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mircea_popescu: and how do you know what he wants in the first place ?!
mircea_popescu: right now you could make a bet that resolves on the 29th
mircea_popescu: you just put some btc on a side along with your bet,t hwere's an address there
mircea_popescu: anyway. good that rich people are starting to use the system for what it's actually useful : lolz.
mircea_popescu: of inadvertence, negligence, or mistake.” (Guidant/BSC Reply 5.) As a factual matter, this claim is questionable. It could just as well be said that heavily counseled parties to mega-mergers do not sign merger agreements containing glaringly ambiguous terms that lead to avoidable litigation—but here we are.
mircea_popescu: In support of their argument that the Agreement preserves liability only for malicious breaches, defendants argue that the word “willful” would be unnecessary unless it meant “malicious.” There is no reason to limit liability to breaches that are intentional, they claim, because any breach of this Agreement would be intentional—”[h]eavily counseled parties to mega-mergers do not breach merger agreements out
mircea_popescu: Agreement § 7.02; emphasis added). J&J argues that defendants’ conduct was “wilful.” Whether a factfinder could so find depends on the meaning of that term as it is used in the Agreement. While defendants argue that a breach is only willful if it is committed with malice or in bad faith, plaintiff [J&J] contends that “wilful” merely means “intentional.”
mircea_popescu: The Agreement provides that in the event of termination, no party shall be liable beyond the specific liabilities imposed in the Agreement (i.e., the termination fee), except “that no such termination shall relieve any party … from any liability or damages resulting from the wilful and material breach … by a party of any of its representations, warranties, covenants or agreements set forth in this Agreement.” (
mircea_popescu: Gerard E. Lynch, southern new york kicks so much ass he will be hereby introduced into bitcoin's public record. he says :
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the guy that invented the "buy lotto tickets with pmb "dividends"" idea has something to say on a topic ?!
mircea_popescu: people generally tell me shit because overall nobody wants btc to go to shit.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves no, i mean intel as in, knowing what everyone is doing. you know, like the btcnsa.
mircea_popescu: lyspooner seeing the incredible noise dieing mtgox is inducing in the market... i;'d be scared to shit if volumes were up.
mircea_popescu: lyspooner the volume is acutally pretty small of late.
mircea_popescu: despite the postal service accounting for less than 1% of the full-time civilian labor force, 13% of workplace homicides were committed at postal facilities by current or former employees.
mircea_popescu: yes, you pay people and they go postal for your amusement.
mircea_popescu: i wasn't watching it all that close. so basically once the scam is out of the picture, asicminer came back to its actual value
mircea_popescu: im not taking the 1% out of his ass. i wanted to but the OTHER people involved who are actually nice talked me out of it.
mircea_popescu: point in case, the laughable bitpay "We lost our domains and a ton of btc" scandal. or, outside of btc world, the entire times lost their twitter account.
mircea_popescu: transparency is a complicated affair. everyone claims transparency, nobody delivers.
mircea_popescu: unlike the other kids (garr, say) this one has more or less walked straight.
mircea_popescu: well, there's a balance here. he's a kid. kids are stupid by nature, cause that's how people are born : dumb.
mircea_popescu: MilkyLep he was running a coin lending programme, and some chatroom or w/e, he has some history.
mircea_popescu: this is basically an0, i guess it works. have namworld say hi maybe we work something out here.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller let people run their business lol. i just wanted to see if it exists.
mircea_popescu: arij do you have an august revenue report published anywhere ?
mircea_popescu: you know some chinese guy asked me the same thing five minutes ago
mircea_popescu: bobbabad not a matter of hindsight in any sense. you're just new and clueless.
mircea_popescu: anyway, let's hope people generally are learning lessons and intend to listen better.
mircea_popescu: i usually tend to like giving a month, but two weeks is certainly not brusque or sudden.