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mircea_popescu: i distinctly remember readinf the exchange in the mid 90s, thinking "look how retarded the mericans actually are, they believe this crap is respondent"
wao-ender: all we have, is the Hope.
mircea_popescu: moiety oyu know that "please allow me to analyse your situation" post is about as old as the internet ?
wao-ender: well, but kinda it's true
ThickAsThieves: no way to exploit such thing, but annoying...
mircea_popescu: wao-ender they did it just fine for a while. but yes the boors.
ThickAsThieves: i think i just found a havelock bug, i sent a deposit to two different security accounts using 1 tx, it only deposited one amount
wao-ender: oh, we believes in that war with England, right?
mircea_popescu: sooner or later it'll have to be well resolved.
mircea_popescu: cads don't be bullied into it, but just consider that a) you really can't go through life like this and b) you definitely can't write the austrian thing for this reason.
cads: I'm trying to think of the simplest measure of the fairness of a situation.
cads: mircea_popescu: I dunno, maybe I could do a situation with agents that act under various ignorance or misinformation constraints.
mircea_popescu: absolutely nobody to date knew the reference.
mircea_popescu: i tend to ask people with gold coin collections (which obviously WILL include some) "but you don't think the earth is flat, too, do youi ?"
mircea_popescu: the kruger guy for whom the krugerrand is named.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves do you know who was the biggest believer ?
moiety: lol this girl tries upmarket selling herself on a forum basically. you should see who replied http://www.hellou.com/2014/02/apparently-young-woman-posted-following-forum-title-marry-rich-guy-2049/
mircea_popescu: i mean even the flat earth folks can EXPLAIN it to you if you ask.
mircea_popescu: but how can you go through your day not understanding what you believe in ?
cads: I do want to do a mathematical treatise of some austrian school economics
mircea_popescu: dude what's with you people, seriously. you believe in this, right ?
mircea_popescu: you too ?
moiety: lolol talking of prostitution
cads: mircea_popescu: I'm not sure where I'd start to be honest
ThickAsThieves: perfect compliment to my erected joke! if only we planned
mircea_popescu: lmao the prostitution rests.
mircea_popescu: cads so do we got a deal or are you too loath to commit ?
mircea_popescu: i think that's where ozbot gets all those bad pictures of naked teenagers.
moiety: look at my feet through a weird filter = instagram
mircea_popescu: you have to have a special worm in your head, like tequilla.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves in exactly the same way it's a good idea for businesses to ask for "affordable housing" instead of tax rebates.
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mircea_popescu: it's too easy for us. we are incredibly fucking powerful, just for having been here and seen it first hand.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves see ? all the forum signs of greatness.
ThickAsThieves: what about teh buttcoinz?
ThickAsThieves: uh oh ""In terms of value creation, this is the biggest on record," re: WhatsApp
mircea_popescu: the20year2: In a life or death situation i'm sure they don't care too much << did this guy just argue with a bunch of people about using the rifle as a club ?
mircea_popescu: as opposed to their contemptible slimy thing.
mircea_popescu: i'll argue the shit out of you, if nothing else then so anon retards have a model of how it works.
ThickAsThieves: coke and whores for the whole team!
mircea_popescu: so then, here's your big thing : make a post introducing social justice as if it were set theory.
cads: I keep wanting to get back to blogging
mircea_popescu: cads i get it, i get it, burning through all that vc money is a fucking tough job.
cads: I mean, these guys currently... fly a guy overseas to look at a part.
mircea_popescu: i never paid 700k for a consome just to see waht a 1mn restaurant can do, i'll tell you that :D
ThickAsThieves: it's the easy that theyre paying for
mircea_popescu: cads: I think they want to see what a $1000 3d printer can do << by paying 700 for an itam ? wouldn't it be easier to just add 300 and check the printer at home ?
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [AM1] [PAID] 11.00391760 BTC to 18`616 shares, 59110 satoshi per share
mircea_popescu: generally the affiliate marketing guy is a combo of sleazy car salesman and otaku fatso.
mircea_popescu: but what do you know, they were all women.
ThickAsThieves: both web and irl types
mircea_popescu: it became fashionable because affiliate marketing is a very fashion driven <del>industry</del>, occupation, and so for about a year no email blast could ever be sent by anyone that was "correct".
mircea_popescu: about five years ago an affiliate manager came up with the brilliant idea of doing two email blasts instead of one, because the first "had some mistakes" that "were corrected"
mircea_popescu: o look, the "i didn't know i was on private" bs made it to here.
mircea_popescu: there's very little data, and the data that is unwarrantly overrepresents what they like (ie, their own eco chambers) and fails to represent or misrepresents what actually happened.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves this "theme of the century" bs is greatly loved by libertards, because it pretty much works like global warming.
ThickAsThieves: or whichever category they claim
ThickAsThieves: Havelock, the investment bank
ThickAsThieves: now, i believe Havelock and Panama Fund might be separate things
ThickAsThieves: assuming there's trust to be gained
ThickAsThieves: but no i agree that it's better to have the middleman
ThickAsThieves: even a shareholder list cant prevent many things
ThickAsThieves: Havelock is far from irrelavant though
pankkake: we trusted you!
ThickAsThieves: not sure what youre getting at though
ThickAsThieves: i can access it live anytime and get autobackups twice each day
ThickAsThieves: can't remove that really
ThickAsThieves: nah, even i dont buy that
ThickAsThieves: flipside, one less counterparty to worry about
pankkake: well the thing is… if Havelock falls, the operator is havelock
ThickAsThieves: AM1 crashing on the news!
pankkake: scammers are cocky and get mad when you expose them
ThickAsThieves: cryptostocks is cranking them out lately
ThickAsThieves: sometimes more than one at a time
ThickAsThieves: and then make new existence
pankkake: "Scammers used to be gentleman and just disappear from existence" oh really?
ozbot: I was just threatened for exposing a scam on r/bitcoin : Bitcoin
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: 'in the game of chess, you must never let the enemy see your pieces!' (from same.)
kakobrekla: Lt. Kif Kroker: That's surprisingly noble of you, sir.
kakobrekla: Captain Zapp Brannigan: Don't blame yourself, Kif. We were doomed from the start. I guess all that remains now is for the captain to go down with the ship.
kakobrekla: [Zapp Brannigan has just piloted the Titanic straight into the path of a black hole] ☟︎
ThickAsThieves: good thing Deprived wasnt around to pass it to!
ThickAsThieves: worth more to them
kakobrekla: before they notice.
kakobrekla: pass it quickly to someone else
ThickAsThieves: but still money to be made
kakobrekla: even shorter is answer: theres no more money innit
pankkake: I guess I was right saying Altcoin is the next AsicMiner
ThickAsThieves: i'll keep it positive though and note i'm focusing on other projects instead
ThickAsThieves: the short one is, i don't want to manage them anymore
dexX7: are they buying you out?
Chris_Sabian: why the change?
ThickAsThieves: sry i hit enter before cleaning that up
ThickAsThieves: This also means that ThickAsThieves will no longer hold a board seat with ASICMINER, and a representative from Havelock will instead.
ThickAsThieves: All underlying assets that represent these passthrough shares will also be transferred to Havelock. The direct shares will be held at 1J5fvfUrDcZj8rrpVHMgn8u7sXee84QkPd.
ThickAsThieves: None of the fund terms are changing other than to replace TAT Investments.
ThickAsThieves: None of these funds are closing at this time. A new e-mail address for AM1 transfer requests will be provided at the end of this month.
ThickAsThieves: On March 1, 2014, TAT Investments will transfer control of the AM1, AM100, and [b]SMG [/b]listings at HavelockInvestments.com to the direct control of Havelock Investments.
pankkake: skype is the evil of evils. proprietary encrypted protocol, so you're forced to use their crappy software
diametric: I use it pretty much all the time. Most of the people I talk to have an otr capable client so it just automatically initiates a session