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mircea_popescu: the altcoin scamcrew moved to "assets", so that's mostly moot.
mircea_popescu: is "rated" an euphemism for some sort of sexual thing ?
mircea_popescu: get 1 exclusive a week, get all relevant news within the hour, don't let any bullshit through, keep at it for at least a year no matter whether you feel successful or not
mircea_popescu: by the way, anyone here playing eve and not in 1BTC yet ?
mircea_popescu: which obviously everyone ignores, but hey, spam is spam.
mircea_popescu: LorenzoMoney you missed the part where random noobs off webirc come in here with random pumping
mircea_popescu: "However the Martin Jetpack’s many features is its amazing safety features."
mircea_popescu: as long as it's nothing about anything verifiable yeah, there's supposed to be news lol
mircea_popescu: jcpham help gecko_x8 become a famous heavy metal star.
mircea_popescu: dude. maybe I AM a famous pop musician and i didn't even know.
mircea_popescu: The NSA data center in Bluffdale could require as many as 1.7 million gallons of water per day to operate and keep computers cool.
mircea_popescu: well smg would have been a little confusing for people. s.mg is not the publisher of eve.
mircea_popescu: "It’s no matter if a student comes to the conclusion that 3 x 4 = 11. So long as they can explain how they made this erroneous determination they go home with an ‘A’."
mircea_popescu: however, the book you're thinking about wasn;'t written by him,
mircea_popescu: broke up with his wife cause she wouldn't pawn her jools, it's well known.
mircea_popescu: yes dude, i know. made a fortune on the dip, lost most of it,
mircea_popescu: how hard would it be for scammers to scam, in thsi context ?
mircea_popescu: this is one of those guys who walks the right side, and all the info is published.
mircea_popescu: ok. now tell me again about how poor people are doing research and coming out ahead by investing.
mircea_popescu: have i supported it because bug did ? not really, but i certainly REVIEWED it because he mentuioned it.
mircea_popescu: have they supported it because i have ? perhaps, maybe, to some degree. as a shortcut, cause they know i can think.
mircea_popescu: so did bugpowder, so did most of the vets in thuis channel.
mircea_popescu: no revenue, no business model, no history of the operator, nothing.
mircea_popescu: because if you take that away, there's literally nothing.
mircea_popescu: the only reason they're going in is because they perceive others are.
mircea_popescu: gecko_x8 but they aren't NOT following the crowd. they ARE following the crowd.
mircea_popescu: gecko_x8 we are discussing statistics. there's no room for anecdote in there.
mircea_popescu: poor people are conditioned to follow the crowd. and the crowd is usually a crowd of sheep, being more or less methodically exploited.
mircea_popescu: you get people come here all the time going "hey guyse, you're all buying X scam right" ?
mircea_popescu: i am saying that the expectation for something OUTSIDE to extract them from their predicament is 1. baseless and 2. a security hole in their software.
mircea_popescu: but the idea that somehow btc is friendlier than fiat is ridiculous on its face.
mircea_popescu: btc is perverse enough to let that appear to work, at least for a little bit.
mircea_popescu: well, you're right, it's not lottery. it's btc. the problem is you try to interract with it on the lottery model.
mircea_popescu: look at people who caught a windfall through sports. are they rich ?
mircea_popescu: for my own curiosity, review rthe results of fiat world lottery winners.