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mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes no dude, iut's not a real thing. the idea was that somehow there's a cutoff : up to moment t, imigrants are a ok. at t+1 they're now cattle. well, how do you choose t ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform do you know the "first shave, then shoot" one ?
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell bagehot now you can self-voice, pm assbot !up
mircea_popescu: !v assbot:mircea_popescu.rate.bagehot.1:db856e96a87cbb812489644043c3577315f61997069f2c79c3c0d4cd29f66b59
mircea_popescu: there's no relation between assbot and gribble really.
mircea_popescu: if you can't use a bank, join a local community and do face to face.
mircea_popescu: if you can use a bank, talk to sturles, he's been doing the offices of noob introducer since 2010.
mircea_popescu: i don't think many people do that, on account of how unreliable it is.
mircea_popescu: just like gravity causes fishes to swim and birds to fly, just so money and the economy cause black people to be poor and jews to have long noses
mircea_popescu: but vice-versa : money and the economy decide what people are.
mircea_popescu: one interesting idea that came out here is that the people do not decide what either money or the economy are.
mircea_popescu: but, the discussion is in the logs, you can traverse it by searching. prolly a good start as any :
mircea_popescu: actually, this is exactly backards from reality. bitcoin is an utter mess, it works mostly by accident, most of the bits are horribly broken and dysfunctional.
mircea_popescu: people have trouble making rent down on earth, what mars.
mircea_popescu: " said Peter Smith, the Phoenix principal investigator at the University of Arizona in Tucson.
mircea_popescu: "Perchlorate is not a common word in the English language; all of us had to go and look it up," << pls resign now.
mircea_popescu: but anyway : it'd seem on cursory inspiection that the components market is actually not very healthy.
mircea_popescu: so apparently there's exactly one producer of niobium oxide capacitors, and you can't put an order in.
mircea_popescu: re: electronic bits. funny what's left once a major empire collapses. japan used to own the electronics trade. and they still do, except... it's mostly moved away from the stuff they make.
mircea_popescu: decimation actually traders use a very similar thing to replace phones
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> i mean, wtf ?! << it's widely used by gamers.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> it's about 'imperio in imperium' << quite.