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mircea_popescu: blackwhite send me email from your comp account, for instance.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves i originally asked him because i was going to give him a 1 if he can prove it, but seems he ignored it for some reason
mircea_popescu: and perhaps, if i feel in a good mood, "get in the wot"
mircea_popescu: pankkake since bitcoin my response to any sort of such thing is lol.
mircea_popescu: just the fact that nobody can chargeback you and pp can't hold your wallet at ransom and that;s enough for anyone sane.
mircea_popescu: it may not make much sense for brick and mortar small businesses a la meze grill
mircea_popescu: He could have taken off with all the money right after the IPO but he didn't."
mircea_popescu: If Danny really wanted to scam people, he would have done that right after the IPO but he didn't. He went ahead and invested money in setting up the office, hiring staffers, media campaigns, buying POS devices, sending his hired staffers to conferences and so on.
mircea_popescu: in spite of it trading around 50ish for the entire interval ?
mircea_popescu: but the same someone didn't buy 30 btc worth of rent all week
mircea_popescu: "someone" bought 105 btc worth of rent at 0.0075 today,
mircea_popescu: come one come all, i just kicked inactives and we're down to like 800 members nao. taking all comers.
mircea_popescu: memo : teh in-game chat systems are often abused to move sikrits!
mircea_popescu: so i wonder if teh numerous sikrit agents dutifully scraping this are also dutifully scraping my in-guild rift convos.
mircea_popescu: if people's understanding of cuisine are on par with their understanding of basic economy, suddenly food in the us is explained.
mircea_popescu: artifexd i dunno, it's been illo tempore policy that people accidentally spamming or otherwise unintentionally misbehave contribute to the port fund
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform donation... -> 1B6NP9eb4RKy9tRrXYCJnNcenZkrt5Q2gb
mircea_popescu: ally, a successful strike would deeply wound American prestige, especially if it went unanswered. Domestically, the deaths of six thousand crewmembers would generate almost unbearable political pressures for revenge. Our entries into WWII and the Global War on Terror were sparked by less.
mircea_popescu: Specifically, our bargaining chip against Beijing is to make things uncomfortably apocalyptic. The point is less what the carrier can do and more what an attack on it promises—full retaliation, and a war that may quickly get out of hand. As ASPI analyst Harry White observed last month [11], “the idea is that anyone who attacks as valuable an asset as a US carrier should expect a significant response.” Internation
mircea_popescu: Like the US garrison in West Berlin, aircraft carriers are relatively defenseless, but they have a separate function as a highly visible warning about US resolve. Today, a strategy of mobile “tripwires” is neither credible nor prudent, but it is worth studying because it may actually be implemented.
mircea_popescu: bounce in the end this isn't such a very good argument.
mircea_popescu: as a selling point it's perhaps innovative. surely beats ken slaughter's garage.
mircea_popescu: the usual problem is that there's no capable criminals to make a guild in the first place, nothing else.
mircea_popescu: but in general, the crime guild does much better a job of regulating crime than any other guild.
mircea_popescu: bounce it's a balance point. the whole idea is that stable situations are stable, and derivation from that mean is unstable.
mircea_popescu: bounce and wide availability and a commodified market reduces the pull.
mircea_popescu: benkay so maybe tell her about this marvelous wot thing we got ? liz i mean.
mircea_popescu: thinking the girl acts of her own volition is a little rich.
mircea_popescu: but that's not the real edge. the guy selling it to her is more likely to not bother, is the real edge.
mircea_popescu: and by the latest reports couldn't fight against the russians even if it wanted to.
mircea_popescu: bounce take whores. if there's a whore on every corner and prices are low, is your pretty daughter more likely or less likely to start cutting class for to taking it up the tail ?
mircea_popescu: pLambert his intuition is correct, in that the us has no economy, and no technical ability. cutting the army is like cutting its own throat.
mircea_popescu: pLambert nop but he has a point. it went down very little overall but it cut very badly.
mircea_popescu: if some guy in my neighbourhood decided to go around telling everyone he's the bestest there is, i'd also expect him to send a nubile young woman around for purposes with some frequency.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller since the option thing is ended ima report it end of month line normal assets.
mircea_popescu: anyway, just some retired something or the other harping about how expensive and hard it is.
mircea_popescu: that the us army at no point past ww2 had a standing chance in europe.
mircea_popescu: "On alert, this tattered, morally compromised army was to clear post in under an hour, move to its defensive positions on the West German border with the Warsaw Pact, fight outnumbered five to one and win. Such odds were daunting."
mircea_popescu: but it's fucking ridiculous that i have to maintain a private supply network in fucking 2014
mircea_popescu: (they recently had a case about how illegal all this is)
mircea_popescu: try and make a farm selling milk at cost +15% in say california.
mircea_popescu: the20year2 that data is corrupted, and milk is a fine example.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, independent romanian farmers sell 5% milk for 0.5 lei, and 1.5% milk is on sale in the supermarkets for... 6 lei.
mircea_popescu: but this recent "can't eat an apple with a spot" neurosis is not naturally occuring in human populations.