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mircea_popescu: ebay is rimm cca 2005. who wants to tell the people with 401k's that mp will make a killing with puts on their savings ?
mircea_popescu: the alternative is, "bitcoin will kill us in a matter of years. please keep buying our stock"
mircea_popescu: that thing says exactly nothing at all. whence bullish ?
mircea_popescu: so reddit, made out of people who have no idea how to read pr statements, got all excited ?
mircea_popescu: is this the first case of a bit* site that's pre-bitcoin ?
mircea_popescu: SUSAN: Yeah, that's the way Russell is. He doesn't like to play games.
mircea_popescu: GEORGE: Well, don't they make a counter offer? How can they just cancel the whole deal like that? What kind of a maniac is this guy? I mean he just, he says no, and that's it?
mircea_popescu: "We cannot wake up or fall asleep, remember or forget our dreams, summon or banish our thoughts, by deciding to do so.
mircea_popescu: We think our actions express our decisions. But in nearly all of our life, willing decides nothing.
mircea_popescu: well so how would you like a managerial position in mpif ?
mircea_popescu: he's got every other gadget in his 400 sq feet of "living" space
mircea_popescu: chick that's not been allowed to wear pants for 5 years now or something, tried on one of my pairs for fun. she looked incredibly hot in them.
mircea_popescu: i mean he could say he's seen most GIRLS that ever shot more than a few tests
mircea_popescu: how is that even possible, i'd guess even excluding cams and amateur shit, there's well over 1mn hours floating around.
mircea_popescu: pankkake you seriously claim to have seen most porn in existence ?!
mircea_popescu: but yes, unless your portofolio is > 1k btc, you don't really need a seat imo.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony if you think about it, nyse has 1.5k seats or so, and perhaps 150mn diff people ever traded on it.
mircea_popescu: kinda funny for someone with 0 days experience in sales/product.
mircea_popescu: mike_c was as high as nyse, practically. back when btc went over 1200
mircea_popescu: "This is possibly the last chance to take those piles of fundamentally worthless US dollars and use them for something with any sort of future value.", the man said.
mircea_popescu: of fucking course you'll be priced out of what trilema tells you to do in april 2013 if you wait till april 2014. if you weren't priced out that'd mean trilema sucks.
mircea_popescu: what is this shit, i give orders and they disobey ? because why ?
mircea_popescu: why didn't they read trilema april 2013 and execute THAT WEEK ?
mircea_popescu: yeah well, they're limited by what they see on cereal cartons.
mircea_popescu: and i'll delight in punishing all the vcs with it in the years to come. "here. this was your job. this was your job that you didn't do. because you suck. because you're inept. because you can't do your job. like children. look how stupid you were. you still are."
☟︎ mircea_popescu: fluffypony nobody can say they didn't have a fair chance. they blew it, tho.
mircea_popescu: generally speaking, any move you take to make anything more accessible, makes it shittier. in general, by a larger % than the gain of accessibility.
mircea_popescu: lose a bunch of smart traders in the wtc, piss off everyone with a populist nyse franchise,
mircea_popescu: the collapse of the us is made of little pukes like that.
mircea_popescu: hardly worth having one (and the people that had them back in the day are pissed at nyse for it)
mircea_popescu: one of the issues with bitbet is how exactly the bets will be treated