mircea_popescu: we thought you were butthurt as a fucken interneteer

mircea_popescu: o look, it's a herbijudlestoids

mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> incidentally, if the avaricious idiots move everybody to RFID cards sans crypto challenge/response << even if it has a challenge system, if it's made by the bank ppl... heh. glwt.

mircea_popescu: it used to be 8% in romania for a while, until the card people finally gave up_

mircea_popescu: (actually some strategic large merchants get paid to use cards on a regular basis

mircea_popescu: small time merchants with a shop or w/e are being reamed, but that doesn't really show in the bottom line

mircea_popescu: adjust it once a month or w/e

mircea_popescu: well technically bills these days are more expensive to make than their face value, so it is a sort of pillage

mircea_popescu: it's merely a transfer towards the issuer.

mircea_popescu: bitcoin is 99.98% of a whatever it is market.

mircea_popescu: anyway, the btc is 8bn out of a 10bn market story depicted there is off.

mircea_popescu: when you could just make a gem and buy a house

mircea_popescu: gimme a break.

mircea_popescu: benkay except not in a million years has ripple done anything of the sort lol

mircea_popescu: the cascadian movement produced weird music and a lot of new lice infections.

mircea_popescu: that's a new angle : if you read the stuff crypto-whatever wannabe exchange publishes, you're roughly in the same set with idiots and grannies that still read the spam emails they get, tune in for cnbc newscasts etc

mircea_popescu: jurov wait someone raped a soccer dood ?

mircea_popescu: you ever been to a rural disco ?

mircea_popescu: jurov what, i'm a lovable huggable simpleminded psychopath.

mircea_popescu: half a nitwit.

mircea_popescu: this is given culture, it's a shared foundation.

mircea_popescu: ow all the ways movies can’t be made. That’s what they’ve been doing with their years and the investors’ money up to that point : not coming one iota closer to knowing how movies can be made, but establishing vast inroads into the obviously endless topic of how they can’t in fact be made. Noobs bereft of this very valuable (in that it’s very expensive) knowledge ain’t got a prayer."

mircea_popescu: in it, you will find : "Much like “nobody knows how to make movies” was generally true in Hollywood, “nobody knows how to make Bitcoin businesses” is generally true in Bitcoin. Nevertheless, this does not logically follow into “so then everyone has the same chances, noobs and veterans alike”. Such a proposition could not be further from the truth, because the veterans have the sizable advantage that they kn

mircea_popescu: Jere_Jones it's mpoe-prs, and the problem with "Thou shalt do" is that a) there's a lot less of that available than you'd want, and b) people are well impervious to listening anyway.

mircea_popescu: counted for a weekend trip

mircea_popescu: except we had a trunk full of heavy equipment

mircea_popescu: we used to do this thing whereby we'd dress up nice and clean, go to some disco in the sticks, a village somewhere

mircea_popescu: they also imagine they can just start "a security" and it'll all just fall into place

mircea_popescu: <davout> do people really imagine they can go to some foreign country and simply beat up some guy in a public place like a train station and not gete in trouble? <<< yes.

mircea_popescu: was it for a foreheadectomy ?

mircea_popescu: i'd rather teach a monkey to invest than a bitcointalk-er.

mircea_popescu: pankkake what is bad about dr greg is that it's generally worse to have a half-educated idiot than ap ure idiot.

mircea_popescu: [7] nah, pankkake just made a nice summary thread

mircea_popescu: more like a naive participant i guess

mircea_popescu: pankkake you should have a blog baby.