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the20year3: Heck
the
terrain mapping systems we had in
the 70s were amazing
too
the20year3: Sure, granted
the system
the US has in place now is pretty awesome...........But
the problem is , it's still easy
to knock out
the US data systems
benkay_: there's lots of room for improvement
there
the20year3: i
thought you were
talking about
the AGM84E :D
benkay_: slam is a navigation
technique
the20year3: The US is pulling most of our LGBs out of service and replacing
them with Jdams which become pretty poor weapons after GPS failure
mircea_popescu: eventually memory will get small enough you can have a mn sq miles of detailed map in
the
thing
the20year3: Sure,
they can use INS, but it's not nearly as good as GPS, and almost everything now is GPS guided
the20year3: With decent resources (nation state) you could wipe out
the entire US drone fleet in
the course of 4-5 hours at a cost of $250m or less
benkay_: and make neat inroads on urban
territory control
too
mircea_popescu: for
the same reason nobody played invaders while physically located in
the little ship
the20year3: Military? Possibly, but
the problem with drones is
that if
there's a GPS or general satellite failure
the entire fleet is screwed
mircea_popescu: anyway, yes drones will
take over ww2 style fighter jetsd
benkay_: in
the context of air space control, i believe
the context was
the20year3
the20year3: huge
thing carying international cargo
that needs
to be
there quickly
Vexual: unless you want
to scare
the shit out of people
benkay_: huge
thing carrying a human
the20year3: and more expensive in
the long run for larger haulers
benkay_: clog
the intakes with disposable smart rockets
benkay_: i don't want a jet so much as
to fly one briefly
Vexual: those
thongs dont even need guns
Vexual: ive hard a low altitue superhornet on
the edge of sound
Graet: esier
to buy
than develop
Vexual: we bought about 20 from
the yanks
the20year3: Austraila doesn't have any domestic military jets
that I'm aware of
Vexual: no
theyre prettyy much
the business
the20year3: At least for countries
that have money
Vexual: superhornet, its
the iphone 5 of warfare
bgupta: do
the "new bets" show up on "old bitbet"?
Vexual: 1.5 becomes 2 and
they pay out 87% on average
mircea_popescu: people just need
to get used
to
the fact
that
this game has a longer
timeline
than a few months.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves here's
the
thing : even longshot bets provide better interest
than what you can get on reasonable loans
mircea_popescu: people pile on whether it is advantageous or disadvantageous
to
them
mircea_popescu: the other one has even odds
to work eiother way. i say
this from experience :
bgupta: Another example would be structuring a sports bet
that closes for betting at
the beginning of a season, but resolves at
the end of a season. I
think enabling
these kinds of bets would bring in more betters, at
the cost of holding onto
their btc for a long
time, and dealing with a potentially large book of unresolved bets.
bgupta: YES, and
then
the early bettors would have
their winning majorly diluted.
bgupta: mircea_popescu:
This is an extreme example, and not
the bet I want
to propose but one example of such a bet would be: "btc/usd will
trade above 1000 USD on XYZ exchange before
the end of 2014" and have
that bet close for betting Jan 1st 2014. Currently betting yes on
that might be considered a bit of a lon g shot. But if btc came close
to
trading near 1000 USD any
time before Dec 24th 2014, folks would pile o
Vexual: a golden retriever
that REALLY wants
the ball
mircea_popescu: to be fair, i got some mail on
the
topic
too. a few people wanting
to know if i hitch seat rates again.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves "you are ill equipped
to interact straight..."
mircea_popescu: i
tend
to agree. people especially sheltered/bored english speakers managed
to miss out on a lot of otherwise illuminating and instructive experience./
benkay_: it's a realistic view of
the world rooted in lots of study and experiencing
the
transition from communism with an intact brain
ThickAsThieves: surely
there's a perfect school of philosphy
that applies as well
benkay_: reactionary isn't half bad, but it's not
the whole picture either
ThickAsThieves: was
trying
to find a
term for you in a conversation
today
mircea_popescu: i don't want
to make more "money". i want
to make actual money in an environment it's worth living in.
mircea_popescu: well, maybe
the us
tradition is
to destroy
the free market by repackaging it as entertainment or a service. but bitcoin is against
that.
Vexual: I want some of
that A B C action
mircea_popescu: why would
the free market want
to have a central planner ?
ThickAsThieves: of course
the big request in
the room is, bitbet naming it's own odds and hosting bets
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla do you suppose
that dropdown could be replaced with a
type-in field prepopulated with a default ?
mircea_popescu: bgupta oh i finally get what you mean. it's further IN
than 7 days (ie, closer
to
the current date
than
the 7 days allow)
Doctor_Andonuts: Dang,
the Activemining
transfer
time limit ends in a week and I can't get on my account because of google auth problems
mircea_popescu: more problems
than
that. suppose A wants
to bet B
that he has sex with C.
bgupta: I'll add a +1 on
the bet escrow idea, but I really want
the feature
to have bets close
to new bets further out
than 7 days before
the resolution date. (Consider it a feature request,
that I would use if implemented.)
ThickAsThieves: just have a wallet
that waits for
two predefined deposits, if one isnt filled, it gets refunded
mircea_popescu: it's a little more complex upon consideration
than it seems, but i
think something might come of it.
Doctor_Andonuts: Yeah,
thats what I am afraid of. I might have
to wait
the 30 days I guess?
Doctor_Andonuts: Anyone know
the best way
to reach burnside? I have a google auth reset on my account (says it
takes 30 days) so I cant move any of my shares around =(
mircea_popescu: on
the grounds
that
there exists something more credible
than me holding it, except we've not yet discovered it./
bgupta: Yeah you'd have
the issue of a bunch of unresolved bets, but I
think
that could be dealt with on
the UX side. (Custom weighting could help, but it doesn't solve
the issue, it just means late bettors would have
to bet even more, which could work I guess, but makes
the math required, more conplex for users.)
ThickAsThieves: two guys
talk shit, wanna make a bet? yeah let's make one on bitbet!
Ukyo: jcpham: hm, what do you want
to foundation
to do? :P
mircea_popescu: the problems were
that
this is not straightforward
to do (as good notation is something maybe half
the math grads understand, and wysiwyg notation of curves we don't have yet on computers, in spite of 50 years of efforts started at parc)