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mircea_popescu: so i guess it'll take you 10-20 years to catch up to the us then ?
mircea_popescu: "The North Carolina Department of Transportation sent out a traffic alert, warning people of female drivers, rain and Obamacare."
mircea_popescu: and also gmaxwell isn't a rank imbecile, as certain evil people might have you believe.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` you don't understand. some people weren't happy with the direction it was evaporating into back in 2012.
mircea_popescu: "launder money" = "use moneuy according to wishes of owners rather than government" ?
mircea_popescu: nubbins` then it must not be done right or something ?
mircea_popescu: there's really not much choice, you can't make "paper" textile secure enough.
mircea_popescu: romania has been using all poly for a decade, and the problem never existed here.
mircea_popescu: lucky for him he's friends with the fiat printer guy or else he'd starve.
mircea_popescu: amusingly, obama's signature project would not actually qualify to being listed on mpex on technical grounds.
mircea_popescu: does not taste like cider. I'm not going to take another sip, that's horrible." Markle replied: "Well, I need to inform you of something, ma'am. I want you to understand that you just drank that man's urine."
mircea_popescu: to the front desk in a simple drinking glass. Markle then called the front desk alleging to be an employee of Martinelli's Cider. He told the clerk that a representative from the company would like to come downstairs with a sample of their new drink. The guest from the previous call then arrived and handed the clerk his urine. Markle then coaxed the woman to try it. He asked how it tasted. "Horrible," she said. "That
mircea_popescu: On July 20, Markle tricked a desk clerk at the Homewood Suites in Lexington, Kentucky into drinking another person’s urine. The prank started with a call to a guest. The guest was told it was the front desk calling and that a prior guest had tested positive for Hepatitis C. The guest was then told there was a doctor on site and a simple urine test could determine if the guest was infected. The urine was to be brought
mircea_popescu: In February 2009, "Dex" called a KFC restaurant in Manchester, New Hampshire. Posing as a manager from the corporate office, he persuaded employees to douse the building with fire suppression chemicals and to then proceed outside, remove all of their clothing and urinate on each other (he claimed the chemicals were caustic and this would render them inert).
mircea_popescu: a well known hollywood celeb that has nevertheless never done any movies.
mircea_popescu: at that point fixed assets prices become again stable in btc.
mircea_popescu: benkay at some point the btc will trade more or less for (total world assets)/(total btc in circulation)
mircea_popescu: once btc reaches its pleateau things get back to normal
mircea_popescu: in fact, if they had the sense to install cameras it'd prolly be a buck less.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i thought most chips in the field are flatpacks/quads
mircea_popescu: something like this : if your distribution craps out your car is not "totally wrecked", nevertheless it;'s weird to say yo uhave a problem with the "showerheads"
mircea_popescu: (to make a chip you take etched silicone/metal wafers and encase them in some plastic)
mircea_popescu: TAT_Investments the leading hypothesis is that they mean their chip packager fucked up.
mircea_popescu: i still haven't figured out what word they misreplaced with "substrates"
mircea_popescu: it's like this : find two walls 8 inches apart. take a mouthful of milk and go bang your head in between the walls
mircea_popescu: you know, this dispute between investors and subcontractors is the halmark of a functioning economy.
mircea_popescu: (look honey, i got you the .35 btc cardano. yet another field in which btc is moar of an advantage)
mircea_popescu: make no mistake about it, government there will ever be. whether it's the washington mob or the five families mob, it's gonna be something.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i'm persuaded there won't be such a thing as long term btc without such a thing as nsa.
mircea_popescu: all the tools one needs to make 100% systems, stuff no mob and no government can crack.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the20year1, there's good fundamental reasons for the lift. i wouldn't call it a bubble. that's not to say it may not bubble yet. hopefully it won't, but 300 ain't it at anuy rate.
mircea_popescu: but yes, without some very expert tacking, the fx issue is a big problem for all btc corps.
mircea_popescu: bubbalicious amusingly, we have the converse advantage : only corp in the world tio be able to announce a price,
mircea_popescu: well what many people say is not likelier to be true by even more saying it.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla well, they'll outperform 777.com at any rate.
mircea_popescu: other people believed their life doesn't depend on btc fluctuations.
mircea_popescu: because it is tough to make 100% returns on your work only to have -50% returns in your accounting unit
mircea_popescu: in that you're a brave man. see you survive a coupla years somehow.
mircea_popescu: i discouraged various similar ventures with the simple fx argument. imo it's yet too soon, even if the business is in principle sound.