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mircea_popescu: well what can i tell you. yes silbert is well known, no we've not talked, yes that fund looks dubious to me.
mircea_popescu: seems to me it's some random item on their platform anyone could have created, much like the other "open platforms" of the sort
mircea_popescu: well that's where it gets complicated. give an actual example.
mircea_popescu: no, see, this is the problem. you don;'t start by believing what you read is true,
mircea_popescu: and as far as to the "were traded there" : i can put up a website tomorrow which claims to be trading your mom. this does not imply anything about the actual lady's probity.
mircea_popescu: so yeah. now you know kinda how the mental process goes.
mircea_popescu: and what are all those llcs being held by incs i never heard about.
mircea_popescu: but instead find a sales pitch intended for people with a financial iq corresponding to about the age of 15 ?
mircea_popescu: no, i have specific things in mind. for instance, how come i can't find a name ion the about us page,
mircea_popescu: also it looks scammy as all fuck, what the hell is that ?
mircea_popescu: i don't recall on the spot. what would this be about ?
mircea_popescu: VanCleef you know, for a site that nobody uses i'm always surprised to see public channels notice any hickup a minute before or a minute after the tech people whose job it is.
mircea_popescu: can anybody do anything on mpex yet? i see trades on assbot, but nobody here seems to be able to talk to it (including me)? << atm proxies are dumping most of the input because they can't agree its valid
mircea_popescu: anyway, im sure the twitter in question is being run by some teen having fun, otherwise unrelated to anything
mircea_popescu: meanwhile back at the ranch, "Michelle Obama’s Princeton classmate is a top executive at the company that earned the contract to build the failed Obamacare website"
mircea_popescu: apparently one of them being a very improbable occurence they lucked out on. once.
mircea_popescu: they figured it's easy to do, and so didn't pay enough attention to the samples
mircea_popescu: anyway, asciilifeform, the saddest story to date is of this corp that MANAGED it. once.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform nah, they can't actually sprout shitake.
mircea_popescu: sort of like a 3d printer + desktop combo, but made out of cunt tissue and capable of pissing apples.
mircea_popescu: in the sense of, this programmable device capable of controlled gmoization.
mircea_popescu: that's probably the product of the future, by the way : the organic computer.
mircea_popescu: so you get five of the six... and that's all you're going to get.
mircea_popescu: it's basically a game of "twelve lines" or "six lines" or w/e
mircea_popescu: except people have found a way to get investors to pay for it
mircea_popescu: people will make ethanol out of corn or buy it to rot in govt "reserves" before feeding any starving idiots
mircea_popescu: benkay i doubt there's much relation. famine is well resilient to dropping prices of grain
mircea_popescu: i will not trust an industrial process, such as gmo, on the grounds that in centuries of practice it NEVER failed to make the world dangerous for me.
mircea_popescu: benkay i will trust a natural process, such as viral transfer, on the grounds that in millenia of practice it failed to make the world dangerous for me.
mircea_popescu: it means to have undergone this process where random bits of dna were thrown at a large number of cells just like it, in the hopes that something maybe catches.
mircea_popescu: well so then that's the objection. has nothing to do with reproduction, it's just mashing things together
mircea_popescu: 's even got sideways print to fill all available surfaces with rant
mircea_popescu: monkey` i can't tell you cause you'll probably be mean to it.
mircea_popescu: ahaha, wait, the "fuck asics, i'll make a heat oven PMG" ?
mircea_popescu: what were you originally ? the guy with the cars/living standards/whatnot