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mircea_popescu: Duffer1 tgey have employees ? the employees got shares ?
mircea_popescu: am i supposed to somehow believe the sort of muppets suddenly and magically became buy and hold investors over a weekend ?
mircea_popescu: was. that's the thing. it WAS there. now it's not. where's the sales ?
mircea_popescu: ergo, much like btcgarden, this was a 100% in-house selftrade thing.
mircea_popescu: if indeed anyone bought labcoin that wasn't labcoin/btct, then they were mommentum traders.
mircea_popescu: however, i have little confidence in usg's ability to improve anything.
mircea_popescu: this is getting so repetitive by now. random nut waltzes in here to accuse me of random shit, then proceeds to fall all over himself on the most cursory of examinations.
mircea_popescu: why mircea eliade specifically ? speaking of loose reasoning / scattered associations.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves i thought it was the artist formerly known as the artist formerly known.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, this is exactly what i said earlier about getting burned. everyone thinks they know better till they feel the cock up their ass.
mircea_popescu: they split with a bunch of people's dough, gone for a year, came back in the hopes they may pay off a few and sweep it under the rug
mircea_popescu: matuszed like tradehill did ? like bitcoinica did ? like bfl ?
mircea_popescu: they gotta get burned first, to drop the airs and get with the programme. before they get burned they probably think they know shit, like any other noob.
mircea_popescu: throwing money in the black hole would be the exact sort of unique braindamaged thing that'd start a fund on the right foot.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, i dislike the way goes "o, it'sd a bad idea" in spite of not managing to get a single dime.
mircea_popescu: that's not the deal. the deal is they invest to the point they impress
mircea_popescu: the da guy tryes to make it sound as if investment is conditional on we caring about their crap.
mircea_popescu: dexX7 right, because bitcoiners are that redarded, and will take the usg at its word.
mircea_popescu: "Thank you, all divs have been paid so far. We will continue to be the trendsetter in this industry that we are very passionate about. With new and better improved million dollar ideas."
mircea_popescu: VanCleef let me know when i have your permission to blow the AM thing.
mircea_popescu: Diablo-D3 maybe they can't. i'm not putting btc on it.
mircea_popescu: take an easier tack, make a broadway show company that does not allow unions.
mircea_popescu: i would not invest in it in general for the first count. even without that, unless you own some senators you're wasting youer time
mircea_popescu: jurov actually the mormon ppl have this joint farm where they work together and then split the harvest
mircea_popescu: jurov there's that weird sect in utah insists everyone keeps a year's supply of food
mircea_popescu: ya well, that won't work very well with all the entitlement and minority rights.
mircea_popescu: the alternative is slaughter, which seems more likely.
mircea_popescu: i think your expectation that someone else will be keeping you secure already seals that deal.
mircea_popescu: Those with more to lose are far more willing to reduce the liberty of all in the vain hope of defending their monetisable assets. This is perhaps an explanation for why so many have come to associate freedom with "security at all costs".
mircea_popescu: jurov sure. the idea is that we can't take it away, not that we shouldn't add.
mircea_popescu: in fact as best anyone can tell, the us went tits up just as soon as people started trying to merely think about giving it up
mircea_popescu: not once has this yet been actually proven, and moreover we have quite clear proof that the "preferable alternative" works.
mircea_popescu: every piece of it i've seen POSITS that the submissive/dominance circuitry makes things "worse"