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kleeck_: On a long enough
timeline, we all die.
ThickAsThieves: "Mexican cobalt-60
thieves will soon die of radiation exposure, say officials"
ThickAsThieves: i get
these emails like "I had shares on BTCT, now what" still
mircea_popescu: here's a guy
that was fucking a bunch of
teenage chicks
ThickAsThieves: being
the pied piper of penny bitcoin shares has
taught me much in
this regard
jamespeerless: i guess you could maybe add a small warning on
the receiving address page when
they are about
to send money only if
there's less
than X hours until close
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves i;m more stating it plain for
the benefit of
the lurker
than anything
mircea_popescu: people don't read page 2 so let's fuck up
the flow of page 1 by smashing in
there a bad summary of page 2
ThickAsThieves: i disagreed with your not warning people right
til you pointed out
that it was good
training
jamespeerless: what kind of warning do you not want
to put on bitnet? about usa laws?
ThickAsThieves: i can even appreciate eating said cow when its
time if
thats what you wanrt
ThickAsThieves: maybe over
time
the world is more like
the one i idealize
mircea_popescu: now, not feeling like some cheese is one
thing, not feeling like cheese for
two decades running is another, but not eating cheese because baby jesus disaproves ?
mircea_popescu: my point is
that generally speaking restrictive diets are unhealthy. i fail
to see any diference between "i shall only eat mcchicken nuggets" and "i shall only eat asparagus".
ThickAsThieves: is your point
that cows live longer cuz we like
their cheese?
mircea_popescu: so you can wave at
them
through your
transparent enclosure
ThickAsThieves: i have no idea if my brain could handle
that lifestyle
mircea_popescu: but life w/o camembert is scarcely life. if i offered you
the deal of 200 year lifespans as long as you lived in a hamster ball weould you live in a hamster ball ?
mircea_popescu: why not eat cheese anyway ? it's what made us white folk smart enough
to rule all
the other races.
mircea_popescu: this was young, but it had possibly
the finest velvet micelium i've yet seen.
ThickAsThieves: while i dont eat cheese anymore, i always preferred
the very sharp, hard stuff
mircea_popescu: i end up having stuffed
turkey for breakfast with a few slices of camembert
ThickAsThieves: this China release explicitly explains
that bitcoin is not money, but also explicitly states
that bitcoin exchanges must use anti-"money" laundering measures
ThickAsThieves: i'd be shocked if
their Stubs holders and employees could afford 2%
Duffer1: i guess i shouldn't knock it until
the amount of shares
to be made available in
this way is known, i'd be shocked if it was more
than 2% of
the company
ThickAsThieves: of course
the people
they are asking arent even
the
target audience for
their stock...
Duffer1: look even
the proles get a piece, give us attention
Duffer1: i can't help but feel it's a pr stunt
to drum up value
to major investors
ThickAsThieves: Please note
that
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ThickAsThieves: employee benefit
to our AMC Stubs members
to express our sincere gratitude for your loyalty.
ThickAsThieves: We will also give you
the same 24-hour head start our employees will receive, in order
to ensure you have
the earliest opportunity
to reserve shares at
the offering price. While many companies depend on
their customers' support every day,
those customers don't always get
the chance
to own a piece of
the action at
the same price as Wall Street investors. We're offering
this exclusive
ThickAsThieves: AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc.,
the parent company for AMC
Theatres, is going public. We are reserving a number of shares in our initial public stock offering (IPO) for you, our most loyal customers,
to reserve on a first-come, first-serve basis.
The price per share will be determined by negotiations between us and
the underwriters of
the IPO, but it will be
the same price per share
ThickAsThieves: my mom got
this email from a large US Movie
Theater corp: "To our AMC Stubs members,
mircea_popescu: ESPECIALLY seeing all
the intervening experts in
their own head in
the past 13 months opining on
the
topic as if
they knew better.
mircea_popescu: i doubt
they went "o hey, know what'd be cool ? if we built a ghost city!"
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thestringpuller: so couldn't
they easily avoid
the real estate bubble
they are creating?
thestringpuller: don't you
think
the chinese would have learned after building
the first ghost city
that it doesn't work
though?
mircea_popescu: the westerners love bubbles, and
they could EASILY avoid
them
mircea_popescu: this is what
they did so far.
the problem is
there's a finite bulk of
treats, and
they're
trying
to soft land it atm
mircea_popescu: anyway, one point
that is perhaps not directly obvious
to foreigners is
that china contains about 10mn people who have
the authority
to spend various amounts of public funds.
mircea_popescu: more like, "the chinese central authorities are not exactly asleep, and picked
the right course".
mircea_popescu: in
this sense it subtly strengthens bitcoin, because it's current value and recent explosion are both due
to
the little secret made public also on
trilema, ie govts involved.
mircea_popescu: so if anything it's good, in
that it balances out
the govt battle, because
the us (all its pretense
to
the contrary) could not have kept up.
mircea_popescu: had
this pronouncement not been made, we could have ended up with a rush from chinese provincial authorities buying bitcoins and erecting miner farms
mircea_popescu: the economic situation is dire,
the finances are in a mess. everyone is earnestly looking for ways
to conserve capital values
mircea_popescu: the chinese do have a serious problem, in
the following sense : it's a highly competitive society, much more so
than
the us was in
the 50s. people are very performance driven.
mircea_popescu: which you know, kinda matches rthe fincen earlier report. bitcoin is, all
the pretense of interested parties
to
the contrary, not a currency,
mircea_popescu: well, it specifies chinese banks are not
to use bitcoin as a currency, as
the chief point.
ThickAsThieves: i dont understand what has even changed with
this announcment
mircea_popescu: no i actually have people
that speak
the language peering at it for me.