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mircea_popescu: meanwhile it's a lot more complicated, they also peg to the euro, they also peg to a russian synthetic-currency derived out of energy holdings,
mircea_popescu: chinese banks were built that way briefly in the 70s, i would guess.
mircea_popescu: "china takes over alaska administration, in consideration of debts owed by us government"
mircea_popescu: china holding us debt is no sort of statement of confidence in the usg, quite the contrary, it's a claim on its asshole.
mircea_popescu: banks reduce to their shareholders, and foreign sovereigns don't count
mircea_popescu: wywialm we were talking fo the {1%, 99%} set I thought
mircea_popescu: wywialm actually the exposure to treasuries is mostly pension funds.
mircea_popescu: and the people that matter are the 1%, not the average fucktard on reddit/the metro.
mircea_popescu: wywialm this is why i made my linearity objeciton. it won't collapse because of "cracks". it will collapse because all the people that matter are fucking sick of it.
mircea_popescu: how the fuck is ycombinator involved in everything unsavoury.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony so basically it sells you gmail protection services ? the spam racket ?
mircea_popescu: is this vuscan fellow the son of the oil factory vuscan, with the 3 victims traffic accident ?
mircea_popescu: fluffypony srsly ? wtf does it do ? i was just deriding it yest.
mircea_popescu: Naphex you'll prolly have to point out to your boss you're doing more marketing/pr than anyone there.
mircea_popescu: the us can collapse in all of two weeks, as tech stands today.
mircea_popescu: <wywialm> maybe the key difference is the time - and gradual nature << they didn't have the press. which is why it took longer. ussr didn't have the internet, which is why it took so damned long.
mircea_popescu: <wywialm> ...but it's hard for me to believe that us is the first in line << it's the first in line of the set {US}
mircea_popescu: little better available in training devices in any craft than "failure examination"
mircea_popescu: bounce as a "map the rot" project this is probably valuable even if it gets no direct results.
mircea_popescu: lol ok, well, if you elide nots it'll become hard to follow :D
mircea_popescu: bounce so you don't see where linearity is in "linear regression" ?
mircea_popescu: bounce here : "like inspecting a building for structural problems or a pipe or aeroplane for hairline cracks or, well, you know. only on the country level. roads, utilities, but also government, how much and what kinds of corruption, that sort of thing. map it out."
mircea_popescu: Naphex aite send me mail from its domain i'll give you a 1 rating
mircea_popescu: wywialm us collapse = usg collapse. what else ? not like kansas will fall off the map or something.
mircea_popescu: bounce i think your methodology is broken, in that it assumes a sort of linear scalability. broken government is not akin to broken windows.
mircea_popescu: so whose was the idea to print the cert ? horea vuscan's ?
mircea_popescu: Naphex so what exactly is your function at this btcxchange thing ?
mircea_popescu: wywialm same way it was possible in the case of the ussr, i guess.
mircea_popescu: no violence, massive humiliation, come back in two decades as a major.
mircea_popescu: the russians don't agree, but i would say the way the soviet union collapsed is the right way to collapse.
mircea_popescu: iirc he worked there, can prolly get you in touch with whoever.
mircea_popescu: pankkake kinda has to be a dildo, cause otherwise body armor.
mircea_popescu: "Due to limited supplies, and high demand this item has a 10 piece maximum order quantity per customer, every 1 day." heh
mircea_popescu: but in principle if you're practice shooting you dun care.
mircea_popescu: neilol i meant Neil. you, i think you'll have to get into the wot first
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo anyway, what i meant was teh gun is pretty cheap considering it's a .5 bolt
mircea_popescu: It'll take plenty of military paychecks to cover the $5,600 price tag
mircea_popescu: yeah, you can get regional marks in the us too, for a coupla hundred iirc.
mircea_popescu: granted i've not reg'd any in years, but they were about the same back in the day
mircea_popescu: and you don't need to be any sort of citizen, you can reg it on your corp.
mircea_popescu: it doesn't pay to ignore what i say, and i'm definitely going to be enforcing THAT part.
mircea_popescu: they could have arranged a license back last year, if they had a clue.
mircea_popescu: they have a reciprocity deal so mickey mouse can be owned by disney