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assbot: BitBet - Argentina beats Belgium :: 11.06 B (64%) on Yes, 6.27 B (36%) on No | closing in 2 days 2 hours | weight: 96`953 (100`000
to 10`000)
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo match made in heaven huh ? i saw
this film cca 1940, back when cagney was
the fronteer ruffian and whoever
the fuck was
the boston damsel
punkman: bet
the other guy is butthurt
punkman: oh
there's a comment, never mind
assbot: BitBet - Bitcoin volatility August over $200 :: 0.19 B (78%) on Yes, 0.06 B (22%) on No | closing in 1 month 2 weeks | weight: 98`203 (100`000
to 1)
[]bot: Bet placed: 3.355 BTC for No on "Krautzes send France home"
http://bitbet.us/bet/987/ Odds: 56(Y):44(N) by coin, 56(Y):44(N) by weight.
Total bet: 12.60838675 BTC. Current weight: 93,229.
mircea_popescu: the author sounds like a butthurt artsy chick upset
that money exists.
BingoBoingo: "they ultimately signed a five-year lease for $31,667 a month in rent (plus $564 in fees)—more
than six
times
the amount
the arts collective had been previously paying." When you get
taken
that badly by a LANDLORD in a negotiation, maybe business isn't
the right line of work for you. Disgraceful.
mircea_popescu: Bloodhound had everything going for it.
TechCrunch once hailed
the
tradeshow app as "genius" and Peter
Thiel lead a $3 million investment round in
the "blowing up" company.
mircea_popescu: says scammer getting ripped a new one in a
thread dedicated
to how he's lost people's btc
mircea_popescu: "Bitcoin is not
the unit of account, as you are not held accountable for
that unit by anyone."
assbot: How Quickly a "Genius" Startup Can
Tank
mircea_popescu: without being stuck sending bw
to EVERYONE all
the
time
mircea_popescu: then again you can prolly optimise
the distribution a little, and preserve
the "no meta" value of
the original broadcast design
trinque: mircea_popescu:
that's basically what I was
thinking in
terms of a p2p filesharing app recently
mircea_popescu: whether you send
text or it just pads with noise... no difference. it sends 1kbps
trinque: mircea_popescu:
that's interesting
trinque: the hard part would be getting enough people
to use it for it
to matter
mircea_popescu: davout
there's an ambiguity between "mods" here. BitBet Mod in red on
the site is merely
the official position of bitbet.
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trade: 641.62, 24 hour volume: 4768.02134696, 24 hour low: 638.79, 24 hour high: 652.79, 24 hour vwap: 646.281389953
benkay: <trinque> benkay: somebody should write something
that saturates idle connections with encrypted dummy data // any bored programmers want
to irritate
the NSA?
trinque's full of good ideas
today
davout: mircea_popescu: "Irrespective of what
the close date says, bets made after half
time will be refunded." <<< not
to nitpick, but now mods can redefine bets? :D
mircea_popescu: artifexd well i just noticed
the france bet went from 2ish
to 7ish on one side
davout: argh, i liked
the "say 'deal', spit on
the ground" approach :D
davout: so
that is 1 confirmation before 45 minutes + additionnal
time
assbot: BitBet - Krautzes send France home :: 7.06 B (77%) on Yes, 2.14 B (23%) on No | closing in 1 day 2 hours | weight: 94`539 (100`000
to 1)
davout: so
technically, before
the match is ended i can bet at anytime
assbot: Rolling Coal: Conservatives who show
their annoyance with liberals, Obama, and
the EPA by blowing black smoke from
their
trucks.
benkay: in other news, i've learned
that having
the hairline
trimmed into symmetry is a horrible idea.
assbot: BitBet - Krautzes send France home :: 2.06 B (49%) on Yes, 2.14 B (51%) on No | closing in 1 day 2 hours | weight: 94`609 (100`000
to 1)
artifexd: As her creator, I refer
to her as such. And
thus, yes.
jborkl: 90000 blocks
through
the rebuilt blockchain and I am at 25MB
mircea_popescu: artifexd somehow []bot is missing out on all
the bitbet excitement lol
mircea_popescu: wow shit look at
that, someone covered
the krautz bet.
davout: CECI DIT, IL EST
TRES RAPIDE!
assbot: Chevalier et Laspales le
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davout: as a sidenote,
the whole "service is shitty, but it's fast!" has been a
thing in france for
the last 20 years
mircea_popescu: hanbot was like "o why are you so mean ?! wait,
this is davout ? nm, be as mean as you wish!"
assbot: The reason you can’t have nice numbers and other considerations. pe
Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
davout: i'm starting
to suspect
that
this france vs germany bet is going
to get bigger
than
the berkshire one
mircea_popescu: the only
thing france wins is buttruining on pikes marathon
mike_c: kako can
turn off
the logger
kyuupichan: mike_c: Not sure I remember most of it. I'd rather it remained private
though.
benkay: asciilifeform, mircea_popescu: where's
the post detailing cardano rng construction?
BingoBoingo: mike_c:
The irony is once again
the bombs seem
to be setting
themselves up for failure
davout: mircea_popescu: BUT WHAT IF
THERE'S ANOTHER MATCH 58 FR vs DE IN
THE WC OF SOME UNRELATED SPORT ??
kyuupichan: The disconnect between
the
two is unfortunate
BingoBoingo: Omg someone is
trying
to unkill of of my death with bombs!!!
kyuupichan: The explanatory
text is clearly "by". "On or before".
kyuupichan: mircea_popescu: But it's already happened no? Other bets are resolved early if
they happen.
mike_c: kyuupichan: what was
this mystery mpex conversation you had with daniel?
chetty: Many people would rather inflict pain on
themselves
than spend 15 minutes in a room with nothing
to do but
think
kyuupichan: mircea_popescu: Is
the Bastille bet considered controversial? Or mods just got bored of resolving bets y/day?
mircea_popescu: eh what
the heck, im so overconfident i just put another 1 btc. so
there.
mircea_popescu: well ok, lem me know when you're in and ill cover
to even odds
assbot: BitBet - Krautzes send France home :: 1.06 B (88%) on Yes, 0.14 B (12%) on No | closing in 1 day 3 hours | weight: 96`594 (100`000
to 1)
mircea_popescu: they failed
to understand it in practice, but
this is because people are often lazy, and
that's exactly how
things like bitcoin can get killed in 2010.
mircea_popescu: mike_c i suspect
that's perhaps stretching a point. rota judges did make a salary, and had a deeply vested interest in making
th emodel work.
davout: i mean it makes no sense
to
try and decide whether secrecy is a better model
than non-secrecy
davout: ok, so basically makes no sense
to sort
them
mircea_popescu: suppose
there's an apple
tree and a potato. now, you ask me how is a pomme better
than a pomme du
terre. nfi man, i just know
they're opposite.
davout: mircea_popescu: so
the advantage of secrecy is undecided
mike_c: rota did not need
to decide
things for
the good of rota. bitbet has a vested interest in making good decisions.
davout: but
there's also
the "make a sovereign decision about
the resolution conditions uncertainty
that came
to light after acceptation but before resoltuion"
mircea_popescu: davout anon mods deliberating in secret. exact opposite of
the "citizenship judge" rota model
davout: because basically,
there's
the "evaluate outcome according
to environment and bet specs" part of bitbet
davout: so, how does it manage
to avoid
the shortcomings of
the rota?
davout: but i spent some
time
thinking about
this while driving
davout: mircea_popescu: yeah well, i haven't ordered
the ba logs paperback yet :-)