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mircea_popescu: actually as frustrating as it is, iirc there was always a good reason
mircea_popescu: how do you do that from oxford, you swim the channel or something ?
mircea_popescu: THIS is why peasant chicks wistfully wisted for l'etudiant. because it is fucking fascinating, you are seriously telling me you can ~just go~ ?!?!?!
mircea_popescu: whereas the vagabond could carry all his possessions in his head!
mircea_popescu: this was immense - at the time a peasant who wanted to move, provided he somehow managed, had to fucking drag his entire possessions, on a rug. no wheels even, because too fucking techy for a peasant.
mircea_popescu: everyone had one, and you could walk from basel to luxembourg.
mircea_popescu: the whole fantasy is very cs-scientist level of naive. read villon's testament - it should make it very plain what the point of university life was cca 1500 : THAT YOU COULD WALK IT.
mircea_popescu: as a ready shorthand, remember that in 1400 the entire material production of the entire archipelago was worth about the same as that of one neighbourhood in milan.
mircea_popescu: three centuries later the dutch conquered england, moved their fleet there and so yes oxford eventually flourished. but the claim that it was "there in the 13th century" is spurious.
mircea_popescu: at the time, the english were exactly like the 1600s scots (see their darien gap adventure). so they copied the bitcoin out of some idle kids and some peasants, which ended kloinking each other in the head.
mircea_popescu: at the time the paris university was starting the entire university thing, the king of france wouldn't have traded a middling french province for all of england ; which also he didn't.
mircea_popescu: the thesis was whether oxford was there in the original wot. it was not.
mircea_popescu: derpy brits keep trying to retcon their insignificant island into things.
mircea_popescu: " If you wanted to learn, you headed towards where the books were and the people who could read them and that meant the great universities like Paris and Oxford."
mircea_popescu: "The media's preferred symbol for the disintegration of public order is looting, i.e the opposite of shopping."
mircea_popescu: well toy maker i dunno, but you can do it if you care.
mircea_popescu: i don't get this : not like you can't put encryption on top of a clear channel
mircea_popescu: yes. the original one : you have to put a golden bubble around your kid's neck so powerful man behaving badly knows to rape some other kid in the gaggle of kids your kid's playing with.
mircea_popescu: either that or flush them in one of those special hopsital toilets
mircea_popescu: anyway, the problem is this : out of a billion people, his father in 1960 was part of a group of a million, and the other 999 million were more than happy to be coolies. today, the author is part of the group of the useless.
mircea_popescu: in other news : eggplant salad in mayo goes well with the local malbec.
mircea_popescu: why the fuck is /mode #bitcoin-assets +b *!*@c-50-140-140-37.hsd1.il.comcast.net do nothing ?
mircea_popescu: "You will observe the Keisha does not even have the enthusiasm to know what is written on the most important economic documents of her life. "I don't know, bipolar, panic attacks, whatever they put on there." She can't be bothered to handle those papers, someone else is in charge of that. How attentive will she be to the frier? McDonalds doesn't want to find out."
mircea_popescu: either that or they waste the consumables, break the tools and injure themselves.
mircea_popescu: v_diddy how do you plan to extract value from the offspring ?
mircea_popescu: that's the measure of skilled in a life run as a business
mircea_popescu: then stop bitching and make those warrants / shares worth something.
mircea_popescu: which is fine, but it also means they gotta run their life as a business.
mircea_popescu: there's a huge market for all sorts of skilled and a large pile of people who want skilled to mean what they want it to mean.
mircea_popescu: naphex's been trying to hire skilled cocksuckers ; i've been trying to hire skilled pr ; bitbet still needs skilled bookies
mircea_popescu: Ferrari and now it's only a Honda, but either way, not much time for absences and no time at all for Keisha's learning curve. Keisha isn't just unemployed, she is completely unemployable. We can argue whether auto plants should pay $20/hr or $50/hr, but for certain there is no market for unskilled labor at all."
mircea_popescu: "That specific issue reveals an important bias and misunderstanding America has when it talks about employment. Yes, there is an issue about people wanting to work but the other issue is that the global economy is too quick and efficient to tolerate your idiotic car troubles or your imbecilic grandmother's death or your moronic lack of child care (cue Scandinavia) or, and mostly, your stupid health. The economy was a
mircea_popescu: also this is what you get for not favouring birthing hips!
mircea_popescu: also these guys don't teach anything whatsoever. they mostly try to be carrie from sex and the city, except without the sex.
mircea_popescu: we're not discussing here random derp making 63k a year from community college, we're discussing here krugman or w/e his name is, the nyt resident finance derp
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's a thing, thick jacket with applied elbow patches, certain haircut, certain glasses, laptop-like case on shoulder, open collar shirt...
mircea_popescu: wisdom of crowds, useless to negate systematic bias, etc.
mircea_popescu: not only do idiots converge with other idiots - but their confidence increases as they do so.
mircea_popescu: but it's the sort of atechnical imbecillity in either case.