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Admiral Yi

#16290
May 12, 2012, 03:06:36 PM
I'm thinking about making some bets on Intrade.

DGuller, I think you said you had some experience; any tips?

Jaron

#16291
May 12, 2012, 03:30:54 PM
WTF Tamas.
Winner of THE grumbler point.

Habbaku

#16292
May 12, 2012, 04:07:47 PM
Quote from: garbon on May 12, 2012, 10:19:17 AM
Yay for racist stereotypes?

While clumsily-done, the point is in the last panel...
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.
-J. R. R. Tolkien

DGuller

#16293
May 12, 2012, 05:04:22 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on May 12, 2012, 03:06:36 PM
I'm thinking about making some bets on Intrade.

DGuller, I think you said you had some experience; any tips?
Play money version of it.  What kind of tips are you look for?

Admiral Yi

#16294
May 12, 2012, 05:31:13 PM
Quote from: DGuller on May 12, 2012, 05:04:22 PM
Play money version of it.  What kind of tips are you look for?

Sexy ones.

My main question is about the liquidity.  I'm looking at three different bomb Iran contracts (different end dates).  I can see what unmatched bids are out there, but I wouldn't mind knowing how quickly an offer gets accepted in the absence of unmatched bids.

But maybe in the play money version you're not actually being matched with counterparties.

Tamas

#16295
May 13, 2012, 01:44:08 AM
A totally new gambling opportunity! :w00t:

Tamas

#16296
May 13, 2012, 01:55:20 AM
Quote from: Tamas on May 13, 2012, 01:44:08 AM
A totally new gambling opportunity! :w00t:

What's this Mastercard Securcode shit or whatever. I have spent my money through this card online countless times in various amounts. WTF :ultra:

Ideologue

#16297
May 13, 2012, 02:02:41 AM
Is anyone here into archery?  I'm thinking about getting a bow, probably a traditional recurve instead of one of those ridiculous-looking Rube Goldberg compound bows, and learning to shoot.

My ultimate goal is to save the universe with my boxing glove arrow, but I should probably start more humbly.
Kinemalogue
Current reviews: The 'Burbs (9/10); Gremlins 2: The New Batch (9/10); John Wick: Chapter 2 (9/10); A Cure For Wellness (4/10)

11B4V

#16298
May 13, 2012, 02:12:08 AM
"there's a long tradition of insulting people we disagree with here, and I'll be damned if I listen to your entreaties otherwise."-OVB

"Obviously not a Berkut-commanded armored column.  They're not all brewing."- CdM

"We've reached one of our phase lines after the firefight and it smells bad—meaning it's a little bit suspicious... Could be an amb—".

11B4V

#16299
May 13, 2012, 02:13:14 AM Last Edit: May 13, 2012, 02:22:54 AM by 11B4V
"there's a long tradition of insulting people we disagree with here, and I'll be damned if I listen to your entreaties otherwise."-OVB

"Obviously not a Berkut-commanded armored column.  They're not all brewing."- CdM

"We've reached one of our phase lines after the firefight and it smells bad—meaning it's a little bit suspicious... Could be an amb—".

Ideologue

#16300
May 13, 2012, 02:38:43 AM Last Edit: May 13, 2012, 02:41:29 AM by Ideologue
Holy shit, looking at the Hungarian bow site--people still do horse archery?  That's awesome.

I don't think I'm in the market for a horse, however. :lol:  Also I think they've got bone and sinew parts.

A few of the ~$250 bows on the Hunter's Friend ( :) ) site look attractive.  I'm sure you do get what you pay for, but $1500 is a down payment on a pretty nice motorcycle, and in any event I doubt the marginal value to a novice is very much.  Maybe if I really got into it or if I wanted to hunt the most dangerous game or something. :P

As for the video, I have no idea if that's objectively good or not, although I'm impressed.  (Although, as a novice, I'm pretty sure "not shooting in the direction of a nearby trafficked road" is probably a cardinal rule.)
Kinemalogue
Current reviews: The 'Burbs (9/10); Gremlins 2: The New Batch (9/10); John Wick: Chapter 2 (9/10); A Cure For Wellness (4/10)

11B4V

#16301
May 13, 2012, 03:20:40 AM
Quote from: Ideologue on May 13, 2012, 02:38:43 AM
Holy shit, looking at the Hungarian bow site--people still do horse archery?  That's awesome.

I don't think I'm in the market for a horse, however. :lol:  Also I think they've got bone and sinew parts.

A few of the ~$250 bows on the Hunter's Friend ( :) ) site look attractive.  I'm sure you do get what you pay for, but $1500 is a down payment on a pretty nice motorcycle, and in any event I doubt the marginal value to a novice is very much.  Maybe if I really got into it or if I wanted to hunt the most dangerous game or something. :P

As for the video, I have no idea if that's objectively good or not, although I'm impressed.  (Although, as a novice, I'm pretty sure "not shooting in the direction of a nearby trafficked road" is probably a cardinal rule.)

For sure a 200.00 bow would be good for the casual archer and build from there. :thumbsup: Def some works of art on some of those sites  Ive tinkered with the idea myself of reinvesting time in it.

The bolded part. That's the reason I posted it.  :lol:
"there's a long tradition of insulting people we disagree with here, and I'll be damned if I listen to your entreaties otherwise."-OVB

"Obviously not a Berkut-commanded armored column.  They're not all brewing."- CdM

"We've reached one of our phase lines after the firefight and it smells bad—meaning it's a little bit suspicious... Could be an amb—".

DGuller

#16302
May 13, 2012, 03:30:43 AM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on May 12, 2012, 05:31:13 PM
Quote from: DGuller on May 12, 2012, 05:04:22 PM
Play money version of it.  What kind of tips are you look for?

Sexy ones.

My main question is about the liquidity.  I'm looking at three different bomb Iran contracts (different end dates).  I can see what unmatched bids are out there, but I wouldn't mind knowing how quickly an offer gets accepted in the absence of unmatched bids.

But maybe in the play money version you're not actually being matched with counterparties.
You are matched with couterparties, of course, how else would the price be determined?  I generally did not put any bids out there that weren't immediately matched.  I just didn't like the idea of having a bid floating out there while some price-moving event happened.  I also think that you pay less fees if your bid or ask gets immediately fulfilled.

DGuller

#16303
May 13, 2012, 03:39:27 AM
I just looked at attack Iran bet on Intrade.   :lmfao:  Holy fuck, that's quite a liquidity problem there.  My experience probably doesn't apply here, I've never dealt with 8 point bid/ask spreads.

I started thinking about market-making opportunities there, but then I saw that the daily volume was typically well inside single digits.  That's not enough to get rich off.  :hmm:

Tonitrus

#16304
May 13, 2012, 03:48:24 AM Last Edit: May 13, 2012, 03:50:43 AM by Tonitrus
Quote from: Ideologue on May 13, 2012, 02:38:43 AM
Holy shit, looking at the Hungarian bow site--people still do horse archery?  That's awesome.

Including the Japanese...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywRP725u11k
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