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mike_c: kakobrekla: disappoint would have been losing all of it. 10% ROI over
a year deserves congrats.
mike_c: i gotta say, i'm glad i don't run
a btc investment fund in the current climate.
BingoBoingo: <mike_c> speaking of curses, this means the btcalpha income investments page is going dark too. From 3 investments -> 0 in six months. << Probably
a good indicator of incredible volatility being likely ahead
mircea_popescu: upside down fucking nonsense, srsly, there is exactly zero difference between reading literotica and reading r/theredpill r/feminism etc. same purple prose, same "sammy was
a 95lb triple D tits and fiery red pubic hair cut in
a landing strip pattern" dependencies.
mircea_popescu: some inane derpage about "teh philosophies" is abstract. collapsed wavefunction, why, that's just like
a rock.
mircea_popescu: anyone took
a look at the motherfucking laws of physics of late ?
mircea_popescu: "Your understanding of how morality works is
a bit flawed here. You see, there is no universal morality. There is nothing in the universe applying any law other than those of physics. The rest is abstraction."
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo see, fuck rifles. people should just go "you are
a drone and i will not tolerate it."
BingoBoingo: The absurd thing is
a shotgun seems like the right tools as it is the standard for similarly sized flying objects (i.e. Birds)
pete_dushenski: commenter: "currently the people most likely to end up as the new aristocracy would be the likes of Zuckerberg, people with nary
a clue but lots of money, thus influence, and
a strong incentive to please their backers, which inevitably ends up selling out the plebs. I don’t think I would particularly like to end up stagnant in such
a pool. There is very little benevolent about mob rule, no matter the kind of mob."
assbot: Democracy vs. Aristocracy | Contravex:
A blog by Pete Dushenski
BingoBoingo: fluffypony: Blog
a post so I can put in
a troll ad.
pete_dushenski: 5. Tech can require
a lot of collaboration —
a skill often valued in women.
pete_dushenski: we went as
a family, including grandparents who hadn't been back since 1960's, in 2005
pete_dushenski: so they're here for 2.5 years and stayed with me for 3 months while they found
a place
pete_dushenski: the top two students were offered
a job. they were coincidentally dating
pete_dushenski: he has some distilled wisdom and doesn't crack
a lot of eggs….
pete_dushenski: ben_vulpes: i say "student of power" when people ask. << now there's
a program. sort of an uber-mba
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: maybe i'm missing out. << not even mp's above fomo (
a term i initially associated with fubu)
mircea_popescu: well this isn't
a problem of up or down, just, wtf am i going to do with all this capital.
mircea_popescu: "Well, not
a perfect match, but close enough for government work." this is an expression isn't ot.
mircea_popescu: now the spiritual continuator of that mess got all these two star generals that basically sat at
a desk 30 years
BingoBoingo: There's prolly no good reason, just
a lot of Billets to fill
BingoBoingo: Well that second star happens... 20-25 years into one's career so 1994-1999... Prolly scuffled sround
a bunch of staff jobs with Glowing recommendations int typical 'Murican fashion. I mean the Flag officer corps is right arounds 1000 across the services or some really hug number like that.
mircea_popescu: "Greene, who was on his first deployment to
a war zone" << how can you get
a maj. gen comission without ever seeing
a warzone is the q.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> i already live five blocks down from it, im already taking the sophomores out for
a ride... mgith as well. pretty much everyone's
a lawyer here anyway. << WHy not, one needs hobbies
decimation: I doubt someone has made
a simple-to-use gui tool to help
a n00b identify
a wallet.dat file, such
a tool would be useful only to hacker harvesting such things...
ben_vulpes: <bitcodernoob> Can anyone help me with
a problem. I have two wallet.dat's that I accidentally mixed up. Is there
a way that I can findout which wallet.dat goes to which coin?
mircea_popescu: "Vladimir Putin has made
a complete mockery of delusional US foreign policy yet again, this time anulling in one fell swoop decades of attempts to isolate Iran by signing
a 700bn ruble deal".
pete_dushenski: "Vladimir Putin has attempted to sidestep Western sanctions on Russia’s energy sector by signing
a $20bn trade deal that could see his country become the largest importer of oil from Iran."
mircea_popescu: how much are the shares of
a company worth, that's bankrupt and can adjust prices to buffer inflation ?
mircea_popescu: figure it out, man : if rates hike capital dries up. all of
a sudden all the nude swimmers in the merger and acquisition smorgasbord are now up in thewinds.
ben_vulpes: sure but when the 16 oz can becomes
a 12 oz can with
a strongly concave bottom, coca cola charging the same amount...
ben_vulpes: well hang on if the company prices goods in inflating usd they can adjust pricing to match inflation. bonds, as the revered B sez, are
a bad bad thing in inflationary situations 'cause paying
a price now for money in the future that will be worth less. so confus.
decimation: interesting that its name derives from
a substance whose existence was posited by pseudoscientists until maxwell et.al. set them straight
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: BingoBoingo: I'm pretty sure this isn't like MaidSafe - Vitalik does the tour circuit, and he's been building up to this for
a while << so he's the new neoderp, whatever was that kid's name.
mircea_popescu: validating these twerps is worse than giving them
a salary.
mircea_popescu: <ThickAsThieves> <+Vexual> incidetally, whats
a satoshi called in atc?
a tat? /// altoshi << quit being so modest <<
a tit ?
mircea_popescu: Shakespeare: Rudder’s response: “To wring his hands all day for
a hundred thousand dollars
a year?”" << happens to be the exactly correct response.
decimation: lol I like that the only brick structure is the random chimney sticking through the middle of the roof in
a random spot
mircea_popescu: decimation some woman parlayed
a shoplifted pair of heels into
a trip to ibiza. what of it ?
decimation: note that some chumpatronic engineers have actually used kickstarter to found successful business, but this is like trying to use panhandling to found
a banking empire
mircea_popescu: <decimation> re: kickstarter : I think the real product is an illusionist's trick: I'm
a somebody because I'm an investor, even though I'm investing chump change for the chumpatron << you're quite correct, in that. it's reddit except expensive.
mircea_popescu: decimation pretty much. pick
a baron you like for
a place to do business
mircea_popescu: "At the beginning of May, my team and I were assigned to an exploratory project. Typically summer is the off-season and most of the projects are time fillers that result in
a few papers/presentations and are then archived and never heard of again. This project was different. We were given
a direct research assignment from the Board of Governors
a few hours after the conclusion of their May 29th closed meeting."
mike_c: well then. unless you need
a diploma.
mircea_popescu: i already live five blocks down from it, im already taking the sophomores out for
a ride... mgith as well. pretty much everyone's
a lawyer here anyway.
punkman: enthusiasts buying Oculus bought
a product, just not as good as they imagined
decimation: well, are they actually buying
a product? or "investing" in the hope that the product will come to exist?
decimation: re: kickstarter : I think the real product is an illusionist's trick: I'm
a somebody because I'm an investor, even though I'm investing chump change for the chumpatron
decimation: I suspect it's the same reason the subject in question paid more than $75k to go to Loyla to get...
a pr degree... and was unable to get
a job in pr as
a twentysomething non-ugly chick
mircea_popescu: no you fuckwits, it hasn't. it yielded
a lot of ridicule for how kickstarter fails on both ends : it's not
a way to get financed and it's not
a way to allocate capital. well done.
mircea_popescu: "Zack’s project inspired some handwringing about What It All Means. Here’s one take: Kickstarter is
a good place to aim high and go big, but small projects are great too"
thickasthieves: "Signing up for an online dating site and finding yourself facing constant rejection is
a frustrating experience. It's even worse if you're certain that all those cyber-strangers would see what
a catch you are if they would just give you
a chance to impress.
A new dating site offers
a solution to this problem"
thickasthieves: they are building themselves
a new karpeles in buterin
mircea_popescu: "Jacqueline Boubion, 30, Diamond Bar, California. Degree: B.
A. communications, California State University, Fullerton. Career goal: film director. Current job: production assisting in commercials and music videos. Student Loans: none, but $22,000 in credit card debt." << right. she's got problems.
mircea_popescu: "Eric Curran, 23, Wahoo, Nebraska. Degree: B.
A., history and religion, Midland University. Career goal: professor of Lutheran theology or history professor. Current job: education assistant at local public schools. Student Loans: $11,000."
mircea_popescu: not necessarily
a "what's on the shelf right now" mentality.
mircea_popescu: <thickasthieves> they are making accounts to buy what? << i think most people involved with mpex have
a different outlook than most people involved with costco.
assbot: The euro as
a precursor to Bitcoin | FT Alphaville
BingoBoingo: thickasthieves: Well,
a good number of things have been IPO'ing these past few months
mircea_popescu: TomServo well it's
a complex matter, like all history. for one thing, mtgox was
a (diminishing, constantly diminishing) part of the total pool. it looked for
a while like the problem may solve itself.
TomServo: mircea_popescu: On that topic, I've been meaning to ask for
a while... I thought Gox was deemed to be of ill-repute well before the shutdown. So why was still seen as
a viable price indicator until it's bitter end?
mircea_popescu: right, because people who can't afford
a piddly 100k are totally entitled to pursue their dreams now. and because people can learn how to make films. in school.
mircea_popescu: "Mikey Billings, 29, Statesville, North Carolina. Degree: B.
A., film studies, Full Sail University. Career Goal: film or music industry. Current Job: working part time at
a malt shop. Student Loans: $80,000."
chetty: lack of history is
a problem all across the spectrum
mircea_popescu: let me tell you something : 1950s romanian fiction about the life of romanian peastants cca 1900 includes malaria as
a common disease.
mircea_popescu: newton got hit in the head by
a falling apple... "hmm how could i turn this bump into
a research grant"
mircea_popescu: think of it : monkeys don't suffer much from it, so it's been around for
a while. sure yurpeans "discovered it" but it can't possibly be the first case of interaction.
BingoBoingo: AIDs though is weird because of how the virus adapts to drugs in situ. Maybe part of this is just drugs that fight it do so by fucking with DNA/RNA expression... Maybe it is just that much of
a natural asshole.
mircea_popescu: i think the biggest problem bar none of modern society is that average derp can name
a dozen "puas" or "important feminists" or whatever th fuck
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> and like last year something that works as
a pre-emptor. << Truvada is the trade name, but this pre-exposure prophylaxis thing has been common for exposed medical workers for years. The new thing is someone let the secret out of the bag.
mircea_popescu: and like last year something that works as
a pre-emptor.
mircea_popescu: recently
a 3rd one was found, which actually clears it
mircea_popescu: basically making it
a case of "fu for having taken our medicine".
mircea_popescu: however, the people that had taken pill 1, then
a cockail of 1+2 would be significantly less effecual.
mircea_popescu: if one had never taken pill 1, then
a cocktail of 1+2 would stop the virus for them, pretty much resolving the problem. it'd never clear, but it'd never advance.