I actually celebrated without realizing it. Well, after the fact I did. I almost never partake, if not as a social sign of approval. But on 4/20 night I deliberately prepared a mini, just for myself. I knew my company wouldn't want to join the jointment. Getting her to even drink something reasonable was already a small feat in itself. So why would I want a miniJ in such company? Now I see. Unplanned, legitimate celebration.

It's like an Inuit posting here. Theoretically possible. 

Thank you too for some more (contemporary) TA. It wasn't actually needed, though. Your OT's about brick-based testicle training are among the best for me anyway. Or your curt invitations to remove undesired clutter from your no-sun-shining-here areas.

What do we mean when we talk about race? Genetics, culture or a combination? Is it possible to quantify the nature/nurture relevance ratio? How about a child born from a black and a Jew, raised in Asia by a foster family? Which "race" do they get stamped on their Interwebz passport?


I think you refer to my words about nomads. They weren't tribal nomads actually, but yes they have a different, lighter stance towards life. It's the culture that's different. Different from me, I mean. I don't know about you, let alone about "us". Us bitcoiners? Us participants in the WO thread? Are you assuming I'm a thoroughbred Caucasian male? I could be ((( d_eddie ))) for all you know, or half-asian (Thai mom), or black or Inuit - well, I admit the latter's unlikely, but I could be. I guess you see what I mean.


I'm not disgusted with reality. I'm disgusted with tireless back and forth drilling of the same old stuff by the few that care about it, to the detriment of the silent majority who doesn't mind a nice OT, but couldn't give fewer fucks about racist (un)subtleties than an annoyed honey badger.

Some classic TA at last. Thank you, Hairy.

Come on, someone post some classic TA, please. This kind of OT is distracting, irritating and plain disgusting.

At the cost of repeating myself, you have some taste. I mean for fun music. All my likes are granted.

I mentioned the admins having the right to a choice a few posts back. Would PoS in the community coin be a viable voting metric at least for some matters? Has any thought gone into it yet? Interesting stuff indeed.

Can't merit both for budget reasons. Picking the one where it makes more of a difference

I guess there will be exchanges, exchange rates, fees. I'm sure it will be possible to buy a few varyons even from the mainland. On board for sure, at more cost. If you live at sea, then of course they're more useful. Yes, I see your point, becoin. But isn't the concept of a community currency legitimate? A fat stash of it implies a stake in some man-made quasi-island, so what? It might give actual use case value to varyon (XBTVRY stable) - uncommon for a new coin. Hm, which in turn also implies enforcement of money laws of some kind. Tough, eh? Well, as long as the single 'steaders can accept any kind of money they like, it's only fair that the admins get to choose, too. Or is it? I don't have a clue.

Elwar? Did I get the VRY ticker right? :-P

I've been away for a few days. Getting up to date with this is ridiculous. I'm still 37 pages in the red. Makes me want to run and hide in a cupboard or something.

It seems I missed some very interesting OT stuff.

On topic is the new off topic, didn't you know?
Just don't tell the moderator ;-)

Was it from falling, or from that prolonged squawk?

... or two.

Neither am I. It's just a hypothesis about how government/institutions would react if this technology were available. The speculation is not sterile, since it may become available any day, if there is enought interest. Not necessarily interest in this community.

Sorry V8, too much noise, oversights are unavoidable.

Ah I see! I thought you were poking some fun at me, and I couldn't abstain from an Oxfordian retort ;-)

^^ TROLL BAIT 

It was Rosewater who brought the topic into this arena of gentlemen.


The taint paper has stirred several reactions.

Hm, by the refined language, I sense a fellow Oxford scholar?  

Seriously, I don't see the paper as advocating anything in particular. If it actually is, I didn't notice or I deem the advocacy irrelevant. The strength of that discussion is the what-if speculation it suggests. It is assumed that the public Taintchain is a reality. The Taintchain makes it effectively instant to look up taint, which is distributed in a strict LIFO fashion. This sounds as a prescription (advocating), but I hear a scientific stance. "It's a precise working hypothesis with good effects on the engineering," it sounds to me. The Taintchain can actually become real today, once the blockchain is scanned to create a different view of the transaction database. Keeping the Taintchain current is a trivial matter.

Under these assumptions, there are interesting consequences. Different administrations will be interested in tracking different events. And they will each be able to do that in a much easier way than today. And anyone else can do the same, too. The algorithm is there. How long before an open source solution allows you to track any taintchain known to man, as well as hypothetical ones defined by the user's ow custom rules? I think this ease of implementation makes it likely that it will get done.

Now, initiating taint on a whim or on user action can be a daunting task for a public administration, but limiting the initial " taint award" to only a few well-known events (like, Mt.Gox size only - either finance-wise or  by media resonance) is completely doable. As is picking your own pet taint-generating events.

No one has to like that. I don't know if I would myself. But it's a realistic possibility in, say, China for export controls. See the what-if? Chinese taint wouldn't mean much in the USA, right? Or wouldn't it?

Food for thought.

Possible limits to exchange liability are also vaguely hypothesized, but it's lawyer stuff, so the authors - computer scientists, remember - don't toy with the idea too much. They appear to be fascinated by the game theoretical implications. I also am.

Or maybe it's no trouble at all. Your claim is simply ignored because it didn't make it to the master list of scams. It's not even 1/100,000 of Gox size after all. Or maybe someone snitches on you, dealing in drugs or military technology or whatever. One address paying you gets leaked. What happens to your coins? Which countries are involved? Which exchange did the coins pass through?

A paper that gets me thinking along these lines must be a good paper under some definition of good.

Nice find my ass, my ass
As we say in Oxford after class.

Entirely. I do have partial close orders sprinkled - you guessed it - along a ladder. The lowest, most profitable, is well above 3200 for now, but I hope that by the time we get to that, I'll be profiting already and perhaps the ladder will be exhausted.



Right. That's if we get to that, which I also doubt.

I'm nursing my hedge to  as high an entry point as I can. My loose guidance: I'm trying to keep approximately fixed hypothetical profit at, say, 5k or 4.5k. This can be done with a smaller position as long as the entry is better (higher). So I make the position smaller by closing partially when in the money, waiting for another climb to average up, so that when it gets down in the money again, I can release (cash out) a little more than in the previous cycle. All this goes by small increments, small sums. The idea is not to be found flat when it really plunges, and be ready to release with some predetermined stop when the pain becomes unbearable.

(When/if are used interchangeably. It's the same thing. I don't know. I don't care.)