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BingoBoingo: No idea if they have? can they afford
a tld?
mircea_popescu: <decimation> other than being
a megalomaniac and/or sick fuck << kinda the definition.
cazalla: i love dogs but
a dog in the house.. i dunno mang
ben_vulpes: also tonight the beast acquired
a new trick: "hold the fuck still while i put things on you"
ben_vulpes: why is suspend to ram such
a big deal?
decimation: because unlike reactionaries, nobody on the left can actually claim to legitimately vest sovereignty in
a particular person - all leftist government are of
a temporary and emergency nature
decimation: on another note, another lesson to learn from the french revolution: the problem with being
a lefty populist is that there's always someone else who is
a little more left and
a little more populist
decimation: other than being
a megalomaniac and/or sick fuck
ben_vulpes: wags was
a bust last round according to you
ben_vulpes: her mother's been banging on for
a visit recently
ben_vulpes: ahaha so let me trumpet the superiority of my woman for
a moment
mircea_popescu:
a normally functioning economy would incentivize him to get out of the loop, by for instance starvation. however... all this desire to "help people" the wrong way, and the overpowered and hyperactive mothers that overprotect the squirrulous fruit of their womb makes any sort of meaningful rescue impossible.
mircea_popescu: he gets killed by
a "terrorist" who proceeds to rape his corpse and boil his pet.
mircea_popescu: ie, random imbecile 20something figures it's ok for him to forego employment as the guy bagging my groceries on the grounds that he can do without the 380
a week that job pays, and besides, he's
a college grad! so he plays wow.
mircea_popescu: the job thing cuts so low that it is absolutely NEVER the case ANYONE couldn't find
a job. it's just they do not wish to do the jobs available to them.
decimation: there is
a mystery: plenty of folks sit around all day playing WoW, etc for hours, and yet cannot find
a productive 'real job'
mircea_popescu: just like the pizzeria that gives you
a cute plushie isn't necessarily going to be the best pizza for your buck.
decimation: the ability solve random puzzle games probably has nearly nothing to do with being
a productive employee
mircea_popescu: i'd prefer the opposite of b, but in no case am i interested in anything but the opposite of
a.
cazalla: it's like
a tomato and passionfruit combined
cazalla: i read they grow em next door in chile.. quite nice (old guy over the back has
a tree)
thestringpuller: Space Ghost had
a night show before Colbert did you know...
mircea_popescu: which is why he is
a central figure, and
a nail off which many hats are hung. the moment he comes loose off of that, he lost it all.
mircea_popescu: isn't nice"/up to whatever libertarded snuff miss the point by
a planetsize. his capital 100% consists of reliably telling "authorities" to go fuck themselves. sorta like me, in his field.
assbot: Logged on 08-03-2015 18:49:19; asciilifeform:
a good chunk of the reputation of linus t. is that he's been fairly effective at keeping
a lid on this kind of thing, historically
mircea_popescu: "Gigaom is winding down and its assets are now controlled by the company’s lenders. It is not how you want the story of
a company you founded to end. " << ahaha. this is so fucking convenient.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> hoster? << gigaom was
a ms shill back when ballmer was new and ms thought blogs might matter.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: anything damning we ought to know about 'Aerolineas Argentinas' ? << i think they've notlost
a plane yet.
decimation: yeah. I would be interested in it if it could be used as
a heart-rate monitor only
decimation: not that it much matters, given that it will barely work for
a day without charging
decimation: re: apple watch < my question: did they spend an extra $10 for
a temperature compensated crystal oscillator or does it have
a cheapass crystal which requires constant correction
cazalla: danielpbarron: i created
a folder to dump all the undeletable apps and hide the whole thing on the last page <<< hah i do this too and the folder is titled useless
danielpbarron: oo what about
a shoe phone like in those old detective shows
danielpbarron: i created
a folder to dump all the undeletable apps and hide the whole thing on the last page
mod6: <+asciilifeform> the ar entry fee gizmo, that is << lol wtf, you have to pay
a 'reciprocity fee'?
ben_vulpes: oh man i changed my name and have
a new passport
mircea_popescu: if anyone claims something beats text he means that
a) he's stupid and b) given
a it's easier for him. fuck that person with old transformer cores.
mircea_popescu: i can accept that SOME PEOPLE actually need their monitor to graphics. so make
a gamestation. otherwise, we're fucking literate, we're not women, nothing beats text. ever.
☟︎☟︎ saifedean: he also wrote
a mind-blowin book called AIDS, Inc...
saifedean: if you want to go
a little bit beyond TLP, try
a man by the name of Jon Rappoport, and don't be intimidated by the cookiness... this guy was onto this stuff decades before TLP... and is far ahead
mircea_popescu: in the 70s, the occasional girl that went "i prefer older men" was kind of
a freak. in the 90s, it was common enough. by now... i don't think any girl with options goes for boys her age. and so... there's your overclocking.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that was
a different generation of kids. that weren't mentally retarded.
mircea_popescu: saifedean people generally have an inborn, deeply selected ability to only hear parts. so, through this approach "we pay you 10k in salary on the condition you spend no less than 11k
a month" sounds like
a good deal.
mircea_popescu: i dunno... the "i'm not
a snitch" thing floats to the point of "what is an american' in my head.
mircea_popescu: saifedean incidentally, being
a snitch is
a legal obligaiton for usians now.
saifedean: the lawyers are the best people in DC, and that says
a lot
saifedean: i lived in DC for
a summer and interacted with the residents... my theory is that DC has collected every single shitty asshole/teacher-pet/snitch/scummy loser from every single high school in the world to go live there... no matter where you were in the world, if you were
a terrible piece of shit in high school, you found
a way to get to DC by age 30
saifedean: yeah, the debt is enormous, and the CB keeps the government on
a tight leash with it... banks are all well-capitalized and keep rolling over the debt for the government... but the government can never go crazy and do 5-year-plans or giant infrastructure projects or whatever
mircea_popescu: imagine all the stupid of wash dc done louder by stupider people. also in
a swamp.
saifedean: washington is
a fucking shit-hole, i wouldn't live in it if you paid me 20k
a week instead of rent, there's no city worse on the planet
mircea_popescu: saifedean sounds
a lot like very early romanian. what do they speak even, misr ?
saifedean: i've traveled the world and never seen
a place better, the more i travel the more i fall in love with this place...
mircea_popescu: saifedean from where i sit the only sane reason to go to lebanon would be the same as 1k years ago : to start
a crusade.
saifedean: there's tons of refugees from syria, but they mostly come here and work, there's no welfare state to speak of so immigration is not really
a problem
saifedean: this place went through 15 years of civil war though, everyone has had their fill, and nobody wants
a repeat, and people are far, far, more careful than in other places... people hjave just learned to ignore all the drama and live their life... all the "violence" and "insecurity" after all, does not amount to half of
a chicago
mircea_popescu: no but seriously, there's what, half
a million muslims refugeed there now ?
saifedean: im not even lebanese, i went to university here, then lived in london and new york... the move from beirut to these anglo shit-holes was
a culture shock, there is no comparison... as soon as i finished my phd and got an offer from
a lebanese university, i didnt hesitate move back
mircea_popescu: yeah, but they have to compete with ohio's 150
a month or w/e it was.
mircea_popescu: so if i want to rent
a flat in beirut, what'd it run me ?
saifedean: the fact that this place has almost-hard money makes
a real difference: there is no bezzle here, there has never been
a stock market crash, housing crash, or any kind of business cycle
danielpbarron: thestringpuller, "
A screenshot of the Abra app" << should this not be hosted on qntra?
saifedean: before civil war in 1975, currency was 91% backed by gold, almost
a gold standard
saifedean: oh no, there's
a lot of ruin to be made in this place, and the socialist scum have been trying in vain for decades...
mircea_popescu: this exact thing was
a problem, written down as such, exact words, in 1914. and since forever : central government attracts town loafers, who then derp about.
mircea_popescu: in lebanon ? nothing really, srsly nao. buncha town dwelling wasters get ot be all excited for
a summer.
saifedean: there is such
a giant start-up culture in lebanon these days thanks to Central Bank bezzle, everyone and their dog wants to make
a start-up... nobody wants to actually do something, just pontificate on start-ups and entrepreneurship