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mircea_popescu: french employment. where good pr0n is only a lick away
mircea_popescu: well it doesn't have a vest, but anyway. got pockets and everything
mircea_popescu: in unrelated news, my pyjamas have little octopuses on them, my table is an inch of glass, i prop my knee under it while sitting. 3rd fucking thims this morning i had a peripheral vision panic of "WHOA WTF ARE THOSE"
mircea_popescu: i was about to say davout got 51 problems and a horse ain't one.
mircea_popescu: pankkake whoa shit, they're getting close to the 100 btc cutoff ?!
mircea_popescu: it's not a sale anyway. if anything, it's good news for you.
mircea_popescu: pankkake you don't have to use the exchanges. you can just undercut los_pantalones here :D
mircea_popescu: how about you know, derps paying voluntary stupid tax (again)
mircea_popescu: jurov kinda nonsensical. if he dumps the price he gets competition.
mircea_popescu: "The company will publish financial statements and certified audits frequently to make calculation of operating expenses transparent."
mircea_popescu: i dun recall them actually delivering 5k of the things, they had a limited supply prolly bought off some suprluss deal.
mircea_popescu: pankkake how many coins would that be? << the early (only) bfl delivered miners were commercial fpgas, so you know... a lot.
mircea_popescu: "also bitcoin was under 5 in spite of us secretly doing 140% of network hash on our 6k bfl miners self-delivered early by about 17 months"
mircea_popescu: "we also knew what chips bfl had sanded off in 2013 way back in 2011, which allowed us to beat them to the punch by two years but keep quiet about it"
mircea_popescu: "we of course can not offer any documentation to this claim, nor have we learned to gpg yet, because this is all very common of big ticker 2012 miners"
mircea_popescu: "During years of engineering time, we have built a network of partners, resources and contacts in Asia, Europe and the USA." yet the best they could do was still havelock.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: ThickAsThieves: if document is genuine, this is likely a 'marketing scheme' for the usg blacklist crap. << if it is it'll backfire, ppl get to learn first hand just how harmless btc actually is by telling these folk to stfu / ignoring them
mircea_popescu: jurov: but upon presenting them, namworld sid he can do better and old logo was actually okay << hey, my vote won!
mircea_popescu: but then what's that scrape when blackberry wouldn't give its keys to some foreign, i don't recall, russia was it ?
mircea_popescu: looks like erzsebet bathory's ballet troupe. "send your girl over, we'll suck her blood and leave an empty husk within five years".
mircea_popescu: i dunno what can do that to a man, outside of smoking rocks
mircea_popescu: look at that man. he went in there all plump and looking 35. a decade later he looks 60
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo that'd have required people with something other than cotton between their ears living and breathing in washington
mircea_popescu: o yeah, and of the ~50bn spent on reconstruction (1% of total, or 10x the benefits) pretty much nothing of any use was built.
mircea_popescu: NOT worth it. in fact, if the usg simply invested its 7trn budget into bitcointalk "investments" the us would be ahead today
mircea_popescu: this includes ~ 100k ak guns missing, about half a trillion in disappeared funds, including billions paid to known outright washington graft
mircea_popescu: and since we're discussing the war in iraq, let's debunk some common myths. the us has spent close to 2 trillion on it so far, which balloons to 7 trillion if you count interest payments, as the us is flat broke (the affair will be paid for by 2055ish).
mircea_popescu: i'll give you even odds on kurdish holocaust vs kurdish independence any time.
mircea_popescu: the notion of any sort of kurdish state would require commitment to the level of 100k boots on the ground for a few years, and then ongoing support a la israel.
mircea_popescu: the us paid ~500mn to boost online reputation of white house official.
mircea_popescu: exactly how the chinese ended up ruled by manchuku, too.
mircea_popescu: signals be signals, all i need is to know what they mean.
mircea_popescu: yes but economy has the same age old problem : it's real. once i know that ivy league predicts non-competence im not hiring them anymore.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes, but it's max grade from the forum's investor grading thing. A+++
mircea_popescu: you just can't get such a good measure of kids coupla years post puberty
mircea_popescu: a uni program that doesn't shed 50% is dubious on its face
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo gnome prolly doesn't actually exist at all
mircea_popescu: i'd be fucken surprised if anyone ever read one of those things
mircea_popescu: “Admissions officers pay as much attention to students’ choice of essay topic as they do to the details in their essays,” Motto told me.
mircea_popescu: Hernandez, Jager-Hyman and others in the booming admissions-counseling business
mircea_popescu: , breakfast or dinners, but it does include lunch and a range of guidance, both before and during the four days, on how students should fill out college applications and best showcase themselves.
mircea_popescu: Michele Hernandez, another prominent admissions counselor, runs one or more sessions of an Application Boot Camp every summer in which roughly 25 to 30 kids will be tucked away for four days in a hotel to work with a team of about eight editors on what she told me were as many as 10 drafts of each of three to five different essays. The camp costs $14,000 per student. That doesn’t include travel to it, the hotel bill
mircea_popescu: Mats_cd03:95% of my time has been consumed by reading ncurses docs. drives me mad <<< ahaha heard this before
mircea_popescu: <peterl> essentially it is naked shorting derps? // <mircea_popescu> peterl yea // how does this square with your recent pronouncements against naked shorting? << division by 0 is a problem, 0 divided by 0 is not.