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mircea_popescu: ersatz is those people's very life ; their existence is subjectively predicated on them being ersatz for actual people
mircea_popescu: whereas the us is a french colony through and through.
mircea_popescu: army does not generally favour ersatz, but bulk ; and unlike us, the su was army-run. much like ~much all eastern tyrannies, from turks to what have you.
mircea_popescu: they still built housing out of concrete not chewed wasp nest.
mircea_popescu: yes, but anything that isn't luxury is, today unlike the days of the su, ersatz.
mircea_popescu: back in 2005 i ate on the boston wharf ; bill came in a hundreds. today they come in the thousands.
mircea_popescu: dubious, because the "basic necessities" a la mchappy meal never needs to cost anything, which is why it's two dollars ; and actual food is already going into a spiral.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: back before bitcoin fucking banks were like, a major core ; these days, they barely count on the level of gardening.
mircea_popescu: Framedragger it is possible i'm left stranded on some historical branch. i've been doing ever less banking over the years.
mircea_popescu: yes it's a calender, ie keeps the pasta in. but if you dump it in the sewer, don't expect you'll fish it out later and contents edible.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the notion that this calender would be watertight is laughable on the face.
mircea_popescu: there's five billions things. open acct with hk branch, have it transferred. whoops.
mircea_popescu: i know for a fact i registered corp/bank acct/paypal etc while in costa rica.
mircea_popescu: it's like boys in clubs, all they really wanna do is rub on you a little. if that.
mircea_popescu: cattle couldn't have done that independently well enough. needed collective ostrich built.
mircea_popescu: this is an important societal change that of course "nobody could have predicted" and nobody noticed. because that's what "modern democracy" governments are for, to stick hand in sand.
mircea_popescu: recall the good old days when people wanted to get money from the cattle ? things have changed, the cattle is now poor enough that people want its moo not its money.
mircea_popescu: which i think is supported by >1 bn pieces of yearly mail.
mircea_popescu: one obvious explanation would be that the accts in question belong to a derp who has agreed to "handle comissions for international firm"
mircea_popescu: plus there's also the legions of captcha solvers / employees working remote etc. but i doubt anyone spends that much effort.
mircea_popescu: note that what people tell each other and what is actually the case never have yet matched in the history of people.
mircea_popescu: anyone willing to spend 1mn can have ~10k us registered businesses by friday sort of thing.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: Framedragger the way that works is, you can open business online ; and then bank account from it.
mircea_popescu: Framedragger well look in at headers and delivery path
mircea_popescu: ahahaah, getting spam from smaswanganyi@justice.gov.za. actually, not spoofed.
mircea_popescu: maybe they could be joined together at the hip. have moon rocket carry baby to term.
mircea_popescu: i have about the same interest in achieving either feat is the problem.
mircea_popescu: lol wife, 39, husband, 34, and "billy" friend, 28, dead.
mircea_popescu: I kinda giggled and said yeah. So after some hard thought planning I thought, "why not" and started to redraw my picture on windows paint, so I got my initial layout ready to post on i'ables, first here is picture of a model rocket I found online perhaps an ideal candidate for my fusilage design. ofcorse mine will have to be different,unique,personalized. " << this is what ben_vulpes makes me read.
mircea_popescu: "I was browseing the web for some cool thing to call my next project I swooped by Mike Davis's web page where there is alot of cool stuff and was checking out his homebuilt jet engine and it reminded me of a drawing I had in my fileing cabinet from years ago when I was still in grade school. I dug a little and whiped it out and asked my girl friend if she want to see something cool, she replied yeah so I showed my drawing,she
mircea_popescu: man who is married to a place he can't defend was already pretty disturbed.
mircea_popescu: marginal and subclinical psychiatric cases abound in "modern democracy"
mircea_popescu: imo the ~best advice in that situation is "go fuck many whores". nothing beats it and fits on a page. which is why i always suspected the pua folk of being a lot more reasonable than anyone realises.
mircea_popescu: tends to create the psychogenic equivalent of what happens when you go live on your local radio station with the phone next to the radio set.
mircea_popescu: in particular, the "pay attention to your own thought process" is pretty miserable advice.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform fwiw, the author reads rather disturbed to me.
mircea_popescu: think about all the advantages : a cubical rocket doesn't need to be steered as much.
mircea_popescu: cylinders are disrespectful to women and africans, after all.
mircea_popescu: seeing the success of the littoral beercan program, i'm vaguely surprised the usg doesn't bless its doomed effort of catching up with china/russia with cubical rockets.
mircea_popescu: what is with all the bullshit connections you people get!
mircea_popescu: i propose to you that if jockeys were sent to write software and code monkeys sent to ride horses, the overal results would sum to more.
mircea_popescu: the bitch with high level cognition, be it math, fucking, programming horses, riding computers et all is that you never fucking know which the same thing you'll be doing this time
mircea_popescu: like last week, lol. eulora db work has a lot of similarities.
mircea_popescu: just vague memories from back when i knew friends with rainbow tables.
mircea_popescu: still simpler than your thing, and imo better collision resistance (now h(s) = h(s+s') is required which iirc is tougher than (s+x) = (s+y) )