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mircea_popescu: it was one of those bright engineering ideas what does in fact work as intended, but causes such a pile of unintended consequences as to wipe out any benefit.
mircea_popescu: many different fixes for many different aspects. either a fixed date, not such large blocks on sale, not such strictly fixed prices etc.
mircea_popescu: which.. you know. but anyway, lessons learned galore from that 1st try. it's time to release the undead hold.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla well completion of ipo as in, them selling.
mircea_popescu: no but it is getting ridiculous, wanted to do this after the bitbet ads thing but o noes, contracts.
mircea_popescu: ima be scoring them and getting the fully painted things later this month, and we will proceed having them modelled then.
mircea_popescu: MiniGame announcement : i received sketches for 36 itams, ofwhich 24 animals and 12 plants, from jason juta (the wizards of the coast guy) who's worked with us before and i was very satisfied.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla well it's 30% on sale and 10% a head held in reserve making for 50%
mircea_popescu: i am unilaterally modifying that thing, and will release the 10% blocks to our accounts later this week.
mircea_popescu: seeing how it's been about two years and the 30% still ain't all sold, and given that the contract was made at a btc of like 15 so it significantly misjudges things, and seeing how us having 0 shares in hand is inconvenient because we want to do things like give mike some shares cause he keeps doing cool shit
mircea_popescu: by the way, BitBet announcement : the contract specifies 30% of shares are sold on a increasing schedule, after their being sold me and kako each get 10% into our accounts.
mircea_popescu: last time i tried to do it "bring your gf" but mostly ppl didn't.
mircea_popescu: i guess ima run a poll see if people want fambly friendly or what.
mircea_popescu: i have nfi what to do here, i mean the town is hooker central, but i don't imagine people would much like the italian arrangement
mircea_popescu: if you look at a map, it's outside the perimeter i described :)
mircea_popescu: los_pantalones yes but they don't do salt pickles. which... romanians end up importing the gherkins and pickling locally.
mircea_popescu: los_pantalones romania specifically, from timisoara/oradea to brasov.
mircea_popescu: maybe you get a ny deli with decent stuff most of the time, maybe you're willing to drop 20k euro a month to eat properly in paris,
mircea_popescu: i don't mean other places don't have good food, but if you're european/(french-italian branch), there's just nowhere to go.
mircea_popescu: because srsly, it is the best place in the world for food.
mircea_popescu: im like... you're such a fucking retard, i live here for the food motherfucker.
mircea_popescu: and so he starts telling me all about how they die of hunger over there and how bad romania is
mircea_popescu: yeah and vice-versa. speaking in english to womenz in romanian cabs, driver picks the idea i'm like from boston
mircea_popescu: basically the various govts have pulled the trick of all time : convinced the people living in the shithole of the world they're living in the only livable tip thereof.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, the bus stations in fucking rural mexico are airport-clean, you can eat off the floors.
mircea_popescu: and this isn't even all of it. when i left for mexico everyone in the us was like "pack tp"
mircea_popescu: to me too. and i got a 100 pesos samsung dumbphone. it's light, i couldn't care less if someone steals it.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: because they've convinced themselves this happens. meanwhile, it never does. walk queens you'll see a mugging every day. walk chacarrita and glty, you got better chances to see a comet.
mircea_popescu: y argentine will warn you to "be careful with your belongings!111eleventy", they have special implements in many restaurants to hook&tie your purse to the table, they go as fucking far as to wear backpacks in front, and many kids with it in the back had this mental issue where they reached back and touched the zipper every 30 seconds.
mircea_popescu: decimation: when I was a boy scout in my youth I went hiking up in Philmont in northern new mexico - they told horror stories << re retarded human shamans : here they tell horror stories about muggings. i have, in months, observed exactly one attempt, and it was a clearly us bum trying to pass himself as belgian and doing the talking business. clueless enough to not even fucking spot me, the idiot. but otherwise : ever
mircea_popescu: they're not an anthropo thing. they're animals. doing their own thing.
mircea_popescu: decimation: TheNewDeal: i've heard that black bears aren't so aggressive as long as you don't corner a cub << bears generally aren't aggressive at all. felides&canides are aggressive if very hungry or during mating season, but otherwise you can get out and people have for ages. animal aggressivity is a cost/benefit consideration, they';re not the convenient antichrist retarded human shamans preach.
mircea_popescu: there was one iirc. but really hard to have them resolvable
mircea_popescu: if you've seen true romance, something like that scene
mircea_popescu: and btw, the guy's right consists of his ownership of the land and the beasts in question
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform nah, town hipsters. the sort of kids that'd be on reddit if they could comprehend english
mircea_popescu: unlike the god forsaken plains to the south, romania has a great hunting history
mircea_popescu: romanian hipsters are enraged every year, pen poisonous op pieces for mags and rags
mircea_popescu: fun fact : romanian baron (ion tiriac) owns hunting domain in romania, holds invite-only yearly event
mircea_popescu: i shook hands with chimps, they're not THAT strong for crying out loud.
mircea_popescu: "And I bet that Mr. Lee can hit pretty hard. I'm wondering if his ability to block/dodge/fend off the chimpanzee would give him the advantage."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform fun fact : the carpathian brown bear is just about human range. you'd get about one boy per generation per village that could wrestle a bear.
mircea_popescu: "Back in the early half of the century, circuses used to hold fights between apes and the strongest men in the town they were touring through. The men were generally knocked unconscious just a few seconds into the fight, after the first blow from the ape."
mircea_popescu: for the other thing, does it even know what a choke hold is ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i'd choose the chimp and fucking maul it.
mircea_popescu: Bitcoin to surpass Berkshire as an investment got .3 and isn't on there ?