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mircea_popescu: so in this sense, you're just getting 100% dividend, except a 35% portion of it is actually worth less
mircea_popescu: and it'd even be better, because you wouldn't be locked into whatever braindamage they come up with
mircea_popescu: if they paid out that 35% you could reinvest it yourself.
mircea_popescu: the fact that they reinvest some portion of the dividends is completely irrelevant.
mircea_popescu: what is this, logic 101 for people that haven't mastered the arrow in flight "paradox" ?
mircea_popescu: i have a bottle of coca cola. 35% of what i drink goes into buying more coca cola
mircea_popescu: Morgan: Before money or anything else. Money cannot buy it … a man I do not trust could not get money from me on all the bonds in Christendom.
mircea_popescu: Untermyer: Is not commercial credit based primarily upon money or property?
mircea_popescu: dividends aren't really the chief consideration in investments.
mircea_popescu: i don't recall why the chan log only starts from april 2013, but prolly cause lazy
mircea_popescu: you'll have to bug kako, and probably volunteer a lot of work
mircea_popescu: et consuetudines habeant et teneant cum omnibus libertatibus praedictae
mircea_popescu: et lestagia sua per totam costam maris quieta, et quod praedictas leges
mircea_popescu: tim Gildam suam mercatoriam et hansas suas in Anglia et Normannia
mircea_popescu: Escardeburg omnes libertates et leges et consuetudines suas, et nomina-
mircea_popescu: anyway. there's an english royal charter mentioning the name
mircea_popescu: so wait, wait. i said in a comment on trilema that the hansa exists since 1267 and thus this is the source of wikipedia ?
mircea_popescu: for one thing, they had a kidnapping white women programme going since the 70s, so you can't conveniently take a harem over unelss you actually shoot the little rat
mircea_popescu: they have electricity. they make people turn a huge wheel
mircea_popescu: i just go there to lay on a couch with all sorts of flatware all over my head
mircea_popescu: Kevin Thau @kevinthau · 12m @bijan I have the same friend.
mircea_popescu: Bijan Sabet @bijan So I have this friend who wants a motorcycle. But my wife, I mean, his wife doesn't think it's a great idea. Any ideas how to win her over?
mircea_popescu: yeah, srsly, no jurovs were raped in the makes of these epic lolz.
mircea_popescu: bitcoin economy ? like the supermarket! regulatory matters ? like a traffic cop stop!
mircea_popescu: teh peanut gallery will turn evertything into its owne experiences.
mircea_popescu: "Seems like this is the equivalent of a LE officer asking to search your car or house looking for evidence."
mircea_popescu: BCB a mirror so as to prevent deletion of interesting material.
mircea_popescu: tl;dr : "My guess: they lost money on trades while Gox was Goxing people, and now they're passing this loss on to "suspicious" accounts."
mircea_popescu: ttps://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=524429.msg5814899#msg5814899
mircea_popescu: or for that matter, anyone happen to be the noob in question.
mircea_popescu: sooo... some noob made a post suggesting btc.sx is/was in cahoots with gox and waning against it. that post is now deleted off forum
mircea_popescu: useful effort, tho obviously one'd have to be cautious allocating too much credibility to the underlying datapoints.
mircea_popescu: which just goes to show mtgox is continuing in the same tradition
mircea_popescu: the actual quote from drama timeline as to 2011 hack is "Amusingly, reports about the security such as it was having been breached were trickling in for weeks prior. Tis impossible to evaluate the actual loss with this one, but suffice it to observe that BTC was temporarily trading for 1 cent at the time."
mircea_popescu: and moreover, sed no as to "ram is cheaper than any other chip wtf are you on about"