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mircea_popescu: makes 0 sense. to be paid 500k when you die, even starting as a 20yo man you'd have to do at least 500 bucks a month in premiums.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski you will note that the thing discussed in my article was health insurance, which is a contingency sort of deal. life "insurance" has nothing to do with this, as everyone dies. as practiced it is moreover a sort of heavily discounted investment plan\
mircea_popescu: fortunately rakim has no say in setting the narrative.
mircea_popescu: it doesn't count unless it's racist. google is tech, vw is manufacturing.
mircea_popescu: but whatever, easier to write fiction than get a job. like any fifteen year old with a "backup plan" knows full well.
mircea_popescu: this figures way higher than "oh, president bahamas of london 1715 - what do you mean he didn't exist, not like he's a recent invention dun be racist! - forced companies to pay more in wages which is why manna fell from the heaven as it certainly will now!!1"
mircea_popescu: anyway, the "productivity" claptrap is irrelevant. england just had a good moat.
mircea_popescu: forget corporation sole and all that actual history, it wasn't on Cheers.
mircea_popescu: gotta be "companies", as if such a thing even existed in any sense any recent derp would be familiar with.
mircea_popescu: which... whatever. you can pay ustards any amount of fake money you want, up to and including infinity. they're still goners.
mircea_popescu: well, they want the entire "higher wages = technology" argument.
mircea_popescu: Jay Hathaway said something with numbers in it once so Jay Hathaway is mathematician ? something like that ?
mircea_popescu: that dude is pretty lulzy tho. "i like thinking outloud on shitter, it helps me gauge how deep in the latrine i am"
mircea_popescu: nothing quite beats glass resting straight on metal, nor the tittilating value of fully dressed derps.
mircea_popescu: that's the worst layouyt for one i ever saw and wtf is with the window
mircea_popescu: can go through the whole playbook in three years and STILL feign to not be aware who's daddy.
mircea_popescu: simple man's playbook. 1. OH NO THIS IS BAD ; 2. gotta do it too ; 3. we've always done it this way.
mircea_popescu: lol remember that time when i invented stickers and everyone got crazy butthurt ?
mircea_popescu: and really, the vegetation of deep russia is stunnignlyt beautiful.
mircea_popescu: i dunno that anyone who isn't born in a minor culture can ever enjoy this situation of "i am the only literate one of my people. literally."
mircea_popescu: other than the same-day homage thing, i would guess between half and two thirds of every romanian blog is either a straight lift, a bad translation or a more or less hacky adaptation of either current or historical trilema.
mircea_popescu agrees with the general frenchypoof notion of the pre-mitterand years that cooking is indeed an art and mssr duchemin rightfully accepted in the academy.
mircea_popescu: who knew the problem apelles of kos dealt with is actually much broader than just an annoying shoemaker.
mircea_popescu: jesus who knew fiction is a doomed entreprise. this would actually make literature not art, outright.
mircea_popescu: but the other edge is to observe that fiction HAS to be predictable specifically because it isn't nonfiction. there not being a reality to feed from other than what emerges from the fact that the reader can follow, you're stuck.
mircea_popescu: this is an interesting problem to have. one edge of it could be readily dismissed as "well obviously if you can't write so instead of writing you substitute copywriting as per
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-11-2015#1330345 & all, imonlydoingmyjob bla bla you will be predictable, after all copywriting is designed to work much like computer codewriting : others gotta be able to pick up your job once you quit"
☝︎ mircea_popescu:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WildMassGuessing << this is pretty interesting. the idea being, and i cite, "The trope has also become increasingly important in more traditional fiction as of late because the Internet's technological revolution is such that an author's "twists" could easily be predicted ahead of time if enough clever fans put their heads together and talk things over. (And over.) "
mircea_popescu: maybe the best couplet in the history of english lolzedy.
mircea_popescu: "Your proposition may be good, but let's have one thing understood — whatever it is, I'm against it! And even when you've changed it or condensed it, I'm against it!"
mircea_popescu: ok, but i mean specifically "who the fuck embeds this ip"
mircea_popescu: o hey check it out, the key to driving mass linux adoption was copying minesweeper and solitaire, who knew.
mircea_popescu: from what i can see this'd be some sort of "server for linux" or whatevs.
mircea_popescu: well no, i'm not instrumented to extract any payloads.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform .0 would asctually be the ISP provided modem.
mircea_popescu: the only problem is that address doesn't map to any machine, nor could it.
mircea_popescu: so i come back to find that xchat is seeking permission to download "sol.desktop", supposedly a 498 byte file sent by someone from... 192.168.0.29 (port 50234).
mircea_popescu: o hey check this out, it sorta looks like that tempest-storm-whateverthefuck nsa server fucked up.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no see, it's not that the war started, he should have fought but he hightailed it, so he covers up for it. it's that he's a murican not an ottoman so he figures he CANT be man enough. so to assuage his own neuroticism (why the fuck couldn't he be ?! what, manhood now comes with formal tags on it ?) he makes up a supportive story in a land far away.
mircea_popescu: even brought a joke booklet to school once to prove it!)
mircea_popescu: (when i was a kid there was this other kid that got REALLY angry whenever i told a joke. "ITS NOT LIKE THAT".
mircea_popescu: his problem is more of an inferiority complex, seems to me, but whatchagonna do
mircea_popescu: it all depends what it's for. i add shit to every joke as a matter of course.