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mircea_popescu: and "care este" is a typical form of uneducated ro usage, particularly favoured in the mudplains around bucharest. a sort of pop-philosophy turned verbal automatism.
mircea_popescu: so blog de internet, "blog of internet", there's that.
mircea_popescu: but since the answer's not that readily translatable, let's delve. "x de y" is a very common pattern of early childhoold romanian construction, so much so that it's a byword for infantilism.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: you know the various trollboxes are full of redditards with things to say. what's so special about this one.
mircea_popescu: "take a shot of every vodka in the house, pour in glass, stir. add twist of gin. serve."
mircea_popescu: so it pains me to admit that i just invented the world's first vodka cocktail.
mircea_popescu: if you're looking to invent cures, quacks are pretty good at it too.
mircea_popescu: oft they manage to imbibe the professional trappings, but oft this also kills them\
mircea_popescu: ie, if you manage to cure it, it was curable. otherwise, no. but note that the people who invent cures aren't PROPER doctors.
mircea_popescu: as long as you expect your profession to be what you say, you're necessarily an amateur, looking at magazine depictions of fthe profession in question
mircea_popescu: understanding this first point is what even allows the doctor to be A DOCTOR, ie, professional. as opposed to amateur, ie, quack.
mircea_popescu: the doctor's profession is to cure the curable, not the incurable, and not "the sick".
mircea_popescu: in practical terms, asciilifeform i'd say you'd be a lot more benefited by somehow retaining the loyalty and services of an old whore that knows how to negotiate rents ; than by trying to become warlord.
mircea_popescu: their fundamental idea that "if i don't swear i'll go to heaven" is entirely built of this stupidium
mircea_popescu: attempting formal immortality is a good definition of ustardism.
mircea_popescu: not particularly. there isn't any form that's perpetual. ideas are ; forms change.
mircea_popescu: the model is not a matter of random implementation thereof.
mircea_popescu: otherwise you're in the position of a schoolyard lout who seeks to absolve his ungrammatical "poetry" on the grounds that shakespeare.
mircea_popescu: the correct model is the correct model. before you may claim exception you must master the model.
mircea_popescu: or whatever else. but in any case - collect all rents.
mircea_popescu: or just you know, impregnate guard-strippers in "penitentiary"
mircea_popescu: there isn't a "upping the milimorts". you gotta NOT CARE.
mircea_popescu: start at the purpose. what are you trying to do again ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform methinks you're using the wrong tools for an ill defined purpose.
mircea_popescu: well - this is not true generally, thinking about it. but for me, it is way the fuck easier. and i'd expect it'd be the same for everyone who a) is familiar with the environment, and by familiar we mean that, feels at home in the ghetto and is respected in prison ; b) is familiar with the categories of education. which is different from being educated, it requires mastership of the gnosis, that position where you wrote the bo
mircea_popescu: usually easier to educate a willful person than trying to insuflate will into an educated person.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the rats themselves, no. but actual people, you'll find there rather than in office parking lot, or at nsa building, or working the cubical.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform empty and full of rubble does wonders to keep hopes down (and hope, expectation of future, TRULY is the mind eater for usians. be hopeless, you win.) and officious intermeddlers at a distance sufficient to breed actual people with some frequency.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: thestringpuller everything comes back, it's the law of the zombie : it pops.
mircea_popescu: so basically... thank the bank. saved your life, and saved the city a grease spot removal bill.
mircea_popescu: and if you end up buying for the wrong reasons on the wrong expectations you'll have to be killed.
mircea_popescu: anyway. if you run one of these you run it because you want a steady supply of whores and thugs, not because you expect roi on the rents.
mircea_popescu: no, it exists because walled off storefronts don't look good.
mircea_popescu: if the question "who is this guy" forms, and the answer is not on a post-it on monitor, you're not in the demo.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform think of it as the equivalent of mining for street power blockchain
mircea_popescu: they buy the stuff, run the rookery, usually make a thin profit.
mircea_popescu: ah, the demo ? usually, russian immigrants, old white guys with a history of dealing with criminals for whatever reason (pond shop owner, public defender, etc)
mircea_popescu: well, what can i tell you. if he uses proper truck is likely unionized, and if he is, he can't do it even if he wants to.
mircea_popescu: and forget stuff like bauxite. you can't have as much as a truckload of books delivered by printer.
mircea_popescu: people who do shipping know where proper loading docks are. you don't give them one of those, you don't trade.
mircea_popescu: not so : they'll ask where you want it delivered, you'll give a residential address, they'll drop the inquiry.
mircea_popescu: if the log scatters of discussions of my buys hasn't illuminated the matter yet lol.
mircea_popescu: so then what's all this to do with what we were discussing.
mircea_popescu: problem is they might have figured you're not in the demo.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i thought you were getting merged visits and stuff ?
mircea_popescu: title ? none of these people ever had or wish to ever have title to anything.
mircea_popescu: i think the convo might have spliced. what do you mean ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform same place you get the young whores. hipster part of town.
mircea_popescu: so we'll be hit by a new raft of faces with bios and empty heads.
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-29#1492644 << amusingly, judging by the comment count on the official announcement of the latest blunder ("for best results running our fix for the attack - please don't run it at all!"), even 1k total seems exaggerated. ethereum is dead as disco, will take at least 6 months to re-inflate. prolly more like 18. and i somehow doubt the "many years spanned by experience in experience" people have t
☝︎ mircea_popescu: so drone wants to be ant rather than bee. whoopee. still drone.
mircea_popescu: eh, the ones that start in engineering / actual work roles usually end up "managing" a project/team, not really selected for chen minjness.
mircea_popescu: they're usually central/east asians for a good reason : the "government is all things" mentality is not commonly found outside of that shithole. there, it's part of the culture.
mircea_popescu: it's an underclass of capons the empire is promoting, the equivalent of the roman libertus.
mircea_popescu: and to not forget the various other usg tools with a more remote, disavowed involvement : gavin andresen, emin gun sirer, and a whole list of various derps who unilaterally claim involvement : amir chetrit, anthony di iorio, gavin woon, joseph lubin etc,
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, ethereum itself is brought to you by ming chan, "an mit alumna", vitalik buterin, which you no doubt remember as an obscure bitcoin punk, jeffrey wilcke, bernd lapp ("bern lapp's background and experience in management experience spawns many years"), stefano bertolo, yessin schiegg, willioam mougayar, thomas greco (omise), and vladislav martynov. see
https://archive.is/Se89j ☟︎ mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-28#1492472 << to truly round up yesterday's derp list, one has to mention the dejavu "security" team (aptly named, seriously, we've seen this nonsense more than enough times before from the sort of posturing idiots without a wot presence) : akshay aggarwal, "a passionate entrepreneur", adam cecchetti, "ceo", michael eddington, "cto", see
https://archive.is/JqJos ☝︎ mircea_popescu: the stupid consist of cents and dimes, sum to a thousand dollars if that.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: nope, not really. pretty much one single party wash-trading.