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BingoBoingo: fluffypony: Blog a post so I can put in a
troll ad.
mircea_popescu: yeah
totally coca cola will be involved in
technologee.
pete_dushenski: 10. In
the future, all companies will be involved in
technology, so no matter what sector you are interested in you could find an engineering role.
pete_dushenski: 5.
Tech can require a lot of collaboration — a skill often valued in women.
assbot: Alaina Percival: 10 Reasons Why More Women Should Work in Software Engineering -
The Accelerators - WSJ
pete_dushenski: so
they're here for 2.5 years and stayed with me for 3 months while
they found a place
pete_dushenski: the
top
two students were offered a job.
they were coincidentally dating
pete_dushenski: my mom was invited by
the architecture university in bucharest
to adjudicate
the 6th year final projects since she still speaks
the language and
they like foreign panelists
pete_dushenski: that's why i had
those
two romanian architects living with me last summer
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: my mom was born
there
too. lived in bucharest until age 6.
then moved
to montreal
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu:
tat's curious about running ads
pete_dushenski: my 85 year-old romanian gran'pa wants me
to get an mba
pete_dushenski: ben_vulpes: i say "student of power" when people ask. << now
there's a program. sort of an uber-mba
pete_dushenski: no, more like "curiousity, on
the off-chance i'm missing out"
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: maybe i'm missing out. << not even mp's above fomo (a
term i initially associated with fubu)
mircea_popescu: well
this isn't a problem of up or down, just, wtf am i going
to do with all
this capital.
artifexd: mircea_popescu: I can help break
the mpif curse, if you want.
assbot: BtcAlpha.com F.MPIF
Tracker estimated NAV per share: 0.00021699 B (Total: 474.52 B). Delta: 0.00 B. Last
trade for F.MPIF on MPEX was at 0.00021999 BTC [+]
mircea_popescu: seems mpif is cursed, whatever it
touches
turns
to snooze mode.
mircea_popescu: soo on
the sad news front, panacea is going on vacation
too.
mircea_popescu: "Well, not a perfect match, but close enough for government work."
this is an expression isn't ot.
mircea_popescu: now
the spiritual continuator of
that mess got all
these
two star generals
that basically sat at a desk 30 years
mircea_popescu: you know one of
the major complaints of
the french revolution was an officer corps
that had never seen
the field.
BingoBoingo: There's prolly no good reason, just a lot of Billets
to fill
BingoBoingo: Well
that second star happens... 20-25 years into one's career so 1994-1999... Prolly scuffled sround a bunch of staff jobs with Glowing recommendations int
typical 'Murican fashion. I mean
the Flag officer corps is right arounds 1000 across
the services or some really hug number like
that.
mircea_popescu: "Greene, who was on his first deployment
to a war zone" << how can you get a maj. gen comission without ever seeing a warzone is
the q.
mircea_popescu: decimation well outside of
teh country one's obviously
taking his chances.
assbot: The
twinheaded announcer announces! pe
Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> i already live five blocks down from it, im already
taking
the sophomores out for a ride... mgith as well. pretty much everyone's a lawyer here anyway. << WHy not, one needs hobbies
decimation: "An engineer by
training, he was
the deputy commanding general, Combined Security
Transition Command-Afghanistan."
assbot: US general assassinated in 'green-on-blue' shooting at Afghan army
training base | Fox News
decimation: I doubt someone has made a simple-to-use gui
tool
to help a n00b identify a wallet.dat file, such a
tool would be useful only
to hacker harvesting such
things...
ben_vulpes: <decimation>
the other alternative would be
to understand
the structure of
the bdb file
ben_vulpes: ;;later
tell bitcodernoob <decimation> make copies, put in bit/altcoin profile directory and see which one is vaild after running
the client?
decimation: the other alternative would be
to understand
the structure of
the bdb file
decimation: make copies, put in bit/altcoin profile directory and see which one is vaild after running
the client?
ben_vulpes: <bitcodernoob> Can anyone help me with a problem. I have
two wallet.dat's
that I accidentally mixed up. Is
there a way
that I can findout which wallet.dat goes
to which coin?
pete_dushenski: his new job is, you're not gonna believe
this shit: dinner clubs
assbot: With Apologies
to Margaret Weis and
Tracy Hickman | Bitcoinism
pete_dushenski: and e-mail subject line of
the day goes
to…. linkedin!
mircea_popescu: "Vladimir Putin has made a complete mockery of delusional US foreign policy yet again,
this
time anulling in one fell swoop decades of attempts
to isolate Iran by signing a 700bn ruble deal".
pete_dushenski: "Vladimir Putin has attempted
to sidestep Western sanctions on Russia’s energy sector by signing a $20bn
trade deal
that could see his country become
the largest importer of oil from Iran."
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla i should hope
they will collect over 700k btc and change.
mircea_popescu: how much are
the shares of a company worth,
that's bankrupt and can adjust prices
to buffer inflation ?
mircea_popescu: figure it out, man : if rates hike capital dries up. all of a sudden all
the nude swimmers in
the merger and acquisition smorgasbord are now up in
thewinds.
ben_vulpes: sure but when
the 16 oz can becomes a 12 oz can with a strongly concave bottom, coca cola charging
the same amount...
mircea_popescu: right, so if
they double gas price people just pay 2x as much for gas.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes what company can inflate prices
to match inflation ?
ben_vulpes: well hang on if
the company prices goods in inflating usd
they can adjust pricing
to match inflation. bonds, as
the revered B sez, are a bad bad
thing in inflationary situations 'cause paying a price now for money in
the future
that will be worth less. so confus.
mircea_popescu: dude seriously ? rising interest makes stock more attractive
than bonds ?
mircea_popescu: when
the Federal Reserve starts raising interest rates.
The quick
takeaway: Stocks look much more attractive
than bonds–at least
through 2018."
mircea_popescu: "Goldman Sachs Group Inc.GS -1.32% says it knows what’s going
to happen
mircea_popescu: they also account for roughly nothing% of
that lolfest.
mike_c: i can't even guess. i don't understand
the
thinking.
mike_c: here's an interesting question. of
the BTC held by ethereum investors, what percentage did
they give
to vitalik?
fluffypony: and nobody will be better off if
they just held on
to
their Bitcoin
decimation: interesting
that its name derives from a substance whose existence was posited by pseudoscientists until maxwell et.al. set
them straight
mike_c: no, you guys don't get it.
this
time will be different. #etherrocks
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Thedening
the West
fluffypony: the one
that was super young and so
therefore knew how
to handle money?
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: BingoBoingo: I'm pretty sure
this isn't like MaidSafe - Vitalik does
the
tour circuit, and he's been building up
to
this for a while << so he's
the new neoderp, whatever was
that kid's name.
mircea_popescu: i'd gladly pay
them nothing at all while
they worked at overturning
their own hierarchy.
decimation: which is why
they are willing
to work for no pay in 'internships', etc as long as
they are working
to overturn some heirarchy somewhere
mircea_popescu: validating
these
twerps is worse
than giving
them a salary.
mircea_popescu: decimation aka
the schmukette in
the previous image. noty.
mircea_popescu: <ThickAsThieves> <+Vexual> incidetally, whats a satoshi called in atc? a
tat? /// altoshi << quit being so modest << a
tit ?
mircea_popescu: Shakespeare: Rudder’s response: “To wring his hands all day for a hundred
thousand dollars a year?”" << happens
to be
the exactly correct response.
mircea_popescu: the despicable vulgus considers itself whatever it is
that pays. being rich doesn't pay anymore, it's much better
to "have needs"
mircea_popescu: no.
they consider
themselves
to be sick, discriminated against and rape survivors.