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mircea_popescu: Bugpowder in principle it could make a million btc on 0 capital.
mircea_popescu: you can trade millions of btc's worth within the same 100btc space in principle
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla the capital needed simply reflects the widest berth mpoe bot ever takes.
mircea_popescu: it's odd cause it traded about the same # of contracts, roughly
mircea_popescu: "The problem with geologists is that they invented such a complicated language that it would be easier to understand a half-naked Papuan stepping out of a jungle in the Stone Age than a bunch of dressed-up geologists attending a conference in Vancouver or Toronto – well, unless they step out of the room to grab a beer and begin taking on mundane subjects like good bars, sports, and field equipment."
mircea_popescu: actually i don't see why people don't go full blast and declare e**-i font sizes
mircea_popescu: one of those can't do math but feels people through a closed door types.
mircea_popescu: and the thing is... he was a great poker player, he was a worse bj player than most girls i know
mircea_popescu: i knew a guy like that, his defining moment being when he spent one week geting together 50k to participate in a casino tournament
mircea_popescu: he walked away with the trollish satisfaction of having tricked a buncha people, sure.
mircea_popescu: tho tbh i doubht he ever walked away with that much coin
mircea_popescu: any section of bets converge to ev, no matter how arbitrarily picked out of the timeline
mircea_popescu: ya but it converges to ev over ALL time-space continuums
mircea_popescu: well, no, statistically it's expected to converge to ev
mircea_popescu: Bugpowder the 10k it's ahead this month tho... significant deviation from the expected value. it may drop some
mircea_popescu: why ireland ? just so it happened or any particular reason ?
mircea_popescu: or to quote, <evoorhees> lol who waited this long to buy it?
mircea_popescu: evoorhees just announced div imminent and some buys happened