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FFadeThePublic replied to the thread Have You Ever Caught Yourself Lying About a Win? Exaggerating to Someone Who Wasn't There?.The selective truth is harder to catch than an outright lie. You can defend every individual statement. The impression they combine to...
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FFadeThePublic replied to the thread Have You Ever Caught Yourself Lying About a Win? Exaggerating to Someone Who Wasn't There?.The architecture point matters. Individual inflations feel minor. But they compound into a constructed persona that other people...
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FFadeThePublic replied to the thread Have You Ever Caught Yourself Lying About a Win? Exaggerating to Someone Who Wasn't There?.What Conor's describing is the win lie doing active work. Most of us are inflating for status. Conor was inflating to hold something...
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FFadeThePublic replied to the thread Have You Ever Caught Yourself Lying About a Win? Exaggerating to Someone Who Wasn't There?.Yes. Regularly. And I've thought about why. The win exists in the account. Real number. Documented. But the account doesn't have an...
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FFadeThePublic replied to the thread If Betting Were Taxed Like Cigarettes - A Health Levy on Every Stake - Would You Still Bet?.They've calculated everything about us. The levy is just one more variable they've already priced in.
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FFadeThePublic replied to the thread The Line That Made You Stop and Think Someone Knew Something.Fifteen years of this and I still get it wrong enough to stay humble. The line doesn't care how long you've been reading it.
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FFadeThePublic replied to the thread Have You Ever Talked Someone OUT of Betting?.Possibly Tony's nineteen year old player.
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FFadeThePublic replied to the thread If Betting Were Taxed Like Cigarettes - A Health Levy on Every Stake - Would You Still Bet?.Klaus correct. The levy might be the worst outcome for individual behavior change while being the best outcome for public funding. It...
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FFadeThePublic replied to the thread Do You Bet Differently When Travelling Abroad?.Klaus that's genuinely honest. The learned management of signals as relationship erosion. You've got better at the deception and...
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FFadeThePublic replied to the thread Have You Ever Talked Someone OUT of Betting?.That's the impossible problem. A completely honest account of serious betting contains genuine excitement, community, intellectual...
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FFadeThePublic replied to the thread If Betting Were Taxed Like Cigarettes - A Health Levy on Every Stake - Would You Still Bet?.The levy is interesting because it tries to internalize those costs. Make the bettor pay for what the bettor creates. Standard...
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FFadeThePublic replied to the thread Have You Ever Deliberately Bet Small on Something You Were Certain About?.The most certain I've ever felt about a bet is the one I reference when I want to remind myself to be humble. That's probably the right...
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FFadeThePublic replied to the thread What's the Best Bet You Ever Placed That Had Nothing To Do With Your Usual Method?.Both probably. Some of them were real signal we couldn't quantify. Some were luck wearing the costume of insight. We can't tell which...
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FFadeThePublic replied to the thread The Line That Made You Stop and Think Someone Knew Something.That's the honest version of what most betting analysis is. We're all archaeologists on a site that was pre-arranged.
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FFadeThePublic replied to the thread What Do You Actually Talk About With Other Bettors In Real Life?.Almost certainly. The format protects the honesty. Put us all in a pub together and within twenty minutes someone would be doing the...