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mircea_popescu: RagnarDanneskjol it's not really something one can outsource. liquidity events are notoriously contentious, high level sort of work.
mircea_popescu: kyuupichan the eth scammers pretty much admitted it was all wash trading in some blogpost recently
mircea_popescu: so you'll have to somehow come to terms with a one-off sort of contract. i'm not chaining conditionals.
mircea_popescu: im not looking for an opportunity to play the businessman. i'm sick and tired of the actual work of it.
mircea_popescu: antonosika the idea here is that the constant admin costs aren't worth it to me.
mircea_popescu: antonosika if you want 2016 delivery we can just do that.
mircea_popescu: <kyuupichan> pankkake: Likely for good this time << prolly.
mircea_popescu: maybe he's an analyst as opposed to a cunning linguist.
mircea_popescu: make two random series, fit them, you'll get something more or less like that
mircea_popescu: only a mind that never played with statistics can think there's something in there.
mircea_popescu: results of social pressures and generational conditioning are dictated by human nature or that human nature guides human behavior under these extraordinarily distorted circumstances.
mircea_popescu: Humans are highly adaptive creatures and incredibly ingenious when it comes to modifying our behavior in the face of externally or internally applied pressure and circumstance. ‘Normal’ is a relative term, not some static measurement, and both the body and mind quickly becomes accustomed to the ‘new’ normal when choices appear to be limited and the herd moves to a new grazing field. But this doesn’t mean the
mircea_popescu: (this is what i'm going to call people that are right from now on. if leah derpman can make nonsensical statement then chase it with "saying it doesn't make it so" @ som eunfortunate soul that tried to point out she's talking out her butt, why can't i!)
mircea_popescu: it sucks being such a religious leader all the god damned time.
mircea_popescu: punkman so this is yet another case of "mp makes definite statements on no basis ; later they turn out to be true." ?
mircea_popescu: you can tell her we're just virulently adverse to unselfaware idiocy
mircea_popescu: it;'s really quite old. about amonth or so apart from the world famous horseback one.
mircea_popescu: guy that made the first pwn2own thing went nuts making insane claims. exactly what impotent bureaucracies trying to pass for dangerous spooks would like to hear.
mircea_popescu: one needs a whole lot of various crap to keep the fiat boat afloat.
mircea_popescu: i doubt the ideological needs of pierce's masters can so readily be summed up.
mircea_popescu: punkman let me know if you get to something noteworthy.
mircea_popescu: you can insert any address you want in your wallet. sure, you won't have the privkey to sign with it. so ?
mircea_popescu: you can grep the blockchain for chrissakes if nothing else.
mircea_popescu: i don't get it. you can already run watch-only addresses.
mircea_popescu: Sir Thomas More: And when we die, and you are sent to heaven for doing your conscience, and I am sent to hell for not doing mine, will you come with me, for fellowship?
mircea_popescu: The Duke of Norfolk: Oh confound all this. I'm not a scholar, I don't know whether the marriage was lawful or not but dammit, Thomas, look at these names! Why can't you do as I did and come with us, for fellowship!
mircea_popescu: there's a nice quote in that 60s scofield movie on just this topic :
mircea_popescu: gotta show me i'm not the only one that can be an asshole!
mircea_popescu: the thing with people is that most of them are better served by following than leading. this is manifested by an inability to adhere to a self-selected set of rules. so, you know, he wants to roll with the punches.
mircea_popescu: punkman six hours in, log is magically 15k lines long.
mircea_popescu: except random derps don't have ideas, tehy have expressions of what they think are ideas.
mircea_popescu: the numbers are not the problem. their representation is. much like "ideas" come in sets of logical groups
mircea_popescu: i can't decide if i prefer cognac or rum with this chocolate fondue. they're both so damned good!
mircea_popescu: it's a great coincidence that wood burns cleanly and coal only slightly dirty, otherwise civilisation'd have been quite a different thing.
mircea_popescu: bats_cd03: apparently, composite materials involved in fire result in aerosolized particles that can behave like asbestos <<< yes, this is why fires are so dangerous in contemporary urban settings. the smoke kills you more often than the fire.
mircea_popescu: punkman: "the expenses the largest is legal at $296,000 followed by rent at $111,000" << shoudl be interesting what they rent for 111k. weren't the derps in san francisco whining coupla months ago that 10 / month / sqfoot is "outside of what a business can pay" ?
mircea_popescu: punkman: "The sale still has 28 days left to go; although we are not expecting much out of this remaining period, anything is possible." <- why would it suddenly stop? << three gini guesses, and anything that's not "because they stopped wash trading" dun count.