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mircea_popescu: i wish i could readily explain it somehow, save lots of people lots of pain.
mircea_popescu: well yes, but your laymans perspective can easily get you fucking killed.
mircea_popescu: understand, thinking is not a crime. not thinking however is. you can't just gloss over stuff.
mircea_popescu: this is the hardest job in all of banking, credit officer.
mircea_popescu: this is the topic of expertise. man walks into a bank, appears to intend to start a business. hoiw do you decide if you finance him ?
mircea_popescu: there is nothing more deceiving than appearance. how do you judge ?
mircea_popescu: Duffer1 what makes you think you are qualified to judge whether this is the case ?
mircea_popescu: incidentally, i think this may well be why otherwise intelligent people decide bitcoin is beyond stupid. they probably go through this intellectual cycle, "o, let's examine the data re this thing. what's intel got ? o wait, what ? you say what ? did what ? what ?"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no, you're right, i've just gone through five minutes of disbelief. i'm fine now.
mircea_popescu: that's the news. this is how people think the reports of an it project look.
mircea_popescu: 13/12/13 ; Sadly the beta release we wanted will be delayed by a week or so, more details in the newsletter ; 27/11/13 We have the gui wireframes back from designers..
mircea_popescu: 24/12/13 Countdown reset due to delays, mailshot has copies of screenshots...merry xmas all
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform NOT when barnum thinks he's carnegie and his visitors think they're there spinning the world.
mircea_popescu: "Ciphertrade is a fantastic new service that will change the way you work"Ciphertrade is a fantastic new service that will change the way you work.". does that "fantastic" only sound krameresque to me ?
mircea_popescu: endgame is at least 20 years away. the fuck im gonna do, that's my youth.
mircea_popescu: it has to be a mental disease. no other way to explain this.
mircea_popescu: teh leading british entrepreneur that was born last june and did a... leading green it company.
mircea_popescu: you people have what's technically known as a death wish.
mircea_popescu: bwahaha what do my eyes read. so some nut with a ltc denominated pnb is "making an exchange" and that's where the noobdom is all excited to go ?
mircea_popescu: if sturles is still around you can probably paypal him some dollars for a little btc dust just so you have some
mircea_popescu: it's a good word, you know ? some countries are landlocked,
mircea_popescu: basically the imf is about six months late to the party. real countries mine since summer.
mircea_popescu: many years later these shackles will be presented as a symbol of opression,
mircea_popescu: the nigger of the future is easily recognised in the present by his desire for shackles.
mircea_popescu: o wait, that was the rolling stones not the new yorker
mircea_popescu: the current crop mostly sounds like they've crawled out of a hipster's arse.
mircea_popescu: i seriously wonder at the degree of delusion us press must be belabouring under, to imagine saying " would threaten the stability of the financial system" does not immediately and transparently mapped to "they told us they will fuck us up, permanently. we believed them, because they had a point."
mircea_popescu: after the strauss debacle, the us as much as trying this will result in the respective agents being shot on the spot.
mircea_popescu: "There is no reason why the Justice Department couldn't have snatched up everybody at HSBC involved with the trafficking, prosecuted them criminally, and worked with banking regulators to make sure that the bank survived the transition to new management."
mircea_popescu: more like "you think anyone asked you ? shut up and get out of my office"
mircea_popescu: if brauer had actually asked for cocaine... it'd have been rejected.
mircea_popescu: hardly anything else than proof as to how the usg is impotent and pointless.
mircea_popescu: the usg insists to bother foreign merchants with "regulation". this is one step away from everyone just sending it packing. so it agreed to stfu and save some face.
mircea_popescu: also, what the fascist media claims and what the reality is divergest vastly.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves it's not a joke, it's just there to control poor people.
mircea_popescu: monolithik a better question would be, why;d you give a shit ?
mircea_popescu: you know, like nielsen ratings / website traffic stats / us inflation
mircea_popescu: next you'll be quoting bitcoin foundation, bitcoin magazine and #bitcoin-dev.
mircea_popescu: KRS|Gotyawallet you seriously failed to notice that "the big move" happened january 2011 ?
mircea_popescu: is there any way to reliably measure such a putative mkt cap ?
mircea_popescu: KRS|Gotyawallet do you generally put a lot of concern into 10 cents ?
mircea_popescu: if post-sell-by date starlets start "leaking" bitcoin tapes i'm gonna hurt some puppies.
mircea_popescu: dude srsly, this retards wave 3.0 thing is above any predicted high water mark.