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mircea_popescu: all these original thinkers, it's a fascinating world.
mircea_popescu: "Patrick Byrne has been worried that the big Wall Street banks would “circle the wagons,” creating tech that locks everyone else out. << ever since reading all about it on trilema hurr durr.
mircea_popescu: YOU are not business, schmuckaroos. WE are business. you're a quaint historical accident.
mircea_popescu: (if you have two genders and gender dysmorphisms, for any objective measure you'll have one gender closer and the other further, no matter what.)
mircea_popescu: the real driver is that the USG is much more adequate to governing robots than people. that women are more robot-like than men is just biological happenstance
mircea_popescu: the real driver isn't that USG wants to favour women over men.
mircea_popescu: now we finally understand the deep driver behind the "it's ok to be fat in the subway, it's not ok to sit comfortably. eating doesn't cause obesity, it's genetic, notwithstanding no single "genetic" obese dude in all those auschwitz pics ; meanwhile smoking causes cancer, it's not genetic and it's especially not the sad result of all the crap industry puts in the tobacco and also mark twain didn't smoke two railcars' w
mircea_popescu: they're actually a pretty good study into "what not to do".
mircea_popescu: so intel reports that medium.com is headquartered at 760 market st, sf. just like "dropbox" and pretty much every other ycombinator scam / "entreprenize" to date. so therefore "why are all these derps with failed 'business ideas', 0 experience, 0 awareness, 0 clue on medium.com ?" "oh, because ycombinator told them to".
mircea_popescu: you hung around shitty office space and derped on the internet. learned ~nothing.
mircea_popescu: "We’ve spent last few years building Wishberg as a default destination for users to share their wishes & discover more interesting wishes from people around the world - things to do, things to buy, travel, adventure, experiences and so much more. The journey has been beautiful, exhilarating, exciting with lots of learning for all of us."
mircea_popescu: i guess it boggles his mind because it makes a point he doesn't wish to hear. anyway, race has exactrly nothing to do with it : woman can either be my slave, out to carve your empire into the dust, or one of the empire's own aspirationally-vacuous wastes of flesh, brigading social media so that maybe it has some effect on reality.
mircea_popescu: "Women, white and black, who do not qualify for management, are usually not worth anything on the staff, and generally steal at about 20%, with lower paid working black girls less than half as likely to steal as their management counterparts, and white girls on staff infinitely more larcenous than the white girls in management. I won’t even try and explain this, as it boggles my mind." it doesn't boggle my mind any.
mircea_popescu: "Black female managers are rarely effective and steal at 50%—fully half of the ones I have worked with being confirmed thieves." << lioness hunting for the clan as opposed to the ball busting harpy gioving herself and everyone else aneurisms. makes sense, huh.
mircea_popescu: might be the most competent thing i read all week on the open wwwbs.
mircea_popescu: this is a PARTICULARLY insightful piece from lafond guy huh.
mircea_popescu: "White female managers usually end up with nervous breakdowns and are not as effective as men, but are 100% loyal and never steal, ever. This is the backbone of any retail food staff, white chicks. Work her until she breaks and get another."
mircea_popescu perceives absolutely no value in any of these. last i had any interest, it was a winamp install. 20 years ago or so ?
mircea_popescu: yeah i know, i'm just deploring my own sad situation here.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this is particularly a difficult industry for me because i never listen to the radio ; i never commute ; if i do i use a towncar and have live people to talk to ; etc.
mircea_popescu: everyone else gotta pay retail, and who;'s gonna pay retail ?
mircea_popescu: no marketing was involved. lizard king of ustardia threw the dart, picked one that gets the free shit for free
mircea_popescu: " Its secret: free on-demand streaming, supported by advertising. By contrast, Rdio required a paid subscription."
mircea_popescu: What is more, this lady has poor impulse control, exasperated by her once a month windfall, << exacerbated, exasperated, what the hells the difference!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i'm certainly not hiring you wtf. that'd be sad.
mircea_popescu: under all the dumbass kid crud, there's a good reason.
mircea_popescu: all you can do with nonstupid people is partner, which is why this entire all-consuming "start-up culture"
mircea_popescu: no. it is not possible to hire nonstupid people. the very definition of hiring includes "i am too dumb to live"
mircea_popescu: unless classee IS PAYING YOU, like the fucking tsarist nobility was being paid by the fucking tsar to participate,
mircea_popescu: and yes asciilifeform, part of why mp is not hiring is that mp despises how stupid people actually are, and can't seriously work with the sort of idiots.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, if you go 28.75 to 29.45 he'll deduce he's lucky to get 15.
mircea_popescu: moreover, if you raise 30 to 32 in negotiation, he'll deduce h's worth 100.
mircea_popescu: 28.75 is just below one, makes him feel like he's fucking lucky to get there.
mircea_popescu: the more important thing is the issue of [stupid] brains and thresholds. 30 is just above one, makes him feel like he's worth more.
mircea_popescu: nd more time trying to figure out why than argue with you about it.
mircea_popescu: "There is no requirement to buy ten, but raising retails from 89-cents to 10 for $10 increases sales from a case to a pallet on most items, when you have the right customer base..." << which reminds me of a point i wanted to make. yo ben_vulpes it's pretty dumb to offer grunt 30. offer 28.75. for one thing, it makes it look like real thought went into all that precision, and the sort of dickless imbecile he is will spe
mircea_popescu: "Basically, supermarkets just provide local jobs. The CEOs of grocery chains are among the lowest paid of their kind." << exactly. government clerks.
mircea_popescu: but yeah, the supermarket model is on its way out - and thanks fucking god. it was stupid.
mircea_popescu: e her tits melt in the kitchen, did you?" <<< aaactually... yes, i did.
mircea_popescu: "Supermarkets cannot stay open in extensive urban ghettos for multiple reasons. It might also surprise you to know that supermarkets that do not embrace a catering/restaurant program [which is expensive] do not thrive in upscale locales. You might be able to keep the doors open—but forget a profit. People with money make their food purchases at restaurants. You didn't buy that stunning piece of plastic surgery to hav
mircea_popescu: gotta build yerself a castle, mr wannabe margrave lord.
mircea_popescu: "is a jagers unit more valuable than a cavalry unit ?"
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> but i don't get how living there gives you an edge << obviously you never lived in new york. ask mike_c
mircea_popescu: similarly, there is not such a thing as "what it takes TO bed beautiful women".
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there is no such thing as "a price tag". this is an ex-post-facto calculation.
mircea_popescu: american speculators will get fucked in the ass, publicly, and write their senator to complain
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform nah, you're behing the curve. the chinese will.
mircea_popescu: what hruschev wanted to make of ukraina IS actually what the brits made of argentina.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform hafta understand, it's not russia. it has no industry. AT ALL. it's one large farm.
mircea_popescu: but when they discover they can't afford both underwear AND stockings, THAT is wqhen the stupid women running the show start getting open plam slapped across the diner table.
mircea_popescu: except they won't starve. nor would it do anything, it doesn't help the proud
mircea_popescu: as a result they misperceive their incentives and lose out.
mircea_popescu: and it will unwind. it must, currently everyone here thinks themselves MUCHricher than they are.
mircea_popescu: it wouldn't do anything. the glut that has to unwind is rela estate, not cash.
mircea_popescu: i would estimate liberalization takes the peso to 25ish. that's 30% up not 40% down.
mircea_popescu: NEVERTHELESS : in argentina, because of the immense real estate bezzle, and a 50 to 150 bn worth of inexistent real estate value that is looking to evaporate,
☟︎ mircea_popescu: (this was counterintuitive to the grunts doing money changing in the street, we had a good laugh over steaks about it, when discussing venezuela's plans to the same thing. after it played out they decided i was a god. because hey, why admit you were wrong when you could think the guy who's right is simply supernatural)
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