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mircea_popescu: i've not seen those cached links for agws. they still exist ?
mircea_popescu: trilema.com/nobody-could-have-foreseen-their-using-a-plane-like-a-rocket
mircea_popescu: Nobody could have foreseen their using a plane like a rocket - Trilema
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what do you mean google cache disabled ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: re: chumps << witness the number of 'what did he do wrong111?!!?' imbeciles in the anonabox reddit thread. << quite. "need reasons"
mircea_popescu: <cazalla> and just as i am about to publish a story << yeah well that'sdhelped along by the fact that you're always about to publish one lol
mircea_popescu: not only it doesn't do anything, but it also... doesn't do anything.
mircea_popescu: i dun think stalin gets to pick the form of his own fucking letters.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and then they wanna bitch at bitcoin, these people.
mircea_popescu: one day i'm gonna accidentally elide that quote and ask someone whore you?
mircea_popescu: course this is illegal, except if you're a "revolutionary" ycombinator sort of scam.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform decimation not even, simple penny stock scam. you make "company", ask for 1.1 mn, i drop down 1mn, then withdraw it. you got the "social proof" and some money in the bank/
mircea_popescu: i can just go in there, plonk down 1mn for some project, then 25 days later cancel it ?
mircea_popescu: so then why the fuck do you ppl quote the numbers for.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i'd be surprised if he didn't ?! how wouldn't he 1?
mircea_popescu: Azelphur apparently the existing hardware is the only part that works as advertised
mircea_popescu: Fact is they ran away with $25k from me, if it was reinvested or not doesn't matter really as they promised to make it from trading..."
mircea_popescu: "Ok i can't say how much i invested in total, i had shares worth $25k but i reinvested from daily earnings, wasn't so much i signed up in September...
mircea_popescu: They also have glowing reviews from all over the world posted on their site after only a month of operation. It feels like trying too hard. That said, I did take a chance and invest some coins. I contacted them about my concerns (after I invested a few coins) and they were responsive and discussed things with me. Their backend is pretty sophisticated and you can withdraw your earnings at any time without fees. If it
mircea_popescu: "Hi, I have been using the site since mid December. You do have to be careful where you put your coins. The site has some . . . well, issues. A .biz suffix for one, but also they work out of the UK (trading stops on UK holidays) but are incorporated in Panama with no locational address or phyiscal contact method.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller from that link : "I found this site few days ago and bought mining shares, and have been getting 1.42% return every day. I'm using the returns to buy a smaller amount of trading shares.
https://bitcoin-trader.biz/opportunities.php Full disclosure: I am not related to this site in any way, shape or form."
mircea_popescu: nubbins` well at least he wasn't you know, part of the cult of b-a or anything.
mircea_popescu: "Dear Sir, I have 100% of your money, please send me a quarter of this amount and then I will send the rest back to you, because logic."
mircea_popescu: small is easily imagined and medium is like kinda not so easily
mircea_popescu: a few dozen small and medium investors ? readding tarddit is funy at timmes
mircea_popescu: "It is a known fact that I personally opposed any proof of solvency, but agreed to conduct it for the sake of a few dozen small and medium investors."
mircea_popescu: "While preparing for the final audit results, a task we were working on for weeks now, our bitcoin wallet has been hacked and emptied, just after exchanging our fiat holdings within the exchanges to bitcoin and transferring our entire holdings to our wallet, in order to proof our solvency."
mircea_popescu: <jurov> aye it's one big fair << hence the preoccupation with "fairness"!!!11
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> probe reaction? see if sympathetic idiots appear? <<< will be valuable in future, those.
mircea_popescu: it seems reasonable that any degree given to any "protected minority" by any university with a quota programme should be discounted.
mircea_popescu: (incredible, incidentally, that people who supposedly invest resources into getting a degree aren't even bothering to mention the distinction between actual degrees and quota degrees)
mircea_popescu: listend here in the sense of "people who volunteer both ways", nothing else. not meaning to imply speer had a quota degree or that obama can use the noggin
mircea_popescu: who isn't a volunteer ? obama and herr speer both are volunteers.
mircea_popescu: if it were a hallucination it wouldn't be quite so evenly distributed ethnically and geographically.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not really. pain and a painful death are actually honorable.
mircea_popescu: no one actual cock could serve for this role, because it is to provide abject and complete humiliation.
mircea_popescu: so this time, they're chosing war and will have dishonor.
mircea_popescu: this time they figure the enemy is small and it may be overrun. it won't work, and they'll have to do a 180 and suck the cock.
mircea_popescu: that time they figured the enemy is big and it may be placated. it didn't work, originally, so they had to do a 180 and fight the war.
mircea_popescu: amusingly, the situation is exactly the reverse of churchill's "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war."
mircea_popescu: that's useful regulation. everything else, as useful as piss.
mircea_popescu: <ThickAsThieves> i think new regs on btc should amount to giving pre-existing institutions an avenue for entering the bitcoin fray << not helpful. the only helpful thing they can do is say "every financial institution of the fiat persuasion has six months to get mp's okay or lose its fiat license"
mircea_popescu: <Apocalyptic> more generally, the article as far as I understands it sheds a negative light on "regulation", as reminded by the Romanian footnote, it mainly results in you being fucked << it just makes the point that regulation is the stricture of death. which it is
mircea_popescu: <ThickAsThieves> one man;s bad reg is another's good <<< not a matter of man here. that's why nature. why would anyone's opinion count in this discussion ?
mircea_popescu: yes, as implemented by socialists and in socialist states, it is always bad.
mircea_popescu: which is only visible because it diverges from nature.
mircea_popescu: the problem is that these days "regulation" is the name for the visible part of regulation
mircea_popescu: my point is that regulation is an essential function of life. your homeostasis is the result of regulation.
mircea_popescu: chetty do they get shot if they don't show up or how does it work ?