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ThickAsThieves: by
these measures pankkake's PIF is
the real deal investment
mike_c: um, so are
they sycophants or pseduonyms?
there are some serious logical fallacies in his bullshit.
mircea_popescu: why should
the stupid not realise
they're stupid and fall into line!
mircea_popescu: "it appears
that Mircea Popescu either can't be bothered
to read or has so convinced himself of his own godliness
that he
thinks he can just make stuff up and
the band of sycophantic pseudonyms will eat it up with stars in
their eyes."
mircea_popescu: b) we lost X according
to Y creative counting method which is BETTER
THAN ANY ALTERNATIVE AVAILABLE!!11
mircea_popescu: usagi : a)
this is a different scam
than
the other scam and generally
this should not be discussed here or in
this way or etc ;
mircea_popescu: "And as for
the subsequent performance of
that fund, if you had bothered
to check, you would have found
that in fact, it dropped by a
total of 11.6% from inception
to final return of capital --
thereby outperforming every other comparable fund available"
mike_c: "it dropped by a
total of 11.6% from inception
to final return of capital "
mike_c: i love how proud he is
that he only lost 12%.
mircea_popescu: ahaha check it out,
the doofus actually claims
they made a gain.
cazalla: i've run into americans saying
they are canadian in australia
thestringpuller: buuut he is pretty derpy in
that he would rather pay money on league of legends characters
than have a girlfriend who provides you with sex
nubbins`: all
that free space has bred permanent outside-voices into
them
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: what
the fuck? Yes
they are. I work with a Chinese co-op...just...don't even get my started.
mircea_popescu: not sure who it is now, cause
the chinese aren't really obnoxious
heat: he did eat
the hash brownies
tho.
nubbins`: "i
thought it was port macdonald! my camera has
ten zooms!" -elderly british woman i met in puerto maldonado, peru
heat: my dad backpacked across EU in
the 70s
nubbins`: the derpiness just shifts around. before americans it was
the british -- you can still see
this if you find older brits
mircea_popescu: yeah in fairness
the derpy us
traveller of
the 70s and 80s has been replaced by a much more understated kind.
nubbins`: australians and israelis are
the ones
that will give you headaches
nubbins`: aside from
the group of guys from las vegas i met in colombia
nubbins`: TBF none of
the american
travellers i've met have been particularly brash
heat: who
the fuck wants
to be american
nubbins`: apparently it's fashionable for americans
to pretend not
to be american
nubbins`: i've been asked more
than once if i was a fake canadian when
travellers see
the flag on my pack
heat: how can you hate
the country where nadia comaneci is from
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
the ro passport is pretty good i
tell you. of all
the people i've been with all over
the world, mine's been overall
the best
treated.
heat: i
think ill move
there one day
heat: that sounds not
to bad u just leave here
there all day and
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla no here it's bundled with
the cable subscription
heat: wow
thats a small sink
ozbot: Ukraine may have
to go nuclear, says Kiev lawmaker
kakobrekla: beats me, maybe
they go house
to house selling
trilema credits
kakobrekla: its just
that he is so rich he does not need
to wash
them, ever
heat: throw
them in
the
trash
Mats_cd03: everyone everywhere resents
touristd
heat: when people come and visit popescu does he break
the plates
they ate on
mike_c: who is 'you guys'?
this isn't
the all-romania channel.
heat: do you guys make fun of americans when
they
tour
the cities
there?
ThickAsThieves: i offered
to help, but didnt realize how rusty my drawing skills are
ThickAsThieves: ThickAsThieves, what's
the deadline for
this /// hrm, faster
the better, if i can't get it in a couple days I'll just go with a
typographic design
mircea_popescu: my brain doesn't manage
to cope with
the alternate reality
these kids live in.
mircea_popescu: imagine : spend a hundred grand and allow
them
to
tell you when
the
thing closes ?
mircea_popescu: "The victorious punter jumped up and down waving his receipt in
the air when
the bills were added up shortly before closing
time at
the club, at
the Embassy venue in Old Burlington Street.
The nightclub has not revealed
the identity of
the big spenders."
mircea_popescu: “It was meant
to be just an extra hobby alongside football,” Alex explained
mircea_popescu: Alex Hope made his first
trade around five years ago, while he was still working at a fast food bar – and now claims
to earn a six-figure salary. He made his first deals on his mobile phone during
the commute
to his day job, after a spread betting seminar shortly before his 18th birthday.
mircea_popescu: Describing his rapid career rise from humble beginnings
to working for
trading company Zone Invest Group, it adds: “A
talented, charismatic and
thoroughly likeable man, Alex Hope exudes knowledge and you can’t help but respect and admire
this self-taught and self-made young
trader.”
mircea_popescu: they come from
the queue outside
the playground, waiting
to fellate
these idiots.
mircea_popescu: His biography reads: “Despite his
tender years, Alex is a name
to watch out for in
the city. An expert in
the UK economy, he works
the currency markets, regularly
trading millions.”
nubbins`: ThickAsThieves, what's
the deadline for
this
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i
take it you don't do much in
the way of
the club scene huh
mircea_popescu: i guess
the min cost
to
troll
the monitors would be ~1.5k
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nubbins`: you know you've got a legit scoop when both reuters and ap shake
their heads and say "nope" ;(
mircea_popescu: it so happens both of
those are 10x as expensive and 100x as scammy on a roi basis.
mircea_popescu: somehow people are expected
to buy houses and college educations, but a jaguar
throws red flags
mircea_popescu: “If one guy has a Jaguar on a (government) GS-12 salary,
that’s a red flag,” McConnell said.
nubbins`: altho
TBF it
took several years before
they realized what it did
mircea_popescu: i don't usually
turn
them off, i usually end up
turning some chick on
heat: lsd was from
the 40s?