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nubbins`: [13:28:15] <@Anduck> I'm selling a 10BTC Casascius silver coin for 30 BTC. Pm me if you want to buy it.
mircea_popescu: someone should translate that thing.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves the rabi one i sfucking great.
mircea_popescu: peterl i think he actually has it superbly stated. "i dont even think about what i want til i know i want anything at all"
ThickAsThieves: can't take it anymore
ThickAsThieves: from my first job through my whole life, i've observed customers thinking they are entitled and more experienced at the task they are paying for
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] [PAID] 2.31766783 BTC to 3`517 shares, 65899 satoshi per share
peterl: maybe he should open a forum thread, plenty of advise there ...
ThickAsThieves: at this point "customer" is a curse word to me
peterl: maybe you should respond with a "I charge X btc for this type of advise"?
ThickAsThieves: i dont even think about what i want til i know i want anything at all
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves any idea what "kr," is supposed to be ?
mircea_popescu: the mjr_ way : allign the fucking incentives.
ozbot: A deal can be anything. pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
ThickAsThieves: I tell him to get a clue in kinder words, he replies "im sorry im a bit confused are u saying if i have the business plan / interesting offering you can't help me or you can ?"
mircea_popescu: with the promoting of BEKs.
mircea_popescu: o no, that was pankkake
mircea_popescu: wait, were you the recipient of the
ThickAsThieves: that's the whole email
ThickAsThieves: I am looking to do a fund raise for my business I would like to get your feedback on the best strategy to do so and the best way to reach the market.
ThickAsThieves: "Dear TAT,
mircea_popescu: it's not the quantum computing emulated on z80s if you mwan that one
ThickAsThieves: i wonder if this is the same guy who emailed me a few days ago
mircea_popescu: obviously this isn't exactly true.
nubbins`: "Well, so far I have an incorporated company that I own 100% of"
mircea_popescu: the greek idea was that "these people say nothing meaningful, may as well be sheep, bar bar"
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves part of the problem, of course, is epitomized in the word for barbarian
nubbins`: although tbf the perforated stuff doesn't really make the rounds anymore
ThickAsThieves: "This is not going to be my life’s work." nice pitch
nubbins`: not set up to perforate paper tho
nubbins`: money in that
nubbins`: i need to start producing blotter art.
nubbins`: well, that's not entirely honest
nubbins`: i don't take drugs from strangers over the phone either ;(
nubbins`: if this woman approached me on the street, sure
mircea_popescu: (because of where you happen to live)
nubbins`: or press 9 to decline
nubbins`: all i need to do is press 1 now
nubbins`: omg guise i've been selected for a free cruise to the bahamas!
wao-ender: I didnt buy when I read their prospectus..
mircea_popescu: i should have linked him to my epic pics of me fixing laptop board in mexico hotel room, with solder shavings, safety pin and lighter.
mircea_popescu: lest he voids the warranty
mircea_popescu: so you can think with head. congratulations, you should be on -assets.
nubbins`: hard to say
nubbins`: as a 9yo girl, i say i'm 9 and what is this
nubbins`: but that's just because i live where i do
nubbins`: TBF some guy on the street offers me a joint, i say yes
ozbot: Pro idiotas, which obviously means, people who have ideas. Ie, idiots. pe Trilema - Un blog de Mirce
ozbot: imgur: the simple image sharer
asciilifeform: nubbins`: love the weasel man in that piece
chetty: Upper house to demand recall of Moscow ambassador to U.S.
ThickAsThieves: from the lips of frogs
nubbins`: that said, this is a ridiculous excuse of a news story
nubbins`: a particularly insightful comment: "another sensational story by the CBC over dramatising as usual .....and indeed scrapping the bottom of the barrel ...give us a justin bieber story please"
ThickAsThieves: yeah the new company line is bitcoin is outdated, havent you heard
ThickAsThieves: "This quote from your article aludes to plants having some sort of intelligence and a brain. This is rather disturbing to me coming from such a prestigious campus. This thinking must originate from some primitive caveman type of superstition. Otherwise this is a wonderful article."
ThickAsThieves: "This is a technology institute. I don't believe there are any communication courses here."
ozbot: Need a water filter? Peel a tree branch - MIT News Office
ThickAsThieves: slaves to tripadvisor and shit
ThickAsThieves: random restaurant owner has no clue what to do
ozbot: Using Google Maps To Intercept FBI and Secret Service Calls - Slashdot
ThickAsThieves: yeah everyone thinks they can brute force the wallets
peterl: Namworld: and there are people talking about resurecting Gox, can't we just let the pile of crap die now?
ThickAsThieves: bitcointalk should have better thread mod features, like disallowing posts from new accounts and/or Trust rating requirements
ThickAsThieves: well i agree that nuts are required for sustenance
mircea_popescu: that's the dirty secret of good looking vegan chicks
mircea_popescu: unless you're in the habit of swallowing and do it 10 times a week
nubbins` reels in the line
nubbins`: will they provide you with multivitamins?
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I think of it as reselling Trilema credits at a markup
ThickAsThieves: i learned that if i am ever imprisoned i will need to tell them i am jewish in order to maintain veganism
mircea_popescu: but anyway, there's going to be a livinbg to be earned in summarizing and translating irc and stuff for vaiours needs.
ThickAsThieves: those assholes pointing and laughing at shit that isnt even funny!
mircea_popescu: finance has always been the inside joke of some old jooz.
ThickAsThieves: probly what people dismiss this all as
mircea_popescu: you don;t have to understand the whole thing to have an actionable understanding.
mircea_popescu: understanding is this fascinating beast, in that it works in parts
ThickAsThieves: plus they need to get through the irc log as a primer now to even hope to understand what's going on
mircea_popescu: yeah, plenty of rabbits with money all over the forest.
ThickAsThieves: well you are mean and scary enough that anyone that would pay an advisor is probly ignoring you
mircea_popescu: somehow BingoBoingo doesn't quite manage to hate me for it, yet. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: when you could juist read the stuff on trilema and be ahead.
mircea_popescu: currently i'm shitting the bitcoin advisor market, because you wouldn't hire anyone to pay him 100x for stupid shit
mircea_popescu: i gotta expensify those things
kakobrekla: how do you think hes gonna get by now, without the mpoe options....
ThickAsThieves: you just wnat me to spend more trilema credits!
mircea_popescu: anyway, it's ridiculous, just look at the volatility curve for 4-8 feb.
mircea_popescu: so let's all simmer down and take mp at his word.
mircea_popescu: i would say it's becoming a major problem now that people keep trying to outmaneuver me intellectually, and whereas i'm very blunt, they ascribe wallstreet-esque depths of trachery to what i do
mircea_popescu: either that or don't fucking read too deep into what mp says and go all fucking nuts just because he has to cover 10k
ThickAsThieves: so a further implication might be, don;t bet too hard against mircea or he'll just move the goal posts?
mircea_popescu: o no wait. not of that article. of some other article.
mircea_popescu: kind-of the point of that article, if you read between the... lines
Namworld: Montroll is an actual family name tho
ThickAsThieves: sometimes explicit things seem obfuscated to me :)
mircea_popescu: i thought it outright said it.
mircea_popescu: i didn't think it implies such
ThickAsThieves: does the section with the graph basically imply that as you made efforts to CYA on those purchased Puts, the influenced caused a ripple that dropped the exchange rate all around?
ThickAsThieves: i was reading the MPOE statement
mircea_popescu: also this is for an article im about to write so you'll see what i want to say by it presently.