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mircea_popescu: anyway, fuck them. if they had confiscated the empire fucking state building made out of crystal rock pixie dust,
mircea_popescu: afaik teh sa goons be trolling the shit out of that thread.
mircea_popescu: well yeah, generally speaking, backup;s are better than no backups, no argument ther.e
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla key's stored in an eeprom. it's not THAT easy to lose.
mircea_popescu: i used to pay exactly one person to do it, she had a signed statement, that's the whole of it.
mircea_popescu: in other news, i gotta chill it with these extraditions, my poor liver can't cope.
mircea_popescu: ;;everify freenode:#bitcoin-otc:38deabf30abd437d1ce2053fb0ce12af190d1911263496a2a4ce72cf
mircea_popescu: used to be like 1600 / 400ish, but then the 1k bet happened and some large 200+ iirc.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves not really on the audio. some voice work done.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller he drops by now and again, like quarterly.
mircea_popescu: i usually pay about 1k a quarter for a 2 bedroom. cause wtf.
mircea_popescu: i guess if you're waiting for it to make you rich and got rent to pay, there's no dropping like stability.
mircea_popescu: this is getting to be lulzy, for the past however many weeks it's been glued to 450, people keep coming in asking omg why is it dropping!11
mircea_popescu: to tell him about how "nobody could have drawn a rocket on the wall it just couldn't have been done"
mircea_popescu: so suppose he were much more efficient at it. he had more money therefore. and now he could hire... condolezza rice.
mircea_popescu: i really should say "regulate" instead of "taxing" but anyway.
mircea_popescu: partly because the pope was quite inefficient at either taxing or dekulakizing him out of existence.
mircea_popescu: no but did da pope hire da vinci or did da vinci hire the pope
mircea_popescu: bounce why should i hire them at all. why aren't they hiring me.
mircea_popescu: people' fucking irrational fear of people being ironically the most notable obstacle for those same people.
mircea_popescu: anyway, whenbever that idiocy breaks down you get a renaissance, it's uncanny.
mircea_popescu: i can't even begin to imagine anyone'd actually want to be stuck having to do everything by hand because well nobody else does because nobody else can because they fucked it all up.
mircea_popescu: suppose you'd rather do something else with your free time than having to write fucking books because everyone else is too retarded to write the books on their own and they just flock to the fucking gamew instead
mircea_popescu: suppose you wanna go fucking watch a ball game or actually, strike that
mircea_popescu: suppose your wife cheats. who's she gonna cheat with ?
mircea_popescu: bounce that's only half of it. suppose you have a daughter. who's she to marry ?
mircea_popescu: doog's okay, site's backed by a good idea, tracking under ev for a while and maybe slacking a little in volume lately.
mircea_popescu: in other news, the commanding officer of the romanian special forum-extraditions-and-other-lulz unit invited me to his daughter's bar mitzvah unexpectedly.
mircea_popescu: every customer either raped or satisfied within one hour.
mircea_popescu: you wouldn't want either to rob yourself of the collective wisdom of this space, nor to rob the history of same of your valuable contributions
mircea_popescu: lol no but seriously, what am i fixing and how's it broken.
mircea_popescu: in this perspective, socrates is rightfully indifferent to any hemlock.
mircea_popescu: the outrage was eventually their undoing, they were banished, socrates was identified as the guilty party, one removed.
mircea_popescu: so that nobody could safely extricate himself from their lot.
mircea_popescu: then they proceeded to implement their very own, context-adequate version of taxation/dekulakization : they ordered the citizenry to commit murders
mircea_popescu: socrates spent his life empowering the youth with the tools of the mind. once htey came of age that youth turned around and took over the city, ie, the world.
mircea_popescu: anyway, yes, but an alternative retelling would be something like this :
mircea_popescu: jurov> anyway, it can be vastly improved, not just add blocktime but also start/end delimiter so copypaste failures can be spotted immediately <<< this, very much so.
mircea_popescu: a final curlique on the dekulakization topic. asciilifeform you familiar with how socrates died ?
mircea_popescu: i dunno who the fuck could bear to live there, that way.
mircea_popescu: first off who the fuck is threatened by smart young people ?! and second off... jesus fuck i've seen their lives and their dens, they're boring and dismal.
mircea_popescu: and this actually comes to the core of the ideological opposition here. i simply do not like this "no middle" burned ground crap.
mircea_popescu: sure, a tree with no middle one day collapses. but until such a day...
mircea_popescu: it's a middle pruning control strategy, the exact equiv of raising taxes "for social good"
mircea_popescu: it hurts the average who could in principle one day hurt the rich.
mircea_popescu: buffett merely aims to keep it this way : high taxes means jack shit to him
mircea_popescu: i can accumulate. the average middle class guy in the chumpatron, can not.
mircea_popescu: see, the fact that i made the fu berkshire bet and the fact i pay about 2.85% a year on average are related.
mircea_popescu: however, there exists a center of people who can't afford good tax shelters, and who could, if left undisturbed, come to one day challenge him.
mircea_popescu: buffett structures the hell out of his deals to avoid taxation.
mircea_popescu: you familiar with buffett pretending taxes "at the top" aren't high enough, and with gates donating his fortune to "good causes" and so on ?
mircea_popescu: let me explain something about this dekulakization concept.
mircea_popescu: now, when people such as me say the us agencies will have to learn to play ball or not exist,