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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
mircea_popescu: it'd actually be a sad twist on bitcoin if that's what it'd end up doing : burn elec to mine, burn btc to spam a forum... too virtual.
mircea_popescu: the only idea is that i have a larger pile of money than your mom has a pile of used condoms.
mircea_popescu: well... there's nothing in the idea, that's what they're doing already, amateurly, or on shoestring budgets.
mircea_popescu: sadly there's no way i could in good conscience justify the expense to shareholders.
mircea_popescu: see the panic on the faces of the various would be "entrepreneurs" once they get flooded to shit.
mircea_popescu: i'm half considering hiring an indian outsourcer and putting 2-3-5k indian kids on spamming all the scam threads just for lulz.
mircea_popescu: jborkl i think shills have to be pretty dumb. if they were smart they'd find more productive stuff to do neh ?
mircea_popescu: not sure of what exactly, but it is a strong top signal
mircea_popescu: that'd have to mean the forum is mostly not read by noobs anymore.
mircea_popescu: this may be an explanation, basically, buncha shills simply making a deliberate effort to switch terminology around.
mircea_popescu: no but i mean... it's 100% opposite. not like... wrong. completely motherfucking backwards.
mircea_popescu: i've never before seen people genuinely praise shit and despise steak, out of what seems like their own personal volition and thought process
mircea_popescu: and a bunch of muppets in all the noob-scam threads congratulating them on their superprofessional buznizz skillzorz
mircea_popescu: there's a bunch of muppets in mpoe thread screaming about how mpex is "designed to make money from noobs"
mircea_popescu: nubbins meanwhile the lift of s.mpoe earlier this week from 80s to 100s quietly added about 200 million worth of new wealth to the savvier counterparts to those investors buying... all the other scams.
mircea_popescu: just as soon as they agree not to point out the various unflattering bits. and so what if no girls are interested ?
mircea_popescu: the slobbering fat dork and the lanky acneic geek can be best friends
mircea_popescu: the news on the german gold owed by the us also disappeared.
mircea_popescu: exactly how bad bank assets are being the most closely guarded secret atm.
mircea_popescu: draghi's latest statements precipitated it, but otherwise general behaviour of everyone involved.
mircea_popescu: 2014 has a good shot at being the first zero gdp year on record. both the us and the eu look set to write off in financials at leeast as much if not more than what the economy produces.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, piigs banks look set for an aditional... 300 to 500 billions in writeoffs.
mircea_popescu: mr dimon might have to bring back some of those 20mn to help jpm make it through spring.
mircea_popescu: so what happens to the average us home, which was build on the cheap out of shoddy materials, is currently foreclosed and thus empty, and the winter hits hard ?