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decimation: the trouble is that if they are incorporated in the US, they might make
USG an enemy
decimation: the whole
USG has become a vehicle to distribute the annual seigniorage
decimation: heh yeah that's a good point, can't violate
USG regs
decimation:
USG pays its employees in its own scrip, and they think it's a great deal
decimation: asciilifeform, many us corps (due to heavy
USG encouragement) pay incentives to "invest" in 401ks
mircea_popescu: well considering what the inexistend fighter jet has cost alreayd, i can only imagine what a shuttle would cost the
usg mircea_popescu: bounce: can someone please put the
usg out of our misery? << oooonly yoooouuuu
bounce: "if we can't follow your every move (financially), you must be a terrorist (financier)" -- nothing like fat budgets to engender some more groupthink and target innovations like bitcoin. can someone please put the
usg out of our misery?
mircea_popescu: that a campaign against reusing addresses is more a covert
usg op than anything else.
decimation: honestly if the US wanted to go full-retard, the most profitable way to proceed would be to stop collecting any taxes and run the entire
USG on printed money
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform dude, you imagine the
usg would have the guts ? what's this, the future ?
mircea_popescu: <decimation> as you have found, moldbug himself is extremely reluctant to take any action that might have second or third-order effects that displease
USG <<< that sorta thing.
decimation: as you have found, moldbug himself is extremely reluctant to take any action that might have second or third-order effects that displease
USG artifexd: I always assume that the
usg has always-on access to my bank accounts. I guess I should start assuming the same with my coinbase activities.
mircea_popescu: meaning any info you upload to them, such as bank acct numbers, id scans, etc, is now held by the
usg and by all the hacker groups.
decimation:
USG is not a fan of international property ownership
decimation: mircea_popescu: "anyway, this constant tendency to abstract people out of life is a sickness by now." << I suspect as least 90% of
USG spending is put toward programs who have the goal of treating people as if they were automatons
Luke-Jr: [13:11:59] <mircea_popescu> APPLE TO BE BANNED BY
USG <-- please!
mircea_popescu: alexsanjose i don't imagine the
usg is any sort of actor in this discussion.
mircea_popescu: if it's the kneejerk "not
usg diddled" then might as well discard it.
mircea_popescu: Adam Penenberg is such an idiot. o herp, please help along with the grandiose effort of making
usg snooping more user-acceptable.
mircea_popescu: china holding us debt is no sort of statement of confidence in the
usg, quite the contrary, it's a claim on its asshole.
mircea_popescu: wywialm us collapse =
usg collapse. what else ? not like kansas will fall off the map or something.
wywialm: bounce, mircea_popescu, do you imagine that us collapse would come together with general
usG collapse, including official default?
mircea_popescu: we are moving away from ssl and generally pki, and generally
usg-crap. forever.
ThickAsThieves: he seemed pretty proud of the notion that most nodes were
USG TestingUnoDosTre: It's not like the
USG can afford, or even needs to pay a high salary
decimation: and that explains the workings of the
USG decimation: This is what happens when the
USG pays peanuts for 'talent'
ThickAsThieves: well i agree, but i doubt the
USG would intentionally do encourage it
mircea_popescu: bounce: hmm... wonder how those bugs ended up in openssl and gnutls. << you needn't wonder. examine the matter plainly : for no appreciable reason, the
usg muppets posing as "core devs" started work to meld pki into bitcoin protocol.
decimation: wrt housing:
USG pumps 30 year loans; forces banks to give them to everyone;
USG is then horrified to find that house-prices have been bid into the sky with 30 year money
mircea_popescu: "hi, i'm 24 and i made a deal with the
usg to pretend like i'm still a human being, who knows, maybe the puppet master needs one sometime"
ozbot: Twitter / Mircea_Popescu: Dear
USG sleeper agents : ...
mircea_popescu: this and other imbalances make it so that the
usg can not actually afford to compete in this particular market.
mircea_popescu: the quietly glossed over point being, of course, that a dollar of
usg spending does not buy it a dollar of rl value.
mircea_popescu: it's part of my evil strategy of preventing the
usg from ever mattering in this space.
mircea_popescu: in fact, mcdonalss DOES sell for free in most of the us, it does more business as a proxy for
usg welfare than anything else.
jurov: i heard funny hypothesis that f35 is chinese inside job to bleed
usg dry
ThickAsThieves: the
USG neither provides for, nor maintains, nor creates bitocin
benkay:
USG is slowly aligning themselves with reality on the ground
mircea_popescu: a more persuasive theory is that the
usg used this opportunity to launder its own mining proceeds.
mircea_popescu: eh, currently the
usg policy is something along the lines of "well why put away the scammers, they're useful players"
benkay: great thing about the
USG is that there's enough ToS for an entire lifetime of butt wiping.
mircea_popescu: general electric, ford and hp are all kept on respirators by public
usg spending.
Mats_cd03: paypal and
usg having a number of such incentives that enable them to operate like thugs
ThickAsThieves: so basically the budgets represent each of the
USG's corporations, not actual categories
mircea_popescu: in many ways the
usg is much like a bitcointalk investor : can't get anything done because surrounded by thieves
decimation: so, in the land of the free, the
USG has granted a monopoly on yellow DMM's and then began enforcing the monopoly using taxpayer funds.
decimation: or, to be more precise, hiring and paying competent inspectors is a bridge too far for
USG mircea_popescu: anirgu : that it appears you're proposing the
usg regulate the life of chinese workers.
decimation: This goes to your point about those who flatter
USG make out like bandits; while those trying to make money "from the sweat of their brow" end up funding the fortunes of the flatterers
decimation: perhaps you can steer one or two to the real lede here - the writ under which
USG agencies operate, and the apparently unlimited self-extension of the same
mircea_popescu: no wonder the doj is claiming prism has full support from the
usg-controlled corps a la google yahoo etc
mircea_popescu: well maybe the
usg open sources its english translations/summaries of romanian t articles
benkay: ah so then i guess not really a product of the
usg then, mircea_popescu
mircea_popescu: and if this keeps up for another 3-4 years the rest of the world will own more drones than the
usg.
mircea_popescu: ninjashogun no , it does not. it has nothing to do with anything other than the particular way the
usg implements welfare for a certain subset of the youth population.
mircea_popescu: Mar 05 03:06:20 <mircea_popescu>when i do hidden in plain sight, it's hidden. when the
usg tries it, it's snowdened.
mircea_popescu: turns out trusting the
usg isn't a workable policy. who knew.
dub: probably to process a reciept for every bullet the
USG buys
mircea_popescu: open source infallibility, the notion that wikipedia is in any sense an encyclopedia, everyone's obsession with crowd-sourcing and
usg...
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not a bad read that. glosses over some stuff, but at least it glosses over different stuff from the
usg propaganda machine
decimation: no one can accuse
USG of racism, that's for sure
benkay: stop lending them money at 0% and letting them lend it to the
usg at 2 or whatever
mircea_popescu: a trillion dollars is not much loss for
usg ineptitude. a hundred grand is too much gain for real world people,