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asciilifeform: tldr - government report excusing the execution of a famous suspect, claims that he reached for... a sword.

asciilifeform: the losing side (a farmer) was required to burn his crop.

asciilifeform: then, there was a court case, where they ruled that, in essence, a fart is 'interstate commerce'

mircea_popescu: have a slut instead.

mircea_popescu: that's a much harder problem.

asciilifeform: this reminds me of an idea that i (and probably everybody) had at one point - a betting engine with auto-resolution using google (or some other mechanical process)

mircea_popescu: more like a general case.

asciilifeform: i was thinking of a far more mundane aspect, where the best source of info re: the outcome of, say, athletic match, isn't 1000 googles, but the boxer who can decide to 'throw' the match

mircea_popescu: (ie, in a free market neither the gru nor the nazis could have existed)

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no, they did not. see, it wasn't a free market, but at the other end of things

asciilifeform: if 'watch' is a west german tank engine, and i'm 'gru', then it is worth 100x the price, no?

mircea_popescu: (trivially, your curiosity as to what's inside a watch isn't worth the pirce of a watch)

asciilifeform: this is a little like 'moldbug's chessboard' - fight between move-select-via-reddit vs. an actual grandmaster

mircea_popescu: and information in a web of information

mircea_popescu: in general action (pull plug) is caught in a web of actions

asciilifeform: 'mine google' gives a little asymmetry - 'pull plug' - more.

mike_c: good handicappers at the racetrack know a shitload more than me about horses.

asciilifeform: e.g. the ones who 'know', with a good degree of confidence, that difficulty will drop on day x, because they can personally pull the plug on a chinese minerfarm - etc

thestringpuller: totally worth a trilema coin

mircea_popescu: but because bitcoin allows such fine payments, you're right, you can do this on a cup of coffee

mircea_popescu: also requires a head.

Duffer1: that's right, apparently without a contract, multiple people pooled resources to create CipherTrade and didn't figure out who will own what

BingoBoingo: reeses: Bug for Bug compatibility http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2011/08/accuracy-takes-power-one-mans-3ghz-quest-to-build-a-perfect-snes-emulator/

nubbins`: why is the table a table?

nubbins`: they now allow "over" as a synonym of "more than"

ozbot: Twitter / APStylebook: AP Style tip: Bitcoin is a ...

El3k0n: It's a fork

pankkake: that's a horrible random generator

ThickAsThieves: how does one discern a reasonable trade value from an unreasonable one?

ThickAsThieves: so if i trade you intellectual proprty for bitcoins, a black hole forms?

mircea_popescu: i dunno who'd live in a jurisdiction that takes any other tack to the problem, or why.

thestringpuller: If you receive BTC as a gift doesn't a different tax apply?

ThickAsThieves: If a taxpayer receives a payment in virtual currency, is it considered income?

mircea_popescu: it's a fucking hard problem.

mircea_popescu: wao-ender this is going to take a year rather than a weekend.

mircea_popescu: write a google search application that finds answers to bets based on queries derived from bet text,

mircea_popescu: ie, here's a very simple way to have fun as a bright young programmer :

mircea_popescu: this is a living, split x btc on each bet, early.

mircea_popescu: anyway, 5.x btc profit on a 70ish btc budget as a handicapper is really not that bad.

mike_c: thx. it is cool to look at some of the big winners for the house. the mtgox closure caused a huge one. 0.07 btc -> 1.36 btc

mircea_popescu: a well, i tried.

nubbins`: guy does a portrait of Ellen in a seal pelt

ozbot: Local artist using Ellen DeGeneres portrait as a face for pro seal hunt - Entertainment - The Telegr

nubbins`: http://www.thetelegram.com/Living/2014-03-25/article-3661866/Local-artist-using-Ellen-DeGeneres-portrait-as-a-face-for-pro-seal-hunt/1

mircea_popescu: now give me a counterexample to that.

mircea_popescu: mike_c the one you exclude a) always has the same output as one of the remainder two and is either made at weight 100k

mircea_popescu: so i bought like a piggy

mircea_popescu: also in the news, i took about a week off because of all the press nuttery, during which i stopped buying raw materials

nubbins`: mircea_popescu is there a way to exchange btc for whatever the fuck rift uses for currency?

ThickAsThieves: is there a block visualizer website?

mircea_popescu: http://www.networkworld.com/news/2014/032514-atm-malware-controlled-by-a-280030.html

asciilifeform: pankkake: helps to remember that there is really no such thing as a digital circuit

pankkake: I am transferring my data from old to new drives, and I started a checksum verification of the tranferred files, for fun. turns out, a lot weren't transferred correctly

benkay: resolved rss only returns a few recently resolved bet

benkay: kakobrekla: is there a convenient way to get a list of all resolved bets besides scrolling down the search page?

BingoBoingo: I'm still iffy on the whole NBA thing. Might as well open a bet on who wins the whole Wrestlemania thing.

the20year3: Got a email back the 13th from the bank saying "We are ready to close" , the contract's closing date was the 24th as requested by the bank. 24th has come and gone and still no closing

mike_c: BingoBoingo: but no point shaving possible here, just 5:1 odds on the eastern conference. that's a good bet.

the20year3: Put an offer on a house about 3-4 weeks ago, telling them we could close in a week

mike_c: benkay: there's a json feed by tacking ?json on the end of the bet url

blackwhite_: whats a good primer on currency/money? Any book recomendations

ozbot: Scenes From A Multiverse » The Crystalline Entity

ozbot: What A Bank Run In China Looks Like: Hundreds Rush To Banks Following Solvency Rumors | Zero Hedge

thestringpuller: Betting boths sides is a way to adjust exposure? How is that controversial?

MisterE: Or make it for 2/3 bets where a bettor is betting both sides.

novusordo: hence why such a recovery system is needed

novusordo: if you take a factory-fresh trezor and you have a bip32 wallet you'd like to put on it

novusordo: so apparently the trezor has a better recovery system than I thought

mircea_popescu: all these folks looking for a mom.

nubbins`: it means you'd make a good sniper

nubbins`: you'll find a lot of crumb fans do as well

mircea_popescu: aren't they a little... porky ?

nubbins`: crumb took a lotta flak over the years

mircea_popescu: i believe the guy never saw a russ meyer film.

mircea_popescu: ;;google a crumb of frisco

ozbot: Robert Crumb’s History of Women « TheArtofAttraxion X Because your body is a canvas.

Mats_cd03: me neither, although it makes sense - its not actually illegal in a lot of jurisdictions (the paper, anyway)

nubbins`: a tough nut to crack tho, for sure

nubbins`: Mats_cd03: would actually be a neat business to get into, supplying blotter paper

mircea_popescu: davout well i can't find it now. some kid from the "community" of self-proclaimed experts wrote some sort of article/"white paper" on how bitcoin exchanges should do x y z to get their risk of blowing up in line with the risk of the average 20yo getting hit by a bus

Mats_cd03: after you lay it, get close and take a deep breath

mircea_popescu: eh we discussed here a little bit back lemme see

mircea_popescu: novusordo yeah, i believe this is a mpex innovation.

mircea_popescu: davout from what i recall, some random idiot opining was claiming that getting the average bitcoin exchange at the safety rate of the average human would be a great gain in security.

davout: but i do agree that the improvement of natural selection is a good thing

mircea_popescu: asset-based corps dampen management incompetence, allowing outright thieves to run for a longer time than the yshou;d

mircea_popescu: the argument boils down to "fully distributed, non-asset hodling btc corps are a better risk class"

mircea_popescu: to this position where he jsut lost a good 90% of his value

mircea_popescu: then two years later wynn hotels hit a slow patch, get sold for scrap

Neil: Trying to understand what's "in-scope" and what isn't. I personally don't think it's clear. I respect your desire to run a clean, auditable (via blockchain) operation. But the future isn't clear at all, to me anyway.

mircea_popescu: this obviously will force a modification o the contract, making bitbet a nz0 now.

mircea_popescu: nothing forces you into a 100% bitbet portofolio.

Neil: Walking down a one-way street isn't useful either.

Neil: So as a prospective investor, given the terms, I'm thinking "Where can this go, how can it expand?" And it seems limited. Which may not be a bad thing.

Neil: Which isn't to imply it doesn't have a great future.

Neil: But as a random Joe sixpack reading the specs, and not knowing who you are etc., it's not really clear how bitbet can evolve, indeed even if it can.

mircea_popescu: the correct way for this to work would be for someone (respected and competent as a bookie) to start a fund

mircea_popescu: can't do that as a zero asset corp.

mircea_popescu: which... you'd think that's a massive attractor

Neil: Friction of trusting a dude with the initials MP, friction of knowing the bet exists and the odds, friction of knowing the odds can change underneath you, friction of tying your money up for 1 year, ... I could go on.