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the20year: herb,
this is
the fund manager you
talked about earlier?
the20year: My brother sends enough DHL packages I guess
that
they want
to start a hub or branch or whatever where he's located
herbijudlestoids: mircea_popescu: he had one issue in 2009 when he was insisting
to stress
test
their method against depression era data, so he missed
that bottom in
trade but did call it
the20year: They need
to listen
to whomever
their
top guy in Ohio is
then :D
cazalla: yeah well my dad knows
the CEO of DHL
the20year: My brother actually pitched
the idea of bitcoin
to a higher level manager at DHL, and coinbase contacted him
to pass some information
to DHL, i guess coinbase has some pretty neat programs for large organiations
the20year: Coinbase is $720, not
too bad,
that's
typically who we use
to get usd
to fiat and what not
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the20year: Yeah, you're right, but china was just noted in
this case becaus of BTCchina
the20year: I know
that in my brother's case he's been waiting on $20k+ of materials and
the new years delayed it
herbijudlestoids: mircea_popescu: called both
the 2000 and 2007
top and both 2003 and 2009 bottom (altho he lost out on
the 2009 bottom)
the20year: chinese new years, from what i had been
told it has a pretty dramatic on all economics involving china
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the20year: I hope
the end of CNY helps prices
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mircea_popescu: i'd say
the man is well within range.
that's about where i see it
too.
the20year: It's slightly more diffcult
than people who are nearly starving
to death, ala stalingrad/leningrad
mircea_popescu: herbijudlestoids "are about double
the level
that would generate historically adequate long-term returns"
nubbins`: ever
try fighting a man who just ate a full chicken?
the20year: For what it was, it was pretty effective, granted
the US military foray into vietnam in of itself was idocy
mircea_popescu: nubbins` it was mostly desperation, by
that point. wasn't
that widely employed, but hey. anything
to maybe get an edge
nubbins`: well
they got all
the chickens anyway
the20year: The US did
that in vietnam quite a bit, filled enemy bullets with high explosives and let
them kill
themselves
nubbins`: guy
takes your bullet, blows his face off
nubbins`: "i'll
trade you 1 bullet for
that chicken"
nubbins`: the20year,
that's actually perfect
the20year: Too easy
to doublecharge something and blow someone up
benkay: no, no. a hand-cranked mill
that mills powders into well-mixed other powders.
the20year: Depends benkay,
the components are stockpiled by plenty of people, but not everyone has
the knowhow
to reload, and most shooters dont'
trust other people who reload
the ammo
nubbins`: is
that one of
those weird
things
that doesn't work anymore since
the shtf?
mircea_popescu: benkay down
the same route : wouldn't
the best investment be a large supply of keys
to already installed cock cages ?
benkay: then mill
the components into powder on demand?
nubbins`: i've got my doubts
that any bullet would pass
through more
than a couple of hands after shtf
benkay: if you're really hedging against needing lots of bullets wouldn't it be better
to
throw down
the cash for a milling machine and buy
the individual chemical components?
the20year: Most of
the guys
that I know
that stockpile ammo are keeping it in
the factory sealed cans. In
the US we get quite a bit of warsaw pac stuff
that was designed
to have 300+ year shelf lifes
the20year: Animals i'm sure could be used, but
they're not easily
transportable.
mircea_popescu: i'd
totally want
to go hunting with a suppply of bullets
that's spent
the past
three years being handled and knocked around in pockets by 5000 dorks.
nubbins`: but don't worry, stackers, you'll
totally be able
to use your krugerrands
to buy groceries when SHTF
mircea_popescu: (fun fact : even at
the height at
the gold standard, gold was RARELY seen in commerce if at all
nubbins`: was only silver/bronze for
the first
two
nubbins`: wow,
they didn't even award gold medals until
the 3rd modern olympics
nubbins`: i
think it would
take me a while
to get bored with pissing on gold
mircea_popescu: not really, man. just wash it in acid, piss in
the
thing
nubbins`: untold $
to set up
that sort of facility
tho, no doubt
nubbins`: i
think generally five 9s isn't done often because it's not worth
the
trouble
nubbins`: diminishing returns after
that
mircea_popescu: actually, you can prolly get
three 9s at home in your kitchen
nubbins`: five 9s is, i
think,
the record
nubbins`: 99.999% is
the best i've ever heard of
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mod6: Olympic Gold medals are required
to be made from at least 92.5% silver, and must contain a minimum of 6 grams of gold.
mircea_popescu: nah, you can get infinitely pure gold even on 1800s
tech
nubbins`: 1912, i'd say
they were lucky
to get
three 9s of purity
mircea_popescu: and no you can't have my knife,
this isn't a cafeteria, it's a restaurant
nubbins`: i didn't
think 100% gold was a
thing, anyway.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` i wouldn't go
to
that hotel, cause im fucking cool, being
the olympics.
mod6: If
the London 2012 Games medals were made from solid gold,
they would cost £25 million
to make.
mircea_popescu: so basically, since i have a bed anyway, some guy unrelated might as well come
take a nap.
nubbins`: why break down
the
tables after
the boy scouts banquet if
the girl guides banquet is
tomorrow?
mod6: things
that make you go "hmmm."
The last Olympic games where medals were made entirely of gold was 1912.
nubbins`: i
think it's more because everything is already set up
mircea_popescu: is
the idea someone will somehow consider
them
the same
thing somewhere sometime ?
mircea_popescu: why do
they keep bundling olymptics with
the lame&tard mockfest
mircea_popescu: why would i want
to compete with women w/o my dick ?
that's
the only reason
to even do it
nubbins`: cut your dick off and compete with
the women
nubbins`: just learn
to ski and
there's biathlon right
there
nubbins`: there was a 33yo woman
today won a medal in snowboarding
mircea_popescu: yet another reason for me not
to compete in
the olympics
nubbins`: was it last
time
that
the medals looked like CD-Rs?
mod6: remember when
the medals use
to be actual gold, silver and copper? at
the last olympics
they were just 'coated'.
this
time I've seen gaping holes in
the medals.
mircea_popescu: when you say "human" you say
that kind of chimp which domesticated cows and
then drank
their milk and so on and so forth
mod6: 2 litres at a
time!!!!!1
mod6: we feed our kids happy meals and grape soda... so
there you hvae it.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` but see, we're not culturally and anthropologically a
thing
that resulted from 5k years of worm eating.
nubbins`: feeding your kid worms is healthy if you wanna go
that route
jurov: except in
times where it got its butt kicked by herds from
the east (that subsisted almost exclusively on milk)
mircea_popescu: this all aside : it's not unhealthy per se. it's just
that
the imune system beenfits from
the "dirty"
that cow milk is.
nubbins`: sure, but
that's like saying wheat isn't another species
mircea_popescu: there's a reason europe kicked butt, and
that reason has a lot
to do with cows
nubbins`: how about all
the places where cow milk isn't really a
thing?
mircea_popescu: we're a construct of our history, and
they're in
there.
mircea_popescu: we aren't human in any sense if
that sense excludes cows.
mircea_popescu: the introduction of
the cow marked a major explosion in human society and evolution
moiety: a woman just breastfed a puppy
to save it's life