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mircea_popescu: r3wt hi there.
mircea_popescu: totally worth a nobel prize for going "hey guise, wouldn't it be better if we ipo that shit ???"
r3wt: How do i join the WOT
mircea_popescu: ed. So in June 1929, a new plan was enacted, floating more U.S.-backed bonds and reducing Germany's payments to $28 billion paid out over 59 years.
mircea_popescu: In 1924, an American banker named Charles Dawes outlined what came to be known as the Dawes Plan — a new reparations agreement under which U.S. banks such as J.P. Morgan issued bonds to private investors on behalf of Germany, which agreed to pay them back when the money became due. Dawes won the 1925 Nobel Peace Prize for his work on this plan. But when the first batch of bonds came due in 1928, Germany again default
kakobrekla: fuck the logs, carpe diem, sieze the day, miss it, fuck you.
mircea_popescu: nah, gotta keep publishing the logs to be just like the paris club or w/e.
mike_c: except we publish the logs. gotta fix that.
mike_c: that's an exclusive. nobody else haz that data
kakobrekla: ah you are trolling.
asciilifeform: what's the laffer curve for dekulakization anyway.
jurov: but it needs better source, it's based only on google translate
ozbot: "Money Launderer Until Proven Innocent" - Italy Imposes 20% Tax Withholding On All Inbound Money Tra
mircea_popescu: that is actually the most suspicious thing from all you've dug up so far.
mike_c: more JD stats you are all dying to know: ROI on money invested last July and left alone since then: 14.5%
ozbot: How Germany Ended Its World War I Reparations Payments - TIME
mircea_popescu: "the whites took it"
mircea_popescu: quoth birladeanu "here's in the soviet archives lenin recorded speaking of it"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform romania sent about a billion trillion tons of gold and shit back when russia was run by the tsar (and close ally / relative of the romanian king)
asciilifeform: 'these fellows won't see it again like they won't see their ears [without mirror].] ☟︎
asciilifeform: (not like they could've brought it back)
mircea_popescu: i wonder if germany is/will be told "fu, we're keeping the gold cause ww1"
asciilifeform: ww1 zapped the wealth, the rest, funny bookkeeping to cover for it
mircea_popescu: that'd be roughly 30 to 50 or so thousand tons of gold, at the time
mircea_popescu: but anyway, we're talking 10 to 20 1930 bn dollars worth here.
mircea_popescu: basically the bolsheviks won anyway.
mircea_popescu: well, that's the problem with ww1, for the first time in history governments became a majority of the gdp,
asciilifeform: i though everybody knew.
mircea_popescu: the entire thing ended in the 30s as perhaps the first major fiasco of the government-owned financial system.
mircea_popescu: this was being repaid after the war, principally from german reparations, which principally consisted of us loans to germany.
mircea_popescu: as in, all through the war the british were sucking captial out of the us, first in the form of cashing out their massive investments, then in the shape of borrowing.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, how many people know of the war debt carusel in the context of the 1929 crisis ?
mircea_popescu: or that they may contraband unapproved earrings in them, much to the anger and envy of all the other bored womenz ?
mircea_popescu: do you suppose the concern was they may enjoy them through both ends of the digestive canal
asciilifeform: well, noted specifically that they were permitted through the gate only upon slicing.
mircea_popescu: i had lunch today, the salad had cucumbers, they were pre sliced
asciilifeform: in an account of turkish concubines, a venetian envoy noted that cucumbers were served to them pre-sliced...
mircea_popescu: clearly there's no cock involved in this entire thing at any juncture.
mircea_popescu: who the fuck would want two concubines dressed in exactly the same cut out of slightly different colored material but otherwise same textile,
mircea_popescu: and from the same period : http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8f/《玫贵妃春贵人行乐图》.jpg
mircea_popescu: true, that.
mircea_popescu: there's only so much occupy bs the girls can put up with before eviscerating the doofus troop with their bare hands.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: but as you observed, the age of the impotent. whose doings perhaps will not make for good pictures.
asciilifeform: and sold in 'history for kidz' sections of trendoid bookstores.
asciilifeform: we may yet live to see boschean marvels like this one drawn about modern folks.
mircea_popescu: or with breaking up the rain pattern
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it COULD have had something to do with calculating machines
asciilifeform: but rather the glass bead game pushed by half-educated fans of norbert wiener & co. at the time.
asciilifeform: incidentally, few modern armchair generals seem to know that the forbidden 'cybernetics' had nothing to do with the construction of calculating machines
mircea_popescu: if i may be pardoned the pun
mircea_popescu: this seems more like prospective than descriptive
asciilifeform: not because of the red hot poker, either.
asciilifeform: 'when we clean out his starfish, quickly he'll remember how he undermined soviet power and the party in his research institute with his cybernetics, this scoundrel...'
mircea_popescu: http://www.freebook.com.br/Imagens/produtos/28/9780955006128/9780955006128_Detalhes1.jpg < wtf is the fucking thinking here.
mircea_popescu: hard tack.
mircea_popescu: it's little things like that that grate. otherwise arguing against the message...
mircea_popescu: ie, not like they're visiting.
mircea_popescu: tho the people look comfortable
mircea_popescu: or like that i guess.
asciilifeform: cleanup left for them.
asciilifeform: (that is, 'political' types)
asciilifeform: this one is actually plausible. may be taking place in a barrack belonging to 'lower order' convicts
mircea_popescu: (ie, not by the door, by the opposite wall)
mircea_popescu: completely contradicts all notions of ritual purity. they'd have cut his head outside and behind
asciilifeform: how's that
mircea_popescu: i'd say that's the most improbable of the lot, actually.
mircea_popescu: this would be true.
asciilifeform: the man i quoted re: the meatgrinder was employed as a detective embedded in a prison, in what was then leningrad. he had an interesting take: much of what the rubes think of as 'the cruelty' was simply administration of justice among the convicts
mircea_popescu: if you had the option of running on a stairmaster or turning the meat grinder, what'd you take ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform re the meatgrinder thing ; it's well documented that people doing time get bored.
asciilifeform: by some accounts, the old traditions have died, and the days when a man would be severely punished for an 'unearned' tattoo are gone.
punkman: I got a couple books with tattoos, these russian books seem like a good addition
asciilifeform: anyone interested in this subject can find all the reading material he wishes.
asciilifeform: ex. of the latter: a devil stoking a furnace (drawn around actual arse, it being the furnace)
punkman: well yeah, you wouldn't tattoo snitch on your forehead
asciilifeform: historians divide the tats into two basic types, 'voluntary' and 'forcible.'
mircea_popescu: punkman there's some ethnic and geographic variation to it.
punkman: cat is thief, goat is snitch
mircea_popescu: "many english girls will have their cute recidivist tattoos fed to them should they ever end up in kresty
asciilifeform: russian blogger, circa '04: 'have you ever beaten a man? had you done so, you would know that it is hard work. no less arduous than turning a meat-grinder. how often do you wake up to the urge to crank a meat-grinder? every day?' ☟︎
mircea_popescu: what was cat again ? thief ?
mircea_popescu: the main problem of the west is impotence.
mircea_popescu: i doubt she is, tbh.
asciilifeform: many arguments were against the 'political' slant of the book, rather than the facts. 'some english chick is sitting on a rat pot right now, but where's the book, hah.'
mircea_popescu: especially to their mothers.
mircea_popescu: many women could say "i've been around the block, there's no mp"
asciilifeform: hard to say. plenty of folks wrote that 'i did time, saw no such things'
mircea_popescu: but was this reputation been built by reddit or by vory.
asciilifeform: no serious objection on my part, just that the author has a reputation as a teller of embellished tales.
mircea_popescu: the objection being that such a diverse collection of items could not be found in the same one cellar ?
Apocalyptic: mircea_popescu, added on my todo list
mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic add some vwap stuff to it ?
asciilifeform: (i could translate caption but it's more or less self-explanatory)
Apocalyptic: for anyone interested the ATC ticker is up @ https://www.x-bt.com/api/atcbtc/get_ticker
mircea_popescu: when it's a case of "got five hours to get as many men on the boat as you can, and whoever's left gets to meet herr drakula"... trauma starts looking like cake.
asciilifeform: caption notes that 'nets were eventually replaced with cages holding fifty men, due to high rates of trauma.'
mircea_popescu: wild times.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform actually, the allies used that principle in places during the dunkirk rescue.