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mircea_popescu: o dude look how that usg auction destroyued the price o noes.
mircea_popescu: how the fuck does atc diff work, afaik it was 400k and dropping 33% prev period now 500k dropping 33% ?!
mircea_popescu: <benkay> YOU DON'T GET A SECOND FUCKING SEED ROUnD << second virginity auction!
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell asciilifeform get a load of this : google knows of a sergey and an andrey prokofyev. no alexander.
mircea_popescu: "They spoke about the other students in Nerzhin's class, who had graduated on the day the war started. The most gifted had been killed or got shell-shocked - they were the ones who always rushed into action, without a thought for their own skins. Those of no promise were now either completing their post-graduate work or teaching in universities and institutes."
mircea_popescu: so basically the progression is an approximation of "how many lashes"
mircea_popescu: one of my esl slavergirls can influence the future more than the entire troop of 'em.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, to make the point plain : the real world, practical value of a libertard, such as a liberal with a phd from urbana & his firends, is just about epsilon.
mircea_popescu: i suppose the results should be informative, for normally socialised individuals. we're dealing with idiots coming out of urbana however, so he's prolly still in denial about just how utterly he got humiliated over the past six months
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo guy's in the team of "let's see if we can actually have a measurable impact on teh hated Bitcoin by lending our most valuable social-sciences-and-pointless-studies wisdom to dogecoin"
mircea_popescu: how do you expect to compete with me ? you're fucking old. what is this, begging for a burial ?
mircea_popescu: "You might say that's a good idea, shareholders should be treated equally. The problem is the shareholder base itself has changed dramatically. You've had a dramatic rise in hedge funds. Very short-term trading and dramatic rise in short-selling [investors betting that a stock's price will fall]. If you're a public company, you become the shuttlecock between warring longs and shorts. They bat your stock around like it'
mircea_popescu: being clueless is one thing, but being impotent... why even bother.
mircea_popescu: "I wanted to coldcock the guy." that line was obviously meant to be "i wanted to coldcock the cocksucker"
mircea_popescu: is that toxoplasm thing earlier supposed to be directly funny or just some sort of ultra-ellaborate meta-joke at the idiocy of us collegiate libertards struggling mightily with strawmen ?
mircea_popescu: there's probably 100 chicks looking for ways to make money with their tits on girlsbitcoin thing, there's maybe 100 bux each could make. a total of one met hers. 99% failure
mircea_popescu: pankkake you know, i imagine the fact that the btc for tits article you put into reddit went exactly nowhere is pretty indicative of reddit's success at its chosen task i reckon.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo you know, dacia has been making a 5k euro car for years now
mircea_popescu: <assbot> The IPO is dying. Marc Andreessen explains why. - Vox summary : "that asshole mp killed it"
mircea_popescu: <benkay> really? pgp isn't the answer? nooz to me. << well so let "we" eliminate email lol.
mircea_popescu: "I’m drunk tonight The smell of death Keeps haunting my world The scent Of scotch In dreary passion past us whirled."
mircea_popescu: <benkay> i mean i have no idea man - ancient disaster prostitution tourism? << a certain party tends to take girls for nude shots in various cemeteries.
mircea_popescu: Farm laborer monthly pay, with meals = 400 asses ; Teacher's monthly pay, per boy = 800 asses ; Barber's service price, per client = 32 asses ; 1 kg of pork = 380 asses (1 lb = 170 asses) ; 1 kg of grapes = 32 asses (1 lb = 15 asses)
mircea_popescu: "Phone use in Saudia Arabia has a penetration rate of 170%, with an estimated average of 30% of individual income spent on mobile phone and Internet costs in 2014."
mircea_popescu: hey, earlier i was trying to write an article and you kept zinging me
mircea_popescu: a lz4 bug which depends on 16mb blocks on 32 bit seems dead in the water
mircea_popescu: *: asciilifeform nominates Yann Collet for 'flondor list' << and now thanks to search, we can even use this.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla o i thought the part circled in red is what you meant. well they had a few PTS iirc
mircea_popescu: basically, facebook scientists just scientifically proved facebook is dead : the herd has replaced the trend setters.
mircea_popescu: "Facebook then analyzed the future postings of those users over the course of a week to see if people responded with increased positivity or negativity of their own, thus answering the question of whether emotional states can be transmitted across a social network. Result: They can!"
mircea_popescu: literacy has barriers to entry. always has. always will.
mircea_popescu: "without elaborate gymnastics" ? you go write the irc protocol for they who can't read or write