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mircea_popescu: davout : the girl wants you to know that she's answered "spoken like a true gypsy" in the nigger thread but some mod beleeted it.
mircea_popescu: Chopard jewels worth more than $1 million have been stolen at the Cannes film festival
mircea_popescu: furuknap is what i meant. some guy "posting casually" in some forum thread is no argument for anything
mircea_popescu: well they've created a few problems for themselves with the horde of clueless investors, but anyway.
mircea_popescu: financially clueless, but that;'s not exactly a crime, few op managers grok finance.
mircea_popescu: furuknap he's operationally good, or at least way better than everyone else in btc
mircea_popescu: which is a lot better than asicminer too, seeing how they still don't have the 12th promised for feb/march
mircea_popescu: furuknap the 100th people are claioming to have bought his stuff.
mircea_popescu: there, he put a 100 btc on the theory that he shows working asic doing < 1watt per ghs
mircea_popescu: other than the former's claims to investment in the later.
mircea_popescu: i don't think picostocks and bitfury are actually related
mircea_popescu: 're new. pigeons has been here through the scams. when he says "not an effectual heuristic" he is speaking from a place of pain.
mircea_popescu: furuknap or who may be naive of exactly how scam friendly bntc is
mircea_popescu: he has 100 btc on the line. if he puts 1000 on the other side to make back his 100 he still pays the rake
mircea_popescu: furuknap i have yet to see a pgp signed declaration from any of these people.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves well, i count the 100 btc of bitfury's as some evidence
mircea_popescu: something like "here are names so it's legit" ? the pietila guy also throws names around
mircea_popescu: furuknap but i mean, what exactly is your judgement there ?
mircea_popescu: his statements that he's invested with third parties are his own.
mircea_popescu: while bitfury seems pretty certain he;ll deliver, i still very much doubt that investment exists.
mircea_popescu: so then they made another 1mn ish investment with bitfury
mircea_popescu: the story is that they had a 1mn ish investmenty with tom van ripyou of basic
mircea_popescu: best indication ever that auschwitz was a bad idea : the jews didn't fight back at all.
mircea_popescu: what people want is too widely distributed and also quite likely to kill them.
mircea_popescu: i don't think any leader of any import ever cares what epople want. at issue is what people need.
mircea_popescu: he made it and then there was suddenly a desire for it, five years down the line
mircea_popescu: arrington didn't appear because there was a desire for tech crunch
mircea_popescu: i just repeat this periodically on the theory that hey, you never know.
mircea_popescu: anyone starting a blog now on the topic and sticking to it professionally will be the gigaom/whatever of bitcoin in a decade.
mircea_popescu: anyway, sorta back on topic : bitcoin finance desperately needs analysts, of the real kind
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves i can't for the life of me recall exactly wehat it was
mircea_popescu: windows sharepoint was some old, pretty much abandoned stuff ms came out with in i think 2002
mircea_popescu: i'm just saying you gotta know the basic idea, where he gets the data, stuff like that.
mircea_popescu: furuknap i didn't even know there's a sharepoint community
mircea_popescu: the short version : don't sponsor things you don;'t understand, they may blow up in your face.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves ye know what i mean. gotta know what it is.