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mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo and understand, we're not even talking "server" aka 10 bux a month. or "cheap vps". or even dedicated. we're talking guy who walks in, orders 3 boxes, pays cash. and there they sit babbling.
mircea_popescu: believe it or not there still is some west tecvh they've not fully disassembled yet.
mircea_popescu: and then it will be 200, and then 100, and then you simply won't be able to get a container there. at all.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: you think i'm speaking of westardian genocide + mass rape cause overactive imagination ?
mircea_popescu: what, you think the redskins got exterminated because people hated niggers ?
mircea_popescu: that's how commerce works. unavoidably, and to great benefit.
mircea_popescu: the very thing of being a merchant is, that you enter into deals.
mircea_popescu: that's the bitch here. there is no closed form solution.
mircea_popescu: this is very good, patrimonially. the drawback however is, it's very bad, sartorially.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ANYTHING would be proof that. anything. just as long as done by human.
mircea_popescu: you're looking at about 1.5bn investment to make a competitive one.
mircea_popescu: for one thing, most everyone works with a list of dc approved suppliers anyway.
mircea_popescu: whether they bought their own box and colocated it, or rented a precolocated one from dc is a very fine point.
mircea_popescu: punkman in practical terms ownership of capital goods is very messy. you think gm owns the equipment in gm plant ? as what, outright ? mno.
mircea_popescu: they run the technical side, marketing has got to be wholesaled out.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not anymore than "Someone somewhere actually runs hydro plant".
mircea_popescu: "this shoe shop just resells shoes from various shoe outlets"
mircea_popescu: i have no idea why this would be a discovery or anythning. this is the business.
mircea_popescu: is that i actually make money with these stupid shits.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform amusingly, EVERYONE in argentina. non 100 bills carry a 5% discount here.
mircea_popescu: their budget is < 500 bucks, which barely buys a bike.
mircea_popescu: exactly. so what happens next ? a) they show up for work and b) the only work they can do is star in movies, where unfortunate thirld worlders suffer the horrible fate of having their ancestral knowledge passed down at great expense that "white man good, you scum" married to the fact that deep down in his entrails he feels like this is a great thing!
mircea_popescu: it's dumb-dumb : the phds pay the rents, the scum gets to keep the pretense going
mircea_popescu: soon enough they unionize themselves out of class, then they show up for jobs and "force" the "evil capitalist" to you know, hire them to randi zuckerberg all over the office.
mircea_popescu: so, yeah. the herd has won through the age old tactic of "we'll just stick together". because you thought that unions and "collective acton" was good.
mircea_popescu: <DianaComan> heh, I have some coming to me to figure out some Maths really - about 50% run after a few lessons complaining that it is too hard and I'm happy with that
☟︎ mircea_popescu: <mircea_popescu> btw lobbes could it read the log line instead of the page title ?
mircea_popescu: <lobbesbot> Title: #Eulora log for Monday, 2015-11-09 (at logs.minigame.bz)
mircea_popescu: <mircea_popescu> the only thing i'd pay them to do is slit their own throats.
mircea_popescu: <mircea_popescu> DianaComan have you met any of these brave young fellows populating reading ?
mircea_popescu: <lobbesbot> Title: Discover the University of Reading - study, live and socialise at one of the top 1% universities in the world University of Reading (at www.reading.ac.uk)
mircea_popescu: <DianaComan> incidentally mircea_popescu is that Eulora poster available in some format that can be easily printed? guess it can't hurt to get some copies pinned around the uni campus here
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform elemetary i was going to turn down his first babble.
mircea_popescu: so they just hire the scum, and hope and pray. and hey, if the customers are displeased what ever the fuck, it's "best business practices", ie, "all the other shops intown are hiring from the same group of perambulating monkeys. you want these shoes or not ?"
mircea_popescu: the simple point of fact is that the kids are idiots. not some of them. all of them. the class arrives already thrown, and nobody can be arsed to put their foot down/
mircea_popescu: so now tell me a little more about ddos and basic bojums and whatnot.
mircea_popescu: even if you're not a fan of the foundation of rome/end of thebes mythology, even if you don't particularly enjoy the jewish sodomah/gomorrah stories, what do you think would be the stable solution here ?
mircea_popescu: must be great to inhabit reality-free world. as alf says, the commonplace, sane constraint of being economically +ev - isn't there.
mircea_popescu: in some ways she reminds me of indian candy. how's life treating ya Cristina_ ?
mircea_popescu: anyway. i dun see how weighing past 3-4 digits is even meaningful in atmosphere.
mircea_popescu: the cluj museum of geology's analytical balance, ftr, to be used with their 4.1 carat yellow diamond, is actually all mechanical. made in like, 1920.