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mircea_popescu: but as a general principle actual finance does not belong in the mouth of pundits any more than science belongs in the mouths of politicos.
mircea_popescu: that's the debatable point, but anyway. some slack for everyone to cut closer or further by his taste.
mircea_popescu: you just go about your business without making a big deal of them and let the kids grow up with all their limbs
mircea_popescu: you don't make a big secret out of the power sockets, or the power tools in the garage
mircea_popescu: the idea isn't to keep anything a secret, god forbid, but basically i think we should be informed by the correct interraction with children in a family.
mircea_popescu: mike_c anyway, stuff like publishing the correct numbers is useful and welcome.
mircea_popescu: the day you're in the same boat with the sorts of people "investing" in groupon it's prolly time to move on.
mircea_popescu: the controlling point here, i guess, would be the observation of Kennedy sr that fuck it, when shoeshine boys discuss stocks it's time to get out.
mircea_popescu: rest of 62% is in other dead in the water nonventures.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves well... it is. of the 1-2% of bitcoin marketshare that us vcs get
mircea_popescu: last thing you need you know, is thebitcoinwife being knowledgeable about stocks.
mircea_popescu: i mean they can end up believing it is, like they end up believing any other nonsense they believe
mircea_popescu: i really don't want this viewpoint promoted whereby bitcoin finance is this point of interest for the general public.
mircea_popescu: TomServo kinda lulzy cause it went pretty much like an old guy's erection, that forced coin.
mircea_popescu: see the jan 31st discussion with herbi, it's linked in the tweet.
mircea_popescu: the argument is strong and well made, but not by them and not by their fucktarded infographic or w/e that thing is
mircea_popescu: link is there, "o derp, bitcoin is the greatest asset class in the histopry of business"
mircea_popescu: the derpage coming out of that thing is almost like bitcoin magazine runs it.
mircea_popescu: i have no idea why people continue doing it. must be a mental disorder on the management side.
mircea_popescu: i don't even remember a case where some popular site "improved"
mircea_popescu: (this was back in the ra ra ra days of to the moon when btc first broke 100)
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves he used to back before i ended up wearing his asshole as a windshield decoration
mircea_popescu: if only mr Y asked the demonstrator ppl what music they liked....
mircea_popescu: guy ended up asking me about what music i like and so forth.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves you missed the huge argument with anil dash coupla days ago ?
mircea_popescu: i abandoned it cca 2012 cause they made it js-unusable.
mircea_popescu: and really as entry level bureaucrats... how smart can they be ?
mircea_popescu: kinda sitting ducks because they're slaves to their talking points
mircea_popescu: it's kind-of becoming a fun sport these days tho, find agents twist their arms.
mircea_popescu: russia is very badly landlocked, they can't survive without ports.
mircea_popescu: because random US agent of influence in Brussels slash fuckwit says so.
mircea_popescu: notwithstanding that russia didn't send any tanks in the ukraine, either
mircea_popescu: no because the standard magically is "the us never sent tanks there"
mircea_popescu: like you know, having your idiocy made a point of public mockery in the forum is immediate license to disengage and pretent like you were slighted
mircea_popescu: and now he's going to be upset because i called him a weasel
mircea_popescu: @Mircea_Popescu Yes, it borders on the US province of Iraq. You may wish to drop the weasel act, we're adults, we can see through bs.
mircea_popescu: @SpiegelPeter Is Syria a neighbour of the US? You may want to re-read original Kennan quote.
mircea_popescu: @SpiegelPeter I don't recall US ever sending tanks into Canada. Does chasing Pancho Villa = Hungary 1956, Prague 1968, Afghanistan 1979?
mircea_popescu: @Mircea_Popescu This is pretty well equally true of the US. The EU is one of the few sane players and the US press is slamming them for it
mircea_popescu: @SpiegelPeter · 2h "Kremlin's jealous & intolerant eye can distinguish only vassals & enemies; neighbors, if they dont wish 2 be one, must be the other”-Kennan
mircea_popescu: well obviously all the nonsense barrage was destined to help them fuck some more noobs over.
mircea_popescu: like say the misadventures of those pretend-gambling guys mpoe-pr laid into a week ago
mircea_popescu: i wonder generally how many people realise that stupendously stupid "pr" actually has a marked negative cost
mircea_popescu: i hope shrem hit him over the head because had he stfu i'd have not said anything either.
mircea_popescu: pity something awful got all butthurt and humiliated and discontinued buttcoin
mircea_popescu: fucking hell i can read the original THROUGH the blackl
mircea_popescu: so this guy is going to be forever remembered as the pdf highlights tard ?