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mircea_popescu: there's just no way stalin went "omg must protect tyhrone"
mircea_popescu: the only alternative is jukov got sick of the shit and weanted out.
mircea_popescu: i never met stalin or jukov, but i can take an oath stalin only fucked jukov because jukov pissed him off.
mircea_popescu: nobody who endfs on the throne actually goes for the throne.
mircea_popescu: just so with power. the powerful don't actively seek it. it seeks them.
mircea_popescu: these three are just there cause they;'re the least obnoxious of a sea of similar bitches in heat.
mircea_popescu: no, he's not. most of his time is spent trtying to keep such women at bay.
mircea_popescu: i think the problem is something along these lines : young cock gets into night club, sees successful local mobster with the three girls dotting on him. figures this is a cool squarejaw, he's forcing these women to do such things.
mircea_popescu: you misunderstand the relationship between the powerful and power.
mircea_popescu: or moreover this is what the state is, much like a supermodel is her tits and her waist
mircea_popescu: and there's a reason the tinted windows tinted glasses douches in the us have infinite budgets atm. they are THE state.
mircea_popescu: tell hemingway "could you rewrite this ? all the m's and w's use so much ink... try writing with more i's instead"
mircea_popescu: that's what you do! it's like asking van gogh to save on paint.
mircea_popescu: but think about it : the old guard of the soviet republic, them people in their leather jackets
mircea_popescu: in rome i'd have probably driven them up the wall with my globalist ideas.
mircea_popescu: i just happen to be able to fit more on my bus than the current fashion
mircea_popescu: trying to save on fucking ain't the way to go about marriage.
mircea_popescu: people need a good answer as to why the fuck they're your subjects.
mircea_popescu: the effort of fucking a pregnant woman (for instance) is in no way wasted.
mircea_popescu: education is purely a sexual process. what's this "more fucks than necessary" ?
mircea_popescu: this has nothing to do with protecting anything of yours.
mircea_popescu: the only practical way to educate the human being is through violence.
mircea_popescu: and the only places not worth living into are those devoid of inequality.
mircea_popescu: whereas the only true measure of development is inequality,
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it is at the very least red because its only practical use is to try and give credence to this nonsense theory whereby inequality breeds stagnation through "waste".
mircea_popescu: mtgox doing such a horrible job of it is the bad thing.
mircea_popescu: money can best be understood as the practical equivalent of the theological concept of "grace of god"
mircea_popescu: rthe poor are poor because they are failed human beings, not for any other reason.
mircea_popescu: money simply follows its own rules, and concentrates in adequate places.
mircea_popescu: how did you end up so immersed in red ideology anyway ?
mircea_popescu: and no. the rich are not rich because they've stiolen from the poor, or from the stupid.
mircea_popescu: "guard labour" is a void notion pretty much. it stems from the ultimately doomed attempt of the intellectually bankrupt left to justify it's nonsense.
mircea_popescu: and b. because they back all sorts of dubious shit and are generally part of the axis of evil.
mircea_popescu: because a. they keep making dumbass statements that then get fed into the dumbass press which make btc look like a scam
mircea_popescu: sure, on ocasion. but fact remains most major players don't even have an account with them
mircea_popescu: i seriously don't know anyone who's neither a noob or an idiot seriously using mtgox.
mircea_popescu: the fact that all users are currently that makes zero difference on this score.
mircea_popescu: well it also happens to not matter what the brand is among rats.
mircea_popescu: sure, garbage bins almost always have some food in them. i wouldn't call this a "brand"
mircea_popescu: well... depends. italian restaurants if you like italian food
mircea_popescu: depends. there's no such thing as "an alternative". wjhat's the alternative to eating from the garbage ?
mircea_popescu: unless you're in like iran or some other primitive economy.
mircea_popescu: right. cause it's a side business of no particular value or import
mircea_popescu: who is a serious contender for the exchange dollars to euros "throne" irl ?
mircea_popescu: go hit on a girl, she turns yhou down, you meant for her to turn you down all along. sure.
mircea_popescu: well you can always have an ex post facto definition of the purpose of an item that suits its actual history.
mircea_popescu: by that approach that options site referenced earlier is "laughing all the way to the bank"
mircea_popescu: possibly not. i think we're discussing very slightly different things
mircea_popescu: this is how bureaucracies survive : clueless but at least slow.
mircea_popescu: executing very well is an advantage if you have a good strat. if you have a bad strat executing poorly is actually better
mircea_popescu: now europe is going off a cliff, and the laggard is in the best position all things considering.
mircea_popescu: romania is one of the eu members. it has always been a laggard. this was always decried as a huge disadvantage.
mircea_popescu: the idea is just that having a car that's 1ms faster wins you nasdaq, but on a well designed exchange having a bot that's 1ms faster wins you little if anything at all.
mircea_popescu: if mtgox lag was subsecond (which is HUGELY laggy for an exchange) nobody'd complain
mircea_popescu: there's no real advantage to being quick in a game of wits.
mircea_popescu: you put it on the book, can't cancel it for 1 second say.