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mircea_popescu: which point should readily explain why it costs the chinese nothing to make missiles and the usians can't afford to make a plane.
mircea_popescu: it is a much stronger state that which taxes everyone, no matter how little, than the one which mostly doesn't tax, but gets "more money". the money it gets are worthless to it
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-07-2015#1212302 << taxation is first and foremost a political activity. it is an economic activity as a very distant second. the noton that "it'd ok because we;re doing productive milking" misses the point by about the same berth as the notion that "it's ok, we don't need guns because we got money". this is simply not how the car works.
☝︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: lol the libtards could never forgive the gawker sinkage huh
mircea_popescu: they don't collect, but they don't collect from like 1/3 not from like 3/5
mircea_popescu: that government is so fucking weak, greece is actually a less decrepit state.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i only ever ran a small town, but i never went for this bs. everyone has to pay A LITTLE. because otherwise...
mircea_popescu: here's a fun factoid for you : just a shade under half of the us registered population (which means, about 60% of the actual population) pays no income tax.
mircea_popescu: so now owner of palantir goes out and buys himself fiddy million twenty dollar hookers, amirite.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: ascii_field palantir 450mn, slashdot 20 mn, everything makes sense.
mircea_popescu: i told him nobody really knows, but light seconds are about ten times the circumference of the earth.
mircea_popescu: driver told me he heard they found a planet which might contain life 1400 light years away
mircea_popescu: <mod6> i'll let it go for a while. maybe it'll work itself out. <<< pretty soon something like this is what ;;ud bitcoin will return.
mircea_popescu: i guess i get the advantage of surprise the next time around too. pretty cool.
mircea_popescu: at least they scrubbed my name out of it, "constituency of chinese mienrs" nao
mircea_popescu: what's stars wars at , episode 500 ? the bold and the beautiful still running am i rite ?
mircea_popescu: either that or should learn to spit on "helpful" this and thats.
mircea_popescu: this is the core and the root of the problem. and the fact that intelligent people are trained not to step on faces compounds it exponentially.
mircea_popescu: openbsd decided it much prefers this, because the way to turn everything to shit is to surround everyone doing anything useful with a bunch of operational idiots.
mircea_popescu: i recall back when he was promoting it, it having a very distinct bitcoin-insanity vibe to it.
mircea_popescu: course we nuked dns meanwhile, but the power rangers will have problems.
mircea_popescu: how much travel to courthouses do you think i engage in?
mircea_popescu: "ok, let's go to dubai" "k ima ask my guard. uh... can we go to block B instead ?"
mircea_popescu: "Here I am! I am a single, attractive, outgoing, " ....
mircea_popescu: honestly this entire bs caught me unaware in spite of yeah shoulda known better. somehow assumed wtf, it's foss, will be ok.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i see some changes and i don't want to publicize the wrong package so this will have to wait until chetty shows up. im making it a top priority, should be hours.
mircea_popescu: with all the shit we've had to go through with silently pseudostatic binaries