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cgcardona_: yea I'm still waiting on my freaking piper wallet to arrive. It's been a month since I paid for it and they haven'
t even sent me a confirmation email. And I've contacted them twice since. :-|
cgcardona_: is it not legit to discuss deals here? sorry . don'
t want to spam the channel. still new here
cgcardona_: It's a tough one for me because I've not ordered a casasius from anyone other than the source (and then only aluminum ones for promo material alas) so i'm just not sure what I'd do if it wasn'
t legit (and I promise I'm not calling you a scammer. Just thinking out loud)
mircea_popescu: black women happily married to black guys occasionally give birth to perfectly fair, blue eyed caucasian babies, doesn'
t automatically mean they've been porking the milkman.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves people who aren'
t white and whose last name isn'
t rodriguez ?
mircea_popescu: davout i could have sworn i coined teh ragazine, but i can'
t find any reference
mircea_popescu: who knows, perhaps then there won'
t be need to hoist the entire troop from the highest catarg, just a few heads.
mircea_popescu: sooo... they made public their posts about how they don'
t discuss publicly ?
mod6: yeah, just didn'
t work out this year. if its in SA next year, im pretty sure i'll be there.
thestringpuller: jurov: I am incredibly tempted to book air fare, but as mod6 isn'
t going an I wanted to meet up with him there I decided to wait until next year for Series 3
bounce: so it's get in free and don'
t critique or get in for $$$ and sing hosannas along with the prophets
mircea_popescu: well no, you can'
t go as press and harrangue the speakers.
BingoBoingo: 400 euros a ticket is more than most forum fraudsters take now, so... I think this goes in line with the whole don'
t feed scammers because it encourages them thing
mircea_popescu: well the purpose of rotting pig carcasses with vaginas painted on the skin isn'
t so very different.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i don'
t actually sysadmin that server, and w/e, whoever finds a cpanel hole can deface trilema for a day.
mircea_popescu: jurov: you weren'
t there when S.DICE traded. there were massive buys *just after* dividends were paid <<< this is very true, and still one of those unresolved mysteries.
mircea_popescu: in other news, i gotta chill it with these extraditions, my poor liver can'
t cope.
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t exist in the Rating or GPG databases. User must be GPG-registered to receive ratings.
Namworld: I can'
t see any way whatever he wants to achieve wouldn'
t be somewhat retarded to completly retarded.
Namworld: Guy: Maybe if I get my wife hooked up on MY app, I won'
t have to quit her for losing all our money. I can also get her hooked on me giving her back the gambling money to fuel the habit! What could go wrong?
gribble: Error: User doesn'
t exist in the Rating or GPG databases. User must be GPG-registered to receive ratings.
Namworld: Why would you be safe at all in the sky to start with? It's not like you don'
t connect to the same Internet. In fact, there's extra steps where to install snooping devices.
thestringpuller: if trilema were in print it wouldn'
t even be that expensive
bitcoinpete: asciilifeform: architects of land buildings take tours of their work too. weaknesses from buried risks aren'
t really tested upfront
jurov: i don'
t think checking the building isn'
t gonna fall someday is easy
bitcoinpete: the bezzle economy deploys its regulators under the guide of "public health" to clean this stuff up but it really can'
t go away
bitcoinpete: and they don'
t need a damage deposit at these places
bounce: just saying "haven'
t looked around enough" is too easy. one common reason is because the slum-dwellers don'
t have access to anything better.
bounce: so we see that slums aren'
t necessarily cheap. why then do people still dwell there?
Namworld: And if you rent that, you haven'
t looked around enough.
Namworld: Otherwise, even if the place ain'
t nice, just cleaning it through and keeping it so and no problems.
Namworld: Two issues you don'
t want is water leaks or vermin infested building.
Namworld: I don'
t think "Canada Slums" and "Slums" are the same thing. By international standard, probably luxurious
jurov: you weren'
t there when S.DICE traded. there were massive buys *just after* dividends were paid
bitcoinpete: the sec can'
t even nail down fiat businesses
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bounce: though I don'
t think da vinci properly classifies as upper middle class in context
mircea_popescu: to tell him about how "nobody could have drawn a rocket on the wall it just couldn'
t have been done"
mircea_popescu: bounce why should i hire them at all. why aren'
t they hiring me.
mircea_popescu: i can'
t even begin to imagine anyone'd actually want to be stuck having to do everything by hand because well nobody else does because nobody else can because they fucked it all up.
bounce: to some it's not merely necessary to win, but for others to lose. turn a non-zero-sum game into a zero-sum game, why don'
t you.
bounce: it's a matter of attitude. why even bother spend any effort, money, whatever, on keeping the (not that uncultured part of the) plebs down? so many other things you could do with your wealth and power. what do you value? well, those values apparently aren'
t that highfalutin', after all.
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mircea_popescu: you wouldn'
t want either to rob yourself of the collective wisdom of this space, nor to rob the history of same of your valuable contributions
keonne: okay - I've read more than 5 articles today, however the counter says I have four articles remaining. Now about my browser config, cookies are set to destruct after tab close and javascript doesn'
t run unless I authorize it
keonne: Your credits for paid content isn'
t counting down properly
jurov: if it can'
t do <verbatim> just add there .txt to download
mircea_popescu: however, there exists a center of people who can'
t afford good tax shelters, and who could, if left undisturbed, come to one day challenge him.
mircea_popescu: you familiar with buffett pretending taxes "at the top" aren'
t high enough, and with gates donating his fortune to "good causes" and so on ?
mircea_popescu: sure. to take things from yet another angle : you're familiar with greenspun's analysis of why women don'
t go into science.
mircea_popescu: so anyway : only recently has tech become respectable, and as such it couldn'
t historically afford the huge bezzle-usd load of owning real estate outright.
mircea_popescu: buffett still does not invest in them because, politely, "he doesn'
t understand them", but factually "not in his wot"
mircea_popescu: efficiency is a COO not a CFO job. in other words, you don'
t reduce it financially
mircea_popescu: still... i wouldn'
t trust the guy just on the grounds he exists.
chetty: I want to know why someone would want to 'win points with us regulators', but I won'
t dirty my hands actually posting on that
mircea_popescu: truffles it's good you have the internet, because you can thus acquire even more parts you don'
t understand to build even larger the pile of dysfunctional junk that is your brain.
peterl: aha, to answer my own question, yes, but it costs 1 btc per transfer ... I don'
t think there is enough volume to make arbitrage worthwhile
bounce: actually, more like the other way around: management fundamentally deals with people so scientific method has a hard time with it, but moreover too many in management don'
t even try
mircea_popescu: just like the deceitful whore doesn'
t lend herself to marriage,
bounce: re earlier topic, I rather think plenty poor management gets to hang on and management in general is overvalued because we don'
t know how to properly value management, or even properly evaluate management outcomes, for that matter.
BingoBoingo: moiety: Plz don'
t chimp out. Everybody came out of Africa anyways
jurov: keonne, the20year was here few days ago and defended it, don'
t remember how
chetty: even stupid won'
t get roped in unless they are also greedy - the whole concept depends on 'get something for nothing' - or at least for little
BingoBoingo: Ghostbusters 2: You don'
t want us exposing themselves
bocobit: but that monitoring isn'
t unique to you
bocobit: MP, I read that article you posted "Why I don'
t hire brilliant men"
mircea_popescu: management doesn'
t yeild as well to the scientific method, sadly, and spitefully.
decimation: I don'
t deny that allocating resources is hard work worthy of pay
mircea_popescu: the people answering how-questions don'
t need (or want) the tools used by the people answering what-questions.
mircea_popescu: people who aren'
t in the business of control (such as engineers, say) wouldn'
t -logically- be paid enough money to go into 2nd category.
kanzure: why didn'
t DPR blackmail the fbi?
kanzure: sure. i wouldn'
t be willing to go into an office for $150k.