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mircea_popescu: wow that point re metaphysics is actually incredibly strong
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo "other, less meta altcoins" you mean "other, less alt metacoins" or "same, less coin metaalts" ?
mircea_popescu: dude the fiat system works so well, i have no idea why all these people talk about bitcoin threats and whatnot
mircea_popescu: According to a 2013 report from the Treasury Inspector General’s office, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued nearly $4 billion in bogus tax refunds in 2012. The money largely was sent to people who stole Social Security numbers and other information on U.S. citizens, and then filed fraudulent tax returns on those individuals claiming a large refund but at a different address.
mircea_popescu: <pLambert> What about Somalia, I thought they were supposed to be Utopia? <<< they used to be but then kako got snowed in.
mircea_popescu: and it'd be a pretty boneheaded thing to do anyway. russia has had enough cultural revolutionary great leaps forward to last it five centuries.
mircea_popescu: obviously "civilisation" as she means it isn't necessarily a goal
mircea_popescu: or do you just presume we're interchangeable because irc nicks
mircea_popescu: "sure, makea few billions and start buying english football clubs so maybe the kremlin won't off you"
mircea_popescu: im curious what his polonium defense is for free living in russia.
mircea_popescu: you kinda need to pick some criteria and stick to them
mircea_popescu: nubbins` romania is not a bad one, for as long as that lasts.
mircea_popescu: people lend btc for profit all the time what are you talkin'; about.
mircea_popescu: nubbins`> you may need to be sponsored by an employer to get settled, not sure of the ins and outs << drive over, hire a lawyer to start a companby, have the company hire you.
mircea_popescu: so i was just on the phone with this jewish chick i know, and she admitted that in israel the oreos are made out of dead anglosaxon babies.
mircea_popescu: Dimsler__ probably because i'm even more evil and arrogant.
mircea_popescu: seriously, you got some stuff going on that's preventing you from thinking.
mircea_popescu: livermore34 you've not really done your reading re that shitfest.
mircea_popescu: Dimsler__ poor people without resources or abilities do not cause shit storms.
mircea_popescu: the suburbia is getting (for a minimal cost) refurbished and that's that.
mircea_popescu: and srsly, i'd be surprised if the average distance between pairs is under 3k miles
mircea_popescu: i have teams working for me totalling well over 100 people
mircea_popescu: pLambert we're not even talking about flyover us, cause obviously that doesn't exist for the op :D
mircea_popescu: i think your particular preoccupation with a political slant makes the discussion intractable to you.
mircea_popescu: in fact, la is > size of slovenia. to the point i was making jokes about the TOWN of slovenia.
mircea_popescu: you can call about 45 "othercities" in greater boston area
mircea_popescu: well see., the fact that they call it "another city" is irrelevant
mircea_popescu: in europe most people live 20km+ from the downtowncenter too.
mircea_popescu: i thought we were discussing the infrastructure not the population.
mircea_popescu: minimal changes can turn us suburbia into what europe is like.
mircea_popescu: problem is... no. canada economy can't support rates over 5% , and won't. possibly ever in the history of canada.
mircea_popescu: rates everywhere will start to raise next year since 2008.
mircea_popescu: i never actually bother doing the math untill i see they're cheating me
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves as usual, they do not know what the words they're saying mean.
mircea_popescu: you personally can do anything you please, and so can anyone else. but on aggregate people will play the game correctly.
mircea_popescu: compare with rolling a pure 20 stat char. do you EVER re-roll that ?
mircea_popescu: but from a game theoretic perspective, consider you've rolled an 3 point average character in a 1-20 stats game.
mircea_popescu: this not even taking into account the big problem, which is, the required minimal capacity of the child to absorb investment
mircea_popescu: pLambert the view happens to be correct. the per-capita investment for poor man's children to replace poor man is negative. the per capita investment for rich man's children to replace rich man is enormous, and exponential.