359500+ entries in 0.086s
mircea_popescu: well technically bills these days are more expensive to make than their face value, so it is a sort of pillage
mircea_popescu: fun fact : destroying fiat bills has no destructive effect on fiat.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform he meant "sucks moneyness out of fiat competitors"
mircea_popescu: anyway, the btc is 8bn out of a 10bn market story depicted there is off.
mircea_popescu: dude check it out lol. i wonder what all the people with jobs must be thinking
mircea_popescu: seriously ? that amply exposed scamcoin is worth dough ?
mircea_popescu: benkay except not in a million years has ripple done anything of the sort lol
mircea_popescu: pankkake ahaha ripples #2 ? dude get out of here with this bs,
mircea_popescu: benkay you can not pull the wool over our eyes sir, we know all about it said he knowingly.
mircea_popescu: ever since it became small in japan sex is pretty much doomed huh.
mircea_popescu: you know, from all the free sex going out in the free country.
mircea_popescu: the cascadian movement produced weird music and a lot of new lice infections.
mircea_popescu: davout do you have une ministresse du denuement productif aussi ?
mircea_popescu: that's a new angle : if you read the stuff crypto-whatever wannabe exchange publishes, you're roughly in the same set with idiots and grannies that still read the spam emails they get, tune in for cnbc newscasts etc
mircea_popescu: "It seems like neither Cryptostocks or the issuer behind this have the time to read throu the contracts before they publish it these days, "
mircea_popescu: eventually you notice you can only fuck so much and stop caring
mircea_popescu: just so happens that stuff seeming soft can in fact be as hard as coffin nails, somewhere in there.
mircea_popescu: jurov i don't suppose you're liable to go around deciding to beat people because "they're on your turf" and obviously they seem like townfolk so perhaps they're not quite as hard as all that.
mircea_popescu: Jere_Jones well so there you go : DON'T LOSE YOUR KEY OMFG BBQ
mircea_popescu: jurov what, i'm a lovable huggable simpleminded psychopath.
mircea_popescu: in short : the "positive" tidbits are extremely easy to miss, because they depend on other positive tidbits
mircea_popescu: when i say to moiety "you're wasting your time doing something we know is stupid. waste your time doing something we don't know is stupid yet." this is what i'm referencing.
mircea_popescu: now, had you read that before or is it your first time ?
mircea_popescu: ow all the ways movies can’t be made. That’s what they’ve been doing with their years and the investors’ money up to that point : not coming one iota closer to knowing how movies can be made, but establishing vast inroads into the obviously endless topic of how they can’t in fact be made. Noobs bereft of this very valuable (in that it’s very expensive) knowledge ain’t got a prayer."
mircea_popescu: in it, you will find : "Much like “nobody knows how to make movies” was generally true in Hollywood, “nobody knows how to make Bitcoin businesses” is generally true in Bitcoin. Nevertheless, this does not logically follow into “so then everyone has the same chances, noobs and veterans alike”. Such a proposition could not be further from the truth, because the veterans have the sizable advantage that they kn
mircea_popescu: Jere_Jones it's mpoe-prs, and the problem with "Thou shalt do" is that a) there's a lot less of that available than you'd want, and b) people are well impervious to listening anyway.
mircea_popescu: <pankkake> why? << mothers are to blame because in their quest to protect their offspring they manage to fuck up the offspring's risk evaluator.
mircea_popescu: part of the problem here would be that none of those things you use the term loosely for are anywhere in range for meaningful commentary.
mircea_popescu: the net result being that the doods' all gather up to beat these atrociously obnoxious town bois
mircea_popescu: we used to do this thing whereby we'd dress up nice and clean, go to some disco in the sticks, a village somewhere
mircea_popescu: they also imagine they can just start "a security" and it'll all just fall into place
mircea_popescu: <davout> do people really imagine they can go to some foreign country and simply beat up some guy in a public place like a train station and not gete in trouble? <<< yes.
mircea_popescu: <pankkake> actually, I was scammed by my banker << you know the luis de funes movie re scammed by banker ?
mircea_popescu: <pankkake> I wonder what part of fiat investing is to blame for the bad risk estimation in btc investments << mothers are to blame.
mircea_popescu: Jere_Jones what do you figure i (we) are doing herei n the first place ?
mircea_popescu: pankkake it's okay, he just knows better than anyone anyway.
mircea_popescu: i'd rather teach a monkey to invest than a bitcointalk-er.
mircea_popescu: pankkake what is bad about dr greg is that it's generally worse to have a half-educated idiot than ap ure idiot.