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mircea_popescu: BlueMeanie4 this is basically like smbc's technicality club. you can easily end up hammered into the dirt for having used the wrong adjective.
mircea_popescu: precisely because of the protection of the duke of toscana
mircea_popescu: "you can speak whatever you wish as long as the duke of parma protects you"
mircea_popescu: BlueMeanie4 it would put a lot of pressure on coallescing lordships
mircea_popescu: mod6 i dunno, they failed. the blockchain seems just fine of itself.
mircea_popescu: los_pantalones well cause it's still cheaper to kill a guy than to annimate a corpse.
mircea_popescu: you're familiar with the legal concept right ? "court will see through the veil" device in bankruptcy, probate and so forth.
mircea_popescu: you need a wot account and then a rating from someone in assbot's trust list to be able to self voice.
mircea_popescu: BlueMeanie4 well i wouldn't imagine it'd be the entire opinions
mircea_popescu: ::rate los_pantalones 3 public accidents in tight pants
mircea_popescu: see kakobrekla, this is how cumstomer support is done, not the stuff you do!
mircea_popescu: Nick___ seems a tx failed to propagate properly. sorry for the inconvenience. will be rebroadcast presently. thanks for reporting.
mircea_popescu: that 50 btc diff bet ended up 800 btc on the winning side two weeks out.
mircea_popescu: mike_c that's not even half of it. even 1k on either side wil probably draw reaction. i'd guess if you drop 5k on a side you'll get more volume on the other just on general principle.
mircea_popescu: except the problem is i don't see any large march brk puts hgaving happened this week
mircea_popescu: if he wrote brk-a puts and he somehoiw has a default bitcoin put by some reason (say, the reason being large holdings) then this is a +ev move
mircea_popescu: actually, maybe he's shorting brk-a and looking for cheap insurance.
mircea_popescu: i suppose the statement would be "someone who's short the "up up up!" "
mircea_popescu: yeah he can be somewhat short bitcoin but not THAT short
mircea_popescu: (also anyone who reads the logs, which by now is tens of thousands of people)
mircea_popescu: in finance there's no constants. just vairables with the appearance of constance in context.
mircea_popescu: mike_c im not even sure what it's short on. but prolly bitcoin more than berkshire atm.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it does, but im not giving it. let the wise have an easter egg.
mircea_popescu: this is well revolutionary, im noteven sure the chinese have access to such performance.
mircea_popescu: (i don't mean where else in bitcoin. i mean, where else in vegas)
mircea_popescu: where else can you drop 50k on a side and not appreciably swing the odds.
mircea_popescu: the beauty of liquidity : bitbet can actually cover any bet at the stated odds well up to 100 BTC.
mircea_popescu: mats_cd03 she's reasonably hot twist, for as long as that lasts.
mircea_popescu: mike_c what if you ran the bitcoin chamber of commerce ?
mircea_popescu: chetty moreover, old folks are in a better position to understand the futility of change anyway.
mircea_popescu: but is condemned to forever keep on seeing it all again
mircea_popescu: well that's the problem with the antichrist, not only has it seen it all
mircea_popescu: i fully expect to see old people hanged for the fault of being old in my lifetime.
mircea_popescu: los_pantalones normally society has these natural mechanisms to let pressure get out, all involving violence. the english speaking world has been uncannily successful at pluging all of them.