An addiction is a problem in the brain. You can travel anywhere but you will bring your addicted brain with you.

You will try to do anything to get your fix.

What might help instead is to have some purpose, something to look forward to. Once you have that you realize your addiction is holding you back from achieving that goal, and you naturally try to cut back or stop completely.

You need to swap addictions, get addicted to something positive instead.

If someone genuinely have that level of temptation, it sounds to me that they are already addicted.

That''s the best client for a casino. Someone that is in that stage. Think about it as an outsider looking at the business of gambling:

A person travels to your location, puts money into your machines, then leaves empty pocketed. That same person then returns the next day, or week, or month, to do exactly the same again.

No wonder casinos are filthy rich while gambler are in financial ruin.

Note that you can say the same of any other addiction, like alcohol for example. You see a person going to your business place, buy alcohol until they are broke, then go home. Only to repeat the same the next day, week, or month. Bars and pubs make a lot of money off alcohol, but it's not even on the same level with gambling.

At the end of the day money can buy anything, really.

The whole purpose of FIFA is to maximize their revenue through ticket sales, sponsor deals, broadcast licenses, merchandise, etc.

Decisions will be made based on dollar values, that's for sure.

Yes, but that doesn't stop someone from training an AI specifically for predicting sports results, and is fed real time data from all sports in the world.

That AI might be already out there making predictions. For years we have had machines telling us odds of sports, calculated from previous data.

Addiction is a gradual process. So, for example if you gamble once in a while, say once every couple of years, then it would be safe to say you are not addicted to gambling.

Same with alcohol for example. If you just drink alcohol at a few events where they serve it, say weddings, etc, then of course you are not addicted. But if you plan your life around alcohol, then yes, you are addicted.

Same with gambling, if you start planning around it, then you're probably addicted to it.

There will always be some level of change in the price since it is open for trade 24/7 in the entire world, so every single person in the planet has the potential to change the price, all the time.

But, over time, these changes will be less and less since there will be more capital invested in it.

Even today it is relatively small, less than some public companies.

At the end of the day what matters is if you can provide something that is valuable for other people.

If you can do that with the help of AI then you have a way to make money.

If what you do is simply a low effort move that everyone else is doing, then you won't make any money.

It's similar to spamming really.

Bitcoin is the money of the present already.

It's also an asset that continues to raise in value over time.

It also provides a foundation in which technology can be used for innovation, like lightning, and any other projects on top of the blockchain like cheap international money transfers/exchanges.

Also consider countries like Argentina where they still use their currency even thought it has 100% inflation.

I think there are special types of visas for visits to events.

That means that they will be processed in a different section probably, and given priority since they know the dates of the event.

As long as you are the gambler though 

The owners of the casinos are getting a nice fat regular income every month

Given that the world cup is extremely popular all around the world, there will always be issues with time zones.

European Times vs Asian Times, or American Times vs Australian Times, etc.

There's always going to be a match at 4am for someone in the world 

In my view it's much better to buy a pizza (they were 2 large ones) than some altcoin.

Bitcoin is money, and you can use it to buy things you need like food.

You can also save in Bitcoin, or sell Bitcoin for other assets like a house, etc.

But selling Bitcoin for an altcoin, or fiat, seems a bit odd to me.

It is possible, but the frequency at which can be run will depend on the specific USB port you are using. Note that you can even use a USB2 port, the main thing that matters is the power delivery of the port, not the data part of it.

If you run it slow, you can plug it in basically anywhere. The higher you run it, the least USB ports will work, and eventually you'll need a fan as well unless you want some melted components.

That is true.

Our brains are always trying to explain things however they can, even if it doesn't make sense.

For example, if you happen to experience two rare independent events at the same time, your brain will think they are correlated somehow even though it was just a coincidence. This explains some of the "bad luck" tales like a black cat crossing or superstitions in general. The brain thinks "Something happened at the same time that something bad happened, so they must be correlated", but it's just a coincidence.

Absolutely.

At the end of the day spending Bitcoin or fiat is the same because at that time they are worth the same. You can exchange one to the other at the exchange rate of the day and it wont make any difference.

The main difference is in which way you save your money for the future.

Saving money in fiat is a bad idea as it devalues over time. Saving in Bitcoin is a better idea, and you can also save your money in different assets. Saving in fiat is the issue.

All gambling is based on probabilities, odds. In casinos the odds are always calculated so that they are in favor of the house, always.

In certain games you can use skill to move those odds a bit on your favor, say from 60-40 to 51-49, but ultimately, every single game played there is designed to have at least a small amount of advantage to the house.

In some games the advantage to the house is brutal, like 80-20, but the design of the game makes it look like it has better odds.

Very good points.

Regarding animals like dogs, etc, having their own way of telling you things, I agree. My point there is that every living creature will have some kind of response to the environment and their needs. For example, if an animal is hungry, they will look for food, etc. The main difference in humans is that we use our mind to create things that are not directly in response of a biological need. For example we make paintings, art in general, etc. Things that require working for multiple days or years without having a driver like hunger for example. But yeah, I think it's not necessarily something extremely different, just more in the same direction compared to other animals.

In any case, the world we live in is shaped by humans, so that's a big difference, also the online world is mostly humans, and AI. Very few dogs online.

About the AI playing chess, well, the AI always does whatever the human says. The actual way in which the AI does it might be unexpected, but the main objective has been always so far defined by a human. Even dogs and other animals have their own minds to decide what to do and can even ignore a human command. An AI, so far, is still basically a fast computer that gives the illusion of being intelligent, but it does so in a different way than animals. It's kinda like how a plane flies in a different way than a bird flies.

That man is Laszlo, and he paid 10,000 BTC for 2 large pizzas. Here is the actual topic from this forum: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=137.0

The key thing you need to think about is that what matters is in which way you save money, not the type of money that you spend. Because if you spend 100 US dollars, or the equivalent in Bitcoins, or in any currency, it doesn't matter because you spent it. You no longer have that. So, the key thing to remember is to consider in which way you save money.

So, if you want to spend Bitcoin and save Bitcoin, then you can simply buy more at the time you spent them. Since the exchange rate at the time of purchase is the same, it doesn't really matter in which currency you spent the money, it only matter in which currency(or investment instrument) you are saving.

You can definitely have a beer or two and remember absolutely everything that is going on.

Also, I'm not sure women like how they are treated in Qatar:

Well, if someone is making bets and earning 100 bucks monthly, they simply need to continue doing the same but putting 30 times as much in the bets, and they would be making 100 bucks a day.

The reality is that those people are not making 100 bucks monthly by betting, because the math is designed to make the gambler lose in the short term.

They might be doing something different though, like claiming sign-up bonuses multiple times, or things like that, but that at a minimum is not feasible for the long or even medium term. And I'm not even considering its legal or ethical validity.