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mircea_popescu: "And as for the subsequent performance of that fund, if you had bothered to check, you would have found that in fact, it dropped by a total of 11.6% from inception to final return of capital -- thereby outperforming every other comparable fund available"
mircea_popescu: ahaha check it out, the doofus actually claims they made a gain.
mircea_popescu: not sure who it is now, cause the chinese aren't really obnoxious
mircea_popescu: yeah in fairness the derpy us traveller of the 70s and 80s has been replaced by a much more understated kind.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the ro passport is pretty good i tell you. of all the people i've been with all over the world, mine's been overall the best treated.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla no here it's bundled with the cable subscription
mircea_popescu: my brain doesn't manage to cope with the alternate reality these kids live in.
mircea_popescu: imagine : spend a hundred grand and allow them to tell you when the thing closes ?
mircea_popescu: "The victorious punter jumped up and down waving his receipt in the air when the bills were added up shortly before closing time at the club, at the Embassy venue in Old Burlington Street. The nightclub has not revealed the identity of the big spenders."
mircea_popescu: “It was meant to be just an extra hobby alongside football,” Alex explained
mircea_popescu: Alex Hope made his first trade around five years ago, while he was still working at a fast food bar – and now claims to earn a six-figure salary. He made his first deals on his mobile phone during the commute to his day job, after a spread betting seminar shortly before his 18th birthday.
mircea_popescu: Describing his rapid career rise from humble beginnings to working for trading company Zone Invest Group, it adds: “A talented, charismatic and thoroughly likeable man, Alex Hope exudes knowledge and you can’t help but respect and admire this self-taught and self-made young trader.”
mircea_popescu: they come from the queue outside the playground, waiting to fellate these idiots.
mircea_popescu: His biography reads: “Despite his tender years, Alex is a name to watch out for in the city. An expert in the UK economy, he works the currency markets, regularly trading millions.”
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i'd say only worth drinking if you're not drunk
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i take it you don't do much in the way of the club scene huh
mircea_popescu: which you know, most serious partyers can drop on a single bottle.
mircea_popescu: i guess the min cost to troll the monitors would be ~1.5k
mircea_popescu: Perfect runner and good condition but EML is on with code H025 so needs new exhaust sensor., SILVER, 3 owners, Next MOT due 23/02/2015, Tax expires 30/04/2014,
mircea_popescu: SILVER, IMMACULATE CONDITION, 2 X KEEPERS FROM NEW, MOT JULY 2014, TAX, FULL SERVICE HISTORY PART MAIN DEALER, CD PLAYER, AIR-CON, MULTIFUNCTION STEERING WHEEL, HEATED SEATS, FULL … £3,495
mircea_popescu: take leah of #suckstobeleah fame : she had a 175k mortgage and no jaguar.
mircea_popescu: it so happens both of those are 10x as expensive and 100x as scammy on a roi basis.
mircea_popescu: somehow people are expected to buy houses and college educations, but a jaguar throws red flags
mircea_popescu: “If one guy has a Jaguar on a (government) GS-12 salary, that’s a red flag,” McConnell said.
mircea_popescu: i don't usually turn them off, i usually end up turning some chick on
mircea_popescu: to describe the entire operation as schweitzer would be charitable.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not really purges, more like desperation. for every snowden twitter knows about there's dozens that various interests know about
mircea_popescu: he;s lying. nobody who actually does it advertises it.
mircea_popescu: "'I get probably seven or eight hundred and I read the majority of those. Every day." he
mircea_popescu: KRS-One not that novel, it's been introduced by the forum investors years ago
mircea_popescu: whatever it may be, virgin, apple, i didn't even look. whose ceo is cook nao ?
mircea_popescu: it's circular, otp is only impractical because people have been designing things to make it impractical. otherwise otp generating doohickeys would be trivial to make.
mircea_popescu: sorry, i generally agree with his point that people overuse random for no good reason, and that entropy isn't readily understood by the average coder,