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mircea_popescu: nubbins` yeah, huge uproar in the sense that scammors are really butthurt there's some stuff they can't readily manipulate.
mircea_popescu: speaking of the entire silver thing, what happened to pietilla, goat and usagi ?
mircea_popescu: Namworld well now i don't know, i read the stuff in a paper book a while ago. lettuce see
mircea_popescu: somehow "distribute it" never comes to mind. a problem fiat shares, for that matter. (buffett has some great comments on the topic)
mircea_popescu: it has a better risk profile for the bitcoin investor than the alternative (if you review the early history of btc scams, 2011s, you'll see most corps turned scams once the "ceo" confronted the problem of "we have cashflow. what to do with that cash ?".
☟︎ mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic the "zero asset" thing is a term of art. a company that retains none of its income but distributes it all as dividends.
mircea_popescu: what's with this "we're organising a conference next week" thing
mircea_popescu: hellmuth folded a walking back to huston arrangement and then got all pissy
mircea_popescu: anyway, the hellmuth guy, i recall this horrible loss to a romanian player, who had called a re-raise with a low pair or something
mircea_popescu: did hellmuth actually win any one wsop/wsoe main event ?
mircea_popescu: obviously people being people there'l;l be exceptions to any stereotype
mircea_popescu: even if they do have the money. they "forget" or whateverthefuck.
mircea_popescu: it works both ways, gamblers are notoriously bad at keeping the bills paid in time
mircea_popescu: these two activities are often found jointly in nature, like any house building will involve carpentry and masonry
mircea_popescu: finance is shorthand for resource allocation. gambling is shorthand for risk pricing
mircea_popescu: im sure the "bitcoin finance" blogspace is not saturated now,
mircea_popescu: more arguing for the principle of the thing than anything
mircea_popescu: i know (and for that matter house bets don't change much either)
mircea_popescu: and since it's impossible to take out later readjustments of the bettor, you can't really take out his original stake either. course i suppose what exactly you're trying to see
mircea_popescu: yes but see, a large part of late action is rebalancing of odds either according to new developments or others positioning.
mircea_popescu: mike_c "as well as the starting wager of whoever created the bet." is this sound ?
mircea_popescu: that really the lukewarm derpage people waste their time with is a sore waste.
mircea_popescu: i wasn't cause i have them, but the fact is there's so much counterintuitive if not outright fucking weird shit going on in btc
mircea_popescu: pizzaman1337 she had one but can't hardly be arsed to update it iirc
mircea_popescu: i'm unemployed, mods please clean up my mess. i'm a quick study, believe me when i say so, pay no mind to the fact i can't be fucking bothered to figure out where my post goes
mircea_popescu: and the press conference'd start with a nails and handkerchief examination.
mircea_popescu: Vexual i'd have two nuns, one on each side. the left one'd carry the soap, the right one the ruler.
mircea_popescu: it stands to reason you'd talk to them as if they were sorta obnoxious teenager at best
mircea_popescu: i don't quite understand why politicians still maintain the facade that the press people are like... people.
mircea_popescu: herpderp " Impatience is growing among some, as he continues to discuss foreign and domestic policy..." derpyderp the public does not care so here's some more of the retarded shit that preoccupies us"
mircea_popescu: i'm glad you mentioned this. absolute textbook study in how teh press doth not matter at all.
mircea_popescu: Remember 77 per cent of French people recently surveyed say his private life is of no concern to them."
mircea_popescu: "16.34 So how will the French react to Francois Hollande's refusal to answer questions about whether Valerie Trierweiler is still the First Lady?
mircea_popescu: this is a point. pretty much the only way to terminate those is to pay up
mircea_popescu: they have those here too. except they're very easy to terminate.
mircea_popescu: bwahahaha why the fuck do i need to know anything about some grasshopper-headed frenchie socialist.
mircea_popescu: "Watch: Everything you need to know about the French president's love life"
mircea_popescu: pankkake> from what I understand our compatriots are caring about his personal life now… what the fuck << gotta keep up with les americains
mircea_popescu: an all-girls highschool shitter may be a great place to smoke. the bitcoin shitter is full of retards.
mircea_popescu: doing like 5-10 btc a day. holy shit what happened to bitcoin's star non-mpex corp ? are they actually in the shitter ?
mircea_popescu: i remember all the "omg asicminer is the biggest ting ever" back this summer.
mircea_popescu: i wonder what happens should anyone claim they didn't do X trade now.
mircea_popescu: buncha people got them. i don't recall what the reason was supposed to be
mircea_popescu: for instance : i get first dibs on any piece of hardware replaced-as-broken anywhere on the pipe to my machines
mircea_popescu: diametric he's a guy working in a dc, seeing it with exactly the same eyes