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mircea_popescu: *that* is a figment of your imagination, like the tits on the goddesses.
mircea_popescu: there is no nor can there ever be such a "kill switch".
mircea_popescu: "sarac dar cinstit" = poor but honest, ion iliescu, the ex dictator-s golden boy.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform fun anecdote : romania's ruler for the 90s decade owner... a house.
mircea_popescu: and this is so for very good reasons long explored in the history of thought.
mircea_popescu: listen, while i agree with the reverse (ie, indeed reality iwll have some bearing, no matter how tenuous, on your imagination), the reverse is completely baseless.
mircea_popescu: francis_wolke you know this hardly is showing, do you ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform on your circumstance, yes. on the reality of the matter, none.
mircea_popescu: Duffer1 you know you'll have to first define some criteria.
mircea_popescu: turning "them" lose is like turning the cockroaches in your kitchen "loose", admitting you live in ny.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there's never any question of turning them loose because they just won't leave.
mircea_popescu: or moreover it's simply THE maintenance of the historic norm, independent of human agency, which is being mentally digested in ways consecvent with the current social text.
mircea_popescu: not everybody needs a college degree, even if they're white, and even if their parents have "expectations".
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i suspect the problem is more like this : if i give you a debt package, there will be a cost to evaluate its value. if that cost likely exceeds its value, you may opt to just throw the whole thing away.
mircea_popescu: yes. our discussion started with me asking if you realise the thing you quote has more to do with the mokeys involved than with anything of import today.
mircea_popescu: but this is in no way time based, and in no way a festival.
mircea_popescu: this happens all the time. there are 1000s of bankruptcy courts all over the world hearing millions of cases as we speak.
mircea_popescu: francis_wolke it would be the breaking of SOME tablets
mircea_popescu: this requires an economy built by people who see more than a year into the future.
mircea_popescu: they still wish and expect tvs running water and generally to be able to play around on the intenret.
mircea_popescu: the fact that the bulk of the live humans are about as stupid today as in 3000 bc has little bearing
mircea_popescu: yes well. back in those days a one year interval was far outside the mental abilities of even "specialist" "bankers" to plan.
mircea_popescu: francis_wolke you realise the entire breaking tablets thing is strictly a function of man's early monkey-like state and has no practical importance today. do you ?
mircea_popescu: 2.47% of total Mpex.co traffic in last 3 months is social < that part was lulzy.
mircea_popescu: you know that is beautiful, 1.30 for 30 days, 1.09 for the week
mircea_popescu: FabianB good to see the mkt is actually healthjy, i had a moment of panic.
mircea_popescu: make a fucking killing, buy futures worth 0.003 at 0.002
mircea_popescu: after pirate collapsed people speculated there was some relation.
mircea_popescu: at the time pirate ran his 7% a week thing, there was an irl 7% a week thing
mircea_popescu: o hey that works out splendidly doesn't it. teh ideas of march.
mircea_popescu: sooo... anyone want to guess as to the guy's bitcointalk name ?
mircea_popescu: In January 2012, the SEC charged an Illinois-based investment adviser with offering to sell fictitious securities on LinkedIn and issued two alerts in an agency-wide effort to highlight the risks investors and advisory firms face when using social media. Anthony Fields offered more than $500 billion in fictitious securities through various social media websites. For example, he used LinkedIn discussions to promote fict
mircea_popescu: Much of Eastern and Central Europe rates better than the United States, and from Western Europe, only Italy rates worse.
mircea_popescu: "Compared to other nations, the United States ranks just below Romania, and just above Haiti"
mircea_popescu: pankkake pls to pay to BingoBoingo 100k atc, let's see what he can do.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo would you like to be my openex broker ? :D
mircea_popescu: then couldn't get anyone prosecuted for it out of the entire gang, so she left once she was 18
mircea_popescu: i knew a girl that loved it, then got raped for being white, aged about 15,
mircea_popescu: provided she doesn't start dating elen degeneratis or some shit