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mircea_popescu: and so have these special support clubs to tell each other that "we're still human, because we can still make things"
mircea_popescu: i suspect the reason is purely psychological : "the people", ie, your average joe, feel disempowered by corporate technology
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: why there needs to be a 'kickstarter' for a flashlight, i cannot answer. ask the gods. << because why not.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller 40k hardly worth the paper to print the contract on.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller what's the thing trading for, 50 satoshi per ?
mircea_popescu: anyone want to lend me a billion or so of the dogecoins on a one year term ?
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell bitcoinpete i'm told by my obviously bored intel that in point of fact 1,045 yo made some chick "the oldest living protoss"
mircea_popescu: o, what relevancy could omitting all the people against have on an article discussing "the only people against" ?
mircea_popescu: so... he doesn't understand what i'm getting at. because FINLAND was also omitted.
mircea_popescu: Noah Rothman @Mircea_Popescu not sure what you're getting at. Finland not included either. Are you suggesting Romanian operatives active in Ukr?
mircea_popescu: Mircea Popescu @NoahCRothman O look, Romania not included. Because everyone else EXCEPT Romania had troops in Odessa, amirite ? #irrelevantidiocy
mircea_popescu: Noah Rothman Hungary, first member of the Warsaw Pact to slough off the bonds of communism, most resistant to Russ sanctions pic.twitter.com/L9B0sdPhzx
mircea_popescu: if he starts doing jay leno and roger/cathylee i'll weep
mircea_popescu: MarieLynn thestringpuller i think there may be a strong difference based on location. airbnb may work a lot better outside of the us than inside.
mircea_popescu: ok sorry for the abstruse earlier image. it's the yield of us treasury bonds, 30 years, traded in japan
mircea_popescu: "Berkshire quarterly profit hurt by weather, insurance"
mircea_popescu: the red us press was making her sound like a monster recently.
mircea_popescu: not even actual experts can run the shit russians make.
mircea_popescu: benkay she's a canadian, she's entitled to vote for obama.
mircea_popescu: you're going to erect an atmosphere-cooled, unauthorised nuclear reactor in alaska ?
mircea_popescu: because your cooling is endangering the spotted ice shrimp
mircea_popescu: don't go telling me about how a 200 meter long pike is nothing.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform listen, for your average "rich american" 10 cubic meters of cement are expensive.
mircea_popescu: benkay see teh log, she actually properly introduced herself.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform anyway, i know the daughter of the guy that designed fucking buildings there. it's insanely expensive, you have to anchor i nthe permafrost.
mircea_popescu: tbh i was expecting something more along the lines of "wtf is a synthetic"
mircea_popescu: MarieLynn arbitrage is the buying and selling of the same one asset (either natural or synthetic) in different markets that are divergent. so in order to arbitrage skills, you'd have to first buy them. skills aren't commodities however, and so this "arbitrage your skills" is just hipster talk.
mircea_popescu: for all your poetry and wit couldn't buy you half a hash.
mircea_popescu: MarieLynn so, that. the one thing that does more than everything else all humans ever did in the entire history of life on earth.
mircea_popescu: maybe the bunion accountant has no business in physics, nuclear or otherwise, and the thing ain't an university in any sense.
mircea_popescu: what's that indicate to you ? i mean sure, great men can be eccentric.
mircea_popescu: there's more to it asciilifeform. suppose you visit this university, which wants you to take it seriously. in it, the head of nuclear physics is hard at work making an inventory of... his bunions.
mircea_popescu: back when benkay was liek... correcting my math. how's this benkay baby! six months fixed my broked math.
mircea_popescu: stoolies being what they are, i'll prolly hear about it before they actually accept it.
mircea_popescu: i am quite curious to hear what their parachute design will look like.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform or to put it in plainer terms : it is very true one wants to invent parachute before, rather than after being thrown from the plane.
mircea_popescu: as i said a few times before, the other party can move it up to getting shot any time it feels ready
mircea_popescu: accidents happen, and stoolies are in all times and places the first to also have problems.
mircea_popescu: how many stoolies, how many eyes and who;'s going to derp on your land ?
mircea_popescu: well that all depends, i guess. what's to keep you from cutting a square foot window in the tree ?
mircea_popescu: he's almost as bad as the forum average, 25% loss over a year.
mircea_popescu: "proceeds on btc sold : 600k. trading losses, 150k. net 450k" heh.
mircea_popescu: 11k for gas and groceries. and then they claim no inflation eh ?
mircea_popescu: so trendon shavers managed to funel ~70k through his paypal account. to which paypal gave no trouble at all. why aren't they co-defendants in his case ?
mircea_popescu: you can have flying objects in suburbia, you can definitely have stuff hid inside tree tops, etc.