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mircea_popescu: this being written as a sort of pulp fiction-esque prequel of today's lineup.
mircea_popescu: (under his aol contract he can't possibly start a pando)
mircea_popescu: i will have then owned a sheep worth 10 dollars + 10 mnore dolars in unrealised gains.
mircea_popescu: if i own a sheep worth 10 dollars today, and the fed prints another 20 trillion dollars
mircea_popescu: "thereby halving the value of cash savings, and piling a ton of taxeable "capital gains" on your non cash savings"
mircea_popescu: For one, nobody knows how many dollars exist in the world, and furthermore one can never trust the government to not simply double the number of dollars in circulation, thereby halving the value of your savings (provided you were stupid enough to actually keep them in cash).
mircea_popescu: if you average it all out... it costs more today than it did in 2002.
mircea_popescu: and this is a start-up, by some journo chick which supposedly knows what time it is.
mircea_popescu: I’ve paid a WordPress designer named Sara Cannon $8,000 to build this site.
mircea_popescu: take the pando chick (who apparently is actually the tard that did that horror interview with zuckerberg) :
mircea_popescu: but most of the shit we do today costs 5mn, and would have cost 500 to make 15 years ago.
mircea_popescu: benkay ironically, i would say the average paid per webpage today far exceeds the height of the dot com bubble.
mircea_popescu: the disadvantage of being a loyal servant of a small yet arrogant country.
mircea_popescu: this is actually a very good point. putin also gets his news early.
mircea_popescu: "Russia finished the final stage of the East Siberia-Pacific Ocean (ESPO) Pipeline in 2013."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i just get my news earlier than everyone else that's all.
mircea_popescu: they may add a say 30% surcharge for any us exports just for fun tho.
mircea_popescu: nah, they're never stoppin gthe gas. putin is much too smart for that.
mircea_popescu: "The two versions of Russia—McCain’s “gas station masquerading as a country” and Lake’s fearsome conqueror—both start from the same bitter knowledge, even if Senator McCain and Mr. Lake will never admit that fact in public. It’s a simple one: Russia will take Crimea, won’t pay a big price for it, and there’s not a thing anyone can do about it."
mircea_popescu: and that, for the first time since 2008, is actually a clear path tho the end.
mircea_popescu: because if they do hold enough they're going to trigger a contest with the chinese as to who dumps them first
mircea_popescu: im curious how much us t's is russia holding in offshore accounts
mircea_popescu: chetty i doubt anyone has the nazi esprit de corps to actually declare wars anymore.
mircea_popescu: (one of the best predictors of who will be defeated in any conflict is see whose messages don't manage to coallesce, displaying instead dualities)
mircea_popescu: anyway, good point in pando article, re the "party line". it suffers from spina bifida, and will crumble into dust
mircea_popescu: "we are the people you tried to kill, and we will bury you"
mircea_popescu: i can readily see how something like that would create plenty of national identity.
mircea_popescu: random guess. their pr is mtgox-level atrocious, which is kinda sad after all these trilema articles on the topic
mircea_popescu: they probably lost a hard drive, didn't have a proper array and can't restart till they fsck
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell benkay "the secret discovery of these techniques was for the Tyrant merely a happy accident" << it was in fact. rsa was invented by some brit guy, kept under lock and key unused for 4 decades.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile back at the ranch, bitbet invented a whole new kind of hell.
mircea_popescu: "OP, I know cryptostocks makes it seem as though starting your very own security is a sort of past time accessible to anyone who'd like to try, sort of like adopting a pet fish. This has nothing to do with bitcoin securities in fact and everything to do with play-pretend exchanges exploiting those who'd like to try but aren't ready for one reason or another."
mircea_popescu: this pando stuff is like a breath of fresh air, it almost reads like press from before digital ruined it all.
mircea_popescu: i'/d suggest you try this theory out, but instead just lie down D:
mircea_popescu: many countless ways to throw camnav for a loop, including lulzy things like silly strings
mircea_popescu: but on large icmb type of things. tehy've not really fittedf it to the 10lb shits yet
mircea_popescu: and if this keeps up for another 3-4 years the rest of the world will own more drones than the usg.
mircea_popescu: the word around the backchannels is that the usaf gets back about 2/3 of the drones it sends out
mircea_popescu: i guess people in the us are so starstruck with "technology" they forget they're just little radio planes.
mircea_popescu: turns out they are kinda useless in actual military operations.
mircea_popescu: may have something to do with all the drones the us lost in the ukraine.
mircea_popescu: "Two U.S. Air Force commanders in the 422nd Air Base Group at RAF Croughton have been relieved over a loss of confidence in their abilities."