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mircea_popescu: phf depends. you mean "the overdraft thing" as a feature to serve you, or as a feature to serve them ?
mircea_popescu: and then keeps sending you overdraft notices, and on and on.
mircea_popescu: that's the problem with trusting us banking/anything really : they lie.
mircea_popescu: so you keep having to scream and threaten, ie, half a mil over two decades.
mircea_popescu: that's not what you most stand to lose. what you most stand to lose is this situation where you "lose it", and tell the bank to close it, which they won't, so have to be screamed at and threatened, so they "do", except they keep re-opening it as the charges keep coming in, over ~years~.
mircea_popescu: they mostly don't, and the "i'm not about to use card in foreign skimreader slit" is unescapable policy in plenty of real life situations.
mircea_popescu: but you know, the nightmare scenario is when seven+ figure account is linked to half a dozen cards which regularly pay for things such as "dinner for six at chez victor".
mircea_popescu: did it actually happen to you that you had your card skimread in foreign jurisdiction and hsbc was "oh fuck we'll squish those fuckers"
mircea_popescu: phf to put it in these terms, your high opinion of your insurance is mostly built on you not having had anything covered.
mircea_popescu: i actually use a clip. it's pretty great, can swallow a hundred bill stack vertically, or else just folds whatrever.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller yes, having access to cash requires you to have access to cash.
mircea_popescu: but manhattan hq was "oh, we can't do that, they're not actually OURS" when i wanted them to etc.
mircea_popescu: and no, you can't find a branch pretty much anywhere outside the us. what you find and don't know any better are independent organisations that bought the right to use the name.
mircea_popescu: if i have a roll and i want to pay 2k, i peel 2k off the roll. if i have a card i do what, wait for a week to get 400 / day ?
mircea_popescu: yeah srsly. the problem with cards isn't the piddly dollar or w/e the atm charges.
mircea_popescu: yeah. the very sharp desperation come to think of it was more of a ro thing. everyone else, from yugos and poles all the way over to moscow had a lot more sense than to take socialism seriously.
mircea_popescu: myeah, the "we gotta get some cash together" phase was more 88/89
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ironically the question proves his point.
mircea_popescu: "we can't get a table straighter than 0.3% but we'll discuss bitcoin"
mircea_popescu: soon enough they're going to have a nother one of these, right ?
mircea_popescu: because totally, that's how it works. fucktard aluminun siding salesmen...
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mircea_popescu: piece of shit google listing cakes and corporashithead light jokes. goatse.cx is gone... \
mircea_popescu: sigh. fucking derivative culture. anyone got a link to goatse ?
mircea_popescu: hey asciilifeform can you find the first reference for "star pattern" ?
mircea_popescu: is this the guy with the story about how he fucked a 16yo french girl on the riviera because at the time ?
mircea_popescu: dude fucking twitter is unreadable now. most of the screen is a "promoted tweet" which 1) has exactly nothing to do with anything and 2) is exactly the sort of slimy, anticool, "here's me being sexy - with a hoodie" stupidity. it's like all the girls that dedicated their adolescence to "abstinence only" moved on to "corporate advertising / governance" or some shit.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: his intentions may be, as declared, good, or just as well as undeclared ill ; but in any case his perspective is misalligned.
mircea_popescu: and then szabo goes on to hurr while blogging on google's platform. sigh.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: where by so on i mean truly basic stuff such as "what happens to a tub when you open the faucets and plug the drain ???"
mircea_popescu: anyway. gathering some data would lead us to FIRST think about "disease, poverty war". THEN after we've grown out of kindergarten and its infantile emotional responses, it would lead us to think about our priors, such as "Every life is sacred", and so on.
mircea_popescu: it'd seem, to my naive intuition, that the interest alone couldn't explain this weird.
mircea_popescu: the pruned-middle being a reference to buffett and that fiscal discussion, "in which you become grain"
mircea_popescu: idiotic nonproblems and extremely advanced problems are discussed ; but there's no discussion of anything to bridge that gap.
mircea_popescu: finance discussion, like most discussion as well as practice in "civilised society" suffers from a pruned-middle problem.
mircea_popescu: this is about on par with their performance generally.
mircea_popescu: out of ~50 or so dead hookers in the past 20 years, the police "solved" 3 cases.
mircea_popescu: derpy govt movement purporting to priviledge murders involving females ("femicidio") over murders in general.
mircea_popescu: and ftr people routinely leave bitcoin in other people's pockets. just, in other PEOPLE's pockets. not every walker is people now.
mircea_popescu: znort987 sorry, republic is poor can't currently afford rounded corners.
mircea_popescu: hey, there's good reasons not to use email as "security"
mircea_popescu: pro tip : set up your own mailserver if you're going to use email as a security token.
mircea_popescu: duralumin actually is perfect for that application. and yes, cheapest than just about anything, incl the plastic.
mircea_popescu: you can put literally anything in the balance. "they killed my auntie". fuck them.