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mircea_popescu: eventually they ended up coming that way from the factory. orig kbd was utter shit.
mircea_popescu: basically these thin plastic pill style things lemme see if i can find one
mircea_popescu: i had to have custom fucking made kbd replacement put into teh old style timisoara-made z80 clones
mircea_popescu: no ; yet you'll be amazed what feats of comprehension can be achieved with a set of 26 predefined symbols.
mircea_popescu: THAT is what the whole "i'm rich, pay off for it" protection is for.
mircea_popescu: it's entirely within the realm of the conceivable that on a long enough timeline anyone ends up selling a nonzero quantity of palaces.
mircea_popescu: a deal can be anything. a stupid deal, or a deal of no economic value or relevancy, such as me offering for sale my palace on the moon, with the footnote that as far as i know there's no palaces on the moon and if there were i don't know of owning any is one thing. fraud begins later on.
mircea_popescu: preorders as such are a few steps closer to sanity than this.
mircea_popescu: same item would have been "why doesn't s.nsa claim to have an item it doesn't and sell it, like butterfly labs"
mircea_popescu: davout "immediate" doesn't mean "in so and so $magic number time interval". immediate means, without intervening steps.
mircea_popescu: ie, if X thinks P = "hey, ima trade fraudulently because i'm rich enough to afford covering up for it", the probability of X later thinking P' = "undertaking excessive risk on the basis of extant capitalization is viable in spite of its obvious unviability" is high. because while P' is patently insane whereas P is merely occultly insane, nevertheless P' is just a watered down version of P and consequently "of lower psychologi
mircea_popescu: and this is exactly the substance of the "will come to grief" comment. the sort of mental situation that creates the approach in the first place is generally guaranteed to eventually sink it past the point of safety.
mircea_popescu: which is the problem with this "im trading fraudulently in the hopes i'm rich enough to not suffer the consequences".
mircea_popescu: so : being rich protects one from action on fraud, on the basis of being able to make restitution and only as far as that lasts.
mircea_popescu: no, and at every juncture. mpoe bot was specifically financed, by bonds deposited etc.
mircea_popescu: rape is still a crime, even if you only indulge in it in those juridstictions where paying off the father after the fact is a legal way of extinguishing ~the claim~ against you and you're rich enough to pay more than you can fuck.
mircea_popescu: whenever something is taken to the marketplace under a label that doesn't match the content, fraud has been committed.
mircea_popescu: would you advertise yourself as "bitcoin seller" or as "commission-powered bitcoin hunter of future bitcoins and advisor extraordinaire evanghelizist at large" ?
mircea_popescu: there isn't such a mention on, eg, coinmarketcap.com. which is why we aren't having this discussion about that ~useless website ; but about the useless and fraudulent bitfinex.com exact equivalent.
mircea_popescu: their simple existence (or rather, evidently fraudulent pretense to existing) is the claim whole.
mircea_popescu: and incidentally the disparagement of sysco-powered pitstops is based on exactly this
mircea_popescu: yes, "going into restaurant means you'll eat food made by someone". but i didn't go into a commissions store ffs.
mircea_popescu: when i go and sit down in a restaurant and ask for the menu, a certain kind of promise is made. when the waiter doesn't go to the restaurant's kitchen but across the street, sits down with my order and waits for the waiter to approach him, a different kind of thing was executed than was promised.
mircea_popescu: somehow the entire ukistan real estate market has little problem identifying the latter case as a scam.
mircea_popescu: the way real estate trading works in uncivilised (ie, non torrens) places is that you gotta examine the ownership chain to establish whethere the owner is selling what he claims (property free and clear) or otherwise "promises".
mircea_popescu: the original discussed whores, but whatever, let's talk about boys for a while.
mircea_popescu: in practical terms : the spy is well advised to be polite to the doorman ; because the doorman will still have his job when the spy won't have his anymore.
mircea_popescu: first of all not the "victim" of "his own success" as it's called.
mircea_popescu: nobody looks back in 2017 and goes "shit, someone knew how this was gonna end back in 1997"
mircea_popescu: yes, well... ? who knows, maybe i got paid coupla hundy by orlando nicoara. god knows everyone else did, yes ?
mircea_popescu: "everyday substitutes for categories as provided by tv"
mircea_popescu: and besides, he has 0 experience interacting with only-living-romanian-billionaire ; and plenty of experience interacting with... what, irinel columbeanu ? recall the trilema foundational myth ?
mircea_popescu: i'll tell you : he's heard some things, and what i say seems similar. in that sense, guess what ? it is.
mircea_popescu: and in #trilema better homes and gardens, today's breakfast idea : cut open aguacate (green plox, not the black jewishabomination), remove seed, replace with thinly sliced blue cheese (aoc, plox, not argentinisms) and balsamic vinegar in some proportion. yum!
mircea_popescu: but why ? he, alex softcheese, a rotten reed just like milord bacon, has thought just like anyone ever thinks.
mircea_popescu: in nucet, the argument is that the empirical measure described is reliable until relied upon, at which point it is unreliable immediately and without remainder.
mircea_popescu: fellow identieis me as you know, "scenariul pesedisto-antenist". right ? on the basis of something he's read, or w/e, encountered in his daily lyf.
mircea_popescu: o yeah ? you should see when asciilifeform is not asciilifeform but female 20 years his junior. WITH TITS!
mircea_popescu: for centuries large open air garbage dumps, yet the call of the blood calls on.
mircea_popescu: you never know what the kids will do. this is the definition.
mircea_popescu: the reason it is vehehehery important for the kids to keep being distracted by "technology" aka bimbophones is that ... well... if they ever were to look up from zee angry birds...
mircea_popescu: turns out there's a lot of interesting us history "nobody ever knew".
mircea_popescu: the situation where manhattan may well be run by goldman sach's own boss tweed but five points is run by will poole and dontcha forget it is well anathema to the democrat corruption machine.
mircea_popescu: "clean the slums" very specifically means -- an effort by the early pantsuit to remove local autonomy from the poor. yes they'll be just as poor -- the important point is to make sure the landlord is one of us not one of them.
mircea_popescu: ok, well, there was once a place in new york worth going to. meanwhile...
mircea_popescu: but... meanwhile "they sanitized the slums", resulting in social sterility.