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mircea_popescu: "That's the history of America: come here for the freedom; stay for the cash; and if things get hairy say only God can judge you."
mircea_popescu: pp is like a sort of tgi fridays or w/e that thing it's called, a fastrestaurantfood.
mircea_popescu: people who actually like/can afford those things have all sorts of obscure preferences, people who don't buy rollexes on credit.
mircea_popescu: another fun fact : i never met anyone who actually wore those things
mircea_popescu: (hint : if they do they're gay and think you'd make a great gf)
mircea_popescu: nobody buys their own ties. nobody even WEARS ties without permission. "honey does this go ?"
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes but anyway, your intuition is broadly correct, the one thing that can make your shop flourish / ensure its survival is heavy duty investment in IP. the real thing, the sort of IP that can't be intellectually-protected.
mircea_popescu: i might be the only male alive dictating high heel usage as to type and so forth.
mircea_popescu: "Not even the girls will condescend to it, and if you can't sell fashion goods to the girls, you can't sell the goods." << fun fact, ties are a purchase mostly controlled by women. JUST LIKE HIGH HEELS,
mircea_popescu: anyway im just sayin', he speaks as to the theme, and well.
mircea_popescu: yes actual rich people also want to buy these things. to wear at the hackathon, to play the role of the billionaire who hangs around and chats with the derps, without having to actually spend any time on like... you know, irc.
mircea_popescu: "What is actually going on is that Apple is attempting to signal to the derps who willingly buy their fashion goods that actual rich people also buy those things." etc
☟︎ mircea_popescu: (for the people who weren't hipsters in the 60s, russ meyer is this guy doing footage of chicks with absurdly big natural tits. nothing happens.)
mircea_popescu: i'd rather rewatch lorna than look at "hollywood does floppy disks"
mircea_popescu: there's also a bunch of chicks that are kinda worth fucking that will be old before i get around to them
mircea_popescu: i'd rather watch namibian television reports about wall street
mircea_popescu: phf i really can't watch anything with/about computers
mircea_popescu: she's moved into a zsa zsa gabor phase before being 35. clinging to headlines with stuipid shit like "i took the fat out of my tits and replaced it with oil to support BP and Shell!"
mircea_popescu: i find references to cannae very hurtful and unnecessary for my roman republican heritage.
mircea_popescu: imgur obviously doesn't get kicked off because "cp" because "we have no control what the internet does". but slimgur does get booted.
mircea_popescu: stupid bitch won't put out ? thinks the world is the set of seventh heaven ?
mircea_popescu: well... it's either a disability or it isn't. what, you hate the lame and worship the deaf so you put people without legs in prison and give tax money to the deaf ? pick a stand lol.
mircea_popescu: The National Confederation of Disabled People called the action "incomprehensible," and said pedophiles are now awarded a higher government disability pay than some people who have received organ transplants."
mircea_popescu: "ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Greek disability groups expressed anger Monday at a government decision to expand a list of state-recognized disability categories to include pedophiles, exhibitionists and kleptomaniacs.
mircea_popescu: !v assbot:mircea_popescu.rate.Cristina.1:23f49ced16613be321cf98dc6007532ec5f0e92c58ef46a99f281db468af67c1
mircea_popescu: since she got her key anyway, doesn't matter so much, just have it reg'd with assbot
mircea_popescu: Cristina sabes que "Has previously posted nudie selfshots on the web. You will be required to prove this by supplying a link." va decir ?
mircea_popescu: they're too shy to say hi whiole the chick's there at the bar slipping herself roofies.
mircea_popescu: also for the people interested in economics : i'm tinkering out the s.mg report, should be interesting.
mircea_popescu: shinohai i thought you were in the states, what is this, ltr ?
mircea_popescu: "I have more than a thousand rules: specific detailed rules about how to hold your chopsticks and your bowl, how to pick up food, how to hold a cup, how to sleep, how to cover yourself with a quilt," Xiao says. "If you don't follow the rules, then I must beat you."
☟︎ mircea_popescu: Xiao, 47, describes himself as the emperor of his family. As such, he's laid down an extraordinary system of rules for his children.
mircea_popescu: "Wolf Dad" wrote a book called Beat Them Into Peking University.
mircea_popescu: have never ever needed anywhere else, and that is just
mircea_popescu: code, and even then generates worse code? A shiny function that we
mircea_popescu: that wants particular compiler support to generate even half-way sane