mircea_popescu: let me give you an example : when i was 16, i was paying rent for a place i practically never used, to a married mother of two. who took it in all the holes like a champ, twice a week.

mircea_popescu: no, it's the tendency of people to abuse the usd as a temporary replacement for btc, until btc was devised.

mircea_popescu: now, your earlier point notwithstanding, bahamas is still an ineptitude record-setting president, on the level of j. davis. tis not ~by~ the adversity he encounters that you know a man, but IN.

mircea_popescu: sounds good phf. ftr i dun think there was anything wrong with your thing per se. broke an assumption i made that i still don't well understanbd, so... it counts as a positive.

mircea_popescu: i'm vaguely unsure if it can be called a civ or not.

mircea_popescu: better aligned than the us, tis true, but still a minor player.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform russia is a minor player.

mircea_popescu: PeterL attacks are driven by value. if/when someone finds a way to explot it, it will be. so far, it's made relatively safe by its sheer uselessness. which measns that like africa, it will HAVE TO stay dumb to survive.

mircea_popescu: it's a wonder to see it at work, too : consider the case of ross ulbricht. amply retarded kid, did pretty much every stupid thing in the book. yet because he was indicted by the us-komintern, he still has A LOT molre support than would be warranted on the face of things.

mircea_popescu: most of what the komintern practically did was allow a ready way for people outside of russia to get rid of their inconvenient opponents.

mircea_popescu: PeterL> The rest of the world starts ignoring the US, the US pretends they still control everything << incidentally, the soviets had a very similar delusion going, see komintern etc. it worked about as much as the us thing does, which is to say not at all unless you're either very enamoured with the delusion or otherwise see a ready way to profit from castigating it. ☟︎

mircea_popescu: last i heard germany only wanted 5k a head, so it should come out to maybe 50bn or so, not the end of the world

mircea_popescu: retarded euros on the other hand... "us posturing precipitated an immigration influx that we reallty can't support. wat do ?" "i dunno, but try to not notice that the us-provided security costs a degree or two of magnitude more than the worst possible case would be without them around"

mircea_popescu: "obviously, pretend like nobody could have predicted" "a totally, solid plan mate!"

mircea_popescu: and even the retarded canadians... "us posturing precipitated a trade war that just ENDED canada as an industrial nation. wat do ?"

mircea_popescu: so far, positive action produced pretty much the least competent us president to date, a few notches below even jefferson davies (and actually very similar in style, too!) who just happens to be a black man.

mircea_popescu: this is a complicated question. if your kid is smart, such that all he needs to make money is for bitcoin to exist, then most of the world fits the bill, because all he really needs is weak local government.

mircea_popescu: now replace "i materialize out of the ethers and offer well trained young slave" with "any discretionary expense" and you've got a pretty accurate picture.

mircea_popescu: consider this simple point : so i materialize out of the ethers and offer well trained young slave to us kid, for $sum. how can he pay ? he can't. he has no money, the usual way he pays for things (begs daddy-government's agent, called "bank" for absolutely no reason much like fast-food is unrelated to food, being a species of engine oil) does not work for this purpose. what's left ? we just discussed how he can not do

mircea_popescu: and in other banking news, here's an illustration of empowered, liberated us feminist getting herself a new credit card - http://40.media.tumblr.com/726408e24ac80c2ae491becd304a82e0/tumblr_nia2tnRBnB1qlne6uo1_1280.jpg

mircea_popescu: i dunno how you feel about arab girls, but a trip to bahrein is in order.

mircea_popescu: it's basically a soviet country, just like the russians were. unlike the other soviet union, however, it doesn't fucking know this, goes to bed every night collectively imagining that "start-ups" as implemented there are actual business ; and "stars" as implemented there are examples of successful people. it's really quite amusing.

mircea_popescu: the upfront cost of attempting to do business as a us subject far exceeds any possibility of gain no matter how fantasmagorically distant.

mircea_popescu: i'm telling you , advise us partners to either a) get an eu entity incorporated and use that or b) be less poor, as applicable.

mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-02-2016#1408126 << you know that's almost exactly what i mean by "built like a boy" ☝︎

mircea_popescu: it's a huge hassle for us people do do business.

mircea_popescu: for instance, i took rhetorics with the worlds best rhetorics teacher, no doubt about it. she gave me an 80%, which was by far my lowest mark that year, but then again a good 20% over the next best in the 800 strong year.

mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo a signed path through it.

mircea_popescu: i dun think there exists even today the romanian speaker who a) is competent in the sense contemplated here and b) actually applies for a job, any job.

mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski much larger fish than usual in a very tiny pond. what employers. crony capitalism ftw.

mircea_popescu: but gotta give a 2nd tree some thought for ppl to do experimental work on.

mircea_popescu: a little death. let's not exaggerate.

mircea_popescu: how do kings work in a republic ?

mircea_popescu: more of a doublespoken one, too. hence veblen goods and the trillion a year cosmetics industry.

mircea_popescu: (trade does not need a market to happen, note)

mircea_popescu: this aside, the trade in mates has been historically and will permanently remain a major economic factor. as unwilling to admit people may find themselves. nevertheless, it's rarely an actual market.

mircea_popescu: well it's a game, set in a fantasy medieval-ish setting!

mircea_popescu: in the old days, woman wouldn't generally appear too trustworthy before she had fucked most everyone. but it's a truly complex point to communicate.

mircea_popescu: it\s a slippery problem.

mircea_popescu: as per alf's earlier pronouncements, who'd want a wife like that ?

mircea_popescu: is this a continuation of the "honey, for a bitcoin i make the holes" ?