mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2014/heres-a-mystery-the-internet-may-wish-to-help-elucidating/ << looking for comments

mircea_popescu: so it's a weird clone ? odd.

mircea_popescu: iiincredible, #b-a link but info@su ?

mircea_popescu: but it was pretty universal. post ww2 europe was a shithole on par with africa.

mircea_popescu: why no country has a naked woman for a flag ?

mircea_popescu: for about a year running, 100 or so of these

mircea_popescu: kakobrekla it's a waterscam

mircea_popescu: "While Apple won't confirm it, the company has removed its warrant canary from its latest transparency report, issued this week. While this could mean that the company has received a new secret government order to provide user data, there is still another more likely possibility: it's not publishing warrant canaries at all."

mircea_popescu: i didn't know there was a notice

mircea_popescu: took a day.

mircea_popescu: i also know first hand of a case where sleepy truck driver put gasoline in his truck. figured it out after ~200 liters in. had to suck it back out

mircea_popescu: at a time that was rare and expensive.

mircea_popescu: there's a difference between being loved and being useful.

mircea_popescu: it's a winning model.

mircea_popescu: let people serve their own customers as best they can, and let them have a liquid and powerful marketplace where to unload unwanted risk.

mircea_popescu: <los_pantalones> or is this blatant theft of contract specs ? << nah, bitbet is designed/intended as a backstop for an infinity of independent repackagers/customer oriented bookies and assorted venues.

mircea_popescu: i suppose its sensible, bitbet is a good signal source.

mircea_popescu: "When forces that are hostile to socialism try to turn the development of some socialist country towards capitalism, it becomes not only a problem of the country concerned, but a common problem and concern of all socialist countries."

mircea_popescu: miss scarlet, you've had a child now, and you ain't never gonna be 17 and a half again

mircea_popescu: i want something with like 3 additions and a division.

mircea_popescu: kakobrekla they got a lotta useless employees you see.

mircea_popescu: actually washington is the king of margins. al gore makes a trillion % on his "trade carbon" mafia scam.

mircea_popescu: The Gas Price Spike Act, H.R. 3784, would apply a windfall tax on the sale of oil and gas that ranges from 50 percent to 100 percent on all surplus earnings exceeding "a reasonable profit." It would set up a Reasonable Profits Board made up of three presidential nominees that will serve three-year terms. Unlike other bills setting up advisory boards, the Reasonable Profits Board would not be made up of any nominees fro

mircea_popescu: can confirm - made an awesome bet on betsofbitco.in well over a year before the conclusion (had previously been paid out by them) - when it came time to pay up, the site stopped closing bets and then eventually just shut down. I bet .1btc when btc was ~$70 and I would of won around .5btc when btc was ~$800"

mircea_popescu: you paid some guy 100 bux twice a week for 20 years, and he's not even sucking you off ?

mircea_popescu: xanthyos what the fuck are you doing with a 72yo psych

mircea_popescu: generally a paper wallet is stationary.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform one possibility yes. in fact, it's trivial to try and find a blockchain link to where the btc was before.

mircea_popescu: see if you can not get banned for like half a day

mircea_popescu: "Who is sending 1000 BTC to a site with no SSL? Any why would anyone trust this site anyways? People are stupid or it's fake."

mircea_popescu: NEITHER SIDE IS A GOOD BET!!!

mircea_popescu: for a guy that "doesn't understand how reality works", the situation in the field speaks well of putin.

mircea_popescu: anyway, from a purely geopolitical perspective... gutting the 51st us state is more than adequate escalation for the entire ukraine mess, much like the syria humiliation was more than adequate escalation for the ossetia mess.

mircea_popescu: mike_c ukraine is not a small country, is its problem

mircea_popescu: there's absolutely no reason to have a country larger than hong kong.

mircea_popescu: but anyway, regardless of scotland. basque country, french canada, transylvania, there were a coupla hundred states at the start of the century

mircea_popescu: a well, we've all got our limitations :D

mircea_popescu: anyway, living in a dirt poor province has its advantages.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if every land could every land were a duchy and russia'd consist of some land on the bug.

mircea_popescu: "Oh, you didn’t know? See, one of the differences between living in Buenos Aires and living in Salta, is that the life expectancy for males in Buenos Aires is 69,17, while in Salta its 66,17!!!! How Cool is that?! You get to kick the bucket while in your prime years, no one wants to be remembered like an old wrinkly man, rich or not. Why would you want to live in Buenos Aires and live a measly 4 years more of life?"

mircea_popescu: argentina... meh. i should be able to see the signs. meanwhile, their biggest bombing was of a 3 story jewish centre 30 years ago.

mircea_popescu: st to pay 300.000 a pop for a place in his Estancia… in one of the poorest provinces of Argentina… in the middle of the desert, where not a blade of grass would survive without artificial irrigation. JA!! Amazing what you can achieve with research!

mircea_popescu: You’d think that being rich and loving a wine sipping, golf playing sophisticated lifestyle you’d be better off in Napa Valley or something, but no, the best thing for you is to go to the middle of nowhere Argentina and then go from there to a middle of nowhere province where land used to sell for a dollar a square mile, that is until good ol’ Doug bought it and his research now shows that its in your best intere

mircea_popescu says "get a tablet" then remembers proper tablet was never made because apple got to it first.

mircea_popescu: so going in there and plowing a beating into the reddit crowd seems a decent use for a few bitcents.

mircea_popescu: "Cuestión, nos vemos el sábado que viene y recuerden: al que hable de bitcoins lo tiramos al agua / invita un shot a todos / pela."