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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.
mircea_popescu: eulora has this very pronounced old style adventure quality to it, for the first few hours/days/weeks/we it takews you.
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
mircea_popescu is a little wary of this theory. zuckerberg thinks he owns facebook.
mircea_popescu: there is no tmsr outside of the nodes in the wot graph
mircea_popescu: this is exactly why the wot exists - to disinhabituate socialists from stealing from the people and giving to "the institution" so that lenin, stalin or whatever other nigger can then steal it.
mircea_popescu: i guess if the sluts were good i'd credit the school more than the individual sluts in question... maybe.
mircea_popescu has ~0 anything for "the school", remembers some teachers.
mircea_popescu: why not feel deeply indebted to the actual people that taught you ?
mircea_popescu: the plague starts once bitcoin/experts sexchange/seo/mommy/ what have you default activities of those who really should have been shot in their teen years.
mircea_popescu: actually unfashionable, prof driven forums are usually ok.
mircea_popescu: actually The Story of Nubbins the Industrious would make a pretty decent book title.
mircea_popescu doesn't recall the last time he actually saw a competent draughstman / painter / anything.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` are you gonna get butthurt if i tell you the thing sucked ?