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mircea_popescu: yes. they got shook to the tune of 5-10mn for their sins.
mircea_popescu: that never happens naturally. you gotta do it, much like "bullet shaped hole in head" is proof someone was shot.
mircea_popescu: with the caveat that i run my investigations with people hanging by butcher hooks.
mircea_popescu: unless the sec particularly wants me to run an investigation into IT.,
mircea_popescu: and i expect a sec investigation into bitfinex post haste.
mircea_popescu: when the price goes 10 / 7 it is because the people selling the fake btc do no wish to run their meagre offering into the bids of 10
mircea_popescu: lol speaking of bitfines, anyone rememeber "picostocks/100th" anymore ?
mircea_popescu: they'd get better roi by buying adwords or something, but hey.
mircea_popescu: for all i care the dept of hernia can keep on doing this 300k donation programme to people who've took an obvious shot at 10:1 leverage untill they fall over.
mircea_popescu: but that aside, there still is the issue of settlement on the fake btc they sold < 200.
mircea_popescu: i dunno who actually possessed of the least bitcoin interest would still use it after this.
mircea_popescu: who the fuck will still use it after this... god knows they were making up most of the volume anyway.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo basically, their bitfinex broom fired. the once it gets to fire.
mircea_popescu still can't wait to see how the bitfinex settlement's gonna work
mircea_popescu: absent another ww they can sit neutral around, they're so fucked zimbabwe looks promising.
mircea_popescu: except, of course, for the obvious : TAKE FACEBOOK PICTUREWS NEXT TO IT!
mircea_popescu: i would be much surprised if there's an argentinian who even knows what to do wit hone.
mircea_popescu: the precious little they do right, they do by thoughtlessly following tradition.
mircea_popescu: incidentally asciilifeform often times i look around at this retarded place and i feel i live in the future us.
mircea_popescu: yet magically no one's trying to do anything. somehow.
mircea_popescu: one "really needs" an open instrument like one really needs a trustworthy wife.
mircea_popescu: <trinque> Adlai seems to be using the Erdos method re: mathematics < ?
mircea_popescu: yes the world should work correctly. but whether it does or does not is not your fucking problem.
mircea_popescu: you don't do the right things TO be paid. you do them BECAUSE they're the right things.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i can appreciate the part where usg is there to give money to "compensate" the retarded kids that didn't reverse their spectrometer and so ended up with X loss tjhrough any of thbe multiple avenues. and i can appreciate how this makes lazy people manifest thjeir lazy.
mircea_popescu: until they could convince the infant that indeed he is "needed" outside.
mircea_popescu: i imagine poor alf mother was in it for a 3 week labour
mircea_popescu: africa is not something that can be fixed. it's what the word "africa" means.
mircea_popescu: i do nopt care about the problems of tribes in africa.
mircea_popescu: a "sane-indistinct" computer can be had for the task as defined, out of shelf parts.
mircea_popescu: useful life of the tool is 30 years +, so. you get to "break it in" for a few months first.
mircea_popescu: buy spectrometer, 2nd hand. reverse it or pay for it be reversed. run it on sane computer.
mircea_popescu: and don't start with "gimme free stuff in very ellaborate detail of compelx usage".
mircea_popescu: only if the "profession" is saomethiong like "pop star",
mircea_popescu: anyway. yes usg can be rejected just by rejecting it. no, there aren't places where this actually hurts one. yes if one perceives to be hurt it's because one did something stupid in the past he'll have to undo. no this isn't anyone else's problem and no this calls for no sympathy.
mircea_popescu: i don'trecall, but maybe cvut a digit. anyway, hgow is this related ?
mircea_popescu: being run by a bunch of incredibly idiotic idiots, yes. but still.
mircea_popescu: yeah, you're missing the something where gimp is pretty much the only foss success in the actual marketplace.
mircea_popescu: in the ps-gimp case, the only reason is strictly user being an imbecile.