391000+ entries in 0.13s
mircea_popescu: futures are standardised contracts. you get cleared by a clearing house or somesuch
mircea_popescu: there's youtube videos of idiots losing lives in instants through chainsaws
mircea_popescu: it IS less risky than options. it's horribly risky nevertheless.
mircea_popescu: shit's explained nicely on my blog, but sadly it's in romanian.
mircea_popescu: so if $100 right now for a ring i don't have to deliver for 16 months is worth 9900 for me, i'll offer that deal.
mircea_popescu: you realise the payment is now, and the delivery later ?
mircea_popescu: cool. so if you can either pay 10k for a wedding ring right now, or $100 for a wedding ring in 2015
mircea_popescu: kingofsports if the price in the future is below the spot and you don't need the item until the future then of course you buy the future
mircea_popescu: once a bet closes of due time it doesn't resolve until the resolution date.
mircea_popescu: no idea why it does that, buit the bet itself is still "Betting closed. Pending resolution." and "Resolution:
mircea_popescu: Anduck he just made the mistake of saying he's sick of all the bet discussion already.
mircea_popescu: gecko_x2 why can't someone just look at their datafield on the network ?
mircea_popescu: yeah well, i have kinda given up. once it comes out of insanity we can financialize it
mircea_popescu: only to have to like, build shit oout of mud and hay to fix things up under his smh gazer
mircea_popescu: it's one of those things where this guy who is clueless in your field (me) has very strongly held beliefs you disregard because you're the sysadmin
mircea_popescu: it's a business house, not some sort of personal injury or w/e boutique.
mircea_popescu: ridell williams has a respectable corp/security practice
mircea_popescu: which isn't so bad, people do ask who;'s a good lawyer etc.
mircea_popescu: as in, look, they're getting bitcoin, let's take our business there.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves i suspect the entire exercise is more a sort of celebrity endorsement to get us to take ridell seriously
mircea_popescu: TomServo the thing with clows is that there's no who associated.
mircea_popescu: and tyrying to open a new exchangwe when i fucking told them they have no business doing so w/o resolving the previouis
mircea_popescu: it's a shutdown which they claimed was one thing and then it turned out to be another,
mircea_popescu: JimmyJazz i rthink you have no clue wtf you're talking about.
mircea_popescu: when all his "important" friends assured him tjhey'll wash his corpse in ezxchange for a few meals ?
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves do they quote the MP is your god forum post or do they carefully eschew to say who fucked kenna,
mircea_popescu: if it's of any practical value go make the bet. if it's not it presents no interest.
mircea_popescu: "you can't short my putative theoretical nonsense which i might deliver just you wait"
mircea_popescu: go make a bitbet, put whatever you got on yes, i'll match it.
mircea_popescu: jorash i;ll bet you that you don't crack sha. how about that ?
mircea_popescu: bitcoin is small fry, it will probably start a number of wars.
mircea_popescu: fractal well hypotethically what would happen is clothes going out of fashion and the world turning to a massive orgy, in that case.
mircea_popescu: fractal it would doom the coin because the question "how did the seller get the coins" couldn't find a satisfactory answer soon enough
mircea_popescu: this notion that getting the public involved is good is just about the stupidest thing ever.
mircea_popescu: jorash we don't want new people at all, let alone many
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves whatever answer jorash wants, the answer jorash gets is, go and tell thy masters that bitcoin is here, bitcoin is forever, and the only thing changing is them.