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mircea_popescu: cazalla i thought any young woman is legally required to gangbang and do coke
mircea_popescu: "but you'll get free contraception! we can fuck all the time!"
mircea_popescu: "Vice President Joe Biden tried to convince a young Canadian woman to sign up for Obamacare"
mircea_popescu: fun fact : bitbet has had 28 bets weith a total pool over 100 btc
mircea_popescu: you mean as largest pool paid ? some difficulty bet recently
mircea_popescu: cazalla you don't say. bet 1 btc a year ago, worth $30,
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell TestingUnoDosTres also to help you understand the economics of the situation, bitbet puts 0.1 btc of its own on any accepted bet. btc charges 1% of pool. if the pool isn't 10btc, bitbet is making a loss on this score. this doesn't strictly mean you must plunk down 10 btc or else, but definitely 0.x btc aren't in the zone in most cases.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell TestingUnoDosTres also, if you're concerned about one sidedness, you can just as well bet the other side too once the bet is accepted. this way you're now a bookie, and if you have any clue about MMM or w/e subject of your bet enough to line it correctly this can be a livelihood for you.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell TestingUnoDosTres the idea is that if you make some bet that doesn't seem likely to interest anyone but you, you are expected to lay btc on it. if it doesn't interest you to the degree of actually laying btc on it, then it has no place in this world.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: hard to say, but i would guess it would have been resolved the same way if mtgox was simply closed anyway.
mircea_popescu: then again a strong case can be made that karpeles & co are neither, so i guess we'll never know.
mircea_popescu: it'd seem that a sane business person, as well as anyone even vaguely aware of the legal implications of twi would have cut the pie on the 15th rather than on the 25th
mircea_popescu: ah. yeah, it's conceivable that keeping the entire thing on respirators so the price may reach 135 was in some way realted.
mircea_popescu: back before luke was vouching for imaginary bfl deliveries, yeah.
mircea_popescu: copumpkin im not in a position to dick with it right nao.
mircea_popescu: auto insurance is great insurance to have, too, because you end up with just as much float as disaster, but much less risk.
mircea_popescu: anyway, not entirely accurate. numerous times people benefited, sometimes immensely, by betting against the us.
mircea_popescu: ahahah gotta love the fact that a 90 yo guy in nebraska is pretty much the only one left still believing this.
mircea_popescu: embedded in our market economy will continue to work its magic. America’s best days lie ahead.
mircea_popescu: country’s present condition to that existing in 1776, you have to rub your eyes in wonder. And the dynamism
mircea_popescu: Indeed, who has ever benefited during the past 237 years by betting against America? If you compare our
mircea_popescu: a “bet” on ever-rising U.S. prosperity to be very close to a sure thing.
mircea_popescu: Partnership Ltd. acquired control of Berkshire in 1965. For good reason, too. Charlie and I have always considered
mircea_popescu: "That kind of commitment was nothing new for us: We’ve been making similar wagers ever since Buffett
mircea_popescu: somehow it didn't occur to me to check for <br> earlier.
mircea_popescu: it's just that 20% a year doesn'tmanage to keep up with inflation, that's all.
mircea_popescu: the difference being that s&p made 32.4%, which is like... 3x averages over the period.
mircea_popescu: while simultaneously making 18.2%, which is sorta midway (average returns 19.7%) in nominal terms
mircea_popescu: so berkshire just had its 4th worst year in a 48 year history
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves of course, none of it has anything to do with miracles or nye or the debate or anything.
mircea_popescu: except people with large wallets do not want to support scammers.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, “We are part of a transformation of Bitcoin mining,” said Hans Olsen, CEO of Alydian. “Alydian has developed an enterprise-scale Bitcoin
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves it's funny, too. coinlab nao has moneyz to seed start-ups
mircea_popescu: for instance if my roof disappeared and then came back
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla you know, all about how bfl is a serious biznis that has the foundation's seal of approval.
mircea_popescu: or did their murk lawyer advise they;'re not to discuss two major scams the same week
mircea_popescu: bitcoin foundation come out with a BFL statement yet ?
mircea_popescu: if it weren't for camembert we wouldn't even be on speaking terms
mircea_popescu: incidentally : urda is a muchly loved romanian soft cheese