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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
mircea_popescu: "You may pitch if asked to pitch, you may talk business by mutual agreement, but you may not under any circumstances cold hit on peopleiv - they come to the conference to relax and enjoy themselves, not to be intellectually brutalized. Please respect that."
mircea_popescu: you can safely make fun of any configuration in the knowledge there probably exists one
mircea_popescu: but honestly i think it's stabilizing. cp risk is becoming significant in most everyone's eyes,
mircea_popescu: in that sense total wagered went from about 4k to about 6k
mircea_popescu: house was up 100 yest, is up 200 now. had ~5k invested now has about 8k
mircea_popescu: a, but people are playing. actually the velocity is quite comparable,
mircea_popescu: certainly resolve a large part of the capital misallocation problem.
mircea_popescu: you can't have two fool's plays at the same time. fools seldom differ.