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mircea_popescu: ie, "Here is this samovar, here are the bundles, make me the product"
mircea_popescu: anyway, the gist of it is that "manufacturer" gets tooling on credit, materials sourced by and fixed sale contracts to the same party.
mircea_popescu: it's a delivery/production agreement in light industry, mostly textiles
mircea_popescu: the truth of this point can be appreciated by the incredible expansion of lohn in the 90s in eeu.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i suspect germany (all opf the machines had to be german!!1) made marginally more money selling the gear than the women in question saved, had exports been allowed.
mircea_popescu: the practice however, was that about one in ten women were worth the cutting cloth.
mircea_popescu: ex "mechanical engineer", reminds me a lot of the rather famous zarone, g g dej's driver, then minister.
mircea_popescu: "oh , but india just happens to have a culture that promotes abject replication."
mircea_popescu: very different. they were georgians not fucking eskimo.
mircea_popescu: it's not JUST bharara. there's an entire generation of this scum barnacling the place.
mircea_popescu: obviously i have no relation to either the woman or her line of work, and she could just as well do it on her own, but i'm aspiring to be as cool as Chowcoolie Whatsiname one day.
mircea_popescu: that should the nobel committee decide to give stoya the peace prize i am prepared to accept it on her behalf
mircea_popescu: it is a craft tho, the expectation you spend the 1500 dm and wife can now make clothes is out of place.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: in this line, there was a time in central/eastern yurp when married woman HAD to have sewing machine.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i suppose the enduring popularity these chunks of nonsense enjoyed should make no one surprised at the 3d printer mania.
mircea_popescu: or you mean the actual "hey epson now makes bread" assembly line in your kitchen thing
mircea_popescu: well you'd have to be, it's the main requisite for being a sourdough miner!
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron it's not even that, it's more along the lines of "social media derps don't matter", which irks them.
mircea_popescu: phf meanwhile, breadmaking is basic female skill required in mp households.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, is ripening gas still ethylene or did they find some way to use radiocesium or some shit for the purpose ?
mircea_popescu: "what is this ?" "vegetables and rice" "no it isn't. where you got these ?" "oh, they come in very convenient bags, frozen" "are you fucking crazy ?!"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: you name it. even the fucking bananas have an actual flavour, as opposed to the styrofoam at walmart.
mircea_popescu: nothing in the us produce section can compete with the real thing.
mircea_popescu: so then let it be, once it's used more we'll understand better what;s needed with it in practice.
mircea_popescu: i couldn't give less of a shit what they do. if tomorrow california falls in the ocean i won't notice, nor care.
mircea_popescu: stop trying to import usg into bitcoin through the negative.
mircea_popescu: patches reference antecedents. there is no notion of time.
mircea_popescu: is this a recurring topic that never gets proper reference to past discussion ?
mircea_popescu: dns, a solution nobody wants for a problem nobody has.
mircea_popescu: (i confess i have been contemplating changing to ip-based addresses instead of domains)
mircea_popescu would never use this if it came to not using dns altogether.
mircea_popescu wonders idly how much of france's current problems actually have to do with its ill inspired continuation of a once expedient, long pointless alliance with the ustards, and how much has to do with the ill advised but tribally motivated amnesty miterrand gave to the italian terrorists back when italy decided it had enough of that shit.
mircea_popescu: also diskettes = plutonium, in soviet yugo alf would starve with a planeful of diskettes because "there's nothing can do with"
mircea_popescu: jurov think in soviet yugo terms, which is exactly what the us is :
mircea_popescu: i should prolly publish those emails sometimes, it was a fucking riot.
mircea_popescu: it's that 100% thereof having the quals for barrista and trying to wing it./
mircea_popescu: i took ad in obscure local paper, requiring complex engineering quals,
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this i saw in romania. was required by law to advertise job to create eu residency permit for slavegirl.
mircea_popescu: in the following sense : printing money renders sense arbitrary, and if sense is arbitrary then specialists become just another kind of voodoo practitioners. nobody cancelled the "if you're gonmna hire a voodoo priest, hire the cheapest" rule, and so here we are.
mircea_popescu: jurov no, the gist of his argument is that skill/competence are meaningless close enough to the money printer.
mircea_popescu: he fucking has me there, i never worked, nor ever hired in the us.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform dude, he was born into some random company he started working for this decade. wouldja get off ?
mircea_popescu: "oh, we installed new spyware, it is windowsware, must reboot" ?
mircea_popescu: honestly i've rarely seen a 17yo male able to find his way to cunt if blindfolded in a roomfull of spread eagled whores, but that's just my limited experience talking, i'm sure.
mircea_popescu: because otherwise the theory would have to be "because russians, = shitheads" ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you sure the "shithole" theory is not WHAT THEY WANT TO BELIEVE
mircea_popescu: i'd take the imams any day when it comes to religious nuts.
mircea_popescu: obviously there's religious nuts, but guess what, u of maryland has some derps "working on ethereum" right now.
mircea_popescu: there isn't a place on earth he'd be moving down to, not really.
mircea_popescu: tehran has better internet than wash dc. better food. better women.