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mircea_popescu: someone should make a website that works just like google translate,
mircea_popescu: the cuban quote is quite inaccurate, if very self serving
mircea_popescu: rmation. But if you trade on the information, is it insider trading ? The answer as best I understand the law is NO. It is not insider trading. Why ? Because the CEO did not ask you to keep the information confidential. Nor did he ask you not to trade on the information. You have no responsibility to him. You can trade and tell the world about his deal if you would like."
mircea_popescu: "My understanding of insider trading law is that in order for it to be insider trading, there must be some violation of trust. In other words, if someone walked up to you and said “Im the CEO of this public company and I’m about to make the biggest cash sale in the history of the company and we will blow away all wall street numbers and you should buy the stock”. That is without question material, non-public info
mircea_popescu: why is the web made by imbeciles! srsly, how hard is to think this one through guys!
mircea_popescu: holy shit there's 1mn pdf to html/etc converters online, NONE of them will take an url as input
mircea_popescu: decimation: a parent who so acts today would probably be reported to the FBI << i had a chemistry lab. complete with strong acids and everything, i had like a pint of vitriol oil.
mircea_popescu: decimation: mirceau_popescu: the treatment of individuals << dude you srsly typed that out ?!
mircea_popescu: basically a less-annoying-than-usual applciation of cracked.com
mircea_popescu: heh. the adversaries have it all mapped out, but thanks.
mircea_popescu: "Any positive or negative response on a request-by-request basis would allow our adversaries to accumulate information and draw conclusions about NSA's technical capabilities, sources, and methods."
mircea_popescu: ht hours to stand down their armies before I nuked them back to the Cambrian. I probably wouldn't euthanize old people, but I might force abortions on the stupid."
mircea_popescu: "I can't even weigh in on what passes for political discourse in this country because I would actually do what the crazies are accusing Obama of doing. Seriously: I would take away everyone's guns, force public healthcare on everyone, put all the bankers in jail, engage in a strategic, federally-funded campaign to eradicate religion, turn us into a socialist state, and give every annoying country in the world forty-eig
mircea_popescu: i just pounded it into bits and had another system made.
mircea_popescu: hm. but i guess this actually works, cause im not really a coder. a well.
mircea_popescu: ridiculous. i beat the shit out of my systems. i broke a leg off the table to hammer at a monitor once.
mircea_popescu: " The only reason coders' computers work better than non-coders' computers is coders know computers are schizophrenic little children with auto-immune diseases and we don't beat them when they're bad."
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla by the time the kids retire, a 0.2 btc stash will buy them some bjs.
mircea_popescu: a better name one could not have for bitcoin involvement.
mircea_popescu: i can't believe this guy's name actually is goldstein.
mircea_popescu: it's really not so bad an idea. certainly the best thing mit is currently doing for its students' future.
mircea_popescu: then get gpg going on a secure system and get registered with gribble.
mircea_popescu: lol @ "especially coming from a woman" part. yeah, teh neckbeards are such a well spoken, brilliant lot.
mircea_popescu: some derpage about how people living off gm in a city that exists because of gm are allowed to hate gm ?
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> ThickAsThieves: google is the local megacorp there << recall the original michael moore piece ?
mircea_popescu: he's on irc all day long and his wife's getting bored.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves weren't you going to ask i forgot who i forgot what ?
mircea_popescu: a stupid reason as any other. well, anyway : who do you know that can rack muck ? can you get a team together ?
mircea_popescu: it's an endless pushing uphill for very little money, journalism. why'd you want it ?!
mircea_popescu: it did manage to get out some decent reporting. it seems it's sinking tho.
mircea_popescu: ok. what pando daily claims and proposes it wants to be is this true news venue.
mircea_popescu: princess-nell what do you want to do with your future ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform exactly. it's a fucking boxing match among cowards, blergh. i demand better show.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform dude, you imagine the usg would have the guts ? what's this, the future ?
mircea_popescu: if only these schmucks learned to stop sliding quietly into the night.
mircea_popescu: only hire black lawyer chicks over 180 that'll give you nookie, too.
mircea_popescu: mike_c that's the idea, spend it all on litigation first.
mircea_popescu: "But Teitelman came off as being at once knowledgeable and approachable. He didn’t exude any of the “dysfunctional Lisp-programmer” type attitudes at all. (Not that anyone else did….)"