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nubbins`: even if
there were only
two ever made,
tho...
mircea_popescu: he can't remember what he did with
the rest of
the
turds and wants me
to pay 50 for
the extant ones ?
mircea_popescu: "I made a handful of
these a few years ago. I currently can only find 2. I may have given
the rest away or sold
them, I cant remember. I'm asking $50 each for
them shipped in
the lower48 (at bitstamp rate)."
nubbins`: During
the five-year program,
the province failed
to meet its own guidelines for recordkeeping by not always obtaining business plans before government funding was provided. In some cases,
the province also failed
to obtain complete financial information from farmers receiving funding.
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nubbins`: thing about living in
the new world is
that
there's less history
to remember
nubbins`: huh, england had a queen for almost half of
the 1500s
mircea_popescu: you obviously couldn't have ended up
the queen, as a black male.
nubbins`: another commenter wondered whether being strung up on a rope counted as being "at
the
top"
mircea_popescu: sure you would.
they had black people in 1500 england.
nubbins`: imagine, a browser with built-in dev
tools.
nubbins`: "even Fuctapple can’t fuck up a browser
to
the degree it breaks
the web." <-- quite
the opposite, apple played a large part in
turning webkit into
the beauty it is
today
nubbins`: "You are dropped penniless into a village in
the middle of England in
the year 1500. You maintain all your current knowledge. How would you make your way
to
the
top?"
nubbins`: prolly
tried
to score a goal ;(
nubbins`: also, i've decided
that # is a suitable way
to denote GBP on a US keyboard
nubbins`: i wonder when
they'll
tell him he can't anymore
mircea_popescu: and so no
third party could in fact use
the court of
the government against
the bank of
the government.
nubbins`: Mr Cotton has likely been widthdrawing #3k per day since
that incident
mircea_popescu: also because b)
the law is so written so
that
the government and its subsidiaries are immune from law,
mircea_popescu: nubbins` it's not in court because a)
the court is a government subsidiary, and
the government knows
the bank is out of capital.
nubbins`: withdrawal. We are writing
to apologise
to any customer who has been given incorrect information and inconvenienced."
nubbins`: "The reason being we have an obligation
to protect our customers, and
to minimise
the opportunity for financial crime. However, following feedback, we are immediately updating guidance
to our customer facing staff
to reiterate
that it is not mandatory for customers
to provide documentary evidence for large cash withdrawals, and on its own, failure
to show evidence is not a reason
to refuse a
nubbins`: well
the question is why
this isn't in court already
mircea_popescu: point remains
tho, due dilligence does not go away. it is either done one way or
the other, but it has
to be done.
mircea_popescu: jurov i don't mean you personally, at any point in
this conversation, neither above (i was discussing
the cofounder guy, whose responsibility it is whether he knows or not) nor here, it's not like you have
to do due dilligence work if you have no experience,
training or
talent for it.
mircea_popescu: course if mr cotton had said "either you fill
this bag with money or else i come with my lawyer and you'll have
to fill HIS bag on
top of mine, and on your own account"
jurov: blogging... i
tried
to write something and it felt
too stupid immediately
the next day
nubbins`: Mr Cotton says
the staff refused
to
tell him how much he could have: "So I wrote out a few slips. I said, 'Can I have £5,000?'
They said no. I said, 'Can I have £4,000?'
They said no. And
then I wrote one out for £3,000 and
they said, 'OK, we'll give you
that.' "
mircea_popescu: when i bitch and whine
that we need more ppl doing blogging well
this is part of it. what are you
to do ?
mircea_popescu: jurov
this is
true. you can practically either piggyback on me, piggyback on someone else, or else do it yourself.
jurov: i don't know even where
to look for someone who could reliably do such service for me
jurov: mircea_popescu: you
tell someone
to build
the history for you, *then* you just come and build, check, review, whatever
mircea_popescu: we're not equal, even if we can
type
the same strings in a box
they still aren't
the same strings. depends whose name signs on
them. we're not equal, even if
two people have "the same idea", in one head it's an idea, in another head it's nothing.
mircea_popescu: what, some guy
that has no wot, no presence,
that i don't know suddenly has an idea ? suddenly can be a ceo ?
mircea_popescu: so
that's what i do. i don't deal with people i don't know. i
test. i build histories. i check histories.
jurov: honestly, it depends on my frame of mind. i can be incredibly stupid in exactly
the wrong moment
KRS1: Who owns
this channel anyway? Can I be Potentate, Ombudsman, #bitcoin-assets
mircea_popescu: i mean...
this is really 9 yo stuff. do not go
to
the strip club with perfect strangers.
mircea_popescu: jurov suppose one day you're walking down
the street and some guy offers you a joint. do you
take it or do you figure "hey, a fuckwit i never saw before is
trying
to get me drugged up" ?
☟︎ jurov: well, what would you do? ask for
their contract comes
to mind
mircea_popescu: you are better off with
two friends
than with
two hundred "friends" who mostly come by
to steal
things from your house and
take bank loans with copies of your id
they obtained while you weren't looking.
KRS1: Some want
to feel important, even if
they are making
the same buck.
mircea_popescu: stop
thinking
that words matter. someone calling you a cofounder and you're all
tickled pink ?
mircea_popescu: i could name names of people doing exactly
the same, with fake miners, with bs of all sorts. i won't.
mircea_popescu: with nothing better
to do with his
time, with no idea what a name is and how it works, with nothing at all.
jurov: yes, something like
that.
mircea_popescu: and
then... it all blows up, and it
turns pout he was in fact no cofounder.
jurov: yes, he appeared
toward me as one
mircea_popescu: it's like virgin highschooler kids getting married at 17
to support some random ho.
mircea_popescu: everyone is like insane, feels
this irresistible urge
to shill for
the first scammer
that comes by with honeyed lips.
mircea_popescu: "The cofounder (forensick) left
the company and
told me he has not seen any bitcoins from
the IPO and moreover was left with some outstanding debt by Markus Weiler (dotcoin)."
Namworld: Can someone
take
the website down please?
TATtothemoon: "Despite
the problems of becoming a social outcast, which I described at last year's World Economic Forum, I have been lucky enough
to get
the chance
to attend
the conference again."
TATtothemoon: Hancock has been shady for so long so blatantly why does anyone let
them have any money at all?
mircea_popescu: a large cash withdrawal is more
than what'd be needed
to pay for
the most expensive dwelling.
TATtothemoon: sorry you can't withdraw 100btc for
that
Tesla
mircea_popescu: derp. how much money of your own money you can have is not part of
the
terms.
mircea_popescu: The bank said it did not have
to
tell him. "As
this was not a change
to
the
Terms and Conditions of your bank account, we had no need
to pre-notify customers of
the change," HSBC wrote.
TATtothemoon: "Some HSBC customers have been prevented from withdrawing large amounts of cash because
they could not provide evidence of why
they wanted it,
the BBC has learnt."
jborkl: I came
to my senses and slapped myself a couple
timea
jborkl: There is a conference here, I actually
thought about going until I found out it was $275 and no one I had ever heard of- although
they say
they are bitcoin experts
mircea_popescu: that's easy.
they just go
to a lot of conferences and say stupidshit.
TATtothemoon: tho I haven't come
to
terms with predicting five digits
mircea_popescu: same experts, saying stupid shit, just so happens
to be opposite of a few months ago.
mircea_popescu: anyway.
the bubble will be happening in
the summer, once
these schmucks capitulate, and i'll be fighting against five digit madness
TATtothemoon: and I like its bitcoin itself
that is a bubble
mircea_popescu: "the fact
that if it's not i'm out of a job, permanently, has no impact on my foregoing opinion"
TATtothemoon: Says Shiller: "It is a bubble,
there is no question about it. ... It's just an amazing example of a bubble."
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jborkl: Robert Schiller?
That is awesome shill name
jborkl: The mpex is
the biggest scam
thread is a wtf, isn't it
the only
thing in
that
thread
that is not a scam