Thursday, December 14, 2017

Bitcoin's ancestors

The bitcoin was intended to solve a very real problem of transferring assets illegally that is, smuggling out or transferring money in a way that the authorities cannot know.  I faced this problem several times in my life (I am a twice-refugee).

I remember that while in Stalinist Hungary, our relatives in Argentina wanted to send help to us. Dollars were out of question, as its possession was a crime in Hungary. So they sent used cloth with something sewn in the seams. Another way was to send Gillette blades in letters. The blades were unavailable in Hungary and could be traded for food. Philately was another way: rare stamps could be traded in Hungary and viceversa, one who had to send out money from Hungary, could buy rare stamps and send it hidden in a letter (under aluminum paper  or something like that). Art was also used, small paper drawings by famous artists could be hidden in ordinary letters and packets. And historic documents.


The ancestors of the bitcoin had intrinsic worth, they were useful in themselves or were valued collection items. The bitcoin has no use nor collection value, it is a naked resource transfer medium. It exists  because the internet is free and the states cannot monitor the traffic. Taxes and death are certain, so its current tax free condition cannot endure. When the states figure out how to tax it, the crypto will deflate like a punctured balloon. See pic.

Wednesday, December 13, 2017

Argentine submarine disappears - Britain suspected

The San Juan submarine disappeared in the South Atlantic, near the Falkland islands. One of sailors sent, before the incident, a whatsup message: "British helicopters are seeking us. Yesterday it was the Chileans. There is much activity in this area."

Tuesday, December 12, 2017

Squeezing the brain how to say "Good Bye"

Japanese people are intelligent and strongly inhibited. They cannot be rude even if the want to. The language has no verb equivalent to "must" to express obligation, so the poor Japanese must torture his brain to say, for example, "Bye, I have to go". The newspaper Japan Times explains:
"Conditional forms are commonly used to express obligation, as if to make up for the nonexistence of a verb for “must.” In fact, the Japanese way of saying “something has to be done” is more like “it’s no good if it isn’t done.” If I have to leave now, for instance, I announce this by saying, 行かなければならない (ikanakereba naranai), or shorter, 行かなきゃ (ikanakya), which is literally, “It’s not OK if I don’t go.” Using two negations, I leave through the back door, as it were.

Even the well known farewell formula さようなら (sayōnara) is derived from the if-construction 左様なら(ば) (sayō nara ba). It’s meaning? Well, so long, “if that is how it is.”
 You have to live long time in Japan to get the meaning of their tortuous circumlocutions.

Monday, December 11, 2017

No body to talk to

We all knew that it was happening, but had no way of proving it. If true then it was so bad that we thought it was better to treat it as forbidden knowledge, tabu. May be by not mentioning it, it will go away. Yet, more and more studies are giving the same results and it is being published in respectable scientific journals:
"Piagetian trends indicate that a decimation of top scores may be accompanied by gains in cognitive ability below the median. They also reveal the existence of factors that have an atypical impact at high levels of cognitive competence. Scandinavian data from conventional tests confirm the decimation of top scorers but not factors of atypical impact."
Notice that in this key paragraph, there is no mention of IQ nor anything remotely associated with race, immigration, biological differences. One can read it and keep pretending that IQ does not exist and humans are equal and interchangeable.

Piaget here does not refer to a Swiss clock but to a psychological theory stating that children are BORN with a basic thinking mechanism and they develop their capabilities according to their basic potential and of course, the environment. Therefore, Piagetian trend is a codeword for cognitive capabilities trend, and the trend is (1) fewer individuals in the higher ranges, and (2) IQ increase in the retard class. I understand this means that geniuses - notably Scandinavian geniuses - are disappearing and the moderately imbeciles are multiplying. It may be relevant that as of 2016, Statistics Sweden reported that a third of the population is from foreign background.


Soon there will be nobody to talk to. Soon only AI robots and Trismagistus judeophobius will be reading this blog.

Sunday, December 10, 2017

Saturday, December 9, 2017

The Soros Plan

Hungary's government has fomented a furiously antisemitic public debate about the Soros Plan. George Soros says there is no such plan. Well, he may not consider it a "Plan", but the article he published in 2015 appears to propose some kind of organized EU action to receive one million refugees per year. He wrote:
"...The operational and financial arrangements developed by the EU should be used to establish global standards for the treatment of asylum-seekers and migrants. This is the fifth piece of the comprehensive plan. Finally, to absorb and integrate more than a million asylum seekers and migrants a year, the EU needs to mobilize ..."
I cannot blame the Hungarians for interpreting the above as a diabolical plan taken from the Protocols. Soros had donated  400 million dollars to re-educate and liberalize Hungarians rooted ultra-nationalist, xenophobic and antisemitic convictions. He failed most dramatically: today, Hungarians are more rabidly anti-Jewish than ever before. Soros would have been more popular in Hungary if he gave his money for rebuilding synagogues and yeshives in Hungary and in Israel. The Jewish fate hit Soros very hard. He had not realized that he cannot escape his Jewish identity and our bitter Jewish fate.