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mircea_popescu: the problem really is these days, the rich/successful/smart don't flaunt it nearly enough
mircea_popescu: if you imagine that the entire population of africa croaking tomorrow would make any difference you're dreaming.
mircea_popescu: not everyone belongs in a palace. most people belong in the huts, so as to have palaces. for just a few.
mircea_popescu: if he doesn't want the risk of breaking a nail she can do w/o the crumb.
mircea_popescu: dick is giving her a crumb in exchange for her scratching his back.
mircea_popescu: this is false. dick is a pretty cool guy. jane is a worthless pos.
mircea_popescu: the assumption underlying your evaluation is that dick = jane
mircea_popescu: should give the people who didn't learn math in school a chance too
mircea_popescu: not much he can do. picked the wrong exchange, everyone's fucked.
mircea_popescu: i can see the guy's position. how can he know you didn't sell the shares on glbse
mircea_popescu: anyway. so you had the investment pre-ipo and were allocated glbse shares after ipo ?
mircea_popescu: i am the fucking dean of age of btc finance. this is sad, i've barely been here a year.
mircea_popescu: i had no idea shakaru had anything to do with it either.
mircea_popescu: "Prohibition was essentially a religious movement backed by the Methodists, Baptists, Congregationalists, Scandinavian Lutherans and other evangelical churches."
mircea_popescu: is this about something in particular ? or what thread ? or wtf are we discussing ?
mircea_popescu: the entire world will crumble to dust, bitcoin will still be here.
mircea_popescu: and at some point nobody will care about "other currencies"
mircea_popescu: you're aware that every hour 300 new btc are minted on average
mircea_popescu: i did illustrate it in terms of usd, but mostly for the novelty value
mircea_popescu: what do you care about the zimbabwe dollar. makes no difference.
mircea_popescu: are you even aware that in the past 10 years the dollar significantly appreciated in zimbabwe dollars ?
mircea_popescu: in what sense ? in bitcoin your bitcoin will be worth just as much
mircea_popescu: also, someone be kind enough to put it on reddit/stumbleupon/facebook w/e
mircea_popescu: i used to do that a lot on trilema, but obviously for romanian.
mircea_popescu: hey everyone : fiction contest. buncha prizes, 120 btc or so prize fund.