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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.
mircea_popescu: the20year2 moreover, that's phase 2 material. obviously the supermarket can train the clueless consumer in a number of ways to build a moat around itself.
mircea_popescu: had it succeeded to make it so "all the buyers are on groupon", it's model of "give us everything for free" would have worked on the merchants.
mircea_popescu: many lines aren't amenable to the supermarket model, but groupon tried to bring them into the same economics.
mircea_popescu: this allows them to buy everything very cheap and sell it as expensive as they want.
mircea_popescu: and it can similarly tell any town dweller to stfu and starve.
mircea_popescu: specifically : supermarkets exist to scam consumers, because the supermarket is large, so it can tell any small farmer to stfu and get lost
mircea_popescu: more complicated than that. the groupon business model was basically to try and create a scale advantage on both ends.
mircea_popescu: well obviously. the us can't quite afford to abandon the notion
mircea_popescu: "There is an empirical problem with the debate over United States military strategy towards China: aircraft carriers are “dead,” but they can still be seen patrolling the Western Pacific."
mircea_popescu: nubbins` it's worse than that. the lolcats have the power to decide if your airbang opens
mircea_popescu: it was made sometime in 200x, never to be touched again
mircea_popescu: in this case, i doubt the people working at the ro firm actually have access to the server tho
mircea_popescu: kanzure i was just writing about one as ThickAsThieves posted that link
mircea_popescu: i think there must exist somewhere people doing email spiderin by hgand
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform amusingly, i had accounts on neither, but that doesn't prevent people from trying to phish and etc
mircea_popescu: kanzure how exactly did you form this opinion on coinbase ?
mircea_popescu: "you claim to be a human being, but you are actually subhuman, because look :"
mircea_popescu: they must be displayed for the general public, so the general public may learn that idiocy has consequences.
mircea_popescu: but it's not ok to let them suffer in silence and privacy.,
mircea_popescu: it'd hurt the idiots, but their pain and suffering is required to build greatness.
mircea_popescu: a generally available index of "idiots involved in Bitcoin" is a good thing.
mircea_popescu: excellent opportunity for coinbase to display some pr.