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bounce: if you look at the (wikipedia) list of acquisitions it's the userbase they pay most for. actual tech doesn'
t sell well, databases full of users do.
diametric: mircea_popescu: i didn'
t sell gold, but i did other things that caused them to actually track down my place of employment via linkedin and try to have my fired. I should actually state it wasn'
t Blizzard. Blizzard was not bad about it, it was the brass as Activision.
diametric: benkay: they didn'
t buy whatsapp for 16b, they bought 450 million users.
bounce: I don'
t suppose there'd be a way to get a ban for selling wow gold overturned on the grounds that blizzard isn'
t paying taxes over it
bounce recalls reading someone lamenting the world didn'
t go the wossname "persistent" route -- run a program, it'd auto-save to disk. next time you start it, auto-picks up where you left it. but on full OS level.
mike_c: the 'dark age' of apple would have been the 'no apple' age if microsoft hadn'
t given them money to keep them alive.
mircea_popescu: come to think about it, i don'
t know there's something in the world i ever hated more than a mac, and in this sense a ms-dos pc seems a muchly preferable alternative.
mircea_popescu: fucktards running tablets today don'
t even realise they should be able to interact with their hard drives
mircea_popescu: i'll readily grant that it didn'
t operate in any kind of free market in the 90s. but your statement was as of product
mike_c: microsoft didn'
t shove a cattle prod up anyone's ass.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform a brave man and a fearless man don'
t map well.
bounce: TestingUnoDosTre: I didn'
t say that
bounce: holding corp of... foxconn, wasn'
t it?
bounce: greece is a shambles, but so far hasn'
t been too good for the eu economy as a whole. how would turkey have been different?
bounce: anyway, apropos churchill re americans, the eurocrats have a good track record of starting the same but finishing in the same way hasn'
t been in strong evidence
mircea_popescu: and omfg those iraquis don'
t even get pottery barn catalogs daily ?!
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, five people don'
t settle and the entire system collapses in flames.
mike_c: if my employer pays me in stock, i owe taxes. can'
t hit me in the head with that
jurov: don'
t give anybody a reason to use silver bullets then
diametric: ThickAsThieves: I don'
t see why not.
diametric: they need to pay taxes, but blizzard doesn'
t.
Mats_cd03: Back to Bataan i haven'
t seen in some time
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no, they did not. see, it wasn'
t a free market, but at the other end of things
mircea_popescu: (trivially, your curiosity as to what's inside a watch isn'
t worth the pirce of a watch)
Duffer1: that's right, apparently without a contract, multiple people pooled resources to create CipherTrade and didn'
t figure out who will own what
pankkake: I didn'
t know the AP style guide existed, I've been meaning to read the Economist one
pankkake: nubbins`: why isn'
t "over" the same as "more than"?
nubbins`: can'
t trust AP style tips anymore
thestringpuller: If you receive BTC as a gift doesn'
t a different tax apply?
pankkake: I am transferring my data from old to new drives, and I started a checksum verification of the tranferred files, for fun. turns out, a lot weren'
t transferred correctly
BingoBoingo: Still doesn'
t fit with risk profiles I find betable. You never know who has Bitcoin.
mike_c: mircea_popescu: didn'
t get it..
ozbot: My wife was raped my four men. I can'
t live or be with her with that on my mind. I have to leave her
novusordo: not sure, haven'
t gotten mine to play with yet
nubbins`: mircea_popescu: for that matter, i don'
t think the chemist generally lays the blotter at all
nubbins`: Mats_cd03: i haven'
t been keeping track of the clones at all
mircea_popescu: nubbins` isn'
t it traditionally reserved for the girlfriend of the chemist making the dope ?
davout: didn'
t know gox hosted some pastie-clone as well
mircea_popescu: davout well i can'
t find it now. some kid from the "community" of self-proclaimed experts wrote some sort of article/"white paper" on how bitcoin exchanges should do x y z to get their risk of blowing up in line with the risk of the average 20yo getting hit by a bus
davout: mircea_popescu: doesn'
t your argument boil down to : "assets are risky because they can depreciate" ?
Neil: Trying to understand what's "in-scope" and what isn'
t. I personally don'
t think it's clear. I respect your desire to run a clean, auditable (via blockchain) operation. But the future isn'
t clear at all, to me anyway.
Neil: Walking down a one-way street isn'
t useful either.
Neil: Which isn'
t to imply it doesn'
t have a great future.
mircea_popescu: or couldn'
t trust mp or couldn'
t lock his btc up for months ?
mircea_popescu: so then... what, the guy with 200 didn'
t know about berkshire ?
mircea_popescu: if anything, the fascinating thing with that 200 is that it didn'
t land on the no side of berkshire
mircea_popescu: but i can'
t dispute the facts on the basis of my own opinion either.
Neil: (i.e. no new bets have come in to counterbalance). I don'
t believe the "market" odds moved that much overnight. Friction is high.
Neil: Not so smart. I wouldn'
t bet that.
mircea_popescu: that we readily agree. coin toss and weight doesn'
t mix
Neil: I think my point stands though - anyone who has bet 2-ways for "decent" size has lost. I have several examples and haven'
t seen a single counterexample.
Neil: Well you wouldn'
t be able to hedge it, but it's off-market price.
Neil: But I'd want to bet 5 BTC against reasonable odds, and bitbet doesn'
t offer that. Only you can.
Neil: I'm trying hard to understand somehting that doesn'
t exist. Waiting for proof.
Neil: A bettor other than bitbet. Bitbet gives one side to the originator of course, so I don'
t even understand your example. Of course, you may have smart decision makers who decide whether a given proposition is more likely to turn out + or -, but that's beside the point. Real-life non-bibet bettor in size (say > 0.5 BTC each side)? Just one example?
mircea_popescu: well no problem, but what you're saying doesn'
t actually make sense.
Neil: I don'
t have anything against bitbet. I like the site. Just saying it how I see it.
mircea_popescu: i think you'll have to re-read this later because i can'
t produce examples if you randomly reject examples.
mircea_popescu: Mats_cd03 spam is not misspelled because the spammers can'
t hire editors. spam is misspelled because that selects for idiots, and they are looking for idiots (false positives are very expensive for them)
Neil: 50% doesn'
t weaken the point? OK.
Neil: mircea_popescu: Given your stake in the process I don'
t expect you to agree with me. But I think the facts speak for themselves. If someone believes 2-way betting pays they're welcome to continue doing it.
Neil: I don'
t think it matters what happens. No way is he winning 100 BTC.
chetty: isn'
t IF what betting is all about?
Neil: mircea_popescu: Don'
t be daft. One can'
t take the opposite of his bet.
Neil: It doesn'
t really matter how the chips land.
mircea_popescu: no lol. i'm claiming that on the basis of picking some outliers you can'
t make general statements.
Neil: 50% isn'
t normally considered irrelevant
Neil: I haven'
t seen a single example of anyone (same output address) betting on bitbet making money. There are numerous examples to the contrary.
ozbot: Gerry Images | F.A.
T.
nubbins`: so silvergoldbull (canadian bullion dealer) now accepts btc, but i can'
t figure out where they're getting their rates from
the20year: poland has 500k+ in reserve, mobilizing 7k for practice doesn'
t seem too huge to me
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves check it out, this dood would like to make a bet provided mpoe-pr doesn'
t pay for it in bitcoin and she agrees that no bet can be made.