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assbot: Logged on 01-12-2015 17:01:57; pete_dushenski: "In Raqqa,
the Syrian city
that is now
the de facto capital of
the Islamic State, a department called Diwan al-Khadamat, or
the Office of Services, sends officials
through
the city markets
to collect a cleaning
tax — 2,500
to 5,000 Syrian pounds, or about $7
to $14, per month depending on
the size of
the shop. Residents go
to collection points
to pay
their monthly electricity and water bills, 800 S
assbot: Logged on 22-11-2015 23:43:08; mircea_popescu: here's a primer on airstrike efficiency :
the brits did 7 (SEVEN!) mid-air refuellings for one of
their rustbuckets
to manage
to drop ONE bomb on
the one runway in
the faulklands, "disabling" it
pete_dushenski: "But in
the long run, according
to American officials,
the surest way
to significantly restrict
the group’s finances will be
to retake
territory it controls, something
that has been painstakingly slow so far, despite
thousands of airstrikes." << waitwut airstrikes are hugely ineffective ?
pete_dushenski: "Officials of
the so-called caliphate dislike
the
term “tax,” preferring
the Islamic
term “zakat,” which refers
to
the alms Muslims are required
to pay." << eerie similarity, neh.
pete_dushenski: "The Islamic State also demands a cut of
the revenues earned by small businesses. “We either pay in olive oil or cash, it depends on
the production,”" << altcoins accepted for
taxes
too !!!1
mircea_popescu: hey, check it out, isis charges about
the same
tax
tmsr charges.
mircea_popescu: this pretense
that say france is a country because holy usg says it's a country, while isis is not a country because louise shelley acts as if it weren't...
pete_dushenski: "In Raqqa,
the Syrian city
that is now
the de facto capital of
the Islamic State, a department called Diwan al-Khadamat, or
the Office of Services, sends officials
through
the city markets
to collect a cleaning
tax — 2,500
to 5,000 Syrian pounds, or about $7
to $14, per month depending on
the size of
the shop. Residents go
to collection points
to pay
their monthly electricity and water bills, 800 Syrian pounds
☟︎ pete_dushenski: "“They fight in
the morning and
they
tax in
the afternoon,” said Louise Shelley,
the director of
the
Terrorism,
Transnational Crime and Corruption Center at George Mason University." <<
this is apparently incomprehensible
to
the american mind. "whaddya mean
there's a
time of day when
they don't
tax ?"
mircea_popescu: let me know when
there's "those it rules" so desperate at
the wringing of money
they fly planes into isis irs headquarters
pete_dushenski: www.nytimes.com/2015/11/30/world/middleeast/predatory-islamic-state-wrings-money-from-those-it-rules.html << because only
tewowists imposes
taxes mkay !
adlai: it's not a waste of
time, it's a 'student project'
mircea_popescu: "Oklahoma Wesleyan is not a “safe place”, but rather, a place
to learn:
to learn
that life isn’t about you, but about others;
that
the bad feeling you have while listening
to a sermon is called guilt;
that
the way
to address it is
to repent of everything
that’s wrong with you rather
than blame others for everything
that’s wrong with
them.
This is a place where you will quickly learn
that you need
to grow up.
mircea_popescu: and from
the lulz dept, "Tome un blokium flex, pero se me corto de golpe el periodo, cosa no común, dado que nunca
tube problemas cn mi periodo que me puede haber ocurrido??"
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that
three-letter currency code. It is up
to you
to make sure
the (1 more message)
adlai: shame, even coinbrlive is a victim of dns
tardation
mircea_popescu: "our critique of structurally established, historically stable hierarchies is
to replace
them with a half baked, ad hoc, buggy, half-reimplementation" "why ?" "because it's easier
to write
than
to read."
mircea_popescu: who exactly
told random nobody
that he's
to be "slap wrists" ? "the beoble" ?
mircea_popescu: in all psychosis,
the interesting parts are always "what
the psychotic subject fails
to notice"
ben_vulpes: goes back
to
the moldbuggian "no authority *or* responsiblity in uni!" routine
mircea_popescu: who has
the authority
to distribute "slaps on
the wrist" again ?
ben_vulpes: "when nothing more
than a (privately administered) slap on
the wrist was ever done
to let everyone in
the department know" << oh now
they want public humiliation
adlai: twas worth venturing
thru
the esr
turd
to emerge on
the other side with "“Social Justice” has reached a sort of Poe’s Law singularity at which
the behavior of
trolls and
true believers becomes indistinguishable even
to each other"
adlai: from a sufficiently detached cis-privileged cynicism,
this reads as "the only
thing you have
to fear is fear itself"
ben_vulpes: "Many women are never raped, most women who are raped experience it only a handful of
times, but in a sense it doesn't matter because
the
threats are constant, and women are
trained
to live in a state of hypervigilance of
these
threats"
ben_vulpes: but
this is another undiscoverable entry in
the great "mircea_popescu discovers how
the kids are doing
things
today" saga
assbot: Logged on 07-09-2015 18:10:40;
trinque: ahaha I just got an e-mail from "pantera capital" addressed
to [FirstName] inviting me
to apply for funding.
assbot: Logged on 01-12-2015 04:34:00; punkman: "Blockchain, blockchain, blockchain! It’s not
the bitcoin anymore, right? Right (probably.) Join me at Disrupt London where I’ll be
talking
to Steve Waterhouse of Pantera Capital, Vitalik Buterin of Ethereum, and Austin Hill of BlockSteam. If anyone can make sense of
the blockchain vs. bitcoin argument, it’s
these guys."
ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: note
the giant blob of json in
the middle
kakobrekla: neat, last
time i saw
those was in 286 or so
punkman: arew
those
the uv-erasable eproms?
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: Butt, butt...
that medium page only uses 9 lines of something resembling html when you view source...
ben_vulpes: another hilarious
thing is
that apparently
that medium author doesn't know how
to make a hyperlink
ben_vulpes: that
this is
too much
trouble for anyone but a vanishingly
tiny fraction of people is
totally lost on
the outside world.
ben_vulpes: "no listen, we're super inclusive. get yourself a gpg key, get in
the wot, read
the logs, submit a patch, and we'll
talk about it."
ben_vulpes: oh god
the rounded corners and brand endorsement segment
ben_vulpes: love love love
the not
taken
together at all in a million years set of headshots and bios scrolling by at lightspeed
kakobrekla: speaking of con(f)s, at
the 'Finance Magnates London Summit 2015'
there was a single
talk canceled due
to 'unforeseen circumstances'; RECODING FINANCE – BLOCKCHAIN with Peter Randal, CEO of SETL
punkman: "This code of conduct applies both within project spaces and in public spaces when an individual is representing
the project or its community."
punkman: "We are committed
to making participation in
this project a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of level of experience, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, personal appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, age, religion, or nationality."
punkman: mircea_popescu: except
there's no argument and who
the fuck are
these schmucks again ? << my caption for
the gif
mircea_popescu: except
there's no argument and who
the fuck are
these schmucks again ?
punkman: "Blockchain, blockchain, blockchain! It’s not
the bitcoin anymore, right? Right (probably.) Join me at Disrupt London where I’ll be
talking
to Steve Waterhouse of Pantera Capital, Vitalik Buterin of Ethereum, and Austin Hill of BlockSteam. If anyone can make sense of
the blockchain vs. bitcoin argument, it’s
these guys."
☟︎ BingoBoingo: Need
to farm Carma in more varied subs, if
to be serious engineer de social
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Yeah, getting
too obvious.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo you know i can spot your
troll accoutns by a mile by now
punkman: possibly same guys
that hit ProtonMail
BingoBoingo: Didn't YIFY sign
their papers and settle with MPAA?
punkman: "
the safe deposits which pay 3-5% APY are not enough
to cover
the basic costs of
the business.
Thus,
they must be investing in 10-20% higher yielding "Wealth Management Products""
assbot: Arthur Hayes of BitMEX: Chinese Exchanges Are Operating As Shadow Banks - Bitcoin Markets Guide -
Top BTC Futures Exchanges ... (
http://bit.ly/1Os3tSg )
punkman: so
the ersatz EZTV guys now also working on ersatz YIFY
ben_vulpes: "The neutralitie o
this airticle is disputit."
BingoBoingo: Update: "I was wrong.
the CD revenue is far less.
The cashier makes more." -
Theo de Raadt
trinque: relax! it's only dangerous if it specifically
targets you