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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform was he a chechen living in turkmenistan ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i doubt it. he's actually more expensive to kill than to ignore.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and their political position is made more difficult by the presence of the millitant communists in the democrat party.
mircea_popescu: there's no certain reason for it to work for the entire finance bureaucracy
mircea_popescu: davout because to this day about half of the us bureaucracy is shielded by only the flimsy "nobody could have predicted"
mircea_popescu: which is not only unpleasant but in many cases quite dangerous
mircea_popescu: davout asa bonus he has a lenghty list of "i fucking told you so" for various people.
mircea_popescu: yeah, but his simple existence poses some very significant ontological problems to many folk in socialist academia
mircea_popescu: he's disliked by the people who imagine he's not their peer.
mircea_popescu: Thanks everyone for the incredible amount of support on this project! I hope we're just getting started."
mircea_popescu: Now - 6/12/14 Seat Price: $22.20 BTC Distributed: 0.056 BTC
mircea_popescu: i dare say the taleb notes and the gangue of great minds found at their burial are not the same
mircea_popescu: and this is perhaps the first time i used "dude" in its proper fucking sense in this chan. go me.
mircea_popescu: davout some dudes, tried to traverse the utah salt marshes, died.
mircea_popescu: whereas an uncombed, out of bed appearance like those notes is actually better according to the readers
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah this is an interesting point. people believe [because they're trained in school to believe and they never examine it ?] that the "proper" form is and they're at their best in book form
mircea_popescu: <davout> mircea_popescu: well, if you count $10k/month/person that's like 3.6mn/year in salary, that's not *that* much compared to what they raised, and they haven't been 30 for that long o a time i'd assume << you know the donner party also wasn't as large before as it was at the point it starved to death.
mircea_popescu: the owner is already swallowing random dusts from strangers.
mircea_popescu: <midnightmagic> inb4 someone finds englund's rehire << lol k/
mircea_popescu: from what i hear this 30mn bought them a lease on life worth about a year.
mircea_popescu: once they start laying down rail track and optic fiber...
mircea_popescu: mike_c yeah ok, sure. facebook is paying 20bn for bitpay because gallipi & his sister gave zuck such good rusty trombones.
mircea_popescu: the best construction for btc value conservation is if their management is good enough to copy s.mg, and basically they just take the investment turn it to btc and wait
mircea_popescu: for that matter, in no acquihire do the investors see a dime
mircea_popescu: i know they keep derping about how merchants went from 4k to 40k, but... w/e
mircea_popescu: i don't even recall, did they publish their total processed / gross fees for q1 ? 2013 ? anything ?
mircea_popescu sings .. i'm the king of the repartee, the asshole vip...
mircea_popescu: mike_c and notice that my lines are so very much longer too :D
mircea_popescu: obviously they're not cash-positive if they need 30mn now on top of the 10mn before and the 2.8mn before that or w/e it was.
mircea_popescu: it's sufficient for my strategic needs for it to be under par.
mircea_popescu: i'm not incentivised to sell it too low, i don't need the liquidity.
mircea_popescu: davout right as in what you say is true but it doesn't have much to do with the previous
mircea_popescu: mike_c also, this is a dilemma crafted for your shoesize. so, reits are bad right ? how about seits ? where s stands for ... shit i guess.
mircea_popescu: davout i know. that's kinda how the mpex synthetics ruin the life of these people : they make understanding what's going on so much easier.
mircea_popescu: davout yes, because they're fuckwitted leeches and instead of helping grow btc they just try to leech it for fiat profit.
mircea_popescu: leaving aside the fact that they very well can't buy even 10mn worth of btc.
mircea_popescu: davout the people who invested in bitpay took the same bet really.
mircea_popescu: mike_c when you say backup guess, do you mean you had two human language strings hash to the same md5 ?
mircea_popescu: i think we're seriously the most charitable people in bitcoin :D
mircea_popescu: you were nuts giving me even odds on a prop like that btw. i mean srsly, am i known for predictability or what,.
mircea_popescu: good thing he hosted it on pastebin with like the minimal features and all, i know of no server setups even dedicated that could have served 533 people since april.
mircea_popescu: ya dude, totally so many people. it's like a downpour of people.
mircea_popescu: leaving aside the part where his "opinions" turn out to be wrong, "hits:533"