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assbot: Logged on 18-10-2015 16:32:23; mircea_popescu: so yes, you're right : the idiot-poor imagine that the source of their misfortune is the malfeasance of
a ~particular~ event, rather than the large clump of shit they carry around on their shoulders.
assbot: Logged on 18-10-2015 16:30:17; asciilifeform: sure. when i need
a bulldozer, i rent it.
assbot: Logged on 11-08-2015 13:29:38; mircea_popescu: asciilifeform beating old people is
a bad idea.
assbot: Logged on 18-10-2015 16:38:17; mircea_popescu: forget about it. go up to every woman over 50 you run into, kneel before her, kiss her shoes, beg her to give you something to do. explain that you have made such
a mess of your life, this is actually the only sane avenue out.
mircea_popescu: i wonder if one could make money with
a new-age-y brand of "swarovki" crystals that you... personalize.
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mircea_popescu: no, that's exactly what happens. his worthless existence is forfeit, but he'll hopefully have some kids
a little less retarded than him
mircea_popescu: forget about it. go up to every woman over 50 you run into, kneel before her, kiss her shoes, beg her to give you something to do. explain that you have made such
a mess of your life, this is actually the only sane avenue out.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: so what exactly is the start situation, 25 derp with 100k in college debt, no skills, no resources, no social net, in the middle of
a shitland like the us ?
mircea_popescu: so yes, you're right : the idiot-poor imagine that the source of their misfortune is the malfeasance of
a ~particular~ event, rather than the large clump of shit they carry around on their shoulders.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and fire as
a class has not removed the option of keeping the bulk of your skin.
mircea_popescu: "it was better". i'm sure. until it is and all you can think of is how to trade dad's old house for two shiny new ipads and
a van.
mircea_popescu: i've had this discussion with old folk in romania. they have
a very distinct FEEL for the old style settled village life in that space. i have
a very precise understanding of it, because they're cows and i'm the young lord. nevertheless, the point stands :
mircea_popescu: for
a co2 this is hard work. from each according to his complexitits.
mircea_popescu: "all my grandcarbons traded soot for gaseous form, said the co2. and given half
a chance, i'll trade it right the fuck back, said he. and so it was, and had been
a number of times prior.)
mircea_popescu: (note that the 0 orcs in THAT case comes from lack of differentiation. there's
a lot fewer retarded children at 2 weeks than at 2 years of age. guess why ?)
mircea_popescu: the existence of landlords as
a class is no more to their detriment than the existence of fire as
a phenomena.
assbot: Logged on 18-10-2015 13:49:52; mircea_popescu: this is like saying the mcdonalds makes
a tidy living off giving out wrong change.
mircea_popescu: e. this is
a very vulnerable position to be in, and it requires immediate and insistent attention.
mircea_popescu: it's not like i hate you or anything. the problem is that you're intellectually imuno-compromised so to speak, by which i mean : you get ideas, which is fine, but also
a common function of the human mind. but then when you go to evaluate them, your evaluator is broken, and when the evaluator is called into question it's discovered in turn that the building blocks are also broken and in turn the building blocks for thos
HeySteve: well, that's
a bit blunt but I'll certainly consider the objections and problems.
mircea_popescu: not only is this
a horrible idea, but it is my considered opinion that you are very far yet from the intellectual maturity that'd allow you to marry, let alone raise children, and that running any kind of business is many many years in the future AFTER THAT.
HeySteve: but if someone uses the microwave as
a BBQ (happens here) then it's clear
HeySteve: maybe not
a fine layer of dust
HeySteve: so you can say if damages or dirtiness occur and tenant loses fair cost to fix that, or landlord is trying to pull
a fast one and doesn't get to keep deposit
mircea_popescu: what do you do when the landlord and the tenant each upload
a video and they don't even look like they come from the same place ?
mircea_popescu: so ima spend two hours shooting amateur footage to (maybe!) save 60 bucks
a year from now ?
HeySteve: well, say landlord claims "but you broke lightbulb so I'm keeping it all." there's
a process based on evidence.
HeySteve: but I wouldn't recommend it as
a carry trade destination
HeySteve:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=18-10-2015#1301624 << there's nothing outside the paper rental contract at the end of the day. but i guess i'm still about foggy about what 'this' is < haven't reached clarity yet myself but this discussion is helping
a lot. basically
a multiple of the rental deposit normally paid to the landlord gets escrowed in cryptocurrency.
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HeySteve: yeah warm white bulbs look
a lot better than cool blue, or however they call them
mircea_popescu: yeah. evne if you don't have
a crt, 6300k is better than 9
mircea_popescu: anyway, as
a take-away : if you're depressed, before you try seroquel or whatever, try changing your lightbulbs.
HeySteve: I have
a UV light from an old apparatus I should find
a use for
mircea_popescu:
a slush fund is money
a government body, such as an embassy, secret service, captured "business" runs to bribe people with.
HeySteve: like
a hookers and coke fund, you know, it's bezzle
HeySteve: lol there's plenty of those here, could tell some stories. but in this case of this agency who are more high end market, it's the expense of running
a slush fund
mircea_popescu: what's
a property manager spend money on anyway ?! they're all cash flow positive, that's the point.
mircea_popescu: anyway. if there's actually
a problem agency you got there, the solution is either for the tenants to start an association/class action suit if you have them/whatever is the equivalent in the jurisdiction ; or else for
a competitor to start advertising deposit fairness.
mircea_popescu: so you're saying
a tenant taking
a property with
a market value of 120k for
a year at the usual ~10% ie 1k
a month is being gypped for the fabulous sum of 60 bux ? this can't quite be right can it ?
HeySteve: <0.01% over
a year's occupancy.
HeySteve: <+mircea_popescu> no landlord makes
a tidy living off scaming tenants. <- perhaps I should say, "make frequent bonuses." there's
a rental agency infamous for it in SA and also
a few private owners I could mention. it's also very common for them to not keep the deposit in an interest-bearing account by law or to skim the interest. from that same rental agency, tenants apparently get back
mircea_popescu: anyway, not for me to change your mind. let me only suggest that once you get this business off the ground there's
a ready avenue to expand : you could do the same for paycheck loans.
mircea_popescu: (and they can do
A LOT of damage with that, many jurisdiction have the notion of problem landlord in some manner, and you can often get treble damages, heck in one case
a guy i know got the landlord kicked out of town. as in, had to sell ALL his property and not buy there again, ever.)
mircea_popescu: seems dubious landlords compete for passive-agressive tenants with no options. they do compete for rich tenants, but you don't have
a value proposition for those guys.
mircea_popescu: this is like saying the mcdonalds makes
a tidy living off giving out wrong change.
☟︎ HeySteve: mircea_popescu, I understand your point. my gf agrees with you. I can make this better for property holders if tenants pay
a double (or even triple) deposit, or perhaps I must think on further improvements. those making
a tidy living off scamming tenants will of course never go for it, but
a good-faith landlord might appreciate having more insurance against property damage / non-payment.
mircea_popescu: and the dispute isn't whether "You have them" or not, the dispute is whether you are one. because that's fundamentally what you're trying to do here, redistribute resources "for fairness" is how the government calls it, but you're neither
a government nor have the option to be come one. at the level where you go into business, the thing is not
a government but
a gang.
mircea_popescu: HeySteve the point is there's
a big demand for such
a service << yes, but the demand is from people who aren't willing to take any steps to enforce it. and it's for you to magically oppress property holders on their behalf. this isn't how property works, the fact that the landlords hold that property "free and clear" specifically means that they are immune from
a guy named heysteve and his plans for the future. this is
assbot: Logged on 16-10-2015 13:23:33; mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-10-2015#1300279 << so
a) you'll spend your life driving between bickering nuts. this is
a worse deal than what psychs get, at least there you gotta drive to his office. ; b) the blockchain and everything else is entirely superfluous here. your entire idea is "hey, make me the mp of renting in south africa". maybe they will or maybe they won't but you really don'
HeySteve:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-10-2015#1300458 < it's true that tenants can threaten to withhold keys and/or trash the place but if this was common practice then this type of deposit fraud wouldn't be such
a widespread problem. what many tenants do is refuse to pay the last month's rent but this is only viable if the deposit is set at 1x month's rent. many places it's at 2x or
☝︎ mircea_popescu: but the point stands. the only thing you can definitely say about
a paradigm (kuhn sense) is that it has nothing to do with reality. the one thing people involved WISH to say is that it is the only basis upon which science can be produced. which happens to be true.
mircea_popescu: i do believe him when he keeps saying he drinks
a lot. he'd have to. the damage imbecile "social agreements" do to smart people.
mircea_popescu: but it's
a lot more likely he just found something to shut the brain up with
mircea_popescu: all it says is that
a system of thought is ipso facto worthless, but hey, i can see why he prefers the counterfactual statement of it.
assbot: Logged on 18-10-2015 01:21:28; mircea_popescu: "the end which is so obvious and predictable but at the same time the only one that would speak to this generation of narcissists: when we need
a hero, heroes are obligated to rise up and serve, but please have the decency to die afterwards so we can go back to second guessing the ethics of your actions. " >> and when "we" need
a monkey that knows how to push the levers one has the moral obligation t
mircea_popescu: We got
a brief moment of the possibility of 1980s style black and white American might with George Bush after 9/11, when half the country went, "hell yeah, let's go kick some ass!" and the other half went, "wait
a second, don't you guys know we suck?" That being the full extent of our national dialogue. You see the results.
mircea_popescu: skills would be uploaded straight by God when needed, sudden and immediate, just as they came to JCVD in Bloodsport. Life is
a movie and movies are only 90 minutes long. Not
a whole lot of time for training.
mircea_popescu: What happened? I think the generation raised on action movies felt betrayed. Those movies promised possibilities, promised that when you grow up, your powers will kick in. When you grow up, if bad guys take over
a bank, you'll be able to use kung fu on them. It seemed not to have occurred to anyone to learn actual kung fu, or look up how banks are typically laid out, where the alarms are-- just in case. No, these
mircea_popescu: it's really
a nicely coalessced dementia, this post-cold war west.
mircea_popescu: "the end which is so obvious and predictable but at the same time the only one that would speak to this generation of narcissists: when we need
a hero, heroes are obligated to rise up and serve, but please have the decency to die afterwards so we can go back to second guessing the ethics of your actions. " >> and when "we" need
a monkey that knows how to push the levers one has the moral obligation to materialize, prov
☟︎ mircea_popescu: im not about to see the movie, for one thing i never gave much of
a shit about eastwood and for the other he certainly went to shit in his later life (what is with this, pacino doing incredibly bad bullshit
a la simone and de niro doing the worst infomercial "movies" conceivable ?)
mircea_popescu: it has
a much deeper root. the problem with medical education is that your own body constitutes no clinical experience.