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mircea_popescu: probably all he actual agricultural knowledge, fucked by superior industrial methods.
mircea_popescu: human rights exist against the state, not against nature.
mircea_popescu: Vexual sure, they can. some should. not all ever will. hierarchy, thus happiness.
mircea_popescu: the20year3 i don't base it on anything. challenging it should be based on things.
mircea_popescu: it's not a "we're all the same", quite the contrary. we are unlike.
mircea_popescu: this is specifically to directly and clearly enforce their inferiority to me and my superiority to them.
mircea_popescu: ideally about half the population should experience hunger outside of their own control a day a week.
mircea_popescu: by the time chem inc is done with it, large scale agriculture stands with agriculture roughly in the relation diocletian's republic stood with the republic.
mircea_popescu: this is true, in the sense there's currently a market for child sex slaves.
mircea_popescu: the author is pointing out that the replacement is hardly optional.
mircea_popescu: but i'd definitely ipo a corp that i judged had a serious shot at making it
mircea_popescu: eventually memory will get small enough you can have a mn sq miles of detailed map in the thing
mircea_popescu: for the same reason nobody played invaders while physically located in the little ship
mircea_popescu: anyway, yes drones will take over ww2 style fighter jetsd
mircea_popescu: still, a 20% locked in interest over 100 btc for a year is a great deal.
mircea_popescu: people just need to get used to the fact that this game has a longer timeline than a few months.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves here's the thing : even longshot bets provide better interest than what you can get on reasonable loans
mircea_popescu: people pile on whether it is advantageous or disadvantageous to them
mircea_popescu: the other one has even odds to work eiother way. i say this from experience :
mircea_popescu: to be fair, i got some mail on the topic too. a few people wanting to know if i hitch seat rates again.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves "you are ill equipped to interact straight..."
mircea_popescu: i tend to agree. people especially sheltered/bored english speakers managed to miss out on a lot of otherwise illuminating and instructive experience./
mircea_popescu: i don't want to make more "money". i want to make actual money in an environment it's worth living in.
mircea_popescu: well, maybe the us tradition is to destroy the free market by repackaging it as entertainment or a service. but bitcoin is against that.
mircea_popescu: why would the free market want to have a central planner ?
mircea_popescu: and make it go now + 2 days bet close -2 days as limits
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla do you suppose that dropdown could be replaced with a type-in field prepopulated with a default ?
mircea_popescu: bgupta oh i finally get what you mean. it's further IN than 7 days (ie, closer to the current date than the 7 days allow)
mircea_popescu: more problems than that. suppose A wants to bet B that he has sex with C.
mircea_popescu: it's a little more complex upon consideration than it seems, but i think something might come of it.
mircea_popescu: Doctor_Andonuts i'd be surprised if you can reach him atm.
mircea_popescu: on the grounds that there exists something more credible than me holding it, except we've not yet discovered it./
mircea_popescu: the problems were that this is not straightforward to do (as good notation is something maybe half the math grads understand, and wysiwyg notation of curves we don't have yet on computers, in spite of 50 years of efforts started at parc)
mircea_popescu: originally i had in the draft for this thing an ability for the bettor to introduce an arbitrary weigh curve, and the site to interpret that functional.
mircea_popescu: bgupta let's be abstract here. the risk over time functional is probably not a polynomial, but something more c omplex, perhaps even discrete. the weight is linear. obviously these won't match