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BingoBoingo: Well, it is an attraction. Lumped
together with India, China, and Russia as BRIC. Seems a strong winner on
the not NATO front.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo 0 chances of
that. off
the entire continent,
the only functional sovereign is brazil.
the whole rest of spanish speaking dorks can barely sum
together
to 2/3 of ye olde kingdom
mircea_popescu: !!rate AndreaGuzman 1 if she breaks anything, send shinohai
the bill :D
a111: Logged on 2017-10-26 16:24 mircea_popescu: diana_coman in
this vein was lulzy
thing at lesbian club, chick is "i have no idea why i'm getting so drunk ?!?" "you keep drinking" "what ?! it suddenly hit me like... wtf." "you keep drinking." "what do you mean ?"
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo fwiw, a ro corp is about 80 bux or such. wtf 800 dollars
to open a corp in brazil, what do
they
take
themselves for ?
a111: Logged on 2017-10-26 21:34 ben_vulpes: >
the substantive point is
that we do not, at present, have a
theory of inflation dynamics
that works sufficiently well
to be of use for
the business of real-time monetary policy-making
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-26#1729594 << "we don't at
this point have a sufficiently palatable whitewash of inflation ; or for
that matter even any statement
that doesn't reduce
to how
the best course would be for us
to eat shit and die. so in preference of
that, we'll just pretend ignorance, because such a course
totally works and everything".
☝︎ ben_vulpes: >
the substantive point is
that we do not, at present, have a
theory of inflation dynamics
that works sufficiently well
to be of use for
the business of real-time monetary policy-making
☟︎ BingoBoingo: and Making Asia China Again means
those weird extremist gentile followers of
the late Jew King are a national security
threat
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu>
the chinese are also
trying, what with
their empty
towns and whatnot. << Oh, China just held a big presser on Sinicizing region and Make Asia China Again
a111: Logged on 2017-10-26 19:34 mircea_popescu: during
the communist
time,
the "repartitie" (approx, warrant) was a major instrument of social control. basically :
to dwell anywhere, you had
to get a job
there.
to get
the job, you had
to a) go
to school and
then, be ... sent
to it, ie "destined", repartizat.
BingoBoingo: Oh my, much lawgs and numbers
to digest
this evening
mircea_popescu: the bucharest "bourgeois economic studies"
thing,
there's a dozen or so.
mircea_popescu: yes.
there were strong attractors,
the kalash factory,
the cluj/bucharest/brasov/iassi ITCs etc.
diana_coman: for as long as
there was a person who did precisely
that
diana_coman: onth
there were pockets of "I'll hold onto whatever good engineers I get" a la IAR ghimbav
diana_coman: obv,unless pcr
to move
to
town in max 2 years or something
mircea_popescu: (they also got dar-al-salaam and so on, of course,
tirgoviste ended up shipped
there as engineers much in
the way rahovei got exported
to afghanistan a coupla decades later)
diana_coman: well, as far as I know from older people it was mainly either permanent rural shithole or otherwise shitty
temporary mini-jobs in some
town
mircea_popescu: diana_coman amusingly,
they rarely got
them, either.
they got rural shitholes a la you know, georghe-gheorghiu-dej or vulcan or w/e
the fuck jewels of socialism
that no longer exist.
mircea_popescu: 90s brought a lot of georgians into moscwo, but
this very unrelatedly
to stalin's patrilinearity, i suspect.
mircea_popescu: not so in southern moldavia ; rural dobrogea ; eastern old kingdom (oltenia etc). which is how bucharest ended up massively overrepresenting
the olteni (ceausescu himself was from a village
there)
mircea_popescu: so in
this sense
there's a ready measure, in
the proper-est
term :
the black market value of
the country capital warrant was under
the black market value of
the local capital warrant in most places.
mircea_popescu: these were an important item
therefore, and obviously urban such sought in preference of rural. except, in general people from cluj wanted one in cluj or else you know,
turda, rather
than
the (nominally, at least) more valuable bucharest one.
mircea_popescu: during
the communist
time,
the "repartitie" (approx, warrant) was a major instrument of social control. basically :
to dwell anywhere, you had
to get a job
there.
to get
the job, you had
to a) go
to school and
then, be ... sent
to it, ie "destined", repartizat.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and
the moldavians even put it in writing, "shit-eating faces like
they eat nothing but fungus". also cca 1850.
mircea_popescu: this is not exactly so.
the extremely snot-nosed
transylvanians didn't want
to move
there in 1850, either.
mircea_popescu: contrary
to
the socialist delusions, papica is not
the pill.
mircea_popescu: the chinese are also
trying, what with
their empty
towns and whatnot.
diana_coman: in any case and fwiw since I happen
to know
this
tidbit, gospodin Medvedev did open (and I don't mean cutting
the red
tape sort of open but rather pouring
the money & bringing in people from abroad sort of open)
tam-tam big uni and all
that in
Tatarstan some years ago already rather
than next
to Moscow and I seriously doubt it was *not* part of a wider-range development plan
diana_coman: I don't know enough on RU
to say much at
that level really so...
mircea_popescu: diana_coman it is said
the lord of
the jews has a special foible for idiots. at least so discovered
the current (jesuit) pope.
mircea_popescu: aaanyway. i hold
that
the situation is not similar in ru and ro ; neither
the evolution /
trends. but
this will have
to be as first hand word of god, because
there's no better available.
diana_coman: so
then, official statistics in ro are worse
than non-existant, what
diana_coman: well, remember I had
to scrap
the bac data and
then
the ministry statisticians were getting it on
the sly from my blog?
mircea_popescu: then again,
these are
the same people who couldn't produce a count of suines in
the country
mircea_popescu: well now ima have
to look at
the demographic geography of it.
diana_coman: mircea_popescu, eh now; by
the same
token as
the maps: population+growth in population
diana_coman: asciilifeform,
typical idiot *runs* like crazy away from here even if he somehow stumbles in for a second (he'll
try hard not
to
though as it's cheaper on his own self-esteem and whatnot)
mircea_popescu: diana_coman depends how you count ; but in any meaningful sense bucharest is a minor player
to cluj, brasov et co.
diana_coman: mircea_popescu Bucharest is also some 6
times if not more
the size of next
town in ro, isn't it? not sure if
that says much
though in itself
mircea_popescu: typical idiot can't get in here much like
typical lamb can't eat
tatched roofing.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah.
there may never be, actually, seeing how
the vast majority of
those who stumble in are dumb in
the classical sense, ie, mute.
mircea_popescu: but
the similarity is
there : we don't yet get
that many rss links
to need
to build a more complicated pipe ; just as we don't yet get
that many new speakers so as
to need
to build a skirt
there either.
a111: Logged on 2017-10-26 15:55 mircea_popescu:
the
truth of
the matter however is
that
to a large degree fain was powered by
the original web delusion, "oh, lowering barriers
to human creativity is what economy is all about". it's not.
there's no such
thing as "human creativity" in
the sense of
the general mass, and
the barriers are
there
to keep us from
the female wail.
mircea_popescu: we have a similar problem in
teh republic, at
that. #trilema overgravity renders #castles impracticable yet.
mircea_popescu: romans used
the more adequate neckchain. sorta-worked.
mircea_popescu: pay, as numerously discussed in
teh forum, ain't
the pill.
mircea_popescu: afaik only
trotsky sorta-managed, but
too dumb
to realise what he was doing or capitalize on it.
mircea_popescu: heck, getting
the precious cuntlets
to move
to kazakstan was a major problem for everyone, stalin, khruschev, etc.
mircea_popescu: this is a bigger problem for putin
than anything else.
mircea_popescu: us had a similar dynamic, with
the unwashed irish
tards landing in ny
to be shipped
to fight against
the south while
the precious cuntlets were kept under wraps in boston.
mircea_popescu: russia has no "a road within walking distance anywhere you walk". it should,
to survive.
a111: Logged on 2017-10-23 17:41 mircea_popescu: AND
throughout
the egypt
that i've seen,
they
to
this day have clay pots with water in
the shade every quarter mile or so on
the road. notwithstanding
that yes you can buy bottled water and did i share
that pic of
the desert dhl ?
mircea_popescu: argentina is like 2x
the size of all europe. its internal development is comparable
to
the island of corfu.
mircea_popescu: in
the sense of ending up with a humongous buenos aires full of lazy parasites expecting
to live off govt handouts and an entirely undevelopped interior of humonmgous size.
mircea_popescu: basically, very strong signs of argentinization in
the ex-soviet lands.
mircea_popescu: is
this by
the old definition, seculum "until everyone present dies off" ?
mircea_popescu: whereas
the via aurelia and its derivations
to
this day
the basis of "european union".
a111: Logged on 2017-10-10 01:45 mircea_popescu: in other lulz : so us rail gauge is 1435 mm. why ? because
the first us rail was built by english immigrants, who kept
to
the english style. but why was
the english style 1435 mm ? because rail started as (horse drawn)
trams, and
that was
the gauge
they used. but why ? because when
they made
trams
they just used
the old horse carriage gauge, by reusing
the same
tools. but why did carriages use 1435 mm gauge ? because if
they
mircea_popescu: on cursory examination
the item is actually well researched and correct.
mircea_popescu: i suppose for
the same money i shall pretend russia is == gorky.
mircea_popescu: incidentally asciilifeform :
there's a 50% chance native speaker fails
to note
that refrain. ITS FUCKING HARD.