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mircea_popescu: jurov do an estimate of man-hours needed to handle the reddit muppets,
mircea_popescu: The Associated Press is the latest major news outlet to inform President Obama's Department of Justice that they will not be participating in an off-the-record briefing on how Eric Holder's team deals with journalists who work with leakers.
mircea_popescu: fiat500 me either, but people do have trobule digesting stuff.
mircea_popescu: well fi the 100th guy could buy basics then lose his money then buy these etc
mircea_popescu: early to mid bfl drama was also pretty decent (they announced summer 2012, since about oct to about jan it was fuicy)
mircea_popescu: fiat500 notice how the may post is last edited november :D
mircea_popescu: skepsidyne integrated node should be read by all aspiring miners/miner investoras
mircea_popescu: the fabled bitdaytrade including the epic reddit thread also
mircea_popescu: the joel katz notions of "shared fault"/cherry truck are pretty decent
mircea_popescu: all the pirate threads pre-august, especially the mpoe-pr bashing early 2012 are pretty good
mircea_popescu: yeah, some of the funny people of btc history are still active more or less.
mircea_popescu: rdponticelli still, disputed stuff will have to be adjudicated somehow.
mircea_popescu: no, the affairs of people progressively become more complex than their ability to comprehend them. meanwhile their revulsion of loss and desire to gain remains strictly oriented. this causes conflict.
mircea_popescu: just because someone in btc comes up with an idea doesn't mean it actually flies.
mircea_popescu: Namworld that's just an edge of the matter. if i allowed him to do it one day he could stand up in court as a state witness accusing me of conspiracy to commit various crimes.
mircea_popescu: rdponticelli that's what courts do : when one party considers it has a claim and the other party does not, they mediate the dispute
mircea_popescu: iguess the moral of the story is that one's well advised to negotiate very early rather than very late on one hand
mircea_popescu: you're reasonable up to the point where you go "you're covered". but anyway.
mircea_popescu: but that aside, i thought the case was you had a 20ish investment, which is why i mentioned. i see you have a point, so.
mircea_popescu: that's why plea bargains work before the verdict rather than after.
mircea_popescu: there's no point in negotiating if you know what's gonna happen.
mircea_popescu: there's two ways to go about things. you can prosecute or negotiate. the time to negotiate was then. sadly the possibilities to prosecute kinda died with the death of the rota, leaving you hanging there too.
mircea_popescu: fiat500 it's a huge discussion which was exhausted last year. im not gonna start over.
mircea_popescu: yeah, i'm not negotating that in may. time to negotiate it was last year, when closure was announced.
mircea_popescu: rdponticelli 116k what, 116k f.giga.etf = 116 bonds, ~600mh/s ?
mircea_popescu: ok, so for my curiosity, what was the original investment there ?
mircea_popescu: those bonds, i nthe best of circumstances, are worth .2 BTC today
mircea_popescu: the fact that he's taken the rest of it through whatever bizzare glbse stuff is a very much unrelated problem.
mircea_popescu: if you invested 2x btc into gigavps' scam, you are out 99%+ of your investment no matter what.
mircea_popescu: rdponticelli re your forum thing : you're muddying things up.
mircea_popescu: dub what's wrong with printing at the site you cut the tree ?
mircea_popescu: 100k EuropeCoin (Not launched, yet but statistically there will be a EuropeCoin by the time you read this)
mircea_popescu: in sane world we'd immediately think this is fraud. but to these muppets it's not really it.
mircea_popescu: fiat500 the point would be "being a good person", as per the rules of the mystical space.
mircea_popescu: you can actually even follow cultural markers by people's community age.
mircea_popescu: (look up the older glbse tradition of people "donating" stuff to their public "venture")
mircea_popescu: tjhere's an entire gift economy involved in mucking up dividends for instance.
mircea_popescu: this may be the best argument in favour of my "thirld world shitholer is teh us" thesis.
mircea_popescu: pretty much all the expectations you'd build on a levy-strauss model are amply represented.
mircea_popescu: and they being financially illiterate there's no finance included.
mircea_popescu: for plenty of peeps bitcoin is the world of their dreams and aspirations
mircea_popescu: just take the following simple observation : the us plebs think "being mean" is bad juju