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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.
mircea_popescu: roughly same for mc, slighly lower, something like that.
mircea_popescu: wao-ender i guess they'll call a general mobilisation again
mircea_popescu: inasmuch as the flesh trade goes, nothing beats the flesh itself.
mircea_popescu: "All 10 presidential candidates for the April 5 election have said they would sign the security agreement if elected. But Karzai does not want his legacy to include a commitment to extending a foreign military presence."
mircea_popescu: "Was trusted" around here in the past. You lost trust months ago and it will take months if not longer to get it back.
mircea_popescu: anywya, mike_c is the winner of the little unofficial competition "who gets the lowest btc invite"
mircea_popescu: if i recall he got well plastered clubbing last time, mebbe the lady objects.
mircea_popescu: by the way - today's the absolute last day to get in the april conference,