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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i had the opportunity to laugh my ass off at a schmuck last week. son of a friend with this pushy, clueless fiancee. she wants them to buy (mostly on his mother's dough) an apt in this building
mircea_popescu: these are apartments the chinese built and nobody wants.
mircea_popescu: perhaps one could go lower than that, but for the time being i can't imagine how.
mircea_popescu: so basically cryptostocks is the stock exchange of the future which was judged too low quality by a guy who was running an asset predicated on taking in two beans, giving back one bean a week later and claiming this is 25% roi.
mircea_popescu: "Satoshi Poker has been delisted and shares have been bought back at 0.001 due to non response of cryptostocks customer service which was harming our IPO"
mircea_popescu: srsly. market cap 41k, can't get 30 btc on an open auction.
mircea_popescu: the "investors" that were fed a 4k btc minimum for a 20k btc valuation are going to be dealt with out of...
mircea_popescu: Starting bid of the auction is 30 BTC. Payment of buy is completely in bitcoin, of which 22.9 BTC has to be done to the hot wallet so buyer can see that in fact the balances are covered and remainder has to be sent to me to settle with SP's current investors.
mircea_popescu: mike_c guy could have gone a lot further if he actually used his chances rather than thinking he's smarter that everyone. that's the tragedy part of this drama here.
mircea_popescu: I have to look for a project that gives me a paycheck and allows me more time to spend with my girlfriend who had a miscarriage while i was sitting in the waiting room in the hospital working on SP...
mircea_popescu: vision and a budget steps in and takes over. At this moment there is a deficit in player funds, and I would be able to cover them by taking out another bank loan but at this point I would rather sell it and cover all balances from the buying price, as it is pointless to run an internet business with no marketing or development budgets and basically working full time to maintain the just under $1000 in monthly turnover.
mircea_popescu: After working on the project for the past year, sacrificing my other businesses, investing a lot of time and money and running into personal debts to get it to where it is today, I don't have the time or personal stability to move the business forward to its full potential. Since november I have been working with no marketing budget and no development budget and for the future of SP it is better if somebody with a new
mircea_popescu: Satoshi Poker has $118.50/mo net operational costs for the rent of a dedicated server and VPS webhosting package (website and gameserver/bitcoin systems are hosted seperately for security reasons)
mircea_popescu: so i guess the guy's insolvent and that's his way of breaking the news ?
mircea_popescu: "Total owed to players: 19 BTC in player balances in the system, 3.9 BTC in pending withdrawals (I will cover these funds out of the buying price so after buying, company will have 0 liabilities towards its players, software companies or whatsoever)"
mircea_popescu: Retweets 11,598 Favorites 8,793 << dude us folk are weird. the actual pic never got 11k retweets wtf.
mircea_popescu: they probably accidentally sent her a care package full of dongs
mircea_popescu: pankkake prosecuting poor satoshipoker guy. WHY R U SUCH A TROAL!
mircea_popescu: you need someone actually competent for a field to exist.
mircea_popescu: if anyone's patient enough, compare the auction result to the ipo proceeds
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo omit :D to emit is the act committed by the emittor of emissions, whereas to omit is the act of the omittor of omissions
mircea_popescu: <BingoBoingo> asciilifeform: A number of watches still use silver oxide cells... << the better ones, anyway.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if it's safe enough for the road it can't not be safe enough for teh planes :D
mircea_popescu: lol. think of the implications had they discovered it in the cod's tail rather than stomach.
mircea_popescu: even things the russians mistake for "slav spirit" are about as chinese as it can be.
mircea_popescu: this has been china for pretty much the entire interval
mircea_popescu: buncha equal peons, and the emperor drunk out of his mind. between these, a bureaucracy, completely arbitrarily "educated" by rote.
mircea_popescu: who doesn't think farmers understand, because for shephers... c'e diverso. e con le stelle, uno puo parlare.
mircea_popescu: or in the words of tornatore (uomo delle stelle), "e il mondo vero, or solo per finta ?"
mircea_popescu: in that physicalist view you'll have trouble showing people even exist at all.
mircea_popescu: benkay no but on the naively nominalist view that "you" existed sincer forever and will exist forever. soul or w/e.
mircea_popescu: the steady state of planet earth is china being teh world empire
mircea_popescu: sure there is. the steady state of humans is being dead.
mircea_popescu: with temporary century-long interruptions due to invasions and whatnot. it always reverted.
mircea_popescu: what the us pretends for itself, china has been, for the past ~5000 years
mircea_popescu: bounce the little known fact is that china was always the world's empire.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo and the thing is, god help you if you sell the chinese golden toilets. afaik nobody got shot when it was discovered haliburton "misplaced" 1 bn in the various senatorial etc campaign slushfunds in iraq
mircea_popescu: (read that again. fine = pretty broad. jesus i fucking love myself har har har)
mircea_popescu: only one i can think of. and the definition of "fine" must be pretty... broad.
mircea_popescu: but if you can't afford what you need, isn't that an indication that you shouldn't be doing what you're doing ?
mircea_popescu: "The magazine couldn’t afford moderators, as many news organizations can’t." herp.
mircea_popescu: it doesn't have to be "real", because wtf is that real mean, but it does have to be identity.
mircea_popescu: i still think discussion is impossible absent identity.
mircea_popescu: pretty lulzy, "this newspaper closed until we can find some not-retartded people to read it"
mircea_popescu: bounce it's not trivial to actually burn down a modern transformer.
mircea_popescu: and because of ecological concerns, old style coolant mixtures that were azerotropic were replaced with new, more expensive formulations. a punctured coolant room means you have to empty, was and refill.
mircea_popescu: bounce not really. all the bullet needs to do is perforate the coolant room. anywhere.
mircea_popescu: they're conveniently forgetting to mention the ominous part where the attackers disabled the security with minimal, expert moves.
mircea_popescu: plus absurdistan ecological regulations, like being criminally responsible for birds flying into your intake vents