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mircea_popescu: lol look at that, X-Rob is practically at even within a week.
mircea_popescu: xmj: What would make for a better home base in 2015 or 2016: Luxembourg, Monaco or Jersey/Guernsey? << awful, all of them.
mircea_popescu: from a macro perspective the average state size is so heavily upper bound and so set to drastically decline...
mircea_popescu: youtubetard: more complexity is the nature of all things in the long term. So the rise of many many many micro states is very likely. People see Liechtenstein's success << this is actually a solid point, as unexpected and tenuous as it may seem.
mircea_popescu: abathingape and on what chan was that supposed to belong ?
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: Basically ever since 2004 when I bought a computer I've been waiting for an opportunity to use GPG and... Bitcoin afforded that. << a happy fate.
mircea_popescu: bats_cd03 not bad. pity they didn't have bitcoin addy on tits.
mircea_popescu: bats_cd03: i know mircea_popescu would approve, somehow << are the chicks mensturating and defecating on some sort of holy black flag ?
mircea_popescu: punkman: pete_dushenski: sounds like a death wish << i'd definitely mow him down. fucking biking hipsters.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves: i'm listening to Snow Crash currently, after getting burnt out on Taleb telling everything what it's problem is <<< ahahah good one.
mircea_popescu: also the extant memoirs of the various valide sultanas over the years.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: ottoman empire << 'the sultans' (n. barber) << yes.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell foofingers: Hi people. My is Daniel Marcus. I work together with asciilifeform. And I'm here to do some business with bitcoins. Thank you for having me! << welcome
mircea_popescu: jurov: apparently mircea moved the decimal dot << dots are hard.
mircea_popescu: in this particular case, fanfic stays fanific. there's no disney to buy, no lucasfilm to buy and nothing to buy it with.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i dunno dood, so some guy in new york likes to write bitcoin fanfic. so what of it ?
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves: or me not learning my lesson << gotta love the ambiguity in a functioning market.
mircea_popescu: mike_c: and as an aside, it is embarrassing for this channel that tweets are scraped and repeated from links but not references to the log! << yeah srsly.
mircea_popescu: i'm making no value judgement here, merely using an example to illuminate a point.
mircea_popescu: and some other places and times, equally narrow to irrelevance.
mircea_popescu: outside of the very thin sliver of things that is north america 1980-2020ish.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski inasmuch as the married female has no rights and no recourse, pissing off her husband is pissing off the wrong guy. she quickly learns not to do that.
mircea_popescu: the mess hall being the principal argument pro-university in the classical period of universities too.
mircea_popescu: lol i find the best and most readily digested argument pro-slavery works out to "i say where we go eat. it takes all of thirty seconds. and if i say everyone gets lamb tikka masala, ordering takes thirty seconds too."
mircea_popescu: maybe the idea was that if you're close enough you're burning anyway.
mircea_popescu recalls lab where countermeasure was very large h2so4 vat.
mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> someone affiliated with those who attend burning man regularly. << sluts make a much better tribe imo.
mircea_popescu: decimation no, but it would manage to reduce mormonism to something below what its critics today perceive of it.
mircea_popescu: ironically, in engineering it usually is the best of thinkings.
mircea_popescu: inasmuch as "i dunno, make it twelve inches thick" is thinking
mircea_popescu: current guys are very tightly oppressed by budgets and there's this overwhelming delusion that "we know shit" making a lot of garbage numbers be accepted .
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes no, actually, they just had much less data and better training, so they put slack in.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes older satellites are better planned ironically. modern military shit however, especially us stuff is in real danger
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes but yes, as far as numerically approached, a major flare can do 500km.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform quite. and some people shouldn't be innocent of books, and MORE IMPORTANTLY of the written process of thinking.
mircea_popescu: upper atmosphere is constrained magnetically. disturb the field, it expan\ds/shrinks
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes atmosphere is mostly constrained by gravity, which makes the heat a major factor. if you heat it it expands.
mircea_popescu: i mean, i don't think i yet published an article without a typo or two in it, sure. but there's a difference.
mircea_popescu: it really bothers me when i see people who're supposedly detail oriented, engineers and whatnot.
mircea_popescu: people really need to figure out this affect/effect ensure/insure business.
mircea_popescu: "But I also know that by not adding my body to the count, I insure nothing will change. "