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mircea_popescu: that they think they can't is what keeps society in order
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you mean like, a dual php/grad student with no assets ?
mircea_popescu: spax is not worth 1bn, and she doesn't own it all. wtf.
mircea_popescu: mike_c i spent ~5 years or so in a tropical paradise doing... nothing.
mircea_popescu: if that were true most wikipedia editors would not be unemployed.
mircea_popescu: bitcoinpete by now i can't separate the "from the ground up" automatism from the earlier linked retards.
mircea_popescu: o look at that. there's some sort of fiat competition to bitcoin etc.
mircea_popescu: "We accept most international and local credit and debit cards as well as PayPal. Flattr use Euro as its base currency, but it doesn’t matter what currency you use, we take care of the exchange."
mircea_popescu: i think the us is optimised for involuntary humour these days.
mircea_popescu: mike_c no, but they may accidentally shoot some grannies...
mircea_popescu: where's the overlord-padishah-grandking or w/e his name was
mircea_popescu: so basically a rehash of the old "pirate pass through" scam
mircea_popescu: there's no consensus of what makes a better language, other than edge cases such as ergativity
mircea_popescu: dude who the fuck is trolling wikipedia to this insane degree
mircea_popescu: "Nobody likes you, generally speaking, and the presumptuous, misguided sort of nonsense I'm responding to here is a prime example of why. Romania is a large country, populated by a lot of distinct Internet users. Comparatively, wikipedia is a small shithole populated by a lot of indistinguishable idiots. Please stop getting into everyone's day."
mircea_popescu: well, depends what your standards for "speaking english" are.
mircea_popescu: "please believe us when we say the shit we sell you is worth buying"
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves because it's broken ? i dunno, just my guess.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell nubbins` maybe tshirts with "A loser is You!"
mircea_popescu: plenty of people trying to make a career out of doing the wrong thing.
mircea_popescu: much like a singer won't win if they're good. they must suck to win, in order to "represent" the idiots watching at home.
mircea_popescu: a large part of the entire "start-up success" fantasy by now is specifically NOT having any sort of technical merit or actual value
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves somehow this discussion is a strange rehash of the older "platinum records / musical talent" thing.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform lol the saga of bad crypto never ends does it.
mircea_popescu: well then you should hold on to it and spend a year or so reading.
mircea_popescu: artifexd i suppose that's the one thing that has never happened yet.
mircea_popescu: third parties can also shoot you and bury you in the river.
mircea_popescu: you may actually force him over a threshold, with results so far out of proportion he might as well just shoot you and bury you in hudson river.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the one who opts out is more expensive to him.