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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.
mircea_popescu: is this the guy who lied about shil bidding on his own "auction" then being proven to have lied ?
mircea_popescu: <kakobrekla> at least euro is also worthless << lol keep a stiff upper lip!
mircea_popescu: 61(Y):39(N) by coin, 49(Y):51(N) by weight << lulziest part
mircea_popescu: savaged, of course, means this speciffic hunting technique where the preditor opens the abdominal cavity of the prey
mircea_popescu: hey, i've not killed anyone in at least fifteen years.
mircea_popescu: just as long as they don't have to interact with it abstractly, of course.
mircea_popescu: and in point of fact people love nothing more than math. that's the only thing they'll dedicate their lives to.
mircea_popescu: eulora is not an eyecandy delivery device like every other mmorpg out there, competing in a saturated market without a bottom.
mircea_popescu: this is the reason the game's even worth playing in the first place. the frigging loot functions.
mircea_popescu: it'd harder than mpex. this shit where i write the loot functions... god fucking help me i've never seen a more complex problem.
mircea_popescu: this eulora game engine thing is the hardest thing i ever fcking did.
mircea_popescu: mthreat yeah but i mean... that's what dirt racing does anyway
mircea_popescu: An Argentinian technician hired for the Top Gear shoot is said to have been injured after a stone thrown by one of the demonstrators hit him in the face.
mircea_popescu: Film crew reportedly told officers at the first checkpoint they reached after passing through Tolhuin: "We're leaving the cars, we don't want more problems. Burn them if you want but we're getting out of here."
mircea_popescu: it's better cause you don't even need to define them, just feed them off the op's insecurities.