asciilifeform: being a lord, as i see it, is not about balancing pencils on their points, but pushing the pencil in your CHOSEN direction and ~standing by~ the decision for the rest of your life.
asciilifeform: it is your mathematical 'pole' from 2 days ago
asciilifeform: this is not a question having a useful answer though.
asciilifeform: what's the threshhold for jumping off cliff ? is it when you splat? when you're in freefall? when you stop the car? when brushing your teeth that morning, thinking 'cliff..' ???
asciilifeform: if we seal ourselves in a cave and take turns eating own limbs, THEN - yes.
asciilifeform: i would like to smoke the necessary dope to see mircea_popescu's pov here, where the scum who got paid twice had the temerity to whine about delayed payouts while sitting on their unearned windfall, but then somehow deserve to be paid a THIRD TIME
asciilifeform: unless i misarithmetize catastrophically, davout is stuck with giving the bettors a haircut. question is ~which~. will there be 'communism', where they all bleed equally? or 'judgement day', when the scumbags bleed first.
asciilifeform: and yes, they had no obligation to send it back, etc. but if they had, there would be no reactor fire, and a still-operating bbet. that isn't about to be auctioned off to spammerz.☟︎
asciilifeform: so this excuse was not available, danielpbarron
asciilifeform: and in any case it was pretty clear that it was double send, mircea_popescu published the tx
asciilifeform: actually i have nfi, did bbet use a published addr for pays?
