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mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves dun hate jus' because your life quality is lower :D
mircea_popescu: (i last followed nba cca 1993, cause i was playing some pretty cool simulator for the pc.
mircea_popescu: pankkake just as soon as someone with an actual gold business grows some balls.
mircea_popescu: silver is appealing to poor people in the manner ltc is appealing to kids with gpus
mircea_popescu: and what's some random dork, long exposed anyway, have to do with bitcoin
mircea_popescu: CheckDavid are you trying to ask why isn't platinum a monetary metal ?
mircea_popescu: jborkl actually it's mostly automatred now. most chickens in the world touch a human inside the mouth for the first time in their... existence.
mircea_popescu: exactly. the forum had been negligible btc anyway, for a long time now.
mircea_popescu: the collection of dr foreskins, ie, pompous if clueless nobodies, is endless.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves we said (or moreover, hoped) exactly the same 3-4 times already.
mircea_popescu: jborkl well most of this is farmed, you know ? they're reported anyway, for various regulatory purposes
mircea_popescu: The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations estimated that in 2002 there were nearly sixteen billion chickens in the world, counting a total population of 15,853,900,000
mircea_popescu: it was always about the salvation of the worthy, never about the salvation of the flock as a whole.
mircea_popescu: those humans will just make very fine human skin lampshades is all.
mircea_popescu: were it not for bitcoin, i'm sure some elected official or other would have thought this is "prudent".
mircea_popescu: isn't bitcoin great tho ? it empowers me to literaly urinate all over their faces.
mircea_popescu: now go beat up your children and send them naked i nthe street to earn a living
mircea_popescu: so basically "mp is the only solvent entity in bitcoin finance we would like us to spend his money just as we whine about how mean and evil he is" ?
mircea_popescu: the hopefully final-final restatement of that thing jesus.
mircea_popescu: two weeks ago he claimed no funds were lost in gox. today he claims funds were lost in gox.
mircea_popescu: i mean stupid is one thing. hard to hide, already well known, no big deal. but a liar is a different story.
mircea_popescu: wait. hadn't danny claimed that they had lost nothing on mtgox
mircea_popescu: next time when you're out to do "what's best for your fambly" go ask for donations. ceos do what's best for their shareholders.
mircea_popescu: hardly teh point. i dunno why all these scammor dudes imagine that's an argument. yes dude, if we wanted to feed your fambly we'd have just donated you the btc.
mircea_popescu: obviously "what's best for his fambly" is trying to make a split anyway.
mircea_popescu: just about at the conceptual level of the average bitcointard.
mircea_popescu: it's very simple : "if you people were nice i'd have paid for this out of pocket but because you were mean i am not so neeneer"
mircea_popescu: Guest15829 classical scammer talk. "the scam would have been fine if it weren't for the evil interlopers fud"
mircea_popescu: o look at that, scott adams trying to kaching on things that are happening but he can't be bothered to understand
mircea_popescu: i think they only have medals perpared for the surprisingly-arrested
mircea_popescu: bounce so they propose. like you know, the plowing fly proposes its exertions drive the ox.
mircea_popescu: this and other imbalances make it so that the usg can not actually afford to compete in this particular market.
mircea_popescu: i buy at a discount, often significant. they buy at a premium, always significant.
mircea_popescu: the quietly glossed over point being, of course, that a dollar of usg spending does not buy it a dollar of rl value.
mircea_popescu: which brings in an interesting side point : recently the us propaganda press ran a story comparing military spending, showing the us as the sum of europe and other states.
mircea_popescu: bounce it can not possibly afford to pay people that can outcompete us in teaching.
mircea_popescu: it does get complicated real quick just as soon as one tries to take the theoretical model to the actual market
mircea_popescu: it's part of my evil strategy of preventing the usg from ever mattering in this space.
mircea_popescu: we're dumping the shit out of high-end btc education in this chan, for instance.
mircea_popescu: in fact, mcdonalss DOES sell for free in most of the us, it does more business as a proxy for usg welfare than anything else.
mircea_popescu: wywialm it is not dumping the whole sector. even if mcdonald sold for free i wouldn't patronise them. i stll eat at good restaurants.
mircea_popescu: european style towns where commercial and residential zones are not separated are rare in the us
mircea_popescu: this is why the us sucks, basically. it, not having ancient microstructure in place, turned into a sprawl hellhole
mircea_popescu: phase 1 lasts 3-5 years, and is actually evaluated as part of the financing of a new development.
mircea_popescu: they take advantage of the captive market they created, afterwards.
mircea_popescu: it's how supermarkets work, fundamentally, all across the world. they drive out small shops in phase 1, with low prices