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mircea_popescu: (legal precedent :
http://trilema.com/2013/the-endless-story-of-korea/#selection-81.0-81.349 aka "Plaintiff seeks
to make his case solely upon
the
theory
that, by reason of
the change in
the weight of
the dollar he is entitled
to $1.69 in
the present currency for every dollar promised by
the bond, regardless of any actual loss he has suffered with respect
to any
transaction in which his dollars may be used. We
think
th
mircea_popescu: "does
this mean i sell
the government a
truckload of pork and it pays me for it
three
times ?" "no dummy, it means
that if you do enter into a contract with
them
to sell
them one
truckload of pork you a) will never get paid and b) will have
to deliver
three
truckloads. yearly. daily. fuck you!!1"
mircea_popescu: exactly. ie,
the usg needs, for continued survival,
to count all its money
TWICE
mircea_popescu: "More substantively—and
this is what I want
to focus on in
this post—“paying” for highway spending with Fed capital is not paying for it at all in any economically meaningful sense. Rather,
this maneuver is a form of budgetary sleight-of-hand
that would count funds
that are already designated for
the
Treasury as “new” revenue."
mircea_popescu: " but
they find easy money
too seductive, and S. 190 goes down in flames before a horde of political activists chanting
that easy money is sound, and opposing it is racist, nazi, ignorant, and generally hateful"
mircea_popescu: "The House voted
Thursday
to pay for planned highway construction by drawing on
the Federal Reserve’s capital.
The idea of using Fed capital
to pay for government spending, which comes up periodically, is a bad one, for several reasons."
ascii_field: 'Gosh, all of
this warm fuzzy coverage of
the NSA just brings a
tear of
thanks
to my eye. While you're at it, could you do a puff piece on Stasi, and
the KGB/camp system in
the Soviet Union? I'm sure
they did a spectacular job saving lives and keeping people safe, as well.' << from
the not-yet-censored commentz
pete_dushenski has
tickets
to 'spectre'
this afternoon, with modest expectations
mircea_popescu: oh check it out, he's gonna be
the next best
thing
to a super secret service agent aka "practically james bond" : he's gonna be a ~practically~ secret service guy!
mircea_popescu: well because i can't stand
the bullshit "will
to power" prose of
the derp, either.
mircea_popescu: see ? i could read
the whole
thing
through because also horses!
ascii_field: this sorta plugs into
the root of my allergy for
tlp
mircea_popescu: that it never came is
to my eyes proof
that, willing or not, you ARE redoing galois by hand, alf.
mircea_popescu: i confess i was reading all
through
the (very fine!)
tlp piece on narcissus expecting a kafka reference at any point
ascii_field: hey i've even run into folks who imagined
that 'physics was
thrown out'
mircea_popescu: anyway : kafka is exactly right, and
this is where
the siren story meets narcissus' story.
mircea_popescu: inept kids just imagine "art was revolutionezed and
the old
thrown out". not so, but who can be arsed
to discuss
the matter with novices in
their
terms.
mircea_popescu: it IS, btw, a very fine understanding of
the matter at hand. it is in
things such as
these
that we (ie, actually cultivated folk) recognize
that people like kafka, or nietzsche, or picasso or who have you actually IS a master, who just chooses
to go at it differently.
ascii_field: 'Now
the Sirens have a still more fatal weapon
than
their song, namely
their silence. And
though admittedly such a
thing has never happened, still it is conceivable
that someone might possibly have escaped from
their singing; but from
their silence certainly never.' (ol' franz k.)
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the problem with kids reading above
their paygrade (which is
to say,
the sort of
typically ustardian kid who, instead of coming at it plainly and getting
trampled AT HIS LOWER LEVEL OF UNDERSTANDING protects his ego
through "ironicity" and interacts with
the written excrement of great forefathers at a
time when it's safe
to do so [ie, afrter
the "death of
the author]) is
that
they ALWAYS misinterpret
the silences.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field you've perhaps noticed me doing a credible impersonation of
the old fart yest i imagine.
mircea_popescu: i confess
this is perhaps my foremost area of research at
the present
time
mircea_popescu: And “social goods” is how we got
to be surrounded by idiots and
their
trinkets
to begin with. << yet again and again it comes back
to
the name of
the rose, and
the old monk's hater of laughter.
ascii_field: the didn't know how
to make ersatz chocolate, either
mircea_popescu: you know
the reason everything was steel in
the 70s was because
they couldn't mold plastics worth a shit yea ?
pete_dushenski: the adjustable palm grip is a godsend for
these big mitts
mircea_popescu also had occasion
to hold one of
these in house of avid gamer
assbot: Logged on 10-11-2015 15:29:16; punkman: "A wealthy, elderly man, for example, could
technically marry
the father of his daughter’s children.
This would enable an estate of any size
to pass
tax-free into
the next generation on
the older man’s death. After his elderly “husband” had died, of course,
the younger man would be free
to marry
the daughter, with
the estate
thus secured intact."
assbot: Crickhowell: Welsh
town moves 'offshore'
to avoid
tax on local business | UK | News |
The Independent ... (
http://bit.ly/1ROuNsO )
mircea_popescu: And I hear Buterin just got 44,000 BTC smarter." << lol alfie massacring
the priesthood.
mircea_popescu: they even have pavlovian responses
to it, like a sort of "privately run bell", salivation begins.\
mircea_popescu: ascii_field aptly named, but no : for
the underclass "gc" means "gift certificate"
mircea_popescu: otherwise, every
time in an islamic country i was everyone's best friend on account of
the magic my passport could wreak at
the "special shop for foreigners".
mircea_popescu: <PeterL> Is it more insulting
to offer wine
to Muslims <<
this is not insulting
to muslims. it is only insulting
to 3rd generation americans who pretend mulsimity
to fill
the existential void.
mircea_popescu: <shinohai> Amazon GC ? <<< every
time i see one of
these marketed i grin. because i know about eulora, and
they don't, and somehow
the fact
that
the swarm loses out pleases me.
mircea_popescu: <BingoBoingo> I support Dr. Carson << so soes every other reasonable / educated / middle class guy i know in
there. which is how i know he doesn't have a chance in hell.
BingoBoingo: No idea, perhaps davout can weight in on
this matter
PeterL: Is it more insulting
to offer wine
to Muslims or
to
turn down wine from Frenchies?
shinohai: jurov seems
to work here, I cat'd a few over
to pogo and it syncs against it ^^
jurov: btw, is it possible
to continue running a blockchain synced on amd64 on pogo?
jurov: i'm syncing over LAN from core 0.10, just
to complete
the picture
shinohai still needs an SSD
to
test on, uses cruddy lappy drives.
jurov: also, it seems
to work fine with oldest 9 blk000?.dat on slower disk
BingoBoingo: Imma guess Miller ended up working for
the circus?
ben_vulpes: > Large attack surface
that relies on a quickly-built custom application.
ben_vulpes: > Building a security
team. Runs up-to-date software.
BingoBoingo: "He is a member of a prominent Omaha family.
The newspaper says
that Butler's father is Eric L. Butler, executive vice president for sales and marketing for
the Union Pacific Railroad."
BingoBoingo: None of
this community organizer bullshit. Dr. Carson cut people open and reassembled
them.
BingoBoingo: I support Dr. Carson because he is a neurosurgeon who is quite a few shades darker
than Obama
assbot: The danger of unchecked assumptions, or
the surprising depths of inequality. | Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski ... (
http://bit.ly/1RNtr1v )
assbot: Logged on 10-11-2015 22:25:29; mircea_popescu: ie,
there, "it's not
the job of
the state
to protect
the cultural patrimony OF INDIVIDUALS and
their clans ; if
those individuals and clans are so degenerate, bankrupt and chlorotioc as
to no longer be able
to protect
their heritage, let
the worms havce it. no, not even for comunist metaphisics ; no,
the property of x isn't "ours", no x's history isn't "ours". let
them uphold it or let it die.
pete_dushenski: if you're not
talking about fashion, you're missing
the point.
ben_vulpes: and i'm
talking about capital allocation, not fashion.
pete_dushenski: and we're
talking about well-heeled families, not cargo !
pete_dushenski: and a watch is a watch. you see
the problem with
this line of logic ?
ben_vulpes: maersk is a big
ticket. a car is a car.
pete_dushenski: tons of people sell cars,
those are
the numbers. and cars are
the 2nd biggest
ticket item after houses. and womenz are pretty much always involved, be it wives, gfs, mothers...
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: in
the same news, 3/4 full pop can knocks white bitchez
the fuck out. and black men ~can~ duck