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trinque: all
these fat women, and sidewalks filled with human shit and shit humans.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform remember when
teh politburo shat it because
they imagined
the chinese'll start pouring over
the border ?
mircea_popescu: its continued existence signifies
the absence of interest and exactly no more.
mircea_popescu: then again,
the us of
today would pretty much collapse in a year of rhodesia
treatment, supposing anyone could be arsed
to apply it.
mircea_popescu: and
the netflix scum nod along, "oh yes,
terrible,
terrorism, moo, moo"
mircea_popescu: TERRORISM!!!! and
THE WHOLE WORLD MUST GIVE A SHIT!! AND
THEREFORE DOES!!!
mircea_popescu: trinque
the adventure of say rhodesia is instructive. suddenly
the imbecile
twitter horde is
trying
to play counterstrike around your borders "for democracy", while
the idiots are cheering
them on. god fucking forbid black dudes with machine guns start pouring over border in us, at
the rate of a few
thousands a year.
mircea_popescu: romania incidentally has a long history of just
this, it's called fanarioti period. hundreds of groups over 3-4 centuries did just
this, kept
taking over because pissed off with insolence of ex crown. discovered worse deal
to be king.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: anyway. i personally know
two ... groups, let's say,
that
triedf
the whole
take over game. leaving aside
the petty private satisfactions [of jailing
the other
trailer park
trash
they grew up with], economically it's been improductive.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i could
think of less useful myself, or of more useful also. but i can
think of no ~useful~.
trinque: asciilifeform:
think of
the expense of holding
that
territory, and
then you have all
these underlings who don't want
to pay you!
mircea_popescu wouldn't
take over eg romania if
they paid. i can't imagine oregon or w/e is any better
mircea_popescu: but
the alternative is
to shoot
the "democratically elected" and
take over. and
the sad
truth of
the matter is
that it's actually AN EVEN WORSE DEAL.
mircea_popescu: irl, paying
tax out of net is a sucker's game. you want
to pay
the
talent out of net, like
they do in holyingwood, and
the criminals out of gross.
mircea_popescu: and so now you have
to maintain accountants + hitmen, and neither one is sufficient,
to keep enough pressure on
the crown so it can't come up with bullshit.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes, but
then you have
to actually have
the expenses. and
then
the inept game of "oh, disallowed extemption, we decided you owe money retrospectively plus penalties etc"
trinque: asciilifeform: because
they can argue a greater percentage of "omg
they were just going
to pocket it"
than of "and we also have
to pay
things you don't know about"
trinque: pdx income
tax has been otw since
that arts
tax
thing
mircea_popescu: yes, but you were discussing
the
thing in general, so i gave you specific example of exception.
ben_vulpes: femfuhrer simply wants 1% of
the largest pile in sight.
ben_vulpes: there is no 'either' on
the
table here.
mircea_popescu: discount cost of expenses is about 6-7% depending, meaning it's not worth it
to buy
them straight.
mircea_popescu: suppose you have 1mn gross receipts. if you pay 3% of gross, you're paying 30k. if you instead pay 16% of net, you'll have
to produce expenses worth 850k before it's cheaper
that way.
mircea_popescu: (no, it's not "on
top of everything". it's either of net or of gross, your option._
ben_vulpes: will pay for solar panels, community gardens for
the poor, and jaeorbs for women/people of color!
Framedragger: asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: re verify, presumably one may be able
to set some parts of
the firmware
to be RO? problem is, not all parts, and even
then, "how deeply do you
trust". so yeah i guess sisyphean
Framedragger: asciilifeform: yeah esp. for x220 and
the likes when it's
truly only very partial
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: you mean
the completely unnecessary scene in
the room? film is full of
those. it's amazing i
tell you
scriba: Logged on 2017-05-16: [05:15:35] <pete_dushenski>
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-15#1656143 << lol i'm afraid i don't understand
this 'fix' well enough
to implement on disposable craptops
that actually have intel me on
them. let me know if you
take
the plunge :)
mircea_popescu: lmao. wtf is with
the florist scene, sounds like porn dialogue.
mircea_popescu: this isn't a bad movie. it's insufferable, because it is a good movie about cockroaches
that really shouldn't exist.
Framedragger: hailed as "citizen kane of bad movies". for a reason! it's
terrible, horrible, amazing movie you should watch!
shinohai: I was already convinced
that Roger Ver populates r/btc with markov bots. Can't even find anything
to Qntra about
there unless BU breaks, etc.
shinohai: I wouldn't be surprised if
they actually found
that entertaining.
mircea_popescu: i suppose if
they ever manage
to adapt
the fingernail rfid for cattle usage,
the cows'll be
tweeting about how
they're
testing
the barn app, and act like all serious about it,
too.
shinohai: Only mETH heads can make DNS shittier
than it already is.
jhvh1: shinohai:
The operation succeeded.
hanbot: diana_coman i got myself up
to date just
to quote my last problem with
the character in
the logs, ha.
thanks for asking, and i'll see
to it
this week for sure. meatland has been fairly crazy
these past months, i'd love
to have a software problem (she said naively).
ben_vulpes: prototype
the stack as a "turbo furace"
ben_vulpes: except applied
to
turbo instead of combustion chamber/nozzle cooling
ben_vulpes: could cool it with liquid fuel and recirculate
the evaporate into
the combustion chamber
ben_vulpes: oh wait we need a
total loss lubrication gas
turbine
ben_vulpes: even if burning petroil, gas
turbine will get hot enough
to break down
the lube oil
BingoBoingo: Nah, unless it's burning petroil mix,
the exhaust won't smell right
ben_vulpes: how about we compromise on a gas
turbine powered air compressor backed drivetrain
BingoBoingo: But do
turbines harness lubricating explosions like wet farts?
a111: Logged on 2017-05-16 06:12 BingoBoingo: And unlike
turbine,
trivial fuel is required
to spin up motor
ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: otoh air
tools have
turbines in 'em
ben_vulpes: psh, also who wants
to hump
the accumulator around
pete_dushenski: in other hooks, baizuo (白左), or literally,
the ‘white left’ is
the newest insult in china. love it.
pete_dushenski: certainly no one's done it better in
the online auto enthusiast space
than he.
pete_dushenski: adnan's is an object lesson in catering
to video game playing, basement dwelling, fanbois of
the 'like' generation.
pete_dushenski:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-14#1655830 << speaking of
throttles, 'car
throttle' was started at
the same
time as my old car site by a very entrepreneurial brown brit by
the name of adnan ebrahim. we used
to email back and forth in
those early, uncertain days and we met up in london in 2014 for a few drinks. he obviously went
the vc-route and has done very well by
the metrics of
that world, certainly better
☝︎ pete_dushenski: this has also been my issue in current $porsche market. brainbrakes are stronger
than heartthrottle.