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mircea_popescu: jurov: is this KeyError: " " ? << no that's some db issue
mircea_popescu: fix the fucking plumbing. once the fed stops leaking, the mold goes away. big whoop
mircea_popescu: that's he problem. an ok job is actually worse for them.
mircea_popescu: there's really no third way : either you moderate and are actually good at it, which so far is strictly mpex,
mircea_popescu: poor people are still poor. what's the deliverable exactly ?
mircea_popescu: ahahha that article's so lulzy, because this retarded shit is true.
mircea_popescu: "For most older Americans, calling yourself a liberal means you want to increase the size, scope, and spending of the government"
mircea_popescu: jesus who put stale pasta in Jessica Misener's cerebral cavity and why am i reading this sht.
mircea_popescu: to have a view eyes are not enough to see, nor mouth enough to speak, nor even some ganglion to somehow connect these two. in order to have a view one must have the ability to evoke that view in another, preferably another who does not care.
mircea_popescu: what happened to those old days when in order to have a view one first had to persuade ?
mircea_popescu: i have no idea why that thing's not more famous, it has just the right combo of freaky, cultured and humour to be another barbarella.
mircea_popescu: btw, if anyone's got 12 yos, get them "i sell the dead"
mircea_popescu: you know they'll make you dine as a citizenship test ?
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: or just mix the laxatives in the drink and run. << why run ?
mircea_popescu: great. punkman is like the resident social caseworker.
mircea_popescu: and in fact what was stolen is a broken spoon nobdy cares about except for some down syndrome patients ?
mircea_popescu: through such eminent strategies as giving away whatever passes for a password in that particular altscam world ?
mircea_popescu: so is it that some derp holding a worthless scamcoin he arbitrarily values at 1k btc got his worthless scamcoin "stolen"
mircea_popescu: i wonder what's next, we decide to confiscate all bitcoin owned by anyone involved with the french government ?
mircea_popescu: lol so the frenchies want to a) make bitcoin tx illegal among anon parties and b) make max tx 3k euro.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform etsy is a great place to meet famished young things. some pretty. some educable.
mircea_popescu: never waited more than a minute. walk up to street, lift hand. taxi is tere.
mircea_popescu: actualy, to put it in perspective, i've lived here for over a month, took > 100 rides, NEVER HAD TO CALL ONE.
mircea_popescu: the idea that there's a "global market" is beyond shoddy.
mircea_popescu: i can tell you that uber has 0 chances in romania, because i've never had a taxi be over 5 minutes, nor did i ever have a problem getting lost items back
mircea_popescu: " For most of America, prior to Uber it was impossible to predict how long it would take for a taxi to show up."
mircea_popescu: if there ever was a good signal to gtfo out of us stocks... i dunno what else it could be,.
mircea_popescu: "So here is the objective of this post. It is not my aim to specifically convince anyone that Uber is worth any specific valuation. What Professor Damodaran thinks, or what anyone who is not a buyer or seller of stocks thinks, is fairly immaterial."
mircea_popescu: most "vc"s are exposed to less btc than usagi was three years ago, for crying out loud.
mircea_popescu: nobody getting in today gets even 100k together, let alone 3mn, to keep proportions.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the problem was 1mn btc sloshing together at a time the total circulating btc was like 5mn
mircea_popescu: why put a pike on display just to stab yourself on the eye with ? just don't mention statistics at all, and merely go on derping nudely, "i want uber to be worth moar"
mircea_popescu: "Young math students are warned about the critical difference between precision and accuracy. Financial models, especially valuation models, are interesting in that they can be particularly precise. A discounted cash flow model can lead to a result with two numbers right of the decimal for price-per-share. But what is the true accuracy of most of these financial models?"
mircea_popescu: so a lot of the heartache of discovering one is poor because one is stupid, not because one never "had a chance" is spared them.
mircea_popescu: "people", ie, nobodies who got in in 2013 got in at a time their meagre disposable income already made it impossible for them to matter.
mircea_popescu: by the time you're that defeated you really have no incentive left to admit you're stupid.
mircea_popescu: well no. most of them went on to "invest" in glbse, be "offended" by mpoe-pr, then "invest" in whatever,
mircea_popescu: two years later, she's working that mfc and wondering "why it all went wrong"
mircea_popescu: but this idiot with a flashy car tells her how he's gonna make her a singer-actresss
mircea_popescu: no, more like we tell that Columbia girl that the best future for her is on her two knees and with a welted butt in our household
mircea_popescu: eminently uninsurable, and the confusion between the two things pretty much the #1 killed of insurance businesses.
mircea_popescu: the risk that your boss may not let you make the prototype however, for whatever ideological reason, is the other type.
mircea_popescu: the risk that your prototype may not work, for whatever real reason, is one type, and eminently insurable.