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trinque: site generator ran as
the wrong user, barfed out empty keyfiles
trinque: datacenter got in my way when I was in
the midst of setting up infrastructure for:
trinque: I had
to migrate everything
to a new box, possible
there are
things
that still need a poke.
mod6: Thanks for posting
the
Treasury statement as well.
mircea_popescu: "I suppose I could pull up my Bloomberg
terminal if I wanted
to do some research before making an investment decision, but I feel like
that’s not in
the spirit of
this app." << A-HA! caught you elaineo !
mircea_popescu: anyway,
the context is
the earlier rewrite of luminous,
the sf story. you know it ?
elaineo: yeah, i assumed
that was
the case
a111: Logged on 2017-10-01 03:49 elaineo: was anyone expected
to understand
that reference aside from yourself?
elaineo: i have
trouble relating
to
the context
mircea_popescu: this one's of
that latter kind.
the footnotes are mine, but
the
text is originally published by ballas over at
thelastpsychiatrist.com ; linked
there in
the first line.
mircea_popescu: others are adnotations, like
the recent rothbard series for instance.
elaineo: aren't all
the posts original?
mircea_popescu: well,
truth be
told,
there's no official "turning loose" as such. girls can leave if
they wanna, some do now and again, but it's not
that common.
elaineo: yes, esp if
they have parents who are doing well
elaineo: your slavegirls become a basketcase
the moment you
turn
them loose
mircea_popescu: hey, i didn't realise azn immigrants are even allowed
to be lazy
elaineo: oh, right, i do like
that about
trilema
elaineo: clickable-footnotes didn't occur
to me until later on. even
then, i'm kinda lazy.
mircea_popescu: i won't even ask what do you
think makes me gather
the dork is having a great
time from
that pic.
elaineo: terrible in
the sense of, "the first hit is free"?
mircea_popescu: elaineo free shit is
terrible, which is why wanna-be pimps hang around highschools
trying
to paw off "free shit"
to
the better looking 16yos.
jhvh1: mod6:
The operation succeeded.
mod6: !~later
tell jurov Sent SoBA email
to btc-dev list, didn't bounce, maybe stuck in queue? Plz
to
take a look and see if it is just stuck.
Thanks!
mircea_popescu: the original discussed "promising companies", but
there's really no difference -- women are great company.
mircea_popescu: you're welcome, but do you happen
to know what's
the worst
thing
that can happen
to a gifted woman early on in her life ?
elaineo: as a resident of
the SF bay area, i appreciate all
the VC-subsidized free shit
☟︎ mircea_popescu: for all
the gargle,
there's ~nothing came out of marc a & paul g's up and coming rap label firms.
mircea_popescu: last fucking
thing i want is
to have
to argue at idiots about music being
too loud each week and actually be confronted with literall different idiots with identical idiocy in
them
mircea_popescu: many ways
to see how shitty it is. seriously, i want
to change my fuckable 3years leases neighbour for a horde of unwashed 20something 2-week leasors ?
elaineo: and
thus exacerbated
the housing crisis.
elaineo: airbnb is shit. it incentivized short-term rental housing at
the loss of long-term rentals
mircea_popescu: well, i'ma opt out of arguing waze without prejudice, because while it's basically an antieconomic game of masturbation, i'm
too lazy
to argue it.
elaineo: okay, i concede
that uber, in its current state, is an agency of
the usg and
thus worse
than state-owned public
transport
mircea_popescu: it's not winning anywhere.
the whole
thing is a more-successful-than-usual spam&fraud campaign by graham and friends.
mircea_popescu: and because
there's specific laws protecting public interest from a
time before
the bush power grabs
mircea_popescu: there is, because publkic
transport is mostly state, whereas uber is federal.
elaineo: so
there's no difference between us registered corporations and public
transportation, within
the US
mircea_popescu: "regulatory compliance" it's called in-universe. but in practice,
they're exactly like
the old
time soviet govt entreprises.
mircea_popescu: all "us registered corporations" are simply agencies of
the usg.
mircea_popescu: in actual point of practice. no "underserved minority" is getting into
the recent suv crossover.
mircea_popescu: but what actually happens is
that
the blue state will
tryt
to get people who didn't vote for
the pantsuited hilarity unable
to use cabs.
mircea_popescu: so
that self-important schmucks in washington can spy on foreign nationals daily, and now and again "sanction" foreign government with
taxi strike generated in
the usual manner ?
elaineo: to ensure equal service
to underserved minorities
mircea_popescu: let's
take
the first one. why would $random city in $national country give up its
taxi
transportation system
to
the usg ?
elaineo: the first
two, yes. airbnb, no.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile in historical elaineo
terrible, "Uber is a great example of a hack:
Taxicab licensing rules are annoying and only serve
to make a few people’s lives better (the
taxi medallion owners) while making many people’s lives worse. Waze allows drivers
to report speed
traps and police checkpoints because we all know
that CHP officers only issue
tickets
to fill
their quotas. Airbnb shirks rental and zoning regulations, an
mircea_popescu: i recall. was well received here
too. somehow it's not money laudnering when
the right idiots do it.
elaineo: those were
the numbers from Facebook's acquisition of Whatsapp
mircea_popescu: "If pet food companies used
the same business model as startups: Jim creates a dog food factory and gives away dog food for free. 450 million dogs line up for free dog food. Purina Dog Chow understands
that non-paying dog food consumers are currency, and buys Jim’s factory for $42 per dog." << in other historical elaineo lulz.
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: if
they're not happy,
they'll bark
their unhappiness
to
the stars above.
elaineo: never had
to deal with kids. if
the indian wolf-kids are happy, well...
mircea_popescu: otherwise, indian continent wolves adopting indian kids into
their litters make excellent parents.
mircea_popescu: elaineo
this works well for adults. kids need
to be fed.
BingoBoingo: Capitalism is simple. Just focus on doing
the next right
thing and making
the world a better place, for you.
elaineo: they don't need
to
teach
their kids anything. systematically discern
the essential from
the unimportant.
the whole master/slavegirl making silence
thing
mircea_popescu: i expect not. so why do you expect other people/parents who don't even have enough sense
to find #trilema could
teach
their kids anything, including how
to make mayo ? leaving aside something as intricate as capitalism.
elaineo: by
that definition, sure.
though it doesn't really make me diversified.
mircea_popescu: well,
technically
the definition of investor, neh ? one who owns commercial paper in excess of 0 cash nominal value.
elaineo: i get stock options, but i don't
think
that makes me an investor. stock options are like S&H greenstamps, where you feel like you're getting something valuable for free but you're not
mircea_popescu: eh, i find it hard
to believe you can live in bay area and not be an investor. don't
they force-feed everyone stocks, options, etcetera as part of employment
there ?
elaineo: i've never been an investor so i don't know what it
takes
to be successful at one. i suppose it starts with understanding supply, demand,
transaction costs
mircea_popescu: so supposing you were going
to
teach me about capitalism ... what would you say ?
mircea_popescu: though granted
this may be more a description of my poor understanding of selfsame styler.
mircea_popescu: ah,
too bad. i'd expect you'd like him, seems
to me exactly in your style.
mircea_popescu: yes. everyone was expected
to understand
the reference.
elaineo: was anyone expected
to understand
that reference aside from yourself?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: ailleurs
there is a reference
to "la joie c'est ailleurs", which is my own reprocessing of "la vie est ailleurs", which is a kundera novel, and
the yarn of reference, criticism and
tongue in cheekness does continue
elaineo: understanding engineering is a subset of what it
takes
to not be a moron, which is a subset of what it
takes
to be a VC
mircea_popescu: now
then --
the iliterate migrant worker who wins 100mn worth of powerball you would have learn how
to read and write so
the shysters won't
trick him with contracts.
this makes sense. yet
the innocent daughter of a VC you wouldn't have understand engineering, so
the shysters won't feed her crap in
their description of "reality" ? what's
this girl
to do if she ever has
to fix her car, pay 8k for a new johnson rod, like george
mircea_popescu: this may suggest
that "human capital" was of no importance, value or interest. what mattered was ailleurs.
mircea_popescu: jakob fugger was
the proper example for
this "rich man financing
the dissolution of medieval system into industrial society". and
the emperor had his artillery wheels bound in hay so as
to not disturb his sleep.
mircea_popescu: when you pick
two examples but fail
to pick
the proper one among
them,
teacher knows you didn;t actually do
the reading.
mircea_popescu: consider it from
this angle : for 1 point, who was emperor maximillian ; for 1 point, what did he order be done
to his artillery pieces and in which
town ; for a further point who happened
to live
there and for
the remainder 6 poins, why did you not say his name ?
mircea_popescu: this is a dubious statement of
the actual history of
the matter.
elaineo: they controlled outsized chunks of money, and
thus human labor
elaineo: look at
the rothschilds & rockefellers
elaineo: lottery winners not really comparable, since
they are not competent in finance, engineering, or much of anything
mircea_popescu: having a large army behind you (and money is strictly nothing but) is, obviously, an important ingredient in gaining battlefield glory and
the laurels of caesar.
mircea_popescu: but
this aside, you familiar with
the general fate of lottery winners ?