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mircea_popescu: she gets you a pair of socks ? get her superluxury garter belts. exchange gifts
mircea_popescu: ultimate asshole thing to do : spy on what people get you for your bday
mircea_popescu: it comes from 5000 years of experience iwth the notion that "people yu don't know will likely rape you", something which comes full circle with the earlier discussion re cryptoscams.
mircea_popescu: otherwise, it was ethnocentrism, like the way twop small towns hate each other's football team
mircea_popescu: only became cogent once transportation became possible.
mircea_popescu: racism is new in the sense that the observation that people belong to different races is new
mircea_popescu: he has copywright on hitler and monopoly on plastic doll manufacturing.
mircea_popescu: fuck you dude, i can't remember what i did with all my 50s
mircea_popescu: he can't remember what he did with the rest of the turds and wants me to pay 50 for the extant ones ?
mircea_popescu: "I made a handful of these a few years ago. I currently can only find 2. I may have given the rest away or sold them, I cant remember. I'm asking $50 each for them shipped in the lower48 (at bitstamp rate)."
mircea_popescu: you obviously couldn't have ended up the queen, as a black male.
mircea_popescu: sure you would. they had black people in 1500 england.
mircea_popescu: <nubbins`> "Well I'm black. So I guess I wouldn't." lmao
mircea_popescu: and so no third party could in fact use the court of the government against the bank of the government.
mircea_popescu: also because b) the law is so written so that the government and its subsidiaries are immune from law,
mircea_popescu: nubbins` it's not in court because a) the court is a government subsidiary, and the government knows the bank is out of capital.
mircea_popescu: point remains tho, due dilligence does not go away. it is either done one way or the other, but it has to be done.
mircea_popescu: jurov i don't mean you personally, at any point in this conversation, neither above (i was discussing the cofounder guy, whose responsibility it is whether he knows or not) nor here, it's not like you have to do due dilligence work if you have no experience, training or talent for it.
mircea_popescu: course if mr cotton had said "either you fill this bag with money or else i come with my lawyer and you'll have to fill HIS bag on top of mine, and on your own account"
mircea_popescu: when i bitch and whine that we need more ppl doing blogging well this is part of it. what are you to do ?
mircea_popescu: jurov this is true. you can practically either piggyback on me, piggyback on someone else, or else do it yourself.
mircea_popescu: we're not equal, even if we can type the same strings in a box they still aren't the same strings. depends whose name signs on them. we're not equal, even if two people have "the same idea", in one head it's an idea, in another head it's nothing.
mircea_popescu: what, some guy that has no wot, no presence, that i don't know suddenly has an idea ? suddenly can be a ceo ?
mircea_popescu: so that's what i do. i don't deal with people i don't know. i test. i build histories. i check histories.
mircea_popescu: i mean... this is really 9 yo stuff. do not go to the strip club with perfect strangers.
mircea_popescu: jurov suppose one day you're walking down the street and some guy offers you a joint. do you take it or do you figure "hey, a fuckwit i never saw before is trying to get me drugged up" ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: you are better off with two friends than with two hundred "friends" who mostly come by to steal things from your house and take bank loans with copies of your id they obtained while you weren't looking.
mircea_popescu: stop thinking that words matter. someone calling you a cofounder and you're all tickled pink ?
mircea_popescu: i could name names of people doing exactly the same, with fake miners, with bs of all sorts. i won't.
mircea_popescu: with nothing better to do with his time, with no idea what a name is and how it works, with nothing at all.
mircea_popescu: and then... it all blows up, and it turns pout he was in fact no cofounder.
mircea_popescu: it's like virgin highschooler kids getting married at 17 to support some random ho.
mircea_popescu: everyone is like insane, feels this irresistible urge to shill for the first scammer that comes by with honeyed lips.
mircea_popescu: "The cofounder (forensick) left the company and told me he has not seen any bitcoins from the IPO and moreover was left with some outstanding debt by Markus Weiler (dotcoin)."
mircea_popescu: a large cash withdrawal is more than what'd be needed to pay for the most expensive dwelling.
mircea_popescu: course "large" cash withdrawals actually means pocket change
mircea_popescu: derp. how much money of your own money you can have is not part of the terms.
mircea_popescu: The bank said it did not have to tell him. "As this was not a change to the Terms and Conditions of your bank account, we had no need to pre-notify customers of the change," HSBC wrote.
mircea_popescu: that's easy. they just go to a lot of conferences and say stupidshit.
mircea_popescu: same experts, saying stupid shit, just so happens to be opposite of a few months ago.
mircea_popescu: anyway. the bubble will be happening in the summer, once these schmucks capitulate, and i'll be fighting against five digit madness
mircea_popescu: "the fact that if it's not i'm out of a job, permanently, has no impact on my foregoing opinion"
mircea_popescu: yeah pretty much everyone who read that came here to wtf
mircea_popescu: jborkl o, it's a riot. no more noobzone, so all the shills can make socks with lower cost