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mircea_popescu: afghanistan gdp is nominally 18bn, of which ~3bn direct us deposits.
mircea_popescu: you know... it occurs to me the us is so utterly out of moneyz, it's actually running short on stuff to pay its allies.
mircea_popescu: "This creation of a new city, piled on top of the massive tribute owed to the Persians, as well as the necessary donative to the army to secure its acceptance of his accession, meant Philip was desperately short of money. To pay for it, he ruthlessly increased levels of taxation, while at the same time he ceased paying subsidies to the tribes north of the Danube that were vital for keeping the peace on the frontiers."
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell RBRubicon dude seriously, fix that connection.
mircea_popescu: pankkake "o i know, we'll rename mpex shit and pretend like we matter". gotta love the kids.
mircea_popescu: in this sense, the clue given is no different from the clue of "we don't like your face very much"
mircea_popescu: now, you know that that's your address, but someone looking in doesn't.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla but suppose you go bet, and put in an address.
mircea_popescu: tomorrow btc goes to 10k. now your share yields .01 BTC a week, thus is worth 1/10 what it was.
mircea_popescu: your share yields .1 BTC a week, and thus is worth w/e .1 * riskfreerate comes to.
mircea_popescu: KRS1 you have 1 btc. you invest it. company trades it for 100 dollars, buys a hooker. the hooker makes 10 dollars a week.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla there is however a guarantee a third party can't establish they're your coins.
mircea_popescu: and some shitty thing run by i forget who. those were the first three.
mircea_popescu: there's also something run by uhhh... what was his name, the weirdo indian guy
mircea_popescu: this is ultimately a problem of btc, of course, but still. financial analysis is what it is.
mircea_popescu: KRS1 the entire thing revolves around the empirical observation that companies which did not spend their ipo funds outperformed companies that did spend them, without exception.
mircea_popescu: benkay im not rly hiring you to do it tho, think of it as mostly volunteer work.
mircea_popescu: #bitcoin-assets : your daily source of insane ways to spend all your free time for great justice.
mircea_popescu: yes dude, and if we don't recall a fucking name we just sit here hashing letters like idjits
mircea_popescu: history is written ad urbe condita not last superbowl backwardsia.
mircea_popescu: with recent ones all the scum will have an incentive to argue about shit.
mircea_popescu: some twerps (goat, etc) deleted their posts, obviously.
mircea_popescu: well obviously a pankkake-style list isn't too helpful
mircea_popescu: and just, name, what it supposedly did, when it opened, who run it, when it closed, other notes etc.
mircea_popescu: im sure people with history will volunteer names to fill gaps
mircea_popescu: benkay suppose i give you the half-bitcoin i have leftover from the painting thing ? but srsly, do it thoroughly, don't leave anything out.
mircea_popescu: benkay no, srlsly, it's a great thing to do, if it's complete.
mircea_popescu: how about you make the complete list of all bitcoin companies ever.
mircea_popescu: actually, benkay, you still looking for fun shit to do ?
mircea_popescu: a review of the complete count of all bitcoin companies to date, and their spending patters may reveal that this is like ... the only 2 out of about 300 to do this.
mircea_popescu: cex.io peopl have been bitching about but i've not heard something subsytantive.
mircea_popescu: gotta be able to brandish things at people or else what sort of an argument is it.
mircea_popescu: The Sanitary Fartworth, an Illustrated Book of Sayings.
mircea_popescu: jurov you know, about once a meeting the idea surfaces that "we shouild just film this. itcould be a movie"
mircea_popescu: but it really went downhill once he actually had a point
mircea_popescu: jurov it all started with mike_c being a little bitch.