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mircea_popescu: snackman actually, there was a post about that, too. didja read that ?
mircea_popescu: so rarely women do anything worth the mention. why rob them of the little they do.
mircea_popescu: no i mean the oglaf GUY. it's a girl.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves it's a woman!
mircea_popescu: aw shit. caught in my own web of lies
mircea_popescu: yes.
mircea_popescu: it's about you.
mircea_popescu: snackman http://trilema.com/2013/the-strange-case-of-the-delusionist-and-later-stories/ << check out the cartoon.
mircea_popescu: (which, i will have you know, somalis pronounce irtz)
mircea_popescu: the dazzling variety of irc.
mircea_popescu: it's complicated, because finance.
mircea_popescu: i'm really jurov, who is ThickAsThieves.
mircea_popescu: snackman kakobrekla.
mircea_popescu: retardds. obviously wires in would work fine.
mircea_popescu: “I’ve sent large amounts by wire and it’s always worked within 24 hours. Check your deposit "
mircea_popescu: "for many weeks" ?
mircea_popescu: so then how does he hold the shares at whatever
mircea_popescu: so is it an actual bond, as in, with a principal and everything ?
mircea_popescu: what part of the "i hold my share prices" do i woefully misunderstand ?
mircea_popescu: what ?
mircea_popescu: Your thoughts here."
mircea_popescu: "For a few months now, Whilst I hold my share prices at 0.012, When I started, This was nothing, Now it is starting to be something, Whilst this is good for early adopters who have got the value back already, Is this too high for anyone else to come in?
mircea_popescu: didn't vtx also get hacked ?
mircea_popescu: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZWn2AaJoZo << here, because you're all nuts.
mircea_popescu: this to me looks definitely like miners are dominating the yes side.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves if you look at it, the yes side is few and mostly large bets, the no is mostly many small bets
mircea_popescu: yeah
mircea_popescu: benkay not too likely, it's kinda clunky
mircea_popescu: it's not like i was bored one day and invented a new thing/
mircea_popescu: how do you think options ended up existing in the first place,
mircea_popescu: well yeah
mircea_popescu: thus, it's exactly an option.
mircea_popescu: and it has an expiration (established by the borrow)
mircea_popescu: mike_c but your contract has an implicit strike (established by the interest you pay on the borrow and the price you get on the sale)
mircea_popescu: yes.
mircea_popescu: interestingly enough, any arrangement wherein you borrow bitcoin and then sell it is, in fact, an option.
mircea_popescu: nethash ! what r u doing! nethash! STAHP!!!
mircea_popescu: funniest thing i read all day.
mircea_popescu: totally.
mircea_popescu: !b 7 ✂︎
mircea_popescu: benkay it can remain rational for even longer than you can remain irrational, is the catch
mircea_popescu: the difficulty is a very long difficulty indeed.
mircea_popescu: shorting the difficulty never works out
mircea_popescu: truffles tat shorted the difficulty, i'll have you know.
mircea_popescu: benkay to quote one of the better lines in city hall, "You ever seen a journalist with a million dollars in cash ?"
mircea_popescu: well... of course they don't.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo and then he gets davout to whitelist him on btc central or what ?
mircea_popescu: or else embarks on the 6 mo to a year of lurking, reading and so on.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i would imagine guy got a good enough starter to figure what's what. at this point either he's on a deadline for the next article and well, just drops the entire thing,
mircea_popescu: ha.
mircea_popescu: why so mean ThickAsThieves
mircea_popescu: benkay maybe because the plan is to short enough to move the price ?
mircea_popescu: inb4 he ends up with 7k of mtgox usd he can't actually get sent to his acct and we get a forbes bitcointalk thread
mircea_popescu: jurov` if he can't readily buy bitcoin how would he sell it ?
mircea_popescu: <ThickAsThieves> litecoin almost $1b <<< do you realise most fiat companies are worth less than the lauighingstock altcoin ?
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves sucks for the designers.
mircea_popescu: what bar is that ?
mircea_popescu: * Loaded log from Fri Apr 26 16:44:13 2013 lol
mircea_popescu: I THINK I OWN ALL THE THINGS
mircea_popescu: i thought i owned that too
mircea_popescu: by the way, did i mention i now own #nude ?
mircea_popescu: right
mircea_popescu: KRS|gotyawallet isn't actually krs im just realising
mircea_popescu: if difficulty shoots up too much at least you can eat the cheese.
mircea_popescu: now that'd be something to behold.
mircea_popescu: milk cooled asics
mircea_popescu: !b 12 ✂︎
mircea_popescu: hahaha
mircea_popescu: what is it, oil ?
mircea_popescu: which is cooler ?
mircea_popescu: so honest question : company with watercooled blades vs company with pubis-bare shirts.
mircea_popescu: under budget and over spec.
mircea_popescu: he has 2 year's experience in managing website creation and deployment,
mircea_popescu: yes, obama is working for me
mircea_popescu: so basically designers should be round up and shot.
mircea_popescu: or anything else in this manner, product designers attempt to create the same reaction to a product that a human baby could create."
mircea_popescu: "By making their product or artwork display neotenous traits, designers attempt to sway people to enjoy or desire their product because it appears childish, adorable, soft or otherwise desirable. By making a product cute, the nucleus accumbens in the human brain is targeted and elicits a protective or coddling response, which encourages an individual to acquire (purchase) said item. By designing items, characters, food
mircea_popescu: in completely unrelated news,
mircea_popescu: we will make a statement about the statement which we can't make for legal reasons at a later point which is very sorry to please understand death in the family my new car crashed
mircea_popescu: mike_c yeah but then it wouldn't be as cool.
mircea_popescu: by the way, anyone know smt plants working for btc ?
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo how do you judge that ?
mircea_popescu: this is true
mircea_popescu: the btc price i mean. to get 1 btc that way you need a lot of retards.
mircea_popescu: dub problem is the price went up
mircea_popescu: well cool is one thing. you meant to ask if it's worth holding for the cool ?
mircea_popescu: but it's a mining venture. it's mostly going to go lower.
mircea_popescu: damagebritain probably a better choice than most alternatives.
mircea_popescu: voyna br!
mircea_popescu: pankkake if that nonsense doesn't wake up forum mods to the insanity that selfmod threads are, i dunno what will. maybe bitch at them.
mircea_popescu: o o, older stuff. yeah.
mircea_popescu: benkay ?
mircea_popescu: i'm just saying in general
mircea_popescu: jurov` yeah i dunno what's going on there, but don't end up railroading some noob into buying complex financial instruments he doesn't understand.
mircea_popescu: pankkake https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=339544.msg3811647#msg3811647 the girl sends her regards.
mircea_popescu: lol self mod
mircea_popescu: you shouldn't have said paragon.
mircea_popescu: i guess i better start saving my nail clippings.
mircea_popescu: dude where's that delusionist cartoon
mircea_popescu: <jborkl> ah only a 23,000 btc valuation << wehat!