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mircea_popescu: kakobrekla keeps being rude and arrogant to customer support ppls
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla yeah but once we move assets there it becomes huge fish
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla and then agency X wants to send 100gbit floods because why not.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not rly any serious btc hoster as of yet
mircea_popescu: then again, that'd require them extracting head from bunghole, which may prove more difficult.
mircea_popescu: i'd much rather add servers to freenode's pool than split the effort.
mircea_popescu: so a hdd in a raid array failed and has been hotswapped.
mircea_popescu: and anyway, i'd love to keep chattin' but got some stuff to do right nao
mircea_popescu: wbaw thjat's besides the point. i being already comparably big, your argument fails
mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic yeah it's some japanese corp research firm
mircea_popescu: well guess what... i'm not that far off. now what do we do.
mircea_popescu: wbaw in a word, yes. especially because bitcoin isn't a currency in this sense.
mircea_popescu: wbaw how can your williams whoever do business without looking at bitbet.
mircea_popescu: every business will make a choice as you can't have all three.
mircea_popescu: these are the three ends of the triangle : how much it costs, how secure it is, how fast it goes.
mircea_popescu: and while it'd be ideal to move faster, it's also ideal not to make mistakes, and not to cost an infinity.
mircea_popescu: but you're in no way at risk. if people bet after the fact hey just get charged a small fine
mircea_popescu: Bitcoin suddenly opened the gate. It is a poisonous offering. You are grossly unequipped to interact straight with the refuse of Western society. Accepting investors with fortunes under a million dollars or whatever the limit was placed for US citizens may make sense. Accepting investors with fortunes under any arbitrary value and simultaneously wits under any arbitrary threshold is not a sound business plan but a stra
mircea_popescu: ver they’re called now, non-lethal something or the other) to correctly handle them. They have the chemicals, they’ve done the research, know the behavioural patterns, have the walls all built to obstruct vision, living arrangements all thought through and everything.
mircea_popescu: Up until recently it was practically impossible to become embroiled into any sort of dealing with the subgroup, their ownership being strictly assumed and their lives strictly subsumed by the corporations competent at dealing with the human cattle : fastfood providers, supermarkets, the government. Both as employers and providers these specialised bureaucracies have the necessary tools, including cattle prods (or whate
mircea_popescu: i actually am not competing with huge companies for the favours of you.
mircea_popescu: dood, i'm sure it's good enough, a mod needs to get to it.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile : A talking parrot has helped Indian police crack an intriguing murder mystery and led the cops to arrest the killer.
mircea_popescu: someone betting after the event is known seems something.
mircea_popescu: anyway, don't sweat it, i'm sure you'll have it by tomorrow, whatever it is.
mircea_popescu: yeah but once you'll graduate to restaurants you'll maybe notice you order and then wait
mircea_popescu: a huge company made out of a lot of small, smelly, dingy little outifits.
mircea_popescu: huge companies they are everywhere, but still, much in the way mcdonalds is a huge company :
mircea_popescu: generally all those i've seen are dingy affairs in the poor parts of town,
mircea_popescu: and to take this full seinfeld, what if you accidentally get triple-action moisturizer with uva on your ticket and now it's illegible ?
mircea_popescu: Duffer1 that's basically why people need lawyers for. average joe can't possibly summon all the needed gall for even trivial legal proceedings
mircea_popescu: so you go to the shop around the corner and what happens ?
mircea_popescu: wbaw hey, how does irl betting work ? i've never done it
mircea_popescu: Duffer1 not really in their interest to include everything.
mircea_popescu: there are very many reputable bookmakers in btc outside of bitbet.
mircea_popescu: wbaw you know they'll refund bets that are late anyway
mircea_popescu: this is now the revolving window of finance and government.
mircea_popescu: o hey, us attorney general just jumped out of a window.
mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic for instance the bitcoinica executors, couldn't care less about the btc.
mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic pretty much already established precedent.
mircea_popescu: word of warning to the news people following : it's gonna be pretty massive.
mircea_popescu: so i'm hammering out the mpoe announcement for this month.
mircea_popescu: i suppose the concept here is that math will have to suit the task, not the othjer way around
mircea_popescu: davout wasn't open office settable to use fixed point ?