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mircea_popescu: modern weapons yo. they only work in the hands of the proper people.
mircea_popescu: one day newsweek will need to borrow and find itself unable to.
mircea_popescu: "you and i might not care or know, but someone in the capitalist club is financing the new lightbulb"
mircea_popescu: ascii_field not you and me per se. bitcoin, itself, going for 10bn dollah nao.
mircea_popescu: the plan is of course to use it extensively on anyone related to usg, starting with the press, starting with idiot whores a la leah goodman and idiot venues a la newsweek
mircea_popescu: ascii_field problem is we're rich. this can no longer work for bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: the population simply collapses at that point. think cockroaches.
mircea_popescu: i don't think any human population can be stable with lifetimes averages < 30.
mircea_popescu: trinque hastings was born before me wtf. this is a long life now ?
mircea_popescu: "all the other rags" is the proper venue for that sorta nonsense.
mircea_popescu: felipelalli if you write some apologetic pos about how toejam is an actual service it's not getting published.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: think of it in terms of particles : if muons live a second and meons an hour, and at all times 10% of particle population is muons, then what changes does a meon to turn into a muon during its lifetime ?
mircea_popescu: (% of homeless people, life expectancy of homeless people, life expectancy of general population, -> over 50% or some shit)
mircea_popescu: ascii_field i had an article about how all us citizens should have a solid expectation of being homeless eventually
mircea_popescu: expectations coming to allign with reality is a measure of emerging sanity
mircea_popescu: "get an education get a house get insurance get a wife" etc. sure.
mircea_popescu: just, you know, everyone thinks they're speshul. but if i were a natl bank governor i wouldn't allow the derps to borrow either.
mircea_popescu: AND this is for the great benefit of everyone else, because nobody is as poor as usians.
mircea_popescu: if you imagine random guy in this world can borrow for any purpose you're nuts. all banks lend to nat'l government and us government only.
mircea_popescu: it is sort-of a feature, you only get to see the noobish beginnings of people newer than you.
mircea_popescu: yeah i think you found a problem that can't actually be resolved with currently available tools.
mircea_popescu: brendafdez i thought search automatically sorts by time, descending ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, is btcjam just about cooked up enough to go belly up or does it still have thread to survive this year ?
mircea_popescu: naphex ahahaha romania-insider, you should see that thing o gawd.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron> this is more real than most of the stuff people say "in person" << well yeah but that's more a function of how boring most people are.
mircea_popescu: dude, check it out, pete_dushenski was punished by the holy redditard empire for his murdersome streak.
mircea_popescu: but im going to forcefeed you "industria argentina" camembert just to make this point.
mircea_popescu: davout sorta minimum level of camembert i can live with.
mircea_popescu: "Why are the coins dated 2013 :/ because we designed and minted them last year, but we could assemble them last month.."
mircea_popescu: i don't recall if i ever had macadamia oil or not, either.
mircea_popescu: cazalla omfg what is this, the sin of going into places ?
mircea_popescu: "shop for food where people who look like you want to look shop for food"
mircea_popescu: i used your deli model in the us, and the cash & carry in ro. it all depends on the place really.
mircea_popescu: this is exactly the sort of doubt fit for an experiment.