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Tue Mar 15 01:56:03 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> because yes, the thing as it worked is STILL a major improvement over traditional gambling anything, and there's no sane reason i could possibly see that bitbet wouldn't carry a majority of the world's 10bn to 1 trn dollars worth of yearly prop betting.
Tue Mar 15 01:55:29 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> it STILL boggles my mind that this was the case ; but the case it was. and weren't it the case - bitbet'd be to this day and forever swimming in a pool of dough.
Tue Mar 15 01:55:04 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> knowledge that you can drop 1, 10 or 1000 bitcoin on an arbitrary proposition and be covered fairly, people did not wish to do so!
Tue Mar 15 01:55:03 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-03-2016#1432792 << perhaps the darkest voodoo involved in all of this, and one which i openly confess i struggled with for the entire interval and never managed to even comprehend let alone do a iota towards breaking was - that there seemed to be ~infinite ammount of bitcoin ready to COVER bets, but very little interest to fund them. somehow, for some reason, even with the strict
Tue Mar 15 01:52:20 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-03-2016#1432777 << and to think, in the worlds very capital of "murder for hire" even!
Tue Mar 15 01:48:37 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-03-2016#1432775 << sadly there is no safe, cheap and effectual substitute for actual life. all previous attempts to build this philosopher's stone (of which there's been no shortage) have come to grief.
Tue Mar 15 01:46:41 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> (and this being future china, you'll be getting six addresses or somesuch, typed out on paper. with misprints.)
Tue Mar 15 01:45:38 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> (perhaps this is obivous to me only for some god-forsaken reason, but the next step after the view on the bitcoin protocol that it permits miners to arbitrarily reject txn and the collusion of miners is - you gotta get a license to bitcoinate. why hardfork to increase their revenue, even.)
Tue Mar 15 01:45:07 UTC 2016 <BingoBoingo> mircea_popescu: Seriously. I have suspicions on how this could be done, but... given the necessary ugliness in this sort of brokering solrodar's bid seems awfully cheap.
Tue Mar 15 01:44:24 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> moreover, and more importantly, if you give over to the government the franchise to interpret private agreements, you provably construct a government even more far reaching than the welfare state, sitting in ~an equivalent position of the miner cartel but for contracts, and soon to issue "licenses to contract" or somesuch insanity.
Tue Mar 15 01:41:54 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo every day we discover another planet the republic must build eh ?
Tue Mar 15 01:41:26 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-03-2016#1432774 << forget me. suppose tomorrow someone decides that you now like government cheese. what, this makes you ~like it~ ? government can have no such say, no matter how much you love lenin's own republic.
Tue Mar 15 01:41:26 UTC 2016 <assbot> Logged on 14-03-2016 21:02:38; asciilifeform: jurov: i suspect that if you were to suggest to mircea_popescu that a group of lordz could, or ought to, make a collective decision, he would break out in hives and barf
Tue Mar 15 01:37:54 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> at least is better than waiting in traffic listening to dayradio.
Tue Mar 15 01:34:13 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> which is how and why chetty's passing bumped her trust in my eyes to 10 : not because she's "very good" now, but because she lacks any further capacity to surprise anyone. at least so goes the logic.
Tue Mar 15 01:33:15 UTC 2016 <assbot> Page not found on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1UcrIay )
Tue Mar 15 01:33:15 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> 4/what-the-wot-is-for-how-it-works-and-how-to-use-it/#footnote_4_53927 )
Tue Mar 15 01:33:14 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> (and since we're on it, this important point seems perhaps lost and is still paramount : "It is important to remember that the score associated to a relationship does not mark the direct trust of the scorer for the scoree, but merely the scorer's confidence that the information he has about scoree is correct, accurate, relevant and complete. All four." from the ever-fascinatingly counterintuitive http://trilema.com/201
Tue Mar 15 01:29:28 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> what's next, you know, ima negrate trump for not voting kanish or w/e that ohio derp's name is.
Tue Mar 15 01:27:48 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-03-2016#1432770 << obviously anyone's free to use the wot as they please (and yes, lack of homogenity is still its only defense against immediate explosive doom) but i can't see myself negrating someone for not agreeing with someone else. seems rather rich.