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mircea_popescu: "come see mp become what he most despises : a cutout entrepreneur"
mircea_popescu: which really messes with people. as they'd much prefer to have been unlucky.
mircea_popescu: the number 1 is someone telling you " you failed because you did x y z wrong, not because yo uwere "unlucky"
mircea_popescu: alternatively i'm just an asshole and one of these days ima get what's comin' to me!
mircea_popescu: this because that's the fastest way to learning anything, and people can't stand learning anything.
mircea_popescu: people can't stand being humiliated when they're wrong.
mircea_popescu: this isn't a divorce proceeding, we're not equal parties to it.
mircea_popescu: dysfunctional arguments don't age like wine, as in you revisit them three months later and they've improved now.
mircea_popescu: so basically your objection is that i'm not doing enough research ?!
mircea_popescu: totally. expecting the ppl with "decade's experience" to show up any moment nao.
mircea_popescu: "23:08 (306) <icey> i'd sell all my sdice shares now if I had any. they haven't innovated anything in years"
mircea_popescu: so basically this is hwat this is. very low volume and people qwanting to buy oin credit pushi8ng it up
mircea_popescu: "What they found was far different from what happens according to general relativity alone: there was no singularity. Instead, just as the black hole began to squeeze tight, it suddenly loosened its grip again, as if a door was being opened."
mircea_popescu: (chicks that want more loot show up for chick saturday in high heels only, do all the officers)
mircea_popescu: i wonder how they prevent turning into a defacto btc trade site then
mircea_popescu: nah, this is one of those "website-and-advertising" made to scam vcs things.
mircea_popescu: I want to start one, Don't know how to make one of thsese sites tho."
mircea_popescu: " I am sure Bitcoin gambling sites are VERY profitable.
mircea_popescu: SatoshiDICE cleared something on the level of 15k so far this year. On yearly-adjusted figures (since “this year” only means about 6 months) and accounting for variance that would be about 25k yearly.
mircea_popescu: but otherwise, what bitcoin comes to supplant is the fed system
mircea_popescu: it's not happening. bitcoin srsly is not for payments.
mircea_popescu: in spite of all the aggitation around payment processing, which is going remarkably repeatedly nowhere.,
mircea_popescu: nobody else can compete with the edges and with the PF.
mircea_popescu: contrary to what people think, the one place where we completely own irl is gambling.
mircea_popescu: gambling has been so far the one area where bitcoin brought actual innovation.
mircea_popescu: actually IF just-dice eats s.dice's lunch there will be very bad news for friedcat and co.
mircea_popescu: any sufficiently delabree orgy is going to contain a half backed, sodomistic, slow and unpleasant reimplementation of basic lisp