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mircea_popescu: let's walk together through the history of this fine "market" thing, if we shall. so, it solved "the problem of feeding people", with hfcs. nice. and before that, it solved "the problem of trading in china". with opium. and before that...
mircea_popescu: and for the things where market - enjoy your corn syrup, the market chosen solution.
mircea_popescu: well so sure, but then the market isn't "a magical solution from god for all the crazy dangerous shit i don't want to have to deal with".
mircea_popescu: but without those meetings of the minds, there isn't a market, just chaos.
mircea_popescu: what was said was that for as long as you value the S for a, worth z, and for b, worth x, whereas she values the sack FOR THE SAME a, worth y and for the same b, worth x, then therer can be a market.
mircea_popescu: before it manages that, it's a shitty island on the side of the great faith empire of a man on whose dominions sun never sets.
mircea_popescu: when they don't make the same lists a market's impossible, which is why britain must "civilize" the world before it can be a "trade empire".
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no. a market exists when people make the same lists but order them differently.
mircea_popescu: trinque ~same as there's to envy about having been born again or w/e, having found one's religion, calling, life, hapiness, w/e.
mircea_popescu: and there the problem starts : given the same sack of whatever pounds' worth selected from the city dump, two different people will not make the same item, same order "lists of assets".
mircea_popescu: odd that this doesn't occur to you as the obvious answer to the whole "gold brick" bs. "oh, why doesn't mouse go down THIS tunnel!" "because there's a barb at the entrance and it stepped on it" "what barb ?!?!" "there" "oh, that ? that's just a barb!"
mircea_popescu: well, yeah, and plenty of girls have the scars to show it.
mircea_popescu: were you in adjust school ? where, war ? killed enough people to now known how they tick ? or where exactly, that was true, and truthful, and you paid attention.
mircea_popescu: for one thing, it's always hard to get past the little voice whispering at one that he's important, but : what makes you think you'd know what to adjust ?
mircea_popescu: no-serviceable-parts-inside hammer still works acceptably for all manner of people not making it their business to do complicated things with metals in surfaces
mircea_popescu: i already shudder at the thought of what my statue'll look like when i'm asleep.
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-05-31#1474179 << nothing could be further from teh truth. with some regularity mp has to punish multi-year supposed experts for basic training items such as "who the fuck said you may leave". the equivalent'd be a research lab where one has to explain the criteria of divisibility with 2 and 5 to the research leaders.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: notrly. old means many things, and here means "no longer sexually interesting to men"
mircea_popescu: and to teh gestapo, and in general, she's got a vocal vulvular valvule an' is not affraid to use it!
mircea_popescu: and make no mistake about it, she'll pen diatribes to the mujahedeen about how tamara down the street got two inches more silk headdress or w/e
mircea_popescu: if tomorrow muhammad offers a gram more petrocheese / unit time than usg.yelp.ceo.my, she's gone.
mircea_popescu: "i am here ; therefore". and which it is why it needs absolutely no reflashing either asciilifeform
mircea_popescu: so the moment they pick the vaguest of signals, they're there.
mircea_popescu: but today, the parents go "oh, everything, blablabla". this is not useful.
mircea_popescu: Framedragger nobody gives these kids any clear signals. their great-grandparents went "bitch, you're gonna marry the first guy with a pulse and make me two nephews!" which was maybe excessive.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform guy's been all over everything cia for a coupla decades.
mircea_popescu: one of the lulziest cases in the history of the us district kangaroocourts.
mircea_popescu: anyway, thought asciilifeform'd appreciate the story, if not known already.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that's the doctrine, somehow, no matter how badly they get battered they can't give the shit up.
mircea_popescu: when communism ended they gave the herd "coupons" to "privatize" the various busnesses by "subscription". the process of "subscribing" these coupons made nobody an investor.
mircea_popescu: i don't think they had actually figured out by the end of the 80s that "everything" is a bad sort of books to have.
mircea_popescu: and b) all sorts of "required" items for the you know, "upper crust" which every aparatchick aspired to parvene to. they were rather meticulous, effectual sorts of people, and well informed, and consequently if you visited (which was common) and someone asked, "so what books does he have ?" you'd answer "everything." and they'd know what you meant.
mircea_popescu: ok, you may live, you have books". some were even read actually.
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-05-30#1473729 << this was so common in romania (for some reason romanians were even MORE crazy book-militant than the ru), that a) there was a state-sponsored, official "books" edition/complete library (called "biblioteca pentru toti"). cheap paperbacks, fixed format made to fit preexisting standard shelving, decent antologies of reasonable titles. this was like you know, the prole version of "it's
☝︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: that's how cars ended up with a dollop of hot plastic on top. "suv"s my foot. it's just ldks, for "locals don't know shit"
mircea_popescu: if you knew your plane would end up on cargo cult island anywya, would you bother with anything serious ?
mircea_popescu: "the lamp's not dead, just the mains is". mmmkay. long live the cold lamp.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: not, at least, since THE LAST FUCKING TIME THEY DID THIS.
mircea_popescu: western civilisation died (again) because of its shitty books (again). not in spite of them, not unrelatedly, nothing else - BECAUSE the books were bad. it's poisoned and killed us and that comes with a fucking smithing the likes of which has never been seen
mircea_popescu: the fate of humanity is to be this endless rat in an endless baited maze. we can't, even as we sit and mourn the dead muroid next, stuff own gullet with the same fucking pellets, now can we.
mircea_popescu: you can't find a book that's not informed by either a christian or socialist notion of theosophy. neither of these are intellectually acceptable, or even digestible. the dumb will have to be washed off books before they may be instruments of human thought again. asciilifeform does not feel this because he insists on only reading an (insignificant) fraction, math is math eh.
☟︎ mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-05-30#1473708 << note that renaissance happened roughly speaking in the sense that a bunch of bloggers, pico & co, who had developed both their taste and knowledge in a blogging sense strictly stumbled upon a cache of "things you call books today much in the way you'll call them blogs shorty - they were rolls though" which held their own ;
☝︎ mircea_popescu: for all the "cost to us", seems teh cost to you is so far minimal eh! just point an' laugh!
mircea_popescu: that obama is going around in cheap suits and gets more crowded at dinner than your average 1916 workman is the fucking criteria.
mircea_popescu: maybe credits should be its own entry on the top bar ? minor point tho
mircea_popescu: i suspect sweat actually is also a major factor ; definitely urine. complicated matter and i'm lazy. let the curious mind run their own studies.
mircea_popescu: condomsharing (ie, when you enter them alternatively without bothering to change the condom) definitely does.
mircea_popescu: think in terms of "hepatitis alone" rather than "influenza alone"
mircea_popescu: period regulation in young females is ALSO herd based.
mircea_popescu: it's a funny if poorly studied phenomenon : much like immunity in young children is mostly herd-based,
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform a) most surpriseful of all surprises b) girls of the age living "alone" ie, not tonsils deep in other girl's cunts don't usually have regular periods.
mircea_popescu: college in teh modern democracy being this roughly speaking featureless insane asylum. getting terms extended becomes then positive attention, and so they start seeking it for lack of anything else more meaningful to seek