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mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic> and why i chose to return n/a instead << good call.
mircea_popescu: mike_c a yes that. turns out i been behind on my lolreports. was busy lately
mircea_popescu: we can tell the dragons from the pretentious bats quite readily, because of such small little barbs on yggdrasil.
mircea_popescu: which is why things such as got milk are so motherfucking important
mircea_popescu: in other news, i've been around long enough to know him as namjies. which is what your noob'd know him as too, if he actually HAD been around for as long as he claims.
mircea_popescu: <mike_c> i don't keep up much on havelol, just found out they've been running in the red the last few months! << did they publish this ?
mircea_popescu: fluffypony> "@fluffypony: When you have been here long enough you do learn that << who's the clueless fuckwit ?
mircea_popescu: <Apocalyptic> <benkay> but i wouldn't build a bridge out of Al. // some people did << duraluminum. not a bad choice, esp if your bridge is to submerge.
mircea_popescu: turns out working for the bureaucracy sucks these days. whoi could have guessed.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> there is no 'cloud.' only - other people's hard disks. << you have to appreciate the infantile worldview. there is no "my house" as far as teenagers go, just the place other people pay the mortgage on. nevertheless...
mircea_popescu: Mircea Popescu You know, plenty of corpses have been keeping very strict diets, doesn't seem to have improved their health.
mircea_popescu: Scott Skyrm If 5 years of near 0% interest rates isn't sufficiently helping the housing market, then maybe the problem lies elsewhere
mircea_popescu: by the way, the last bond auction was a slaughter. yield ended up 3.44% (up from issuance), and the dealers kinda smelled of panic.
mircea_popescu: <Apocalyptic> <LadyRainicorn> And everything insightful I write lingers with like 5 upvotes. << truely summed up. especially the part where some random self-absorbed nobody is whining about how the world isn't more impressed with them
mircea_popescu: "Bitstamp’s accounting system rounds trading fees to pennies. To greatly reduce the impact of this rounding for our clients the minimum trade amount is being raised to $5.00." ahahaha
mircea_popescu: trilema commenter sez, "I used to be more than happy to find this internet"
mircea_popescu: "Millions will be encouraged to dump Monsanto stock this coming Friday, May 9th, to give a clear message to the biotech industry that we don’t support them at all."
mircea_popescu: eh, the guy made headlines plenty of time, and i don't recall that bs
mircea_popescu: sau pe romaneste, turma merge in directia-n care vrea ciobanu', nu in directia-n care behaie oile.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: but he who holds the field makes the rules, irrespective of which way the sheep baaa
mircea_popescu: obviously if they wait to submit for that point they will also be taxed, for their stupidity, but hey. fair is fair, suck the cock early on, enthusiastically, or else be bloodied by it later.
mircea_popescu: when any company wishing to transact discovers that any single attgempt to use a fiat system results in a failed transaction and a mountain of paperwork, whereas their competitors are getting through just fine via bitcoin, nothing is optional anymore.
mircea_popescu: then gl arguing about the "hackers" "threatening" "bitcoin" when no fiat bank can do anything since last year.
mircea_popescu: and i wouldn't worry too much for the entire haxxorz bullshit. we're pretty much in place by now, if it ever becomes pol;itically expedient or economically productive to do so, the entire obsolete fiat industry can be fully interdicted with little cost and little effort.
mircea_popescu: bounce but srsly, what don't you like about the sec release ?
mircea_popescu: obviously they're making it just enough of a not-priority so as to miss out, that's part and parcel of how governments work.
mircea_popescu: GEORGE: Well, it always has to be explained to me, and then I have to have someone explain the explanation....
mircea_popescu: bounce oh, her. that's too soon really, they're still working on having what i said translated.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony no actually i'd say it's exactly right for forum learning.
mircea_popescu: also it makes sense to limit investment to rich people. because poor people are stupid, and their stupidity hurts the market, not just themselves.
mircea_popescu: "This INITIAL PUBLIC OFFERING AGREEMENT (the "Agreement") is made and entered into as of August 14, 2012, by and among Bitpantry, an unregistered corporation ; Ryan "aethero" Schreiber (GPG fingerprint 305C FB53 7F95 EB20 34A2 E72F 6B5A 5086 B24E D539), an individual ; Stormy "lucidlepidoptera" Schreiber (bitcoin address 1J96JXdfY3CYKeqiDASgnaKjLqumfqfSdG), an individual and MPEx"
mircea_popescu: and with that i bid you all a most excellent nighty night.
mircea_popescu: i'm an elitist because i've had the good chance to observe first hand what works and what doesn't and how and why.
mircea_popescu: i'm not an elitist because i got bored daydreaming one day and fixated on that.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform consider the more apocalyptic scenario : there's no secret currently kept by the nsa that we don't already know.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the message couldn't be louder or clearer : the nsa is being retired.
mircea_popescu: <decimation> the bigger story is that 37% of fed retirment money is invested in a "fund" that has returned %0.82 year-to-date. << and then we cuss out people for "investing" in glbse&co
mircea_popescu: decimation no, at the time, it paid people overseas (and select foreign governments)
mircea_popescu: the gestapo you gotta pay. else the court may not "think"