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mircea_popescu: the smarter and luckier actually get exploration companies together, which have possibly valuable claims.
mircea_popescu: the idiots, who are people who wish to strike it big, take all the risk and go camp in the wild, whittling their lives away fighing the impossible odds of nature.
mircea_popescu: the way the exploration market works is, the governments holding explorable land spend some public money on support services for idiots. like i dunno, geologist support.
mircea_popescu: provided you have the sense to identify which shares are worth holding in the first place.
mircea_popescu: currently it's riskier to hold fiat shares than it is to hold bitcoin shares
mircea_popescu: and in fact there's more of them today than 200 years ago, because we keep dumping all this organic and iron into the ocean
mircea_popescu: sort of way cooler dune, and it had hotseat multiplayer
mircea_popescu: when i was a kid i loved a game, something like 3max or somesuch. it consisted basicalyl of this, you built robot metallic things, and fought over land an water against enemies.
mircea_popescu: yeah but you'll need a coupla aircraft carriers + a bunch of nuke subs
mircea_popescu: nevertheless it's a fact that oxygen saturation in atmosphere has been dropping for the past coupla centuries.
mircea_popescu: and while the "Carbon" preoccupation is laughable on the part of hte "climate scientists", ie the dudes dressed in white coats on tv screens,
mircea_popescu: lar system is free oxygen. If there will ever be a "peak" in the inputs to hydrocarbon combustion in the solar system it will be in free oxygen -- which as a natural occurence is extremely rare beyond Earth's atmosphere, and is rather expensive to make artificially.
mircea_popescu: Some perspective, even some purely theoretical perspective, is in order. If we look at the problem at the scale of the solar system, we find that hydrocarbons are remarkably common -- Titan has clouds and lakes of ethane and methane, for example, and there are trillions of tonnes of hydrocarbons, at least, to be found on comets and in the atmospheres and moons of the gas giant planets. What is far more scarce in the so
mircea_popescu: Jere_Jones bitcoin has proven leaders you see. max keiser et co :D
mircea_popescu: the problem is they have the unmitigated audacity to pretend like they know what they're talking about.
mircea_popescu: totally infantile these people. and i mean, the bitcoinwife being a clueless bint is one thing
mircea_popescu: the20year idiot zonehenge "karpeles quits bf, price plumets"
mircea_popescu: nubbins` you know, just because for w/e reason you don't perceive it as a burden
mircea_popescu: business is a burden, children are a burden, womenz are a burden, fucking eating is a burden
mircea_popescu: cazalla i would guess the gimmick is that btc/satoshi is the husband
mircea_popescu: people with any smarts need to be convinced to start blogs. people who already have blogs... dun wanna use the noggin. it's a dilemma.
mircea_popescu: there's like fiddy billion of these retards who think they matter in btc because they have no life, and so they "live for bitcoin"
mircea_popescu: i had no idea how well my follow list protects me on twitter.
mircea_popescu: what's so hard about making an album in a month. 3 days/song is over the average for pro pop these days.
mircea_popescu: ahaha wait wait. "the proven leaders in crypto" max keiser ?
mircea_popescu: fucking despicable abuse of women to a degree not the loweliest slave in the most obscure african harem endures.
mircea_popescu: hunter coin is adorable and she roots out for ken the most.
mircea_popescu: this is what the fucktarded activists have reduced the matter to. these are "women in tech"
mircea_popescu: so as a bonus exercise for he who was smart enough to find the important spot, write an alternative future or description of what the prayer should hgave been
mircea_popescu: you call one of these schmucks names it's like a cataclysmic event in their little brain.
mircea_popescu: i mean, she thinks it's because she's a woman, but it's merely because she's dumb.
mircea_popescu: @Mircea_Popescu @Beautyon_ Pls dont call me hon & patronize me. If you paid any attention youd know Im not "missing out." I LIVE for Bitcoin
mircea_popescu: Staunch Bitcoin purists are missing out on the beautiful decentralization of innovation that is manifested in altcoins. Real time evolution!
mircea_popescu: dignork the fact that user numbers are like "views", ie easily and commonly faked is only known here, apparently.
mircea_popescu: benkay no exists as in, and i quote, "you lost me, all I said was WHO will start investing, didn't name an exit price, have a lovely Sunday :) "
mircea_popescu: mike_c there must be some tax angle in all this i'm missing.
mircea_popescu: but one can't not stop to observe that yo! had you spent five minutes thinking things though on publicly available data,
mircea_popescu: so they retort that telefonica did in fact buy some messaging app
mircea_popescu: so then i point out that telefonica makes 5bn net on 70bn revenue
mircea_popescu: and they go like o no, old money loses money through its teeth.
mircea_popescu: then i point out that this bs deal put the bar way wya topo high, which means there won't be more sales, as old money has more of a clue
mircea_popescu: and armchair generals going "i wonder who's the next to buy one of these. vodafone ? telefonica ?"