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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 ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform apparently ohio or w/e this one is has very advantageous economics for this business
mircea_popescu: VanCleef i have no idea, were they due a report or something ?
mircea_popescu: kind-of a pity in that a well managed business on those lines makes some sense.
mircea_popescu: benkay he's unrepresented, basically. doesn't have an ib/underwriter/anything.
mircea_popescu: the general fate to people telling me my information is not correct is aptly represented by one trendon shavers.
mircea_popescu: pankkake well other than it'll likely never generate any capital, it would resolve the problem yes.
mircea_popescu: but you should be somewhat more responsible, seeing how you're tied down to real estate.
mircea_popescu: topace is nutty enough to imagine he's going to escape through some fraudulent sale to a panama front,
mircea_popescu: the20year3 at any point you may seriously consider your involvement in this scheme may actually result in criminal charges.
mircea_popescu: i mean it's like a spiral of web scammy for that place.
mircea_popescu: obviously someone that owns shares can sell at any price they want.
mircea_popescu: mike_c how did that thing settle down in the end ? "bitcoin's fault" ?
mircea_popescu: xdotcommer well sure. but in the same sense, if the twelve year old wants to have twins, let her ?
mircea_popescu: im starting to understand something. if we manage to not turn into wikipedia within a decade we'll have actually accomplished an amazing feat.
mircea_popescu: xdotcommer apparently you've not tried a great many things.
mircea_popescu: no high school senior hauled up in a basement is EVER going to be a soldier,
mircea_popescu: this notion that children can somehow, with a lot of shaving paste and stilts, stand up to adults is laughable.
mircea_popescu: er to spot. “Did you lose a sony? It could be the Penguin. I think we can round him up, he’s dressed like a PENGUIN! We can find him, he’s a PENGUIN!
mircea_popescu: , the police come over to your house, they fill out: The Report. They give you: Your Copy. Now, unless they give the crook his copy, I don’t really think we’re gonna crack this case, do you? It’s not like Batman, where there’s three crooks in the city and everybody pretty much knows, who they are. Very few crooks even go to the trouble to come up with a theme for their careers anymore. It makes them a lot tough
mircea_popescu: JERRY: I got ripped off for about the...18th time? And now, the first couple a times you go through it, it’s very upsetting and your first reaction or one of your friends will say, “Call the police. You really should call the police.” So you think to yourself, you know, you watch TV, you think, “Yeah, I’m calling the police. Stakeouts, manhunts... I’m gonna see some real action.” Right, you think that. So
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform inasmuch as you know who he was, he wasn't intel.