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ossabot: Logged on 2019-10-09 21:04:31 lobbes:
http://logs.ericbenevides.com/log/trilema/2019-10-09#1944047 << if this were to be done I'd say trinque probably better fit for the role. While I am always hungry for BTC, my orcbux stash took a hit while jettisoning dependopotamus. I'm currently regrouping financially speaking, and while my monthly cashflow should be increasing by ~ $1k in the coming months, I'll still be at '
pauper' level in real terms. Consumption c
lobbes:
http://logs.ericbenevides.com/log/trilema/2019-10-09#1944047 << if this were to be done I'd say trinque probably better fit for the role. While I am always hungry for BTC, my orcbux stash took a hit while jettisoning dependopotamus. I'm currently regrouping financially speaking, and while my monthly cashflow should be increasing by ~ $1k in the coming months, I'll still be at '
pauper' level in real terms. Consumption continues to be slashed, howe
mp_en_viaje: so ima send you one of nsa's coin, you trade it for whatever 8k it's worth, and not
pauper no more.
ossabot: Logged on 2019-10-08 01:00:43 asciilifeform: y'know, the designated spot where a
pauper paups.
mircea_popescu: the question is not "whether slave has some leeway". all living things always have some leway. the question is, in romanian, "desteptu' face bani din ce doreste, prostu' din ce poate" ; and in latin, "si quis, inquis, dives est, tum cenare potest cum cupit. si
pauper, tum cenare debet cum potest."
a111: Logged on 2018-08-29 17:52 asciilifeform:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-08-29#1845577 << usg.mortgage is a device for separating salaried zeks (engineers, law, etc) from their 'excess' fat. not for millenial
pauper to borrow against... what, exactly. (maybe organs?)
mircea_popescu: yeah pete_dushenski , the whole quote is "diogenes philosophus cuidam interroganti qua hora hominem cenare deceret : Si quis, inquis, dives est, tum cenare potest cum cupit. Si
pauper, tum cenare debet cum potest."
a111: Logged on 2016-06-03 18:54 mircea_popescu: ah, poverty. sure. si quis, inquis, dives est, tum cenare potest cum cupit. si
pauper...
mircea_popescu: ah, poverty. sure. si quis, inquis, dives est, tum cenare potest cum cupit. si
pauper...
☟︎ mircea_popescu: which is kinda my point here. some shit's being conflated. like that ancient ditty, "si quis, inquis, dives est, tum cenare potest cum cupit. si
pauper, tum cenare debet cum potest."
assbot: Logged on 03-02-2015 22:35:01; asciilifeform: 'mr x, you're a registered
pauper, but is that a first class air ticket you're holding? where'dyagetthat'
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: the amusing thing is that you seem to think that *you're* the
pauper hereabouts
ascii_field: BingoBoingo: say you had 1M usd. fell down from sky. you could blow 30k in ohio, and live like a
pauper on the meagre sub-inflation interest off the rest in american bank. or blow 150k in ar and invest in collapsatron and live like cultured man ? possibly
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu, asciilifeform: miser,
pauper, it's all the same
mircea_popescu: here's the thing : just because inflation has made every
pauper think he holds money doesn't change the fact that a farmer today is worth a hundred million just by simply maintaining equality with a farmer of relatively the same social importance back in 1615.
punkman: btw you can find decent tailors for the girlies at lightinthebox.com, even
pauper can afford
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Who was that
pauper on your blogroll with the great eMacs text. Debate tournament judging text finally cleared and I'm ready to splurge on paytext.
decimation: so while he might be able to skate for a few years, later he's a
pauper in retirement living on government cheese
decimation: right, and in a related point - if $209k per year makes one a
pauper, how much is the real bitcoin foundation going to pay?
decimation: if gavin is a
pauper than I'm in the poor house
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: decimation> at any rate, the most amazing thing to me is that the chinese, indian
pauper still dreams of 'coming to america' << Is that so different from USian
pauper dreaming of actual Galt's Gulch? <<< nope, you have it exactly right. same thing, except one is run by fraudulent "real estate" developers and the other by fraudulent "recruiters".
BingoBoingo: decimation> at any rate, the most amazing thing to me is that the chinese, indian
pauper still dreams of 'coming to america' << Is that so different from USian
pauper dreaming of actual Galt's Gulch?
decimation: at any rate, the most amazing thing to me is that the chinese, indian
pauper still dreams of 'coming to america'
decimation: asciilifeform: it is sad that the
pauper's computers 'won' in the long run
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> recoleta* << and where for the fleeing usian
pauper?
ben_vulpes: mats_cd03: well you see i am an utter
pauper ben_vulpes: i'm apparently even more of a
pauper than yourself, and must maintain mobile work stations.
decimation: actually a well engineered balloon system would be a great '
pauper's space program'
assbot: 50 State Commemorative Quarters Collector's Map (includes both mints!): Peter
Pauper Press, David Lindroth: 9781441312310: Amazon.com: Books
BingoBoingo: It was friendly FBI agency and pissed off Treasury agent sore he had to waste his time on a
pauper BingoBoingo: bats_cd03> an early silk road entrepreneur living it up on southern california after exchanging btc for fiat; authorities spy, notice new camaro but no regular employment since 2010... questioned, gasenwagen, perhaps USG confiscates some coins along the way. everything is gravy, republic lives another day. << And I bless Jebus I am but a midwestern
pauper BingoBoingo: I am but a
pauper kept here for the funnies.
decimation: waterjet is pretty cool, but it has its own "sequelae", not fit for
pauper-tech
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform:they aren't rich, in the customary sense - but not paupers. << compare what'd happen to the us bureaucrat
pauper vs the russian bureaucrat once someone in a hostile nation put the kaibosh on them. they're paupers.
mircea_popescu: having lost its Leuconian wool, as old trousers of a Britonic
pauper, and as the ugly throat of a Ravennan pelican. I am said to have fucked her in a marine fishpond. I do not know; I think I fucked the fishpond."