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mircea_popescu: specifically : while the universities may well be pushing costs down as you describe, they're sure as fuck noty passing the savings up the chain to comecon.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: that's 100 trn in air bubble to breathe while the dod keeps losing trucks nominally full of trucks that were fully loaded with trucks.
mircea_popescu: you can replace the ~100 trn worth ivy league & friends that do a 10-20 bn spending on actual hardware each year and otherwise shuffle paper on the exchanges with a new-and-improved thing worth ~1-2 bn that spends 50 bucks on mcdonalsa a year.
mircea_popescu: oh, this isn't about math. this is about stem. stem costs TURKEY dollars.
mircea_popescu: why ? currently the harvard/mit/etc hedge funds masquerading as universities are pretty much the largest problem on fed's map.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform much like soviet economy endgame, stuff isn't being replaced. simply removed.
mircea_popescu: cuz yeah, the socialists here more or less ready to firebomb the socialists from there.
mircea_popescu: oh in somewaht lulzy news : obama is going to be in argentina 23-24th. he (and his 850 camp followers) is however not going to stay in buenos aires, but some far flung provincial shithole. either because afraid of running into me on corrientes, or else because petrified of LEFT WING PROTESTS.
mircea_popescu: something else other than the uni-money pump can't be sustained anymore ? why ?
mircea_popescu: new party line i guess. proactively closing the uni financing gap and all that.
mircea_popescu: you gotta re-doi the overlay on the header tho, i can see the edges and a nose/hairline of a guy in the irght
mircea_popescu: not a comment on the language - a comment on the mentality. "oh this box is not good". fine. "oh this other box is not yet ready". fine. whatever all this may mean in the ideal world of ideals, what it means in practice is that - never happened.
mircea_popescu: this has been a perfect case of typically lispian self-sabotage, for the record.
mircea_popescu: and we can say jack shit about it - because guess what ? phuctor still down.
mircea_popescu: retardation belongs to no-one, even if it is always and perpetually the exact same.
mircea_popescu: you know, if you meet two retarded teenagers cca 2004, it doesn't mean "britni is everywhere".
mircea_popescu: shinohai i don't get it, person should go through 1-200ish gallons of water a year, every year. what's the problem there ?
mircea_popescu: see, this is exactly what i'm asking him : if you should be allowed to continue in this childhood delusion :)
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo should i do a small piece on argentina or really too far off scope ?
mircea_popescu: you should start wearing round glasses and a pickaxe hole in the temple already.
mircea_popescu: lol are you subverting the kolhoz for counter-party activities ?
mircea_popescu: depending on the exact definition of "human body parts" you use, i will grant that this is actually the case.
mircea_popescu: in other news, according to reddit i am by far the bitcoiner most likely to have a collection of human body parts in my fridge.
mircea_popescu: skate/stake/steak/on the take etc bla bla, enough rhymes in there for a full rap album.
mircea_popescu: "we've had some no such expenses this month somehow related to the bitcoin protocol of the future's many advantages which can not be specified for guess why reasons."
mircea_popescu: heh. also this sounds exactly like icbit / bitfinex. same people ?
mircea_popescu: oil!" to, finally, "flyover country". not entirely sure who'd be the indicated canon on the topic. as everything else to do with culture, starting with the great "american" novel and ending with the great "american" dictionary, the us has failed to produce usable works. maybe one day a gibbon is born in kenya or wherever and writes its history.
mircea_popescu: TomServo>
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-02-2016#1414960 << Any suggested reading on this topic? << mid 1800s, galveston was the world's cotton center. by the 1900s, dallas had overtaken it as the center of texas. lots of discussion of this change that's emblematic from a more general shift from "midwest = great american desert" to "we built some pumps and whatnot, let's farm and raise cattle" to "holy shit
☝︎ mircea_popescu: punkman> "They are giving us 90 days paid working notice, one-month severance, and $2500 in money for retraining." <<< pretty generous.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> ~the~ iq test. << "variant thought" and iq are at best orthogonal.
mircea_popescu: i'll gladly take the credit if it saves you the time to search for sauce.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform somethinglike that. given that his guide announces itself as "opportunistic smalltimer defense", it's not necessarily wrong.
mircea_popescu: no, but you can now bitch at vc derps and post on reddit.
mircea_popescu: basically, the most charitable read of the thing i can come up with is, "if you find your own wallet unable to transact - try move the privkey to a webwallet, maybe it works there".
mircea_popescu: well... what happens if the tx is not included in a block ?
mircea_popescu: which i suppose works ok in this extemporaneous prostitution scenario, but pretty much nowhere else.
mircea_popescu: it's not kosher, it's a race as to who can spend first, and you're hoping the lady's good enough to keep him busy long enough for you to get to a wifi ?
mircea_popescu: the lady side aside, do you think this is a sensible deal ?
mircea_popescu: so you meet a shady guy in a bar, and he shows you an address with 10 btc in it, and gives you the privkey in exchange of taking the lady in the back alley half-n-half.
mircea_popescu: compare the counties where scheme was implemented (it's always done by the "local barons", not a central thing) with the counties where it isn't.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform obviously you could take as many pics as payers. but in spite of the ridoinculousness, the nonsense provably works.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform incidentally, romanians have been trading votes for years now. go in there with your smartphone, take pic of vote and id card, get 30 lei or w/e
☟︎ mircea_popescu: anyway, needless to say the argentine press utterly hates trump. "o noes, male with an ego! hilary is for kids and women! NO UNA MENOS!!!1 herpderp"
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo incidentally - imagine the fucking ratings once trump turns the white house into a nbc studio
mircea_popescu: what's his name, polly-wanna-baccarat or whatever the fuck.
mircea_popescu: i thought he was ~headed for jail. except you know, "tough on crime" beeeeeehehehehe towelhead forgot the keys to the toughness vault or something.
mircea_popescu: gotta say i like the language. the derps are fucking useless - saw a fucktard SLEEPING IN THE SHOP today, banned the shop - but check out "envalentonada".
mircea_popescu: anyway, did the argentinos hallucinate the story ? never happened ?
mircea_popescu: this year in us election, an ogre runt and a quail on lsd.
mircea_popescu: except these bovines would have counted as lamers in that ~lame set.
mircea_popescu: they went there to overdemonstratively socialise and pretend like they're drunk and please grab my teat.
mircea_popescu: the audience took me back 20 years. back in mid 90s, there was this bar in cluj, mostly favoured by highschooler chicks that were just mediocre but liked to think themsleves special.
mircea_popescu: and these imbecile stallmans of a new generation, encouraging this nonsense. pfff.
mircea_popescu: actually, for the interested us scholar, the history of the comecom should be read carefully. it's not merely informative, but will be quite predictive.
mircea_popescu: and besides, since they ended canada's oil boom with their inept russian embargo shenanigans, the great farmland to the north can get back to agriculture. great obama-hruschev common single planning organ success!