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mircea_popescu: despite the postal service accounting for less than 1% of the full-time civilian labor force, 13% of workplace homicides were committed at postal facilities by current or former employees.
mircea_popescu: yes, you pay people and they go postal for your amusement.
mircea_popescu: i wasn't watching it all that close. so basically once the scam is out of the picture, asicminer came back to its actual value
mircea_popescu: im not taking the 1% out of his ass. i wanted to but the OTHER people involved who are actually nice talked me out of it.
mircea_popescu: point in case, the laughable bitpay "We lost our domains and a ton of btc" scandal. or, outside of btc world, the entire times lost their twitter account.
mircea_popescu: transparency is a complicated affair. everyone claims transparency, nobody delivers.
mircea_popescu: unlike the other kids (garr, say) this one has more or less walked straight.
mircea_popescu: well, there's a balance here. he's a kid. kids are stupid by nature, cause that's how people are born : dumb.
mircea_popescu: MilkyLep he was running a coin lending programme, and some chatroom or w/e, he has some history.
mircea_popescu: this is basically an0, i guess it works. have namworld say hi maybe we work something out here.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller let people run their business lol. i just wanted to see if it exists.
mircea_popescu: arij do you have an august revenue report published anywhere ?
mircea_popescu: you know some chinese guy asked me the same thing five minutes ago
mircea_popescu: bobbabad not a matter of hindsight in any sense. you're just new and clueless.
mircea_popescu: anyway, let's hope people generally are learning lessons and intend to listen better.
mircea_popescu: i usually tend to like giving a month, but two weeks is certainly not brusque or sudden.
mircea_popescu: the reason this sort of shit is on cracked is that the cool guys no longer give a shit.
mircea_popescu: either they grow up or move on to greener pastures with more sex and less internet.
mircea_popescu: in the sense people will still discuss it long after we bite it.
mircea_popescu: i suppose now we know we will be survived by our work.
mircea_popescu: "Mentula cum doleat imperio, tibi, lector, culus. Non sum diuinus, sed scio quid facias."
mircea_popescu: sooo... after many years finally a new tagline is added to the rotation of trilema taglines. it reads :
mircea_popescu: "I do not want to take Telesina as a wife" "Why not?" "She is an adulteress." "But she mostly does it with boys" "A, in that case I will."
mircea_popescu: from a preface on martial. in yo face, thestringpuller
mircea_popescu: "The epigrams are basically social commentary of the type that one might expect today from someone like the comedian Chris Rock, and you could also compare Martial's prominence in late first century Roman society with that of Chris Rock in current American society. But Chris Rock would never dare to tell these jokes!"
mircea_popescu: (it measures how long it takes stuff to make it through the edge proxies to trade engine and back, not how long it takes you to connect to edge proxies)