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mircea_popescu: "I farm bits and pieces out to the guys who are much more brilliant than I am. I say, "build me a laser", this. "Design me a molecular analyzer", that. They do, and I just stick 'em together. But, none of them know what the project really is. So..."
mircea_popescu: in the immortal words of jeff goldblum in the fly, "i'm more like a supply chain manager"
mircea_popescu: puts any sort of statal proceeding against the free world on the very uneasy footing of "we know you're thieves"
mircea_popescu: so basically... now that it's state run it may be bankrupt.
mircea_popescu: the best part ? "While the funds won’t be allowed to buy government bonds, they’ll be able to buy more corporate debt and will be freed from having to comply with performance benchmarks, according to comments from the labor and finance ministers."
mircea_popescu: because people having their own private pensions makes it pretty impossible for the state flytrap to borrow as nobody credits them
mircea_popescu: there's a good example. the polish government just stole ~100bn dollars worth of private pensions
mircea_popescu: well... it matters, at the very least because it resolves this catch 22 situation.
mircea_popescu: but someone earlier was like they don't care about respek
mircea_popescu: this is where your own personal credentials get to play.
mircea_popescu: so find someone with the hardware know how to help you and ipo after.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` i can see collecting a few hundred btc for making a hardware wallet if you can convince you know wtf you're doing.
mircea_popescu: at least this way they learn they have to take losses in the process.
mircea_popescu: it's another for every two bit kid with a modem to be doing the same.
mircea_popescu: it's one thing for all the pro conment to be startying "asic miners"
mircea_popescu: the amount of sheer psychotic paranoia on the part of bitbet mods is quite the thing to gaze upon
mircea_popescu: he thing, "you can only trade with an anal probe" well is it implemented or not?"
mircea_popescu: pankkake i made the mistake of querying the mod that did it. here you go : "because wtf is mtgox already! look they've been announcing ltc for like a year. it's a dying dog saying it's going to start eating rabbits, i'm not taking bets on whether it actually does. besides, they're a known group of scammers and liars, what's to keep them from fronting ltc trades? and then obviously even if they did manage to implement t
mircea_popescu: pankkake well to me it reads like a variant of "I will publish the number 15 on my website by end of year".
mircea_popescu: this because reality surprises, which is a good thing overall.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` they're always and perpetually going to be poorly worded.
mircea_popescu: this is imo the most important takeaway here : rather than hang your bet on some technicality, just make a new one in which your point of interest is substantially the bet.
mircea_popescu: if indeed that's the case you'd have been much better served by making a "The Bitfury strikes back 400gh/s unit will not exist as the 16 boards together will hash under 400gh/s"
mircea_popescu: eventually someone in samoa is going to say some miner is not according to obscure samoan law thus undelivered thus bet is a clear no.
mircea_popescu: which has some merits, but how far are you going to go.
mircea_popescu: and as far as anyone kniows they'll get refurbished later to double performance or some shit
mircea_popescu: lol. nubbins` would you return a laptop because it comes with a power brick and you ordered ONE unit ?
mircea_popescu: fractal there'd have been a number of issues still, yes.
mircea_popescu: i wonder if the rabinical council of lvov ever saw such heartfelt contention !
mircea_popescu: nubbins` i have no idea, but i think it's a ridiculous criteria.
mircea_popescu: fractal dude get away. it's ridiculous, anduck is this kid.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` im sure at some point they were somehow packaged together. seems a weird way to go about it.
mircea_popescu: im just sitting here and partaking in the lively debate of shit that actually matters.
mircea_popescu: fractal need you a link to the earlier discussion of laptops ?
mircea_popescu: it is still absolute, but that doesn't mean absolutely anything someone wants it to mean.
mircea_popescu: deizel wasn't making an analogy for the bet, was simply verifying the properties of must.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` what of the sentence "you must bring a cup of coffee"
mircea_popescu: i won't intervene in cases where one party is pissed off with the judge's ruling.
mircea_popescu: im not the judge. the closest approximation would be i am the minister of justice.
mircea_popescu: it takes more to make a block than all the math done in the entire history of humanity up until 1900 or so.
mircea_popescu: (and if i was gonna i'd have registered it in january not september.)
mircea_popescu: and im not being facetious either. i'm actually curious. maybe i learn something.
mircea_popescu: well no, as a fiction it wouldn't. once it's live i'm curious how that works.
mircea_popescu: i'd bet there a lot, seeing how i probably have a lot more shitslinging capacity than you can dream of.
mircea_popescu: well if that's what you think i really can't wait for your competitor.
mircea_popescu: this is true now and it'll stay true as best as i can determine until we move on to writing c++ instead of english
mircea_popescu: ideally your position is substantially supported. if it's technically suported you're at risk.
mircea_popescu: but you'll have to understand that bitbet is used by many people for many purposes and technical arguments may or may not carry.
mircea_popescu: i get that in a strong nominalist view you want this as a no,
mircea_popescu: fractal they advertised two types, overshot performance on one, undershot on the other and made up for the difference sending more gear.
mircea_popescu: i'd rather have vague short text everyone can be expected to read than long text everyone can be expected not to read.
mircea_popescu: and yes it's not hard to link to a pastebin but it's hard to have it read.