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mircea_popescu: it's one thing to think "oh, there's nothing special about reddit/tardstalk/whatever. they're all like that."
mircea_popescu: they have an entire list of ... well, stuff scraped off the bottom of the web.
mircea_popescu: 1k is a cessna ; 10k is a coupla of good condition yugo jets.
mircea_popescu: actually, this would be useful for a change economics research. obviously lice agreement on lice-ing only works provided the largest lice is cutting his own throat. but by what factor ?
mircea_popescu: you and the other 1k wanna-be bankers (or rather, wanna-stay bankers) trying this.
mircea_popescu: the usg version of reality works fine for just as long nobody leans on it. like all cardboard.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> incidentally what's to stop the fella <<< last time someone tried this (not even 1k) was last week.
mircea_popescu: back in 1985 you could open a store with the stock on credit.
mircea_popescu: headed that way for a whiole now, EXACTLY under the pressure of "worthless dollars"
mircea_popescu: myahap we see a redefinition of "consumer credit" to "only real estates and worthless chinese crap. you can't buy a plane, or a shipment of cocoa"
mircea_popescu: i think by 95 every russian chick under 20 with boobs bigger than her mom and standing above 1.80 naked had sucked at least one cock in a mercedes that was acquired in just this way.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the only way you're selling that is if you drive it across the border.
mircea_popescu: errything not bolted down, really. if you can steal it, you gotta steal it.
mircea_popescu: the point remains : like in 1986 su, in 2015 us if you don't steal yourself, your neighbour will.
mircea_popescu: so then your "<asciilifeform> not even american monkeys, but ru carders " line has 0 to do.
mircea_popescu: ru carder with 10 mn is not getting 3k btc, that's for sure. nor does he want it.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: price is "300 or whatever" for nickle and dime deals which are mostly predicated on "don't make it too hard for noobs / wild eyed youths to get into bitcoin".
mircea_popescu: there is ~no relation between numbers on websites and bitcoin price.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: no, the monkeys aren't cleanning it out because mental issues. of this sort.
mircea_popescu: there was no heaven and no benefit for the mass of losers that stole last.
mircea_popescu: exactly like last legs of soviets. every screw you didn't steal, someone else did.
mircea_popescu: no ifs or butts about it. the less you steal, the more is there for your neighbour to steal.
mircea_popescu: if you can buy bitcoin on credit in the us and ARE NOT buying bitcoin on credit in the us, you are being raped by all the people who do.
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: check it out alf, you were here for three years, will be left holding the abandoned pieces of a usg that even the last of the class of public highschool long leeched.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo that reads to me like "ford to provide new thermodynamics for construction industry"
mircea_popescu: i vaguely recall some atrociously hipsterish derps going on some sort of ven rampage with...
mircea_popescu: but hopefully isis reformats their dumb ass in short order.
mircea_popescu: there are of course the sort of fucktards like for instance came out of the woodwork with the blender foundation debacle who are so invested in making the world suck that they're natural allies for shit like paypal.
mircea_popescu: it all comes down to that ancient "could you buy all of russia by selling apple stock".
mircea_popescu: the only difference is that in 1415 his workproduct could buy you the world, and in 2015 it's at best a curio.
mircea_popescu: just like the blacksmith that made the "best steel" of 1415 is for all anyone knows/cares still in the same smoky shed down the same muddy road doing the same grumbly job of it.
mircea_popescu: neither carry any cultural importance, and so in this sense paypal was broken.
mircea_popescu: the point is that the paypal power of the 2005s was broken, and now they're reduced to being a sort of etsy beenz, except for a slightly larger etsy called ebay.
mircea_popescu: the point is not whether garden gnomes are sold for btc or anything else.
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> or is this merely another army of the undead thing << it is. bitcoin killed paypal, maggots trying to get a piece.
mircea_popescu: every hipster doofus with his made up shit, trying t oget me to look it up.
mircea_popescu: 13yo whiteboy doesn't agree to mommy getting remarried!
mircea_popescu: "Now, this is not really a reason to admire them; they should be rightly condemned as the callous killers that they are. But what we need to set in opposition to them is not a further erosion of our already crumbling sacred traditions, but a redoubling of our efforts to resanctify our own dormant traditions and, perhaps even more urgently, to create new ones."
mircea_popescu: anyway. the writhing of the castrato bois notwithstanding, europe's doing its cycle.
mircea_popescu: it never became anythning, washington-les-deux-monuments.
mircea_popescu: the notion that "the usa" is anything but an obscure, inferiority-complex-ridden province of europe is laughable.
mircea_popescu: europe is currently a 12yo girly playing idly with her cullotes.
mircea_popescu: "europe" such as this exists does the same thing for three millenia straight : once it peaks, it regresses to an infantilized state.
mircea_popescu: "Europe has invited within its borders a very large number of people who have every intention of carrying out further atrocities, and decadent whining only serves to strengthen their purpose. Because their purpose is transcendent, it is to do the will of God and they are entirely willing to die in this purpose."
mircea_popescu: "This presumably goes some way towards explaining why the response to this atrocity consists largely of people declaring that they will continue with their way of life/values as an act of defiance against the killers. The hope being that shopping and consuming junk culture will somehow magic away the enmity of the invaders. Or at least it might stop us from having to think about it."