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mircea_popescu: whatever i'm missing out of this convo makes it a shitton better.
mircea_popescu: literally no reason to even consider it anything else.
mircea_popescu: rulother-gs im not convinced, it's just the standard presumption.
mircea_popescu: exactly goat's moves with the pirate bonds back in the day
mircea_popescu: ie, the mistaken belief that ancient romans wore stetsons and those rhinestone abominations around their necks
mircea_popescu: it wasn't discarded from history, it was discarded from life too.
mircea_popescu: and the discarding from history as irrelevant started at age three.
mircea_popescu: let there be violence and disease and good fucking plays at the opera.
mircea_popescu: stalin's soviet realism and america's purple prose crap are the syphilitic sores of why socialism does not work
mircea_popescu: i don't think it's worth praising in the slightest. i think it has to be pointed out it's the foremost art coming out of the bankrupt ideology of socialism.
mircea_popescu: anyway. purple prose, it's a thing. pretty much the only usable literary output of our american friends. roughly the equivalent of kitsch, something to laugh at smugly.
mircea_popescu: if anyone feels like reading some of the most amusing purple prose i've seen this month
mircea_popescu: isn't it perhaps time the blogging foundation moves off scribd to say wordpress ?
mircea_popescu: two heads are better than one when it comes to "hmm, was it edited or wtf ?!"
mircea_popescu: this is one of the more subtle advantages of having pr ppls to read your shit for you.
mircea_popescu: peterl shareholder's generally. they don't get to have a say in how company is run.
mircea_popescu: i imagine as we develop better controls for the entire set of problems of the gpg contract we'll be able to bring the hare voting franchise back.
mircea_popescu: because of this sad state of affairs cutting their voice by disenfranchisement is actually best for everyone.
mircea_popescu: bluntly put people are so fucking retarded it's lucrative to create a paper copy of a successful asset
mircea_popescu: there's serious structural problems still with the bitcoin financial market, perhaps best tipyfied by peterl's remark above.
mircea_popescu: 40mn were in his acct after ipo completion, sitting there
mircea_popescu: 50mn were not for sale at any point, as mpex contracts don't allow management to sell more than half.
mircea_popescu: all of it was on the exchange. a large part held by the owner.
mircea_popescu: in this case s.dice was split in 100mn shares, and the ipo was 10mn. a month after the ipo sold out erik got the rest of his shares in his acct
mircea_popescu: CheckDavid the contracts on mpex usually call for a specified ipo allocation and locktime
mircea_popescu: ah nm, that's how many he sold. he held the rest up to 50mn
mircea_popescu: CheckDavid 10mn on ipo, something like 2-3mn after that
mircea_popescu: if one managed to avoid all losers they'd actually do pretty good in btc
mircea_popescu: peterl deprived is probably the one sane person that spent the time on an usagi monograph
mircea_popescu: a title shared with a few others, it's true, but nevertheless.
mircea_popescu: pigeons ahaha listen to this : mrbiggs teh riaa sockpuppet of forum fame was hired by "open"coin last week.
mircea_popescu: on the face of it reddit fame pretty much counts as being retarded here.
mircea_popescu: "x is a scammer just like me! because i say so! because everything smells like shit to the guy with shit on his nose!!!"
mircea_popescu: gee, the loads of wanna-be scammers on the forums butthurt at how other people do stuff with like bitcoin in it
mircea_popescu: no, it's just that some people chose not to fritter away their lives in the great pop vat of nonsense.
mircea_popescu: Namworld .5 btc min, otherwise whatever you want to pay. you get added to rotation for 30 days, get displayed based on % of total.
mircea_popescu: mike_c ya well, by happy forumers tend to understand something more akin to validating them.
mircea_popescu: because this is the internet, and so therefore the only concern of anyone on the internet is what other people on the internet say
mircea_popescu: I would love to do such a thing so if someone wants to talk to me about it, PM me please."
mircea_popescu: "If I could raise thousands of Bitcoins, I'd allocate it to 2 or 3 really good, unique projects which are well beyond the paperwork stage. And it'd still be high risk, just rather less of one.
mircea_popescu: Jul 17 21:05:39 <mircea_popescu>Pascale is a common Francophone given name, feminine form of the name Pascal, and an Italian masculine given name, ancient form of Pasquale (Paschale).
mircea_popescu: nubbins` hey, were you here when we were discussing that impossible name ?
mircea_popescu: Jul 19 05:19:02 <topace__>[MPEX] [S.DICE] [PAID] 41.96250000 BTC to 50`000`000 shares, 83 satoshi per share