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mircea_popescu: wait, the original wankers don't like wanking anymore ?
mircea_popescu: jesus fuck i want a buttcoin.org account. the stupidity bitcoin brings out from i dunno where...
mircea_popescu: the pretense to value through "unique" and "design" and trhe usual bullcrap is supposedly endless.
mircea_popescu: there;s going to be a flood of these. the marginal cost to make small metal discs is about zero
mircea_popescu: something tells me this is going to be the biggest problem of bitcoin finance. to earn a living as a rentier you'll have to own a shitton of 'em.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i suppose in all fairness the byzantino-rabinical approach to the written text as deployed for the needs of bitbet is a special kind of hell for all esl speakers.
mircea_popescu: yeah, turns out running a safe investment fund in btc is harder than in usd. who'd have thunk it!
mircea_popescu: and if it does, no lost anyway, it's just a matter of how the yes pot is split up.
mircea_popescu: kinda impossible for that clause to affect you at all if price doesn't go under 250.
mircea_popescu: but what the bet says is that if bitcoin goes under 250 tomorrow, all yes bets but the first two wil be refunded.
mircea_popescu: well i don't know the future for sure, as it happens. just kinda close.
mircea_popescu: and it's a moot point in any case, the 30th was 4 days ago.
mircea_popescu: you're misreading it'd seem. what the bet says is that the first two yes bets never get refunded
mircea_popescu: listen, make complete sentences, i can't follow what you're saying.
mircea_popescu: What kind of retard created this bet? Closing in 5 months?? why??? a bunch of people are just going to bet on Yes whenever they see difficulty is going to be down during the year, what's the point of this bet??
mircea_popescu: it's funny how the free market naturally evolves towards a corner to wedge itself in.
mircea_popescu: the results of that market becoming "usgized", which is to say, they stopped selling to the general public.
mircea_popescu: <mike_c> oh, nevermind. those are minimums. you can't be closer than that, but have no responsibility to be particularly close? << well not stated as obligations, but generally it's his job to get close.
mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> dang did you guys really crap out over 1000 lines while i was sleeping? << we didn't crap them bish. now eat up!
mircea_popescu: <jurov> looks like it can be opened from news.ycombinator.com without the paywall << see ? CLEARLY propaganda piece.
mircea_popescu: <kakobrekla> dear ddoser, please add more bots as it is not clear if you are still ddosing or not <<< yeah this srsly. i was half considering replacing the voice model with a ddos model, but srsly, you gotta provide better servcice for free if you wanna be part of infrastructure here!
mircea_popescu: generally, idiots revel in offering an idiotarian version of mainstream concepts. like, the usg right ? ALSO OFFERS INSURANCE.
mircea_popescu: mike_c> this is too funny. scamfunding sites now offer insurance! << so did usagi.
mircea_popescu: <davout> yes, continuous trading seems so much simpler, not sure if there's a blocker i'm missing tho << it's nonsense, what exactly is a future that has no future date ?
mircea_popescu: <jurov> you don't like the 15th 12:00 GMT, you want to change it, no? << nah he just wants a shorter break. than ONE WEEK. which he gets.
mircea_popescu: <xanthyos> [...] your My Wallet account [...] << logic.
mircea_popescu: adlai> nubbins`: yes, but it could ignore text within blockquote tags << it does actually.
mircea_popescu: <artifexd> Are there any plans for new profit centers in MPIF? << yes. got an idea ?
mircea_popescu: moreover, trying to pursue a "science of health" is the hallmark of pseudoscientific cockery.
mircea_popescu: same way carnies pick out their marks, it's nothing novel.
mircea_popescu: as i said, all sorts of heuristics can be useful. i tend to not pursue relations with the intellectually slow, which i often judge in seconds on simple cues such as eye movement.
mircea_popescu: adlai because they're not introduced by intelligent people./
mircea_popescu: problem is i can build a machine with zero crosstalk and i won't have built an ai.
mircea_popescu: so the best way to be intelligent is doing speedballs ?
mircea_popescu: adlai ah, this isn't an argument against such stuff. sure, reaction time is even a good proxy for things you may care about,
mircea_popescu: it's that endeavour where anything can be a principle.