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mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal> on bitbet, people always write up a bet about stocks like GOOG will close at above 1200 before jan 1 << so it's like freedom, let them have fun.
mircea_popescu: the article sized comments will continue until it stops with the nitpicks
mircea_popescu: chetty lol ltc is btc's copper ? what, so if all fails you can make yourself some nice ltc pipes ?
mircea_popescu: this silver that can't even keep 1%... what silver is it!
mircea_popescu: mpex was new, plenty of finance people had just for the first time in their life had this new pympex weirdo device and key based trading and etc.
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal the common wisdom at the time was that someone butterfingered. either it was meant to be a buy rather than a sell, or too many zeroes or something
mircea_popescu: (there was this event, back in 2012 iirc, when someone sold like 1mn shares in shallow bids, resulting into a temporary 99.9% drop of the price)
mircea_popescu: sounds like btc is nao copying mpex, i recall how pissed ppl were on the first and original sd dump
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell mike_c you proly should add pingbacks to your blog somehow.
mircea_popescu: mp lists derps, mpex servers go offline, mpex servers come back online, nobody wants to do series a anymoar. the lyf&tymes.
mircea_popescu: ALL IT TOOK WAS AN ARTICLE ON TRILEMA TWO YEARS AGO TO BUCK THEM
mircea_popescu: punkman even tecvh crunch is now skeptical of ycombinator
mircea_popescu: yeah, it's not like it's some big secret that ripple is broken and why etc.
mircea_popescu: you're not the master of the fucking world on other people's money. suppose you were a plumber and i hired you to build me a toilet on the ceiling. after you explained to me this design i have is idiotic, as long as i'm paying you;d better build it.
mircea_popescu: "Turns out, the post is complete junk. It's about as thoughtful and informative as the Nigerian 411 scam. Let's analyze the post, top-to-bottom."
mircea_popescu: They barely bring in a dollar a week for this site. They can be distracting, they can be frustrating and even annoying at times but they appear because they do bring something in, no matter how little and Mike applies every bit they earn to paying the ever increasing bills this site is faced with on a daily basis."
mircea_popescu: "I know some of this stems from the fact the website contains advertisements. A great debate has taken place internally about those advertisements.
mircea_popescu: "We’ve seen the criticisms from a certain IRC channel where he and the site is being put down for trying to raise some capital."
mircea_popescu: "In the spirit of being open and transparent (a guiding principal of this site and our editorial policies), I am adding this note to this story and taking full responsibility that I have failed our readers and offering my most sincere apologies."
mircea_popescu: i'm going to be a barber and ima peel everyone bloody today ;/
mircea_popescu: i have an idea, let's all call ourselves things we aren't and then do a shitty job of it.
mircea_popescu: not put up a note to insulate himsefl from them. this is like... antiprofessional.
mircea_popescu: an editor's job is to EDIT, which means protect the fucking copywriters from their own idiocy
mircea_popescu: Brendon has since resigned on his own accord after realizing from countless emails of concerned readers that this was seen as an “attempt to grab money via guilt”. While this was not his intention he has since realized that it could be seen that way by many readers and independently felt he needed to go back and better hone his skills at this time.
mircea_popescu: Editors Note from Mike: I am adding this note after this piece is published to state that this is a personal opinion piece from Brendon.
mircea_popescu: "Here, Quantrill took up a job in the lumberyards, unloading timber from rail cars. One night while working the late shift, he shot a man to death. Authorities briefly arrested Quantrill, who claimed self-defense. Since there were no eyewitnesses and the victim was a stranger who knew no one in town, William was set free."
mircea_popescu: fluffypony he was here earlier too. what's he doing these days ?
mircea_popescu: assbot: usagi +v failed; L1: 0, L2: -5 << this is kinda lulzy.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo but the attacks come mostly from the police.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony yeah the original was a more or less adult dude. acct may have been sold i hear.
mircea_popescu: cazalla: i had a diablo blog doing 1m uniques a month and it was fine on $20 month vps << that's pretty impressive for the vps.
mircea_popescu: he;'s just buttsore that google indexes trilema better than newscorp.
mircea_popescu: i mean asciilifeform needs it to prop up his "competence behind the incompetence" theory, but otherwise in practice it's not observed.
mircea_popescu: i dunno if that's particularly contemplated. whenever asciilifeform uses that i just replace with "secret agents"
mircea_popescu: well i imagine asciilifeform's theory is that snowden is kosher while i gave manning as an example of not.