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TheNewDeal: perhaps it was around
the
time MPIF came about?
TheNewDeal: hmmm I'm going
to have
to do some research.
thought I read something
that said
they were upping
the amount of BTC bet
TheNewDeal: MP, but recently
they have upped
the amounts
they bet, by a large amoutn
mike_c: well, house bets are ahead.
the house isn't because it gives away half
the bets.
mircea_popescu: so far
the house is ahead, mike_c did
the math recently.
mircea_popescu: <TheNewDeal> but if
they're bets are going
to be a large portion of
the gains/losses, it seems like investors would want
to know what
their history has been on
the bets << you know investors can readily revbiew
this as
they're all published
TheNewDeal: thats possible. I have 5.6
total BTC in for a
timeweight of ~197,000. Care
to share what you're
trying
to
trade?
BingoBoingo: TheNewDeal: Sure.
That's about half of
the question's answer. What of instead of BTC for positions
the
trade was positions for positions?
TheNewDeal: so you would send me 1 btc, and receive X
timeweight
TheNewDeal: you would give a amount, say 1 BTC, and we would
tack on a
timeweight
to it
BingoBoingo: TheNewDeal: Supposed you did, because we were both looking
to hedge. How would
this
trade work?
BingoBoingo: TheNewDeal: How do
these arrangements work? Suppose I wanted
to
trade some of my no for your yes, how do we price
these?
TheNewDeal: I have bets on Yes , and I would still like
to
trade exposure
BingoBoingo: TheNewDeal:
TheNewDeal Were you
trying
to
trade Bastille Day bet Exposure yesterday?
TheNewDeal: but if
they're bets are going
to be a large portion of
the gains/losses, it seems like investors would want
to know what
their history has been on
the bets
mircea_popescu: i
think your
talking about bitbet is incidental
to what it'll actually do.
TheNewDeal: Like Gain:X,
Total Resolved: Y, Pending: Z
TheNewDeal: will bitbet start reporting
the results of
their bets in
the manner I was
talking about yesterday?
TheNewDeal: I play around with my model a little bit and
try
to make it look realist. Gribble and bitcoinwisdom are pretty much looking at something like
the last 500 or 1000 blocks and predicting off
that
TheNewDeal: updating
TheNewDeal's prediction
to 6.3%
TheNewDeal: I'm very sad I didn't get
to see
the sexy Sharapova in action :(
mike_c: hah, yeah, i'm glad i didn't watch it.
too much of a sweat.
mircea_popescu: that little shit gave sharapova a good run for her
tits.
mircea_popescu: mike_c btw,
the coffee shop i happenedto stop for my pasteleria
today (which dubs itself as a "local de encuentro" and during
the night
time doubles as a whorehouse) just happened
to run
the match on a large screen
TheNewDeal: can't believe 7 btc was laid down on
that bet
assbot: BitBet - Simona Halep
to win Roland Garros :: 1.03 B (14%) on Yes, 6.22 B (86%) on No | closed 2 weeks 1 day ago
TheNewDeal: I love mango and I love ginger, but I haven't had
the combination. Sounds like an indian dish
to me
mike_c: best part of winning a bitbet: gloating in
the comments.
TheNewDeal: loved
the mango and ginger breakfast picture as well
mircea_popescu: well i guess with all
teh encouragement ima make more
travel log posts
mircea_popescu: just how many of
these social media sites did you get banned from ?
thestringpuller: but I guess with pankkake 's bot
that's not necessary anymore
thestringpuller: refreshing
trilema hoping
to see an announcement #assetslife
mircea_popescu: anyway, fun
to see people on
these very successful sites are lively debating solved problems in fain, years ago. makes my asshole swell.
mircea_popescu: The Reddit discussion model is completely oriented
towards providing
the fast food of news commentary, where your << missing 1st line
mircea_popescu: wow look at
that :
they actually understand what's wrong with
the ~others~
mircea_popescu: h, and of course, no one but
the people I responded
to will ever read
the
things I wrote hours after
the
thread dropped off
the front page."
mircea_popescu: I've said it before, and I'll say it again: I can easily follow 50+ page PHPbb
threads
that drag on for months or even years, or 4chan
threads with hundreds of posts and more on
the way every
time you refresh, but a small conversation (in reality; I considered it huge by my HN standards) I had on here
the other day with about 10 comments or so made my head spin. I wrote half
the posts and it was still hard
to follow! O
mircea_popescu: "enjoyment of
the first look you
take at a comment page is prioritized over active participation.
That's great if you're
trying
to attach ads
to pictures of cats, but if you're
trying
to have a real conversation, it just gets in
the way. I can read, I don't need an algorithm
to
tell me which comments are notable and which ones are junk. If I see a
troll post on any other site, I don't seize up and have an aneurism, I j
dub: safest way
to deal with some kinds of damage
mircea_popescu: so i guess
the kids in charge have some deep seated issues with
this sort of passive-agressive nonsense.
mircea_popescu: dub actually
the material i've seen included a lot of derping about how fucking horrible and psychologically blabla
that is.
dub: ircd ignores msgs, client cant
tell
BingoBoingo: This has
to be some clinically defective reasoning.
BingoBoingo: I have
to wonder who
the original autist was
to come up with
the idea of a slowban.
mircea_popescu: this dovetails neatly with "women don't have
to do anything in particular
to not get fucked"
BingoBoingo: What
the fuck. Someone provokes annoyance in good faith and
the response is now
to lie and cover yourself in shit so
they don't want
to be seen around you?
mircea_popescu: anyway, gotta remember
that Jeff Atwood is pretty fucking stupid.
mircea_popescu: "i have
talked
to some people i won't name about some
things i won't name but
take my word on it
that it's relevant, and
they said my stupidity is entirely correct"
mircea_popescu: "That said, every community is different. I've personally
talked
to people in charge of large online communities – ones you probably participate in every day – and part of
the reason
those communities haven't broken down into utter chaos by now is because
they secretly hellban and slowban
their most problematic users. "
BingoBoingo: Is
there a link
to when
this announcement was announced?
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mircea_popescu: nobody can point
to such a broken spot on
the interwebs, but nevertheless
the apparent abundance of such is why every lemming wears plaid.
mircea_popescu: yet each and every one will pass
this bit of "oh, leaving behind
the broken spot"
mircea_popescu: this is such an amusing
thing, because of all
the utterly meaningless forums out
there pretending
to be communities and deluding
themselves as
to
their own relevancy, not a single one would admit it's a failure
mircea_popescu: "But in
the absence of some system of law,
the
tiny minority of users out
to do harm – intentionally or not – eventually drive out all
the civil community members, leaving behind a lawless, chaotic badland."
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I wonder why silver is
the white metal everyone seems
to horde and not gallium.
thestringpuller: how do we know you didn't change
the date of
the announcement
mircea_popescu: can be a bet for charity. whole bet goes
to b-a donation address
mike_c: hm, ok, i'll make a small wager. i'm not super-confident, but i
think i've got it.
mircea_popescu: pure and simple, at some point in whatever, 1995, some derp with a blog/forum/platform came up with
the idea of BANNING
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you wanna
talk about nonsense items and
the rotten paradigms
they create and perpetuate ?
teh banhammer. worse
than risc.
mike_c: a prediction for later. i want proof
that i called it.