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mircea_popescu: but the middle man makes some money, of which it pays some money.
mircea_popescu: nj wants to extract taxes out of the deal. if nj people get hurt, nj wants to profit at least.
mircea_popescu: "In a development eerily reminiscent of the organized hatred directed against the arch-heretic Emanuel Goldstein in Orwell’s 1984, Rand cultists were required to sign a loyalty oath to Rand; essential to the loyalty oath was a declaration that the signer would henceforth never read any future works of the apostate and arch-heretic Branden."
mircea_popescu: (quote via rockwell's restatement of rothbard's rand commentary)
mircea_popescu: open source infallibility, the notion that wikipedia is in any sense an encyclopedia, everyone's obsession with crowd-sourcing and usg...
mircea_popescu: people firmly believe that codebases magically improve just by adding to them the *possibility* that someone might have read them
mircea_popescu: amusingly, this is narrowly mirrored by the all too fashionable ideea these days that there's some sort of wisdo min the crowds.
mircea_popescu: "Lenin seems to have believed that the party, as organized consciousness, consciousness as a decision-making machinery, had superior reasoning power. Indeed, in time this collective body took on an aura of infallibility, which was later elevated to a dogma, and a member’s loyalty was tested, in part, by his acceptance of it. It became part of the communist confession of faith to proclaim that the party was never wron
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell bitcoinpete ah i see it's in the footnote. but yeah, the select from a page process is very dubious (natural languages don't have equally distributed words, it's actually how zipf curves were discovered in the first palce)
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell bitcoinpete bt otherwise your article suffers from a very strangely naive approach. ever heard of a dicelist ?
mircea_popescu: you can never get the shrimp properly cooked other than in a cast iron pot.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell bitcoinpete yul killed in that king of siam role :D
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform currently a 21 inch dell thing. i used to have a splendid 24 inch sony but hey.
mircea_popescu: pLambert well yeah, but still. what's the average dividend across nyse index, 1950 to 1970 ?
mircea_popescu: a sad sympthom of a cash starved community of shoelace investors.
mircea_popescu: Mar 04 11:22:27 <assbot>[MPEX] [S.MPOE] [PAID] 4,050.17291466 BTC to 500`000`000 shares, 810 satoshi per share
mircea_popescu: pLambert no, the way this is done is that dividends and contracts list the share count.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` but you're controlling the print process, what's the client to do
mircea_popescu: nubbins` an electron cannon you can actually calibrate to work.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves you know designers/print process ppl etc mostly use crts to this day
mircea_popescu: and a good crt is way better than the best lcd/lft we you'll ever find.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform or live in a country where they fix shit.
mircea_popescu: most people just leave the stuff outside on set dates for the dump workers to collect it (they get the respective cents themselkves, sort of like a tip)
mircea_popescu: yeah, they mostly reuse them. as long as you give it up clean/sorted (ie, not covered in rotten meatjuices or w/e common garbage) they usually give you a few cents/kg
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this was if memory serves a 1992 seagate.
mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic ayup. the magic that you know and love as my endless spam is hatched on electron excitated phosphorus coatings.
mircea_popescu: i may be the only buyer left for spun drives and crt monitors in a 100 mile radius
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's just an ancient system doing various net stuff
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so was it teh putin that sold all those bonds earlier ?
mircea_popescu: it might, as a private joke of some bored people somewhere
mircea_popescu: in the sense that "this is just the old pcr stuff rehashed"
mircea_popescu: in romanian parlance of the time, the opposition (ie, what the us bipartisanly does) was called.... communism.
mircea_popescu: but yeah, liberal canonically means, no government, no regulation, free market etc.
mircea_popescu: this socialist re-defining of liberal is a purely us thing.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` in the east liberal means you know, right of conservative.
mircea_popescu: then i quit it in 2008, at the time it was in power. it looks like it will make... about 3% next electoral cycle.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, for self-c0k stroking purposes : i was one in the "secret circle" of romanian national liberal party, which went from making 3% in an alliance to making its own government by the time i left romania.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves you gotta appreciate, romanian politics 1990-2005 much more interesting than anything anyone's seen i nthe us.
mircea_popescu: BitChrista if you think that'd wear someone down, try being mp for a week :D
mircea_popescu: the situation is roughly similar with "there's more to be made financing silicon valley cca 1960 than financing banking or energy sector stocks".
mircea_popescu: there's more to be made serving bitcoin interest than serving ws interest today, for the young aspiring politician
mircea_popescu: there's about a billion or so worth of bitcoins represented here, and likely more reachable because the logs make popular morning newspapers for many people
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves toffoo is old time, prolly pre-2013 most of it
mircea_popescu: gotta meet politics with finance or else what good is it.
mircea_popescu: BitChrista that's nice. anyway, fyi, this is the place where bitcoin finance is hatched, so, probably worth your time to lurk.
mircea_popescu: In insurance, as elsewhere, the reaction of weak managements to weak operations is often weak accounting. (“It’s difficult for an empty sack to stand upright.”)
mircea_popescu: and also branson, and a number of other people who have little to nothing to do with bitcoin ?
mircea_popescu: BitChrista so are you keeping a list of "Best For Bitcoin" politicos somewhere ?
mircea_popescu: yeah the diff bets are a major part of bitbet, mostly because it's one of the few places where btc holders are well connected to the economy.