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mircea_popescu: mod6 here's something to blow your mind : noob kid in eulora dug up an ord sr claim of mine ; got 65k sr. he's dragging it to town, 1k at a time. he's calculated it'll take him ~4 hours.
mircea_popescu: but im sure they'll find some jews to blame. as per sop.
mircea_popescu: capital means something, and that someting ain't "i feel this'd be fair"
mircea_popescu: there's no practical use for all this hallucinated "capital" that these alleged depositors own.
mircea_popescu: what, that's the plan here, seriously ? someone needs to go back to drawing board.
mircea_popescu: "i don't want your money ; and certainly don't NEED it" "but mp! GOVERNMENT COMPLIANCE COSTS!!!!" "Fuck you."
mircea_popescu: because what, someone cancelled the "bitch, be happy if i take your money for free" ?
mircea_popescu: somehow though, businessmen are supposed to go "oh, hey, neat, you pay negative interest to depositors, i'll just continue to pay you 5-10%, why not"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the state-run bullshits that pretend to be banks are exactly selecting for random idiots who pretend to be entrepreneurs.
mircea_popescu: who the fuck is going to take credit in dollars in a foreign market, and pay 100x the interest rate ? pretenders, that's who.
mircea_popescu: ed locally ; and libor +6% (no less than 7%) for "cartera general". in dolars, OF COURSE.
mircea_popescu: in other utter lulz, argentine bank (banco ciudad) takes out half page ad on the back of the main newspaper here to advertise how "tus proyectos no tienen fronteras", because the chief whore started with "proyectos" and now everyone's fixated on that word. the deal they offer ? 36 month loans, libor +5% (no less than 6%) for "grandes empresas" ie, "google's list of sites that we pretend are relevant to all searches" implement
mircea_popescu: $v 34DC93A70982C1CFB69940607F76969F9CC90CCDDB1B3A446EEE3B5C36A2A8A8
mircea_popescu: $v B213C82336A1D627095F969AEB098750520DDFEC3BE788AFA82CE30755D0F0B8
mircea_popescu: $v A5A790A0F14D576EC34DE654E9DA71AF7228D7C60C02A75B58AF4EAB84C3DD9B
mircea_popescu: $v 50518B983CB759FFE4AF4583F4515FB32B7CC1FC12AA470C29A0F785C62E51F0
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform hm, i guess in context it's not really as shocking as it seemed
mircea_popescu: (for the non-ro elements : romania had a designated place for fertility treatments, sovata. it had some birthing pools, and a wide selection of not-your-husband's dicks to choose from. because yes, most of the time that's the problem.)
mircea_popescu: whole convo is straight out from the insane asylum. "gotta take care of your things" "oh ok i'll give them to google then"
mircea_popescu: in other news, i'm now getting spam which goes "Dear Influential Individual," for a salutation.
mircea_popescu: jurov well, bugpowder. looking for good investments to finance horrible investments. just like usg finance generally!
mircea_popescu: it's a shockingly common complaint, this. you'd wonder wtf they do with all the time they're saving.
mircea_popescu: statistics is hard, turns out. especially when god hates your guts.
mircea_popescu: but no, it's bitcoin-mmo. and after a year+, playerbase has not yet the slightest clue re mechanics involved.
mircea_popescu: anyway, dun too easily dismiss eulora. unlike whatever-dice, it's actually for smart people.
mircea_popescu: still in that biochem thing ? what was it, neurotransmitters ?
mircea_popescu: "This faucet has A LOT of options. Since I don’t have time to write them all down I created a video explaining everything you need to know about the faucet" << this somehow made sense, to someone.
mircea_popescu: ltogether) to detrimentally rely on a property that is temporary when he needs it to be permanent.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the allegation is that the "privacy" offered is very heavily time bound ; that it naturally dissipates over time ; and that after a sufficient interval - say a year - one can rely on any and all transaction being no longer at all private. this means that the monero ring signature is in fact an anti-feature : it makes the superficial user (who either foolishly doesn't invest the time ; or otherwise lacks the capacity a
mircea_popescu: but if you understand this ring signature thing past the buzzword level, feel free to introduce it rigurously and prove that claim.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: it's altogether unclear it fixes anything ; the controlling discussion re that is alf's smoke grenade.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: in principle this can be said about anything just as well ; whether that anything exists or doesn't.
mircea_popescu: "it just makes her feel ... good. for... herself." surely.
mircea_popescu: in the absence of economic drivers, there will either be a political driver or no movement. which leaves us with the simple explanation. i don't gotta prove that every single individual woman thought of dick up her ass every time she spent too much money on cosmetics.
mircea_popescu: of course not. except if they grow big. because what are you going to do, the model doesn't work.
mircea_popescu: Bugpowder sure, and there are so many bitcoin faucets, no way they're all trojan downloaders.
mircea_popescu: but whatever, i'm sure the derps involved think themselves finger-tenting lever clever for it.
mircea_popescu: you are aware that "dnm"s are entirely a puppet show by now, yes ?