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the_scourge: but
that's REALLY fucking expensive and at
the
time
the income streams were
trickling a little
the_scourge: adlai: 1. i
tried very hard before, during and after
to get as much
tactical benefit as possible. 2. you're right, and in retrospect i could have done equally well by making shedloads of money and shooting a lot,
training a lot, hiring and doing private
training
adlai: not having actually been in such units, i'm speaking from impressions of people who were - but it seems as
though
the army
trains people
to be useful
to
the army, and any personal benefit
that people got out of
these units was mainly due
to
their own efforts
to better
themselves
the_scourge: or shayetet13 - i wasn't young or patriotic ... and i wasn't when i got a good slot in
the british military. i was having
the same
thoughts as moldbug, but instead of blogging about it i decided
to become as deadly as possible in as short amount of
time as possible
adlai: but
the soldiers
themselves were just your average shmuck
adlai: mlrs is just a regular battalion in
the army, but it used
to be a special unit like
that one... so
there was
this massive cognitive dissonance, where
the higher up
the officer,
the more elite
they
thought
their unit was
adlai: oh
to be so young and patriotic again!
the_scourge: i was interested in shesh shesh
tesha at
the
time :D
the_scourge: adlai: i don't even know what unit
that is
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform in
their defense,
they can actually use it
adlai: more bomblets! more rockets! firing faster! from a bigger vehicle! with better
treads! etc
adlai: expecting anything short of retardation from a bureaucracy
the size of
the idf is hopeful at best
the_scourge: which was retarded i was working on a kibbutz as a lifeguard and i was
tearing up guys on
their weekends on runs/workouts
adlai: the_scourge: now
that mp gave you legal residency, you should be able
to !up yourself in PM with assbot, and
that lasts as long as you're connected
to
the channel
the_scourge: oh cool i was going
to join
the IDF but
they said i was
too old
mircea_popescu: hard
times in
the international diabetes federation :D
adlai: so yes,
three years, full
time, and reserve duty for
the extent of my healthy adult life (unless/til i move out of
the country)
the_scourge: asciilifeform: right,
that's probably a stretch
too far from reality. but USG and HMT and BoE have been doing
the fiat
thing for a while now, and
that's just one step less crazy
the_scourge: you can monetize ANYTHING with enough mind control and military. post bretton woods,
that's all we've been doing!!!
the_scourge: asciilifeform: yes, yes
they can. hitler couldn't because his guys were getting beaten by our guys
ben_vulpes: <asciilifeform> [] 'vulture capital' << i'm surprised you're not making
the easy poo joke here
too
adlai still hasn't gotten paid for his reserve duty, but doing
this requires physical presence at various government bureaus
that keep excessively sane hours
the_scourge: adlai: i'm one of
those damn
tea drinkers. well actually i'm not but w/e
the_scourge: oh yah apparently mats is predisposed right now i
tried pinging him a while ago
the_scourge: the reich is interesting... oil was a big issue for
them
the_scourge: unless someone can remind me what
the point of
the original shells comment was, we drop it :) ?
mircea_popescu: but weren't stupid enough
to accept
the balancers as
their own currency.
mircea_popescu: ie, earlier european governments understood
the problems of unbalanced
trade, and invented balancers.
mircea_popescu: they did, kinda. cowries played
the role in africa
that opium played in china
the_scourge: from personal experience, it's so fucking annoying
though
the best of us could only last a short while on
the inside
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform note
that merely
the fact of exchanging "Shiny" for "cunt" might well be reported as "monetary shiny" by some people and 'loads of fun whee' by some others.
the_scourge: there is a lot you can learn about finance by signing up
to be a uniformed
tough guy for one of
the big
two, with your head already fully unplugged
the_scourge: because
they're brainwashed into supporting a certain nation (the issuer)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform a word in your ear about "cowrie shells" : it is possible
they were ever used for money. it is also possible libertard anthropologists created
the pious fraud of "retarded non-white peoples also have some semblance of intelligence".
the_scourge: nothing holds
their value other
than
the force of
the issuer's military. i served in one of
them
the_scourge: mircea_popescu:
they're not monetizable (paper dollars) - just like
the pound
the_scourge: nothing has ever been monetized successfully
that couldn't be
turned into swords or necklaces or circuitboards or compressors (or eaten but i'm going back a ways now)
the_scourge: and...
that assertion is
true until proven false
the_scourge: i was
thinking about
this
the other day ... some smart people say
that if
there is not secondary use (no matter how minor, compared
to
the
total volume)
then something cannot be monetized
mircea_popescu: at
the
time
the pound was on
the receiving end of german rape.
the_scourge: sorry, i was going
to ask earlier but... shit happened
the_scourge: mircea_popescu: in your soros example, what is
the unmonetized commodity? surely not
the gold
ben_vulpes: <chetty> [] email
that actually sends what you want and nothing else would be a worthy project :) << gnus, part of emacs, has worked for probably longer
than i've been alove
ben_vulpes: <punkman> []
there's
this robocaller
that waits for me
to pick up
the phone and say something, pauses for a short
time,
then says "Goodbye" and hangs up. << calling
to find people who pick up
mircea_popescu: aww coin
telegraph goiung
teh way of what was
the one
they kept pushing,
that was supposedly big ? also coin something
the_scourge: adlai:
to be honest my
time doing
the market data, i was more focused on getting an inside education on
the more... interesting
things in
the financial markets,
than stacking my CV with kernel/ASIC achievements. and in
that regards i came out quite well
the_scourge: right so
translation helped. and i knew
there was a reason i still keep a urxvt instance running, even
though it's horribly bloated
the_scourge: um what's
the best way for me
to find out what
that says
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the_scourge: adlai: oh, i should have said
there was custom hardware involved. and 48 core bulldozer CPUs (bad decision, but made before i arrived)
the_scourge: to be honest i just did
the studies
to get away from computers for a few hours a day.... also
to answer
the big questions in life
the_scourge: and for education... fuck
that seems like a long
time ago but among other
things i did a masters in ancient philosophy, languages and regilion. studied greek and aramaic and history as well
adlai doesn't see
the connection between "linux kernel" and "market data", but if
that's interesting/profitable, glhf
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: leprous beggar sounds more like undead beggar in your instance
then.
the_scourge: in another life it was all systems programming etc but
then i decided
to go
to
the UK and join
the Royal Marines... really really long story
adlai: kernel as in
trick?
adlai: "market data kernel
tuning"?
the_scourge: erm well i work for myself doing ... what is interesting/profitable. was market data kernel
tuning,
then perl coding, now more 'devops' stuff
mircea_popescu: the suspicion being
that perceived brilliance in other fields may be more
the newspaper memory hole
than his own merit.
the_scourge: mircea_popescu: well what do you want
to know
the_scourge: thestringpuller: also, probably best
to avoid parallel womb renting
the_scourge: i've just finish reading all of his non-bitcoin and non-economics posts (those are
two
things he ... isn't
that brilliant with)
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: is
this similar
to female who rents out womb for having babies for infertile couples?
the_scourge: for a bunch of scottish guys
to buy
their porridge with... really?
trinque: I hadn't ever
thought about it in
those
terms before
trinque: was
talking with someone
the other day about how
the american system of govt is a shattered sovereign
mircea_popescu: trinque quite exactly. accidental central planning and laika is alone in
the control center.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller you ever read
that crooked
timber
tyhing about
the bezzle was in log yest ?