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mircea_popescu: they (ie, indian govt) recently opened
the vault of donations of one of
the larger
temples
mircea_popescu: if you
think anyone can compete with buddhism over
that you're nuts,
they probably have more
than all
the others combined.
mircea_popescu: MisterE: Little late for
that eh? < lawl. it's what bystanders do, usually. comment on future events as
they perceive
them, which obviously
to
the actual players are long past.
bitcoinpete: Moderately familiar with Hinduism and Buddhism. I guess
the branch-tree argument is valid. Continuity is continuity
Namworld: Go abraham (not
the lincoln one)
mircea_popescu: but if you go by headcount i guess you gotta count
the muricans.
bitcoinpete: Catholic Church still seems
to win
the "most successful" award for land, art, gold, etc
mircea_popescu: generally
they're ignored for
their complete lack of intellectual production and cultural impact
mircea_popescu: i guess you can include
the various protestant and neoprotestant sects in
there.
mircea_popescu: judaism -> orthodoxy -> catholicism -> islam, same
thing
mircea_popescu: nobody in
the business seriously considers
the branches apart from
the root.
bitcoinpete: mircea_popescu: Sure, Judaism
too… Maybe not as centralized as such, nor as auspiciously
Namworld: No...
those
transactions... some are in
the blockchain it seems.
mircea_popescu: bitcoinpete you know,
there are numerous religions longer lasting
than
the catholic church
chetty_: they left
the fake
transaction bots running?
Namworld: Ok, I'm laughing now.
This is
too much.
Namworld: This must be an ode
to stupidity.
Namworld: looks like MtGox is still publishing
that it's moving lotta Bitcoins...
mircea_popescu: Transactions are recorded automatically every 5 minutes from
this page, which displays all Bitcoin
transactions from Mt.Gox
that have not been confirmed for 2 or more hours according
to
their wallet software.
Namworld: API isn't
there anymore, but some MtGox addresses where known.
Namworld: I believe
this is based on past addresses used by MtGox, as per past
transactions listed in
their API
ozbot: Mt.Gox BTC
Transactions - Coinsight.org
Namworld: ref
to something Mats said earlier
Mats_cd03: >
Travelling 1000 miles (1600 km) by jet
Mats_cd03: >
Travelling 6000 miles (9656 km) by
train
Mats_cd03: >
Travelling 230 miles (370 km) by car
Mats_cd03: > Activities
that increase
the death risk by roughly one micromort, and
their associated cause of death:
ozbot: Micromort - Wikipedia,
the free encyclopedia
MisterE: nothing worse
than a flat market
ozbot: What Is Business?
The Roman Catholic Church, For One | When Bitcoin Met Pete
bitcoinpete: In which I figure out how
to use footnotes:
joecool: Philip Morris International was split from Philip Morris USA in March 2008. < ah missed
that
mike_c: not rebranded,
they split up
their domestic and international business.
joecool: altria, rj reylolds, and lorillard i
think are
the big 3
joecool: altria is PM rebranded,
they are
the same
mike_c: it's interesting, because i have always heard anecedotally
that
taxes were killing US
tobacco. i guess i heard it from
the
tobacco lobby :)
mircea_popescu: usa
tobaccomuch more productive. i guess bans help indeed.
mircea_popescu: in fact, it bolsters it : intl only pm does substantially equally well as
the us-only pm
mike_c: i
thought it would, but it does not. altria has doubled over
the last few years
mircea_popescu: mike_c yeah it doesn't substantially alter
the argument
mike_c: although
they have done well over
the last few years
too
Duffer1: if you want it
to
taste really good and
take 30 years off
the average life span of your customers.. and be dirt cheap,
then you want american expertise
mircea_popescu: The
trademark is a subsidiary of and owned by Conair Corporation which acquired
the brand following Cuisinart's bankruptcy in 1989.
mircea_popescu: they don't really make
the cuisinarts in
the us anymore do
they
mircea_popescu: but i can't readily
think of anything which'd be improved by being made in
the us.
mircea_popescu: then
there was a war and a number of unfortunate choices... and by
today people may want japanese stuff,
mircea_popescu: it was like... people actually came an extra distance with oxen fucking carts just because of
that cool.
mircea_popescu: my grandfather was a mayor, and a bunch of other
things, but
the one
true source of public respect was
that he owned and operated an american mill
B007: we have about
the same gdp as all of europe
mircea_popescu: it's what happens when places go
to shit. everything goes down.
B007: I never stated anything about profits or size compared
to fb
B007: thats accually a good point, but it is still
true
that smoking in
the us is down
mircea_popescu: so
there you have it : smoking is down and
the industry makes a degree of magnitude more
than social media.
mircea_popescu: BTI is probably a better example. ~5 per share in
the 80s, 100+ per share now.
mircea_popescu: much better profit margin,
too.
twice as good, in fact.
mircea_popescu: about 7x as big as facebook,
to put it in
terms readily digestible by
the online crowd
mircea_popescu: PM was
trading ~50 a share in 2008 and is
trading ~90 a share now
B007: smoking is way down in
the us
mircea_popescu: people seem
to have
taken
the smoking kills adds
the same way
ozbot: Two for
the Money (2005) - Quotes - IMDb
mircea_popescu: i would guess
this'd be because a gun is pretty much
the coolest
toy adults can afford.