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mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves was it because the nude chicks behind glass ?
mircea_popescu: but by the time it gets to "you gotta wear this thing" it's gotten real old.
mircea_popescu: i mean religion is one thing, as a theological pursuit, you know, whatever, let's sit around and discuss the beard of the teapot in the sky
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves did you get a little white tutu and everything ? or do they only do that for girls
mircea_popescu: which reminds me, when i was a kid there was this wrestler dubbed bam bam biggelow
mircea_popescu: Diablo-D3 but i'm not a brony. perhaps the only bitcoin veteran in this sad situation.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves nice pic. did you select it or did it autoselect ?
mircea_popescu: lol ima gonna have to end up buying a barony in the end
mircea_popescu: speaking of which "kardashian is a hobbit" sp kicked ass.
mircea_popescu: btw, someone dump the trilema article on reddit will you ? i wanna see them writhe.
mircea_popescu: i guess the world is split in tow sorts of people : those who aspire to be so lucky to live to be our own parodies, and those who aspire to be so lucky to die before that.
mircea_popescu: well, we should be so lucky to live to be our own parodies.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves oddly, he doesn't say the same of government-sponsored transfer of wealth from the middle class to the lower class. that's fine, iho.
mircea_popescu: no resources, no skill, no talent, no ability, no brains, perhaps ?
mircea_popescu: none of them will make 1k btc in 2014. so why aren't they ?
mircea_popescu: kinda why the article is adressed to the would-be financiers of wallstreet and generally the world's pretend-bankers.
mircea_popescu: "honey, there's a 1000:1 bet that berkshire will outperform bitcoin in 2014, and i'm not taking it"
mircea_popescu: perhaps this is the best line to explain to noobs why bitcoin is so powerful :
mircea_popescu: i mean i fully understand you, but from an "outside" perspective, right ? fucking nuts.
mircea_popescu: you never know when a diff bet comes and swoops the top spot you know ?
mircea_popescu: yeah well. tell them to start making proper reports and stop with the nonsensical "we are great ra ra ra" bullshit,
mircea_popescu: bullshit corp made out of bullshit, worth ~the going rate for bullshit in your jurisdiction.
mircea_popescu: balulasch_ can you calculate the odds of a block taking 30 minutes to solve ?
mircea_popescu: somebody really should check out the block timing, there may be some sort of issue here.
mircea_popescu: also if anyone wants to put it on reddit (and thanks jcpham for mentioning the lulzy reddit "bet", he inspired me)
mircea_popescu: dude how does this shit work. 35 minutes for a block, then 3 blocks in 3 minutes.
mircea_popescu: and like... who knows what other perversions. talking to girls prolly.
mircea_popescu: if it wasn't for reddit you'd probably still be killing animals for meat
mircea_popescu: you don't understand, they're making the world a better place.
mircea_popescu: the wear&tear on the cheap chiense keyboards involved probably exceeds that figure.
mircea_popescu: haha look at that, reddit generates 200 comments worth 20k words for a 0.25 btc wager.
mircea_popescu: "Other things being equal, the highest stock market prices relative to intrinsic business value are given to companies whose managers have demonstrated their unwillingness to issue shares at any time on terms unfavorable to the owners of the business."
mircea_popescu: there's ample caselaw showing both the "putting a gun to your head does not constitute forcing you" argument and the "minding your own business and cultivating your own field amounts to forcing other people" argument.
mircea_popescu: "nobody is forced to talk to the da", as exemplified by my earlier link, for one side of the coin. "wage slavery" equals forcing people to x y z on the other.
mircea_popescu: Neil you'll be surprised by how creatively "forced" can be interpreted by politics, in either direction.
mircea_popescu: turns out trusting the usg isn't a workable policy. who knew.
mircea_popescu: there's problems, see, and pros solve problems. then there's kerriblems, and kerry solves those.
mircea_popescu: amex actually employs like... twice as many ppl as mc/visa combined or some shit.