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mircea_popescu: "We had the study of the hotel room dedicated to our dealing desk, which included precision scales, and storage containers for all kinds of valuables. EUR 50 (and below) notes will be weighted as well as the gold and silver, 100-500 notes are counted."
mircea_popescu: (of which one's the mother of the other two by the sour mouth)
mircea_popescu: also : he deleted his post going "here is proof that at least 3 women attended" ?!
mircea_popescu: jurov the part where he goes "I purposely omitted people not in this forum from the list." but then invites me is pretty cool.
mircea_popescu: we already had a round earlier, when he was inviting me goat and satoshi
mircea_popescu: apparently even posting pics takes > 1 week and even so it's mostly selfouting
mircea_popescu: i wonder how long it takes till everyone is identified
mircea_popescu: this after me asking her if she knows about picture taking which i think she misunderstood as being asked whether she;'d like to pose for us
mircea_popescu: jurov actually when i paid on saturday i left a tip saying "and this is for excellent photographic services" poiting at the little cute girl that took pics
mircea_popescu: lmao. basically people think cheek equals business nao
mircea_popescu: e product to 75,000 and then to 50,000 units (for a more targeted customer base). Birchbox only wanted to pay for a purchase order of 400 units after receiving 50,000 units for free.
mircea_popescu: “Birchbox requested 300,000 units of a product for free; in return, they said that could offer a conservative purchase order of 400 units for that product if it was received well by their sampling audience.” Birchbox also requested a special sample size, which Ms. Chan would need to create, that would yield at least 3 uses of the product. After Ms. Chan negotiated with them, they lowered the amount of requested fre
mircea_popescu: O.USD.C302T for instance will make about .25 each if price goes there. so you need 100 these
mircea_popescu: so then you need calls that will make 250 btc if price goes up 3x
mircea_popescu: if past data is any indication, say a 200% upswing or 60% downswing causes losses of about 25%
mircea_popescu: i am suspecting the bot is exactly right because everyone agrees price is making them lose money
mircea_popescu: as in, buy some options on the same package as the bond. maybe everyone buying shares gets to vote which way to go, calls or puts
mircea_popescu: jurov maybe an idea is to get a limited hedging involved.
mircea_popescu: well other than that i was answering the q of how long im doing something
mircea_popescu: just making the point that information will leak is this proposition of statistics
mircea_popescu: ya, eventually all information will leak which is why you know who killed kennedy or w/e
mircea_popescu: some people met in person lol. some haven't. each his cup of tea
mircea_popescu: since i'm doing it it's not 0. unless some sort of obvious 1 hits me over the head
mircea_popescu: other than that, some people don't care, which is why you get the names/mugs of some people.
mircea_popescu: now, the coders are often uninterested in talking to the public.
mircea_popescu: that's as to why you will likely never know who's on my short list of people i talk to / scream at / with on macroeconomic topics, finance etc.
mircea_popescu: ws people were involved since 2011/early 2012, in the only way they could be.
mircea_popescu: so, to round this up : for all the bullshit "we're getting ws involved" coming out of purely puff style start-ups like coin-whatever,
mircea_popescu: now. the compliance officer is NEVER going to ok something like "bitcoin". because he only ok's on positive factual knowledge it's ok.
mircea_popescu: people (actual people in this chan) have been sacked for nonsense like, telling a reporter they make a lot of money and are living the life.
mircea_popescu: the rule - simplified - is that nobody can get involved into ANYTHING related to their day job even vaguely