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mircea_popescu: " Consider that the market is currently pricing Bitcoin over 10k as a 114.19/73.69 sort of proposition. That's right : the open market valuation of the notion that Bitcoin will go over 10`000 USD this year is not so much worse than even odds."
mircea_popescu gets to forever recall how buffett was too scared to pick up glove, and cackle.
mircea_popescu: all i got for 1k btc was averting this 2017 happening in 2014, let's call it.
mircea_popescu: one could live comfortably out of all the hazard-for-6-yos items i lose apparently.
mircea_popescu: also managed to misplace a 2ct diamond i used to wear in mah lapel... utter puyi operation i'm running over here.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: nfi where they went, possibly chick ended up swallowing.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform could you just write emacs mode to fix the spacing/style ? possibly cheaper than sawing gnat apart.
mircea_popescu: i have paid for so many posters... what is this, the pili thing ?
mircea_popescu: at least cursory familiarity with the poisonous plants pre-required
mircea_popescu: i've been making candlewax garden of late. shit's fun.
mircea_popescu: so you can watch every single bug and worm piss on you from high above ?
mircea_popescu: this is what's gonna be the new response to police "arrest" : you DID first send a PM right ?
mircea_popescu: somehow "criminal" isn't supposed to FIRST be notified PRIVATELY about how usg aims to assault.
mircea_popescu: the expectation on the part of the usg drones that usg gets a private first pass for being usg is something else.
mircea_popescu: more like, when stalin died. cuba was international socialism thing. like mexico.
mircea_popescu: at some point, cuba was exactly 1980s libya, attacked usg frigates in port and paid people to bomb
mircea_popescu: "not overrun" but i don't see it sending agents to blow up dept of state trashbins.
mircea_popescu: if hruschev went "well, it's up to castro", then defended.
mircea_popescu: i don't recall castro making any decision in the kennedy ultimatum, at any juncture.
mircea_popescu: thereby "corruption = the rent is about to go up ~1`984x"
mircea_popescu: nope. russians can now jam. either you get them next to sevastopol or forget it.
mircea_popescu: (the geostrategic situation, for the very understandably disinterested, is that usg can not maintain pretense of mediteranean presence without ground missiles in constanta, because the ru navy actually works whereas the us clittorals do not.)
mircea_popescu: somehow the idiots didn't see that whole thing for the trap it was. "first, let them build it, doh"
mircea_popescu: "don't vote for x, he not only would confiscate our constanta base BUT IS VERY CORRUPT" sorta bs.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: anyway, the whole thing is "we captured the ro judiciary, the wave turned, we're trying to defend this asset for now".
mircea_popescu: same idiots as "o noes, unforkable bitcoin is not valuable!!11" continuously since 2013.
mircea_popescu: tractor, while just as real as oxplow, is nevertheless no kind of oxplow ; sewing machine, while just as sewy as sewing by hand, nevertheless not a mechanical sewing hand ; airplane, while just as aflight as bird, nevertheless not mechanical wing flapper. and so on.
mircea_popescu: it's one thing to see things thatr aren't there. for as long as you live in the world of things that are there. once you move to living in the unreal...
mircea_popescu: anyway, the problem, as that wise doctor pointed out, isn't when you start hearing voices, but when you start talking back.
mircea_popescu: you'd be surprised what % of current "novels" fail this simple test.
mircea_popescu: "lifetime wanker will have adapted to his lifestyle". oh... you don't say.
mircea_popescu: wankery is the adolescentine state whereby the things we don't look at aren't there because the power of our imagination makes the playboy girl real!
mircea_popescu: which reduces to, "most of your time, and most of your women's time, will be spent with cows."
mircea_popescu: there's no going back to a state of innocence, whereby "we don't know what's at the end of the earth". thereby, there's no going back to a state where we will ever do anything other than sift through herds looking for the accidentally lost woman in an inexplicable sheepskin.
mircea_popescu: own pocket ? "well of course... what did you expect ?" honestly, nothing much.
mircea_popescu: all "sawing through the cage" proposals i've seen to date (and a major part of what i do is look for exactly that) consist of either idle wankery (german philosophy school etc) or else "here's how to cut a two inch hole in the wall, stick a paper bag out of there, and duct tape it to the hole from outside". ty... but... this replaces a wall with a paper bag ? "yes, but it goes FURTHER OUT!!" sure, but i still know it like my