mircea_popescu: generally the way this crap works in practice, you have a size. if you get sent stuff under that size you return it as illegible,

mircea_popescu: so whatever, a coupla btc.

mircea_popescu: pay attention, srsly. this is a fast crowd here.

mircea_popescu: it means that a 20gb file containing 1mn records is limited to 20kb per record.

mircea_popescu: i thought we just established that a) no 1mn and b) no passports.

mircea_popescu: otherwise who'd buy a db of some txs

mircea_popescu: i thought the claim was as to a bunch of passport scans

mircea_popescu: mtgox never had millions of users, get a hold of yourself

mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2014/in-which-newsweek-is-remembered-as-a-contemptible-piece-of-shit/

mircea_popescu: lol newsweek made a statement ?

mircea_popescu: lol asciilifeform it's not as easy as you tihnk. the "humanities" undergrad has been trained for ~16 years to apply recipes, like he were a woman cooking.

mircea_popescu: "Ponder this: the economic goodwill attributable to two paper routes in Buffalo - or a single See’s candy store - considerably exceeds the proceeds we received from this massive collection of tangible assets that not too many years ago, under different competitive conditions, was able to employ over 1,000 people."

mircea_popescu: Gross proceeds from our sale of this equipment came to $163,122. Allowing for necessary pre- and post-sale costs, our net was less than zero. Relatively modern looms that we bought for $5,000 apiece in 1981 found no takers at $50. We finally sold them for scrap at $26 each, a sum less than removal costs.

mircea_popescu: The equipment sold (including some disposed of in the few months prior to the auction) took up about 750,000 square feet of factory space in New Bedford and was eminently usable. It originally cost us about $13 million, including $2 million spent in 1980-84, and had a current book value of $866,000 (after accelerated depreciation). Though no sane management would have made the investment, the equipment could hav

mircea_popescu: There is an investment postscript in our textile saga. Some investors weight book value heavily in their stock-buying decisions (as I, in my early years, did myself). And some economists and academicians believe replacement values are of considerable importance in calculating an appropriate price level for the stock market as a whole. Those of both persuasions would have received an education at the auction we held

mircea_popescu: i ocasionally lift a finger

mircea_popescu: i guess that's a thought.

mircea_popescu: what's so hard to buy about it, any search in the registry yields like a dozen of them

mircea_popescu: cads: once you buy that this could be possible the rest of the article does down like a glass of water :) <<< there's a guy who's legally named that that's been trying to convince the world of his relevancy for i dunno, like a year ?

mircea_popescu: it was a genuine question, just, not in the obvious context.

mircea_popescu: some random chick who thinks she's a "freelance journalist" doing "investigations"

mircea_popescu: that's a whore.

mircea_popescu: but no. a whore is one who does for money that which is to be done on faith.

mircea_popescu: well if that's your definition, the statement is uncontroversial. i suspect even the anon whore herself would say she's "a professional"

mircea_popescu: what's a whore ?

mircea_popescu: this is a fast crowd, try to keep up.

mircea_popescu: to me they mean "Leah whatever is a dumb [attention]whore."

mircea_popescu: wait, there was a mystery ?

mircea_popescu: that's what the man said : "you, leah whatever, are a dumb whore".

mircea_popescu: a. sure.

mircea_popescu: <benkay``> like four beers and half a bottle of merlot through no fault of my own

mircea_popescu: https://twitter.com/search?q=%23SucksToBeLeah&src=hash << there's a hash for it now.