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greenspan_fan: my impression was that they're past the point of being
a functioning business since they're not bothering to update/answer customers, and one of the public facing parts of their business (twitter) hasn't been updated and what is there is embarrassing, since, like
a month ago
BingoBoingo: greenspan_fan: There is
a lot to learn from Vexual
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: There is
a huge gulf between an Officer and
a Soldier though.
mircea_popescu: hitler was, if my otherwise uninformed opinion interests, simply caught in
a battle with his own demons.
decimation: it's true. the invasion creates
a Schelling point
mircea_popescu:
a russian officer makes the point that most of the russian soldiers didn't even know wtf germany is
mircea_popescu: decimation in one of the countless retellings of the entire nazi thing (
a woman in berlin)
mircea_popescu: so yarvin delivers. there, greenspan_fan is
a short and sweet explanation of the concept.
decimation: it seems that there would be
a pile of nazi intelligence or something that would substantiate the claim
mircea_popescu: germany left alone to overrun england'd have been
a royal fucking pain.
greenspan_fan: not really sure if that was winnable, and also, germany constituted
a much greater threat
decimation: right, it's basically
a massive number of peasents
greenspan_fan: chiang kai shek was
a miserable bastard who was mad at the us because they got shafted after wwii and korea
mircea_popescu: that would be what you're proposing, n'est pas ? that it could do such
a thing, "if need be"
greenspan_fan: but for nixon it wasn't from
a position of supplication
greenspan_fan: I wanted to avoid vietnam and associated regions because that's
a debate quagmire
mircea_popescu: arguably clinton was
a lot better than the lot of them, but hey. he didn;t in the end have the balls to come out and say "i am the president. i fuck whoever i want whenever i want in whatever manner i feel like. get lost twerps"
mircea_popescu: up until the time when barbarians stormed in and took
a piss on their kimono
decimation: george bush was
a figurehead upon
a bureaucracy
mircea_popescu: at
a cost to the us of about billions in direct damages, and then billions more in materiel over
a war they've yet to win.
mircea_popescu: ten arabs turned
a spot of their choosing in manhattan from bank to mosque.
greenspan_fan: in the event of some unifying scenario of principle actors (say,
a world war) they'd be much more effective
greenspan_fan: i'd still say that the u.s. could project more power but doesn't because the world is too complicated. Something might be
a good idea tactically but terrible strategically, etc.
mircea_popescu: it shows that in
a national emergency the govt and contractor interests are not merely not alligned
greenspan_fan:
a national emergency (when government and contractor interests are aligned) would actually put that capacity to use
mircea_popescu: somehow it wasn't
a north vietnamese that leaked the homemade porn of the fucktarded "supreme leader"
mircea_popescu: no, it wouldn't be. he'd just be stripped naked and anally raped with
a pole for public amusement.
mircea_popescu: so he ends up "investing" : he buys
a share in the local cafe
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i believe that to be
a lie. would you say i'm not personally an example of in the open etc ?
mircea_popescu: Solzhenitsyn spent
a while exiting in his head then did it properly
decimation: perhaps it will be possible that
a group of pissed off Euros will invade some reasonable turd world country and create
a colony
mircea_popescu: every dood with
a ged and
a history of shelf stacking thinks they're
a person just as much as me. this bizarre state of affairs can only lead to fallover.
greenspan_fan: mircea_popescu: they move on to
a new fandom (catharsis!) or get
a clue; new people are attracted by the same mechanisms as the previous cohort
decimation: I suspect that merely attempting to enter the same confined room with him would be considered
a 'microagression'
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform srsly, construct
a microagression scenario.
decimation: In old Japan, it wasn't illegal to be an asshole. It wasn't even illegal to be an asshole to
a samurai. But it was illegal to be an asshole to
a samurai - if you weren't
a samurai. See how it works? You might say the samurai were
a sort of protected class.
A system not at all unique to old Japan. Always and everywhere, "microaggressing" against the protected class is hazardous to your health.
mircea_popescu: arguably society as
a whole extracts more benefits from the stupid who think themselves smart than from any other venue,
mircea_popescu: in general, if you're too stupid to make
a pan, you're much better off thinking you're too stupid to make
a pan thank thinking you're smart enough to make
a pan.
mircea_popescu: cryptorush is
a fine example in an endless string of fine examples as to why this nonsense is harmful to the stupid poor.
BingoBoingo: If
a billionaire falls 99% in the forbes standings they are still richer than Rap Genius
BingoBoingo: Fun would be taking
a time machine back to 400AD carrying
a pound of black pepper and an sks.
greenspan_fan: you're much less likely to get hassled as
a billionaire if you pretend other people are worth as much as you by some metric
BingoBoingo: Moar nao can fit on
a microsd card. I'd like to feel that.
mircea_popescu: but say it was like
a dollar, you needed 5 of them for
a cup of coffee
mircea_popescu: i wonder what one could have bought with
a denarius or two back then
decimation: who is going to go to Sam's club to buy
a bitcoin miner?
BingoBoingo: I only learned of this yesterday. That BFL has
a 10 GH/s miner sold through warehouse stores.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Well, I think when herbi was trying to sculpt an orderbook I pointed out that in fiat world the cheapest part is the money. Maybe this week
a trailer park sells for $200, maybe next for $200,000
decimation: I bought one of the knc miner neptunes, thinking they would deliver. In retrospect, it was
a dumb idea. Now they want to deliver me rights to their "datacenter" that will mine for me
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo boxing has the problem that every fight kills you
a little.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: In
a tournament she may have no choice.
BingoBoingo: The Alma mater couldn't do it. Maybe this woman who turned tits into
a rocket can.
mircea_popescu: i doubt miss williams wants to play
a scrappy player from romania.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: If she matches up against WIlliam soon I'm going to make so much money and maybe kill
a sportsbook.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Well he started with two other noobs. One had sense to quit hours after my blog post. The other didn't quit until
a few weeks ago. The one unfortunately stuck with the forum handle has sent me so much angry correspondence.
mircea_popescu: (they spell the ligature i as
a j for some god forsaken reason)
mircea_popescu: "It is plain to see, from both sides of the issue, the troubles associated with PayPal payments. The problem SWMC would have with accepting PayPal payments is this: An investor purchases
a Contract for X-GH/s using PayPal for the purchase. The mined BTC for the Contracts is paid to the investor over the following 6 months (for this example, the life of profitability of the investment.) Then, sometime between 6 to 12 mo
decimation: as MP pointed out bitcoin is inflationary for
a long time
mircea_popescu: grossly stated, "seeing how the value of gold in
a finite space would be
a function of other physical processes in the same finite space,
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i think i may prove
a metastability re neutronsa
mircea_popescu: kinda shows why the entire utilitarian and monetarist stuff is nonsense with
a dab of cream.
mircea_popescu: well wouldn't
a car which also sucks your cock be naturally more expensive than one that doesn't ?
decimation: I was watching Top Gear last sunday and they were driving
a Dacia sedan
mircea_popescu: guy buys
a new car. friend asks him what color is it ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the absence of both of these being long regarded as
a bug in the implementation of physicality.