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mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves well you need a number of that rare beast, the risk assesment officer.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` only if you don't lie.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves how would facebook do it ?!
mircea_popescu: not internet worthy, but hey.
mircea_popescu: the cleverness of the us politicos is so very refined it's just about on par with the cleverness of the entire check and card system.
mircea_popescu: o wait, an answer appears. because this way the costs of governance could be imposed upon business directly, bypassing the tax controls of congress.
mircea_popescu: and why is that provider not a govt agency paid for by the govt out of taxes, as it should be ?
mircea_popescu: that's a good q, actually.
mircea_popescu: myeah.
mircea_popescu: (yea, that's like three points, what can i say)
mircea_popescu: it can end up costing the president half his approval rating pretty much.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla that case will be interesting, too, if the kid somehow finds the resources to not sign a plea bargain.
mircea_popescu: your part of what ? cake ?
mircea_popescu: yes yes. meanwhile it's convenient symbology
mircea_popescu: and she goes... "well great, we'll be abjectly poor and finally have a chance to be a family"
mircea_popescu: you don't even know how.
mircea_popescu: which you know... you kinda dread telling to the incredibly hot knockout that somehow accepted to marry you
mircea_popescu: like you know, suppose you lose your job, and that means you'll lose the house
mircea_popescu: deadweasel if you wish an optimist angle on it, you could say "well great, finally a chance to become a nation"
mircea_popescu: you know the thing with present moments... they're but moments, fleetingly present. the car going too fast is still, for a brief moment, on the road.
mircea_popescu: yeah. and if we don't ?
mircea_popescu: o i mean, the us is doing great, just like yahoo, what do i know.
mircea_popescu: don't do it the other way lest you perish like the us perished.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves it's great. let the world adapt it's sensitive ears to the roar of commercial and industrial reality.
mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic if you control her.
mircea_popescu: nobody may speak for the thing other than the owner, or the manager.
mircea_popescu: in any venue, under any circumstances, ever. if you can't control the communication shut it off.
mircea_popescu: never, ever, under any circumstances allow random "specialist" fuckwits to speak for your venture.
mircea_popescu: learn something from me, ye future owners of this world, if you learn anything at all :
mircea_popescu: fuckwits on a stick.
mircea_popescu: no you don't understand. it's good and i don't have "actionable" whatever. it's just like yahoo which is doing great!
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla ppl bein raceist.
mircea_popescu: https://twitter.com/Namecheap/status/428158030015107072 << cannonical exercise in "but i'm too stupid to know just how stupid i am!"
mircea_popescu: one day they'll be a fortune.
mircea_popescu: hey, my 2 bitcents!
mircea_popescu: just a summary at the end, perhaps one of the two "we decided we'r too stupid to get mixed up usefully" "we're unaware we're too stupid and will mix ourselves into it"
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves srsly, a blow by blow of some irrelevant proceeding in some 3rd world pesthole is a bit much.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform anything good ?
mircea_popescu: this is how they could afford the entrance fee :D
mircea_popescu: make a summary when you get bored.
mircea_popescu: however, all scammers are dreamers.
mircea_popescu: not all dreamers are scammers (tho in general, if poorly managed or self managed, they do tend to realise that potential)
mircea_popescu: scammers are dreamers.
mircea_popescu: if he were modest, like your model describes, he'd be an employee.
mircea_popescu: that'd be missing a fundamental ingredient in the psychology of the scammer.
mircea_popescu: nah.
mircea_popescu: by the time a bitcoin is over 10k it'll be almost breathable in the "community"
mircea_popescu: which is actually the service all these failed attempts provide bitcoin : they shed all the idiots off us. thanks god.
mircea_popescu: mike_c the only way cognitive can become the whatever, is if it moves to dogecoins and it pretends that's the "world"
mircea_popescu: there's no recanning that can of worms.
mircea_popescu: the only way cognitive was a "desirable" asset was when the herpitude of the multitude was still fresh.
mircea_popescu: just like everyone else ?
mircea_popescu: is this the 17yo who figures he's a player on the strength of also having a keyboard
mircea_popescu: lol
mircea_popescu: mhm.
mircea_popescu: lippoper it's just funny, on the interwebs everyone has "opinions"
mircea_popescu: noobs discover bitcoin, imagine th eworld starts and ends with their trufflebrain, make articles to tell the world.
mircea_popescu: http://investmentwatchblog.com/the-fundamental-flaw-in-crypto-currencies-that-will-soon-make-them-all-worthless-competing-crypto-currencies/
mircea_popescu: herp. "30% of kids aren't employed. this perhaps has something to do with the fact that even if they were it wouldn't help them ?!?!?:!"
mircea_popescu: In its latest review of social developments, the European Commission has said finding a job increasingly has not pulled people out of economic hardship. It said poverty among people with jobs was a major problem.
mircea_popescu: because that's what the web 2.0 is all about.
mircea_popescu: and obviously facebook is a standards-noncompliant, half baked, buggy implementation of half of rfc2795.
mircea_popescu: there, added.
mircea_popescu: it could ipo just fine.
mircea_popescu: like you know, the old parrot-fortune-picking thing carnies/gypsies did in the old soviet space
mircea_popescu: i;m kind-of dissapoint that nobody has come up with some sort of forum-"financial" product centered around a monkey
mircea_popescu: i'm sure about as many people made the same choice as the legions that sold them btc back when i was buying all there was on sale and never ran into them
mircea_popescu: sounds like the exact people i'd have my wealth managed by, personally.
mircea_popescu: a ok.
mircea_popescu: or w/e they are i forget. was it wrestlers ?
mircea_popescu: lippoper fortunately satoshi isn't know, or else hed get sued for having stolen some wrestler's ideas
mircea_popescu: somehow none of us active at the time heard or felt this, but they did it.
mircea_popescu: jurov you remember, the twinklevii, those people who kept buying btc back when it was 10. lots of it.
mircea_popescu: sure.
mircea_popescu: the point here isn't that we believe what they say. the point here is that what they say is less nutty than it was afore.
mircea_popescu: this'd depend on your definition of "a killing" and on the faith you put in the numbers advanced by well known liars.
mircea_popescu: good for them that that particular psychological issue they had has somehow found resolution meanwhile.
mircea_popescu: they never mattered, but had previously trouble coming to terms with this fact.
mircea_popescu: i'll call this writing seminal strictly for the benefit of the double entendre.
mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2014/inflation-deflation-economic-regulation/
mircea_popescu: which is why i made the myopia comment afore.
mircea_popescu: mno silly, that's your stereotype you use to internally represent your intellectual superiors.
mircea_popescu: assbot pls to delete teh other line from the permanent record :D
mircea_popescu: "or when you are of age, whichever comes first."
mircea_popescu: aw fuck.
mircea_popescu: or when you grow up, whichever comes first.
mircea_popescu: there isn't, nor are there "standard things". stop stereotyping, it's the mental process of the very stupid.
mircea_popescu: a very smart judge once said, in response to the gov't claim that "this is a standard deal" that there is no such thing as a "standard" deal.
mircea_popescu: he didn't make a claim.
mircea_popescu: but at any rate : if you ask some guy how did he find the steak and he says "stringy", you have no space to ask for proof of claim.
mircea_popescu: that high horse is a) legitimately high ; b) much higher in fact than your myopia allows you to see.
mircea_popescu: you're confused as to what a claim is truffles.
mircea_popescu: once your brains no longer has a reference language it will keep all, or at least enough functional constructs to be able to rapidly recover.
mircea_popescu: as long as your brains thinks there's a correct language to have and extras as modules to it, it keeps forgetting them
mircea_popescu: people don't respect whores enough. the whore has the ability to not believe in anything. this is valuable.
mircea_popescu: just being very whorish.
mircea_popescu: o wait
mircea_popescu: davout you should ipo that.
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