mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves i was chuckling at the buttcoin treatment earlier, "let's look at things from the position that popularity matters and then get all aggitated when nothing makes sense".

mircea_popescu: pigeons: hey mircea_popescu I havent followed, but i saw you are selling eth foward contract or similar. I wanted to suggest putting something similar on mpex, i think that would do well << i asked, people lol'd. which is why it's in otc.

mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves: Sexy Saffron better not tell reddit she's an mp employee << that's okay, the only thing that's keeping derppit from a collective headexploy is all the shit their collective dumbass doesn't know.

mircea_popescu: this is the major advantage for the fucktarded socialists : once la revolucion starts it fucks up things so badly people want a revolution.

mircea_popescu: after 8 years of "we can do it" and "change nao" i doubt you can find any broad group that's of the oppinion things can continue as they are.

mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves the way the us is going, anything's better than sameness.

mircea_popescu: a) how the fuck are conservatives going to make electoral gains in populist times and b) who the fuck do the republicans even represent anymore, they've lost the teaparty.

mircea_popescu: srsly ? rep majority ? i tell you i dun see it.

mircea_popescu: good times.

mircea_popescu: startin' all the way to the good ol' boys of glbse and so on.

mircea_popescu: and it's an audience that hates mp, soooo, fat chance << you know how many of these there've been, over the years ? and how painfully and mean-ly they've been humiliated ?

mircea_popescu: now that may be :D

mircea_popescu: now it's quite clear they';re recycling some borrowed btc as "investments".

mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves: i think the best part about the offer is it's potential to disrupt the live offering << no, the best part is pulling the rug from under the scammer's feet quite unexplectedly.

mircea_popescu: (basically it ensures that no institutionals will be holding eth today for the purpose of satysfying a mid or long term goal, is all)

mircea_popescu: but this is a point of finesse

mircea_popescu: it does allow you to go into a technical short, by buying the future and selling your spot, if you hold any.

mircea_popescu: so no way to short it << im shorting it.

mircea_popescu: benkay: or is that not actually a text file? << hasn't been a texrfile for all of two years.

mircea_popescu: so they drive them out of biz.

mircea_popescu: chetty just, cheaper for the govt to print em than for the independent crooks

mircea_popescu: mthreat they're printing like crazy for sure, tho. usually i get ~40% new bills, but the last few buys i got 80-100% new bills.

mircea_popescu: pankkake: and in multiple bitcoin clients << i never bothered to get a client myself so there's that.

mircea_popescu: also it never touched 12.x in march, talking out of ass these ppls.

mircea_popescu: so their graphs are the usual crap.

mircea_popescu: chetty for the record, the peso was trading 12.2 - 12.7 yesterday

mircea_popescu: nubbins`:"i live in a place with stylish young people, independent women, and those who care about our natural environment. it's a real drag." << i can see it.

mircea_popescu: k the badly burnt coffee"

mircea_popescu: nubbins`: mthreat: do yourself a favor and stop drinking charbucks << talking to ex-us-mil guy, "i'll tell you what starbucks is. back in the force, they'd make these largish tanks of coffee at the crack of down, keep them on reheat, throw them out at night. starbucks is pretty much like a drink out of that tank right before it getting thrown out. which is why they put all the cream and crap into it : gotta try and mas

mircea_popescu: Pierre_Rochard:mircea_popescu: permission to republish? << well, no. an article is one thing, but wholesale copying of trilema serves little purpose. put up an adnotated article list if you want, that seems to serve your purpose better, or if not do commentary on the individual articles