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mircea_popescu: hahaha the saudis have had all the ustardism they can stand for.
mircea_popescu: it won't fucking work, lebanon is the equivalent of new mexico. about as defensible as a bowl of china.
mircea_popescu: so basically lebanon is the new hope in the usg middle east desperation ?
mircea_popescu: "If you set aside the sociopolitical factors beyond your control, you’re left with daily inconveniences of fragmented infrastructure like electricity cuts of up to 6 hours, regular water shortages in the summer and fall, and an average internet speed of 3.11 Mbps – to put things slightly in perspective, estimates abound that doubling Lebanon’s
mircea_popescu: we prolly just don't understand 20something yo aesthetics.
mircea_popescu: and who's alienhead, buterin or trump ? tbf trump's head is mostly local, with the exception of the venusian hairpiece of course.
mircea_popescu: answer : ETHEREUM CAN NEVER REACH ZERO BECAUSE IT IS A TECHONOLOLOLOL
mircea_popescu: question : how many days of 15% straight drops does it need for ethereum to reach 0 ?
mircea_popescu: oshit, look at that, in other news trump is no longer shorter odds than 1 on bitbet.
mircea_popescu checks the eth prices, the only thing that can cheer up a man in these dark times.
mircea_popescu: no, he's derping on and on about patent fucking nonsense such as "Conceivably, one could compound that by overlaying 'network'-oriented jurisdictional issues -- for example, the use of telecom systems to transmit information (from software to managerial decisions) with an intent to deceive and defraud."
mircea_popescu: fascinating that the author manages to go through all that without at any point rising to the very moderate level of awareness that's included in the observation that "all this retarded pseudo-legalistic bullshit just ate its own tail, and now ill have to go. vw shot it in the head, thanks god."
☟︎ mircea_popescu: let it fuck the dilemma of "do we grandfather or what now!".
mircea_popescu: but anyway, this is the path : expose the state to millions of unknown cases. trillions, if at all possible.
mircea_popescu: anyway, vw takes the cake for fighting the insanity of statal overbearing. and the more insane it gets, the more of this will happen, until eventually maintaining even the pretense of "law enforcement" will become ridiculous.
mircea_popescu: "So those vehicles -- 11 million of them and counting -- are damaged goods. They will *never* be able to meet environmental regulations. That means either (a) they'll need to be taken off the road or (b) environmental regulations will need to be rewritten to include a carve-out for VW diesel owners." << or ship them to pakistan.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i would very much in my right mind buy one. what the fuck do i care about all the bullshit ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: So, right there, VW diesel owners have a pretty ironclad case for what boils down to speculative financial compensation: the difference between what the cars 'would have been worth' if this flaw hadn't been exposed and what they *are* worth -- which is zero, if only because no one in their right mind would buy one (and in many cases reale may now be forbidden by law) << what ?
mircea_popescu: shit reads like any re-narrative attempt from none too bright 12 yos trying to fit in.
mircea_popescu: not THAT different from russia deciding to support sinaloa against mexican govt or some equally retarded shit.
mircea_popescu: something something cock something something sense of humour something respect etc
mircea_popescu: the problem with the wsj nonsense is that it makes me discount the gizmodo nonsense in the same breath.
mircea_popescu: eventually the old man "you can admit we're lost you know."
mircea_popescu: a stork's flying around holding an old man in its beak
mircea_popescu: never managed to do anything, guy was slowly pushed into more and more customer support/tech support/bs tasks
mircea_popescu: they were probably the magnum opus of some ambitious intern wanting to be vp / dubious hire a la charles ryan dude implementing ai in java
mircea_popescu: da fuck, what happened to fiddy bucks. prostitution paying more than qualified workmanship ? in what alt-universe.
mircea_popescu: turns out you didn't know all the vocabulary in b-a logs, either >D
mircea_popescu: let alone that bitcoin is and was from the onset conservativism in a pill and rejection of two centuries of "progress" in the most absolute form imaginable.
mircea_popescu: check it out, all things are made by libertards for libertards now, because humanism and progressivism = humanism and universalism.
mircea_popescu: "With conservatism Bitcoin would never existed at all. If all humans would be conservative we would still be living in caves. Conservatism is a decease."
mircea_popescu: for that matter, pretty sure there isn't one in hebrew, either.
mircea_popescu: who the fuck is the sort of inept wanna-be me idiot who keeps slaves that'd rather run away.
mircea_popescu: "fugitives from justice, terrorists, illegal immigrants, criminals, political opponents, defectors, domestic help, and Saudi Arabians who don’t return home from pilgrimages (aka collared women)"
mircea_popescu: every church refinishing job includes tons of little spikes.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: i am thoroughly mystified as to what is happening in this photo << the woman is being denied sensation and, inasmuch as identity is a formal matter, identity.
mircea_popescu: was it so hard to say "the little black prince and his oligarchs met the people's representative Xi" ?
mircea_popescu: ima make sure to ask hitler what the red army needs moar of.