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mircea_popescu: as counterintuitive and mother-in-law-wisdom contradictory this may seem.
mircea_popescu: for that matter, the strategy of the woman that goes "i like you, fuck me please" actually beats into shit the strategy of the woman that plays the aloof wallflower.
mircea_popescu: basically, the story here is that statistically, the trustfull will fare better.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but it is not actually sociopathic to kill the trustful.
mircea_popescu: sociopath on trustless side wastes all his time being paul fucking atreides, wasting his time fighting the freemen leaders.
mircea_popescu: sociopath on trustful side easily and frictionlessly builds army, wipes other side.
mircea_popescu: simple minded sociopaths arise in both compartments with the same, god dictated frequency.
mircea_popescu: two sets of chumps, separated by semipermeable membrane. on left, trustfull, on right untrustful chumps.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves just ver & co trying to wash the foundation thing.
mircea_popescu: trustfulness is actually always positive, and much more so in stressed environments.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "It is of negative survival value in the context of financial collapse." << this is strictly untrue.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that technology would basically be... imagine if poor people had no money.
mircea_popescu: " According to the 1999 Gambling Impact Study, an estimated $80 billion to $380 billion was illegally bet each year on sporting events in the United States. This estimate dwarfed the $2.5 billion legally bet each year in Nevada"
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo amusingly, i just rewatched every given sunday earlier
mircea_popescu: course, this shit takes professionalism (of the actual kind), so there's not that much being done so far.
mircea_popescu: bitbet is so made that people can run their own line books backed on it
mircea_popescu: anyway, this is a quite legitimate business endeavour. mpex is designed so that people can make their own brokerages and serve demographics on top of it.
mircea_popescu: "so far my best investment was, buy some mpex stocks and not logging in for a year"
mircea_popescu: i'm sure you can find a buncha daytrading lokhs that know way better.
mircea_popescu: copumpkin well if you had smpoe and didn't log in for a year you prolly got a buncha divs and whatnot
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and i don't mean this stylistically. it is factually and quite mathematically exact.
mircea_popescu: line betting is essentially someone getting in between bitbet and the luser, offering "services" and other customer supports.
mircea_popescu: or alternatively i could hire twenty cocksucking "masseuses" for like 12 btc a season and have the porniest pro sports team in da werld
mircea_popescu: which is more like... half of the tron troff pair than anything
mircea_popescu: also i think tpoh does not even nearly map on the english tron
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform for he record, Лохотрон is way better than "Chumpatron"
mircea_popescu: "bitbet resolves dubious bet by crashing dubious altscam into the ground"
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves i guess if someone can be bothered to install their wallet.
mircea_popescu: i guess i was right... it's not that there's A problem.
mircea_popescu: the sad irony of it all beinbg that i hazily recall mod asking me if i see a problem and me saying no.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves i can't fucking push it either, it's a legitimate contention.
mircea_popescu: i dunno, i can't ok this. i mean i couldn't care less either way, it's bettors' btc on either side of the bet.
mircea_popescu: eh get the fuck out, cryptsy never saw 1k btc in its entire existence
mircea_popescu: no but seriously, anyone got a link to any place auroracoin thing is actually traded ?
mircea_popescu: the entire auroracoin thing looks like it cost less than what the bet would bring in.
mircea_popescu: i dunno, to me this entire shit looks like a transparent attempt of the quoted site to made 10 btc or w/e.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla yes everyone agrees, let's send the winners to gox.
mircea_popescu: end up affording to move to japan and pork lolis all dai
mircea_popescu: imagine these kids, you know ? buncha weaboos start card trading website
mircea_popescu: kinda fun that everyone was acutally fucking japanese girls.
mircea_popescu: "I think what concerns me more than anything is that they're rounding some of their values."
mircea_popescu: course, it IS possible the leaked thing is not actually their code.
mircea_popescu: getting out of an identity theft mess will be a royal pain in the loins