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mircea_popescu: it has actually happened to me once that dumbass gas station kid put diesel in gasoline v8 engine
mircea_popescu: "This event was created to demonstrate the different betting systems. We believe strongly in the superiority of our betting system and expect the the odds for both outcomes to be significantly better on our site."
mircea_popescu: there's a difference between being loved and being useful.
mircea_popescu: also completely winds kakobrekla's gui arguments, but this time from the right direction :))
mircea_popescu: let people serve their own customers as best they can, and let them have a liquid and powerful marketplace where to unload unwanted risk.
mircea_popescu: <los_pantalones> or is this blatant theft of contract specs ? << nah, bitbet is designed/intended as a backstop for an infinity of independent repackagers/customer oriented bookies and assorted venues.
mircea_popescu: i suppose its sensible, bitbet is a good signal source.
mircea_popescu: well sure but one never know what kids be reading, get the wrong idea.
mircea_popescu: you don't become employable by aging, you're not wine.
mircea_popescu: think more, desk people. hire BingoBoingo. do something, on your own you're worthless.
mircea_popescu: seriously, the sort of imbecile that came up with this plan to push btc downwards on pure spin, while the diff is up bitbet is pointing the other way...
mircea_popescu: the brejnev doctrine survived both brejnev and the soviet union! give the guy obama's nobel prize i say.
mircea_popescu: "When forces that are hostile to socialism try to turn the development of some socialist country towards capitalism, it becomes not only a problem of the country concerned, but a common problem and concern of all socialist countries."
mircea_popescu: really ycombinator's celebration of the uber scammors sordid approach is the moment there.
mircea_popescu: it's not panhandling, it's being creative and changing the world revolutionizing,.
mircea_popescu: miss scarlet, you've had a child now, and you ain't never gonna be 17 and a half again
mircea_popescu: 410 is cheaper than 490, which is cheaper thjan the 500s it was which is cheaper than 700 etc
mircea_popescu: i want something with like 3 additions and a division.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla they got a lotta useless employees you see.
mircea_popescu: better reasons to be aggrieved. like the fact that there's no low cpu replacement for sine.
mircea_popescu: actually washington is the king of margins. al gore makes a trillion % on his "trade carbon" mafia scam.
mircea_popescu: the country has to be run by what exactly, lefty social media experts ?
mircea_popescu: The bill would also seem to exclude industry representatives from the board, as it says members "shall have no financial interests in any of the businesses for which reasonable profits are determined by the Board."
mircea_popescu: The Gas Price Spike Act, H.R. 3784, would apply a windfall tax on the sale of oil and gas that ranges from 50 percent to 100 percent on all surplus earnings exceeding "a reasonable profit." It would set up a Reasonable Profits Board made up of three presidential nominees that will serve three-year terms. Unlike other bills setting up advisory boards, the Reasonable Profits Board would not be made up of any nominees fro
mircea_popescu: lol cameron and john major. and tony blair. "please don't break out heart"
mircea_popescu: yeah, basically, idiocy spreads through exactly this mechanism.
mircea_popescu: can confirm - made an awesome bet on betsofbitco.in well over a year before the conclusion (had previously been paid out by them) - when it came time to pay up, the site stopped closing bets and then eventually just shut down. I bet .1btc when btc was ~$70 and I would of won around .5btc when btc was ~$800"
mircea_popescu: you paid some guy 100 bux twice a week for 20 years, and he's not even sucking you off ?
mircea_popescu: xanthyos what the fuck are you doing with a 72yo psych
mircea_popescu: "And sending 1000 BTC and waiting 5 months for the result when sites like this closing every day without notice is beyond stupid."
mircea_popescu: los_pantalones well yes but the medium is the derpage.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform one possibility yes. in fact, it's trivial to try and find a blockchain link to where the btc was before.
mircea_popescu: "I own BitBet, the site with the thousands of Bitcoins in bets. Ask me anything"
mircea_popescu: "Who is sending 1000 BTC to a site with no SSL? Any why would anyone trust this site anyways? People are stupid or it's fake."
mircea_popescu: "Looking at those payouts, no one should take those bets, either for or against. The payout ratio is really, really bad if I read it correctly." << makes sense.
mircea_popescu: for a guy that "doesn't understand how reality works", the situation in the field speaks well of putin.
mircea_popescu: anyway, from a purely geopolitical perspective... gutting the 51st us state is more than adequate escalation for the entire ukraine mess, much like the syria humiliation was more than adequate escalation for the ossetia mess.
mircea_popescu: not like the indians are about to leave their ancestral homeland because the colonists dun like it no more.
mircea_popescu: the people being kicked off are exactly the two bit farmers that it'd have had to rely on to expand its rule into this new fronteer
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform engineering panics are however great. as far as the usg is concerned, they're cannibalistic
mircea_popescu: meanwhile china ate tibet but still is struggling with singapore.
mircea_popescu: most us states are too large, let alone the federal construct altogether.
mircea_popescu: there's absolutely no reason to have a country larger than hong kong.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, regardless of scotland. basque country, french canada, transylvania, there were a coupla hundred states at the start of the century
mircea_popescu: they proly gotta count it, come to terms with the fact the uk is gone, stuff.