mircea_popescu: punkman incidentally, why not make yourself a career out of this ?

mircea_popescu: ;;later tell moiety localbitcoins had some technology-enthusiastic policemen pull some "sting operations", which were kinda lulzy in their braindead stupidity but probably spelled out actual financial and emotional pain for the unfortunate parties to get involved in the bureaucracy's quest to justify its continued existence. i imagine it's gone as a result.

mircea_popescu: punkman are you like on a special list or something ? where do you find all this stuff ?

mircea_popescu: it's a bizarre collection, that forum.

mircea_popescu: it's usually given as a textbook example of anti-intelectualism in the us.

mircea_popescu: maybe it can be financed through a forum ipo

mircea_popescu: i personally think a grown man should possess a working knowledge of both fields, at least enough to make him conversant in either.

mircea_popescu: in a sense, if one finds himself bored in the laser lab and looking at the stars, one should switch from solid state to large body physics

mircea_popescu: not a matter of "worthy" see ?

mircea_popescu: yes, this is true. but they are not managers, they're not the sort of people who play the resource allocation game. thus they have no business handling money as a % of total supply.

mircea_popescu: what other effects would you expect, except for rents being in the 20mn a month range ?

mircea_popescu: suppose tomorrow the agreement was that no engineer working in sv is paid under 350mn dollars a year.