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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"
mircea_popescu: so in general : i understand you're living your own life. you'll have to understand your own life is irrelevant.
mircea_popescu: MisterE unless you're one of the govt poor using the govt's own plastic, which is neither visa nor mc etc.
mircea_popescu: credit cards means american express, visa and mastercard, in that order.
mircea_popescu: "But data from Intuit shows that 55 percent of the nation’s 27 million small businesses do not accept credit cards."
mircea_popescu: "Credit and debit cards are nearly as common as cash. "
mircea_popescu: i'm even arguing against your counting ability, that's about five statements right there.
mircea_popescu: TestingUnoDosTre subkeys you generate off a main key aren't more anonymous than the main key.
mircea_popescu: o look at that, wired article about "the soul of bitcoin", in terms of "two schmucks no one heard of or cares about"
mircea_popescu: MisterE perhaps 90% of statistics are made up on the spot.
mircea_popescu: mc tried something similar with much less success about once a decade since the 80s
mircea_popescu: ae worked on exclusive deals with many retailers for ages.
mircea_popescu: anyway, my car is here so we'll have to continue later!
mircea_popescu: TestingUnoDosTre i vaguely recall some discusison re a 3m bet a month or so ago, was this the same one ?
mircea_popescu: and the 1year berkshire based btc bond just went to 3%
mircea_popescu: what was that shop that'd deep fry anything ? butter, water, icecream
mircea_popescu: try taking 100k out of your savings, buying gold bricks and driving them to mexico.
mircea_popescu: speaking of turkeys in new york : "ground turkey meat, was $2 for 20 oz. 2.5 years ago on sale ; it's $4.50 for 20 oz. on sale now."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform sure you are, because they CLAIOM to be convertible
mircea_popescu: people with money, actual money, are underserved because not part of bezzle.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i suspect that ties into my "dual currency" earlier :
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves do they actually do this as ppl claim or not ?
mircea_popescu: its been discussed in teh at some point coupla months ago, i don't recall the specifics
mircea_popescu: much of rent is predicated on its operator familiarirt with the field, that doesn't seem to translate too well across a geographic distance
mircea_popescu: which incidentally begs the question, why a merger with someone in a diff market ? does it benefit from equally good economics ?