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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform from what i know it actually is not, and seems to trigger a type of lung cancer in some people
mircea_popescu: it's not relly toxic, more like noxious. the glass itself is harmless silica, but the shape it has allows it to mechanically breach the skin,
mircea_popescu: was based on some high fiction popular work, the hobbit or w/e
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform recall the case of the people making that very cheap wholly natural house, being ordered to destroy it ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves thing got rejected on bitbet recently i think ?
mircea_popescu: ziggla> but i have a small penis << this is no impediment, so does stoya
mircea_popescu: the arabs want women that stay virgins, never bleed and are made of translucent flesh
mircea_popescu: well yeah, but sadly things can't always work the way we'd like them to.
mircea_popescu: i see no impediment to this secondary market developing, rather than forcing me to do stupid shit.
mircea_popescu: in principle, if your credit / wot ratings are good, you should be able to use the proof of holding the bet you made as collateral with a gpg contract
mircea_popescu: the auction won't be settled until all claims are resolved.
mircea_popescu: anyway, it's also possible someone sued, which is frequent in these auctions
mircea_popescu: thern they said they'll break the law, but do it by end of august
mircea_popescu: if you will, take solace in the concept that a fiat investment arrived in contention can trivially lock your funds for a decade+
mircea_popescu: that's kinda the problem, noobs wanna pretend like they're playing this crypto currency game.
mircea_popescu: so far, it's unclear they've even delivered this batch
mircea_popescu: but then that fell through. now, how exactly it fell through... it's not clear.
mircea_popescu: originally it was going to be "nobody wanted to bid so we just gave it to our friends to help us "enforce" price policy"
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves afaik betmoose is the attempt to "prove me wrong" of some guy that was pissed that i despise the "marketplace model"
mircea_popescu: ziggla its not really germane, when discussing precedent. and yes, i do think usms is scamming.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves if nothing else, there's going to be an investor report, not like he's mp spending his own money.
mircea_popescu: some scamsites working with them to help them skewer noobs aquiesced, which ruined their reputation. bitbet did not.
mircea_popescu: then they failed to deliver but tried to claim that "it's unresolvable"
mircea_popescu: anyway, if you're curiuous re precedent, the bfl scammers put 500 btc on a delivery bet early on in bitbet's history
mircea_popescu: ziggla i have nfi yet. i deliberately avoided the topic, because why prejudge
mircea_popescu: just need someone to get it together and leak the emails and sutff already
mircea_popescu: very good drama in the whole auction thing. lots and lots.
mircea_popescu: PeterL__ i still regret no judge made their email thing precendent. "from now on, an y taxpayer may just pretend they lost the emails"
mircea_popescu: ziggla well in that sense driving into the wall is easy, just turn the weel and push the gas.
mircea_popescu: PeterL__ it's funny you know because they walked right into it, they were all "o we hve a pr stragety, here's how we'll crush bitcoin's image lalal"
mircea_popescu: ziggla can't wait forever, obviously. but the alternative is imo worse.
mircea_popescu: PeterL__ multiple people. the 30 day term has been exceeded. by 50+ days.
mircea_popescu: but there's a legitimate contention here, no way to cancel.
mircea_popescu: generally a bet gets cancelled early on, cause w/e, it was miswritten
mircea_popescu: ziggla not that many, and not usually in a contention.
mircea_popescu: ziggla the difference is that you perceive this theoretical 3rd way, of "cancelling bets". i don't.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski if you stfu and listen to your body, you can generally tell.
mircea_popescu: anyway, what's the purpose of not publishing it afterwards ? after all that lead-up and promissory behaviour, o noes, we will ruin btc lalal.
mircea_popescu: last fucking thing i want is to play the oracle for bureaucracies
mircea_popescu: after i make a decision, if their claims contradict that decision... they're lieing.
mircea_popescu: if it doesn't want to have to lie later, it better tell the truth now.
mircea_popescu: irrespective of what the usg may falsely or accurately claim afterwards.
mircea_popescu: but unideally, i will just unilaterally decide one side, and that will be what happened,
mircea_popescu: a that sore spot. well ideally we find out once the usg finally and publicly admits to having been owned, painfully and humiliatingly.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski you got you work cut for you now, what is it, 5 days of logs ?
mircea_popescu: "here's how i'd say this, here's how i'd write this, and here's how i'd blog this"
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski seriously tho, that's when it begins, when the blog's a tool of self expression.
mircea_popescu: you know where everyone really goes ? to the fucking toilet. what reason to pick a vacation in the bathroom is that!
mircea_popescu: well yeah, they all want to go to ibiza, because "everyne goes there"
mircea_popescu: anyway, yes, im entertained. and riga looks great, nobody thinks of it as a vacation destination, but i don't recall ever hating it there.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski dude is giving himself as an example. the funny thing is that wordpress has a comment index, trilema is over 100k, his blog was 5k, but hey. HE rules.