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mircea_popescu: let's see... if some guy needs an operation and the insurance won't clear it because they judge he's too old/poor/etc, and he dies
mircea_popescu: the best way to raise boys is to regularly give them enough rope to hang themselves and then enforce the hanging once they started it.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i seriously don't see who'd like to keep that particular son.
mircea_popescu: Mats_cd03 by the same argument, people who die by negligent discharge deserve to die anwyay /
mircea_popescu: the gun was there before there were privileges, rights or beliefs
mircea_popescu: people who shoot you the moment you've looked the wrong way are quite different from people who scuffle with you over their own gun which then sorta-accidentally discharges.
mircea_popescu: only after beating the shit out of the eventual shooter for half an hour.
mircea_popescu: there's a lot more to that man angle than anyone readily admits. take that recent treysomething or the other case.
mircea_popescu: were you being sarcastic ? my absent social skills prevent me from discerning sarcasm online.
mircea_popescu: bounce actually, that was the 70s. today, china leads the us in the space race.
mircea_popescu: i imagine it's somewhere in the ex-russian central asia.
mircea_popescu: much better to just make mpex run the current version of "banks" out of business completely,
mircea_popescu: bounce it's a moot point. banks aren't able to buy it anyway, unless the govt says do it.
mircea_popescu: apparently, if you mostly follow chicks on twitter your timeline is full of women.
mircea_popescu: the problem with learnin accounting is that it's not an art, it's a craft. you can perhaps learn philosophy in your own time, of \your own volition. accounting however requires a reshaping of your mental process, which people never undertake willingly.
mircea_popescu: Kolin Burgess, a British bitcoin investor who spent much of Tuesday protesting outside of Mt. Gox’s abandoned office, in Tokyo, told a reporter for Reuters that he thought he had accumulated Bitcoins that were worth three hundred thousand dollars at the market’s peak. “I’m very angry,” he said. “It looks like that’s disappeared.”
mircea_popescu: Mats_cd03 i kinda left it unreferenced fishing for noobs tbh. i'm kinda hoping the average clueless yet opinionanted keyboard warrior may pick on it to try and "mock" me.
mircea_popescu: i suppose we'll see another anil dash-esque butthurt explosion followed by trying to date me
mircea_popescu: Mats_cd03 on a long enough timeline everyone's getting slapped down properly.
mircea_popescu: Mats_cd03 wasn't it a khanate originally ? that's EXACTLY what they did.
mircea_popescu: bitcoinpete anyway, if you know the chap, perhaps drop him a link. as usual, the clearing of bs starts with teh self.
mircea_popescu: course we know why exactly the us cares too, at that level.
mircea_popescu: Mats_cd03 that explains why the russians care, which was quite clear.
mircea_popescu: bitcoinpete talking about "bunch of amateur hour buyllshit in the bitcoin """ecosystem"""" in a pdf file ?
mircea_popescu: bitcoinpete whats not clear is who chamath is and why does he get to say this.
mircea_popescu: her tits will always point downwards on the long run, no matter what she wears.
mircea_popescu: even if female dress and hairdo changed significnatly, and quite cyclically.
mircea_popescu: you know, gravity didn't change direction since it was invented.
mircea_popescu: no. a loan has no relation to the business performance, a loan is predicated on the credibility of the underwriter.
mircea_popescu: you can either take investment, which is a distribution of equity no matter how you disgusie it, from bfl-style to any other style,
mircea_popescu: there's business and then there's nonsense. i'm sure some kids somewhere are playing with money, but that has no bearing on business.
mircea_popescu: listen, the larger part of raising funds is the trust you command.
mircea_popescu: CheckDavid yeah but meanwhile my q was answered reading the log.
mircea_popescu: bocobit i read a study that 80% of studies are pure bullshit.
mircea_popescu: o look, 200 lines in the past coupla hours. poor people trying to read the chan.
mircea_popescu: mike_c oldest trick in the book, every talking head on the tv screen has a little speaker in his ear thing. course, my backup is slightly better than what tv stations can afford, but still.