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mircea_popescu: i put stuff from the forum in here, read it destupidified in log
mircea_popescu: these words of sorted randomly r they perhaps into sense coallesce through of sortage log method ?
mircea_popescu: "mircea_popescu: but were ballads about made miserably they then having cool how failing"
mircea_popescu: "mircea_popescu: made cool ballads failing but miserably how then about having they were"
mircea_popescu: anyway. "cyprus central bankers" win this battle god help us.
mircea_popescu: i mean... guys like iancu jianu. ex road robber, caught, tried, sentenced to hang, saved by ancient rule that noble virginz may save a convicted felon by marrying him
mircea_popescu: it's really not at all different from forum mentality.
mircea_popescu: then failing miserably but having ballads made about how cool they were
mircea_popescu: bounce i have no idea. the entire national pantheon is basically neobee like scammors. ie, various rebels promising independence from x or y or z
mircea_popescu: having failed is actually much better than having succeeded.
mircea_popescu: there's also many cultural factors at play. for instance, in a culture which is fundamentally defeatist and patently insane, like romania's,
mircea_popescu: in that we'll see if in 2015 or 2020 cypruss is above or below the norm
mircea_popescu: i guess we'll actually be deriving some benefit from the ineptly handled neobee shareholder piggybank,
mircea_popescu: mike_c yeah but what if the awareness they raised is "bitcoin is an undependable scamfest"
mircea_popescu: i wonder to what degree things actually work that way.
mircea_popescu: interesting argument tho, re "the awareness that won't go away".
mircea_popescu: "Even if Neo ends up failing and Cyprus central bankers win this battle, they've managed to change the world forever. The Bitcoin awareness in Cyprus will not go away even if Neo fails and that counts for something. I know I was part of that as an investor and helped build that to some extent. On the other hand MPEx will go down in history as the clown who badmouthed the competition and riding some donkey in Egypt."
mircea_popescu: person 1 : "I personally don't believe that Neo&Bee is a scam, but very well said. Just becuase there is an easier way to steal money that the scammers passed up doesn't mean it's not a scam."
mircea_popescu: blackwhite send me email from your comp account, for instance.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves i originally asked him because i was going to give him a 1 if he can prove it, but seems he ignored it for some reason
mircea_popescu: and perhaps, if i feel in a good mood, "get in the wot"
mircea_popescu: pankkake since bitcoin my response to any sort of such thing is lol.
mircea_popescu: just the fact that nobody can chargeback you and pp can't hold your wallet at ransom and that;s enough for anyone sane.
mircea_popescu: it may not make much sense for brick and mortar small businesses a la meze grill
mircea_popescu: He could have taken off with all the money right after the IPO but he didn't."
mircea_popescu: If Danny really wanted to scam people, he would have done that right after the IPO but he didn't. He went ahead and invested money in setting up the office, hiring staffers, media campaigns, buying POS devices, sending his hired staffers to conferences and so on.
mircea_popescu: in spite of it trading around 50ish for the entire interval ?
mircea_popescu: but the same someone didn't buy 30 btc worth of rent all week
mircea_popescu: "someone" bought 105 btc worth of rent at 0.0075 today,
mircea_popescu: come one come all, i just kicked inactives and we're down to like 800 members nao. taking all comers.
mircea_popescu: memo : teh in-game chat systems are often abused to move sikrits!
mircea_popescu: so i wonder if teh numerous sikrit agents dutifully scraping this are also dutifully scraping my in-guild rift convos.
mircea_popescu: if people's understanding of cuisine are on par with their understanding of basic economy, suddenly food in the us is explained.
mircea_popescu: artifexd i dunno, it's been illo tempore policy that people accidentally spamming or otherwise unintentionally misbehave contribute to the port fund
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