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mircea_popescu: it has no intended result, not being regulation. it simply flows from causes. this is why it's sustainable where the regulatory crud never was.
mircea_popescu: trinque comes down exactly to the ancient causes and purposes distinction. if people find a way to fly, nobody "deems gravity broken" or hoilds talks on how to patch it "because this wasn't the intended result"
mircea_popescu: gravity is a limit but it regulates nothing. the murder taboo is a limit and regulatory.
mircea_popescu: trinque the difference between that and regulation is the statutory nature of the later.
mircea_popescu: but otherwise, most everything in life is unregulated.
mircea_popescu: btw cazalla and all folks who actually play games : once eulora 0.1 comes out, ima hold an event where there's gonna be magic money bags, yielding coin each day. i want y'all to show up an' get one.
mircea_popescu: the problem is "consumers have come to expect" and "representative democracy", not the central bank.
mircea_popescu: people have to accept their feelings don't matter. they always end up doing this, it's just some have to get raped with a spiked club first.
mircea_popescu: yes the market would be a great solution, were it applied. sadly, "the political costs". ie, exactly the same tired old record that drove the soviet union into the wall.
mircea_popescu:
http://log1.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=04-04-2015#1087666 << dude, it's not a discussion that "markets don't work". it's a discussion that before markets can work, you gotta have them. similarly, if you don't have running water, you have a hygiene problem. this isn't because "bathrooms don't work", it's because you.do.not.have.one.
mircea_popescu: a play about the free market, for instance, is not itself a free market.
mircea_popescu: not everything that happens to be perceptible is automatically a free market by virtue of that.
mircea_popescu: ballet is not "an efficient market", for instance. even if it exists, phenomenologically.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what boggles most about those gymnastics is the fact that somehow the same people don't link the dots between "unaffordable health care" and "inflation". isn't this strange ?
mircea_popescu: compared to this, i couldn't care less what ipads cost.
mircea_popescu: fact remains you ARE stuck paying for college. and you are stuck paying for "owning" a "house".
mircea_popescu: if i go to the tailor and i tell him i want pants that are nine feet long, he doesn't get to tell me pant length is not a fair metric.
mircea_popescu: much shittier houses today than in 1965, about a margin of 2 to 3, that cost... 30x more, just about.
mircea_popescu: so : five to ten as bad college today as compared to 1965, which costs 100k instead of 10k. this is about 50x to 100x factor.
mircea_popescu: (hey, if the usg is pretending like increases in quality wash inflation away, same argument can be used the other way too)
mircea_popescu: divide the sum of this basked in 1965 with the sum of this basket today
mircea_popescu: take three houses in the top 10% land value areas of the country, take college funds for twelve children.
mircea_popescu: depends on your definition of inflation. by my definition of inflation, the us experiences about 15% a year, on average, since 2000. that's exacerbating over time, so 2015 may well see 30%+
mircea_popescu: us had inflation over 10% a year (not counting moimentary flareups of 1000% APY for a day or w/e) almost each decade.
mircea_popescu: look into volcker, the problem he addressed, how he addressed it etc.
mircea_popescu: junseth " The US has kept inflation down to around 3-4% for the most part since the beginning of central banking in the US." << you know that is atrociously untrue.
mircea_popescu: "Tasmanian poppies are highly toxic if ingested. They are uniquely different to standard poppies and have been developed to produce chemicals suitable for industrial processing only." << check out the proper use of ge huh.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the lseek error seems perhaps reminiscent of the fat problems ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you will notice the "eh why" point never actually came up ? somewhat to my surprise honestly.
mircea_popescu: mats someone who is not you could have bought a shitton of seeds, ground them finely, poured straight vinegar on the whole mess, let it sit for a while, then wash it all out and enjoy.
mircea_popescu: they want the latex, which means that pod won't produce.
mircea_popescu: they put it in cozonac instead of proper black wallnut paste, it's appalling.
mircea_popescu: at least, it was in a bunch of traditional romanian pastries i never cared for.
mircea_popescu: afaik the paste (very finely ground seeds with butter) is widely used as a filling
mircea_popescu gets flashbacks of alf dissatisfied with heroin on market, starting work on own poppies.
mircea_popescu: (btw, i'd have figured you bought a hardcopy of tbofh)
mircea_popescu: and that this arrangement came to a halt recently, when some arkansas derps bought it, and are republishing a widely bowdlerized version.
mircea_popescu: it seems : that the original author pulled a deepthroat, that the original publisher owned the rights to it
mircea_popescu: btw re anarchist cookbook thing, it seems there's a bit of americana in there.
mircea_popescu: speaking of skin cancer : did you know that mohs for melanoma works or doesn't work entirely depending on whoever does it ?