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mircea_popescu: but one time she was walking backwards and ran into a pole
mircea_popescu: coulda been a grocery clerk or a florist or a shoe store saleswoman and been just fine.
mircea_popescu: never got married, never progressed past assistant position, just...
mircea_popescu: eventually ended up an assitant uni teacher. generations of freshmen mocked her bitterly.
mircea_popescu: we had this mildly retarded chick in highschool, her parents kept pushing her to "achieve".
mircea_popescu: sure, fat stupid guy caught in a position that wasn';t for him. it's understandable.
mircea_popescu: why do people keep doing this re mtgox, event x at t, event y at t+k, o look, y is all it took for x.
mircea_popescu: google has probably the world's best buyouts department.
mircea_popescu: davout no. you get a track id in all executed orders. if it matches the hash of an order of yours then that hit the book and disappeared. if it doesn't then your order was on the book and got hit by someone else.
mircea_popescu: from what i see here most of their userbase is eu. they got little azn if anything.
mircea_popescu: "Facebook's purchase price values each Whatsapp user at $40. Whatsapp users pay zero dollars and are not shown ads."
mircea_popescu: not placing orders thatd result in executions is exactly anti-mm behaviour
mircea_popescu: well no, marketmaker means exactly you blow out the book on a regular basis if it doesn't conform.
mircea_popescu: The $19 billion deal -- $12 billion in stock, $4 billion in cash and $3 billion in restricted shares
mircea_popescu: The head of the KGB, their chief saint, Leads protesters to prison under escort In order not to offend His Holiness Women must give birth and love
mircea_popescu: Black robe, golden epaulettes All parishioners crawl to bow The phantom of liberty is in heaven Gay-pride sent to Siberia in chains
mircea_popescu: Virgin Mary, Mother of God, put Putin away Рut Putin away, put Putin away
mircea_popescu: "Facebook is now buying out anything that 14 year olds might use for billions of dollars. Good thing they're using stock and not real money."
mircea_popescu: "WhatsApp founder Jan Koum signs deal with FB at social services office where he used to get food stamps. "
mircea_popescu: accepting credit cards is a skill. exponential, logarithmic, this year alone or whatever else. it's all a soup.
mircea_popescu: on the left vs the right, the effects of the deterioration of public schooling.
mircea_popescu: but when the girl is barefoot on the dirt floor, that's her own dirt floor she's barefood on.
mircea_popescu: if not exactly under the medieval conditions described.
mircea_popescu: you know visconti had amateurs shoot the whole thing ?
mircea_popescu: there is a lot of competition in being the best worst.
mircea_popescu: that you can't do for them, nobody can, and so until they learn to submit you;re not going to have business there.
mircea_popescu: the problem you run into is this : they do not wish to actually matter in the world that is, they wish to instead live in a world they'd prefer.
mircea_popescu: seems a combination of really shitty hosting and people running servers on their home broadband
mircea_popescu: i was talking to a friend earlier and i said "tis hard being a woman". she retorted "yeah, not only our brains don't work but tits and asses both droop with time too!"