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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.
mircea_popescu: mike_c there's only me posting as me. however, there's multiple people working on feeding me data and other predigested strings.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla pls to redirect b-a donations address to trilema kthx
mircea_popescu: whoa look at that! i wrote more this past month than the next 4 people bombined ?!
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves that's funny, because 99.999% of published researchers live off grants given by the people who want global warming to be a rthing.
mircea_popescu: deadweasel: why would anybody consult the public? << maybe the public is topless and looks good on its back ?
mircea_popescu: cazalla that's actually an excellent q, hope you get some answer.
mircea_popescu: xdotcomm_ how can it be comparable tho ? i mean... gribble actually ads functionality.
mircea_popescu: the20year3 this "enough of our shareholders complain" tack is bollocks. i complain, and i'll have your head for it, plain and simple.
mircea_popescu: xdotcomm_: benkay: how come exchanges /etc are not using this
https://gpgauth.org/ << because why would anyone sane give their keys away to some website ? might as well ask why no serious bloggers are ujsing disqus.
mircea_popescu: the20year3 so if the claim is that rent is trading under book, why not buy back shares ? and moreover, is the book value reported anywhere in any sense ?
mircea_popescu: the20year3 businesses where the big barrier to entry is capital actually are very poor businesses (in that surpluss capacity can be and usually is created on the spot - or in other words, because they have no moats). buffett expounds on this in his 1983 letter if memory serves.
mircea_popescu: people won't drive an extra gallon of gas just to use random plasic bit X
mircea_popescu: MisterE if any large retailer decides to stop taking a card it's more like a death sentence to the card than to the retailer.
mircea_popescu: noCHINA it's rare that news actually has any sort of impact on bitcoin prices. people generally like to see patters, but i've seen hundreds of such claims and they were never right.
mircea_popescu: they're not even right, they overstate plastic acceptance.
mircea_popescu: "<MisterE> we're not talkign about small retailers" / "<MisterE> and any retailer who didn't accept them would be suicide"