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mircea_popescu: you don't understand how the internet works foxperson. minutia is all it's got.
mircea_popescu: i had no idea he was working. seemd just gabbing away to me.
mircea_popescu: ", I had no idea that I’d end the day going from casually dating six men to formally and intentionally dating zero."
mircea_popescu: renart trinque translate the joke to an old man ? i'm like... not following.
mircea_popescu looking forward to the nato response ot the wave of 50mn turkish refugees once that thing blows up.
mircea_popescu: here's the headline from pravda : the us was buried in 1975.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you seriously are quoting the fucking economist ?
mircea_popescu: these two aren't even related, notwithstanding they're not in any sense true.
mircea_popescu: it IS getting tedious, but it isn't getting any closer to acceptance.
mircea_popescu: i dunno why you keep repeating this fantasy lol. not like it's going to get rejected 500 times and then accepted on the 501st pass ?
mircea_popescu: leaving aside the putins and chinese bureaucrats of this world... so far is having a lot of trouble doing anything worth the mention to a large mass of towelheads.
mircea_popescu: well so that's the analogy. from a management pov all you care about is the water level.
mircea_popescu: all you gotta to is arbitrarily (which, in the theoretical paradigm you claim to operate under would be - illegally!) suspend whatever laws whenever things get to a boiling point
mircea_popescu: same shit with ustard : does burning down the govt result in immediate payoff ? no ? well... what's on tv ?
mircea_popescu: water is dumb. it has a very simple action cycle : does movement result in lower center of gravity ? if yes go if not stay.
mircea_popescu: because hey, people are basically water - as long as you put the work in to make dykes while it rains, you can have an artificial lake np.
mircea_popescu: you "suspend" it, arbitrarily, whenever it looks like it's enough to cause a riot, maybe.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: that's the problem with that shit, it's so fucking sticky. or if you prefer less scatological terms, so well managed. it's an outrage, they know it's an outrage, but they also know people are lazy and how do you protect your outrage ?
mircea_popescu: suppose you buy a house, take a 100k loan from the bank on the understanding that if you don't pay they can have the house and that's it. suppose the market goes to shit, and you walk. suppose the bank takes your house and sells it for 60k.
mircea_popescu: fun fact : if your debtor disposes of a retail (ie, faux) non-recourse loan and you live in the us/other such shitholes, the government WILL WANT TO TAX the ammount lost. because you made a theoretical gain.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "we're a large collection of people who understand nothing of anything and here's what we think the world is". such an unique value proposition.
mircea_popescu: lol wikipedia "Thus, non-recourse debt is typically limited to 50% or 60% loan-to-value ratios,"
mircea_popescu: this is the quintessential non recourse debt : x (company) owes to y, and all y can do if it's not happy with the repayment schedule is take some equity stake in x.
mircea_popescu: more practically, most business ventures are financed by a convertible note.
mircea_popescu: (this isn't, as the retail bankers got the retail suckers to think, a case of "you can't takle anything other than my house".
mircea_popescu: punkman> I quite like not being in debt << as usual, retail is for suckers. consumer debt's just about the dumbest proposition i ever heard. nevertheless, nrl isn't that bad.
mircea_popescu: this is what "made in the usa" used to mean, 50 years ago.
mircea_popescu can't remember the last time he has encountered a perfect product, but it wasn't this decade.
mircea_popescu: so i ended up the happy owner of the best ice tray i have ever seen in my life. it's exceptionally well made plastic. for one thing, it's properly flexible. for the other, it's actually hygroscopic. for yet another, the separators are actually TALL enough you get proper cubes made. it is a wonder of perfection which literally fills my life with joy.
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: anyway. apparently there's a limit on the count of simultaneously up services. whatevs.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> entirely dead here. << didn't we already discuss this ?
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> because unless std::string does something clever with refcounts, as far as i can see: they do not. << they do not.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i think ima bring up a nigger.trilema.net or somesuch. be a few.
mircea_popescu: part of operation "we're not gonna admit it, but mp's wuille assassination really fucking irked us. god damn that assole". or something.
mircea_popescu: adlai BingoBoingo seems the very angry people managed to take the whole server down meanwhile.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: their idea was that hey, if official goes up, black market goers up THAT MUCH MORE
mircea_popescu: ing and everything else. The publisher got paid a 20% commission." <<< put their dumbass widget on your site (so provide all the leads), use your own creatives (so provide all the work), be paid a 20% COMISSION.
mircea_popescu: "We thought that others would also be interested in such a feature for their website, that made it possible to sell print products from all their pictures. Therefore, we decided to build something more generic, that everyone else could use as well. The new service was called PiX’n’PaLs PhotoProducts, which helped publishers monetize their website by selling print products from images. We took care of payment, shipp
mircea_popescu: now obviously chair warmers all across the land have no fucking idea about anything and are happy to stay dumb, so random X may pretend whatever the fuck. but that's an entirely different matter.
mircea_popescu: or to be more precise : the only way it could be actually used makes it obvious it's being so used (same exact principle as for the pay for your tits thing : carve this hash in the guy's forehead or some shit), and it being obvious it's so being used makes it trivial for bitbet to disalow the bet in question.
mircea_popescu: the point here is that just like what people want to do with a camera (take pictures of woman) is not a good fit for your idea of a camera, just so what people want to do with sa is not a good fit for your idea of a sa.
mircea_popescu: ok, let's indulge. was there a woman in your picture with legs lazily spread apart ?
mircea_popescu: if you're going to take "a very slow picture" with a one pixel camera, you'll end up measuring 42.
mircea_popescu: this is not even the case for fucking computers, let alone random phenomena.
mircea_popescu: looky : your idea of phenomena seems inspired by an alt-reality where computer programs run on repeatable, replayable abstract machines.
mircea_popescu: and you propose to build this out of analog wide band tuners ?
mircea_popescu: well, it's trilema that's down, not change.org right ?