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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.
mircea_popescu: it's funny to contemplate how many doods hate me, and for what endless sort of terms.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski great lol, reading the ro derpage of some guy explaining everyone how trilema is dead because "it has no comments"
mircea_popescu: well in that case injury after solid performance is by far the best he could do
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo is mvp a purely technical measurement like batting average or is it a voted/popularity contest ?
mircea_popescu: lmao romanians are total fuckwits. so : in 2008, the pressure on local journalism university programmes was 6-7 teenagers per place. five years later, two thirds of local media outlets went out of business, aggregate local media audience dropped to a third (not by a third!) and virtually all professional journalists that were clueless enough to have been left started streetwalking on the side.
mircea_popescu: "If no one comes from the future to stop you from doing it, then how bad of a decision can it really be?"
mircea_popescu: mike_c: i printed out the source code 3 years ago and i retype it into each server i want to run nginx on to ensure no problems. << laugh all oyu will but when i was a kid this was exactly how you did it.
mircea_popescu: mike_c: more like shit that can go wrong while making sense of the request itself. grep nginx changelogs for the last four years for plentiful examples << but not the same can be said of apache, because those 4 years are in 1988, and consequently not on the "internet". which makes the point about "newer is better" in spades.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: not "which" python << lol you hear that zing asciilifeform ?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: just woke up from the post bang nap << gangbang ? pics ?
mircea_popescu: it's not clear that wasting the tx fees for a very narrow space (ie, the amt) is actually cheaper than wasting the min tx for wider space (the address
mircea_popescu: which is why the b-a deeds system will use addresses rather than amounts.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform using addresses to encode satisfies your criteria, it doesn't have to be amounts
mircea_popescu: the notion that romanian borrowed anything whatsoever from romales is beyond ridiculous anyway. maybe took back whatever the gypos stole at some point, and that at the very most.
mircea_popescu: but this distinction is you know, what you make of it.
mircea_popescu: suppoisedly sucking cock (a da [la] muie, contracted to muie) comes from gypsy language, where muie means mouth.
mircea_popescu: it's an older term, mostly disused, ever so slightly derrogatory.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it just means woman. most speakers wouldn't notice the relation and im probably going to get inundated with hatemail in the morn