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mircea_popescu: "Here we are just a few short months later and we’ve heard from various people in the industry that we are quickly creating one of the most reliable cryptocurrency news sites and we’ve gathered up a team of kick ass volunteers to help us grow this madness out."
mircea_popescu: meanwhile in my inbox, "Hemant.Gupta.d1:58 am 70 million Email list @ 199$ limited period offer."
mircea_popescu: "The fund which received regulator approval from the Isle of Jersey back in back in July and was set to launch this month has joined The Bitcoin Foundation as a Silver Member."
mircea_popescu: Sponsors : earn bitcoin for clicking ads, win bitcoins today etc. so much win.
mircea_popescu: last several months by now. looking forward to convergence towards "two weeks"
mircea_popescu: "Mike (Executive Editor) - Mike has been following Bitcoin for the last several months and got fed up of sites that are full of advertisements and didn’t provide the latest news"
mircea_popescu: ah cool. well it's the first time i see this thing, seems it appeared sometime last week. what's it, like some sort of internet radio show basically ?
mircea_popescu: but yeah, kinda surpriosed not more people are trying to arbitrage it, short brk bet on no sorta thing
mircea_popescu: as far as i'm concerned, when the luminaries of the previous generation are careful to avoid playing you, more recognition is not really needed. it'll come, of course, but it's moot.
mircea_popescu: yes. i mean they claimed to want to invite someone who's short their thing, but to not be able to find one.
mircea_popescu: it already paid lulz in spades. buffett held his yearly meet, supposedly "couldn't find any short". just the embarassment of that...
mircea_popescu: well, the brk bet had the major advantage of 1k zeroconf. that has ~0% chances of being rejected.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: ;;google senior executive service pay << these folk get options. whole different story, as bubbles happen 3-5 times in a lifetime.
mircea_popescu: otherwise they may end up bamboozled by the nonsense fetishism of pseudo-power the ycombinator swamp is pusing, "in order to interact with power acceptably you must give it away in exchange for the trappings of it". tlp discusses the matter extensively and well.
mircea_popescu: more importantly, gotta show the kids what it means to be the boss and what a boss does.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform:they aren't rich, in the customary sense - but not paupers. << compare what'd happen to the us bureaucrat pauper vs the russian bureaucrat once someone in a hostile nation put the kaibosh on them. they're paupers.
mircea_popescu: it's the easiest skill to recognise, too. so... not much hope. they're hiring people, sure, but people only google/microsoft/apple/amazon would hire if they didn't.
mircea_popescu: decimation: at any rate it's not clear to me that clowns like Hayden or Alexander would even recognize skills if they saw them << precisely. suppose they DO recognise them, like, "this chick looks like she could suck a golfball through a gardenhose." now what ? the last guy that recognised that skill lost his job.
mircea_popescu: decimation: Hayden emphasized that the personnel problems are far less significant than the technological ones << well, i disagree. now, from a bureaucrat pov, sure, they generally can fill any jobs they want filled, according to their selection process. this however does not mean they are gaining any sort of valuable human capital.
mircea_popescu: and the idea was only boring women get married anyway.
mircea_popescu: dude. lordosis just like that is usually a pathologic curvature of the spine. teh lordosis ~behaviour~ is different.
mircea_popescu: step 1. set down bottle without looking. part 2. set it down on usb stick. step 3. bottle overturns and falls over, exactly cork down. part 4. nothing further happens.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes if you mean the lordosis ~behaviour~ it's this female mammal response to being hawt.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla you're doing it wrong. kbd should be in front of monitor not behind
mircea_popescu: all these noobs going join/part are kinda lulzy by now
mircea_popescu: there should be a new constitutional amendment. "no one may run for elected office, be it presidential, as member of congress or senate or any other, who can not recite the entirety of all laws, regulations etc"
mircea_popescu: "shouldn't the difference between .1 and .5 count for more than .23 to .1 in any and all circumstances" ? i guess
mircea_popescu: shouldn't the difference between .1 and .5 count for more than .23 to .1 ?
mircea_popescu: so the 1 buying at .1 lost 77%, whereas the .8 buying at 49 lost 90%
mircea_popescu: <decimation> turns back to me like nothing happened. Miriam faces these ancient human problems of violence and poverty, yet she owns a futuristic technology like a smartphone. This haunted me for months." <<< all this meaningless bs. was the daughter hawt is all i want to know.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> 'number one rule' of dominating mining - don't be an obvious idiot << problem is the obvious symbol is only defined in the core dump
mircea_popescu: <fluffypony> $600 million worth of mining hardware would not work << kinda th point.
mircea_popescu: i don't need to be buddies with a cockroach to know why it can't fly.
mircea_popescu: he has lots of resources as long as he uses them a certain way
mircea_popescu: what, ima be trapped in meta jail now cause you're bored ? log's there.
mircea_popescu: i have little worry about the actual market value of things actually on the actual market.
mircea_popescu: in the sense someone is stupid enough to pay 100bn for fb and 20k btc for eth...
mircea_popescu: and whether i do or not is a matter of my own private and personal arbitrariety and nothing else.
mircea_popescu: zuckerberg does not. which is why i'm a player and zuckerberg for all the press, is not.
mircea_popescu: something i can do, if i want. i can sell out mpoe stock and put a 1bn dolar contract on obama's head.
mircea_popescu: that's cashing out : when you take your money and hit someone over the head with it.
mircea_popescu: it's a cash out when he takes 1bn of facebook stock and gives it to support rebels ousting the us from the ukraine.
mircea_popescu: BigBitz also you will notice, taking 1bn of stock and lavisingh it upon some charity does empathically not constitute a cash out.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: <BigBitz> Anyways - I am not trying to incite an argument. I just think and believe that if they wanted it they'd get it. Cash is their king (and many others). << the world has new kings, meanwhile. the direct effect of this being that no, the old kings couldn't anything, whether they wanted it or not.