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mircea_popescu: we're talking a decade and a hundred million in either case.
mircea_popescu: because congress does have legislative discretion, but agencies do not.
mircea_popescu: a rule you can have overturned by arguing more things before the supreme court than if it were a law.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves that i get to laugh at you poor sods moar ?
mircea_popescu: i imagine these people followed hercules around augeas' stables complaining about all the mess he's making.
mircea_popescu: bitcoin invented fair gambling, bitbet is a parimutuel implementation, anon forum derp comes to harp about how deceitful "sites" are.
mircea_popescu: there's nothing better than a good conspiraci theorist.
mircea_popescu: The most expensive code packages for gambling sites have the most deceit and advanced algorithms to rip-off the gambling fool and protect the investment of the operator. The very best ones you'll never find for sale, however. These algorithms always sit on top of whatever "edge" the operator decides to take (the "edge" is the part of the tilted table some sites even openly advertise nowadays).
mircea_popescu: "Go search deep for code (for sale) for online gambling sites.
mircea_popescu: skinnkavaj learning to read spoiled me for audiobooks.
mircea_popescu: someone write the book so 50cent can make a song about the movie based on it
mircea_popescu: the most legal illegal exchange run by an asshole with good intentions
mircea_popescu: who knows, maybe it somehow ends up cutting down on the general nonsense
mircea_popescu: yes, my strategy in the future is to continue to point out obvious nonsense coming my way.
mircea_popescu: you don't even know how many countries there are, in the world.
mircea_popescu: there's no such thing as a "legal service". there's illegal stuff, and then there's the rest.
mircea_popescu: i imagine they contacted me because they wanted to talk.
mircea_popescu: skinnkavaj ever pick up a chick that looked good at the disco only to get scared in the morning ?
mircea_popescu: very dot-com ish really, but history is only useful to the literate.
mircea_popescu: they're an outfit run by an incompetent if vain kid that drank the kool aid. they got some btc together, made some media buys and... that's it.
mircea_popescu: benkay you've not asked too many people, btw. as best i can tell they're neither a giant scam trying to run witrh a ton of btc, nor a legitimate business.
mircea_popescu: "confirmed that a bitcoin exchange that holds client funds with a licensed overseas payment service provider is not required to obtain a licence in the country for its activities."
mircea_popescu: yes but a) the city of new york is a public corp and b) firemen and generally blue collar workers are hardly what we were thinking about
mircea_popescu: weren't they supposed to at some point release a report ?
mircea_popescu: neurosis correlates with intelligence about to the same effects rot correlates with wood.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, in his case, maintaining offices in two states, he's setting himself up for the bomb
mircea_popescu: rent guy was going to get some north carolina similar service
mircea_popescu: i still don't understand the merger idea too well, tbh.
mircea_popescu: one day people will be quoting this shit and laughing at me.
mircea_popescu: and i fucking need to stop calling subsequent offerings "ipos"
mircea_popescu: mike_c there's a different problem there : if they ipo'd at same price as before they'd have a fiat dilution on their hands.
mircea_popescu: pankkake isn't that basically the bitcoin gem "idea" ?
mircea_popescu: e Freud studied and have all those people looking at you and checking up on you. That's the kind of help you need. Not the once a week for eighty bucks. No. You need a team. A team of psychiatrists working round the clock thinking about you, having conferences, observing you, like the way they did with the Elephant Man. That's what I'm talking about because that's the only way you're going to get better.
mircea_popescu: JERRY: I don't even want to talk about it anymore. What were you thinking? What was going on in your mind? Artistic integrity? Where, where did you come up with that? You're not artistic and you have no integrity. You know you really need some help. A regular psychiatrist couldn't even help you. You need to go to like Vienna or something. You know what I mean? You need to get involved at the University level. Like wher
mircea_popescu: why are they even involved in this for the love of christ.
mircea_popescu: so basically the shill brigade is arguing this theory whereby indefinite suspensions are a good thing.
mircea_popescu: sec definitely spends its time reading yahoo finance boards o.I
mircea_popescu: "People think that anything goes on the internet, but if Neobee was a legit stock under the jurisdiction of the SEC, all the FUD spreaders on the internet would be locked up VERY QUICKLY for the crap they have been pulling recently."
mircea_popescu: "Also, he tried to sell these(whoevers') shares under false pretense. I believe it was financial hardship?"
mircea_popescu: copumpkin well if you organise a btc festival that nets 150k coins you'll definitely end up with more stds than i ever had.
mircea_popescu: between crumbs, btcapples and a pankkake we can make OUR OWN PIES
mircea_popescu: decimation no, these are "the community". according to themselves.
mircea_popescu: Question:Would you send money or bitcoins to MtGox when it re-opens? (Voting closed: March 27, 2014, 03:11:32 PM) Yes 34 (43%)
mircea_popescu: dairy revolution ensured the supremacy of europe. milking is big, man.
mircea_popescu: what the... did i lose interwebs or did everyone somehow inexplicably shut up for two minutes