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mircea_popescu: it was from the urbit thing benkay keeps spamming for some obscure reason
mircea_popescu: so what, i'm not helping the soviets overthrow their illegitimate govt in the 80s, i'm not helping americans overthrow their illegitimate govt today because "it's antisocial" ?!
mircea_popescu: the notion that it's "Antisocial" to help people evade their local laws is scandalous.
mircea_popescu: also, the "watermark" bs was tried by adobe, as well as by the porn industry. it fails to work.
mircea_popescu: lol BingoBoingo it's not about speed, it's about duration.
mircea_popescu: benkay i think someone had that link here a day or two ago
mircea_popescu: anyway, it must really suck to be a vapid airhead stuck in the brood of some guy who seeded skype and whatnot.
mircea_popescu: this is that, except outpatient, you get to pretend luike you're rich and a bunch of twinks really want your cock.
mircea_popescu: you know how any brothel worth its salt allows you to act out your fantasies ?
mircea_popescu: no, they aren't. dudes are buying by the hour a particular sort of entertainment
mircea_popescu: get a coupla camwhores through 6 weeks buzzword programme and send them to collect the money of the foolish
mircea_popescu: these aren't companies tho. this is the vc freakshow circuit.
mircea_popescu: ”We can’t wait to realize the full potential of the creative and technological talent that already exists right here in Portland,”
mircea_popescu: dexX7 they're all bootstrap. that's why they all look the same.
mircea_popescu: no actually, thank you internets for mentioning hre guy.
mircea_popescu: Have you ever read the book "He's Just Not That into You"? Me neither, however I have seen the movie, and although it is lacking a whimsically charming Hugh Grant in order to make it into the "Best RomCom" category, there is one part of the movie
mircea_popescu: "My life's ambition is to assist in the creation of an Iron Man Suit."
mircea_popescu: Many states allow persons in minimum-security facilities access to the internet.
mircea_popescu: The United States has among the highest incarceration rates in the world. More people are behind bars in the United States than any other country. As of 2006, a record 7 million people were behind bars, on probation or on parole. Of the total, 2.2 million were incarcerated. The People's Republic of China ranks second with 1.5 million. The United States has 5% of the world's population and 25% of the world's incarcerate
mircea_popescu: all the time. there were two kids trying it here last month.
mircea_popescu: 1. big dig. 2. governor and head of local mob = brothers
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo wait wait. this is the one with the weird serb isn't it!
mircea_popescu: a apparently us minimum security ppl don't get internet.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo where are you geographically anyway ? if it;'s not some secret
mircea_popescu: do they give wifi in your obnoxious persons holding ward ?
mircea_popescu: so are you saying they're doing too much or too little ?
mircea_popescu: if i gut a guy and put him up on a pole, it will attract tons of other people.
mircea_popescu: if i gut a crow and put it on a pole, the other crows will keep distance.
mircea_popescu: roger ver wasn't even the largest thing crushed by pirate. he was just the loudest/more exhibitionistic.
mircea_popescu: today it looks like a throng of kids who just had their dreams of one day being president crushed.
mircea_popescu: back then it was big holders plucking their hair out in disbelief, quite differently flavored
mircea_popescu: but anyway, the hurt these days is of a completely different feel than the hurt in oct 2012.
mircea_popescu: bad pr. people just won't stop doing it already, in spite of it never working.
mircea_popescu: why are those people so frail anyway ? always must have the protection of deleting posts and shit, got forbid the holy echo chamber is threatened.
mircea_popescu: 3JTAAADX2 and forumers got all butthurt when pr told them to go play there instead of "investing"
mircea_popescu: i mean... kid goes to chew power cables. you go don't chew power cables. it goes "well i had a lot of respect for you before but now that you tell me to not chew power cables i don't have any more respect for you". gets killed, and then it's a case of "we (who ?!) were killing you in all respects that matter. by being dead."
mircea_popescu: it's sad people don't realise how much comedic relief they provide.
mircea_popescu: lmao so some dork on the forum named himself "question authority" and has a link to the grouptink article ON WIKIPEDIA in his signature
mircea_popescu: a transcript of glbse shareholder meeting at the time survives.
mircea_popescu: for compare and contrast reasons, burnside did the exact same thing sprind 2013, closed autumn 2013. not quite as suddenly.
mircea_popescu: detailed, no. in summary, its something like this : early spring 2012, nefario allowed a bunch of scammers (goat, the "bankers") to run dubious pirate "pass throughs" pseudoinvestments that soon enough dominated the exchange, doing like 90%+ of all trade, and also made its volume almost comparable to mpex at the time.
mircea_popescu: BigBitz burnside is some dork that was running a ltc exchange, then when glbse popped he figured "o noes, i have all the needed expertise to re-do the thing".