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mircea_popescu: Obama warned that Russia's "continued violation of international law will lead to greater political and economic isolation."
mircea_popescu: That's what happened to Myspace. It tipping pointed into "unemployed/some high school" and The Ruling Class had to sell it to Ima Holla Achoo for 20x less than they bought it. Now it looks like Windows Mobile, which is demographically appropriate.
mircea_popescu: and then he cheaped out on tx fees, so his tx was never confirmed in time
mircea_popescu: the thingwith snackman, as i recall it, is that he sent a wager on an already known bet
mircea_popescu: kinda the miracle of bitbet : because peoplke generally are so bad at evaluating opportunity, it's a fucking gold mine.
mircea_popescu: there still aren't better opportunities available in btc as it is.
mircea_popescu: if you bet 1 btc at 100k weight, someone at 50k weight needs to bet 2 btc to get the same effects
mircea_popescu: dignork payout will be lower, but proportional with the weights involved.
mircea_popescu: it was a year old when mtgox finally entered its last stages of decomposition
mircea_popescu: cazalla from experience you're better off having your btc locked away from your control
mircea_popescu: you can trade $500 worth of btc today for... 18k worth of btc in nov.
mircea_popescu: at this point, the EV of betting no on that is about 10x better than any fiat investment.
mircea_popescu: this shit's fucking incredible. btc is about 500ish, the odds of 10k (ie, 2k% increase) are viewed as 1:3
mircea_popescu: (ie, on some platforms with 64 bit registers shift 65 bits means shift one bit,
mircea_popescu: dignork nah, it's a problem of how the compiler translates the code do machine and how the processor runs it then
mircea_popescu: so bitcoin wouldn't really display the behaviour, we'd just end up with a fork
mircea_popescu: mod6 what i hear is that >>= is not uniformly implemented on all platforms.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: but if they fix one bitcoin bug, hey, it was worth it. <<< mp is too lazy to dig up where he was arguing this about ltc
mircea_popescu: and these aren't always poor. i've seen plenty of fucking impossible middle class people, murdering the kid under a mountain of attention
mircea_popescu: there's plenty of parents that the kid'd be better off with no parents at all
mircea_popescu: what if your son becomes a faggot who spends all his money (from govt dole) to pay aids infected homosexuals to roughly fuck him ?
mircea_popescu: well, don't take it the wrong way but i think you have some issues there :)
mircea_popescu: cazalla what if you have a daughter and she becomes a public rape slut ?
mircea_popescu: for that matter, plenty of women would rather be fat than good at pole dancing.
mircea_popescu: reproductive traits are a serious draw on biological systems.
mircea_popescu: dignork i suspect a majority of men actually would enjoy their lives more as desexualised betas than play-pretend sexual alphas anyway.
mircea_popescu: i don't imagine adoption is generally as sexual as you represent it.
mircea_popescu: anyway, women don't benefit from having kids, that's for sure. if anything it makes them dumb.
mircea_popescu: dignork i don't think anyone sane really does that tbh.
mircea_popescu: what's the benefit to you of making your own kids. not like you eat them later or anything.
mircea_popescu: so you don't. doesn't mean it doesn't or can't exist neh ?
mircea_popescu: because the grain is fucking and he's picking up the bill.
mircea_popescu: all i'm sayin' is that by your reasoning, the farmer shouldn't plow the field
mircea_popescu: well... i mean you can't change this blood of yours, can you
mircea_popescu: if i make you wear a rock around your neck for the rest of your life, is it now your rock ?
mircea_popescu: are my slaves not mine because some other people toiled with them for their early years ?
mircea_popescu: what's this, biological "not invented here" syndrome ?
mircea_popescu: cazalla you know, just because you didnt make it doesn't mean it sucks.
mircea_popescu: i suppose black girls can cope with this entire "women as a cattle herd maintained by the state" with satellitary men fucking them from the edges, much like chimps live in the wild
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves incidentally, that article is illustrative of why im pretty much convinced the last psych is a woman. her obsession with randi zu smacks me of she-envy.
mircea_popescu: there are men praying all sorts of things happen so they can leave their wives.
mircea_popescu: generally older rich dudes don't bother with stupid girls, which is why it correlates with college
mircea_popescu: generally it's part of a girl's becoming a woman to shag some older rich dude, which is how she gets coke.