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xmj: (technically
they're described by financial market authority regulations)
dub: a bartender can't legally serve someone
thats already drunk as fuck, a bank only has its own criteria
RagnarDanneskjol: well, i beg
to differ. pretty sure Australian banks require more paperwork for a loan
than a bartender requires
to serve a drink
RagnarDanneskjol: ok, was making a more general comparison. both have
tight governance around when & who can be served. whats your point?
dub: there is
tight governance around when and who a bartender can serve
dub: thats a pretty stupid
thing
to say
RagnarDanneskjol: re: is it a good way of evaluating? it is a descent indicator - if compared
to historical data in
the same area/demographic (as opposed some arbitrary comparison
to a region on
the opposite end of
the planet)
dub: Sydney is a pretty livably city compared
to
those shitholes
cazalla: although people have been predicting
this bubble would burst since
the early 2000s
cazalla: The median house price
to income of Sydney is nine
times, compared
to 6.2
times in New York and 7.3
times in London. Even Adelaide is more expensive
than New York on price-to-income basis.
assbot: Australia's housing bubble is real and banks are
to blame, says author
assbot: Steve Forbes Misunderstands Money ::
The Mises Economics Blog:
The Circle Bastiat
mircea_popescu: October) he said: "It would not have been accepted in 1945
that
the UN should include
tiny states whose only justification for existence is
that
their
territory is no longer wanted by
the colonial governments
that supported
them for years."
The light dawns!
mircea_popescu: The problems of "majority rule" did not, of course, arise in America way back in 1776 since
these sturdy pioneers evolved
their own expedient for dealing with such matters. However, Mr. Goldberg, chief U.S. delegate
to
the UN, seems at last
to be concerned over "majority rule"—at UN itself, where small, insignificant states are usurping
the peace-keeping authority of
the great powers. On
the UN's 21st birthday (24th
mircea_popescu: " Americans probably now know less about Rhodesia
than
they do about
the moon, which does not deter
them from
trying
to impose on us
the "solution" and resulting chaos
they helped
to entrench in
the strife-torn Congo."
mircea_popescu: "107 Four former ministers accused of plotting against General Mobutu were hanged in Leopoldville's Grand Square before a Wembley-sized "gate" of 100,000 after being condemned at a 90-minute open-air "trial". No evidence was presented, no prosecution case made,
there were no witnesses and
the defendants had no counsel.
There were also no protest marches in London, no sermon in St. Paul's, no letters
to
The
Times, no de
mircea_popescu: That Rhodesian Africans actually assist
their "oppressors" in hunting down
terrorist would-be "liberators" refutes
the lie
that
this is a land of
turmoil and strife.
There has, in fact, been more racial disturbance and bloodshed in Chicago or Los Angeles in a week
than in Rhodesia in a year.
mircea_popescu: After a year of pressures, scorn, sanctions and diatribe, Rhodesia emerged more resolute in her will
to survive, and with a more stable, stronger, and more dignified image (192) —an image gratuitously,
though unintentionally, created for her by
the failure of her would-be detractors. Mainspring of her stability lies in
the deep reservoir of inter-racial goodwill.
mircea_popescu: The "talks" were resumed. Elsewhere in Africa
things were about normal—for Africa.
There was a coup here and
there (140), Zambia committed
transport hara-kiri (137), some lively Somali border skirmishing produced its quota of casualties, summary "justice" was administered in
the Congo (107), and about 1,000 Ugandans were bumped off by Premier Obote (119)—nothing really serious enough
to warrant
the attention of a
decimation: one wonders how many anonymous friends #b-a has out
there...
decimation: wow, a
troll who - contributes
to
the conversation?
assbot: Unqualified Reservations:
The country
that used
to exist
assbot: A very unfair perspective. pe
Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
pete_dushenski: ;;later
tell vexual please
to recommend restaurants in sydney, melbourne, or geographically in between :)
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski amusingly,
that's
the premiere employment
the locals get in
the chinese colony
towns.
they ship whores in, but when it comes
to sports local kids get
the job.
cazalla: there is also
the cigar bar in hawthorn
cazalla: pete_dushenski, nfi
they all have fancy names and change
the menu, many of
them are great
though (i have not been in a while
though having a kid and all)
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: lol well
tech colleges still need varsity athletes
pete_dushenski: cazalla: nice. is
there a cocktail in particular
that you'd recommend?
mircea_popescu: "the measures
that it'd
take getting african americans
to outcompete azns out of us
tech colleges". heh. what measures,
tell me ?
mircea_popescu: <decimation> asciilifeform: once again,
the real reason is
that
the measures required
to get
the locals
to work for you would be forbidden by usg << not so.
the locals are just shitty stock.
decimation: mircea_popescu: if
they had balls + enough money
to purchase decent defenses, USG wouldn't be able
to do much
pete_dushenski: other
than cazalla, i can't remember who's all down under
pete_dushenski: speaking of oz, can anyone recommend a good restaurant or
two in sydney or melbourne?
decimation: asciilifeform: once again,
the real reason is
that
the measures required
to get
the locals
to work for you would be forbidden by usg
decimation: pete_dushenski: well, it's
true
that
that was how most of africa & south america were run for a few centuries
pete_dushenski: decimation: clear out
the locals? and miss out on all
that cheap cheap labour?
decimation: right,
this implies
that usg is directly responsible for
the derpage worldwide
decimation: there isn't a spot on
the globe
that can be colonized without usg's
tacit permission
decimation: I suppose
the immediate response of USG would be
to crush such a project for being racis, etc
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: add white
titties, mojitos, stir, serve
ben_vulpes: "you're
the one who
told me
to put it in
the garbage, you should be
the one
to
take it out, jerk"
mircea_popescu: i bet he would. jesus fuck
these people, always ready with
the wrong
thing.
mircea_popescu: hearnright. i
think
that's
the definition of a successful attack :) don't get me wrong. i'd like
to see core restart itself if it crashes <<< riiight.
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pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: don't
think keiser is in on
this island deal, looks like :
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform main reason why
the universality of
the wot is such an important prerequisite for a livable world and general hapiness.
mircea_popescu: i suppose next in line, neobee for a different island. since it worked so well
the first
time.
mircea_popescu: hasn't keiser already
tore himself a fifty asshole with his involvement in
the icelandic coin scam ?
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski lol
the funny
thing about
these idiots is
that
they keep copying...
the broken models.
pete_dushenski: brain damage like "All 70,000 residents living on
the Caribbean nation of Dominica will be eligible
to receive bitcoin as part of
The Bit Drop project, an upcoming collaboration between bitcoin businesses, interest groups and local government officials."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform doesn't astound me in
the slightest. it actually makes me quite happy.
pete_dushenski: it's as completely parallel as
the fiat economy itself
BingoBoingo: this chan isn't
the only one with logs holding gems pete_dushenski
mircea_popescu: the entire fucking echafaudage of shit piled upon shit strictly depends on "decorum" and nobody saying
the
things.
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mircea_popescu: with
the usg at
the helm it really didn't belong anywhere near
the common linux newb.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform bitcoin was
taken out of main for
this exact reason.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski about
the same people who "invested" in eth.
pete_dushenski: there can't be more
than a few hundred madmen/children still updating bitcoind
mircea_popescu: not
that anyone is actually using
the power ranger implementation anyway, but as an academic point.
mircea_popescu: if anyone feels like doing some public research
to show exactly how
this can be used
to breach
the anonimity of compliant clients, by all means. you won't have
to dig
too deeply.
pete_dushenski: The Bitcoin Core
team recently committed BIP0064, which adds
two new commands
to
the protocol, getutxos and utxos.
The getutxos command is used
to request unspent
transaction information based on
the given outpoints, while
the utxos command is
the response.
The BIP was authored by Mike Hearn who also provided
the implementation for Bitcoin Core.
assbot: Trotsky's Speech in Mexico (about
the Moscow
trials) - YouTube
mircea_popescu: worth a quote, he basically says what i've been saying
to would-be "good citizens"
to relatively little effect.
mircea_popescu: would have had more
than ample character for a
tranquil period. But
the epoch of grandiose social and political convulsions demanded an extraordinary firmness of
these men, whose abilities secured
them a leading place in
the revolution.
The disproportion between
their abilities and
their wills led
to
tragic results.
mircea_popescu: [By contrast] For
ten years
they [Zinoviev and Kamenev] had been enveloped by clouds of slander paid for in heavy gold. For
ten years
they had swayed between life and death, first in a political sense,
then in a moral sense, and lastly in a physical sense. Can one find in all past history examples of such systematic, refined and fiendish destruction of spines, nerves and all
the fibers of
the soul? Zinoviev or Kamenev