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mircea_popescu: if you're the sort that he was describing, you don't care so much what it costs, you care what it gets you.
mircea_popescu: that's thje idea. if you're the sort that keeps 2-3 chicks off the street, micromanage their day, you save on the electricity bill.
mircea_popescu: 10k in the hands of a judicious woman can readily beat 1mn in lobby funds.
mircea_popescu: some women you don't care if they spend 10k a month, because they create 1mn of value or w/e.
mircea_popescu: if you're the roller type, keep numerous, market scaling of power.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform depends. if you're the homebody sort, keep 2-3 girls, marked economy of scale.
mircea_popescu: <NewLiberty> ^^ yes, my friend that does this has household expenses >US$50K per month. << that's a decent dozen o' slavegirls.
mircea_popescu: korean computer wiz kid gets into ny crime family. by asking.
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> danielpbarron: but a random person off the street cannot enter that world simply by asking. << you know this is actually a great idea for a movie.
mircea_popescu: this is getting to gnarled up to be approached. i'm out.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field the problem you espouse is entirely of your own imagination.
mircea_popescu: so does it consist of guy making incalls like a fucking hooker ?!
mircea_popescu: go to buy "really thick glass" , "you mean bulletproof ?" "yuah that's ti!"
mircea_popescu: to any functioning suchshop. "o wow, they have really thick glass and they make me put the stuff in that roller thing"
mircea_popescu: ascii_field really ?! a sane person can learn them by... going there.
mircea_popescu: but i didn't mean "the world" per se. i just mean, idiots try to rob a bookie, goes nowhere. why not ?
mircea_popescu: yes. and bookies and what have you. ever seen snatch ?
mircea_popescu: people work as tellers in pond shops for minimum wage. there's no big deal humint involved.
mircea_popescu: lol great story bro, except... "gimme your valuables". what's so revolutionary there ?
mircea_popescu: "Bitcoin, the technology that’s meant to revolutionize the way we think of money, is simultaneously revolutionizing the way we get mugged."
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> it's one of those faux loopholes that's really a honeypot << so turn it on at obama's girlfriend's house.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field> but that the intersection of folks who -have- the problem, and those able to solve it, is thus far zero << this is merely an artefact of your own perspective, is my story an' im stickig to it.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo did he ever end up kidnapped by evil man ?
mircea_popescu: i never followed that franchise, but did batman have a vallet /
mircea_popescu: and again : sean's dead. your argument is therefore invalid.
mircea_popescu: nothing in principle wrong with either approach, which was the point.
mircea_popescu: there aren't computers that don't depend on their compilers etc.
mircea_popescu: there are people who don't give a shit about some woman's spawn. more women, mopre spawn.
mircea_popescu: " machines are exactly as 'loyal' as their operator is clever and conscientious - men are not."
mircea_popescu: the only thing that's blatantly ridiculous is that beck forgot to mention where he got it
mircea_popescu: "Here's one that even The Onion would reject as too blatantly ridiculous: American right-wing radio and TV clown Glenn Beck believes that Sean Smith aka Vile Rat, the EVE Online diplomat who was killed earlier this month during the attack on the US embassy in Benghazi, was actually a CIA agent, relaying communications to his fellow undercover agents at Something Awful."
☟︎ mircea_popescu: or that schmucky someting awful kid, whatever his name was.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field see, this is how i distinguish a genius geek from a simple geek : the latter programs computer to interact with him. the former, to interact with the girls.
mircea_popescu: remember, any systematic weaponry can be turned around the operator.
mircea_popescu: so pick up nomenklatura daughters, have them do it for you.
mircea_popescu: there exist people, and not just in florida, who can get you a pellet of usd 100 notes on a half day notice.
mircea_popescu: your argument reduces to "i can't make a bottling plant out of a gallon of juice". sure.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field the guy's 11k are NOT a crate of dollars. barely one brick.
mircea_popescu: because why bother, when you can just wail and wait for tit.
mircea_popescu: just, you know, "consumers have come to expect". and they will die with that "expectation".
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski> thestringpuller: you can't use bitstamp ? or bitcoin-otc ? or one of those schmancy atms ? << it's bs, all of it. people can trade ~infinity btc/usd without any problems PROVIDED THEYRE IN THE WOT
mircea_popescu: how well this works in practice... well... nothing works well in practice.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field> mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and then << the general concept being that people will find themselves under so much pressure as the thing advances, that marginals (ie, people who depend on paychecks etc) are prolly in a very weak position to participate anyway.
mircea_popescu: motherfucker this guy totally beat me to the punch reviewing kerouac.