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mircea_popescu: i am technically minded, i just don't happen to be a hipster.
mircea_popescu: i don't really follow/care about them gizmo corps
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell bugpowder you know that google rant was useful. i still don't think facebook is worth over 10 bucks but at least i understand now why it's not worth zero.
mircea_popescu: looks to me like a lot of newcomers drinking the visibility coolaid
mircea_popescu: this will end in tears.
mircea_popescu: haha cool
mircea_popescu: Bugpowder ya asian mkts are getting the hammering
mircea_popescu: http://polimedia.us/dtng/c/src/136357582265.png check out this work of cubism
mircea_popescu: hum
mircea_popescu: hey look at that, ciuciu has funds now
mircea_popescu: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=85829.msg1634650#msg1634650
mircea_popescu: i tihnk in about five years the cost of a seat on this chan will be like... 30 btc.
mircea_popescu: haha
mircea_popescu: fucking bs routers
mircea_popescu: $mpexlag
mircea_popescu: smickles in exchange, you paid your organisational expenses by march 18th :D
mircea_popescu: pretty cool service actually.
mircea_popescu: cool.
mircea_popescu: $email
mircea_popescu: ;;goxlag
mircea_popescu: zee outrage
mircea_popescu: signed.
mircea_popescu: jobs pretty much fucked over woz
mircea_popescu: Diablo-D3 same thing happened with the steves
mircea_popescu: 3 is the magic number. if you get a chick and you both do her especially.
mircea_popescu: ideally 3.
mircea_popescu: i got your back bro :D
mircea_popescu: people with technical ability tend to be shy and suspicious. not trying to imply he has any technical ability ofcourse :D
mircea_popescu: Bugpowder incidentally, i think he's describing the problem that keeps 90% from all ventures from happening.
mircea_popescu: type a for asshole ?
mircea_popescu: and that if you lunch.
mircea_popescu: it takes what, two hours to pick up a chick get shown around.
mircea_popescu: listen, i knew no one in any town i went to.
mircea_popescu: go there suck up to angels.
mircea_popescu: nyc.
mircea_popescu: smickles wd!
mircea_popescu: dude. just visit.
mircea_popescu: train from maine to nyc costs you less than what you can panhandle in a day
mircea_popescu: pretty much a walking zombie could get 50k
mircea_popescu: Bugpowder has a point there. if organised freakshows / circus acts a la what gets funded by ycombinator can get 500k
mircea_popescu: pretty much everything involving the handling of money is not something that should be done by people without the experience of handling money.
mircea_popescu: believe it or not there is such a subset.
mircea_popescu: it's more of the case of, "the kind you shouldn't be starting if you're poor"
mircea_popescu: depends a lot on the sort of company you're starting.
mircea_popescu: the thing with maine is, no matter what you pick ppl go "further north"
mircea_popescu: Bugpowder i know a chick that went to humbolt. she hated it.
mircea_popescu: soon enough half california is moving there
mircea_popescu: what sort of fucking fantasia is this, a town with 6 cops and 6000 growlights
mircea_popescu: o srsly ?
mircea_popescu: you just said they're potheads
mircea_popescu: meth, whatever.
mircea_popescu: for 20 bucks worth of pot you've got yourself a friend.
mircea_popescu: then send some people to beat him up, come by and save him
mircea_popescu: yes yes, i'm envious. choke on it!!1
mircea_popescu: Bugpowder lol.
mircea_popescu: it's pretty cool.
mircea_popescu: iwas the tallest guy in my grade all through college.
mircea_popescu: Bugpowder he's married to the wrong girl isnt he.
mircea_popescu: you could now provide free expert advice to all the potheads who saved you from each other.
mircea_popescu: the question of course becomes why arent YOU a lawyer
mircea_popescu: this is why parents strive to take kids to good school districts.
mircea_popescu: everyone else has not much business there other than for entertainment purposes.
mircea_popescu: Diablo-D3 for people with a clue, which mostly means 10 years as a paralegal and up, it's a useful shortcut
mircea_popescu: his wife died, he couldn't revoke the trust
mircea_popescu: smickles basically some guy made a trust, but didn't properly account for revocation
mircea_popescu: Bugpowder http://legalzoomfraud.blogspot.ro/2008/05/use-of-forms-leads-to-litigation.html that one's cute
mircea_popescu: ah
mircea_popescu: the state doesn't do property taxes, they're a local concern.
mircea_popescu: look it up there.
mircea_popescu: http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/graphics/08_22_10_property_tax/
mircea_popescu: he sublets from pigeons
mircea_popescu: well... if the yearly budget is like 10mn or somesuch maybe they never issued paper
mircea_popescu: it's a list
mircea_popescu: from various fines
mircea_popescu: they get income from cell companies towers, from billboards on town limits
mircea_popescu: often enough there's a tax on power distribution
mircea_popescu: usually you pay for water and sewage
mircea_popescu: it's a town witout revenue ? how does it pay fo the mayor/town administrator
mircea_popescu: banks hold them and do the packaging/slicing
mircea_popescu: and usually pension funds buy some sort of derivative off the bonds
mircea_popescu: taxes
mircea_popescu: they had bonds.
mircea_popescu: get out, what town is this, potato idaho ?
mircea_popescu: when did legalzoom become a scam ?
mircea_popescu: what ?!
mircea_popescu: cause i doubt any town didn't
mircea_popescu: Diablo-D3 it's published somewhere, but you'll have to go digging
mircea_popescu: and go by their offices dressed nicely and being polite and ask
mircea_popescu: (which is public info)
mircea_popescu: Diablo-D3 here's a tip : if you live in a smallish town see who your town used to advise on their bonds
mircea_popescu: is no different from the oppinion of the bus driver
mircea_popescu: Bugpowder the problem is that in a field like "i wanna issue btc bonds" the opinion of a lawyer that makes 60k a month
mircea_popescu: prepare yourself for 50k downpayment.
mircea_popescu: like, totally.
mircea_popescu: the community can't afford it.
mircea_popescu: but in general lawyers are on private retainers.
mircea_popescu: there was a guy on the forum a year bacl
mircea_popescu: that i dunno
mircea_popescu: we*
mircea_popescu: Diablo-D3 depends on who's whe