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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 ?
mircea_popescu: the cryptome piece itself is indexed (if one looks by "last week" results)
mircea_popescu: understand, it does not take MUCH for an inept derp on the margin of his sanity to lose internet access.
mircea_popescu: maybe they pursued a defamation suit, sent c&ds around ?
mircea_popescu: but wouldn't you say that describing that legalese boilerplate as "jew baiting" in 2000 would offer sufficient explanation of why he can't get his shit published in 2012 or w/e ?
mircea_popescu: he's not insane, he's just been angry for too long. except im pretty sure he has both these.
mircea_popescu: reddit thinks it a great success (the 2nd, not the 1st)
mircea_popescu: well... my twitter account got abandoned once and banned once.
mircea_popescu: so you're saying this particular zoom quantity has a quality all of its own ?
mircea_popescu: such perfect italian opportunity to conquer galia again.
mircea_popescu: srsly, i am so disappoint the french are not like, being invaded.
mircea_popescu: if he disavows any, the rest can now stand on your "didn't disavow me!!1"
mircea_popescu: if he universally ignores th egarbage, the garbage has to stand on its own