mircea_popescu: leave a comment there then

mircea_popescu: aite then. dealing with iran isn't such a bad thing anyway

mircea_popescu: too strong statements put you in the unenviable position that a ready counterexample can be constructed that speaks to what you say, and then your entire argument looks weak, where it needn't.

mircea_popescu: take pussy for instance. pussy is constructed with the average user in mind. it's not shit, that's a different hole.

mircea_popescu: Right off the bat, we see that Litecoin is pitched at the “average user.” This, of course, is a huge red flag that Litecoin is doomed to failure. Anything aimed at the lowest common denominator must necessarily be shit. <<< like what, like air ?

mircea_popescu: if you say "By this logic, it is better to buy half of a pair of boots than a whole car" you are.

mircea_popescu: if you say "<<At around US$30/LTC, it’s more affordable to outright purchase too. >> This author, like many a CoinDesker, is of the mistaken belief that buying a whole shitty thing just because you can afford it is better than buying a part of something far superior. Today, you can buy a million satoshis for $6 or you can buy most of the Dogecoin for sale on the market. Incredibly, some people will actually go for the la

mircea_popescu: ;;later tell bitcoinpete you know, your litecoin article'd benefit from a lot more reductio ad absurdum and other directly-obvious proofs to displace most of the appeals to authority.

mircea_popescu: The big and easy government attacks on money target a single central money issuer, as with the first of the modern political attacks, the French Assignat of 1792, but in the late nineteenth century political attacks on financial networks began, as for example the Federal reserve act of 1913, the goal always being to wind up the network into a single too big to fail entity, and they have been getting progressively bigger,

mircea_popescu: seductive, and S. 190 goes down in flames before a horde of political activists chanting that easy money is sound, and opposing it is racist, nazi, ignorant, and generally hateful, the recent S. 190 debate on limiting portfolios (bond issue supporting dud mortgages) by government sponsored enterprises being a perfect reprise of the debates on limiting the issue of new assignats in the 1790s.

mircea_popescu: Then knowledgeable people complain that the evil financial network is heading for disaster, that the government sponsored enterprises are about to cause a “collapse of the total financial system”, as Wallison and Alan Greenspan complained in 2005, the government debates shrinking the evil government sponsored enterprises, as with “S. 190 [109th]: Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act of 2005″ but they

mircea_popescu: yeah, it's been through the years the most popular scam. "deposit lump sum, we'll pay you a few %s of it a few times. annuity ftw!"

mircea_popescu: early bank paper (banknotes) stoood to gold in a very similar relation. "deposit your gold, we'll pay 5976597985%. in gold. or maybe paper"

mircea_popescu: but even on a market of garr and nasty fucktards, it's slowly emerging

mircea_popescu: it's cheaper to pay a few % and pretend like you've paid than to not pay at all.

mircea_popescu: all the "everyone made ROI hand over fist with a 60% btc loss" crowd will be well served.

mircea_popescu: increasingly more respectable firms will be offering btc denominated savings accounts with a fiat clause as the cheapest most accessible way to get in the game

mircea_popescu: french employment. where good pr0n is only a lick away

mircea_popescu: a'cuntin' ?

mircea_popescu: http://muscleheadgym.wordpress.com/2013/08/29/i-scared-myself-today/ << i wonder how this guy's post'd look like if a cop had picked him up for gta, and then kept him under key until such a time a translator could establish the woman's not angry at having caught a thief but relieved at having been broken into her car.

mircea_popescu: well it doesn't have a vest, but anyway. got pockets and everything

mircea_popescu: pankkake no, it's a suit alright.

mircea_popescu: in unrelated news, my pyjamas have little octopuses on them, my table is an inch of glass, i prop my knee under it while sitting. 3rd fucking thims this morning i had a peripheral vision panic of "WHOA WTF ARE THOSE"

mircea_popescu: i was about to say davout got 51 problems and a horse ain't one.

mircea_popescu: it's not a sale anyway. if anything, it's good news for you.

mircea_popescu: i dun recall them actually delivering 5k of the things, they had a limited supply prolly bought off some suprluss deal.

mircea_popescu: pankkake how many coins would that be? << the early (only) bfl delivered miners were commercial fpgas, so you know... a lot.

mircea_popescu: "During years of engineering time, we have built a network of partners, resources and contacts in Asia, Europe and the USA." yet the best they could do was still havelock.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: ThickAsThieves: if document is genuine, this is likely a 'marketing scheme' for the usg blacklist crap. << if it is it'll backfire, ppl get to learn first hand just how harmless btc actually is by telling these folk to stfu / ignoring them

mircea_popescu: i dunno what can do that to a man, outside of smoking rocks

mircea_popescu: look at that man. he went in there all plump and looking 35. a decade later he looks 60

mircea_popescu: http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/5384eff869bedd306fc96e9e-800-/ap53047226600.jpg << dude the white house has a skeletronizer somewhere.

mircea_popescu: however, with fuckwits a la kerry, rice or clinton...

mircea_popescu: this includes ~ 100k ak guns missing, about half a trillion in disappeared funds, including billions paid to known outright washington graft

mircea_popescu: it's a pipe dream

mircea_popescu: the notion of any sort of kurdish state would require commitment to the level of 100k boots on the ground for a few years, and then ongoing support a la israel.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes, but it's max grade from the forum's investor grading thing. A+++

mircea_popescu: you just can't get such a good measure of kids coupla years post puberty

mircea_popescu: a uni program that doesn't shed 50% is dubious on its face

mircea_popescu: once they got a sucker theyd rater not lose it

mircea_popescu: ;;rate napedia 1 I got a fan.

mircea_popescu: , breakfast or dinners, but it does include lunch and a range of guidance, both before and during the four days, on how students should fill out college applications and best showcase themselves.

mircea_popescu: Michele Hernandez, another prominent admissions counselor, runs one or more sessions of an Application Boot Camp every summer in which roughly 25 to 30 kids will be tucked away for four days in a hotel to work with a team of about eight editors on what she told me were as many as 10 drafts of each of three to five different essays. The camp costs $14,000 per student. That doesn’t include travel to it, the hotel bill

mircea_popescu: ahaha get a load of this

mircea_popescu: <peterl> essentially it is naked shorting derps? // <mircea_popescu> peterl yea // how does this square with your recent pronouncements against naked shorting? << division by 0 is a problem, 0 divided by 0 is not.