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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.
mircea_popescu: "Then he got to her essay. As he remembers it, she mentioned a French teacher she greatly admired. She described their one-on-one conversation at the end of a school day. And then, this detail: During their talk, when an urge to go to the bathroom could no longer be denied, she decided not to interrupt the teacher or exit the room. She simply urinated on herself."
mircea_popescu: so apparently bitcoind has a serious problem with moving timezones
mircea_popescu: economy is still a zero sum game, and you don't actually have political directionality.
mircea_popescu: no but there's no difference between avoiding a debt and making a gain. inasmuch as the offer is there, it's indifferent who you buy from. if you buy from me you prevent someone else from doing so, who will in turn have to buy from the "Founders"
mircea_popescu: anyway, it exposes the hostile agents to a hard case of the "either stupid or evil" dilemma.
mircea_popescu: i expect anyone who actually thinks one of the things is worth money to buy from me first, yes.
mircea_popescu: no. this is a way to expose the usg agents trying to push bitcoin a certain way.
mircea_popescu: if you can't sell more, and even if you have good reason to suspect you won't be able to sell more, you have no furhter reasopn to even try
mircea_popescu: if anyone can have it, for cheaper, you can't sell more.
mircea_popescu: that's the whole selling point of a series a : "buy before the masses"
mircea_popescu: problem with these deals is that they're not for derps.
mircea_popescu: because now they are actually going against sanity, much like the "havelock users" that somehow "bought" the re-ipo, briefly at 200% averages
mircea_popescu: kinda makes it difficult for the shills pretending to be buying from the guy.
mircea_popescu: now suppose 7/11 down thestreet from him sees this and puts up an ad : "same thing. 75c"
mircea_popescu: peterl perhaps. suppose some guy comes to your town and starts seelling bottled water as "magical healing elixir"
mircea_popescu: While Demand Media went public for a blistering $2 billion in 2011, its articles were largely useless, with titles ranging from "How to Boil Water" to "How to Turn on a Mac Computer." Google, in an effort to serve up quality content to its users, dropped Demand's articles down in the search results. The company's traffic plummeted and its shareholders were left researching "How to Write Off a Worthless Stock."
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo actually romanian booze doesn't give you a hangover
mircea_popescu: it's all a case of "hey dawg, we heard you like endorphins so we put more endorphins in your endorphins so you can space out while you';re spacing out"
mircea_popescu: you can tlel people anything you want, they're still gonna imagine drugs are cool mkay
mircea_popescu: if all it took weresome tcredits to make someone smart...
mircea_popescu: and you know, collect 20 bux a week in exchange for equipment these idiots "use" to make the sun keep rising