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mircea_popescu: and i'm going to ride through detroit atop
a tank and shoot tranquilizer guns at anything that can twerk.
mircea_popescu: ate of any female aged ~14 with decent tits and
a little bit of length of bone from being forcibly injected.
mircea_popescu: so my point is, to sum it up : that the prohibition of the drug trade has nothing to do with economics. it is
a purely political choice, of trying to enact equality between the poor and the rest. this desperate, doomed nonsense may be ineffectual, painful, difficult, costly or what else have you, boring, whatever. it is nevertheless the ONLY thing that keeps the average lifespan of the not-us from being ~24 ; and the f
mircea_popescu: approach it from the other angle, the demand elasticity. take cokehead with $1000 income and
a $1000 drug habit.
mircea_popescu: they're
a functrion of how much money ios sloshing around.
mircea_popescu: the cost of the blowjob, and of the gram, and of the bed are not
a function of how forbidden it is.
trinque: this is what confounds
a simple answer to your question.
mircea_popescu: (here's
a hint : imbecile argentines imagine
a tiny 1000 sqft apt is worth 150-200k usd, in their shit town. why ? why, because the government's been printing money, and people kept "investing" it, there's about two to five trillion pesos that have to be wiped out of the economy before it can return to working)
mircea_popescu: that may be. but consider the situatuon of real estate. is "housing"
a product that "sells itself" ?
trinque: in the conversation linked, nubbins was discussing the newfie coke heads. seems like quite
a task to stop the massive demand there.
trinque: how about prohibition of
a product that sells itself?
assbot: Logged on 07-12-2015 17:25:23; nubbins`: trinque if there were no drug prohibition, the world would be
a better, safer place
mircea_popescu: drugs were also verboten in communist romania - they didnt' have
a price there. you'd have died of hunger with
a brick of pure cocaine.
mircea_popescu: notwithstanding that it's doing exactly that, and in point of fact for
a reason very similar to your thinking, nevertheless it has obviously no prayer in hell of working. it's not even wrong, it;s unrelated.
pete_dushenski: aaaand nov 20 was the last time we cracked 1000 lines in
a day.
pete_dushenski: i've actually been out of practice since fatherhood started, was doing
a lunch-time session once
a week aimed specifically at office/computer jockeys
trinque: ^ along these lines,
a standing desk also helps quite
a bit.
thestringpuller: "ethereum investors" now reads as M$ to me. since my boss just showed me
a beta to use eth on Azure...which makes no sense.
thestringpuller: it never really did. the point of nlock was to hand
a transaction over to someone in
a "will" like form
mircea_popescu: "Implication for users: GetMedianTimePast() always trails behind the current time, so
a transaction locktime set to the present time will be rejected by nodes running this release until the median time moves forward. To compensate, subtract one hour (3,600 seconds) from your locktimes to allow those transactions to be included in mempools at approximately the expected time."
mircea_popescu: "Note, however, that time-based locktime transactions are more or less unseen on the network currently." is the point of interest. currently, and permanently, nobody gives
a shit about the entire bondogle eithger way.
kakobrekla: so, bip65 will be active in
a day or so now
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thestringpuller: "I could easily write you
a ticket for going 20 over" "Not without having clocked me. Good luck getting that through court."
thestringpuller: and I was like "D00d you must have failed physics. My car is built to go 80 in mud, and I've tuned it for such. Also this is
a straight away"
pete_dushenski: but hey, if you can't actually afford the cars (
a la dubai), how else ?
pete_dushenski: iirc there was
a newer corvette (c6?) that suffered
a similar fate recently.
thestringpuller: buddy told me that some cops confiscated
a Nissan GTR from some local drug dealer
pete_dushenski: "you're shitting on
a goldmine, trebek! if you had
a penis mighter, i'd order
a dozen!"
ascii_field: pete_dushenski: ya could be sitting on
a $100k mac anal hole
☟︎ ascii_field: pete_dushenski: (do you have
a crash dump or the like ?)
pete_dushenski: @kav_p .@IBM Oh good gosh hack
a hairdryer that'll make tech more easy for women to understand! Next time can we hack
a delicious baked dinner?
nubbins`: before scrounging enough to build
a more permanent home
nubbins`: my great-grandparents floated over on the Empress of Ireland and lived in
a canvas tent in Banff for 5 years
pete_dushenski: show me the "boomer echo" kid whose great-grandparents actually owned something and i'll show you
a kid who's doing well for himself today.
pete_dushenski: "boomer" parents fluked into
a historical windfall ~themselves~, like y'know, actual lottery winners. that their kids didn't manage to hold onto
a dime of it is par for the course.
assbot: Logged on 07-12-2015 18:07:06; nubbins`: unremarkable in the sense that any asshole can get
a windfall
nubbins`: i buy local not because i'm
a landlord but because i'm not an idiot
pete_dushenski: that landlords, like yourself, like myself, give
a shit about the places they live MORE than the banks from far-off lands.
pete_dushenski: you're
a small time landlord though, and even still i'm sure you don't buy much of anything at usg-megacorp-retail-centre
pete_dushenski: well, you're
a landlord aintcha, don't you care about your town ?
nubbins`: besides, how's the landlord buying
a new snowblower at Wal-Mart helping the local anything?
nubbins`: landlords don't give
a red fuck about their towns
pete_dushenski: ok, let's work the with 'maybe house will never again be worth 200k' condition. why not give 12k to landlord instead of bank ? will landlord not put that money to more practicable and local use, having
a higher probability of bettering renter's station ?
nubbins`: put another way, let's say you rent for
a year. at the end of the year, what do you have to show for it?
☟︎ nubbins`: whether that's paying off
a too-high mortgage or paying off someone ELSE'S too-high mortgage is his choice
nubbins`: i actually received
a new property assessment in the mail last week
mircea_popescu: kinda the whole point of property being that solvent owners really don't give
a shit what other parties think things be "worth".
nubbins`: "don't borrow
a lot of money unless you don't need to" is ok advice
pete_dushenski: "don't borrow
a lot of money unless you're fucking rich"
nubbins`: tbf it's not
a lesson unless they wanna sell
nubbins`: and it costs $800/mo to rent
a hammock in an unheated shed?
mircea_popescu: well prolly should do that in #eulora, and also... don't you enjoy
a mystery ? :D
mircea_popescu: btw nubbins` if you want
a job i prolly got something for you :D
mircea_popescu: find your way uphill, there's some tables there and
a coupla animated fruitboxes
nubbins`:
a different angle: what better way to encourage indebtedness to me?
mircea_popescu is
a little wary of this theory. zuckerberg thinks he owns facebook.
nubbins`: mircea_popescu it's
a schelling point, couldn't have found the actual people were it not for the venue
thestringpuller: I have found
a correlation to alumni dedication and how "out of control" the partying is at said alma matar.
nubbins`: odd thing to say about
a forum
nubbins`: gigposters forums are
a wealth of info
nubbins`: it requires
a couple years of abject failure to truly appreciate, but tyvm
mircea_popescu: actually The Story of Nubbins the Industrious would make
a pretty decent book title.
nubbins`: i'm
a technician more than anything
mircea_popescu doesn't recall the last time he actually saw
a competent draughstman / painter / anything.
nubbins`: it's mostly
a vehicle for advertising our skills at silkscreen printing
mircea_popescu: in fairness, if i were
a woman, and worked my ass off for kink.com throughout my teen years, and then retired to... start my own perfume line,
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski ironically, nubbins` retired from tech to do artsy bs, and now has
a sweet tooth for anyone daring not be in tech!
nubbins`: now suppose instead of mining dung beetles, you're waiting for
a tenant to say the radiator's busted in your dad's building
nubbins`: if you're on
a computer all day long and you don't /work/ at
a computer all day long, chances are you're coasting. either on your own funds or someone else's
nubbins`: consider that there are people active in here on
a daily basis who are 100% supported by the state, and others who are 100% self-supporting
nubbins`: there's
a set of lifestyles that allow one to dick around on irc all day
nubbins`: don't look
a gift painting in the brush
trinque: this is
a poor person's notion of the wealthy.
nubbins`: "pete's so amazing, his dad bequeathed him
a suitcase of bills"
nubbins`: unremarkable in the sense that any asshole can get
a windfall
☟︎ mircea_popescu: today, it's fucking remarkable. means about the same as
a dog's pedigree
ascii_field: trinque: iirc he has
a day job, as
a health inspector, somewhere
trinque: nothing shameful about
a family business.