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mircea_popescu: Italy has increased the alert level from "Shout Loudly and Excitedly" to "Elaborate Military Posturing." Two more levels remain: "Ineffective Combat Operations" and "Change Sides."
mircea_popescu: The French government announced yesterday that it has raised its terror alert level from "Run" to "Hide." The only two higher levels in France are "Collaborate" and "Surrender."
mircea_popescu: opera is in fact so good that one time when i had lost an article i wrote someone emailed it to me two days later.
mircea_popescu: you can't include two payments to the same address in the same block.
mircea_popescu: 's why you can't be double jeopardied , even if it's fucking clear as day that you dun it.
mircea_popescu: and why. well because there have to be absolute limits on recourse in order for the system to be stable. that
mircea_popescu: this one was definitely close, which is unfortunate but will happen no matter what. i could see both ends of it myself.
mircea_popescu: bets aren't annulled due to poor language. that's part of the sandbox. they're resolved as best can be.
mircea_popescu: fractal just, you know, make better ones. nothing prevents you from only betting on bets you yourself make.
mircea_popescu: it does mean it has to rise once, and obviously the bet is limited by the underlying.
mircea_popescu: it'd probably keep government much smaller and more tolerable at any rate.
mircea_popescu: unrelatedly, i wonder how the legal system would work irl if every time someone got convicted or anything + every time someone lost a civil case they got space in the newspaper to expound on how the legal system is a fraud.
mircea_popescu: fractal you realise that the bet split 14:10 or something. you're not in the majority you for some reason perceive.
mircea_popescu: fail that, you'll get to learn the hard way why coding a site is not worth the electric power it took, on its own.
mircea_popescu: dude, i would like to see your site. sooner or later you're going to have someone lose some btc on a bet, and they'll be pissed off, and you'll be wiser for the experience.
mircea_popescu: so when's this new site coming online ? i think i'd bet a little on yes myself.
mircea_popescu: traditionally it's presented as a dichotomy, business / personal.
mircea_popescu: but if they're old hags asking you to gfive up your seat you wouldn't ?
mircea_popescu: if they're hot chicks in maribor and they're asking you to do them you'd understand,
mircea_popescu: look all, someone's charging more than me. 50 btc to be a cool dude there.
mircea_popescu: i wonder if this discussion has hashed worth a block by now.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, is this bitfury pcb stuff pretty much the most open/modder friendly asic miner to date ?
mircea_popescu: ;;everify freenode:#bitcoin-otc:092252d47f975c33c80bb11e036eb00c1983a43e1d2c0f5a34031c4d
mircea_popescu: I'm still tweaking my units manually. I'd say 380GH from 16 H-boards is possible.
mircea_popescu: hey, buttcoin ppl : pls to include in your next update ty.
mircea_popescu: what;'s the bet say anyway, by sept 1st ? on sept 1st ?
mircea_popescu: like, you know, the low effort high pay ones such as state senator.
mircea_popescu: the same shit is going on in the states with the race politics thing, there's some incompetent niggers whio would like to exclude competent black people from jobs
mircea_popescu: to carve themselves a little territory that may be defended on any other grounds but intellectual ability and professional competence
mircea_popescu: and so they make this desperate ploy essentially union-like in its nature
mircea_popescu: who KNOW they dion't belong there, and KNOW that actual competent women a) would make them look bad and b) aren't likely to bother arguing politics with them
mircea_popescu: the problem is not batshit insane feminists. the problem is there's a group of morons, adria richards being a fine example, sandra sharp being anothjer fine example
mircea_popescu: pankkake well yeah, the sane criticisms are the worst from what i see.
mircea_popescu: you have to admit the "we made it up" is by far the simpler explanation