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mircea_popescu: also known as a 14 yo aspiring student from mainlaind china with a space alien treasure hunter millionaire friend
mircea_popescu: "Plutus is managed by a crypto-currency enthusiast and risk management specialist located in Canada with 10+ years of experience in studying/working as an actuary with relevant experience in statistics/mathematics, trading, fund management and entrepreneurship. "
mircea_popescu: honestly the odds for the no side don't look so bad now
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell neil well my policy is to not make untenable policies
mircea_popescu: Neil how will you verify who bets ? they're permitted by default, as you'd never know
mircea_popescu: lol ok, 9 months ago bitbet was 2 months old or some shit
mircea_popescu: purely technical argument, how would you establish it did in fact close ? whether someone somewhere can afford shared hosting to put some html up for the rest of the year ?
mircea_popescu: well... i would guess what they mean is that by now it doesn't matter anymore. it might as well be closed.
mircea_popescu: isn't this that scammy venue that pushed the original bfl bets back in march ?
mircea_popescu: you gain nothing by frustrating the people you want to work with
mircea_popescu: this is why i don't really encourage the sort of hollow millitantism the "community" seems to think is the one important thing to do, and i doubt anyone's smart to encourage it.
mircea_popescu: "The picture book Hair in Funny Places is intended to reassure kids about to go through puberty. With pictures of a young girl's insides being taken over by grotesque furry monsters representing hormones."
mircea_popescu: jeez, and here i thought i'm a lone prophet in a sea of denial
mircea_popescu: According to a recent Pew Research Center survey, more than five-in-ten members of the public and roughly six-in-ten members of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), a nonpartisan membership organization and think tank specializing in U.S. foreign policy, agree that the United States plays a less important role around the world than it did a decade ago.
mircea_popescu: you apply for a loan, they tell you you're a fucking prole and you may never ever have a loan
mircea_popescu: case 2 : you got to an interview, they tell you you're fucking retarded and get lost
mircea_popescu: case 1 : you go to an interview, they never call you back. you apply for a loan, they never call you back. you give a girl your number, she never calls you
mircea_popescu: i would guess a large section of the us poor has never encountered this situation where an entity pointedly doesn't give a shit about them
mircea_popescu: benkay i thought it's diff kids carrying the torch. perhaps not.
mircea_popescu: i thought he was doing more like a public service thing
mircea_popescu: sometimes he talks in french. other times he talks in odd words only.
mircea_popescu: mp grins at BingoBoingo's link, knowing full well he was the original investor that insisted dooglus use a gpg scheme to certify investment movements.
mircea_popescu: associating with things like jd made sense in that perspective. doog had enough sense to keep it at arms length
mircea_popescu: benkay there was no depending, tf was in search of adding value to his otherwise not particularly useful service
mircea_popescu: so, we're doing some hardware upgrades on mpex infrastructure starting Jan 8th at 3am GMT
☟︎ mircea_popescu: yeah, because people can afford to pay a a coupla grand for airplane tickets + hotels + etc
mircea_popescu: but it;'s a physically settled future, you can obtain euros in bitcoin central.
mircea_popescu: ArsKisS they know their history won't ever look good, so why publish it too much.
mircea_popescu: and isn't y/n more straightforward ? not that a lot of adding shit is impossible to do.
mircea_popescu: cause if the bet is "a wins" y/n, then you deffo know what the odds are.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo let's try and model. three teams, a, b and c. a has 20 btc on it to win, b 15, c 27.
mircea_popescu: how does it make pricing more straightforward ? i thought it makes it a nightmare
mircea_popescu: how is a single bet for 6 people better than 6 yes/no bets ? cause larger pool ?