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mircea_popescu: "South Africa's GDP fell 0.6% in the first quarter. Rand is dropping. Who in the new cabinet has the "radical" ideas to turn things around?"
mircea_popescu: ;;sell 1 BTC at 6700 "A$ - Argentine Pesos" No fractions, multiples ok.
mircea_popescu: quite timeless, even if the idiots putting it forward are quite mortal.
mircea_popescu: socialism, ie, the delusion that salvation comes from the group, is and has forever been the enemy.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile these people routinely buy shit from bulletproof glass windows. but that's ok, because i'ts inside THE COUNTRY
mircea_popescu: Hopefully someone will give you advice on where to exchange your money without risking being robbed or worse on Florida St.|=
mircea_popescu: "Personally , I would stay off Florida Street . period.
mircea_popescu: "Hi--I was just in Buenos Aires last month. Here is the deal. Be careful anywhere in the country. Theifing (if that's a word) and con games with tourist is big business. Keep your personal belongings CLOSE. Nothing happened to me, but a local on the street told me i shouldn't be carrying my dlsr camera on my shoulder, and a tour guide asked the wife why she wasn't scared of having her wedding rings stolen. Please be c
mircea_popescu: people had relatively little practice to it. i guess to the bright mind of 2000 bc, economy generally was a sort of bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: both the new and the old testament read the way they read because of the constraints economy imposed
mircea_popescu: so then there's the point. this is not economy, this is politicsa
mircea_popescu: i reclal a great write-up of the self publish scam as practiced in 1800s paris
mircea_popescu: why, because the us consisted of ohio and vermont back then or what
mircea_popescu: i could find good painters that drunk themselves silly
mircea_popescu: ww1 casualties weren't that important, a paltry 100k ?
mircea_popescu: so apparently the food problem has gotten so bad in the us, the current generation of kids may be the first in human history not to outlive their parents.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo, "The Ebay/Paypal breech" you mean braach ?
mircea_popescu: <bloctoc> looking for eve online war logs to see if there is any relevance to mpoe price. << now that's diggin' deep.
mircea_popescu: ;;google "we are the masters of the clit. i made that shit work"
mircea_popescu: <Mats_cd03> even the clit, which is aggravating even when the stars are aligned << wait what ? the C.L.I.T. ?
mircea_popescu: lol. the interwebs are just dubious, tis not jupiter tho
mircea_popescu: durable it is yea. not great for compatibility issues, tho.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell decimation it was by advance party. like i do these things/
mircea_popescu: everything hurts. do you know what i do ? i fucking ignore them.
mircea_popescu: punkman: tourist idiots like to rent them around here, then they end up in a ditch with broken legs << word.
mircea_popescu: anyway, im definitely staying, everyone start saving for next year's conference. i got the hotel, it's a pleasure. you're all getting apartments even! and superb restaurants and everything.
mircea_popescu: benkay, there are no challenges other than being poor.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo, you should see these steaks. new york never had such steak in the past decade.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: plain or rich text? << ahaha a new standard is born
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: just saying that "go to the url and login and see if it works" is shitty argument << well ok, but would the pron site allow you to withdraw your bc balances too ?!
mircea_popescu: and i nthe bc.net case, isn't davout actually invested on the no side ?
mircea_popescu: pankkake: :( specifiying bets is hard << you telling me.
mircea_popescu: holy shit i nearly caugfht up on logs omfg i feel so accomplished now
mircea_popescu: anyway, i invited her over, curious what comes of this.
mircea_popescu: "The fact that Bitcoin’s followers deeply oppose this sort of aggressive government action explains why their aspirations to building a universal currency aren’t working."