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mircea_popescu: <benkay> mircea_popescu: what do zeroconfs have to do with anything? << bitbet is a business, eh ? ran for profit.
mircea_popescu: benkay the day you're ready to zerconf 1k btc for a 2 year bet.
mircea_popescu: Mats_cd03 maybe we're talking at xpurposes, was your 300mn the total money thrown in the hole ?
mircea_popescu: not likely that someone sneaks into baghdad and surrepitiously hangs the pm
mircea_popescu: if by august 15h maliki has been hanged in the middle east, bet resolves as yes. if he's living in lonon, bet resolves as no. otherwise, bet cancels.
mircea_popescu: i wonder if search finds the more than a car thing lessee
mircea_popescu: benkay: are you distancing your afk name from your irc handle? << he didn';t scam anyone afaik.
mircea_popescu: rithm: this 2 factor voice just makes me want to stalk and watch everyone << kinda the point
mircea_popescu: Mats_cd03: bet its like ~1100 cals har har << i once had 1800 calories in a single sundae. whatever, it's my hot body and i do what i want!
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: it'll either be fun, or batshit insane << ahaha srsly, going to the tortilla conference ?!
mircea_popescu: well tell him to drop by sometime, maybe we make an advertising deal ?
mircea_popescu: HeySteve o wait, were you with the one crypto news site i kinda liked ?
mircea_popescu: pankkake: and of course Goat is on every bitcoin scam apparently << he just pumps them.
mircea_popescu: assbot: Canadian woman who stopped car to help ducks faces life in jail after causing fatal crash - Telegraph << hallellujah.
mircea_popescu: whereas people wanting them long prolly want to stock pick
mircea_popescu: this because logically nobody who wants them short cares which
mircea_popescu: HeySteve too much hassle with future chains. if you want them short you buy f.derp, if you want them long you just get to select d.whatever
mircea_popescu: so in their perspective, this is a disaster of commons sort of situation : a bunch of people work to inflate bubbles, all it takes to ruin theireffort is one guy with a pin
mircea_popescu: HeySteve the downside is that it sinks the hype, which is a very major problem.
mircea_popescu: but daily call logs have at the end : "spam - comcast, netflix, pizzahut" etc
mircea_popescu: HeySteve not really. i don't think the world has spawned yet such an asshole so as to be able to match with me.
mircea_popescu: punkman: they just called 3 times to sell me a new ISP << they call my phone here too. to sell me... comcast and shit.
mircea_popescu: that's the one profession that most selects for lemming qualities. more so than military even
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves never estimate just how lemming-like finance types are/.
mircea_popescu: HeySteve no timing involved. if you sell your corp in the bubble and walk away you shorted the bubble.