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mircea_popescu: "if you give
that fucking nimrod 1500 i'll shoot him on general principle"
BingoBoingo: I some alternate history Ohio could have been
the real Afghanistan
mircea_popescu: just as long as
they made some
tenochtitlan steel sabres cca 1300
BingoBoingo: Still an interesting alternate history it would be if
the filthy spanish did not small pox
the continent and
therby give
the English
the chance
to colonize
BingoBoingo: The problem was
they used Iron
to shape flint and not
the right way
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo some argument can be brought
that a relative lack of readily available iron made
them kind-of stone-age-bound 4ever.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu:
The bigger problem is
they had buffalo
that many years and never managed
to
turn
them into cows.
mircea_popescu: i'd much more regret
the russians should
they go, even as
they've been unmitigated assholes
their entire history.
mircea_popescu: kind-of why
the only
thought
the collapse of
the us evokes in my head is... well... good riddance.
mircea_popescu: people
took 25k years
to come up with... pottery ? fuck
them, you don't even want
that shit
to survive.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo shitty cultures aren't going
to survive anyway.
mircea_popescu: cazalla all
that hopeful and five dollars buys you a cup of coffee.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Well it counts as personal survival, but not cultural survival. It's a mindset. A flawed one. But it is
the one dominant on
this continent in spite of wrongness.
cazalla: mike_c: not really :\ i am hopeful
they did delete my ID as
they said
they would after i closed my account
mircea_popescu: so i've been reading stan's last post for
the past fucking hour, becase you people are killing any shred of productivity.
BingoBoingo: Aztec descendents survived on
their women's lubrication and in
that course became something different. Sioux staying pure now merely sell gas for $6 per gallon
to people who can't stay on
the interstate.
ThickAsThieves: so i posted
the link
to
The Last Question on facebook, and it only got Likes from jesus lovers
BingoBoingo: Well in
that case
the ones who never encountered small pox before are equally extinct.
mircea_popescu: aztecs made hernan cortes king. aztecs still exist
today. sioux
though it proper
to oppose. sioux are gone.
mircea_popescu: the ones
that failed
to suck cock rapidly, eagerly and well are now extinct.
mircea_popescu: compare for better results
the fate of various subhuman
tribes encountered by europeans.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
that part is
true. but it was not capable of useful work.
ThickAsThieves: enky says "Auroracoin is premined, it doesnt make sense
to look
the marketcap"
ThickAsThieves: "Iceland’s Auroracoin Passes Litecoin, Becomes
Third Largest Altcoin by Market Cap" coindesk...
BingoBoingo: And in
the process
teach people how
to only lose 30% pr year
BingoBoingo: I will write
this n00b guide
to sports bets
cazalla: wonder if gox actually deleted account and personal details as
they said
they would after 90 days (from memory i was 90)
mircea_popescu: as counterintuitive and mother-in-law-wisdom contradictory
this may seem.
mircea_popescu: for
that matter,
the strategy of
the woman
that goes "i like you, fuck me please" actually beats into shit
the strategy of
the woman
that plays
the aloof wallflower.
mircea_popescu: basically,
the story here is
that statistically,
the
trustfull will fare better.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but it is not actually sociopathic
to kill
the
trustful.
mike_c: insider
trading on bitcoin!!
mircea_popescu: sociopath on
trustless side wastes all his
time being paul fucking atreides, wasting his
time fighting
the freemen leaders.
mike_c: haha. from
that
twitter page: "@niccary @marketmakers @Bloomberg @blockchain did
the price of #bitcoin go up as
to insider
trading?"
mircea_popescu: sociopath on
trustful side easily and frictionlessly builds army, wipes other side.
mircea_popescu: simple minded sociopaths arise in both compartments with
the same, god dictated frequency.
mircea_popescu: two sets of chumps, separated by semipermeable membrane. on left,
trustfull, on right untrustful chumps.
ozbot: Twitter / niccary:
This is going
to be an exciting ...
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves just ver & co
trying
to wash
the foundation
thing.
ThickAsThieves: so
there's some kinda chatter about some bitcoin news
tomorrow
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "It is of negative survival value in
the context of financial collapse." <<
this is strictly untrue.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
that
technology would basically be... imagine if poor people had no money.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Well, Nevada has no professional
teams
ThickAsThieves: "The CEO of Reddit has personally gone
to bitcointalk
to warn users
to not invest in an IPO coin "Redditcoin" and warn
they will
take action if it is released."
mircea_popescu: " According
to
the 1999 Gambling Impact Study, an estimated $80 billion
to $380 billion was illegally bet each year on sporting events in
the United States.
This estimate dwarfed
the $2.5 billion legally bet each year in Nevada"
BingoBoingo: kakobrekla:
The difference is dice players aren't patient enough
to wait
two hours
to find out how
they rolled.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: In
the movie. IRL
the dolphins at
that level.
kakobrekla: <BingoBoingo> mircea_popescu: Yeah. Randomness makes more Interesting bets. <
that explains
the just dice!
peterl: I seem
to remember reading
that good baseball
teams lose
to bad
teams more often
than good basketball
teams lose
to bad
teams
BingoBoingo: With Handegg, generally
there is a better
team and
that
team wins.
BingoBoingo: Baseball's offense is based on an action
that at best succeeds 1/3 of
the
time.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Intrinsic facts in
this ordering.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform:
The nature of how baseball works lends a lot of games
to beign interesting sweats. Less so with hockey, still far less with Handegg, and almost never does an interesting sweat come from basketball.
peterl: copumkin: great way
to invest if you have
the patience
to not get in your own way
mircea_popescu: course,
this shit
takes professionalism (of
the actual kind), so
there's not
that much being done so far.
mircea_popescu: bitbet is so made
that people can run
their own line books backed on it
mircea_popescu: anyway,
this is a quite legitimate business endeavour. mpex is designed so
that people can make
their own brokerages and serve demographics on
top of it.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: It can be. While winning a bet is
the best outcome,
the best expectable outcome is betting on a game
that provides a decent "sweat"
mircea_popescu: i'm sure you can find a buncha daytrading lokhs
that know way better.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: SPorts betting at its essence boild down
to finding players and ownership groups with such animosity
towards one another
that
throwing
the game isn't and option.
copumpkin: MPOE is by far
the best investment I've ever made if you count how much I paid for it and how much it has grown and BTC has grown
copumpkin: what are
these strange cxbtc
things I have
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and i don't mean
this stylistically. it is factually and quite mathematically exact.
mircea_popescu: line betting is essentially someone getting in between bitbet and
the luser, offering "services" and other customer supports.