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mircea_popescu: williamdunne but they have been dutifully banning their users (for saying anything but "this guy is horribru" and "what a violation!"). from what i hear the bancount's climbing well past 100 by now
mircea_popescu: was funny too, the derps were like "HE DOESN:T HAS TEH SKILLSss!11!1"
mircea_popescu: the more you cut the clerical costs, the more the actual job of banking gets expensive.
mircea_popescu: INVENTED the fucking double entry ledger, these people.
mircea_popescu: created in the 1400s, ran out of bankers in the 2000s, and swiftly out of history.
mircea_popescu: well... it's not a hospital yet, is it ? at some point you actually need some people who can cure people.
mircea_popescu: and yes you need to get lawyers that'll protect you from being sued.
mircea_popescu: you know, think in the more accessible terms of a hospital.
mircea_popescu: not even. you gotta have people who can actually bank.
mircea_popescu: in any case the actual costs to running a bank aren't in getting the certificate. you gotta have the damned bank.
mircea_popescu: He'll do a little dance, take you home tonight. Leave his wallet alone, but you can kiss his node...
mircea_popescu: Bitcoin girl, you're outa sight, you need a bitcoin boy, to treat you right.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes shut up hater! there'sd even a bitcoin literature!
mircea_popescu: sadly, for all the derpage re "bitcoin finance bla bla"
mircea_popescu: how much would it be paying and what do you intend to actually do ?
mircea_popescu: williamdunne so in the light of a new day, does the bsdm social media thing actualy look worth doing to you ?
mircea_popescu: Naphex i sometimes wonder how many boxes did amazon lose to date
mircea_popescu: and diversified enough that the arabs can-t quite outright kill him. (tho they're trying). i tell you this is a fun thing toi watch, for me.
mircea_popescu: the guy is taking massive levels of risk. one of teh few contemporary capitalists actually earning hteir keep.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes this is not how insurance works. insurance is an actuarial business
mircea_popescu: mod6 Naphex prolly has a point in that if you actually switch out the kernel on an aws... well they basically lost it. how's their hypervisors etc to work
mircea_popescu: mod6 anyway, oince you get this working make sure to describe what you did IN GREAT DETAIL
mircea_popescu: not to even consider the fact that once this commodifies, the night discount goes away
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the price differential won't likely even cover cost of insurance for that bomb, let alone its capital amortisation
mircea_popescu: "battery-based energy storage for residential and commercial customers. The batteries power up overnight when energy companies typically charge less for electricity, then are used during the day to power a home." << theres just no way this is cost effective.
mircea_popescu: !rate ben_vulpes -1 said naked and famous, there's no naked and not famous. ponzi!
mircea_popescu: mike_c also, could "Timestamp" space be about 75% larger so it doesn't force double lines ?
mircea_popescu: yeah, totally. because idiots that are too stupid to have been online for goatse get to reinvent an alt-universe where "satanism"
mircea_popescu: linked for "Slimy folks like “Busta Troll” are hijacking Facebook pages of conservatives, replacing the content with goats and anti-conservative messages. Some believe a goat is used because it is a Satanic symbol; many of the conservatives are targeted because of their Christian or Jewish views."
mircea_popescu: but prolly the magic of "inside the firewall no security is needed"
mircea_popescu: i do have some acct manager ppl who are technically bank clerks that i contact via pgp, which is a greast improvemnent over phone and i have nfi how they get into the systems
mircea_popescu: Pierre_Rochard places that are serious about online banking mandate use of ie 10! and they get their sexurity as activex implants!
mircea_popescu: just have it use your own file for js instead of the one linked by server.
mircea_popescu: schmucks can just keep a copy of yest's js and DIFF IT!!11