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mircea_popescu: they'll get a little, but they'll get less than they would gladly take and WAY less than what they'd need to keep the charade going.
mircea_popescu: the current meaning of the paris accord is, "the decaying west trying to parlay its unavoidable, certain industrial demise into some sort of international subsidies for itself"
mircea_popescu: china's going to stick with them, disinterestedly, quietly.
mircea_popescu: anyway. the saudi's have russia's backing, which is what the whole oil glut and cutting bahamas down at the knees was all about. they did their part and the russkis can't afford to sell them out. nor does anyone exist who could make a decent offer, bahamas' is dead broke and the eu is a joke.
mircea_popescu: lol, "we accuse this guy of trying to survive. HES A WRECKER!"
mircea_popescu: in fact the reason precedence even exists is because it's a schelling point for lazy.
mircea_popescu: except by the time you're done with paranthesizing it's no longer simple.
mircea_popescu: <nubbins`> "OPERATORS: No precedence, executed left to right, parenthesize as desired. 2+3*10 yields 50." <<< imo this is the symptom of a badly written assembler or w/e the thing is.
mircea_popescu: <nubbins`> the company literally had to get a local college to offer a course in it, and they sent an employee over to teach it << this is how it should work, actually. all the OTHER courses should be discontinued, pretty much.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> NOBODY USES INTEL'S COMPILER << mediatards, whats they know.
mircea_popescu: revolutionize the things, end up trading your vaginal virginity for a pair of jeans
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> imbeciles are free to spawn altcoinz, and even to trade in their genuine coin for them, no prob. <<< kinda how socialism works.
mircea_popescu: this bit is golden. 26 yo derp is a figure, of any kind ?
mircea_popescu: Johnson’s isn’t really a marginal or peripheral figure in mainstream conservatism"
mircea_popescu: "Far more noteworthy than any of Johnson’s journalism stunts, however, is his intellectual pedigree.
mircea_popescu: the physical world BETRAYS THE SACRED DREAMS OF SOCIALISM
mircea_popescu: you can readily verify this by, for instance, asking "rape" victim if she got wet during the events.
mircea_popescu: they don't want to be what they are. that's not their real self.
mircea_popescu: how to get the leahs all bothered up - take their online anonimity away.
mircea_popescu: sses—down to the house and apartment numbers—of the pair of reporters who authored the Times story. The headline read: “Why Can’t We Publish Addresses Of New York Times Reporters?”"
mircea_popescu: "It’s not just Johnson’s attitude toward people of color who’ve been victimized by cops. Johnson in general likes to retaliate against certain individuals by publishing their personal information (a.k.a. doxxing). A recent example: After the New York Times published a copy of former Ferguson cop Darren Wilson’s marriage certificate, and named the street on which he used to live, Johnson published the home addre
mircea_popescu: ascii_field iirc they were something like averypoorlynamedbedandbreakfast.com originally
mircea_popescu: still unsure why anyone'd give a shit. twitter ? wut ?
mircea_popescu: about me "i found my first security holes in 1987" sooo... she's 30 ?
mircea_popescu: i see the facebook feed's dead, but can't be arsed to look into it
mircea_popescu: in other news, trilema used to have a fb and a twitter where some webapp (that no doubt is a great success) dumped the rss
mircea_popescu: sounds a lot like the story of the man upset that he went to the brothel, and they touched him in a sexually suggestive manner.
mircea_popescu: (which is why the way to get chewing gum out of stuff is to deepfreeze the stuff)
mircea_popescu: <nubbins`> (they still flaked, saw it with mine own) << there's a reason thermosensors are made out of two different materials stuck to each other. that reason is that this problem of geometric affixing is INCREDIBLY hard.
mircea_popescu: oh i see, it wouldn't be "real" top quality if it weren't shit.
mircea_popescu: back before all the midwestern carrie-bradshaw-wannabes showed up
mircea_popescu: if it isn't in scamicon valley THEN ITS NOT REALLY TECHNOLOGY
mircea_popescu: ascii_field do not take the name of the dwwweb in vane!
mircea_popescu: "La 27 de ani, Vladimir Oane a riscat şi a reuşit. În doi ani, a pus pe picioare o afacere prin care monitorizează diverse reţele şi oferă statistici marilor branduri. Contractele au început să curgă." <<< for the lulz. romanian "airbnb could buy all of russia" thing.
mircea_popescu: guys at the local bar, you know, watching shark tank on tv...
mircea_popescu: of course that shit exists. it's about as lulzy an affair as "romanian press" or whatever, "romanian secret services caught romanian isis agent"
mircea_popescu: heh. check this shit out "Not all investors are created equal. The winners are persistently the same relatively small groups of investors time after time. Success not only has positive signaling effects in attracting the factors that drive success, but also talent enhancing effects for the venture capitalists themselves." << now why exactly would this be ? successful sicentists aren't "always the same small group time
mircea_popescu: it's not like yc will be displaced by b-a, it's like his derpy www-persona has a chance and all that.
mircea_popescu: i'm sure "building his brand as an investor" is going to do exactly what "building her brand as an relationship expert" did for tlp's fave gori lottlieb. or whatever it was.
mircea_popescu: When I found Airbnb I was a nobody in the investing world, but I spent the next year afterward traveling around the US meeting founders and investors. I attended and hosted several dozen events and I talked to just about everybody in tech I could. I read voraciously and learned as much as possible from one-on-one conversations. I put in a full year of hard work before I did my next deal."
mircea_popescu: "Losing a deal like Airbnb can be painful. Great lessons came from the rejection at the very end, however. After getting the cold shoulder, I realized I needed to go out and build some valuable knowledge, needed a more robust network, and needed to craft my own brand as an investor.
mircea_popescu: or if you will, they executed what groupon executed : a maddof in the background, in this case named graham, scammed some old ladies and wrote the details in a notebook bearing this title
mircea_popescu: "Airbnb has of course gone on to execute exceptionally well and become what it is today."
mircea_popescu: derp wants to think that hey, this is how i got bumped out of a great deal
mircea_popescu: the funny skit in that paige craig piece being that if paul graham and his merry band of spammers & conmen hadn't "invested", the thing would be worth tgoday what it it;'s been worth throughout : four digits in someone's shitty excel.
mircea_popescu: in this sense, if there's ANYONE that appears above, then that's someone above lenin. which they can't have. and so...
mircea_popescu: you're guaranteed to get it, the higher accomplished you are. it correlates with your visibility because the point, from the niggers' perspective, is exactly to try and make it a thing by sticking it to people.
mircea_popescu: this is like being accused of "wrecking" in the other-us.
mircea_popescu: not EXACTLY a tall tale, like the canadians got. crazier.
mircea_popescu: anywya, it bears pointing out, to round the "us www guide fiction" thread, that the donner party was the unfortunate result of that typically american literary genus, the wild west guide fiction.