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mircea_popescu: and yes, both of these are absolute bars to action. any kind of action whatsoever.
mircea_popescu: translates directly to a) you're not in the wot and b) you're a redditard.
mircea_popescu: y one man’s [Judas’s] conspiracy against another Man…"
mircea_popescu: ot thinking of the nation? What unity of thought is possible between us? Unity of thought presupposes firmness of belief from two directions. If we accept that my firmness of belief is proven by my past, then your firmness of belief perished forever in your activity as a provocateur. You already can never believe yourself. What conspiracy is possible in the absence of unity of thought and firmness of belief? Really onl
mircea_popescu: "1) Why did you choose me for communicating your secret? Am I really your unconditional fellow-thinker who can be entrusted with a secret? To be your fellow-thinker, I should have known all your intimate plans against the emigration, plans you are professionally obligated to have. How and by what means will you prove to me that you are speaking with me now not as a professional provocateur from the NKVD, but as a patri
mircea_popescu: anyway, that ilyia piece is not half bad. (i always liked the guy, as he passes the silences test). let's take the first paragraph :
mircea_popescu: by any self-coherent measure you could ever come up with, it's way the fuck better to live your life in the hood than in the bridges.
mircea_popescu: it gets dumb white kids to throw away their lives on nonsense (while - and this is the amusing part - sniggering at the black kids who throw away their lives ON LESS nonsens-y nonsense.)
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah but the problem is that the fiction in question only exists as a sales ploy.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "The History and Characteristics of the Mr. Bridges " ftw.
mircea_popescu: "A sentence of 36 months’ imprisonment sufficiently reflects the seriousness of the offense, and at the same time takes into consideration Mr. Bridges’ prior life of accomplishment, commitment, sacrifice, and integrity, and in particular the contributions he has made to the law enforcement community. " <<< and by this novel take on the law, how many babies is it ok for obama to kill ? what if he also eats the carca
mircea_popescu: " Mr. Bridges will be punished harshly: imprisonment and crippling financial obligations, not because of the amount still owed, but because of Mr. Bridges’ loss of potential livelihood."
mircea_popescu: "Mr. Bridges stands before this Court as a man of exceptional professional accomplishment. Prior to his national disgrace, he was widely respected and well-liked by his professional colleagues and in the community. This proceeding marks the final chapter of a profound tragedy, for Mr. Bridges, his family, and his friends and community – and for the United States Secret Service, to which he devoted a large part of his
mircea_popescu: the extraordinary remorse of the sherriff of notthingham once richard showed up is truely nothing short of extraordinary.
mircea_popescu: amount does not correspond to any benefit to the defendant, it is appropriate to consider a
mircea_popescu: offender, has exhibited extraordinary remorse and commitment to his community, and the loss
mircea_popescu: would be appropriate in this case. In a case like this one, where the defendant, a first-time
mircea_popescu: forth in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) (“§ 3553(a)”) suggest that a sentence no greater than 36 months
mircea_popescu: advisory guidelines range suggests a term of imprisonment of 57 to 71 months, the factors set
mircea_popescu: having pled guilty to two charges relating to his theft of bitcoins. Although Mr. Bridges’s
mircea_popescu: "Shaun W. Bridges comes before the Court for sentencing on December 7, 2015, after
mircea_popescu: for this reason. the fundamental incentive to living anywhere is whether you can stick it to the middle class through this mechanism or not. if you can't, they can stew in their own juices and play mahjong or whatever the fuck they play, bingo.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and don't tell me "it ain't like that where i live". obviously it ain't, and you're an idiot for living there in the first place.
mircea_popescu: altenratively, if i were a fucktarded bitcoin owner i could have sold no less than 500 btc to pay for it. and in 30 years i'd have a great story about how i sold enough btc to buy nevada to get an apartment in a third world city.
mircea_popescu: so at the end of each month i got a coupla grand to show for not having been an idiot ; the owner's got some bills.
mircea_popescu: on the other hand, if i were a fucktarded argentine borrowing for this, i'd owe ~2.5mn peso principal + 300k or so a year interest + whatever you figure the devaluation risk costs me. over a 30 year period (heh, you gonna work for 30 years ? srsly ?) this comes to at the very least 40k a month. that's just about 2750 dollars.
mircea_popescu: and if you want actual numbers, i just got a coupla girlies an apt. the sale value would have been i guess 160-170k or so. the monthly rent is 750. the first month, the washing machine went, and the owner replaced it. the next month, ac went (brother was that an incredible pos job wow), owner replaced it. so far owner's been making 0 from his property.
☟︎☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: that may be the hit of the century, guys bought the shit at 1.5 cents to the dollar, may well see full repayment a decade later.
mircea_popescu: obama won, on the same ticket. what if instead of "obamacare" they could have peddled "free heroin!!1 these mean people want to take it away!"
mircea_popescu: but no, they want them here, living in bidonvilles "en la capital", so they keep voting peronistas in exchange for a little flour, so the peronistas can go to europe and borrow "to develop argentina" and then spend to... fuck up argentina.
mircea_popescu: this country is roughly in the situation of the us cca 1815, with one major difference : buenos aires is their new york, yes, the port. but in argentina, 20 of 40 mn live in the port. that's half. in the us, less than 5% lived in the port. the rest went the fuck to ohio and built a farm.
mircea_popescu: figure it out, old whore de kirschner and her dumbass puddel scioli figured they'd stay in power on the votes of the poor. the very same fducking poor they prevented from having a life. and it blew up. if only they had meth and heroin on their side!
mircea_popescu: what's the cost of a blowjob to the miner with a sackful of gold dust ?
mircea_popescu: and i'm going to ride through detroit atop a tank and shoot tranquilizer guns at anything that can twerk.
mircea_popescu: for all they cared, cow can sit in shit up to the belly and get more antibiotics.
mircea_popescu: perhaps even feed the employees the previous employees. god knows they did it to the cows, and only stopped because WE complained. not because the cows complained.
mircea_popescu: if drugs aren't illegal walmart is going to force-feed its workforce meth and go through 10x as many poor people.
mircea_popescu: the choices you have before you are the choices you have before you, not the choices you wish to have before you.
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: suppose his income doubles to $2000. is he now going to... save $1000 ?
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.
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: what is the principal driver of price in real estate ?
mircea_popescu: that may be. but consider the situatuon of real estate. is "housing" a product that "sells itself" ?
mircea_popescu: of course, the concept of "average" lifespan wouldn't make any intuitive sense, wut do you mean "average".
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.
mircea_popescu: of course, they exist about in the numbers "ethereum investors" exist, which is to say purely in the feverish imagination of various "hacker" derps
mircea_popescu: but i lol at the sort of idiot who actually relies on THIS for their will.
mircea_popescu: whatever. you can put an arbitrary number in your txn anyway, and usg-time's never going to be anything but an arbitrary number.
mircea_popescu: translates to "and the dumb shit doesn't even work anyway"
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.
mircea_popescu: you're not obligated to accept txn you don't want to accept.
mircea_popescu: so the client won't recognize them. what's the problem ?
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".
mircea_popescu: same exact thing happened to the athenian fucking fleet.