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mircea_popescu: pigeons what happens now if you send 100.0 btc, sue, get back 100 + 10 fee + 3 for judging it ? <<< this.
mircea_popescu: you still haven't answered the above question.
mircea_popescu: you know, money isn't soemthing to be redistributed to the needy. or do you ?
mircea_popescu: very odd.
mircea_popescu: the winner gets a fraction of 10 btc = to the % he's allocated.
mircea_popescu: 3 judges to any trial, each gets 3 btc, for a total of 9.
mircea_popescu: two parties to any trial. each contributes 10 btc, for a total of 20.
mircea_popescu: i thought i answered, but again :
mircea_popescu: heh.
mircea_popescu: am i out 3 btc for each 100 you send ?
mircea_popescu: pigeons what happens now if you send 100.0 btc, sue, get back 100 + 10 fee + 3 for judging it ?
mircea_popescu: dub : they could have allocated fractional.
mircea_popescu: dub the idea was to allocate the win neutrally.
mircea_popescu: it's a fucking hole.
mircea_popescu: then getting paid for the process.
mircea_popescu: sueing
mircea_popescu: dub because now any of the judges can start spamming my address with 100 btc payments
mircea_popescu: dub yes, it was a simple case.
mircea_popescu: you're not part of the scotus, just yet. so, you know, little room to thumb nose.
mircea_popescu: something small like whatever can be had.
mircea_popescu: do something small well.
mircea_popescu: " ? what bs is that.
mircea_popescu: "something so small
mircea_popescu: whence all this arrogance anwyay ?
mircea_popescu: and in retrospect that is a wise approach.
mircea_popescu: people won't risk their money on something untried.
mircea_popescu: dub it's unavoidable it will start small.
mircea_popescu: this is btc.
mircea_popescu: baby, socialism is for fiat.
mircea_popescu: ahahahaah
mircea_popescu: jcpham that's pretty much it. you allocated the cost of fucking up to the party that didn't fuck up.
mircea_popescu: it's what's known as an opportunity.
mircea_popescu: no. the reason is so that you people can show you can judge.
mircea_popescu: what did you expect, to start by considering a five million btc case ?
mircea_popescu: and they only chew what their parents bring to them
mircea_popescu: dude. kids are born toothless
mircea_popescu: and i don't push dead sells.
mircea_popescu: if we don't believe either of those it's a dead sell, no matter how hard i push it
mircea_popescu: hard enough to push the concept as it is, even if we were to believe judges are marginally qualified and someqwhat sane
mircea_popescu: if it made an unreasonable decision it likely won't.
mircea_popescu: pigeons if it made a reasonable decision it might have i nthe future had more important stuff brought before it.
mircea_popescu: not entirely sure if that means it'll just die in a corner somewhere, but seems quite likely.
mircea_popescu: basically yay rota, it managed to lock itself out of pretty much the only subject matter anyone thought it worthy of considering
mircea_popescu: next time someone tries that i'll just ignore it and that's the end of that story.
mircea_popescu: since he sued.
mircea_popescu: *shrug*
mircea_popescu: no, actually, i wouldn't have paid the guy.
mircea_popescu: pigeons wait, what's the problem with that exactly ?
mircea_popescu: surely.
mircea_popescu: i was considering relaxing it.
mircea_popescu: it failed to work, so i'm going back to what historically worked very well.
mircea_popescu: i was considering changing this policy, via the rota.
mircea_popescu: dub historically if you sent the wrong amt you're fucked.
mircea_popescu: dub about what ?
mircea_popescu: but i'm not happy with how it works, so i won't do it in the future.
mircea_popescu: i was considering doing that, yes.
mircea_popescu: sadly this was proven true, luckily it was proven true on a modest case of little import.
mircea_popescu: pigeons the reason nobody was using it was (i understand now) the justified fear that people are not equipped to judge.
mircea_popescu: how;s the relation relevant ?
mircea_popescu: that's a certainty.
mircea_popescu: he's absolutely the last guy who sends ANY ammt to mpex and gets crtedited.
mircea_popescu: pigeons i should have credited the dude w/o the hassle ?
mircea_popescu: jcpham cause you get to feel bad about it
mircea_popescu: pigeons yeah well, you sorta misunderstand what this is all for.
mircea_popescu: why lol
mircea_popescu: im not doing anything today.
mircea_popescu: somehow i just never foresaw this one.
mircea_popescu: <mod6> otherwise this just creates way more problems then it solves << i am grasped by sudden terror at the realisation of that, yes.
mircea_popescu: lol
mircea_popescu: you know, the people who hate financial instutions
mircea_popescu: no cause they are from occupy movement.
mircea_popescu: ya, but i'll send all complainants to haunt you
mircea_popescu: ima hold rota entrance exams, consisting of reciting cicero and laurian in latin
mircea_popescu: lol
mircea_popescu: lol
mircea_popescu: because why ?
mircea_popescu: cause it knows better
mircea_popescu: right. cause the bank won't do the insane sort of shit i do
mircea_popescu: it wouldn't be drama if it weren't too late.
mircea_popescu: dawg, independence is this concept whereby people think autonomously
mircea_popescu: i guess it at least proves they be independent ninnies.
mircea_popescu: funny how that works 0.0
mircea_popescu: also the first.
mircea_popescu: lol
mircea_popescu: this is fucked up.
mircea_popescu: you just allocated the cost of fucking up to me, and i'm not the one who fucked up.
mircea_popescu: you don't forego payment. fucking up has costs.
mircea_popescu: forego payment, what bs is that.
mircea_popescu: pretty mcuh lol. "too soon"
mircea_popescu: myeah.
mircea_popescu: so no, this is the last case on this topic.
mircea_popescu: send 100 btc, sue, get 110 back lalala
mircea_popescu: it's particularly dumb, in that it allows idiots to extract money from me now.
mircea_popescu: jcpham pigeons i hope you realise the net result of this will simply be me putting it in the faq that i will keep all misrouted funds and fu.
mircea_popescu: omfg what bs ruling is this.
mircea_popescu: isthat nonzero or above zero ?
mircea_popescu: me and micon
mircea_popescu: i will personally impregnate a billionty womenz to win this bet.
mircea_popescu: because i made it
mircea_popescu: no you can't