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chetty: isnt
that
the big gulag?
benkay: feel free
to
tell me
to get stuffed with my questions
benkay: chetty: d'you pay
taxes? still have a US passport?
chetty: good job asciilifeform, I am not so sure
the gasenwagen will be a joke much longer
assbot: F.DERP June Statement pe
Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
chetty: <asciilifeform> it isn't hard (presently...)
to physically leave usa.// you'll never really know until you
try
jurov: lol
this chan causes its own slashdot effect now? legacy-control.com is slow and
throws errors
jurov: did anyone mention
the homeland can always ask
to extradite you?
assbot: Mary Poppins Quits:
The Rebuttal (w/ Remy) - YouTube
DreadKnight: need
to recall what comics I used
to follow besides xkcd
chetty: <asciilifeform> for most americans, walking
to mexico would involve having
to work for a living - a punishment far harsher
than anything
they do in jails here// walking over
the border
to Mexico is actually pretty easy
benkay: i like
the finance stuff
jurov: i
try
to read everything but my subconscious
tends
to skip it :(
mircea_popescu: you short
the derps globally by buying f.derp. or i guess individually by borrowing
them from someone
that bough
them
thestringpuller: we short using normal methods? (asking you
to borrow shares on margin?)
mircea_popescu: so one can
take either end.
this was discussed in
teh logs!!1
mircea_popescu: if one issue goes up 100x in usd and btc goes up 10x and
there's 10 issues,
then it's just about wiped.
mircea_popescu: basically if each individual issue goes up 2x in btc,
then it's just about wiped.
benkay: so all of
the D series is backstopped by all of f.derp
benkay: backstopped by your reputation and promise
to pay?
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron if
there's religious interest forums you know
that i don't / other stuff you're already doing feel free
to
throw
that into
the mix.
benkay: mircea_popescu: DERPs are backstopped
to
the sum of BTC brought in by sales of DERP shares, is
that correct?
mircea_popescu: that
thing's massive, about
the size of a bodybuilder.
mircea_popescu: and more generally, if anyone's currently wasting a lot of
time derping online and would like
to make a job of it... say so.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: you can spend
the rest of your days doing it for all i care, 24/7. you're
to report each weekend and i'll pay you mondays.
danielpbarron: what are
the
terms? how much money; how frequently?
mircea_popescu: i don't pay people
to lie,
they do
that on
their own & for free.
mircea_popescu: don't spam, make sense, bring in
the various good points we know about
the world doesn't, bitcoin, b-a, bitbet, mpex, etc.
mircea_popescu: okay, what i want you
to do is create a bunch of handles in various forums (i'll
tell you which) and participate in
the discussion.
mircea_popescu: vilage people are actualy a lot dumber
than city people.
they just have much fewer avenues
to display
their inanity.
decimation: well, in
the village
the people would know, not in
the city
mircea_popescu: yeah but it mixes
the people in
there. what'd
the people know.
decimation: I suppose
that's
the point of jury nullification
mircea_popescu: certainly murder of political figures is always justified on
the face.
they were, after all, political figures.
mircea_popescu: by
the
time you realise you should have it's
too late.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform im sure
the reason is exactly like
the discussion re
the altcoin
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform im sure
they couldn't have survived in
ther wild, but i dun see why
that should matter.
mircea_popescu: i guess a lot of foreign military officers wondered why
they've not simply shot hitler at any point in
the 30s, just walk up
to him and boom.
mircea_popescu: i have no idea why i didn't just
take
the birds across.
mircea_popescu: among which
two pelicans. which had figured where
the door was, and what a door is. and were angling
together
to perhaps scare a dumbass
tourist and manage
to get out.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform my only lingering regret from my days in costa rica is
that one day i've visited a bird reserve. a large geodome sorta
thing with a lot of birds in it.
decimation: before
they were won by
the English...
decimation: which is exactly
the attitude
that
the us used
to have back in
the pioneer days
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform did i ever
tell you about
the
two pellicans ?
mircea_popescu: which ironically makes
the entire "terrorist"
thing quite appropriate, except, i wouldn't shot
them for
the show (which is what
terrorism implies,
that you kill people for no reason
than
to impress other people). i'd do it because
their continued existence is incompatible with mine.
mircea_popescu: there's very little doubt in my mind
that if i were in
the sort of situation most folk over
there enjoy, i'd simply be shooting people.
decimation: the eastern metropolis is especially bad on
this count. high population density but everyone is alone
decimation: they can even pay
to have
their kids escape
to
the great 'el norte'
mircea_popescu: decimation most of humanity lives on less
than
ten bux a week.
decimation: yeah
that's what most of
the "early retirement" folks advocate. if you can live on $20k per year you can retire now if you have any assets
to speak of
mircea_popescu: inconvenience yourself and you'll be free, but otherwise, you're predictable, and in being predictable you'll be a
tool.
mircea_popescu: the point is
to live like a feral dog AND leave
the country.
decimation: that's long enough
to claim adverse possession in many states
decimation: they would have walked out of
the gulag without a second
thought
decimation: this guy Werner Herzon
tours
the River Yenisei and finds people who live off
the land
decimation: ascii have you seen "Happy People: a year in
the
taiga"?
thestringpuller: like in july
the highest it'll get is like in
the 10's
to 20's C
thestringpuller: i recently heard of a city in siberia
that utilizes more energy
to keep
the city warm and operate
than it would if people just commuted 100's of miles
to operate
the factories
there...