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mircea_popescu: ascii_field> anything less than that, won't keep vw alive <<< for my political needs a dead vw is much better than a live one.
mircea_popescu: should be a pretty lulzy showdown, once they try and "prosecute" someone who's not hired straight from central casting.
mircea_popescu: but so far they're in there with "arkan's tigers" and whatnot two bit thugs.
mircea_popescu: hey, if the usg "law enforcement" hires some kickass pr it might even catch up to the sinaloa cartel by 2016.
mircea_popescu: watching club fed try to dig itself out of the pile of fake bitcoin auction and all that surrounding fraud, on top which is piled a layer of lying to jury every which way to cover up for actually criminal "investigator", on top of which is another layer of lying every which way to protect his co-conspirators, which are now coming to light...
mircea_popescu: certainly most "vc" funds are spending more on "the internet" than they will ever make back.
mircea_popescu: pretty much every groupon "customer" is in this situation.
mircea_popescu: i believe this is true by now for the average business.
mircea_popescu: for reasons discussed here on occasion you won't want to expose automatically generated signed matter in plain text.
mircea_popescu: generally people tend to create their own private tunnels.
mircea_popescu: (and random discussion YET AGAIN undercovers the well lied about ustardian poverty. hey random schmuck, did you know your DAD could afford 5x the water that may be wasted on your stupid head ? forged granpa.)
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the future never came to me. i generally get 7 to 10, and a coupla hundred galons is, if you do the math, just about one ton.
mircea_popescu: If your house was built in (<1980 is 5-7, 1981-1991 is 3.5, 1992> is 2.5) the standard flow for showerheads then was 5-7/3.5/2.5 gallons per minute.
mircea_popescu: askville.amazon.com/...water...shower/AnswerViewer.do?...
mircea_popescu: How many gallons of water does an average 10 minute shower use?
mircea_popescu: and if you do the math, the per-capita water coming out of 15 tons would be under half a liter. ie, not even enough to drink.
mircea_popescu: however. i do not think i EVER showered in less than a cubic meter of water. if people are half-like me, we're talking 17k tons a day, not 15.
mircea_popescu: if you don't make enough out of 35k schmucks to pay for one tanker truck you'rfe in trouble.
mircea_popescu: he's like a latter day george costanza this dude, "he never quit". just hjas a great sense of humour.
mircea_popescu: dubai itself is one major arab startup in the hotel industry.
mircea_popescu: hahaha the saudis have had all the ustardism they can stand for.
mircea_popescu: it won't fucking work, lebanon is the equivalent of new mexico. about as defensible as a bowl of china.
mircea_popescu: so basically lebanon is the new hope in the usg middle east desperation ?
mircea_popescu: "If you set aside the sociopolitical factors beyond your control, you’re left with daily inconveniences of fragmented infrastructure like electricity cuts of up to 6 hours, regular water shortages in the summer and fall, and an average internet speed of 3.11 Mbps – to put things slightly in perspective, estimates abound that doubling Lebanon’s
mircea_popescu: we prolly just don't understand 20something yo aesthetics.
mircea_popescu: and who's alienhead, buterin or trump ? tbf trump's head is mostly local, with the exception of the venusian hairpiece of course.
mircea_popescu: answer : ETHEREUM CAN NEVER REACH ZERO BECAUSE IT IS A TECHONOLOLOLOL
mircea_popescu: question : how many days of 15% straight drops does it need for ethereum to reach 0 ?
mircea_popescu: oshit, look at that, in other news trump is no longer shorter odds than 1 on bitbet.
mircea_popescu checks the eth prices, the only thing that can cheer up a man in these dark times.
mircea_popescu: no, he's derping on and on about patent fucking nonsense such as "Conceivably, one could compound that by overlaying 'network'-oriented jurisdictional issues -- for example, the use of telecom systems to transmit information (from software to managerial decisions) with an intent to deceive and defraud."
mircea_popescu: fascinating that the author manages to go through all that without at any point rising to the very moderate level of awareness that's included in the observation that "all this retarded pseudo-legalistic bullshit just ate its own tail, and now ill have to go. vw shot it in the head, thanks god."
☟︎ mircea_popescu: let it fuck the dilemma of "do we grandfather or what now!".
mircea_popescu: but anyway, this is the path : expose the state to millions of unknown cases. trillions, if at all possible.
mircea_popescu: anyway, vw takes the cake for fighting the insanity of statal overbearing. and the more insane it gets, the more of this will happen, until eventually maintaining even the pretense of "law enforcement" will become ridiculous.
mircea_popescu: "So those vehicles -- 11 million of them and counting -- are damaged goods. They will *never* be able to meet environmental regulations. That means either (a) they'll need to be taken off the road or (b) environmental regulations will need to be rewritten to include a carve-out for VW diesel owners." << or ship them to pakistan.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i would very much in my right mind buy one. what the fuck do i care about all the bullshit ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: So, right there, VW diesel owners have a pretty ironclad case for what boils down to speculative financial compensation: the difference between what the cars 'would have been worth' if this flaw hadn't been exposed and what they *are* worth -- which is zero, if only because no one in their right mind would buy one (and in many cases reale may now be forbidden by law) << what ?
mircea_popescu: shit reads like any re-narrative attempt from none too bright 12 yos trying to fit in.
mircea_popescu: not THAT different from russia deciding to support sinaloa against mexican govt or some equally retarded shit.
mircea_popescu: something something cock something something sense of humour something respect etc
mircea_popescu: the problem with the wsj nonsense is that it makes me discount the gizmodo nonsense in the same breath.
mircea_popescu: eventually the old man "you can admit we're lost you know."
mircea_popescu: a stork's flying around holding an old man in its beak
mircea_popescu: never managed to do anything, guy was slowly pushed into more and more customer support/tech support/bs tasks
mircea_popescu: they were probably the magnum opus of some ambitious intern wanting to be vp / dubious hire a la charles ryan dude implementing ai in java
mircea_popescu: da fuck, what happened to fiddy bucks. prostitution paying more than qualified workmanship ? in what alt-universe.