If the US wanted to win this tournament, it easily could. I'm not sure we will see the US place it's best players back in the Olympics ever again, or at least anytime soon.
Then I think they didn't value the tournament that much, as they didn't send their best players to dominate and win. Well, if we examine the roster of the team, the players are not the best or, let's say, at least not in the top 10 in terms of statistics. But there's no sense in sending players to a tournament if they themselves aren't sure they would win, unless they are underestimating their opponents? You can certainly make the case that NBA players don’t care about this tournament. Jimmy Butler came out and said as much. I’m sure the players on the floor want to win no matter what though. Sure, the NBA still has the greatest players in the world but the gap is closing and as seen here, without a handful of superstars the gap may be nonexistent. Some of the games top players are now not from the US. Doncic, jokic, etc but you are right most of the top players don't want to put extra mileage on themselves, their legacy lies with how many NBA titles they've won not how many international tournaments they won. If you go deep into the playoffs as well as these other tournaments you break down quicker. And then there is that chance of injury as well blowing a whole season because of some other tournament. The other thing people don’t account for is that some of these international teams play with each other quite a bit and in some cases for many years. That makes a big difference when you’re playing against a team of guys thrown together with a few weeks to try and nail down chemistry and how their offense will be run. |
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I saw Drake put up a half of a million dollars on Stake for tonight matchup on Izzy getting a knockout victory. The odds didn’t look good enough for me to make such a wreck less bet, but he’ll probably win. I think it’s pretty risky betting on the type of win instead of just a win, but I guess then the odds wouldn’t even be worth making the bet.
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It’s definitely a good idea to remember that if something looks too good to be true then there’s a good chance it is. Especially when it comes to money making opportunities online that require you to trust someone else with your money. The best thing to look for in an online casino isn’t a great offer, but a great reputation.
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If the US wanted to win this tournament, it easily could. I'm not sure we will see the US place it's best players back in the Olympics ever again, or at least anytime soon.
Then I think they didn't value the tournament that much, as they didn't send their best players to dominate and win. Well, if we examine the roster of the team, the players are not the best or, let's say, at least not in the top 10 in terms of statistics. But there's no sense in sending players to a tournament if they themselves aren't sure they would win, unless they are underestimating their opponents? You can certainly make the case that NBA players don’t care about this tournament. Jimmy Butler came out and said as much. I’m sure the players on the floor want to win no matter what though. Sure, the NBA still has the greatest players in the world but the gap is closing and as seen here, without a handful of superstars the gap may be nonexistent. |
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If you document your predictions in a thread and do well I could see people appreciating your contributions. I would recommend listing and updating your predictions on the OP and maybe even giving your percentage of wins and which long shots you’ve hit, etc. Maybe people will even follow your predictions and leave you tips.
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Friendly bets are always fun on bitcointalk but they are usually done for things that a casino couldn’t be used for. Members would also be wise to use escrow in these situations. If you’re just making a small sports bet, I would stick to using the typical online casinos that you can find in people’s signatures here as opposed to trying to find someone to bet against.
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There are definitely still technical hurdles to owning Bitcoin. For this reason, most of the people I tell to buy Bitcoin I advise that they do so on Coinbase and then secure their login information. More technical friends I of course tell them to go the cold storage route but for people who aren’t familiar with crypto, this is a strange method of securing your money.
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It looks like FTX will be selling $200,000,000 worth of crypto every week for the next 17 weeks… This will start next week. This downward pressure on the market will likely hold prices somewhat in check until the end of the year. I’d imagine once this is behind us (and the mtgox coins are distributed) it should be the final hurdle before launch.
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One thing that I find a little odd is how many people are claiming on social media that the Blackrock Bitcoin spot ETF is already approved and waiting to be announced. It seems like a desperate move by traders clinging to their leveraged position. The amount of people who think we’re going up is the biggest bearish indicator to me. That being said, I’m among them. The tidal wave of investment is on the horizon.
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As for the long term effects of mRNA being injected into your body, we’ll have to wait and see with the next generation.
Oh, it's the next generation now? So I'm not going to die 2 years ago/now/in another 2 years/some other made up bullshit? Now it's going to be the next generation? Oh, and whatever happened to the 5G mind control nanobots in the vaccine? When are they being activated? Remember the winter of severe illness and death? Nobody I know who was unvaccinated had any issues, although I do know a few people who got the jab and had complications that involved hospitalizations. It was the vaccinated trying to scare the unvaccinated with threats of death and being outcasted from society. Not the other way around. I couldn’t care less what poison you put in your body. As for 5G mind control… I think you put the tin foil hat on wrong. |
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I think DCA is usually a good investment approach for any investments you want to own. Being a trader tends to work against most people and people shouldn’t look at investments as buy low and sell high opportunities as much as they should look at buying stock as owning a company. Buy good companies and own them forever. Don’t pick and choose spots to trade. That’s the investing hack.
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Sad to see the United States get eliminated before even reaching the Final in the FIBA World Championships. While I don’t think these were the best players we could have sent, it seems like USA’s domination of basketball is losing its grip. They’d better send our best to win the gold at the next summer Olympic Games.
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A lot of images floating around and people making jokes about the Cybertruck’s crashing testing that was seemingly performed yesterday. I posted a link below to a video where you can see the end result of this testing. It looks like the Cybertruck held up just fine and perhaps they will just crash other cars into the Cybertruck as testing in the future instead of cement walls. https://x.com/wholemarsblog/status/1699936853263270152 |
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I don’t think this is a crazy response from China. We have done similar things to companies they operate in the past. However, this is an escalation against one of the world’s largest companies which may signal us heading towards a bit of a Cold War with China. This likely won’t end up being a good thing for anyone.
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^^ I think the 4-year cycle is pretty common knowledge by now right? The only reason the last cycle was slightly different and messed up the models a bit was because FTX manipulated the market buy using people’s BTC to pump shitcoins. If there aren’t any bad actors this cycle, things could end up getting pretty wild.
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I too am curious to hear about performance and availability. Most of my GPUs are pretty old now so I wouldn’t mind checking out one of these bad boys. I’ve always preferred AMD to Nvidia so I think I’ll probably go with one of these models as I suspect that spending USD on this generation of GPUs might be a good investment.
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Did Elon Musk just help prevent World War III? https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1699917639043404146“There was an emergency request from government authorities to activate Starlink all the way to Sevastopol. The obvious intent being to sink most of the Russian fleet at anchor. If I had agreed to their request, then SpaceX would be explicitly complicit in a major act of war and conflict escalation.“ |
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Looks like Logan Paul’s fiancée managed to get the court to grant her a restraining order against Dillon Danis. This should stop all the picture posting that Danis has been doing on twitter (X). It’s a pretty embarrassing thing for everyone involved but for Dillon it probably hurts as he can no longer use her to get views and getting paid via social media ads.
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Social media companies are stepping back from fighting political misinformation and conspiracy theories, which might affect the 2024 election. Why? Layoffs at companies like Meta, legal disputes over content rules, and Musk's moves to ease misinformation rules. Musk's sway led Meta to drop plans to ban political ads on Facebook. Despite investigations proving no 2020 election fraud, YouTube and Meta now let false Trump claims slide. Users can now opt out of fact-checking, letting false posts spread with warnings. Musk's changes at X influenced others in content moderation. This shift in moderation raises worries about false info and conspiracy theories ahead of the 2024 election. Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/08/25/political-conspiracies-facebook-youtube-elon-musk/Big Tech is following Elon Musk’s lead on disinformation, but who is holding him accountable for his influence on democracy? This is the most ridiculous post ever made. Big Tech isn’t following Elon’s lead in disinformation. Big tech got caught misleading and censoring the truth from individuals to help steal an election. Now that the cat is out of the bag and informed people are aware of their manipulation, they’re attempting to show they can act fairly to avoid being fined or worse. |
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Also, were not people around here saying that people who took the shot would inevitably die in less than 2 years or something like it? It has been almost 3 years and people I know who took the vaccine is still alive. This sounds rather like a thread of theory after other theories without any scientific meaning.  I never got the vaccination, not because I didn't want to, but because it was never available when the virus was at its worst. When it arrives, you'll have to endure a long day before being vaccinated. Staying in queue to collect a vaccine may result in interaction with an infected person whose symptoms do not manifest immediately after infection. Taking or not taking the vaccine does not result in a death sentence as some claim. I agree with your statement that taking the vaccine doesn’t mean you will or will not die from covid (or the vax). All taking the vaccine means is that you were slightly better than average protected from covid for a couple weeks and then your immune system is forever compromised to defend against covid naturally as well as those who haven’t been vaccinated. As for the long term effects of mRNA being injected into your body, we’ll have to wait and see with the next generation. All I know is that the vaccine didn’t do what it was supposed to do and plenty of people knew this, but were censored from sharing concerns with the sheep. |
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