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pankkake: is
that why monaco is doing so well
this year?
davout: mircea_popescu: yes
the french govt by imposing
this 75% income
tax on high salaries
jurov: certainly. but nobody is allowed
to know
davout: funnily enough i calculated recently
that when I solo-mined back in 2010 I was unknowingly making more money
than most pro soccer stars
jurov: er, no... pilots do
that when hit by lasers, not footballers
jurov: and
theatrical injuries
BingoBoingo: By football I mean
the game with
the kicking and skinny latinos
BingoBoingo: jurov: As a courtesy I refer
to American football as handegg
BingoBoingo: pankkake: Hire an alternate
to identify as pankkake. Look for College footballers and handeggers who missed
the cutoff
to go pro.
davout: asciilifeform:
that sounds like a very good way
to harvest both lulz and profits
BingoBoingo: There's plenty of failed athletes desperate enough for
the cash
to allow pocketing quite
the spread
jurov: but seems he's
too cultured
to arrange
that
jurov: that's basically what i suggested
to davout
benkay: surely you know
the routine
benkay: but also it's
the chase mircea_popescu
the chase and
the conquest
benkay: yeah also nowhere near well enough capitalized
to dress 'em all nicely either
benkay: man
the worst part of working at a cafe with a great view on a busy corner is all
the
tail walking by i'm separated from
talking
to by a pane of glass
davout: benkay: i'd say IRL
trolling actually
BingoBoingo: jurov: Of course. What boggles me is
they had a full 900 BTC allegedly.
davout: but like i said
that can be fun
davout: if
the original point is
to go
there with
the goal
to end up kcking
their ass by
tricking
them into
thinking you're evil so
they will be
the ones picking
the fight is manipulation
jurov: why evil?
they deserve it
davout: tricking people in
thinking you'll be easy prey
to beat
them up afterwards is still evil mircea_popescu
jurov: one has just imagine being in
their skin
jurov: still eludes me what
turf and what with hardness of
townfolk
deadweasel: holy shit
TAT push atc in minerpart__ chan
jurov: hm can't comprehend
that "i don't suppose" ?
mircea_popescu: just so happens
that stuff seeming soft can in fact be as hard as coffin nails, somewhere in
there.
mircea_popescu: jurov i don't suppose you're liable
to go around deciding
to beat people because "they're on your
turf" and obviously
they seem like
townfolk so perhaps
they're not quite as hard as all
that.
mircea_popescu: Jere_Jones well so
there you go : DON'T LOSE YOUR KEY OMFG BBQ
benkay: 'tain't
too late
to spin up a new one.
jurov: <mircea_popescu> beat
the shit out of
the entire village youth << oh my what am i doing around such people again?
Jere_Jones: Question: Exactly which WOT is
the "So you want
to start a business" post
talking about? I know of
the #bitcoin-otc wot and
the mywot.com site.
Jere_Jones: I
think I might be starting
to understand a little of what you're saying. I shall return
to my lurking, listening and learning.
ozbot: Shanghai
Tower (650 meters) - YouTube
mircea_popescu: in short :
the "positive"
tidbits are extremely easy
to miss, because
they depend on other positive
tidbits
mircea_popescu: when i say
to moiety "you're wasting your
time doing something we know is stupid. waste your
time doing something we don't know is stupid yet."
this is what i'm referencing.
Jere_Jones: It has enough familiarness
to it
that I
think I've read it before, but not enough
that it sank in
to any depth.
mircea_popescu: now, had you read
that before or is it your first
time ?
mircea_popescu: ow all
the ways movies can’t be made.
That’s what
they’ve been doing with
their years and
the investors’ money up
to
that point : not coming one iota closer
to knowing how movies can be made, but establishing vast inroads into
the obviously endless
topic of how
they can’t in fact be made. Noobs bereft of
this very valuable (in
that it’s very expensive) knowledge ain’t got a prayer."
mircea_popescu: in it, you will find : "Much like “nobody knows how
to make movies” was generally
true in Hollywood, “nobody knows how
to make Bitcoin businesses” is generally
true in Bitcoin. Nevertheless,
this does not logically follow into “so
then everyone has
the same chances, noobs and veterans alike”. Such a proposition could not be further from
the
truth, because
the veterans have
the sizable advantage
that
they kn
Jere_Jones: *I* am not impervious
to listening. At least, I
try not
to be.
mircea_popescu: Jere_Jones it's mpoe-prs, and
the problem with "Thou shalt do" is
that a)
there's a lot less of
that available
than you'd want, and b) people are well impervious
to listening anyway.
Jere_Jones: I see a lot of "That's dumb", "They are unqualified", "They shouldn't do
that". With
the exception of your "So you're
thinking of starting a bitcoin business" post on bitcoin-talk (which I have read multiple
times),
there is almost no "Thou shalt do".
mircea_popescu: <pankkake> why? << mothers are
to blame because in
their quest
to protect
their offspring
they manage
to fuck up
the offspring's risk evaluator.
mircea_popescu: part of
the problem here would be
that none of
those
things you use
the
term loosely for are anywhere in range for meaningful commentary.
Jere_Jones: The possibility exists
that I am simply
too inexperienced
to know wisdom when it slaps me in
the face like a
trout.
pankkake: Shakespeare:
they don't have
the same birthday. SCAM
Jere_Jones: mircea_popescu While a useful
tidbit is occasionally passed along, I mostly see a lot of self-righteous "I
told you so" comments about any business (I'm using
the
term loosely)
that is less
than an absolute success.
mircea_popescu: the net result being
that
the doods' all gather up
to beat
these atrociously obnoxious
town bois
Shakespeare: Did you know I share
the same birthday as
Tony Danza and Shirley
Temple?
mircea_popescu: we used
to do
this
thing whereby we'd dress up nice and clean, go
to some disco in
the sticks, a village somewhere
davout: mircea_popescu: i understand
that
they imagine it, i sense
there's an opportunity
to arbitrage between reality and
their imagination
KRS-One: <+eoar> Bitcoin in 20 years will be like a cassette
tape now. Clunky and outdated and surpassed by a much superior crypto <<<< interesting analogy
mircea_popescu: they also imagine
they can just start "a security" and it'll all just fall into place
mircea_popescu: <davout> do people really imagine
they can go
to some foreign country and simply beat up some guy in a public place like a
train station and not gete in
trouble? <<< yes.
Shakespeare: <mircea_popescu> mothers are
to blame. --- O! I said
this
to #ActM only minutes ago "Bastard begot, bastard instructed, bastard in mind ... in everything illegitimate."
mircea_popescu: <pankkake> actually, I was scammed by my banker << you know
the luis de funes movie re scammed by banker ?
ozbot: tears For Fears Original 1980's video in HQ Mothers
Talk - YouTube
mircea_popescu: <pankkake> I wonder what part of fiat investing is
to blame for
the bad risk estimation in btc investments << mothers are
to blame.
mircea_popescu: Jere_Jones what do you figure i (we) are doing herei n
the first place ?
pankkake: human psychology's weird. you often don't end up doing what you
thought you would do
BingoBoingo: Well, at
the station I suggested it might be more problematic for him if you don't fight back. Nearly every white person outside of
the
train
there is usually a plain clothes police officer. He finds himself in a foreign jail ??? Profit?
pankkake: certainly not on
the list of
the guys I'd like
to beat up
davout: pankkake:
the way i see it, for maximum lulz he should show up after a 5 hour
trip, having had all
the
time
to come
to
the conclusion
that beating someone up in a public place, in a foreign country isn't such a good idea after all
BingoBoingo: pankkake:
This could be one of
the few white dude fights on World Star HipHop
BingoBoingo: pankkake: No, I'm just
thinking of
the most interesting
train stations I know.
pankkake: is
there a reference I'm missing?
BingoBoingo: pankkake: Maybe you both leave your respective countries for
this meeting. I might suggest
the 5th and Washington Station in East St Louis.
pankkake: but he's serious about
the beating. I
thought he wanted
to meet
davout: pankkake: it's full of cops,
they're usually
the ones involved in beatings
there :D
davout: do people really imagine
they can go
to some foreign country and simply beat up some guy in a public place like a
train station and not gete in
trouble?