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diametric: Technically USD you made illegitimately would be taxed
as income, just
as any other illegitimate sale
mircea_popescu: the consensus in the harem seems to be that these chechen boyz (
as typified by todashev) sure are pretty
mircea_popescu: (trivially, your curiosity
as to what's inside a watch isn't worth the pirce of a watch)
blackwhite: so regarding the bitcoin
as property. What does that mean if I get bitcoin for the work I am doing?
wao-ender: I suggest it
as milion dollar idea w/o one dollar, that one dollar you already have in your pocket
mircea_popescu: course, i think they were talking of something else. inasmuch
as there can be "something else" in the swamp.
ozbot: How to have fun
as an intelligent person pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
pankkake: nubbins`: why isn't "over" the same
as "more than"?
nubbins`: they now allow "over"
as a synonym of "more than"
mircea_popescu: seems to me the only sane treatment of btc is
as any other intangible, taxable only upon realisation.
thestringpuller: If you receive BTC
as a gift doesn't a different tax apply?
ozbot: IRS declares that bitcoin will be taxed
as property — Tech News and Analysis
mircea_popescu: ie, here's a very simple way to have fun
as a bright young programmer :
mircea_popescu: anyway, 5.x btc profit on a 70ish btc budget
as a handicapper is really not that bad.
mircea_popescu: 1. take first 3 bets. 2. exclude one. 2.1 either the 1st, if it has the same exit addy
as one of the other 2, and the two have same weight, or else the 3rd.
ozbot: Local artist using Ellen DeGeneres portrait
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mircea_popescu: mike_c the one you exclude a) always has the same output
as one of the remainder two and is either made at weight 100k
BingoBoingo: I'm still iffy on the whole NBA thing. Might
as well open a bet on who wins the whole Wrestlemania thing.
the20year3: Got a email back the 13th from the bank saying "We are ready to close" , the contract's closing date was the 24th
as requested by the bank. 24th has come and gone and still no closing
nubbins`: you'll find a lot of crumb fans do
as well
nubbins`: mircea_popescu:
as it happens, the best i've tried has been white-on-white (no design at all)
Mats_cd03:
as i understand it, the best market are the sr clones
davout: didn't know gox hosted some pastie-clone
as well
Neil: So
as a prospective investor, given the terms, I'm thinking "Where can this go, how can it expand?" And it seems limited. Which may not be a bad thing.
Neil: But
as a random Joe sixpack reading the specs, and not knowing who you are etc., it's not really clear how bitbet can evolve, indeed even if it can.
mircea_popescu: the correct way for this to work would be for someone (respected and competent
as a bookie) to start a fund
mircea_popescu: i suggest you make a bitbet,
as you describe it, and ima bet a little myself.
nubbins`: asciilifeform: i always questioned why spammers thought I'd consider an email hawking "v1agr4"
as a legitimate source for prescription medication
nubbins`: The bet resolves
as YES if the man in the bank is wearing a green shirt
mircea_popescu: unless i'm doing this badly, should the bet come out
as yes he's making ~300 btc
nubbins`: The bet resolves
as YES if 1K4Fs will lose on his two-way bet
Neil: I'll just say that, watching bitbet for a while,
as I have, I feel waiting pays. It is my belief that it would benefit from faster decay.
mircea_popescu: inasmuch
as we're asking the same thing lol, youcan do both at a time
VanCleef: Is Russia ready to cut up its plastic? After Visa and MasterCard stopped processing some Russian transactions in response to U.S. sanctions, Moscow says it could launch a homegrown payment system that could be ready in
as little
as six months
benkay: interesting how RENT performs
as it converts its BTC-denominated assets to USD-denominated assets.
MisterE: so you have to shore up your bets
as it comes close to closing time for them
mike_c: everybody is going to get in on that proposed NBA finals bet
as soon
as it's approved.
benkay: pretty sure that's the first thing i learned when i started working with javascript
as a matter of fact.
MisterE: benkay: I understand that
as the first few people who are in share the winnings
mircea_popescu: perfectly legit way to make cash. liquidity providing,
as it were.
radan: consider that the purpose of a business (from a societal, not individual viewpoint) is to keep
as many people
as busy
as possible
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell MykelSIlver it makes relatively little difference what software bitbet.us runs,
as webserver doesn't really hold coins anywya
ThickAsThieves: "The first way is
as follows, since 80% of the Icelandic population is on Facebook, Icelandic citizens will be able to claim their coins simply by logging into Facebook through a gateway."
ThickAsThieves: referring to diff futures etc not being the same
as USD btc options
blackwhite: Apocalyptic i get how it works and nothing prevents them from removing a lot of small amount other than that kind of consitution the same
as a large amount. If they have to do it over a month then I would most probably know.
ninjashogun: It said "We will get back to 100% reserve bank, owning
as many bitcoins physically
as people have on account. To get back up to that level we will take the profit from our operations and use it to build up the fractional level."
ninjashogun: It could have done something even stronger: "We will now be fractional-reserve, the way all banks in the United States have operated for 100 years. We will not hold
as many bitcoins physically
as are in our accounts - nor make up the deficit."
CheckDavid: Now of its valuable , that's subjective
as all value is
Mats_cd03: (useful for e-voting
as per prev. discussion, and maybe even useful for reducing the size of the blockchain in the future)
ozbot: BitBet - Bitcoin to surpass Berkshire
as an investment
deadweasel: mircea_popescu: "This then resolves the problem statistically, which is to say on average and generally speaking, people are unlikely to engage in morally hazardous behaviour. It also resolves the problem quite cheaply,
as it requires absolutely no human intervention, the entire thing works quite mechanically."
blackwhite: the main thing is how do you keep the actual vote secret, where
as you want the actual vote event public
mike_c: my frustration today: it doesn't matter that python is slow
as dirt, until it does.
ninjashogun: does anyone know why recruiters (headhunters) don't share their bonus with their successfully placed recruit,
as a cash payment (/incentive)? Especially where they make a large commission?
ThickAsThieves: "Under the swap–known
as a “non-deliverable” forward because the contract is settled in cash without the need to deliver bitcoin–the parties agreed to pay each other in the future a certain amount based on the values of the two currencies. "
dexX7: "For me
as outsider it looks like jimmothy is a paid shill/troll from an competing Bitcoin investment plattform.
nubbins`: might
as well try to ddos amazon
mircea_popescu: well i hadn't been doing business with actual romanian corps (
as opposed to foreign run subsidiaries) for a decade. i had not been hiring romanians. for the past year i've not been writing in romanian, either, which means i don't even read the press
mircea_popescu: if they average 3% over the next 6 years then they made the 18% in question
as it were
VanCleef: why are people buying asicminer? may
as well keep sending coins to gox
benkay: ah nm, that's basically
as good
as it gets.
VanCleef: is 10 thousand billion the same
as 10 trillion dollars?
benkay:
as soon
as i crack that drive i know satoshi.
radan: your guess is
as good
as mine
radan: the fed decides what USD will cost on a given day,
as I understand it
Mats_cd03: i was clean shaven and employable
as an IT consultant/pen tester once, now im self employed
TestingUnoDosTre: Pretty lights also has a lot of stuff where the lyrics are kind of morphed so you don't pay attention to them quite
as much, but some if it's a little dubsteppy / up tempo
MisterE: www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/06/shipbuilder-blames-navy-
as-brand-new-warship-disintegrates/
benkay: "It was said that the boat could have been made
as good
as new by putting on a new steel bottom, but that apparently Mr. Cochran preferred not to do that."