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benkay_: people who can't drop
the f-bomb:
benkay_: or willing
to endure
the scorn of
the internet
benkay_: wealthy enough
to buy your privacy
benkay_: you have
to be in
the underclass
benkay_: because participation in reality
television shows pretending
to be capitalists
trumps actual participation in
the market
jcpham: don't forget
the high fructose corn syrup IV
benkay_: they generally sit around calling each other "faggot" all day, eating processed cheese and dreaming about competing on
The Apprentice
mircea_popescu: well
they eat better
than
the average american at any rate.
mircea_popescu: and
those are upstanding romanian citizens of
teh rural medium, not homeless!
mircea_popescu: that was actually for
teh local party, on
the electoral
trail.
ozbot: Mircea Popescu - Sesiune
training Birda,
Timis on Vimeo
jcpham: wtf was
that dolphin's name
Duffer1: johny mnumonic or however
the fck you spell it
jcpham: mircea_popescu has hacked his brain like
the dolphin in
that movie
mircea_popescu: anyway, i'll
tell you
the real scam. i just inserted into my
tortured eve brain an implant
jcpham: i got laid playing eve
thestringpuller
mircea_popescu: also unrelated
the part where im mostly frugal, and have been making more
than i can spend for years, and
thus i have/had all sorts of partnerships etc.
pankkake: "This is
the reason why I will never sell my shares, ActM for life."
mircea_popescu: i don't
think i'm much of a role model. my shit works for me, but it has major requirements
that are unlikely
to feel comfortable
to others.
benkay_: painful
to be gotten rid of
benkay_: am i going about
this bass-ackwards in looking for people with functional businesses and abstracting
the parts
they don't want
to deal with and making myself utterly indispensable?
benkay_: hm. seems like you have
to get in bed with people who are mismanaging
their businesses and straighten
their shit out.
mircea_popescu: right. so i guess you see
the value in "you fucking idiot, your neighbour is fucking your wife
to death and
the house burned down"
jcpham: this joke
takes
too long.
the neighbor is fucking
the wife
mircea_popescu: "because when lord Neigbour paid his respects
to your late wife he fainted and fell over
the candles overturning
them"
mircea_popescu: "unfortunately some stray sparks went from
the roof of
the house
to
the barn and it caught on fire"
mircea_popescu: halfway
through
trip calls home, asks butler how
things are
mircea_popescu: sir john has
to go
to pas de calais on business. leaves butler clear isntructions
to call if anything goes wrong.
mircea_popescu: not really. do you know
the joke with "by
the way your wife died" ?
benkay_: mircea_popescu: "look i don't fucking need you" attitude
translates into "o damn
that guy has dat competence" in
the audience mind?
jcpham: i'm checking google
translate
jcpham: mircea_popescu: i
think you just said
that you are >
mircea_popescu: believe it or not, bullshit is
the largest cost
to doing business.
benkay_: mircea_popescu: how does being an unrelenting asshole
turn into a performance edge?
jcpham: MP: "knowing more
than anyone else in whatever field"
mircea_popescu: benkay_ basically by being an unrelenting asshole, knowing more
than anyone else in whatever field and people having enough sense
to hire me rather
than run
themselves into
the wall.
jcpham: likely not
to be repaid
jcpham: bitcoin-only denominated loans are a
tricky enterprise
mircea_popescu: once
the people start doing
this in droves it'll be
the fucking end of
things.
mircea_popescu: pankkake
this is actually
the main
threat bitcoin poses
to
the banking system
mircea_popescu: Duffer1 don't forget being in
the right place at
the right
time
pankkake: the home buying is mostly
to please my parents anyway
jcpham: i
thought independently wealthy peeps were born into luxury
pankkake: I was actually
thinking
that, scamming my bank: I'm repaying a home, but I could sell it (especially since it's likely
the
top of
the housing bubble), not
tell my bank, buy bitcoins with
the money
Duffer1: isn't
that how it always is?
benkay_: mircea_popescu: how did you come
to be independently wealthy?
mircea_popescu: you and everyone else. sometimes i
think im
the only debt free sucker in
the world.
pankkake: wow $1
trillion is a lot of bitcoins!
ThickAsThieves: "The CFPB reported
that around $8 billion of private student loans were in default."
Duffer1: "the stones are unable
to bleed anymore,
time
to squeeze someone else"
ThickAsThieves: "There is over $1
trillion in outstanding student loans, making it
the second largest source of household debt after mortgages. "
ThickAsThieves: "We just don't see
this as a market
that we can significantly grow,"
ozbot: The student loan bubble is starting
to burst
mircea_popescu: contrary
to what
the fiat world believes, a much better solution all around.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves
this is what in fiat would be resolved by calls for "Regulation"
dexX7: yep, he's
the only one who could provide some useful information
ThickAsThieves: so it all boils down
to just getting burnside
to shed some light
dexX7: "we sent 3 million shares
to our dev accounts via
the internal
transfer on btct,
those won't be sold and shall be considered as company shares"
dexX7: were
transfered before burnside distributed
the other 7M imo.
dexX7: ThickAsThieves: ref lab shares, here is an example: issuer sells 10 shares into bids,
the receiver waits
till new bids are placed and sells
those 10 shares again,
the next receiver does
the same
thing.. now you have 30 "sell"
trades, 0 "buy"
trades. from
the outside it might look like "30 shares in
total", but actually
there is no way
to know how many shares
there are. and 3M shares
ThickAsThieves: those asians know how
to make some unsettling horror
though
ThickAsThieves: i saw an azn horror movie where
the lady put babies in her dumplings
to live youthful
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves mpoe-pr
thinks
the gif's
the best
thing ever.
Rulother: but
that picture does give me feelings
mircea_popescu: Rulother is
that a picture of
the aforementioned feelings ?
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves wasn't
that smickles and resolved a while back ?
dub: who is atlas
these days
dub: op got updated
this week
too