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mircea_popescu: the average romanian was
too fucktarded
to understand even
the basics of how economy works. at all.
mircea_popescu: imagine a
town
the size of akron, ohio, which has exactly one restaurant in it
Neil: Yeah;
the state destroying incentives is something
that has gotten so clear
to me in
the last 2-3 yrs yet I'm baffled by how few around me see it.
mircea_popescu: i mean
think about it, a country
that suddenly needs everything. everything!
mircea_popescu: so
this put
them in
this strange position whereby even if
they wanted
to,
they couldn't do anything.
mircea_popescu: (which is a very lengthy discussion also found on my blog, but really not
too interesting here, as
to why)
mircea_popescu: but more importantly without any of
the mental structures
that'd allow
them
to work productively.
mircea_popescu: with about
twenty million people who not only owned nothing at all (literally, a pair of jeans would get you unlimited bjs cca 1988)
mircea_popescu: but anyway, it's something like
this : romania emergend in 1989 incredibly poor,
Neil: impressed by
the speed at random linking
mircea_popescu: anyway,
there's a good chance you misrepresent what "doing for oneself" means in
this context.
mircea_popescu: Neil and now you're coming
to
the why
things are structured
this way.
Neil: Good incentive
to get off my ass and do something useful myself I guess.
Neil: In a parallel universe with no risk you see, I mighta been interested in investing in some of your ventures.
Though
the
terms are clear, it's also
the problem, as a) a 30BTC fine
to "play" means
there's gotta be something worth playing for, and b) I worry about you getting run over by a bus, for example, because c) it's all really quite opaque and I rate b) as ~2% annually, which is quite a JTD risk.
Neil: I see, curious why you're waiting for someone
to disclose so
that you know.
Neil: mircea_popescu: So do you ever
take a holiday? Or is your life so fulfilling doing your
thang
that you never want
to chill out so
that delivering statements in
the first few days of each month is never an issue? Is
that job subordinated
to anyone else yet?
bitcoinpete: ;;later
tell mircea_popescu very sorry about
the dubiousity. it's been corrected…
the formatting on
this one has a mind of its own on
the blogs-b-a site but seems
to be working well on
the blog itself. my guess is
the copy/pasting messed it up.
thx for
taking
the
time
to read it and provide feedback!
VanCleef: hi, whats a good investment? my daughter really needs
this operation
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo how come you're not actually
trying
to run a book
then ? is it illegal where you live or something ?
BingoBoingo: Well, least betable if you discount football/soccer because
that shit ends in a draw way
too often
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I plan on covering most of
the sports. Next is probably Basketball because it is
the least betable.
mircea_popescu: if only you were
there, o cyrano of bingoiac,
to whisper in
their ear at '80s raves and whatnot. all
the professional cunt
they could've ravished...
mircea_popescu: "great conflict between
the Apollonian grace and Dionysian chaos is a root of great art", listen
to
that, you've made generations of middle aged jocks
tear up.
mircea_popescu: "2 of my students wrote a Google Glass
trojan
that secretly
takes photos and uploads
them
to a 3rd party. Oh, and got it into
the Play store."
mircea_popescu: also it's dubious practice
that you
take
the painstaking care
to mention whatever bitcoiny site but somehow omit
to point out on what venue you heard
this entire
thing about berkshire.
mircea_popescu: ;;later
tell bitcoinpete
the quote is good, but why does it come with a lower scrollbar ? it's unreadable
this way.
MisterE: haha so it's all about going after
the little guy
BingoBoingo: Well, if I am my own ISP
that would suck wouldn't it...
MisterE: now
they go after you
thru your isp
BingoBoingo: No,
they don't do some kinds of
those in some jurisdictions
MisterE: they dont do
those anymore
BingoBoingo: Shady, foreign, and streaming is
the way
to be
BingoBoingo: MisterE: I'd want
to know more about how
their site and player are architected, but
that could just easily be some podunk law firm fishing for ip's
to gather for one of
those mass John Doe suits.
artifexd: And if it isn't available for streaming, just about everything available via
torrent is available via nntp
BingoBoingo: Eh,
the streaming sites provide
the content without putting me in a position
to be distributing it. I dun
think
the risk reward for
torrenting
the wrong
this is a good value proposition in my jurisdiction.
MisterE: yea
think I have met
them ;/
BingoBoingo: MisterE: Someone else with
this nick is some HS aged gamer kid
MisterE: BingoBoingo: do I know you from another
tracker?
BingoBoingo: When Ver can protect his Island with a fleet of Hind Hella Choppas
then we can
talk
transuranic
BingoBoingo: Especially when Ver is
tripping balls and
thinking he is Dr. Richard Kimble
MisterE: hgher atomic number
than uranium?
BingoBoingo: MisterE:
The other stuff is
the
transuranic stuff...
MisterE: US needs
to find more of
this stuff
BingoBoingo: Well, if you were selling
the other kind, I would suggest Bitcoin might not be mature enough for
that yet...
bitcoinpete: Anchored by Buffet's 1983 letter
to shareholders
bitcoinpete: S.MPOE seems
to be all over
the place of late.
herbijudlestoids: anyway, i need
to get some breakfast in me and crack on with my worx.
nubbins`: was in a band once called Goat,
the Provider
BingoBoingo: When I have my uranium mines I will fill
them with
the shennanigan-less
BingoBoingo: herbijudlestoids: If
there isn't
time for shennanigans,
there isn't
time at all
nubbins`: "I'm afraid I cannot address your problem. I have much more important
things
to
think about just now: sea urchins, hordes of
them, with
their evil poisoned spines,
there in
the sea, just out of view, waiting… waiting…"
nubbins`: Robinson's comment on
the mixup:
nubbins`: "The Brighton-based Argus
took a question from a reader obsessed with
the fragile
truce between man and caprine, and somehow misattributed it
to Richard Robinson,
the director of
the Brighton Science Festival."
BingoBoingo: herbijudlestoids: Have you considered getting back into ATC
trading?
ozbot: Twitter / gitagovinda: .@coreypein wants
to post
this ...
nubbins`: two of
these guys are in
the melvins
ozbot: Big Business - 'Here Come
The Waterworks' (Full Album HD) - YouTube
benkay: jcpham mirror
the goatforum
too
nubbins`: maybe he can add content from goat's private forum
too
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nubbins`: ^
that was one of 'em buying some shoes
Diablo-D3: yeah,
theres way more of it in nyc and la
Diablo-D3: a
third what a good stripper in LA can do
bitcoinpete: "Exotic dancers are flocking here from as far away as Russia for
the same reason as everyone else -
to make
their fortune in a place known as Kuwait on
the Prairie."
Duffer1: perhaps a bit
too obscure
to be funny :P
mircea_popescu: mdwu well
that's about all
that's been said on
the
topic.