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mircea_popescu: or at least, this particular anecdotal situation fits well with that heavily ideologically slanted perspective.
mircea_popescu: seems that while taxing the poor does in fact produce more revenue than taxing the rich, nevertheless giving the poor investment "voice" does not in fact produce more sense than the voice of the rich already provided.
mircea_popescu: in theory the idea for making a "poor man's share" is that it will have more volume and more stability.
mircea_popescu: interesting that the fragment am pt fares so much worse than the whole.
mircea_popescu: "While the sale of sexual intercourse remains illegal throughout mainland China, as of 2013 erotic massage, or more commonly known as massage with "happy endings," is legal in Guangdong province. In June of that year, the Foshan Court determined that the sale of erotic massage is not the same as prostitution."
mircea_popescu: basically it goes from 500 to 5k now. just smaller bits
mircea_popescu: "Mourad Ikhlef, an Algerian living in Montreal who gained refugee status in 1994, was arrested in December 2001 and deported in February 2003, when he was handed over directly to Algerian intelligence services."
mircea_popescu: jurov` ^ and everyone else quoting options scripturally, make sure you account for the lot change.
mircea_popescu: the system is working under supervision and trades may be rolled back if problems appear
mircea_popescu: ok so, mpex options are back. they are now quoted on a .1 btc per basis,
mircea_popescu: how about keeping your money, once an ex wife, tax authority or city council decides they would want to have it ?
mircea_popescu: i doubt any western government has the ability to do obamacare.gov one better.
mircea_popescu: why is it that the state always tries to a. represent itself as "not the state" and b. represent itself as doing what people do, except without doing it ?
mircea_popescu: this'd be the first time anyone actually connected to the barfoundation actually did something.
mircea_popescu: uyou ever seen a nonservice coming out of the us webservice-entrepreneurs dog and pony show that wasn't a. very banal and b. presented as the new wheel ?
mircea_popescu: twist : queen liz is one of the more famous female criminals of the prev century.
mircea_popescu: "QUEEN LIZ is a company with private capital, founded in Constanta, Romania in 1996, having as main activity recruitment and placement of personnel according with Romanian laws."
mircea_popescu: "Win a USD5000 Casino Holiday to Monaco" i'm like wut, 4 btc ? gtfo. make better prizes.
mircea_popescu: that moment when you transfer a btc to namecheap and can now afford to renew like a hundred domains.
mircea_popescu: working with nefario to invent the exchange of the future.
mircea_popescu: you ended up on the list there by virtue of being in the thread
mircea_popescu: put that together with a no-backsies medium and you're definitely attracting sharks.
mircea_popescu: and that they don't need to think or do any useful work or manage their own lives or contribute anything worth the mention.
mircea_popescu: benkay has a point, but the matter is significantly complicated by a large enough population of functionally illiterate people who've been fed for decades on the illusion that someone else is there to protect them
mircea_popescu: the truth of the matter is, scams are nearly magical, in that they manage to take in people seemingly irrespective of iq etc.
mircea_popescu: by now it's almost worth it to pay for php developers simply to give me trilema article material which then gets me trilema credits which are btc
mircea_popescu: benkay i distinctly recall a diff will grow 20% or more each week bet on bitbet.
mircea_popescu: where parties to the controversy also had to deliberately submit to judgement and advance bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: this is incidentally not so different from the core principles of the rota system,
mircea_popescu: (the constant, leave proof in comments thing, for instance)
mircea_popescu: i've quite deliberately constructed it so a lot of triage of facts can be easily done by the users
mircea_popescu: as the future eventualyl turns into past, what bitbet has to do and what the courts have to do are homomorphic : establish what the words say, what the facts are and how the two relate.
mircea_popescu: a suit steams from a controversy in fact, anchored in the past.
mircea_popescu: a bet is a controversy in fact, anchored in the future.
mircea_popescu: well this is yet another point where bitbet design shines. we don't ever have thios problem
mircea_popescu: yeah, i'm thinking... it's probably the case that at least half trhe addresses are lost etc. why send btc there ? just stop paying altogether, it's for the good of Bitcoin! </sarcasm>
mircea_popescu: i took it to be a sly reference at all the non-statements ppl make on the forum
mircea_popescu: lol this just in, courtesy of concerned investor "i must say, your statement suffers from a lack of comments about your inability to say things and the desire you feel to redeem yourself at a future date"
mircea_popescu: and atm there's no options listed because as announced im going to cut a digit.