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mircea_popescu: this is the typical way imagined fortunes work, and it belies their virtuality. the guy wasn't actually invested, but merely pretended to be invested.
mircea_popescu: but the rich guy somehow hadn't lost anything, and immediately bought just as much of Y thing.
mircea_popescu: that one was pretty much the same thing, guy claiming he's rich and he has bought X miners, then that thing went scam
mircea_popescu: if anyone is old enough to remember the picostocks / 100blabla scam ? the one that briefly took on buzzdave after his basicminer scamstint, before the girl drove him out ?
mircea_popescu: if not, you can join the line. it started back in 2012, when he was going to prove he had a mining farm.
mircea_popescu: just like all the rest of goat's stuff. if you're the sort of person that believes things some guy claims, it was real.
mircea_popescu: suppose you add large-ish suction cups as part of the bottoms of the casts
mircea_popescu: by comparison, niggers were popular in the southern us pre and post civil war.
mircea_popescu: anyway, medieval/renaissance italian literature hates the cateogry like no other.
mircea_popescu: i'm personally only quoting the italians, as all old women i know are actually pretty great
mircea_popescu: o right, cause the kumala thing existed all along huh ?
mircea_popescu: my own counting scheme is 1. glbse ; 2. btctc, bitfunder, havelock ; 3. bitcoinbourse etc
mircea_popescu: "Democracy (in the terminology and reality of socialists) seems to be the path of long lines of people waiting, clutching a government issued piece of paper, entitling them to a ration of food, water, health care, gasoline...and of course...toilet paper, not confiscated already for government officials delicate bottoms."
mircea_popescu: "we have the lowest inequality in the region [everyone is poor now]"
mircea_popescu: the difference between the two democracies aptly described by the differences between the two berlins, on either side of the wall.
mircea_popescu: anyway, nice bit, it signals the switch of the us from reagan-esque "promoter of democracy" in the world to obama-esque "promoter of democracy" in the world.
mircea_popescu: cazalla im not so sure there exist any tattoo on any twentysomething that could be explained by a 50 something
mircea_popescu: moar like bitpay steps in to rescue coinbase which steps in to rescue kraken which steps in to rescue neobee which steps in to rescue i forget what
mircea_popescu: very totalitarian system. soon enouhg ALL THERE IS is X topic.
mircea_popescu: bounce i'd say it's uncontroversial that they did a lot of very good work. the problem with the propapress -> wikipedia -> reddit machine oif nonthink is that it flattens alternatives
mircea_popescu: the paleologoi. christ himself, you see, was going to come lift the siege.
mircea_popescu: bounce dreaming is the last refuge of the defeated. you know who else did it ?
mircea_popescu: bounce you know how wikipedia-history based on press-narratives works.
mircea_popescu: if you actually bother looking at the facts, the two regimes are scarcely different.
mircea_popescu: cads that's nonsense, the north korea is much less free than the average. in fact, about as unfree as the us.
mircea_popescu: what do you think sunk hitler, technological inferiority ? puhleaze.
mircea_popescu: zee germanz had much better "technical capabilities" than their intellectual, strategic and ultimately human capabilities.
mircea_popescu: if you were a party organiser and all you had to show me were math wallflowers i'd equally point and laugh at you.
mircea_popescu: well, academia is hte largest, but ohter than that as a single entity, i believe it.
mircea_popescu: there's a german Peter Sragher version which is pretty decent. but otherwise the guy seems an incredibly well kept secret. funny how that works.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform actually, is there anything in russian by the guy ?
mircea_popescu: (who aren't likely to get the reference or have read the guy's work)
mircea_popescu: it's mostly used derrisively to bother anticultural and antiintellectual lines
mircea_popescu: something like "let us not dispell the world's corolla of wonder"
mircea_popescu: one of his lines is meanwhile common cultural cliche in romanian, "sa nu strivim corola the minuni a lumii"
mircea_popescu: there's a romaina guy that did extensive "research" on this topic, his name was lucian blaga
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and the average cunt with a hidden angler fish right under the flesh would be also indistinguishable from the average cunt.
mircea_popescu: china russia israel korea brazil more or less in order
mircea_popescu: and who respect themselves enough not to live in the cockroach trap.
mircea_popescu: you know, brain surgeon ain't likely to work for the cockroach infested hospital. because he prefers working with people he respects,
mircea_popescu: when there's so many so very much better offers o nthe table.
mircea_popescu: i have no idea how you imagine someone with the capability of running an actual spyshop could be lured to work for the us
mircea_popescu: on the actual ground, the us has serious problems hiring people who don't spend most of their time wondering if "deep down" theyt're really women or not.
mircea_popescu: cads this sort of thinking is fed by watching movies and faping on reddit.
mircea_popescu: generally diplomacy by and large goes the way of spyshop-y.