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mircea_popescu: so this is the lulz of all time. local da sued local lawyer guy in family court, to force him to recognise her child.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` the good news is of course that only a 2048x 1536 transp png is needed, we can scale that as needed.
mircea_popescu: you gotta be totally thermos to imagine cloudflaring domain names does anything against ddos
mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic together, with our powers combined, we make team bitcointalk access
mircea_popescu: say a boar, you see for 5 minutes a day. the fucking interface is there 100% of the time
mircea_popescu: generally tho, the faces are impiortant cause ppl spend so much time gazing at them
mircea_popescu: either feed it into your dns autoresolver or else replace bitcointalk.org in an actual url wioth the ip
mircea_popescu: and obviously because of the general look and feel considerations i'd want the same people making each face to do a lot of the menu work too.
mircea_popescu: maybe even with thin wire frames on the edges, 16px or w/e, and decor on the upcorners
mircea_popescu: it shouldn't be "very big" but not tiny either is the best i can say
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves hitpoints/bloodpoints ; mana/spirit ; a physical and a magical stamina.
mircea_popescu: has to also be easily schemable (i can see other than gothic mablework a la diablo a alchemist-crazy machine chemistry set look and a nature grapes and vines look. perhaps even a tesla thing, perhaps even a zerg thing - that's already 5 faces)
mircea_popescu: has to be elegant and somehow make sense with our SIX different fucking vitals.
mircea_popescu: something like that, marble figurines suppoerting the vitals, marblework bottom
mircea_popescu: not quite specified yet, but basically remember how diablo 1/2 looked /
mircea_popescu: well 3d models for flora and fauna, architecture, more textures, a hud...
mircea_popescu: did he say anything offensively stupid recently or am i taking him off ignore ?
mircea_popescu: i like it how nobody has a clue what that stands for anymore.
mircea_popescu: n been censured. It has been far safer to steal large sums with a pen than small sums with a gun.
mircea_popescu: As long as investors-including supposedly sophisticated institutions-place fancy valuations on reported "earnings" that march steadily upward, you can be sure that some managers and promoters will exploit GAAP to produce such numbers, no matter what the truth may be. Over the years, Charlie and I have observed many accounting-based frauds of staggering size. Few of the perpetrators have been punished; many have not eve
mircea_popescu: gard look-through earnings as realistically portraying our yearly
mircea_popescu: of value for each dollar they have retained. We consequently re-
mircea_popescu: shareholders, but overall we have garnered far more than a dollar
mircea_popescu: decision that our investees have made has not benefitted us as
mircea_popescu: nesses or by repurchasing their shares. Obviously, every capital
mircea_popescu: capital to great advantage, either by putting it to work in their busi-
mircea_popescu: truly outstanding businesses that can often employ incremental
mircea_popescu: result has occurred because most of our investees are engaged in
mircea_popescu: been included in the earnings we officially report). This pleasant
mircea_popescu: Berkshire asif they had been distributed to us (and therefore had
mircea_popescu: our investees, in aggregate, have been as fully as beneficial to
mircea_popescu: We have found over time that the undistributed earnings of
mircea_popescu: about there, but meanwhile found this one you might like :
mircea_popescu: then honest operators do the one least likely to be mispriced, and dishonest operators (or US people) do the other.
mircea_popescu: the judgement call is mostly "which of these two is the market most likely to misprice to a larger extent".
mircea_popescu: anyway, to close up the dividend/buyback discussion : the difference is really slight in an efficient market. the only way either is "unfair" is if the market is inefficient, and misprices things.