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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but in the same vein of "hard problems, if you're new here", you know the two trains and fly one im sure
☟︎ mircea_popescu: if you can fuck her with the cock, why use your finger ?
mircea_popescu: (people that object readily to "oh but comets can fly and no engine there" be confused as to what "energy density" means. calculate v**2 for comet)
mircea_popescu: well, what is this if not the intellectual rape channel ? that's what we do, we spoil noobs.
mircea_popescu: there's a limit to the smallest energy density that can fly, period, no matter any other considerations
mircea_popescu: i'm not arguing something like "o, you know, there's no way around it". more like, "why the fuck should finding ways around it even be a consideration at all"
mircea_popescu: so here's a simple computing test for your platform. 1) open a 100mb text file. if your editor croaks, you're running windows. 2) go to the end and depress the pageup key. count to sixty / wait a full minute. depress the key. if the scroll stops immediately you are running good unix. if it keeps going... well...
mircea_popescu: physicist turned metaphysician under the guise of psychiatry.
mircea_popescu: show, don't tell. when you tell a) everyone knows you're lying, whethetr you are not not and b) nobody can be bothered to go look anymore. fucking show. always.
mircea_popescu: "The similarities between Huobi and Stock Generation are striking." << orly ?
mircea_popescu: this shit needs actual work. with the head. make a point, and make it interesting.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell pete_dushenski i hate your articlke, fwiw. broadly because it's a very lazy stitching together of unexplained quotes, narrowly because wtf, qntra now links to wikipedia ? splendid, we're building a total alternative over here.
mircea_popescu: the fact that a bunch of scams are a bunch of scams, from icbit onwards does not mean that pointing out one particular scam as a scam is "supporting the others".
mircea_popescu: <trixisowned> because thats how it comes off << are you silly ?!
mircea_popescu: <assbot> New York banker, 42, slashed throat during bender: sources << lmao getting moar and moar believable.
mircea_popescu: mthreat anyway, not bad article. nothing incendiary, but hey.
mircea_popescu: i predict we will see the day when that's what it's gonna say.
mircea_popescu: 185.34.216.71 resolves to "ddos-server.intyl.biz". who the fuck came up with this idea i wish to know, and i further wish to know how many people reading logs got a start from it.
mircea_popescu: turns out RamNode had the cute idea of naming its stuff thusly.
mircea_popescu: tcp 0 0 192.168.*:42230 ddos-server.intyl.b:www ESTABLISHED 1794/opera
mircea_popescu: little old me going through his logs, runs into a line
mircea_popescu: so do the huobei vs stock generation piece ! for great justic
mircea_popescu: no, because a spitting copy of that other kim is coming by to visit us in a little, and ima have my hands full
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: next week they will be back on coindesk with some new chumpatron <<< no, it gets better. next, they will be getting the congressional medal of honor, for "innovation"
mircea_popescu: Companies 10 and 11 promised monthly returns of 50% and 100% (later 40% and 70%) respectively. At the same time, share prices could plummet 50% for company 10 and 100% (e.g. all the way down to 0) for company 11. That caveat (known as Rule 18) was another way for StockGeneration to justify their claims that this was a gambling website, rather than an investment vehicle.
mircea_popescu: Company 9 was the "privileged" company, with its shares "guaranteed" never to decrease in value. Promised return was originally 10% a month (215% annually,) but was later reduced to 7% a month or 125% annually. In early April 2000, Stock Generation, despite all previous guarantees, devalued its privileged company shares to 5% of their previous value.
mircea_popescu: they would be shifting their focus almost entirely towards the goal of funding "core development" << my translator comes up with "it's dead".
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: It sounds like scam, so should be qntra'd, but could probably benefit from someone more familiar with where the scam is here writing it up. << looking.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: Wow, there's a city actually named Moroni << iirc some prophet in john smith's braindamaged copy of yurp under his own "brand"
mircea_popescu: decimation: Google: "Q: who owns the internet? A: nobody" << fuck you << i imagine they're talking of the whole enchillada, as opposed to the parts thereof.
mircea_popescu: i mean i get it, they were going for bitcoin, which gold isn't. but still... lol.
mircea_popescu: the shitty film they made included all sorts of people that defo weren't there.
mircea_popescu: none oif them went "fuck this shit, i'm moving to galia narbo and building a castle."
mircea_popescu: the rich senators were still buying armies in rome by 399.
mircea_popescu: the rich jews were still trying to make deals with teh reich in 139
mircea_popescu: i can find three new wives and learn a language before the month is out. your average "rich guy" is petrified of changing his colenostomy bag brand.