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mircea_popescu: nobody ever got addicted. when the fuck did codeine become an additcive substance. wtf is with these derps.
mircea_popescu: jesus these people derping about codeine. here's a fun fact : as a growing tyke in soviet romania, mp like any other chitlins was administered phosphoric codeine freely for coughs.
mircea_popescu: people love to imagine that playing ball has no costs. this is not unlike the chipper's fantasy that he's not a junkie.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, only someone who had physically visited switzerland cca say 1994 can appreciate the immensity of the drop
☟︎ mircea_popescu: anyway, they've been begging for the past years to be forgotten, but my and afaik everyone's call is "no" and "fuck you"
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, the ukrainian student doesn't actually have to pay rent.
mircea_popescu: yeah, good deal. very comfortable, they can charge for a hairjob/blowjob twice to ten times what a starving ukrainian student gets away with
mircea_popescu: 'while the locals can choose from a variety of hospitality jobs, from hairdresser ot prostitute ?
mircea_popescu: you mean, with insane rent costs because all the visiting bureaucrats can afford to pay them
mircea_popescu: also an erstwhile major international power, that's meanwhile become a reservation/zoo.
mircea_popescu: they lost everything, over a coupla decades, simply for acquiescing to the kyc/aml bullcrap.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, in the 90s they were a major international player
mircea_popescu: in the former, the derps think the us is ok. in the latter, the derps realise the us is a terrorist entreprise.
mircea_popescu: which is why the us is so successful in retarded thirld world countries (say, the uk, or switzerland) and so utterly ineffectual in clever thirld world countries (say, iraq)
mircea_popescu: if the cropto ag can be made complex enough, the chieftain derps can be given their florida retirement while the derps don't sniff the problem.
mircea_popescu: decimation that part is simple. the thirld world consists of derps and chieftain derps.
mircea_popescu: where a good heuristic for peopleness is a strict disinterest in politeness.
mircea_popescu: decimation the problem is they have no connection with higher level thinking.
mircea_popescu: and if we ever run out of money, we'll withdraw infinity from a negative account!
mircea_popescu: o i know! we could resolve problems by positing nonsense and then building cleanly around it!
mircea_popescu: what the shit is it supposed to be, like a self-eating snake ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this notion of "self describing" is possibly the most idiotic thing self-important derps on "committees" ever came up with.
mircea_popescu: ;;google "exploitable bugs in all known implementations"
mircea_popescu: the spec is about as stupid as a hardware spec could be.
mircea_popescu: fun fact : Belize, Central African Republic, Djibouti all have a lower yearld gdp
mircea_popescu: lol apparently the weev dude is now a white supremacist.
mircea_popescu: (insmuch as the most you could do, cca 2010 or before, was to move them into... another cage, worse made)
mircea_popescu: the thing is, without bitcoin that cage can't even be made apparent
mircea_popescu: how the fuck would you succeed, and what would that mean. instaunwind.
mircea_popescu: <decimation> indeed. The other day I was trying to find an etf or stock that didn't depend on 'bezzle' (ie usg fiat finance). I didn't succeed. << this is roughly equivalent to, "the other day, i tried to find a natural process going backwards in entropy. i didn't succeed"
mircea_popescu takes cabs, deduces receipts. a dollar a km in .ro shithole, 5 eu/km in germany, etc.
mircea_popescu: so, independent contractor is better, if you're white, male and young.
mircea_popescu: yeah, if you're a woman you can't sue yourself for having jacked off in your home office.
mircea_popescu: yeah, independent contractor is better if you can get it.
mircea_popescu: s a secial extemption written in the law against people like it folks being independent.
mircea_popescu: decimation> my point is that a real estate agent is considered an independent contractor even when she works in an office with a secretary <<< there
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> so why collect it back as tax? answer: give the 'patient' an opportunity to underpay, collect penalty. << more like, give patient something to do with his time.
mircea_popescu: yeah speaking of which, how's those posters things ? any bites from renters The20YearIRCloud ?
mircea_popescu: Abuses under Obiang have included "unlawful killings by security forces; government-sanctioned kidnappings; systematic torture of prisoners and detainees by security forces; life threatening conditions in prisons and detention facilities; impunity; arbitrary arrest, detention, and incommunicado detention."
mircea_popescu: it's exactl;y backwards, the smaller the base, the easier high percentiles are.
mircea_popescu: jurov you will notice that a) all this was injected into the conversation via bitbet and b) fucktards, srsly.
mircea_popescu: "It is NOT impossible to have such an enormous (gigantic) ginormous rise in prices - eg from $300 to $10k; however, the lower that BTC prices go, the more difficult it becomes to imagine such an upward BTC price explosion.... .. such as 30x..."
mircea_popescu: *: punkman remembers the derps trying to do webfonts before we had webfonts <<< now that was a riot
mircea_popescu: <bounce> forgot whose study it was, but apparently the easiest to read is about 65 cols referencing fixed-pitch. << bunch of military studies over the years, 60 to 80 in anyu case.
mircea_popescu: also known as the "full faith and credit of the united states government" scam.
mircea_popescu: by substracting infinite moneyz from negative value of moneyz.
mircea_popescu: this is what goat claimed re pirate, the whole clutch of them re nefario etc.
mircea_popescu: the scammer train : all scammers who stil believe can hide in plain sight can conveniently claim that a well known scammer owes them.
mircea_popescu: ;;rate garr255 -1 GLBSE scammer, poster child for all the lying & fraudulent behaviour that association would promise.