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mircea_popescu: ok so basically it's a "get no interest and wait for a year to hear which excuse i pick up for not redeeming" ?
mircea_popescu: "After 12 months, each bond may be redeemed at any time by bondholder for 0.01 BTC." seems it was a proper bond.
mircea_popescu: but wait i don't understand. work me through this will you ?
mircea_popescu: dexX7 so basically what was it, a combo btc principal + fiat coupon deal ?
mircea_popescu: "Top Of Mind scraped Bottom Of Barrel interviewing curmudgeon, Luddite, ignoramus, Statist and low brow unthinker Ken Hess. RLOL!"
mircea_popescu: Merry Lopan / Jolly Lopan. let the cutsy translation live 4ever :D
mircea_popescu: i remember back before xmas when we were mocking her cuntdown
mircea_popescu: apparently even nails for the guns are in short supply
mircea_popescu: one jew to the other "heh heh see ? they're clearly losing the war, can't even afford the bullets anymore"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform coupla jews, awaiting to be shot by the nazis. at the last moment, a courrier arrives with orders to hang them instead
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves the profession has one of the largest suicide rates.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know the "nazis are losing the war" joke ?
mircea_popescu: Neil since you mentioned jtd, you ever read the original mpoe prospectus ?
mircea_popescu: dexX7 yeah. and most people are too naive to be involved with tools as powerful as btc.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform one of these days write the specifics out rather than the vague summary, you can join the club of slanderous souls.
mircea_popescu: i could trivially have any of my counsel write me infinity bills and bleed him dry.
mircea_popescu: "If anyone incurred costs taking legal advice in respect of my absence then please PM me and I'll look at reimbursing it (copies of invoices would be required)."
mircea_popescu: whoa look at that, deprived is back form the dead to call craigate a scammor ?!
mircea_popescu: only the [intellectually] poor actually rely on it, and that's a community you never want to serve
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves search definitely could use some help. the problem is that by now, it devolved into the www equivalent of the check \cashing service
mircea_popescu: (ask all these other dudes who live in western countries, the entire girl thing makes 0 sense to them, for isntance)
mircea_popescu: which is the fucking point here. we gotta know you in order for anything you say to make any sense
mircea_popescu: yeah, it makes so much sense, because you told me you're from india and i knew how to construct it.
mircea_popescu: except nobody gives a shit what ugly girls think on any topic.
mircea_popescu: we don't want that, so, unless she's pretty, she's screwed. (otherwise, she's fucked).
mircea_popescu: so here's the scoop : if we don't kill the ugly ones, they will slowly multiply and take over.
mircea_popescu: okay. do you like girls generally or do you like pretty girls ?
mircea_popescu: the world isn't structured so as to make it possible for you to survive.
mircea_popescu: finance is a profession, not something happenstance like picking up a coin you found in the bus station.
mircea_popescu: as in read those two things, do what you're told, take the time to do it well.
mircea_popescu: ughlol well a constructive approach is always more indicated.
mircea_popescu: yes, but you're not trying to deal with the security world of india, are you ?
mircea_popescu: ughlol well ideally you want to be known. you're not currently known. how you resolve this problem is entirely up to you, but sure, wot helps a lot.
mircea_popescu: a self adjusting mechanism that turns maxint variation into [.5,1.5] ?
mircea_popescu: i know of no previous instance of a mechanism working so efficiently in all human technical history.
mircea_popescu: bitcoin has managed to maintain the time needed to get 2k blocks within one to three weeks in spite of infinite % growth of hash power.
mircea_popescu: Neil actually the best measure of bitcoin robustness per se, i would think, is the time - to - hash mechanism.
mircea_popescu: which i don't know because you just dropped here and started talking randomly.
mircea_popescu: by which point other major infrastructural points start suffering, ie, life in town will no longer be possible, but it is required for a certain post 1700 level of social an economic life.
mircea_popescu: that's at least two decades of unlimited economic collapse
mircea_popescu: they are surrounded by the night, and the likely result is they will revisit romania's folly
mircea_popescu: see the thing is : there are indeed some hard working us folk.
mircea_popescu: i dun see much future in the us, let alone any magic manifest destiny sort of future. then again, im not from there and ostensibly don't much care.
mircea_popescu: TomServo perhaps he's senile. or perhaps he has a point.
mircea_popescu: Neil beliefs and experiences aren't telling the whole story.
mircea_popescu: there's a three part bit on trilema about essences, which really i'll have to have translated, it's too important.
mircea_popescu: but this doesn't excuse me from having to pick them first.