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I'll take that bet at 10k EUR and I'm dead serious. Easy money.

• smcl 4y ago
  If you're offering to bet randos on HN 10k euros, I don't think you are dead serious. edit: oh god there are two more people doing the "Oh I'll bet! How much?" - I've seen this hundreds of times before. Someone states their honest opinion on here, and a handful of others chime in trying to goad them into staking money on it. When they obviously don't (because why on earth would they?) they get accused of being insincere, not being willing to stake "real" money on it (with perhaps the implication that they're small-fry, and do not have the means to do so unlike the wealthy, high-rolling proposer of the wager), or whatever. It's childish, nobody thinks you're cool and nobody believes you'd actually make a frivolous 10k bet with a pseudonymous person.
  • bboygravity 4y ago
    I would actually. There are online escrow services for that. Also I didn't goad anybody into doing anything: they offered to bet and I took the bait (and then edited their post to remove the request for betting). Not the other way around. If you're not willing to bet, then don't create a post on the internet stating that you're willing to bet? simple.
    • smcl 4y ago
      Eh I didn't see any offer to bet anything, but in any case if someone on HN says "I bet that XXX happens" then it's safe to say they don't mean "I will bet anything that XXX, name your terms and I will match them, otherwise I concede since you have bested me using logic!" This is not a betting platform and tbh I think dang et al would get in trouble if it turned out HN was facilitating some form of gambling. In reality trying to make someone put money behind their predictions is a way to try to make them back down, look silly/small/cheap and as I said originally, it is childish. Don't do it.