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kakobrekla: hm, lets place it on a bet
mircea_popescu: there's such a country ?
Dr-X: he could go to a country where suicide is covered by life insurance
jcpham: it's a process
mircea_popescu: that's a faggoty excuse
jcpham: i live at the very top of a house of cards
Bugpowder: its usually a week between appearances
Bugpowder: after that, its a post-pirate high
Bugpowder: it IS a monday....
Bugpowder: and I have a feeling its not done
Bugpowder: thats well above the recent average over a timescale of more than 2-3 hours
mircea_popescu: tho, two years ago bitcoin couldn't hardly buy a pizza, so, it's a curve.
mircea_popescu: he has awife, she can work, i'd do 10 bux for a blowjob.
mircea_popescu: "The likelihood of this happening is about as likely as the checkers scenario. But the argument in its favor is that minting a trillion-dollar coin is a commensurately ridiculous response to Congress refusing to pay debts it has already accumulated. "
Bugpowder: as I said.... the people who say the most bullshit things get the most press, for a while
Bugpowder: is a constant source of worry
pigeons: oh shit, a million dollar idea? i've been waiting for one of those
jcpham: i just gave someone a million dollar idea
jcpham: i want t o design a sports book so bad
abracadabra: if they review that and still call it a fumble
mircea_popescu: it works on a rotator model whereby people can send btc and figure proportionally with the total paid.
mircea_popescu: ok, so if anyone interested, bitbet advertising seems like a decent revenue stream too.
Namworld: This be a small community indeed.
pigeons: which i don't get a dns response for
PeterL: does S.MPOE or s.dice have a higher market cap?
Namworld: Why do you ask me to tell BitVPS something? I was not aware BitVPS was a person.
kakobrekla: a.
Ukto: just a diff look
Ukto: or a diff site knocking them off
mircea_popescu: pick a bet, put an addy in, paste where the btc should go and i'll send it
kakobrekla: and i can add it in a minute or 10
mircea_popescu: well it's a problem!
mircea_popescu: http://bitbet.us/bet/53/kakobrekla-is-not-a-real-coder
mircea_popescu: when i rightclick on a bet, i wanna copy the named url
mircea_popescu: Anduck now that's a great q.
mircea_popescu: it occurs to me, the logical thing would be for someone with little capital but a journalism degree to start a bitcoin financials blog
mircea_popescu: jcpham what's a single worth these days ?
PsychoticBoy: I oredered a new PSU, send them an email yesterday and they offered a new PSU for free and its already in the mail
jcpham: <dub> don't make obama fire a tornado at you
jcpham: i say a BFL single on ebay starting at 600 the other day
Bugpowder: 85,000 for binary events taht occur once at a known time (sporting event)
Bugpowder: just have a selectable slope, i.e. final decay point
Bugpowder: I think the site can be a success with the right exposure and the right audience with enough coins and interest in the propositions
mircea_popescu: this is pretty good tho, bitbet seems stuck on 100 btc bet a day
mircea_popescu: i couldn't even tell you who won if i watched a match
Ukto: but I do have a p2 and a 1st gen ps3
mircea_popescu: o i see, it was just a simple market simulation.
thestringpuller: Ukto: do you have a playstation to test them?
mircea_popescu: I'm hoping for a site to pop up with floating rates the way intrade used to work.
Ukto: i can faintly see some light circular scratches. but being black bottom, its shiney as hell, if you run your nail back and forth over it, it does make a slight noise :/
Ukto: [12:23] <mircea_popescu> i imagine Ukto is prolly going to do something like that too & [12:24] <kakobrekla> Ukto will just code a new bbet or smth <-- ... .. *whisltes....* ... >,>
mircea_popescu: maybe gf got back with a printed gpgun and fixed him.
dub: topace: buy it flowers and a bottle of wine
mircea_popescu: there's a spec somewhere
topace: would anyone object if i wrote a Havelock bot to output stuff here using identical format to assbot ?
jcpham: there are a couple aggregate news sources i follow daily if i have the time
mircea_popescu: it's literally became a roadshow attraction.
mircea_popescu: i didn't call him a moron literally because he'd not have comprehended how true it is.
jcpham: you didn't call him a moron did you?
mircea_popescu: jcpham left that tor dood a comment. real curious if he publishes it.
mircea_popescu: it's just, it's something that can benefit from a little marketplace input
Bugpowder: for binary events with a fixed event time
Bugpowder: Yes, a much less steep slope would be good for those circumstances
mircea_popescu: as in, it's a pretty dumb macro attempt to handle discrete events
mircea_popescu: in a limited sense it does
Bugpowder: Then have a switch
Bugpowder: for both sides of a bet
Bugpowder: there is some marginal utility for a decay
Bugpowder: is it possible to have a user selected decay rate?
mircea_popescu: i never heard of a half hour spirited bout of bank withdrawals
jcpham: otherwise it reads like a bitcointalk post
mircea_popescu: What you describe is a typical trap of Satan.
mircea_popescu: You raised a number of good issues and hopefully I'll be able to address most of them.
mircea_popescu: "For the past few days, I am disturbed, greatly worried, and upset about my ruthless mistake of having sex with my girlfriend. I'm a believer in Christ and my girlfriend is not. "
kakobrekla: a loop!
gribble: smickles was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 1 hour, 5 minutes, and 16 seconds ago: <smickles> oh my, I just realized, when I'm writing a program, i tend to smoke in place of sleeping
mircea_popescu: and the socialistic thing was a lol remark in passing
jurov: thanks. for a moment my hair has risen dramatically
mircea_popescu: how do you answer such a question lol
kakobrekla: a
jurov: also S.BVPS... but you need to select a month to see anything
mircea_popescu: maddox can draw a better fire engine.
jurov: i had a meeting. eve true coders have meetings
kakobrekla: twas a joke but im thinking about it
mircea_popescu: you have a gpg contract with your gf ?
jcpham: if i fixate on a task, i find it difficult to sleep
mircea_popescu: this is how we find out kakobrekla doesn't have a gf
smickles: oh my, I just realized, when I'm writing a program, i tend to smoke in place of sleeping
smickles: "Randy is going to call you in a minute with an update"
kakobrekla: Ukto will just code a new bbet or smth
mircea_popescu: or a bbet pt after ipo
topace: competition is a good thing :)
topace: yea :p with teh success of the SDICE passthru i was considering doing a MPOE passthru as well :p not sure if it'd be as susccessful though
smickles: topace: well, you can probably top me, I don't have a 'web presence' for what I do
mircea_popescu: you probably should just float a larger set.
mircea_popescu: how much do you hold ? (unless it's a sikrit)
smickles: I'm sure I offer a better deal than havelock
topace: so for a while, the only security listed on my exchange, was our own mining fund
topace: then when we looked at exchanges to list our fund on, i couldnt find a decent one
jcpham: it has a mutual fund feel