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mircea_popescu: evil is traditionally used as the catchall for anything anyone perceives as contrarian or enmitous and isn't readily reducible.
mircea_popescu: a fraudster stands to evil in the relationship an army major stands to the government.
mircea_popescu: "I was shaking. We had spoken to Evil on the phone." ahaha dude how fucking overdramatic can altucher get.
mircea_popescu: must seem so fucken plastic & fake. "whyz dese bitches dresst anyway?!?!"
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i wonder how they manage to shoot videos tbh. if i were living the limited lifespan of a rappar, i couldn't give less of a shit as to what tv convntions are.
mircea_popescu: or so common & obvious it really doesn't need a word for itself
mircea_popescu: incidentally, what's the us black slang to denote a woman in her 20s that spends her life naked in the household of some local lord / trap star ?
mircea_popescu: sure. but nothing cuts itself. evntually you get to a prime mover.
mircea_popescu: so basically society only works for as long as society enforces some sort of equivalent by itself. which is also why there can never be a society of "laws not men".
mircea_popescu: problem with trying to implement that however is that it's too fucking sweet for whoever's in charge to hijack it into oppression of dissent
mircea_popescu: what a healthy society needs are lemon laws for speech.
mircea_popescu: the only thing it yields is a vicious circle of ever decreasing marginal investment in speech
mircea_popescu: this is why, incidentally, giving people a voice is such a bad idea.
mircea_popescu: costs him about 100x less to run the mouth than it costs you, and so... he's using it.
mircea_popescu: twerp : "guncontrolobamacareglobalwarmingsmokingbanclimatechangederpyherpyderpderpherp"
mircea_popescu: serious politician : "name one policy your demagogy implemented that served the public"
mircea_popescu: fluffypony he went to the us school of diversive argumentation.
mircea_popescu: he's prolly tried wp past 1.x and got burned by how shitty it is
mircea_popescu: <BingoBoingo> fluffypony: Also get rid of that discus shit << srsly.
mircea_popescu: quote that to forum derp. this is exactly what we fucking do here, day in, day out.
mircea_popescu: “I have an idea,” I said, “I know the guy who wrote that letter. I’ll write to him and ask him if he wrote that letter. This way he independently verifies.” << the wot.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the post sounds legit. it's pretty much how something like that'd go.
mircea_popescu: - Bill wanted 25% of all the upside on the full $25 million in shares for the next ten years.
mircea_popescu: Bill said, “We’ll lend $10 million IF we get the full $25 million on any default.” Here were the other terms Bill said.
mircea_popescu: i could use some *people* that reliably detect my sarcasm
mircea_popescu: this bit of info'd quite change the optimisation, if they had it.
mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic i suspect it's only disrupted by the fact that atc has the sort of backing that makes it not go anywhere. it's nailed straight to the sun as it were.
mircea_popescu: course this is a fact people who aren't familiar with atc history probably easily miss.
mircea_popescu: since they'll be counting the "high" 5k as "low" six weeks later anyway
mircea_popescu: seems the hopper's "optimisation" is nothing but a dream in their head
mircea_popescu: funny tho the lockstep way it works. 1k - 4k - 1.5k - 5k - 2k - 7k - 5k diff sort of thing
mircea_popescu: they used to be 10% earlier this year. then again they used to be 100% a coupla years ago
mircea_popescu: on top of that there's some... maybe 1-2% by now, amateurs that get to jerkoff to the thought that they're "just as much a part of bitcoin AS ANYONE"
mircea_popescu: rack up the fiat expenses so you don't make a profit, take the bitcoin home.
mircea_popescu: bitcoin mining is a perfect avenue for large players to dodge tax, whcih is why the hash is going quite so nuts.
mircea_popescu: One thing to note is that, generally speaking, a Bitcoin/altcoin mining operation is strictly profitable from a fiat perspective. Anyone who thinks they’re profitable from a BTC perspective needs to take a cold, hard look at the data for the past few years, and needs to couple the historical data with the inevitable delays when pre-ordering mining equipment. << this is quite true.
mircea_popescu: i suppose the wanna-be cool dorks love it because it's so BIG and it looks JUST LIKE IN TH MOVIES OMAYGAWD
mircea_popescu: i had no idea they used the barrett as an anti-personnel device on the streets of the asphalt jungle
mircea_popescu: Mark Serbu told us, “I refused to sell my rifles to the NYPD, and when I talked about it online, it blew up like crazy. Everybody liked the idea of a gun law biting the government on the ass. There are only two manufacturers of semi-automatic 50-caliber rifles in the US, and neither will sell to the NYPD. This is like, ‘Screw you, New York.’ People are less safe without our rifles to protect you.
mircea_popescu: luckily we have years of amassed history and discussion to establish what competence/experience are, what they do and how they look like.
mircea_popescu: it's funny tho, that completely disqualifies thyem from any sort of experience or competence in the field
mircea_popescu: "by investing in this company you're buying chunks of a dollar-denominated investment, because they mostly plan to sell your bitcoin and pay off fiat costs."
mircea_popescu: why would fiat costs pose a problem ? it's quite clear why fiat revenues are a problem for reits etc, but costs ?
mircea_popescu: fluffypony " Given how reliant this company is on paying backend costs in fiat" I don't follow this part.
mircea_popescu: or wait, was that, they're planning to actually send congress a budget at all, like required by law ?
mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic they're also planning tobalance the budget
mircea_popescu: "They have something better than WOT. Real names and real business experience." ahahaha help me rwanda.
mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic: I wonder how much US sent them back so far << the us had more sense than to put a clause in there that the matter is to be judged according to frankfurt law.