform]: tldr, more "don't call it QE"
asciilifeform: paste plox if you have the txt
asciilifeform: signpost: new spec oughta make for faster and substantially less headachy read than prev
asciilifeform: ( thing actually organized in logical order nao, lol, vs. prev soup )
signpost[asciilifeform]: previous soup was mighty delicious already, but awesome
signpost[busybot]: http://paste.deedbot.org/?id=myNw << zh leaks
signpost[busybot]: (who are mostly themselves banker-fuck leaks, lol)
asciilifeform: ty
asciilifeform not tuned into the subj well enuff to comment pithily
asciilifeform: well, aside from the obv. syllogism.
dulapbot: (asciilifeform) 2022-03-07 asciilifeform: oblig. su joak: 'father: vodka's gone up, son. son: father, does that mean you will drink less now? father: no, son, it means that now you will eat less!'
signpost[asciilifeform] no expert, but doesn't expect anything good from hyperinflation on one end, and sovereign debt crisis on the other
signpost[asciilifeform]: and I'm sure the bankers will make a killing all the way down
signpost[asciilifeform]: if there's one thing that can be relied upon, it's that everything that is not a banker will be sacrificed first.
asciilifeform: 'banker' is imho somewhat of a misnomer for the folx printing moolah to stuff in own pocket.
asciilifeform: ( at one time in what is nao the reich, there were actual bankers, who had to persuade sumbody to lend'em dough. and, i suppose, at the peripheries of the reich, these still exist )
signpost[asciilifeform]: that's fair; "party men" then.
signpost[asciilifeform]: $ticker btc usd
busybot: Current BTC price in USD: $20122.22
signpost[asciilifeform]: curious if big money is already postioning for the increased BRRRRRRR
signpost[asciilifeform]: this is why I never sell coin.
dulapbot: (asciilifeform) 2022-01-19 asciilifeform: spend no coin where...
dulapbot: (asciilifeform) 2022-01-19 asciilifeform: 1. ... it'll be taxed (i.e. some uknown, potentially up to 100%, of its value confiscated by busybodies taxing imaginary 'gain', which in actuality consists strictly of ~their~ toiletpaper's debasement)
dulapbot: (asciilifeform) 2022-01-19 asciilifeform: 2. ... in exchange for ~fuffles~ (e.g. bags of fiat not immediately destined to be spent on durable necessities; plastic autos; titles to 'property' in the reich)
dulapbot: (asciilifeform) 2022-01-19 asciilifeform: 3. ... when it'd be your last coin.
asciilifeform: observe that the folx who not followed this algo, tend to now have ~0 coin, after n yrs, no matter how many started with
asciilifeform: (and ~0 to show for it)
awt[asciilifeform]: Articles on bonds read like excerpts from random postmodernist journals to me.
asciilifeform: awt: to asciilifeform , read moar like horoscopes
asciilifeform: 'jupiter is aligning with mars, so pisces advised to buy UST but virgo -- to sell' etc
asciilifeform generally of the 'all useful info is 'insider', so if it's public, it's for chump-herding' school of thought
signpost[asciilifeform]: oh sure, they're telling folks to buy in that article.
dulapbot: (trilema) 2014-02-01 mircea_popescu: 2. you gather leads for your "special picks" list, which you contact via email. this is your stable of suckers.
dulapbot: (trilema) 2014-02-01 mircea_popescu: 3. you split them in equal halves and give one half one pick, the other your opposite.
dulapbot: (trilema) 2014-02-01 mircea_popescu: 4. you subdivide both divisions. now you have a list of people who know you fucked up twice, this you discard ; two lists of people who think you go tone out of two. these you merge ; a most valuable list of idiots who think you got 2 out of 2.
asciilifeform: naodays, instead of hand-written lists send to morons by post, there are 'subscription sites', ~all operated by tentactles of the beast, but scheme is ~same.
asciilifeform: *sent to
asciilifeform: + a # of 'independent' crackpots purporting to extract a signal from the above.
asciilifeform entirely ignores subj, other than when linked from thel0gz
signpost[busybot]: the flailing entertains me, but hey, not for everybody.
asciilifeform: prolly entertaining in 1/d^2 proportion to distance from the biznissend of the flail
awt[asciilifeform]: signpost: I find it entertaining as well. I've listened to hours of bond/eurodollar talk on clubhouse this year. Everytime I think I understand there's yet another layer.
awt[asciilifeform]: "Oh I thought the fed creates money." No it doesn't
awt[asciilifeform]: "Oh I thought the fed controls interest rates." Actually mno.
asciilifeform: reminiscent of erry physics student's 'oh i thought electrical current consists of electrons' moment
awt[busybot]: asciilifeform: I have distinct images in my mind of electrons passing slowly through copper wire.
asciilifeform: lolyes