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mircea_popescu: the problem is this : other than the intrinsic unfairness to the bettors of the line model, it also requires VERY highly skilled people working for the hgouse, and non stop.
mircea_popescu: Duffer1 there's at least half a dozen diff sites that tried - and failed - to live on that model.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo but there are plenty of insane bets on bitbet
mircea_popescu: if that's the case, a start-up hoping to get that market on a new model would be kinda doomed. the paying customer is too old to move and the young customer does not exist.
mircea_popescu: so perhaps a correct model could be, "sports betting consists of people who lived in the 70s, had fun with bets in the 70s, continuing to do what they did then, where they did it then"
mircea_popescu: so in that theory, they will exist in old venues (like days ago someone mentioned old style phone service that's still continued . to the death of the captive customer)
mircea_popescu: nobody cares anymore about sports, and the bets continue sort-of by inertia, like investment in yahoo continues.
mircea_popescu: however, it may also be that SPORTS BETTING isn't central. or in other words : the focus on advertising, scandal and bullshit, as wel las changing social mores and expectations have pretty much killed that model.
mircea_popescu: the obvious explanation, and perhaps the likely one, is that bitbet just isn't particularly central in the betting space.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo you know, i burned a lot of cycles on the subject of why the fuck sports bets are faring so poorly on bitbet.
mircea_popescu: but WHY did they protestg, what's being objected to exactly ?
mircea_popescu: are they saying "we don't have to sign something we don't want to sign because jesus" ? is it mopre like "we don't want to say anything definite about abortion in writing because we can't grok the consequences" ?
mircea_popescu: i mean... i don't get it, i consider myself educated and so forth but i can't come to a conclusion
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo that entire dispute is pretty much a testament to how fundamentally unworkable the system has become
mircea_popescu: from cnn right after the O speech last night: I think I’ve said before that I think a speech by Barack Obama is a lot like sex. The worst there ever was is still excellent, and I thought he gave a very competent performance tonight”
mircea_popescu: that's the fifth or so peso they ruined, those people.
mircea_popescu: so it looks like argentina will be getting a currency reform
mircea_popescu: if they're say 2x2 to 3x5 or so they look... you know, like a leopard
mircea_popescu: you could have the light concentrate in particular places, make the girls look like leopards naturally.
mircea_popescu: and speaking of ideas, i can't believe nobody invented the spots solarium yet.
mircea_popescu: i happen to like them. but wtf is with all these weasels!
mircea_popescu: the obnoxious part is that i wear suits. always have. i was a highscooler with a three piece suit.
mircea_popescu: "professional" is "guy in a suit". pure cargo cultism.
mircea_popescu: this situation exactly mirrors the situation in speech, where people imagine "being nice" or "polite" consists of never using word X, such as nigger or fucktard, rather than, you know, actually being nice/polite/whatever
mircea_popescu: by completely abandoning a critical review of those conditions, and instead going with formalisms, like
mircea_popescu: the amusing part, of course, being that cheating ACTUALLY IS being clever, but only IN SOME CONDITIONS.
mircea_popescu: the same people who indignantly protest to the judge that random guy "hacked into their computers" just spent the entire day trying to hack their customers.
mircea_popescu: hacking is a much larger part of corporate culture than corporations willingly admit, even to themselves.
mircea_popescu: like, you imagine that talking to someone is more likely to resolve anything ? fine, they'll train dogs to talk to you.
mircea_popescu: the test cheating mentality : they aren't trying to deliver, they just try to hack into your measures and make it seem like they do.
mircea_popescu: well yes, customer service : hire a bunch of veggies to go "yes sir, sure sir, can do sir" to anyone walking in
mircea_popescu: punkman people totally misunderstanding what customer service is.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo amazing how if you don't offer people any way to change their account they'll be unhappy.
mircea_popescu: punkman obviously, twitter and dns are shady services open to hackers and drug dealing.
mircea_popescu: some people should be oppressed, and currently are not oppressed nearly enough.
mircea_popescu: this is the reason i do not wish to live in a world without opression, and this is why bullshit like "social justice" is outright immoral.
mircea_popescu: "Furthermore, notice that a winning bet of .011 returns less than the bet itself (despite its weight), if you even happen to get it. Something is clearly seriously wrong with that guy!! It would be nice if someone were to hack him (and all companies industrializing/profiting off the bitcoin with expensive rigs) and donate the bitcoins to charity (bitcoin100 or etc)."
mircea_popescu: shittingb on them > shitting on their fav scam of the time.
mircea_popescu: pretty much all professions have a trade rag and a trade show
mircea_popescu: from mike_c's earlier goatlink : "The number of goat is about 1220000."
mircea_popescu: KRS1 i went through a few of that and game of thrones during an hour once
mircea_popescu: it's pretty bad. one can enjoy the invasion of the alien robot gorillas too,
mircea_popescu: what's this, like a telenovella, people are supposedly working but nobody does anything ever.