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mircea_popescu: fucking thoughtful. by now whenever you see that brandied about by teh msm you know you're supposed to bitchslap an infant somewhere.
mircea_popescu: "please see this matter in those terms our keepers have determined are least productive for your side"
mircea_popescu: "Mostly, though, given that the use of government drones on American soil is an issue that demands to be taken seriously, fantasizing about blowing them to pieces doesn't seem to lend itself being an appropriate voice in what should be an important and thoughtful debate."
mircea_popescu: is "absurd" the new lingo for "shit that we feel threatened by" ?
mircea_popescu: yeah totally coca cola will be involved in technologee.
mircea_popescu: well this isn't a problem of up or down, just, wtf am i going to do with all this capital.
mircea_popescu: seems mpif is cursed, whatever it touches turns to snooze mode.
mircea_popescu: soo on the sad news front, panacea is going on vacation too.
mircea_popescu: "Well, not a perfect match, but close enough for government work." this is an expression isn't ot.
mircea_popescu: now the spiritual continuator of that mess got all these two star generals that basically sat at a desk 30 years
mircea_popescu: you know one of the major complaints of the french revolution was an officer corps that had never seen the field.
mircea_popescu: "Greene, who was on his first deployment to a war zone" << how can you get a maj. gen comission without ever seeing a warzone is the q.
mircea_popescu: decimation well outside of teh country one's obviously taking his chances.
mircea_popescu: "Vladimir Putin has made a complete mockery of delusional US foreign policy yet again, this time anulling in one fell swoop decades of attempts to isolate Iran by signing a 700bn ruble deal".
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla i should hope they will collect over 700k btc and change.
mircea_popescu: how much are the shares of a company worth, that's bankrupt and can adjust prices to buffer inflation ?
mircea_popescu: figure it out, man : if rates hike capital dries up. all of a sudden all the nude swimmers in the merger and acquisition smorgasbord are now up in thewinds.
mircea_popescu: right, so if they double gas price people just pay 2x as much for gas.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes what company can inflate prices to match inflation ?
mircea_popescu: dude seriously ? rising interest makes stock more attractive than bonds ?
mircea_popescu: when the Federal Reserve starts raising interest rates. The quick takeaway: Stocks look much more attractive than bonds–at least through 2018."
mircea_popescu: "Goldman Sachs Group Inc.GS -1.32% says it knows what’s going to happen
mircea_popescu: they also account for roughly nothing% of that lolfest.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: BingoBoingo: I'm pretty sure this isn't like MaidSafe - Vitalik does the tour circuit, and he's been building up to this for a while << so he's the new neoderp, whatever was that kid's name.
mircea_popescu: i'd gladly pay them nothing at all while they worked at overturning their own hierarchy.
mircea_popescu: validating these twerps is worse than giving them a salary.
mircea_popescu: decimation aka the schmukette in the previous image. noty.
mircea_popescu: <ThickAsThieves> <+Vexual> incidetally, whats a satoshi called in atc? a tat? /// altoshi << quit being so modest << a tit ?
mircea_popescu: Shakespeare: Rudder’s response: “To wring his hands all day for a hundred thousand dollars a year?”" << happens to be the exactly correct response.
mircea_popescu: the despicable vulgus considers itself whatever it is that pays. being rich doesn't pay anymore, it's much better to "have needs"
mircea_popescu: no. they consider themselves to be sick, discriminated against and rape survivors.
mircea_popescu: it was probably "affordable housing" as part of some development or w/e
mircea_popescu: decimation some woman parlayed a shoplifted pair of heels into a trip to ibiza. what of it ?
mircea_popescu: re:mount on roof : the house is the shitty vinyl siding crap they do in the us. there was no place to attach it to the wall, as the thing has no walls.
mircea_popescu: <decimation> re: kickstarter : I think the real product is an illusionist's trick: I'm a somebody because I'm an investor, even though I'm investing chump change for the chumpatron << you're quite correct, in that. it's reddit except expensive.
mircea_popescu: decimation nah, the king's power derives from not substantially and unprofitably moving outside of the joint interest of the barons.
mircea_popescu: you know, the way... wait for it.. the way bitcoin works.,
mircea_popescu: decimation pretty much. pick a baron you like for a place to do business
mircea_popescu: decimation the way it's supposed to work is that you can do it always if you have enough money.
mircea_popescu: "At the beginning of May, my team and I were assigned to an exploratory project. Typically summer is the off-season and most of the projects are time fillers that result in a few papers/presentations and are then archived and never heard of again. This project was different. We were given a direct research assignment from the Board of Governors a few hours after the conclusion of their May 29th closed meeting."
mircea_popescu: besides, i miss being able to answer teh "occupation" query with "student"
mircea_popescu: i already live five blocks down from it, im already taking the sophomores out for a ride... mgith as well. pretty much everyone's a lawyer here anyway.
mircea_popescu: so what does the group think, should i go to argentine law school ?
mircea_popescu: no you fuckwits, it hasn't. it yielded a lot of ridicule for how kickstarter fails on both ends : it's not a way to get financed and it's not a way to allocate capital. well done.
mircea_popescu: "Zack’s project inspired some handwringing about What It All Means. Here’s one take: Kickstarter is a good place to aim high and go big, but small projects are great too"
mircea_popescu: thickasthieves what solution does it offer ? essay competition ?
mircea_popescu: "Jacqueline Boubion, 30, Diamond Bar, California. Degree: B.A. communications, California State University, Fullerton. Career goal: film director. Current job: production assisting in commercials and music videos. Student Loans: none, but $22,000 in credit card debt." << right. she's got problems.
mircea_popescu: "Eric Curran, 23, Wahoo, Nebraska. Degree: B.A., history and religion, Midland University. Career goal: professor of Lutheran theology or history professor. Current job: education assistant at local public schools. Student Loans: $11,000."