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mircea_popescu: BTC-Mining did you receive the more or less correct sum ?
mircea_popescu: her romanian shocking to romanians cause it is marginally intelligible but sounds like how a sparrow or some other bird'd be speaking it.
mircea_popescu: dubious hicks got into an argument, beat each other up.
mircea_popescu: and also why do you call me mirceau and why do you type out the name ? type mi press tab or so
mircea_popescu: maybe nao we can put the entire glbse nuttery behind us and carry on.
mircea_popescu: which explains why he's 1k short. it's not "Real" balance.
mircea_popescu: rdponticelli i think what it does is, it saves a provisional balance somewhere, and goes on that
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell maximian no, it ended i think in june ? or julu
mircea_popescu: the report assbot puts in is already kinda reminescent of an xmas tree
mircea_popescu: but anyway, odds to miss twice in a row are 1/4. odds to hit one miss the other are 1/2
mircea_popescu: back when he was still in China I honestly thought that's where he's going and mostly why I laid off him
mircea_popescu: the false notion that glbse was a btc-financials related website is fucking us over ;/
mircea_popescu: and when i say glbse is damaging, this is EXACTLY what i mean. will in the future people go "o, i won't follow stated policy cause what if these people reverse it like glbse used to do" ? yes, they will.
mircea_popescu: if i promise my gf to take her to the film, it's none of your business.
mircea_popescu: sgornick well that's two arguments you're proposing, and they're unrelated. anyway, there's no practical way to limit credit.
mircea_popescu: but incidentally, why are there mcdonald's places, pigeons ? after all, there's legal alternatives run by competent people. like, you know, actual restaurants.
mircea_popescu: and the honesty of their incompetence resonates with the inner vibration of incompetence in a large mass of others.
mircea_popescu: rdponticelli banks suck, the margins are about as narrow as in electricity production.
mircea_popescu: you're flat out wrong. the incompetent flock together.
mircea_popescu: pigeons right. like... you know... btc stock exchanges.
mircea_popescu: money as a barrier to entry is great, because in spite of all its failings, modern society works pretty well at keeping idiots and money apart.
mircea_popescu: sgornick why would it be bullshit tho ? i mean... allow nefario to open an irl bank ?
mircea_popescu: i'm serious tho, come to romania and open a bank. you need something like 50ish mn in capital iirc.
mircea_popescu: it's a bank after all, it's not obliged to handle your money.
mircea_popescu: well frankly, they're entirely within their right to tell you to take a hike.
mircea_popescu: you know... it's almost as if the banks are by now workingtogether to fuck over btc exchanges
mircea_popescu: well that's ok, he makes a third coming, this time with a frozen BTC and a frozen USD balance.