mircea_popescu: "All 10 presidential candidates for the April 5 election have said they would sign the security agreement if elected. But Karzai does not want his legacy to include a commitment to extending a foreign military presence."

mircea_popescu: im at a loss as to what exact tumbleweeds need to be rolling around in one's skull for the notion to form that any one of those paragraphs is something he can come up with.

mircea_popescu: to anyone who doesn't much give a shit about the us, i would guess.

mircea_popescu: from now on the correct response to anyone asking if some bitcoin corp is "licensed" or "incorporated" or legally operating within the us is simply pointing out that there exists no such thing as a united states jurisdiction, robber baron claims notwithstanding.

mircea_popescu: in addressing the national emergency declared in this order, there need be no prior notice of a listing or determination made pursuant to section 1 of this order. "

mircea_popescu: "For those persons whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order who might have a constitutional presence in the United States, I find that because of the ability to transfer funds or other assets instantaneously, prior notice to such persons of measures to be taken pursuant to this order would render those measures ineffectual. I therefore determine that for these measures to be effective ☟︎

mircea_popescu: "(b) The prohibitions in subsection (a) of this section apply except to the extent provided by statutes, or in regulations, orders, directives, or licenses that may be issued pursuant to this order, and notwithstanding any contract entered into or any license or permit granted prior to the effective date of this order. "

mircea_popescu: ropriation of its assets, constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States, and I hereby declare a national emergency to deal with that threat.

mircea_popescu: cool, hopefully the russians also freeze a buncha us citizen's assets, and fiat truely collapses in a pre-hansa state of disarray

mircea_popescu: so the us is nao a rogue state.

mircea_popescu: but still, i'd eventually expect mining to settle down and 2.9x increases over a period to be rare.

mircea_popescu: FabianB do you see a way to convert x.idiff prices into bitbet diff bet odds ?

mircea_popescu: "She says that on a typical night on cam she can lose up to five pounds from all the work."

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mircea_popescu: LA TESTIMONIANZA. Me lo conferma Pascal, gigolò romano. “Sono stato contattato da un’imprenditrice svizzera – dice in esclusiva a “Sex and Rome”-. Durante la cena, tra una chiacchiera e l’altra, in attesa di passare dal vino al letto, scopro che anche lei, come me, ha investito nei bitcoin e sfruttato la bolla di marzo”

mircea_popescu: administered in some manner and thereby insulated at least partially from normal market forces. This administration can be carried out (a) legally through government intervention (until recently, this category included pricing for truckers and deposit costs for financial institutions), (b) illegally through collusion, or (c) “extra-legally” through OPEC-style foreign cartelization (with tag-along benefits for dom

mircea_popescu: "To understand the change, we need to look at some major factors that affect levels of corporate profitability generally. Businesses in industries with both substantial over-capacity and a “commodity” product (undifferentiated in any customer-important way by factors such as performance, appearance, service support, etc.) are prime candidates for profit troubles. These may be escaped, true, if prices or costs are

mircea_popescu: also would be nice to get a read as to whether danny webster is an uneducated welder from Leicestershire who tends to get involved in street fights. his subnormal mug certainly supports that theory.

mircea_popescu: we're not on the 1st of february, nor are we on the first of march, nor are we living in the alternative world where craig woods is a businesswoman or danny webster a ceo.

mircea_popescu: meanwhile a 23yo fuckwith stated that "The public facing websites are being tied into the advertising campaign which starts on 1st Feb. If you have concerns about me then so be it, if you would also like me to spend my time delivering updates then just say, however I do look forward to proving posts like these wrong."

mircea_popescu: so to this day if i google "neobee" i get 1st a havelock link and 2nd a webmail account for neobee.net, then reddit and btctalk pages.

mircea_popescu: or in george's gf's words, "Ha.Ha.Ha. ha...You don't have any money. I make more money than you do. ha. ha. ha. Yeah.. give me the papers I'll sign 'em.( she leaves) a pre-nup..."

mircea_popescu: but let me point out that digital comms is a whole new industry.

mircea_popescu: joecool i guess there's a good point here, in the sense that the infrastructure is really old, phreakin did exist, what is one to do

mircea_popescu: hey, even sacred monsters a la buffett are reduced to teary eyed confessions of belief in the party, even at the zenith of their career/intellectual lucidity

mircea_popescu: it's by now a mistake to see anything in the us command economy as meaningfully separate from anything else.

mircea_popescu: i have no idea who exactly would wish to live in a world where a company making a product asks any government what it thinks on the topic.

mircea_popescu: the whole banking system was well fucked, what with its odd notions of a cheque

mircea_popescu: you need a tower reasonably close

mircea_popescu: this'd be a better distinction than simply over/under, because it's a difference in kind not degree.

mircea_popescu: rom entities to rules, it also lost the support of the people. There weren’t that many people burning American flags in 1860, you know ? Why do you think not ? You can support a government killing Indians, or bison. You can’t support a government fighting chemical compounds."

mircea_popescu: specifically, "As far as experience shows, people don’t tend to support states that either stupidly or unwittingly include rules among their enemies. You can’t win a war against math, or against drugs, or against “social injustice”, or “kulaks”. Soon after the Soviet government moved its focus from entities to rules, it lost the support of the people. Soon after the other-Soviet government moved its focus f

mircea_popescu: and for that matter it'd be a lot saner if you stuck around for few hours after asking for input on an article in so i don't have to make gribble work overtime

mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves i think there's a special command like addkey or somesuch