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mircea_popescu: once the diff is high enough they'll ship to lock in the payments and avoid refunds
mircea_popescu: but anyway. the shipping problem is that companies don't have an incentive to ship for as long as what they're shipping is worth more than what the people paid for it.
mircea_popescu: bitcoin won't die just because some old boy's club tries to keep newcomers out
mircea_popescu: what, you think where the crowd of 5000 atlas sockpuppets lies matters ?
mircea_popescu: if bitcoin allowed them any advantage because of some such crap it'd be doomed anyway
mircea_popescu: they will have support of old miners against new miners
mircea_popescu: so likely they will ship the entire backlog simultaneously
mircea_popescu: smickles this is actually a very interesting problem. the companies have no real incentive to ship
mircea_popescu: i for one don't think there's going to be asics in 2012
mircea_popescu: no, im serious. this paradigm that everyone has to make it is bs.
mircea_popescu: 16 yos that know you'll protect them from my cock have 0 incentive to learn anything.
mircea_popescu: that problem being, several generations which have been protecred
mircea_popescu: they don't need any protection. they need incentives to de-weakify.
mircea_popescu: they ensured that jobs move out of europe into the us, sure.
mircea_popescu: Diablo-D3 well... they kinda were pointless originally, too. but anyway.
mircea_popescu: dun dun dun. i think this may actually be a net gain for him
mircea_popescu: UNIONS are not the solution. UNIONS are the problem. Rude, crude, lazy, corrupt BULLIES.
mircea_popescu: i hadn't realised just how irrelevant/self referential lefties have gotten in the us.
mircea_popescu: Greg Palast is the author of the New York Times bestseller, "Armed Madhouse" (Penguin Paperback 2007). When Palast, an investigator of corporate fraud and racketeering, turned his skills to journalism, he was quickly recognized as, "The most important investigative reporter of our time" [Tribune Magazine]
mircea_popescu: dude srsly. some union is sueing the republican candidate, who doesn't want them to get more public money.
mircea_popescu: Diablo-D3 not to burts your parade piss, but i don't imagine anyone cares what some union does
mircea_popescu: people wonder why we attract so many scammers. well... it's the hush.
mircea_popescu: there was some sort of conflict there but it's not clear exactly what.
mircea_popescu: he says it's because he called theymos out, but my pr chick did the same and she's not banned.