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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform isn't it lulzy how
there's EXACTLY
the same "volume" going on
the fiat fansites irrespective ?
mircea_popescu: just because one manages
to die in spite of penicillin doesn't mean antibiotics aren't
the end of
transmissible disease.
mircea_popescu: i do not believe it is "never recovered from mongol
therapy", i believe it's "And
they were such retarded pantsuits, not even
the mongols could help
them"
mircea_popescu: this is what culture is,
the contents of
the ashtray in which
the above was smoked.
mircea_popescu: 2mn halved every year for a decade ain't come
to much.
a111: Logged on 2018-02-05 18:35 mircea_popescu: america was great specifically because it didn't have
that kind of people.
mircea_popescu: imagine what'd have happened
to a body
that spent $2k
to buy 200 pizza's ie 2mn bitcoin back in 2009 if he paid "tax" on his stash every year.
a111: Logged on 2014-08-13 14:40 asciilifeform: 'They
tend
to show up late at parties because
they figure
they can always steal
the cake anyway, so why bother go early ? Let
the suckers figure out first - on
their own dime - where
the good cakes are,
then just swoop in and collect...
This means
the only way
they can get in is if you let
them get in. Don’t let
them get in for cheap -
they have no business here.' (mp's
http://trilema.com/2014/people-us-dollar mircea_popescu: (in fact, difference between new york and buenos aires wrt
their relative impacts on countryside is probably MOSTLY explained by
taxation)
mircea_popescu: much like landgrants in
the new world were generally seen, for a long
time.
a111: Logged on 2015-02-06 19:45 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 2) client companies of
the state wish
to be important.
the market
tells
them
to stuff it 3) government steps in... <<< see also
the famous example of syntex corp. in mexico (carl djerassi!) - first mass-production of synthetic progestins,
then nationalized,
then gone - 'bad luck!'
mircea_popescu: back
to
teh fetlife lulz :
the amusing part, at least
toi me, is
that friend-adding still works! i'm
the happy owner of an account with 7890 of
them. which i expect is
the site record.
mircea_popescu: so i have little
trouble believing, as clemens describes, "mark spot for depoit, buy
the land from farmer, sell later at profit"
mircea_popescu: "say one dollar more over its fair value and it's yours.
the woman will get used
to it."
mircea_popescu: america was great specifically because it didn't have
that kind of people.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: try
this in "civilised" europe, people hurr durr about "their ancestors" wtf batshit nonsense.
mircea_popescu: you gotta understand what "capitalism" meant. you could, and often people DID, walk on premises of say farm, make cash offer
to owner, and he'd be out in a week.
mircea_popescu: i
think
the way
the socialist empires work, everything
they do decays over
time.
a111: Logged on 2018-02-05 16:16 hanbot: mircea_popescu sure i remember, was one of
the more hysterical objections i'd ever heard. and iirc it wasn't just
that *trilema* was "illegal"; *you* were lol
mircea_popescu: yes ?
the above "40k/track mile" is congress appropriations also.
mircea_popescu: it's about 100mn currently, which implies a 2500x devaluation in
the interval.
mircea_popescu: (for
the curious : 40k/track mile was a generous-ishj appropriation for rail back
then)
a111: Logged on 2017-06-14 03:16 asciilifeform:
tell
the folx expropriated by usg-cum-'private'railroads ( live <10mile of new
tracks ? lose land ) about 'property right' , etc
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: broke
the messages
table!
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the added element.
mircea_popescu: the importance of
this, however, afaik went unnoticed. it makes a fucking difference
to not have sluts ready
to go on an adventure.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, spencer correctly points out
the state-run french railways were a joke mid 1800s.
mircea_popescu: of course, not in any meaningful sense -- england itself is still a shithole
today, with
that as it'd have been without
that (holland, or portugal work as baseline)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's my considered oppinion
that had napoleon switched
the fleet
to ironclads and had
the french state not been permitted
to operate any railroads,
they'd have rebounded.
mircea_popescu: it's a fabulous case
to illustrate what a) personal failure in divine leader coupled with b) state always ruins all opportunities can produce in a short century.
mircea_popescu: ie, english would have been spoken in america
the way french is spoken in canada.
mircea_popescu: had
the french had
the sense
to ironclad in 1799 and
to private railroad in 1820, likely us rail system would have started from st louis and new orleans rather
than new york and philadelphia, and as a result
the 1860 dispute would have been a case of "tiny english east being shaken off humongous french colonial empire".
a111: Logged on 2017-10-10 01:45 mircea_popescu: used anything
there was a significant chance
to break a wheel in
the road, as all
the
trails were built by 1435 mm wheels. but why were
they ? because when
the romans originally landed,
they used 1435 mm wide wheelbases, which
they had originally specified because it is what
two average horses asses cover.
mircea_popescu: because
the english had
the railroad private, by
the
time
they were ~done with it and
the us was starting,
they exported (unintentionally) a lot of
the "mature"
technology across
the ocean.
the united states was built atop
the railroad, and consequently imported english like it imported
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-10#1723584 ☝︎ mircea_popescu: 1. when presented
the steam engine, napoleon failed
to see what's so great about it, resulting in no french steamboats. 2. once
the english started using
the steam engine in land mobility applications,
the french incredibly idiotically made
their railroads state property,
thus ensuring
they had no
technology and no experts on hand.
a111: Logged on 2018-01-12 02:13 asciilifeform:
the one with 'rich folx live in space station nao'
mircea_popescu: so,
the ~reason~ north america ended up speaking english is
two fold, and has nothing
to do with anglotards.
mircea_popescu: ah, speaking of
trains, here's a story i wanted
to
tell!
trinque: "Oh yeah? We still produce RST packets!" said
the agent, before losing his gaze in a cup of Folgers.
mircea_popescu: for a country
that produces nothing and has nothing,
the us manages
to isolate itself from all markets worth
the mention with admirable abandon.
a111: Logged on 2017-10-31 22:54 mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-31#1731544 << everyone is, as a result of usg militant
tardation. i can just drive into brazil. you -- can not.
they "banned"
turkish visitors, as if anyone from
turkey could be arsed
to go
to
the us ;
turkey reciprocated, meaning about 70% of classical antiquity is now off limits
to what in english passes for "the civilised world".
mircea_popescu: (this -- much more common problem for usgistan
than ever admitted, or even realised. most ro good wines are not exported ; similarly not french, nor etcetera.)
mircea_popescu: anyway,
the metonimy
there suggests "to harden
them up chemically", ie implant (like silicone implants) but of hardness not of bigness.
mircea_popescu: cotor => book spine,
the
tough part of cabbage, more generally a hard core of
things
a111: Logged on 2018-02-05 16:24 mircea_popescu: local beer drinkin' gals (and
the beer here is
terryfying swill)
think my fine rum (which is indeed finest in
the world) is no good.
a111: Logged on 2018-02-05 16:19 hanbot:
to its credit, chair never
threw itself into my wine,
to have
to be fished out.
mircea_popescu: (the
true problem is
that you end up with approximable programs,
that do who knows what ; so not fit for running en serio)
mircea_popescu: not mechanical, no. just
the principle of
the
thing -- jwz's indications of "required" are worth exactly as much as jwz itself.
mircea_popescu: you'd be surprised how often
the "requirements" can simply be
trampled with nary a shit given as
to whose hopes and aspirations
this rapes and how badly.