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mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes anyway, i'll pass you a signed tarball tomorrow ?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes i suppose "first otc rating" would be better way to go about it no ?
mircea_popescu: and i imagine they probably did all the shitting they can
mircea_popescu: it is, substantially, but it's indexed differently for the latecomers.
mircea_popescu: but you don't want it to sync anyway, just feed it a preindexed chain.
mircea_popescu: my twitter's dead and i don't feel like social media anyway
mircea_popescu: MITRE Partners with University System of Maryland to Operate New Cybersecurity R&D Center for the National Institute of Standards and Technology ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and check out the cve link for details, going straight to an unmaintained dump page.
mircea_popescu: pick among these according to which bias (early, late) you want
mircea_popescu: othernubs` you'll never get there. but anyway : 0.6.3 most recent acceptable ; 0.5.3 i guess, earliest acceptable.
mircea_popescu: <othernubs`> publishing job in danger of morphing into coding job <<< nubsy has antennae, and they're tuned for danger!
mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> <mircea_popescu> anyway, the consensus seems to be 6.3 ? << i've yet to hear a compelling argument for anything past 0.5.3 << ok, so 5.4
mircea_popescu: this is no figure of speech either. in 1992ish, plenty of romanians working for the state made ~1.20 dollars a day
mircea_popescu: but romania is white people, and somalia is black people.
mircea_popescu: russia moved from 1990 to 2010 about as much as china moved from 1980 to 2005.
mircea_popescu: which is actually the major bargaining chip with the eu, not stupid produce import bans
mircea_popescu: this is also quite right. either russia or china can in fact raise interest rates causing a collapse.
mircea_popescu: trade deal (that circumvents the US dollar). In comparison, the US is a dead man walking: unless it can continue rolling over trillions of dollars in short-term debt every month at record-low interest rates, it won't be able to pay the interest on its debt or its bills.
mircea_popescu: Financially, Russia's position is so solid that even the three Western credit ratings agencies don't have the gall to downgrade Russia's rating, sanctions notwithstanding. This is a country that is aggressively paying down its foreign debt, is running a record-high budget surplus, has a positive balance of payments, is piling up physical gold reserves, and not a month goes by that it doesn't sign a major international
mircea_popescu: five bux, which is a gross estimate of its actual net worth, won't make a difference.
mircea_popescu: it's not a matter of bankruptcy anyway. so debt is senior to equity, facebook implodes leaving a 60 bn hole, what's going to be sold ? watsapp ?
mircea_popescu: decimation nah, they still have the ability to choose one.
mircea_popescu: w. joyce was not particularly luxurious for that matter.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform anything can be obtained from "the internet". obviously. knowing what to obtain however...
mircea_popescu: anyway, anyone want to bet on whether the stock or the bond market will take it in the ass ? thatr's the major debate in washnington atm. stocks are basically the young libtards, bonds the old ones.
mircea_popescu: it's correct, but too valuable for him. he was given notes.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you can tell me anything you wish, but he IS a kgb puppet. there's just no way he could have figured this one on his own.
mircea_popescu: the Federal Reserve is fresh out of magic bullets and faces a choice between crashing the stock market and crashing the bond market. << this is exactly correct by the way.
mircea_popescu: t lots of conventional forces right in the heart of Europe)."
mircea_popescu: "For example, it is known that after the end of World War II America's military planners were thinking of launching a nuclear strike against the USSR, and the only thing that held them back was the fact that they didn't have enough bombs, meaning that Russia would have taken over all of Europe before the effects of the nuclear strikes could have deterred them from doing so (Russia had no nuclear weapons at the time, bu
mircea_popescu: well, there's the castle, and the rock upon which it rests, and the province in which the rock lies...
mircea_popescu: like trying to evaluate the weight of the stone around a man's neck who's chained to the castle wall.
mircea_popescu: so quantifying it is pointless. it's never getting paid anyway.
mircea_popescu: more importantly : if the various cds, swaps and futures unwind, that's a notional .5 to 100 quadrillion dollars gone
mircea_popescu: this for a number of reasons, chief among which : the reported figures doesn't and hasn't for decades included all sorts of figures.
mircea_popescu: decimation nah, there's practically infinity outstanding.
mircea_popescu: dude, trust the enemy to give true to life portraits, it always works.
mircea_popescu: "You'd think that Obama has already overplayed his hand, and should behave accordingly. His popularity at home is roughly the inverse of Putin's, which is to say, Obama is still more popular than Ebola, but not by much. He can't get anything at all done, no matter how pointless or futile, and his efforts to date, at home and abroad, have been pretty much a disaster. So what does this social worker turned national masco
mircea_popescu: yes, 1980 was before "everyone goes to college" and before "we'll outsource" and before all the rest of the crap.
mircea_popescu: decimation nothing's as readily persuasive as a mistake.
mircea_popescu: just, you know, us bureaucrats do not manage to comprehend they're nobody and need to stfu when actual people are talking.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah well, anything's plausible, but unforced mistakes are still stupid.
mircea_popescu: i can now leisurely transfer moneyz from washington to tehran, just hop it off swift into russwift via the national network in any of two dozen different sattelite states.
mircea_popescu: this, by the way, is factual, and incalculably fucking stupid.
mircea_popescu: There were even some threats to cut Russia off from the SWIFT system, which would have made it quite difficult to transfer funds between Russia and the West, but what these threats did instead was to give Russia the impetus to introduce its own RUSSWIFT system, which will include even Iran, neutralizing future American efforts at imposing financial restrictions.
mircea_popescu: well... narratives aren't soldiers, narratives are whores. substantially different.
mircea_popescu: seems the way current bureaucracies are interpreting the "ideas are soldiers" thing is very pedestrian seo : "narratives are soldiers"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform were you looking for "The American behavior throughout this succession of defeats has been remarkably consistent, with the constant element being their flat refusal to deal with reality in any way, shape or form." ? :D
mircea_popescu: guy made some allegations of theft, fraud and embezzelment, died in custody without having been charged, a week before the one year (seriously ?!?!?!) term he could be held without trial.