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mircea_popescu: <cazalla> ben_vulpes, nope, i should learn but i just compost what's left << holy shgit man srsly ?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes i pay quarterly anyway, but as long as its set in the contract whatr diff does it make ?
mircea_popescu: i was the passive element really, they just were really intent on selfrape somehow
mircea_popescu: then prices went the fuck up and threatened to go further up, so they actually paid me to settle it.
mircea_popescu: anecdotally, i totally raped the power company in romania. one year they were desperate for cash, so you could make a deal where you prepaid consumption at fixed rate. so i did, i prepaid for like a year.
mircea_popescu: the more tangible the better. tuna is stuff. stocks... hardly.
mircea_popescu: as a general principle : the only use of money in an inflationary spiral is to buy stuff.
mircea_popescu: the 8% is illusory. having the stuff on hand for when the price hikes is not.
mircea_popescu: so stock up on stuff then. look at your grocery list, see everything on there you actually like and keeps well, buy a year's supply
mircea_popescu: buy an apartment in every city you ever heard of and rent it out. worst comes to worst you have where to live. stuff like that.
mircea_popescu: you're not making enough to actually have the problem of not being able to buy stuff.
mircea_popescu: on it goes, lulzfest is of such epic proportions it can scarcely be conveyed.
mircea_popescu: ie, 3x what a house apparently costs in ohio (and that 1% was off ~14% a year, mind)
mircea_popescu: they took out credits in swiss francs because they were 1% cheaper before the swiss franc doubled in value over a summer, so they could pay 80k for a shitty prefab apartment in a shitty bucharest neighbourhood,
mircea_popescu: yeah well... it gets better. they mostly owe to banks, have wives and children
mircea_popescu: and "entrepreneurs" aren't in that much better a shape, since we're on it.
mircea_popescu: in the immortal words of maggie the cat, "you can be young and without money, you just can't be old and without it"
mircea_popescu: couch surfing is a thing. bumming food and shelter off people you met at a party last week idem.
mircea_popescu: how do whores generally eat ? around the cock in their mouth.
mircea_popescu: and before you're shocked : at least half gawker employees are in exactly the same situation . if the thing didn't happen to be an organ of the socialist press, they'd be in prison like that indian diplomat for "slave labour"
mircea_popescu: actually, for years on end "journos" got no pay at all.
mircea_popescu: "La ultimul termen din 1 aprilie, Mazăre s-a prezentat la procesul de la Cureta de Apel Bucureşti" << they were trying for the "court of appeals". itcame out, "the appalling curette".
mircea_popescu: they could be Time Africa / Soviet Union / Best Korea just as well.
mircea_popescu: "we want to have a democratic process for as long as the results come out the way we like. we also want science that confirms our preconceived notions".
mircea_popescu: how very feminist, progressive and pseudo-justice anti-social of them
mircea_popescu: and they have a poll about "what" pre-decided words to ban ?
mircea_popescu: wait. so they banned words from the poll to ban words ?
mircea_popescu: so romanian presidential elections were 30%-40% first round, then 54% - 45% 2nd round. then they made a poll to see who people voted with, and 66% claim to have voted wioth the winner. that's 12% more than actually did. what fraction of that is people lying, and what fraction is votes stolen ?
mircea_popescu: it's like reading the fucking scinteia over here. "elena ceausescu has visited the highschool #85, gave dispositions"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform btw, because i remembered doing the research for my latest : speaking of the "how about you stop sending niggers" thing - the romanian secret service arrested a few dozen men mid december 1989 who were travelling to timisoara by themselves. no women, no children, "vacation". they had all heard that this was the oldest town in europe with electric illumination.
mircea_popescu: so what, someone supposedly used yahoo messenger on linux ? via what,s omething like an emulator ? and then the infector survived this mauling ?
mircea_popescu: "The infection vector varies among targets and no reproducible vector had been found at the time of writing. Symantec believes that some targets may be tricked into visiting spoofed versions of well-known websites and the threat may be installed through a Web browser or by exploiting an application. On one computer, log files showed that Regin originated from Yahoo! Instant Messenger through an unconfirmed exploit."
mircea_popescu: jus' trying to help, from my position as chief asshole this is easy.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: jurov: "the nakamoto institute" was working on an archive of the satoshi letters at one point. i don't know if they got anywhere with it. <<< not very far afaik. Pierre_Rochard << why not btw ? put krawsiz to some useful work!
mircea_popescu: jurov: quite a food ofr thought <<< it pains me to say, but it'd seem more food for shit than for thought.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: "Rejection reason: There's no way for a mod to find a suitable replacement for a random chance." << how do you find a "reasonable substitution" for a bet that goes "x website will publish a number ending in 5"
mircea_popescu: on the positive side, the log's back to manageable size.
mircea_popescu: kid wants to matter. kid doesn't have to change for this, kid wants to matter AS HE IS!
mircea_popescu: nah, this is a well known defect of badly made login scripts
mircea_popescu: i was thinking it's funny how you keep popping in and out
mircea_popescu: and as the expression goes, he who illuminates illuminates himself, so, lots of perhaps unknown material about yours truly as well.
mircea_popescu: no, thank you for pasting the actual command, it'd have taken me a while to piece it together lol