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mircea_popescu: " has generated an immense amount of international attention, including denials from Mr. Nakamoto, criticism of Ms. Goodman’s reporting and ad hominem attacks on her character."
mircea_popescu: who here read k. ushinski in their childhood incidentally ?
mircea_popescu: that's it, that's what it's gonna be, it's not changing.
mircea_popescu: lol asciilifeform it's not as easy as you tihnk. the "humanities" undergrad has been trained for ~16 years to apply recipes, like he were a woman cooking.
mircea_popescu: "Ponder this: the economic goodwill attributable to two paper routes in Buffalo - or a single See’s candy store - considerably exceeds the proceeds we received from this massive collection of tangible assets that not too many years ago, under different competitive conditions, was able to employ over 1,000 people."
mircea_popescu: Gross proceeds from our sale of this equipment came to $163,122. Allowing for necessary pre- and post-sale costs, our net was less than zero. Relatively modern looms that we bought for $5,000 apiece in 1981 found no takers at $50. We finally sold them for scrap at $26 each, a sum less than removal costs.
mircea_popescu: The equipment sold (including some disposed of in the few months prior to the auction) took up about 750,000 square feet of factory space in New Bedford and was eminently usable. It originally cost us about $13 million, including $2 million spent in 1980-84, and had a current book value of $866,000 (after accelerated depreciation). Though no sane management would have made the investment, the equipment could hav
mircea_popescu: There is an investment postscript in our textile saga. Some investors weight book value heavily in their stock-buying decisions (as I, in my early years, did myself). And some economists and academicians believe replacement values are of considerable importance in calculating an appropriate price level for the stock market as a whole. Those of both persuasions would have received an education at the auction we held
mircea_popescu: "Feb 28 12:48:43 <wbaw>should have faster service instead of acting like you're not trying to compete with huge companies with customer support teams"
mircea_popescu: it's almost as if you were eccentric enough to baptise sticks of salami
mircea_popescu: all these undefined antecedents. what are we talkin' aboot ?
mircea_popescu: what's so hard to buy about it, any search in the registry yields like a dozen of them
mircea_popescu: cads: once you buy that this could be possible the rest of the article does down like a glass of water :) <<< there's a guy who's legally named that that's been trying to convince the world of his relevancy for i dunno, like a year ?
mircea_popescu: mike_c: no way. there is extensive lexical analysis proving mp is satoshi. << fu, i'm not satoshi.
mircea_popescu: anyway, let it be put in the permanent record that translation efforts are the best way to practically resolve differences of opinion.
mircea_popescu: it was a genuine question, just, not in the obvious context.
mircea_popescu: some random chick who thinks she's a "freelance journalist" doing "investigations"
mircea_popescu: which is exactly what she did : made some untrue statements not because she believed them,
mircea_popescu: but no. a whore is one who does for money that which is to be done on faith.
mircea_popescu: well if that's your definition, the statement is uncontroversial. i suspect even the anon whore herself would say she's "a professional"
mircea_popescu: i haven't established that yet. i suspect you're just being naive ?
mircea_popescu: to me they mean "Leah whatever is a dumb [attention]whore."
mircea_popescu: so what do the words "I am not Dorian Nakamoto." mean ?
mircea_popescu: Satoshi Nakamoto replied 9 hours ago to Bitcoin open source implementation of P2P currency"
mircea_popescu: well obviously we're either not on the same page or perhaps not speaking the same language.
mircea_popescu: that's what the man said : "you, leah whatever, are a dumb whore".
mircea_popescu: <benkay``> like four beers and half a bottle of merlot through no fault of my own