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mircea_popescu: also, when moiety comes back we gotta do "moque l'ecosse" day.
mircea_popescu: and then a few hours later you find dry earth in your hair and get all wtf
mircea_popescu: i think the french touch is when the girl is working in the garden and you jump her
mircea_popescu: when everyone's required to speak french and english => kick
mircea_popescu: you know, incidentally, we should have french day sometime
mircea_popescu: davout you know, maybe at some point you should consider acquiring a compiler or build environment or something
mircea_popescu: which is the 70s on the information superhighway timeline
mircea_popescu: punkman just meant we have already been wtf-ing at the exac tquote for like 20 seconds
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves sounds like they also invented pantyhose.
mircea_popescu: which you know... coulda been quite humorous. "hello, your founds are losts"
mircea_popescu: a. i bet you they don't whip them nearly enough and b. why the fuck aren't they doing this to white kids already.
mircea_popescu: i tell you, i read those stories about x company using forced child labour and my only two thoughts are
mircea_popescu: i rue the day i'll end up in a car filled with buttons labeled conveniently "easy" "simple" "fun" etc for my convenience.
mircea_popescu: punkman a wonder they missed out on adding thc in there
mircea_popescu: . If it's not immediately clear to you why citizen banking is a bad idea in general, I'd suggest paying the first person you can find who can draw a flow chart of themselves, your torso, and a scalpel to perform heart surgery on you; on the off-chance you survive, the recovery time'd make for good reconsidering.
mircea_popescu: "A bank isn't something you start on a whim after drawing a doodle on a napkin"
mircea_popescu: you have significant atc holdings and the ability to make deliveries ?
mircea_popescu: you know someone in the thread was making an offer iirc ?
mircea_popescu: if somehow the entire neighbourhood goes into theft nobody complains about how the rich stoled it anymore. because fundamentally everyman's objection isn't that someone's rich
mircea_popescu: much like the entire "my neighbour is rich clearly he stole it"
mircea_popescu: obviously the entire thing was powered by the general public's jealousy
mircea_popescu: now that joe q random can happily make his own crypto-ponzi, nobody says the word anymore.
mircea_popescu: funny thing too : back before the alt explosion, the #1 "criticism" the general public had was "bitcoin is a ponzi"
mircea_popescu: like the past week, right ? it lost like 30% of value and now... it stopped.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves at least no plane's landing in that one naimean ?
mircea_popescu: unless it;s mismanagement (there are in egypt some towns developed but never occupied say)
mircea_popescu: skyscrapers are relatively new tech, economy doesn't shift fast enough to have those yet.
mircea_popescu: Namworld that's not possible for a strict reason of closeness.
mircea_popescu: Kern county has i think 100 or so abandoned settlements
mircea_popescu: squatters don't normally have money to buy anything in a shop anyway, so it's even
mircea_popescu: right. check out the litany of abandoned mining towns all through ca, az, nm etc
mircea_popescu: they may not be very big, maybe a square mile or two, but still
mircea_popescu: actually, california and generally the us west is littered in 100% abandoned towns