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Tue Mar 18 00:26:08 UTC 2014 <ninjashogun> asciilifeform, yes, you are quite mistaken in your understanding that I don't like the paying back part.
Tue Mar 18 00:25:52 UTC 2014 <ninjashogun> asciilifeform, I'm from the USA but at the moment I'm not living there, I've been working on my proprietary hardware startup in a much lower-income country.
Tue Mar 18 00:25:29 UTC 2014 <asciilifeform> ninjashogun: if you live in usa, just about any bank will give you a credit card good for $20K+
Tue Mar 18 00:25:09 UTC 2014 <ninjashogun> asciilifeform, "then borrow it from whoever". Funny how that goes, isn't it? That loan is how I came into this channel. It doesn't work like that.
Tue Mar 18 00:24:26 UTC 2014 <ninjashogun> asciilifeform, I am not interested in being involved with the local mob. You seem to consider this a short-term thing, but that's not at all what I stated, is it?
Tue Mar 18 00:23:39 UTC 2014 <ninjashogun> sorry, next 30 years ;-)
Tue Mar 18 00:22:57 UTC 2014 <ninjashogun> asciilifeform, likewise steve jobs did not know how to make a $500B company when he was 25.
Tue Mar 18 00:22:37 UTC 2014 <ninjashogun> asciilifeform, I don't know how to turn it into $8.5M. If I did I wouldn't be talking about the next 40 years, would I?
Tue Mar 18 00:22:14 UTC 2014 <asciilifeform> ninjashogun: if you know how to turn it into 8.5M, then borrow it from whoever
Tue Mar 18 00:21:57 UTC 2014 <ninjashogun> That doesn't mean I consider it a lot of money.
Tue Mar 18 00:21:50 UTC 2014 <asciilifeform> ninjashogun: you said you wanted 17k
Tue Mar 18 00:21:32 UTC 2014 <ninjashogun> I don't htink $8.5M is a fortune. if I had that in cash today I wouldn't sit on it, I would do further startups.
Tue Mar 18 00:21:11 UTC 2014 <asciilifeform> ninjashogun: sell motorcycle?
Tue Mar 18 00:20:59 UTC 2014 <asciilifeform> ninjashogun: get a credit card?
Tue Mar 18 00:20:17 UTC 2014 <BingoBoingo> ninjashogun: is roughly a pound of flesh, with reasonable blood loss acceptable security?
Tue Mar 18 00:20:07 UTC 2014 <ninjashogun> I don't have to be zuck to repay $8.5M. Tens of thousands of people can do it, not just a few hundred billionaires.
Tue Mar 18 00:19:06 UTC 2014 <ninjashogun> mircea_popescu, fine. Lend me $17,000 now and at some point in my career I will repay you 500x (8.5M). I am 30 now and it has to be in the next 30 years.
Tue Mar 18 00:17:58 UTC 2014 <ninjashogun> asciilifeform, yes, "had to"
Tue Mar 18 00:17:46 UTC 2014 <ninjashogun> steve jobs could have borrowed $5000 from you and relent 500x as much. But you wouldn't have been interested. That is $2.5M.
Tue Mar 18 00:17:03 UTC 2014 <ninjashogun> instead, he had to scam his friend for it. Just like Zuckerberg had to scam some map guy out of $2000.