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ThickAsThieves: propagandist*
ThickAsThieves: started as diet fads like Atkins and Paleo, but now it just feels downright progandist
ThickAsThieves: another interesting phenomenon is US media hammering the concept of "eat fatty foods, not carbs"
ThickAsThieves: now we have piles of ads convincing 30somethings to attend University of Phoenix
ThickAsThieves: recall our conversation about schools beating into our heads "You can be anything if you really want it, President of the US even!"
ThickAsThieves: i do think US education is a major culprit (just read the Mike OCD article)
ThickAsThieves: or maybe they just wanna vacation in EUR more
ThickAsThieves: which i guess means they wanna buy EUR?
ThickAsThieves: they gave a roadmap for EURUSD parity, and now it's happening
ThickAsThieves: GS has that under control
ThickAsThieves: since it broke 7 i think
ThickAsThieves: bot owner is trolling me
ThickAsThieves: now mpoe goes up, my theory is crap
ThickAsThieves: ;;ticker
ThickAsThieves: i thought i did too, seems to merely be an observation for now
ThickAsThieves: so why would S.MPOE go down when BTCUSD goes down?
ThickAsThieves: when vacationing driving is also a major drag
ThickAsThieves: my wife is the one that gets new cars, i get the hand-me-downs. yesterday i was positing that i should just sell mine and take cabs or uber or whatever everywhere
ThickAsThieves: <+thestringpuller> you know how I know you're not american mircea_popescu : you hate cars /// i cant stand driving and all the stuff about cars other than that they get me places
ThickAsThieves: well he leaks money all over the place
ThickAsThieves: now i'm confusing myself
ThickAsThieves: cuz its assets are the btc
ThickAsThieves: so does mpoe
ThickAsThieves: so if btcusd goes down
ThickAsThieves: converted
ThickAsThieves: it assumes the btc worth
ThickAsThieves: sry
ThickAsThieves: right
ThickAsThieves: they are pegging
ThickAsThieves: and that is some dollar value
ThickAsThieves: the idea being the bot assumes MPOE is worth 80,000btc
ThickAsThieves: basically the bot is pegged to a certain conversion value for a specific amount of btc
ThickAsThieves: not secret, mike_c is gonna check i think
ThickAsThieves: <+mircea_popescu> ThickAsThieves 5 before back to 8 or w/e it does ? /// i think i figured out exactly what it does actually
ThickAsThieves: bb has a way
ThickAsThieves: this TSLA is so boring, time for Alibaba!
ThickAsThieves: thatll be fun, my guess is all the other tech stocks will suffer
ThickAsThieves: http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2014/09/05/alibaba-biggest-ipo-by-market-value-of-all-time/
ThickAsThieves: "Whenever I see that Thiel is giving away money, I get the goosebumps. How comes that he is always mentioned in connection with PayPal, but almost never in connection with Palantir, Prism, NSA and CIA?"
ThickAsThieves: heh
ThickAsThieves: i heard rumors thiel sent a rep to scout Neo, i guess he dodged that one
ThickAsThieves: seattle and potland were nice, seattle seems to be very healthy
ThickAsThieves: how are you liking argentina, in contrast?
ThickAsThieves: well considering your Howard Stern similarities, it's a shame it didnt happen
ThickAsThieves: Mornings with Mircea!
ThickAsThieves: sounds like a tv show
ThickAsThieves: good morning mircea
ThickAsThieves: :(
ThickAsThieves: http://www.coindesk.com/peter-thiel-fellowship-ethereum-vitalik-buterin/
ThickAsThieves: MPOE will be .0005 soon
ThickAsThieves: fukn annoying
ThickAsThieves: but i do have a bet on it...
ThickAsThieves: At this point I don't care, as it wouldn't really affect the market price to find out
ThickAsThieves: <+TheNewDeal> ThickAsThieves any foia response? // None reported.
ThickAsThieves: http://www.wired.com/2014/09/for-sale-soon-the-worlds-first-google-glass-detector/
ThickAsThieves: ;;rate ben_vulpes 2 Met IRL for drinks and neither of us murdered the other
ThickAsThieves: ;;rated benkay
ThickAsThieves: ;;rated ben_vulpes
ThickAsThieves: pretty good
ThickAsThieves: she's got a lot of freckles for a mixed girl
ThickAsThieves: ha! i know that girl in the stock image on punkman's link
ThickAsThieves: my bank never asked squat, fwiw
ThickAsThieves: i found the email outright offensive
ThickAsThieves: "we know you wont do business with us if we ask, but we'd like to try asking anyway"
ThickAsThieves: i'll translate
ThickAsThieves: http://dpaste.com/2ZAFGC5
ThickAsThieves: "It’s important to know that Bitcoin’s value is too volatile to be worth much today. That’s why most retailers who accept it as payment immediately sell. This point is from Duke University finance professor Campbell Harvey, who hopes to offer a course in cryptofinance in 2015."
ThickAsThieves: awesome
ThickAsThieves: Its future depends on it.
ThickAsThieves: It could become worthless overnight.
ThickAsThieves: If you own Bitcoin, it’s much better to spend it than to save it for two reasons:
ThickAsThieves: This is a bad idea."
ThickAsThieves: "With so many great reasons to use Bitcoin instead of cash or credit cards, merchants strongly believe that the good far outweighs the evil. Unfortunately, many people that own Bitcoin aren’t using it to complete transactions, but are instead hoarding the cryptocurrency as an investment.
ThickAsThieves: "If Bitcoin is Used for Evil, Why is It Still Good?"
ThickAsThieves: http://blog.newegg.com/saving-bitcoin-good-idea/
ThickAsThieves: lol check out newegg propaganda
ThickAsThieves: oh great now youre gonna tell my wife this.
ThickAsThieves: brooklyn henceforth known as East Clitsville
ThickAsThieves: hehe
ThickAsThieves: awesome for landmark purposes "Meet me at Oaks bottom?" "Where's that?" "Oh, between Willa's vag and ass"
ThickAsThieves: i bet it's the owner
ThickAsThieves: https://bitcointa.lk/threads/havelock-cavirtex-is-about-to-collapse.212522/
ThickAsThieves: this reminds me, wasnt there a dude repeatedly doing FUD on Cavirtex in the mos before delisting?
ThickAsThieves: i assume they have by now
ThickAsThieves: in case others cant find it
ThickAsThieves: please post a link to the original prospectus i gave you in the thread too
ThickAsThieves: not 2 weeks cavirtex is doing PR about Bitcoin ATMs in malls, they are growing, not dying
ThickAsThieves: i hope so, you may wanna ask others though
ThickAsThieves: yeah i'd hold them shares tight if it were me
ThickAsThieves: "In the case where VirtEx is bought out by another company or VirtEx pays a dividend to its shareholders, Bitcoin shareholders will get paid in Bitcoin at the Canadian dollar equivalent rate using the best market prices at the time"
ThickAsThieves: "his is NOT a separate fund; this is the fund that represents real equity ownership in VirtEx!"
ThickAsThieves: fwiw
ThickAsThieves: ah it does say non-voting
ThickAsThieves: it says very little really in regards to share limitations
ThickAsThieves: note, the original prospectus says nothing about Class B
ThickAsThieves: they wouldnt wanna buy them now if things were bad
ThickAsThieves: the owners will always want to buy them until the company is dying
ThickAsThieves: tell him you want IPO price, .64btc ea
ThickAsThieves: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=157789.0
ThickAsThieves: yep