341900+ entries in 0.096s
mircea_popescu: but on the heels of the jimmothy O I BET YOU !!11 10 bitcents!11
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves check it out, this dood would like to make a bet provided mpoe-pr doesn't pay for it in bitcoin and she agrees that no bet can be made.
mircea_popescu: ;;google are you the simply outrageous brain specialist
mircea_popescu: yeah this isn't for amateurs. raw power, so it requires solid understanding of what's going on.
mircea_popescu: perfectly legit way to make cash. liquidity providing, as it were.
mircea_popescu: MisterE no actually, betting both sides is the way to play.
mircea_popescu: duduqa i had no idea colombia actually can ban things. didn't they fail with cocaine ?
mircea_popescu: you don't need the same ammt, read the article about how to cancel
mircea_popescu: a good policy is perhaps to never bet the day you discover a bet
mircea_popescu: i wonder how long before that berkshire bet collects 1k on no side
mircea_popescu: radan government can stand on its head. businessmen decide what business is.
mircea_popescu: cut 99.5% of the workforce woreking in a bank, increase salaries for the remainder 10 to 100x
mircea_popescu: everyone else just pushes paper, does forms and bs. that could be done away with
mircea_popescu: currently there's one valuable person per bank office : the credits officer. he's the guy that makes the call if lending is a good idea.
mircea_popescu: deadweasel finance couldn't be abandoned, i dont think. merely reduced to it's bare bones.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo cou, being, of course, ass. in french. so contempt of cou...
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell benkay that salt stuff sounds like unintended malleability.
mircea_popescu: concerned parties are advised to send some dust first, that'll verify the address and lock it down
mircea_popescu: well it doesn't run wordpress afaik, but that's no absolute guarantee.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: i was actually contemplating just copy pasting the output of current wp in a html file << notrly such a bad idea.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell MykelSIlver it makes relatively little difference what software bitbet.us runs, as webserver doesn't really hold coins anywya
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i'd really love to see the chinese files on nato
mircea_popescu: but from what i've seen these people were trying to sell icbit-style "futures" on the usd
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves what difference do yo uhave in mind there ?
mircea_popescu: the various stocks either don't have enough volume or, for the non-mpex crowd, arten't actually stocks, don't even publish statements etc
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves yeah, everyone's trying to pass off bucket shop bullshit for "derivatives"
mircea_popescu: who the fuck thought someone wants a mentor they've never met.
mircea_popescu: TestingUnoDosTre yeah, because the counterparties would be solvent, in that paralel universe where idiots have infinite bitcoins
mircea_popescu: MisterE you know we had a derivatives market for about two years, and yes it did bring plenty of stability heh
mircea_popescu: people just gotta use teh noggin a lot more, everywhere
mircea_popescu: (hint : just because your "employer" tells you to do something, it doesn't follow it's a good idea to do - either for them or for you)
mircea_popescu: i had originally hoped maybe they actually come to something, but i was disabused of these notions.
mircea_popescu: well, each his own determination. i do not trust them, at all.