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mircea_popescu: mike_c tbh i don't care for fit past betting, inasmuch as bitcoin is the bottleneck anyway
mircea_popescu: it's really easy to forget just how shitty google has become over time, for as long as one sticks to obscure topics and generally the long tail.
mircea_popescu: i wanted to have a few reputed voices look over the berkshire bet for their audience.
mircea_popescu: im shocked there's no trilema of gambling, seriously. considering the piles of interest and the shit on tap, minimal ability would prolly earn someoine a living with less work than a college degree requires.
mircea_popescu: Welcome to the Two Plus Two Poker Blogs Posted: February 25th, 2008, by Two Plus Two o.O
mircea_popescu: hmm, any of the gamblers in attendance care to point me to a respected gambling blog ?
mircea_popescu: yeah, i don't want to buy their products myself, but i'd rather be long than short knc i think.
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal a block has to ellapse between when bet is proposed and when it's accepted. for this reason the poster's counter bet would come out in a different weight from his zeroconf
mircea_popescu: a it adds it all up ? and what, shows as inbound the most recent ?
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla technically one can make 500 zeroconf bets by sending to the same addy
mircea_popescu: you generally see two bets on the highest weight, they're the house bets. if there's three, one's the bet proponent zeroconf.
mircea_popescu: so i'm reading up on the darien scheme. while i always suspected the scottish people to be by and large a bunch of useless louts more or less on par with romanians,
mircea_popescu: i am surprised and appalled at the shocking lack of rabbits with this package on their head.
mircea_popescu: why is it under a chair in the sun ? what is this, the waldo package ?
mircea_popescu: that shot looks like the fucking "alice in wonderland corner test facility"
mircea_popescu: and why is "being taped at a weird angle to a doorknob on a door that for some reason rests by itself in a hallway at an angle" dangerous to posters ?
mircea_popescu: or does it have something to do with "proximity of icebox" ?
mircea_popescu: why is "being propped against a fence" supposed to destroy posters ?
mircea_popescu: <mike_c> mixed metaphors are the best metaphors. << "mixed metaphores are the best concrete"
mircea_popescu: The Late Sir John Ogilvy: in praise of Sir John Ogilvy, 9th Baronet, MP for Dundee. "He was a public benefactor in many ways, Especially in erecting an asylum for imbecile children to spend their days."
mircea_popescu: Alas! Lord and Lady Dalhousie are dead, and buried at last,
mircea_popescu: next it'll be shove a head of brocoli up your ass for the environment
mircea_popescu: cazalla yes. in the end, "nothing has changed - no prevails" won the day.
mircea_popescu: i wonder what the eventual result will be with that culwick fellow
mircea_popescu: cazalla you're describing a collection of clueless yet eager beavers.
mircea_popescu: maybe as a temporary measure for small sums, but otherwise, there's no good reason and too much risk.
mircea_popescu: cazalla nobody of any relevance uses weballets as a matter of course.
mircea_popescu: cazalla generally nobody really knows what amounts are held in any wallets.
mircea_popescu: in a culture composed mostly of monolinguistic, ignorant twerps, such as the us (or, for that matter, china), it's not even so very hard to do.
mircea_popescu: so thus you have the "universe" of x, y and z. they're all by and large rewrites of themselves, but hey, it pays the bills.
mircea_popescu: this is obviously easier than actually writing something good.
mircea_popescu: basically, if you make 500 "separate" literatures, you get 500 people who can all be employed as dante, the theory goes.
mircea_popescu: they do this sort of thing a lot, keep rewriting the fundamental myths without citation.
mircea_popescu: that pretense is not good, of course, but nor does that matter : they don';t care if their pretense is good, they just want to hold on something. they similarly don't care if their lottery ticket is good, just as long as it's a lottery ticket.
mircea_popescu: for being easier, it's also a lot less interesting, which is why the entire system relies on the walled garden concept : none of these write properly, ie, for the world. they all write for an arbitrarily restricted audience, which makes their task all that easier : athena can turn a single crow black from where it was white. a bunch of sweet singers of michigan can turn a multitude of birds a multitud of colors, and al
mircea_popescu: this is obviously a lot easier to do, it doesn't take nearly as much work to find an exploitable weakness in the "world" predicated by some schmoe working for some us publisher as it takes to find an interesting hole in nature.
mircea_popescu: with the revolution of comfortability, the "same" guy is now writing fanfic to the canon of some derpy author or other, inept substitute for the actual god of the gaps.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know as a result of the fanfic discussion with kuzetsa it occurs to me : fifty or so years ago, the amateur "thinking man", ie, someone who could read and write and took delight in both, would mostly write (ie, try his amateur hand) science fiction. that is a sort of fanfic to the canon of nature.
mircea_popescu: <thrice> he sounds a lot like this hacker, '4chan,' I read about on the news yesterday << lmao.
mircea_popescu: you're not even doing a good jbo of it, this is like the weakest sauce trolling ever
mircea_popescu: well, this has been an informative adventure into how the modern day macdonalds location manager lives and breathes, but i guess i've had enough.
mircea_popescu: "The classic Linux distribution scheme is frequently not what end users want, either. Many users are used to app markets like Android, Windows or iOS/Mac have. "