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mircea_popescu: how to suspend laws ? o i know, turn it into a forest!!1
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not more than say for your dr. lezzie theory above.
mircea_popescu: (just, THIS lolz you're better equipped to appreciate, not being gunnery sgts or w/e)
mircea_popescu: (and ftr, the island thing is laughable too. we're doing lolz here)
mircea_popescu: decimation 1% yield, as long as it's not your run, is fine isn't it.
mircea_popescu: did i ever recount the very early "special order" scam romanians got hit with ? in like 91 ?
mircea_popescu: i see it as, "elaborate virus, makes targetted fab shit out our own gear "accidentally", we buy it as tailings for pennies"
mircea_popescu: but if you ask me, i do not see ideal situation as "private island where 04938509348509834 SAM batteries and nukes, and purpose-built IC fab"
mircea_popescu: the problem is no longer "where to place the fab" but "where to find coders".
mircea_popescu: have them upgrade to archlinux "for their own interest".
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform have it secretly dualboot for all i care.
mircea_popescu: much like un declared tyrants lose their bank accounts.
mircea_popescu: the price for trying to be "supergovernment" is that you lose your claim to title for anything you might "own"
mircea_popescu: decimation the best solution to his problem would seem to me, bribing someone to defraud an existing fab
mircea_popescu: see, if i had the magical stone that lets you turn time back FOR THE OTHERS
mircea_popescu: this entire "i'd get an island" thing is not unlike the strange idea of the british troops to wear red.
mircea_popescu: and what happens once some schmoe makes the 2100 mile tomahawk ? you redeclare ?
mircea_popescu: <decimation> asciilifeform: yes, and on an island you can be the one lobbing rockets at whatever ship/aircraft is lobbing rockets at you << no you can't. why do you think "international waters" are so important.
mircea_popescu: if you wish to be equity neutral the more common strategy is "buy the equities short the index" or vice-versa.
mircea_popescu: who was the guy with the "short" fund, had some of the horrid0est results ever. i recall discussed here maybe cca 2013
mircea_popescu: decimation options have a very strong time correlation. unless you have a very clear date in mind, they're not usually the right tool
mircea_popescu: options are rarely the way to go for something like that.
mircea_popescu: it always seems remarkable when the sec comes out with "oh, clearly they had insider info, held 90% of this improbable strike". but if you go combing over the market, you'll see lots of similar situations all the time.
mircea_popescu: decimation bear in mind that this sort of thing is seen often enough.
mircea_popescu: fun fact : you can acutally hand-load the entropy pool.
mircea_popescu: afaik the way this works is, there's someone in management who's not retarded, cultivates these.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so the skunkworks without the management ?
mircea_popescu: so alf, guy was in zh two years ago. it never caught. also supression ?