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mircea_popescu: frb that's often the case actually. like with the josh-zerlan.com bet
mircea_popescu: actually 6 months ago sdice closure was completely off the books.
mircea_popescu: well if it makes you feel better i didn't have a bet in there.
mircea_popescu: and yes. bitcoin is what it is. you either trust or watch.
mircea_popescu: i mean people made a lot of hay about bfl delivery in may bet, but... bfl STILL hasn't delivered so.
mircea_popescu: well, the people resolving the bets are not betting. i occasionalyl make bets, but i don't think theres to date been an actually contentious one.
mircea_popescu: in principle it could split 101/102 or some shit, as unlikely as that may be. in which case 101 would go to proposer. but in no case wil lproposer be assigned more than half the house bet.
mircea_popescu: sometimes it splits 5/6 in which case 5 goes to the proposer
mircea_popescu: if the bet is even the person makes about half, roughly.
mircea_popescu: if the bet is a crapshot, the person usually makes nothing but sometimes makes a bunch.
mircea_popescu: it's simple. whenever someone makes a bet, the house splits a dime among yes/no ands puts the lower ammt on the name of the person that proposed the bet.
mircea_popescu: they're not +ev except in the perspective where you expect to lose 50%.
mircea_popescu: in general house makes about 50% back of what it bets.
mircea_popescu: Neil_ nowhere. atm it's cheaper to just eat them than account for them tbh
mircea_popescu: that's about as far removed from NUDE as it could be ozbot
mircea_popescu: granted it's only a few btc per cycle they lose, but i imagine a few btc hurt a lot in scamistan.
mircea_popescu: lmao by the look of the trades teh btcgarden people are getting raped.
mircea_popescu: dandate2 on the short term the market is a nutty machine
mircea_popescu: much like spamming is still going 20 years later in spite of the avg spammer making a loss.
mircea_popescu: this will keep going indefinitely, because of the illusion of easy money.
mircea_popescu: random_cat something;'s gotta break. i mean, activemining is exactly reobek to am
mircea_popescu: btcgarden in particular is a lulzcase, with its blog full of pictures stolen off the internet.
mircea_popescu: random_cat no excitement whatsoever. there's a couple of scammer assets being pushed by anons.
mircea_popescu: chiefly because people join all excited, do something for a few weeks then abandon it.
mircea_popescu: smidge you can take it pretty far. therer's a dearth of pretty much everything that;s market watching and reporting.
mircea_popescu: basically asicminer + scamfest. you should probably make two tiers.
mircea_popescu: userioao it's a chan not a topic, esl boi. also, children not childrens.
mircea_popescu: there's a difference between "basic knowledge" in the objective sense of "what anyone should know" and "basic knowledge" in the subjective sense of "the sum of what's left once we substract out of basic knowledge all the shit i don't know".
mircea_popescu: and if there's people with a lot of isk i want to talk to you!
mircea_popescu: "Every leader who would rather be in charge of something badly run than part of something well run is not the CEO of their EVE corp, they are the CEO of your EVE corp. And its up to you if they ever learn this or not."
mircea_popescu: well, not that i know. but now there's a 1 btc bounty for a top 20 of my best insults.
mircea_popescu: Henri the Great, wanted a fagot to light a fire in the month of January,
mircea_popescu: "Posterity will hardly believe that the Queen of England, granddaughter of
mircea_popescu: and somehow magically all the "press" from end to end won't be running "OMG KICKSTARTER IS A SCAM" headlines tomorrow ?
mircea_popescu: pigeons no wai. this is possible with kickstarter projects ?!!?! ?! ?!
mircea_popescu: Hollywood i don't get this. what are they paying dividends out of ?
mircea_popescu: i don't. i give Namworld all the credit because him i know.