mircea_popescu: <TheNewDeal> but if they're bets are going to be a large portion of the gains/losses, it seems like investors would want to know what their history has been on the bets << you know investors can readily revbiew this as they're all published

mircea_popescu: but what's the point/use for a changing prediction ?

mircea_popescu: at some point the russian fowled 5 serves in a row

mircea_popescu: that little shit gave sharapova a good run for her tits.

mircea_popescu: mike_c btw, the coffee shop i happenedto stop for my pasteleria today (which dubs itself as a "local de encuentro" and during the night time doubles as a whorehouse) just happened to run the match on a large screen

mircea_popescu: it turns out to be a pretty great breakfast!

mircea_popescu: I've said it before, and I'll say it again: I can easily follow 50+ page PHPbb threads that drag on for months or even years, or 4chan threads with hundreds of posts and more on the way every time you refresh, but a small conversation (in reality; I considered it huge by my HN standards) I had on here the other day with about 10 comments or so made my head spin. I wrote half the posts and it was still hard to follow! O

mircea_popescu: "enjoyment of the first look you take at a comment page is prioritized over active participation. That's great if you're trying to attach ads to pictures of cats, but if you're trying to have a real conversation, it just gets in the way. I can read, I don't need an algorithm to tell me which comments are notable and which ones are junk. If I see a troll post on any other site, I don't seize up and have an aneurism, I j

mircea_popescu: it's utterly dependent on you living in a boring environment. or in other words, if shunning works, your life sucks.

mircea_popescu: dub actually the material i've seen included a lot of derping about how fucking horrible and psychologically blabla that is.

mircea_popescu: nobody can point to such a broken spot on the interwebs, but nevertheless the apparent abundance of such is why every lemming wears plaid.

mircea_popescu: this is such an amusing thing, because of all the utterly meaningless forums out there pretending to be communities and deluding themselves as to their own relevancy, not a single one would admit it's a failure

mircea_popescu: "But in the absence of some system of law, the tiny minority of users out to do harm – intentionally or not – eventually drive out all the civil community members, leaving behind a lawless, chaotic badland."

mircea_popescu: pretty cool way to run a bet i say

mircea_popescu: so if you predicted it i send kako a btc, if not you do ?

mircea_popescu: can be a bet for charity. whole bet goes to b-a donation address

mircea_popescu: pure and simple, at some point in whatever, 1995, some derp with a blog/forum/platform came up with the idea of BANNING

mircea_popescu: so theykinda have a bit of an identity issue

mircea_popescu: "I was recently met with a torrent of downvotes –nearly 100, might have actually crossed that– for poking fun at HN’s incessant we’re-not-reddit-we’re-much-more-sophisticated circlejerking"

mircea_popescu: prolly tried to resist a salary cut

mircea_popescu: "Another common criticism of this practice has been that while in theory, it's a smart and effective way to discourage trolling, in actuality, the trolls and spammers are the first to become wise to this, and instead many innocent users get hurt, being unaware of what's going on."

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform wait, you're NOT ONLY A WIKIPEDIA SPAMMER ARE YOU!!1

mircea_popescu: mike_c he held the thing by the fucking blade, too. a 12 inch knife sharp enough to slice beef on touch

mircea_popescu: "This white paper seeks to put forth the economic and technical reasons that the digital tokens known as “AppCoins” can develop a value in the market and maintain their value over the long term, should their associated application gain adoption by users. "

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well, the heinz is a direct import.

mircea_popescu: the blockchain is a bettercook than benkay

mircea_popescu: mike_c: tapes are $20 / TB. can't beat that with a stick. << quite true.

mircea_popescu: Mats_cd03: benkay is a queen << ahahaha they got yo numba nao vulpes.

mircea_popescu: so i just did a round of solid shopping.

mircea_popescu: admitting against all evidence that there even exists a distinmction between stupid and poor.

mircea_popescu: it just implies "accessibility" is about as dumb a thing to think about re bitcoin as you know, speeding tickets for snails.

mircea_popescu: benkay " let me know when it's realistic." << let me explain realistic. if there's 4k txn a second, which weigh a conservative 512 bytes each, at 512 seconds per block you get...