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ben_vulpes: i'm not really
that bright it
turns out
ben_vulpes ponders
the unintentional double entendre
mircea_popescu: you will find
that cusp can be quite wide. it's like an untrained orgasmer going "i'm almost
there".
ben_vulpes: "one shouldn't be a doctor" <<
the doctoring's forced on one
ben_vulpes: a few are right on
the cusp, but it's
taken years
to get
them
there
mircea_popescu: anyway, one shouldn't be a doctor for people who aren't patients. not your job
to solve people's problems, especially
those htey do not care
to have solved.
ben_vulpes: trick being
to deliver
the beatings without going
to jail in
this here country
mircea_popescu: so
they fly in a girlish rage, which is fine and perfectly comprehensible, and even self aware
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes sadly it's
the equivalent of
the beatings. women grok wtf it all means, by virtue of
their existential quality of being women. little girls, of whatever age, even 50 should
they be, have no avenue
to comprehend wtf is being said.
ben_vulpes: the "objectification is part and parcel of having a cunt" line
takes more delicacy and subtlety
than i've yet cultivated.
ben_vulpes: i've been considering how
to present
this
to
the "feminists" in my vicinity
mircea_popescu: now,
that such a matter of fact is a flimsy ground for assault, and has no good reason
to escalate
to battery is certainly
true.
mircea_popescu: a reconstruction of some sort of imaginary alternative is no different from any other synthetic product : like
the
transsexual, like
the roman eunuch or later italian castrato, like all other exercises in artifexery.
mircea_popescu: a federation, like
the us ?
the austro-hungarian empire didn't last five years of harship.
mircea_popescu: japan was a nation, and
those
three decades nigh on crumbled it.
decimation: if
the us becomes japan for
the next 30 years,
then it is a great deal
mircea_popescu: (it did do great -
the bankers made money,
that's
the benchmark)
decimation: the implication being
that serious folks with lots of bezzlars see a 3% 30-year loan as a great investment - which is
telling about expectations of
the future
mircea_popescu: it's so amusing for me
to see
the situation of 1980s japan imported pretty much all over
the north atlantic.
decimation: because oil halved,
therefore 'the deflation' scare is on
decimation: rather
than
the scheduled increase in 6 months
decimation: the latest fed open market meeting strongly implied
that rates will be low for a long
time yet
mircea_popescu: and
the "workers" are a wrapper around
that wrapper. in
the sense a rectum is a wrapper around
the condom wrapped around
the cock.
mircea_popescu: but anyway : as in
the centrally controlled economy of
the socialist state, so in
the us :
the "private" sector is a wrapper around
the politburo.
decimation: the only reason 30-year fixed exists in
the us is because of 'popular demand'
decimation: well,
they are essentially 'vanity' prices
decimation: but it's also impossible
to find a 30-year fixed at less
than 3.5
decimation: well, it is certainly
the case
that it is hard
to find a bank
that pays more
than 1% on your savings account
mircea_popescu: decimation
this is why it only makes sense
to buy it as a loan, on good
terms.
decimation: I would still be
trading an asset for something valued in loaned-bezzlars
decimation: the problem is, even if I were
to purchase a house with say, gold or bitcoin
mircea_popescu: decimation
the difference is negligible from where i'm sitting!!!1
decimation: i
think mcd has raised
their prices somewhat, not sure
decimation: no, it's like having usg pay 70 bucks for a happy mean I 'get'
to eat
mircea_popescu: (is
that shit still 4.95 or did "deflation" fix
that proble mtoo ?)
decimation: not
through any
traditional loan dealer
mircea_popescu: iirc
that's
the structure i used last
time i did something like
this.
mircea_popescu: perhaps as a 10 year fixed, with a negotiable
that includes your right
to fully repay.
decimation: as for 15x, you can get 0.5% loans -
that have 1-month adjustable rates
decimation: I can't find good data, but it is pretty well known
that usg entities purchase 30 year fixed loans
mircea_popescu: phillipsjk:
this humble channel. << i never
thought i'd live
to hear
that one.
mircea_popescu: it is
the fault of
the people running servers
that
they implemented upnp instead of beating
the people with
the reports, sure. however, beatings suffer from a disaster of commons
type of problem :
they are valuabler and expensive, but
the beneficiaries resist
them afore, even if
they appreciate
them after.
mircea_popescu: phillipsjk:
The users installing
those routers probably don't even play with computer networks as a hobby. It is
the manufacturers, not
the end-users' fault
that UPnP is exposed
to
the Internet. <<<
ther atrocity known as unpnp exists in
the first place because people who do not know how
to use computers wish nevertheless
to use computers, and
then complain
to people running servers
that "doesn't work".
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: no way. it respondes
to ./bitcoind -datadir=. -port=... -rpcport=... stop, but not
to kill $BITCOIND_PID
mircea_popescu: “We were stunned by
the allegations which served
to negatively impact our business in
this exciting and evolving financial category,” said Josh Garza, CEO of GAW. “However, we appreciate
the outpouring of support by a community
that is behind what we are doing as pioneers in
the cryptocurrency market; in short,
they simply didn’t believe it.”
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: having now sent kill $(cat bitcoind.pid) several
times, i'm no longer so certain
that
the damn
thing obeys SIGTERM.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski understand : building a building costs
to
the
tune of a bn or a few.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski anything past ~20 years is not necessarily going
to come in your favour.
pete_dushenski: i'm more interested in how long you can negotiate as far as a fixed rate
term goes
mircea_popescu: maybe
there's no private market in
the sense
that
there's no bitcoin stock market ?
mircea_popescu: banks refinance at about 0.2% anything under .3% is ok but over
that is being greedy.
decimation: in
the us, all mortgages are sold by usg
mircea_popescu: hm, i guess actually you might not have
the luxury
to
tell
them
to gtfo
mircea_popescu: what is
this, fucking retail ? we're all jews, right ?
pete_dushenski: 5 seems
to be
the norm, not sure how hard it is
to get a longer fixed rate
term
mircea_popescu: ;;later
tell phillipsjk you can't reason on any
topic on
the rotten basis of socialist propaganda.
mircea_popescu: decimation: bezzlar lending rates keep dropping because 'oh noes deflation' <<< if you can
take an immense loan denominated in usd and at a fixed rate,
to purchase anything
tangible you should do so right now.
mircea_popescu: everyone has savings, and
they save in gold ? wtf is
this bs.
mircea_popescu: ;;later
tell benjamindees seven billion people have no savings.
mircea_popescu: also
there, " Bitcoin can be so complicated at
times
that even I have problems getting all
the facts."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
tomorrow'll be fine, but yes, now is
the
time on sprockets where you let
the little guys fuck by
themselves a while.
mircea_popescu: YOU ARE CONFUSING PEOPLE!!
the problem we are solving is not a problem which is why it should be solved!!!1