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mircea_popescu: what i want to know is, how's eskimobob's rent a clay oven business working.
mircea_popescu: there's no need for two guys to come up with ways to test the mdma. one's enough. there may be need for three dudes to implement the testing, however.
mircea_popescu: the irrelevant and replaceable parts are the actors, not the agents.
mircea_popescu: whichever rocket is not seen... it's where the other rockets land.
mircea_popescu: alternatively, they do all 3 in different gulag stations
mircea_popescu: well it's not so much to invent, babylonians prolly invented it.
mircea_popescu: the courts can';t afford it and the das don't want it, but that is immaterial here i'd guess.
mircea_popescu: jacking off is also usually done with bots, nevertheless athletes usually can afford stripper service.
mircea_popescu: not like they have to test so many samples they can't afford a lab technician
mircea_popescu: you can test specifically for mdma clearance tho neh ?
mircea_popescu: (also author of the sec, in case anyone missed the memo on what exactly the play is "undo the new deal", should they continue unaligned.)
mircea_popescu: the ~other~ us liberal dictator, died in office, during his 4th term.
mircea_popescu: according to people who didn't read literary digest, own a car or a phone however... he stayed.
mircea_popescu: according to these, roosevelt was going out of office.
mircea_popescu: here's a funny story from the past : in 1936 (ie, after the disastrous effects of roosevelt's socialist inanity became apparent to anyone worth the mention), literary digest sent out 10mn questionnaires to all the people buying it + anyone with a car or a phone.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the point i had buried under all that failpaste is... wtf, "petrodollar scam breaking down plz send me paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr dollar instead" ?
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mircea_popescu: anything is promised when the matter at hand is extending the life of promise as a thing into the world.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well, they aren't in fact, but surely, such is promised.
mircea_popescu: but then again they were specifically uninclusive, or should i say anti-inclusive.
mircea_popescu: notably the inventors of capitalism didn't either want or use such procedures.
mircea_popescu: los_pantalones yeah, no practical way for an unwotted system to work otherwise.
mircea_popescu: in bankruptcy proceedings with an aroma of fraud, criminal liability may flow through such trades
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform in bankruptcy proceedings, suspect trades of the management can be attached to the proceedings.
mircea_popescu: should be interesting, because no way that doesn't get attached.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony you know i can't look at spagni.net and not think spaghetti on the first pass.
mircea_popescu: kinda best argument against survival, that. "you'll end up weird."
mircea_popescu: it boggles the mind what ends up being sop in a system that survives long enough.
mircea_popescu: this isn't something other countries can do, nor do they need to. this is the one opportunity they get to stock up.
mircea_popescu: anyway, that's the major change here. after the missed boat of govt mining last year, this year the us fed has actually given its infinite fiat backing to any scheme that convincingly may help, and meanwhile to trying to depress price.
mircea_popescu: it's kinda funny how this works in qm terms. basically, an oracle of the wave function, but just on the real part. is this actually useful ?
mircea_popescu: but yes, for momentum shorts soft landing is the worst fucking news imaginable. so far, we're beating the shit out of a soft flubbery substance the size of a continent.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what i think on that topic is perhaps apparent from what i do, namely, that i'm even talking about all this.
mircea_popescu: thankfully, uncommon sense prevailed. so far at least.
mircea_popescu: anyway, this whole charade'd have worked a damned sight better if the various y-combinator bezzlers, the foundation hearn, gmaxwell and co would have actually had what they thought they had and everyone thought they should have, ie, actual respectability and bitcoin cred.
mircea_popescu: if the volcano never erupts, the fertile land on its slopes is actually enough to make the village own the other villages and build an empire.
mircea_popescu: but suddenly, the large early holdings that all the shitheads-with-a-megaphone were decrying as dangerous to bitcoin
mircea_popescu: unremarkably, the worthless shitheads that joined late have nothing to contribute.
mircea_popescu: and so here we are. part ii of the game is, how much do you ~actually~ like this thing, once money actually is on the table.
mircea_popescu: they are no major concern for the usg in either case, because man who hangs for a goat might as well hang for a goat and a chick
mircea_popescu: all these loan contracts are promised to unwind in fiat eventually, and will be in fact profitable for all parties if and only if bitcoin actually fails.
mircea_popescu: any usg affiliate or more likely, herpy q derp that looks like he may acquire any btc sum through any means will receive all the soft backing possible, from business insder news articles to an invitation to the fucking white house. anything whatsoever as long as it loks natural rather than spammy
mircea_popescu: here's the scheme : whatever usg affiliate, be it goldman sachs or herpy q derp that holds any sum of btc will lend it to the usg btc policy bureau in exchange for fiat guarantees.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes pretty much every single major sucking of chumps change you will see from about q1 onwards will be and has been a psyops riding on top of a usg-backed institutional lending for shorts
mircea_popescu: as any successful fiction writer found out in short order.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes kinda what the usg needs, more loans of this type.