mircea_popescu: well sure but one never know what kids be reading, get the wrong idea.

mircea_popescu: seriously, the sort of imbecile that came up with this plan to push btc downwards on pure spin, while the diff is up bitbet is pointing the other way...

mircea_popescu: well that was exciting.

mircea_popescu: the brejnev doctrine survived both brejnev and the soviet union! give the guy obama's nobel prize i say.

mircea_popescu: "When forces that are hostile to socialism try to turn the development of some socialist country towards capitalism, it becomes not only a problem of the country concerned, but a common problem and concern of all socialist countries."

mircea_popescu: everything after that's just immitation.

mircea_popescu: really ycombinator's celebration of the uber scammors sordid approach is the moment there.

mircea_popescu: it's not panhandling, it's being creative and changing the world revolutionizing,.

mircea_popescu: 410 is cheaper than 490, which is cheaper thjan the 500s it was which is cheaper than 700 etc

mircea_popescu: is that 10 arbitrary power operations ?

mircea_popescu: kakobrekla they got a lotta useless employees you see.

mircea_popescu: yeah, apple, the world's most successful dropshipper.

mircea_popescu: fucking tables.

mircea_popescu: better reasons to be aggrieved. like the fact that there's no low cpu replacement for sine.

mircea_popescu: eh, the common man will support anything, who cares.

mircea_popescu: easy to make huge margins with no actual costs.

mircea_popescu: actually washington is the king of margins. al gore makes a trillion % on his "trade carbon" mafia scam.

mircea_popescu: the country has to be run by what exactly, lefty social media experts ?

mircea_popescu: The bill would also seem to exclude industry representatives from the board, as it says members "shall have no financial interests in any of the businesses for which reasonable profits are determined by the Board."

mircea_popescu: The Gas Price Spike Act, H.R. 3784, would apply a windfall tax on the sale of oil and gas that ranges from 50 percent to 100 percent on all surplus earnings exceeding "a reasonable profit." It would set up a Reasonable Profits Board made up of three presidential nominees that will serve three-year terms. Unlike other bills setting up advisory boards, the Reasonable Profits Board would not be made up of any nominees fro

mircea_popescu: lol cameron and john major. and tony blair. "please don't break out heart"

mircea_popescu: yeah, basically, idiocy spreads through exactly this mechanism.

mircea_popescu: can confirm - made an awesome bet on betsofbitco.in well over a year before the conclusion (had previously been paid out by them) - when it came time to pay up, the site stopped closing bets and then eventually just shut down. I bet .1btc when btc was ~$70 and I would of won around .5btc when btc was ~$800"

mircea_popescu: come to argentina, much better deals here.

mircea_popescu: you paid some guy 100 bux twice a week for 20 years, and he's not even sucking you off ?

mircea_popescu: xanthyos what the fuck are you doing with a 72yo psych

mircea_popescu: herp. "sites like this". lol.

mircea_popescu: "And sending 1000 BTC and waiting 5 months for the result when sites like this closing every day without notice is beyond stupid."

mircea_popescu: los_pantalones well yes but the medium is the derpage.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform one possibility yes. in fact, it's trivial to try and find a blockchain link to where the btc was before.

mircea_popescu: "I own BitBet, the site with the thousands of Bitcoins in bets. Ask me anything"

mircea_popescu: los_pantalones you're right, they;re cute.

mircea_popescu: "Who is sending 1000 BTC to a site with no SSL? Any why would anyone trust this site anyways? People are stupid or it's fake."

mircea_popescu: "Looking at those payouts, no one should take those bets, either for or against. The payout ratio is really, really bad if I read it correctly." << makes sense.

mircea_popescu: the strangest thing is... why make it 4 equal chunks

mircea_popescu: for a guy that "doesn't understand how reality works", the situation in the field speaks well of putin.

mircea_popescu: anyway, from a purely geopolitical perspective... gutting the 51st us state is more than adequate escalation for the entire ukraine mess, much like the syria humiliation was more than adequate escalation for the ossetia mess.

mircea_popescu: we moved on to discussing buterin's derpage.

mircea_popescu: not like the indians are about to leave their ancestral homeland because the colonists dun like it no more.

mircea_popescu: the people being kicked off are exactly the two bit farmers that it'd have had to rely on to expand its rule into this new fronteer

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform engineering panics are however great. as far as the usg is concerned, they're cannibalistic

mircea_popescu: meanwhile china ate tibet but still is struggling with singapore.

mircea_popescu: used to.

mircea_popescu: most us states are too large, let alone the federal construct altogether.

mircea_popescu: there's absolutely no reason to have a country larger than hong kong.

mircea_popescu: there will be many thousands at the end of it.

mircea_popescu: but anyway, regardless of scotland. basque country, french canada, transylvania, there were a coupla hundred states at the start of the century

mircea_popescu: they proly gotta count it, come to terms with the fact the uk is gone, stuff.