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mircea_popescu: and suddenly lolcatting isn't quite as appealing either,
mircea_popescu: six months later ALL the kids in that class do ALL the homework ALL of the time flawlessly.
mircea_popescu: you go to class of schoolkids, lay down the rules for what they have to do till next class. whoever didn't do it is beaten till they pass out.
mircea_popescu: do the gedankenexperiment, as asciilifeform calls them :
mircea_popescu: course people who dislike shit working tend to scream it doesn't work, but hey.
mircea_popescu: dub far as i've seen it;s the only thing it ever worked.
mircea_popescu: anyway, fwiw, in my experience works splendidly. whether you're working to destupidify women, or to build an exchange, or anything else.
mircea_popescu: da fuck did "want" become a legitimate argument anyway
mircea_popescu: people can want in one hand and piss in the other, see which fills first.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: it's actually okay whether you like it or not. a la bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: there's no cutoff. you're caught stealing that's it for you.
mircea_popescu: dub there's no "dealing". its not your motherfucking job to solve idiots problems
mircea_popescu: you can afford drugs, you can afford to pay the hospital bill.
mircea_popescu: dub no it's not. you telling me a heroin addict is untestable for junk ?
mircea_popescu: while recent tech boom allowed such nonsense be financed by squandering resources that'd have been better used elsewhere,
mircea_popescu: no, it's a solution in reality. the lala land is the presumption that anyone is worth something.
mircea_popescu: you ever used drugs in your life ? tough. gotta pay now.
mircea_popescu: the solution is to not provide any healthcare out of public funds for any drug user.
mircea_popescu: <nubbins`> junkies are going to shoot up whether they have clean digs or not << the solution isn't to let them do w/e they want cause otherwise they hold their breath
mircea_popescu: benkay you know you'll eventually have to put up a feed.
mircea_popescu: which wasn't that far off, the op went into a hysteria of nutty posting
mircea_popescu: herbijudlestoids his model is fundamentally broken. the relative prices of currencies are to a large degree fixed politically.
mircea_popescu: that'd be the only proven and conceptually sound transmission mechanism,
mircea_popescu: pretty much the only way to profitably invest in equity in the soviet us is by being friendly with the us politburo.
mircea_popescu: the argument is that in the actual dysfunctional economy as it is, without any accounting or reporting, the fed can SAY it did anything it pleases, and SAY it had whatever effect it choses
mircea_popescu: herbijudlestoids the argument isn't that in an actually functioning economy with actual accounting and reporting the virtual equivalent of the fed could prop up prices by printing paper.
mircea_popescu: herbijudlestoids a distinction ultimately without a difference
mircea_popescu: so he's fighting the fed on his shoestring budget ? what is this, the internet ?
mircea_popescu: nubbins` maybe the hassle of getting permits is such that they're just making a point.
mircea_popescu: cazalla well now we finally know who's causing all the global warming. STOP IT
mircea_popescu: herbijudlestoids trying to discern if i should have his history dug up or not.
mircea_popescu: some people from somalia had to drive to kenya or something
mircea_popescu: the rest of the country, well... some snow. nothing huge.
mircea_popescu: i bet nubbins dad could be sent to ohio by cazalla's dad
mircea_popescu: i'd say the man is well within range. that's about where i see it too.
mircea_popescu: herbijudlestoids "are about double the level that would generate historically adequate long-term returns"
mircea_popescu: nubbins` it was mostly desperation, by that point. wasn't that widely employed, but hey. anything to maybe get an edge
mircea_popescu: nubbins` no because it's hand operated by cockcaged slave guys
mircea_popescu: benkay down the same route : wouldn't the best investment be a large supply of keys to already installed cock cages ?
mircea_popescu: i'd totally want to go hunting with a suppply of bullets that's spent the past three years being handled and knocked around in pockets by 5000 dorks.
mircea_popescu: most shopkeepers could live an entire shopkeeping life without ever seeing a gold coin)
mircea_popescu: (fun fact : even at the height at the gold standard, gold was RARELY seen in commerce if at all
mircea_popescu: not really, man. just wash it in acid, piss in the thing
mircea_popescu: actually, you can prolly get three 9s at home in your kitchen