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mircea_popescu: ft today. Their "innovation" is _purely_ restricted to more shiny wrappings, because that is where the money is in today's market."
<< ahaha yeah! check it out...
mod6:
<+asciilifeform> ben_vulpes: i confess that i have not attempted to run it
<< i haven't had a chance either. will give it a go this week.
mod6: whole thing takes
< 30 minutes to dl, build, & test.
assbot: Logged on 25-07-2015 13:56:36; mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-07-2015#1212302 << taxation is first and foremost a political activity. it is an economic activity as a very distant second. the noton that "it'd ok because we;re doing productive milking" misses the point by about the same berth as the notion that "it's ok, we don't need guns because we got money". this is simply not how the car works.
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-07-2015#1212471 << more like, only path to survival for google. they don't have an actual place in the marketplace, they're much too large, old and ossified to find one. if they don't pull a redhat/mcdonalds/walmart/whatever and screw themselves in the usg spigot, they're going the way of revlon.
☝︎ mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-07-2015#1212302 << taxation is first and foremost a political activity. it is an economic activity as a very distant second. the noton that "it'd ok because we;re doing productive milking" misses the point by about the same berth as the notion that "it's ok, we don't need guns because we got money". this is simply not how the car works.
☝︎☟︎ nubbins`:
<+gernika> ah ok - close proximity + wood got it
mircea_popescu:
<mod6> i'll let it go for a while. maybe it'll work itself out.
<<< pretty soon something like this is what ;;ud bitcoin will return.
mod6:
<+ascii_field> at any rate, we desperately need a multi-node version of '-connect'
<< this would be great!
pete_dushenski: "Toronto taxi drivers are launching a class-action lawsuit against ride-sharing company Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL], seeking more than C$400 million ($307.27 million) in damages and an injunction to stop it operating in the Canadian province of Ontario."
<< speaking of those enlightened folk in toronto.
pete_dushenski: "Following the blueprint of Fiat's marriage with Chrysler and a New York listing of the merged entity last year, FCA will create a Dutch-registered holding company for Ferrari and list its shares on Wall Street, according to the filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission."
<< inb4 ferraris are slapped with 'made in united states of africa' plaques
pete_dushenski: "The report, prepared in September 2014, gave no indication the foreign intelligence network had been hacked. But auditors found up to 29 percent of Treasury's devices connected to the intelligence network did not meet federal cybersecurity standards."
<< i can't imagine these standards include 'avoid winblows'
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> it isn't even about selling coal
<< During my two years at Mizzou they installed a Wood Chip furnace at their power plant.
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> (can you say 'petrodollar', kidz?)
<< Shame when everythig is forced to move to corn plastics
BingoBoingo:
<decimation> even though they have turned out to be extremely profitable
<< Fiat arbitrarity prevents this
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> wind blew'em back in
<< Ru shares the problem with US east coast