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Tue Mar 15 00:55:05 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> i don't think you take my meaning. have you for instance ever auctioned a domain name successfully ? are you well known in those circles ? anything ?
Tue Mar 15 00:52:46 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> do you have any sort of particular assets that'd likely help ? prior experience in doing this sort of thing (selling online properties) ? connections or otherwise some power putting you above others in some way ?
Tue Mar 15 00:52:03 UTC 2016 <assbot> The greatly anticipated BitBet (S.BBET) February 2016 Statement on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1phuhuR )
Tue Mar 15 00:50:59 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> i'm sure somebody somewhere has, why not. anyway : what do you plan to do to maximize shareholder revenue from bitbet assets ?
Tue Mar 15 00:50:12 UTC 2016 <solrodar> mircea_popescu would continue to hold them in trust, and agree to pay them out in accordance with my ajudication, unless that ajudication was rejected by (say) 10 people currently in assbot's L1
Tue Mar 15 00:48:27 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> "the jungle" and all that crud.
Tue Mar 15 00:48:14 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> or whatever, read the various bleeding heart reenaction about the fate of the proletarian in the pre-1900s.
Tue Mar 15 00:47:48 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-03-2016#1432738 << this is not generally true. even if it were true - it'd also be the essence of oppression. think well about how a world would look where hunger drives coding, for instance. i dunno if you've ever experienced the classical street urchin of central asia thing, but anyway.
Tue Mar 15 00:45:29 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> the interests of that force will never align with your naive market theory, and so no, categorically, market in v's isn't happening.
Tue Mar 15 00:45:06 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> which is why the only time a market in women exists is when it's maintained by significant outside force.
Tue Mar 15 00:44:46 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-03-2016#1432731 << this idea seems good in theory. in practice, this is exactly never happening. easier to understand why not, is to understand why there IS something categorically preventing a market in women ; like a supermarket where you go buy one. the ones that are above average have no incentive to participate - see the discussion about lemon laws and the death spiral except
Tue Mar 15 00:44:46 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> in reverse.
Tue Mar 15 00:39:22 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-03-2016#1432711 << i dunno why people figure i do all sorts of things myself, not that the idea isn't flattering. but no, i'm no shiva.
Tue Mar 15 00:28:24 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> it is eminently difficult to reconstruct what people thought years ago ; famously - one can't actually do this for oneself, which is how proust got to be famous.
Tue Mar 15 00:27:29 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> possibly.
Tue Mar 15 00:27:03 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> this is the same kakobrekla, you recall, who went on a trip to check out a hungarian asicminer on a day's notice, also in these very logs. the sort of rationality of old people is not particularly relevant to the young - and same is true of bitcoin.
Tue Mar 15 00:26:18 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-03-2016#1432703 << i'm pretty sure there would have been, yes.
Tue Mar 15 00:23:39 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> but yes, if you're curious, the reason i might blast at you when you go into a patented jurov tailspin while i'm simply bitchslapping him into oblivion is that you WERE here then, and your spleen is actually part of that same ground. and yes these things matter, at least to me.
Tue Mar 15 00:22:08 UTC 2016 <assbot> The positive market effects of the delivery bet. on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1KzV3mo )
Tue Mar 15 00:22:08 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> obody's thanking anyone for giving up his spleen to MAKE UP the ground on which he walks - it's just ground, a given, forget about it) you want to credit rather than charge, so as to give things a chance.