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mircea_popescu: well... you got a pension system right ? just like the us ?
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> 'pragmas' for struct and bitfield layout << struct fo sho
mircea_popescu: all you gotta do is ask and generally, explain what the problems are you know.
mircea_popescu: im not disenfranchising them. i merely don't value their arbitrary enfranchisement more than i value a paper fixing new orbits for the solar system.
mircea_popescu: what a fortunate thing it is that in bitcoin, unlike in the united states, men with no means have no vote.
mircea_popescu: el to a very private boarding house. I took a reporter's berth and went to work. I was not entirely broken in spirit, for I was building confidently on the sale of the silver mine in the east. But I could not hear from Dan. My letters miscarried or were not answered.
mircea_popescu: The bubble scarcely left a microscopic moisture behind it. I was an early beggar and a thorough one. My hoarded stocks were not worth the paper they were printed on. I threw them all away. I, the cheerful idiot that had been squandering money like water, and thought myself beyond the reach of misfortune, had not now as much as fifty dollars when I gathered together my various debts and paid them. I removed from the hot
mircea_popescu: erchants, lawyers, doctors, mechanics, laborers, even the very washerwomen and servant girls, were putting up their earnings on silver stocks, and every sun that rose in the morning went down on paupers enriched and rich men beggared. What a gambling carnival it was! Gould and Curry soared to six thousand three hundred dollars a foot! And then—all of a sudden, out went the bottom and everything and everybody went to
mircea_popescu: Something very important happened. The property holders of Nevada voted against the State Constitution; but the folks who had nothing to lose were in the majority, and carried the measure over their heads. But after all it did not immediately look like a disaster, though unquestionably it was one I hesitated, calculated the chances, and then concluded not to sell. Stocks went on rising; speculation went mad; bankers, m
mircea_popescu: PeterL ppl's be bitching bout scoopbot all day. wha happened ?
mircea_popescu: check it out! i found what vc's are trying to live off today! a ~150 year old corpse!
mircea_popescu: this day—and when she projects a new surprise, the grave world smiles as usual, and says "Well, that is California all over."
mircea_popescu: It was a splendid population—for all the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths staid at home—you never find that sort of people among pioneers—you cannot build pioneers out of that sort of material. It was that population that gave to California a name for getting up astounding enterprises and rushing them through with a magnificent dash and daring and a recklessness of cost or consequences, which she bears unto
mircea_popescu: eopled land. And where are they now? Scattered to the ends of the earth—or prematurely aged and decrepit—or shot or stabbed in street affrays—or dead of disappointed hopes and broken hearts—all gone, or nearly all—victims devoted upon the altar of the golden calf—the noblest holocaust that ever wafted its sacrificial incense heavenward. It is pitiful to think upon.
mircea_popescu: h and energy, and royally endowed with every attribute that goes to make up a peerless and magnificent manhood—the very pick and choice of the world's glorious ones. No women, no children, no gray and stooping veterans,—none but erect, bright-eyed, quick-moving, strong-handed young giants—the strangest population, the finest population, the most gallant host that ever trooped down the startled solitudes of an unp
mircea_popescu: It was a driving, vigorous, restless population in those days. It was a curious population. It was the only population of the kind that the world has ever seen gathered together, and it is not likely that the world will ever see its like again. For observe, it was an assemblage of two hundred thousand young men—not simpering, dainty, kid-gloved weaklings, but stalwart, muscular, dauntless young braves, brimful of pus
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i don't know anyone is actually using their protocols for serious work anymore than anyone'd be using the foundation crapolade for any serious work.
mircea_popescu: gavin isn't quitting the scam foundation either, and obviously the msm would present it as "influential". what's it influence, reddit ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i don't get it, in what sense is CFRG/ietf influential ?
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: cadchf -40% in 1h total ponzy. << well... that's a point there, canada totally is a ponzi scheme.
mircea_popescu: Matt O'Brien is a reporter for Wonkblog covering economic affairs. He was previously a senior associate editor at The Atlantic. He is also an idiot soon to be permanently unemployed.
mircea_popescu: guess what, by the same measure apple, ibm, the us fed and washington post stock are all ponzi schemes.
mircea_popescu: washington post article is especially niggardly, which is what one'd expect from the vanguard of us socialism. "o noes, if you look at just this portion of the graph, bitcoin has been falling".
mircea_popescu: now, irl the cow's not spherical nor does it live in a vacuum, but hey.
mircea_popescu: consider my alt economy where the currency is teeth. every person can be guaranteed a job as selftooth extractor, paying 30 teeth over their lifetime.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes i fail to see how a guaranteed payment would be inflationary but a guaranteed job not << depends on the definition of guaranteed job. guaranteed payments are always inflationary - that's the very definition of inflation : payment without a counterprestation. jobs however can be guaranteed in such a way that prestation is at the same time guaranteed, at least theoretically.
mircea_popescu: lol gotta love the forum derps. "o hai we're here in the swamp isolated from the goings on in bitcoin. how come we have nfi what's going on ???"
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: chef, grocery shopper, dog walker <<< burlesque dancer, escort ?
mircea_popescu: so what, o'reilly smelled the gunpowder and is splitting from the scam foundation ? or are they actually yielding in corpore but still trying to protect gavin's head from my platter ?
mircea_popescu: davout this because clearly the fork won't fail, but contrairiwise
mircea_popescu: "our plan to drive adoption is twofold : first, make a lot of people off themselves. their thus orphaned offspring, will, necessarily, be adopted. we will endeavour to drive as many as possible, but some might have to walk."
mircea_popescu: <assbot> BBC News - 'In dog we trust' misprint on US sheriff's office rug << aww that';s so cute
mircea_popescu: lol. "o, there's a problem ? let's ignore it maybe it goes away".
mircea_popescu: yeah, libertador was under a foot of water coupla days ago
mircea_popescu: so you're really after the political statement that it is a business owner's own right and privilege to educate whatever he sees fit, and the intermeddling of some "state" is at best unwelcome ?
mircea_popescu: i have no idea what you imagine the point of a company is if not educate its workers.
mircea_popescu: —yet could not scrape up cash enough to buy a saddle, and was obliged to borrow one or ride bareback. He said if fortune were to give him another sixty-thousand-dollar horse it would ruin him."
mircea_popescu: "An individual who owned twenty feet in the Ophir mine before its great riches were revealed to men, traded it for a horse, and a very sorry looking brute he was, too. A year or so afterward, when Ophir stock went up to $3,000 a foot, this man, who had not a cent, used to say he was the most startling example of magnificence and misery the world had ever seen—because he was able to ride a sixty-thousand-dollar horse
mircea_popescu: tell me if it's going to affect the us's top rating, derps.
mircea_popescu: "Fitch's managing director of sovereign ratings Ed Parker said the move would not affect Switzerland's top-grade rating." ahahahaha jesus fucking christ.
mircea_popescu: and are going to SELL stuff like RUB ? what "people" are these people ?
mircea_popescu: orly ? people are goinmg to BUY dollars because they're worthless ?
mircea_popescu: ""I've never seen such a drop in one go, it's huge. People will probably be buying euros, but also dollars and other currencies," said one UBS teller, after selling euros to a Russian client."
mircea_popescu: SNB Chairman Thomas Jordan denied at a news conference that the move amounted to a "panic reaction", saying the cap had been scrapped because it was unsustainable. "If you decide to exit such a policy, you have to take the markets by surprise," Jordan said. << quite.
mircea_popescu: you know, the ironic bit here is that... ceausescu called his epic fail "epoca de aur". teh golden age of ballooning.
mircea_popescu: gtfo, you're a municipal council. stick to peeling chewinggum off the sidewalk and debating what uniform to put the parking meter chicks in.
mircea_popescu: this pretense that shit like "denmark" even have the power to legislate.
mircea_popescu: yeah but we dunno what it needs or what's going on, and so can't help.
mircea_popescu: the alternative of "it dun work and i'm mia" pretty much the worst possible approach.
mircea_popescu: ivreally wish people were a LOT more open with the problems they have. if there's one time to be all over this place, it's then.
mircea_popescu: but if that doesn't woirk i guess it'll have to be replaced.
mircea_popescu: they're too well integrated with euro to actually care.