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pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: is the new trilema header of you with
a jacket over your shoulder or are you pointing at the camera/reader ?
mircea_popescu: in general it should mean either, if used as
a time indication, to do with centuries, or else, esp if used in
a religious setting,
a synonym for "temporal", ie, not divine.
mircea_popescu: "secular trend" = "it was
a trend before i was in business"
mircea_popescu: it's quant for "forever", which means whatever, over
a decade i guess.
mircea_popescu: was some random guy with
a secular short fund that keep rolling options
assbot: Logged on 27-03-2015 03:17:35; asciilifeform: but we're on 'junkyard wars' not 'who wants to be
a quadrillionaire'
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell felipelalli tell you what, if you can prove ownership of
a btc address, you can have 1% of whatever's in there as
a loan, for short intervals, interest free. how about that.
mircea_popescu: gain
a little, lose
a lot. i made -13% apr on usd, +6.5% in btc.
mircea_popescu: in this worldview, the completely insane political construction of "the state of israel" suddenly makes sense, and
a lot of it. key to perpetuating the welfare state - no peace in palestine.
mircea_popescu: by the way : it is perhaps worth pointing out, for the benefit of the younger who certainly do not read, and understand even less than what they read, that the jewish ghetto was
a ghetto before hitler.
assbot: Logged on 26-02-2015 22:21:49; asciilifeform: 'and when we had nothing remaining to eat, they gave us
a turnip, they gave us
a beet. "here, have some mice, have some fleas! here, have some typhus! die of disease!"' - warsaw ghetto
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no longer
a solution to your stated problem.
mircea_popescu: to prefer
a solution that clearly will not work, and by necessity, over
a solution that clearly does in fact work is one definition of insanity.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo why not "this casts doubt on the overall viability of the USD as
a unit of account and medium of payment" etc ?
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> fucking empty. you have any idea how empty alaska is ? << This is
a point. And on land unlike on sea one can travel even if deprived of vehicle.
mircea_popescu: maybe
a little bit in there of racial memory. "last time this worked we did it on boats"
decimation: perhaps in
a few decades when france has collapsed sufficiently, it would be possible to seize an island from french polynesia
decimation: and you are right, the enviro-nazis who heavily influence usg want to turn it into
a forest precisely to suspend all law
decimation: george bush turned 2000 miles of territory west of hawaii into
a forest
mircea_popescu: how to suspend laws ? o i know, turn it into
a forest!!1
decimation: even with bribery, it would take
a very large dole and
a tight organization
decimation: well for one thing, each and every 'run' of
a modern chip requires milllions in setup fees
nubbins`: asciilifeform it's like
a blue jeans factory, they have
a "factory seconds" shop out front
decimation: except, the fab software in question doesn't 'fail' like
a biological thing, it 'fails' like
a fragile machine, as in - it doesn't work at all
decimation: it's
a fair point, one would have to have
a large chunk of wealth
mircea_popescu: decimation options have
a very strong time correlation. unless you have
a very clear date in mind, they're not usually the right tool
assbot: Logged on 08-02-2014 00:14:28; asciilifeform: imagine you possess
a death ray that magically zaps
a rocket, from any distance.
decimation: the island is good because if you can operate
a reasonable air and sea defense system, you are pretty well protected
nubbins`: spent much time in
a foreign country?
decimation: asciilifeform: ideally the thing would have
a small lcd terminal for programming ips, keys, etc
decimation: mircea_popescu: apparently so. I'm trying to find
a way to hedge my mostly long position on us equities
assbot: Logged on 26-03-2015 21:28:26; jurov: " is set to become the world’s first trading platform with
a direct connection to the classic banking system" davout perhaps you may something to say about that?
decimation: although it is
a large barrel for
a laser
decimation: the router that runs nat and has
a firewall you mean?
decimation: not with
a well configured dhcp/firewall
decimation: I mean init is literally just
a while loop
assbot: Logged on 26-03-2015 19:55:07; asciilifeform: observation: sshd on
a box with no rng may as well be replaced by telnetd
decimation: how could anyone inside usg accomplish anything at all without creating
a meta-something
assbot: Logged on 26-03-2015 19:31:49; nubbins`: may have
a job printing posters for big-name punk band :0
decimation: one is confused why the cia would bother to find such
a complex excuse to be embarassed and embarass others