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mircea_popescu: as i was pointing out to someone from i don't remember where yesterday,
mircea_popescu: "i read it and shared it with everyone i knew. i think it was fantastic. i was going to congratulate you on it yesterday but i figured you were too busy."
mircea_popescu: well, people without a business plan, people without an established identity, etc
mircea_popescu: if you just let anyone randomly registering you end up with the pink sheets, basically.
mircea_popescu: ReutersEmily well, again just like the nyse. you have to satisfy a due dilligence process.
mircea_popescu: s.nsa is a fine example of one company that succeeded. the owner there came up with the idea of making an actually cryptographically secure gpg gizmo
mircea_popescu: mostly because bitcoiners aren't interested in fiat investments
mircea_popescu: which do happen occasionally in bitcoin, but not really for fiat companies,
mircea_popescu: you can't buy say british petroleum on nyse unless someone does a dr deal.
mircea_popescu: a, no. you buy shares of companies registered with mpex.
mircea_popescu: i'm not sure what you mean by " private placement " but probably.
mircea_popescu: ReutersEmily mpex works exactly like the nyse, if nyse worked as intended.
mircea_popescu: who knew, mpex is 50% better than the best investment in the history of venture investment.
mircea_popescu: bitcoin's made for spendin' like them tits are made for squeezin'. not all the time not by everyone.
mircea_popescu: i would say moore's law officially solved the problem of slashdotting, permanently.
mircea_popescu: so i can't really believe it, but after being on everywhere trilema ain't been down.
mircea_popescu: "all you need is an infinity of moneyz, you'll be just fine"
mircea_popescu: i spent about a year with ppl going "wait so you bought at 15 ? but it's not even half that now! you got duped mp!"
mircea_popescu: men who live in low price houses can afford to throw pricepoints around
mircea_popescu: nubbins` i like bothering people with that figure :D i imagine all the assholes buying 10k for a pizza are long gone so nobody can bother me.
mircea_popescu: unless it's a naked karpeles dancing in the streets of tokio for nickels i ain't interested.
mircea_popescu: that man will soon discover that paying back his mortgage is not really in his interest,
mircea_popescu: benkay: at 12, there was a man ranting in ##econometrics about mortgaging himself to the hilt and going long btc. <<< this has long been the practical bank killer.
mircea_popescu: illegitimate governments never can stand for the peoples they claim to represent.
mircea_popescu: no but usa != the people living at any given time in the areal. just like cccp != the poor russian and other nationalities engulag'd.
mircea_popescu: the chief difference between the usa and the cccp being that the usa is in denial about building socialism.
mircea_popescu: more interestingly, visa and mastercard have been officially nationalised
mircea_popescu: no man that can't be bothered to fuck the woman cares if she goes astray, srsly nao.
mircea_popescu: if they didn't bother to grab the soap so far, why'd they muddle with the rope henceforth ?
mircea_popescu: i think it's all backed by stuff you mine out of asteroids, so yea
mircea_popescu: benkay so are you giving it a rest or merely wanted to complain ?
mircea_popescu: Izzy_ well i just left her a message above, which is what gribble confirmed. she'll prolly hiot you up if you're around once she shows up
mircea_popescu: anirgu : that it appears you're proposing the usg regulate the life of chinese workers.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell moiety Izzy_ something tells me your best entry would be one on one tutoring with moiety.
mircea_popescu: Izzy_ yes, what did you learn in school and what do you do for a living.
mircea_popescu: nice formatting, but don't you find that chinese workers example a little bizarre ?
mircea_popescu: this is quite factual. correspondingly, one of the worst traits of human nature is the delusion by which almost every young man imagines the adults wish him ill.
mircea_popescu: "One of the fine traits in human nature is the desire which almost every decent man has to help young men do well."
mircea_popescu: but btw, splendid link. i had not know that. weird. wild. etc.
mircea_popescu: Izzy_ well normally you mine it, but i guess most people trade or w/e