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gribble: Bitstamp BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 410.5, Best ask: 412.77, Bid-ask spread: 2.27000, Last trade: 410.38, 24 hour volume: 17414.87561426, 24 hour low: 407.94, 24 hour high: 453.94, 24 hour vwap: 434.716551529
thestringpuller: even if you didn't win this time remember, participation counts
gribble: Bitstamp BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 410.31, Best ask: 410.33, Bid-ask spread: 0.02000, Last trade: 410.33, 24 hour volume: 17399.49655314, 24 hour low: 407.94, 24 hour high: 453.94, 24 hour vwap: 434.783426284
mircea_popescu: guy's excellent dude, i'm wiping my tears over here, chicks are doubled over on the floor laughing, you ruined my fucking work
asciilifeform: 'happy is the man who has one leg, one sock doesn't tear, one boot isn't needed.' ☟︎
cazalla: well, that's an interesting price to wake up to
thestringpuller: is the term "gracious donation" copyrighted?
gribble: Bitstamp BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 415.0, Best ask: 415.19, Bid-ask spread: 0.19000, Last trade: 415.0, 24 hour volume: 17059.74082261, 24 hour low: 407.94, 24 hour high: 453.94, 24 hour vwap: 435.262063823
mircea_popescu: after the bet closes
Duffer1: at what point does that become a gracious donation?
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mircea_popescu: fucking lamers these people. i read that, i think here's an aluminum sidings salesman trying to make it as an insurance salesman now
mircea_popescu: "I’m in financial services and one of the researchers I read suggests"
los_pantalones: sorry to my fanbois
mircea_popescu: los_pantalones i guess you're not the next stalin then.
los_pantalones: this is how i feel about those advantages
mircea_popescu: for another thing, it's the cheapest way to spread your carnal knowledge.
mircea_popescu: for one thing, it's the cheapest way to raise an army.
mircea_popescu: mthreat now this i can credit.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if every land could every land were a duchy and russia'd consist of some land on the bug.
mircea_popescu: "Oh, you didn’t know? See, one of the differences between living in Buenos Aires and living in Salta, is that the life expectancy for males in Buenos Aires is 69,17, while in Salta its 66,17!!!! How Cool is that?! You get to kick the bucket while in your prime years, no one wants to be remembered like an old wrinkly man, rich or not. Why would you want to live in Buenos Aires and live a measly 4 years more of life?"
asciilifeform: scammers - sure. but surely every land can produce its own thieves, robbers, berserkers.
mircea_popescu: incredibly easy to spot, too.
mircea_popescu: they think themselves so smart, and all that.
mircea_popescu: and also! it's generally gringos that are the scammers.
mircea_popescu: they survive because sealed in cave. no cats there.
mircea_popescu: blind cavefish do not survive because they know not to upset cats
asciilifeform: or perhaps 'food chain' is not the right term. lion looks dangerous to man, but not to adult elephant, though the latter will not eat him
mircea_popescu: more like, because there scarcely is any food chain
mircea_popescu: yeah, totally.
mircea_popescu: does that schmuck look threatening to you ? and yet, inexplicably, he's alive. how ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform re the children chained / throats cut business, same goes to you as discussed with los_pantalones re that robbery gopro video.
mircea_popescu: by this measure the us has been through all madmaxes in history.
mircea_popescu: argentina... meh. i should be able to see the signs. meanwhile, their biggest bombing was of a 3 story jewish centre 30 years ago.
The20YearIRCloud: shtfschool has some information about the yugoslovia incident
The20YearIRCloud: he's making great money in the US as a consultant
asciilifeform: wai what, those great tales of children chained to streetlights so cars would stop, and then drivers can be throat-cut and robbed - all fake ?!
mthreat: mircea_popescu: ferfal lives in the US now, for a while ;)
asciilifeform: good old-fashioned 'mad max' collapse, that is
asciilifeform: well yes. but the events described there, afaik - happened.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform first time i go to that site.
mircea_popescu: i mean, nowhere near the smoothness one expects of the same operation in say maryland
asciilifeform confesses that when he learned that mircea_popescu was going to Ar, assumed that it was because of the joys chronicled by (among others) ferfal.
mircea_popescu: i gotta say, the scammers here are just about this fucktarded.
mircea_popescu: st to pay 300.000 a pop for a place in his Estancia… in one of the poorest provinces of Argentina… in the middle of the desert, where not a blade of grass would survive without artificial irrigation. JA!! Amazing what you can achieve with research!
mircea_popescu: You’d think that being rich and loving a wine sipping, golf playing sophisticated lifestyle you’d be better off in Napa Valley or something, but no, the best thing for you is to go to the middle of nowhere Argentina and then go from there to a middle of nowhere province where land used to sell for a dollar a square mile, that is until good ol’ Doug bought it and his research now shows that its in your best intere
mircea_popescu: Isnt it wonderful how the “Casey Research Group “concludes that the best thing for you is to buy property from Doug Casey in crappy poor Argentina?. JAJAJAJAA!!!!
assbot: SURVIVING IN ARGENTINA: Why didnt I move to Estancia Cafayate in the Province of Salta
mircea_popescu: mthreat prolly better next week tho.
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mthreat: mircea_popescu: also, i'm done with my contract work so as of tomorrow my days are free again. we should get lunch, maybe at Dogg - http://pickupthefork.com/tag/dogg-buenos-aires/
ThickAsThieves: they have big ones now too
asciilifeform mercifully forgot that microshit sold a 'tablet'
ThickAsThieves: MS and Intel would really love for you to buy 1
ThickAsThieves: convertible laptop tablets
mircea_popescu says "get a tablet" then remembers proper tablet was never made because apple got to it first.
ThickAsThieves: sorry that was meant to read tablet-tops
ThickAsThieves: they have those tabletops
asciilifeform: ThickAsThieves: it's bad enough that no one makes a laptop with vertical display...
mircea_popescu: well ok, then we can just go and not beat them up
asciilifeform: ThickAsThieves: good laptop for a blind man, then.
mthreat: mircea_popescu: nah the reddit kids are a friendly bunch, i've been to one of their parties
ThickAsThieves: it isnt the best display, but everything else is nice
mircea_popescu: los_pantalones: ThickAsThieves don't.jump. << STOP! it's hammertime!
ThickAsThieves: the links are dynamic sadly, so you might have to build it, but i will look up my order
asciilifeform: they have a 2560 x 1440 glossy, and a 900 line turd.
asciilifeform: ThickAsThieves: have you a link to vendor?
ThickAsThieves: you want the X1 carbon 2nd edition
asciilifeform: ThickAsThieves: which machine was this
mircea_popescu: so going in there and plowing a beating into the reddit crowd seems a decent use for a few bitcents.
thestringpuller: interesting. i wonder if the suppression in price is at all related to this bet
The20YearIRCloud: I've met a few from there, they assure me with a little bit of cash you can do whatever you want
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asciilifeform: plus the one with >1080 lines has gloss.
asciilifeform: ThickAsThieves: no 'F' keys! what a steaming turd.
ThickAsThieves: <+asciilifeform> thinkpad X1
mircea_popescu: curious what the situation is like here if you assault some idiots in the street. fine or what ?
mircea_popescu: mthreat we go there, beat the shit out of the kids ?
mircea_popescu: "Cuestión, nos vemos el sábado que viene y recuerden: al que hable de bitcoins lo tiramos al agua / invita un shot a todos / pela."
asciilifeform: just as unrelated q: anyone know of a laptop comp. currently on the market which isn't a complete piece of shit? (everything i see either has display with < 1080 lines, glossy, or both - imho unusable.)
The20YearIRCloud: then attempt to make decisions that look forward, trying to plan. Of course many people never get to that point
The20YearIRCloud: in my mind adulthood is the time when you stop thinking less about now and more about the future
mircea_popescu: <ThickAsThieves> i think 12 << iirc 12 kinda fizzled.
The20YearIRCloud: I don't think saying walter white wasn't an adult is kind of stupid
mircea_popescu: i've already been to the embassy thing, so.
mircea_popescu: <mthreat> mircea_popescu: I have the event for you: Reddit Mitap - http://www.reddit.com/r/argentina/comments/2gr6lo/mitap_s%C3%A1bado_27_parque_centenario_san_bernardo/ << wanna go ?
los_pantalones: and mp might say quite the opposite
thestringpuller: too bad I didn't know that in my infancy
thestringpuller: los_pantalones: yea we all know that now
los_pantalones: terrible trade
los_pantalones: long puts, no matter the market ☟︎
thestringpuller: just to see how they worked
thestringpuller: the only time I went short was october 2012
gribble: Bitstamp BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 428.4, Best ask: 428.53, Bid-ask spread: 0.13000, Last trade: 428.4, 24 hour volume: 15009.87721379, 24 hour low: 415.0, 24 hour high: 453.94, 24 hour vwap: 438.112123888
ThickAsThieves: ive started covering and hope to buy back in for realz under 400
los_pantalones: have a target?
ThickAsThieves: much less than longs
los_pantalones: borrowing costs to short are pretty cheap
ThickAsThieves: no its not that