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mircea_popescu: this connection between one interest and another interest is most embarassing to the usg, in the way it keeps exposing the hush hush inflation problem.
mircea_popescu: and then one needn't explain why interest rates are 20-50% pa for some schmucks, and yet "0.0%" for thje fed.
mircea_popescu: im kinda surprised it's not here yet. but perhaps the roll up of the "college debt" nonsense will come to that : people get auto-ressetting debt on a 7 yo period.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: which, considering it goes with the rest of the "people are too stupid to own real guns, real computers, etc" trend
mircea_popescu: anyway, very fucking unclear what it'd be useful or usable for, past emergency field surgery.
mircea_popescu: lol that entire convo was entertaining. "they snuck in the clean room and made out!!1"
mircea_popescu: a mini-cleanroom is to be made in your yard out of shipping containers.
mircea_popescu: Energy expended = force * distance = lucru mecanic. not just work - "mechanical work", aka, that fiction.
mircea_popescu: yes, you will download Derpy Adventures 17 whether you intend to watch it or not!
mircea_popescu: (china wasn't invented yet, but yes, cheap fast nevermind school of engineering)
mircea_popescu: so, perhaps cheaper than "make your own si fab" : make one that works, eat their pie.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: yet somehow the proposition is that "usg" has a sort of control over an activity which generally fails.
mircea_popescu: however, back in the day when 9 oiut of 10 bridges DIDNT stay up, there didn't even exist bridgebuilding as a distinct and named activity.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: meanwhile, in engineering people obviously went from building bridges that sometimes stood up to building bridges that almost always stay up.
mircea_popescu: it's true that organic complex systems take a number of tries to arrive at a result. but that sort of failure rate is not seen in nature - woman doesn't abort 10 for every one it carries to term. aborts less than half.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski i used to follow the "press" links in here. now i mostly ignore them. shit's unreadable.
mircea_popescu: or w/e it is. trinque where does the recipe or whatever it is live ? link ?
mircea_popescu: (in practice he'll warn you this makes it a bearer instrument. which is not technically correct, but conveys the point.)
mircea_popescu: because odds are you'll go back to the clerk to fix it for you and he'll be... WELL WHY THE FUCK DID YOU NOT USE THE SAFEGUARD
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla lol you can leave it blank, i occasionalyl did, but you really shouldn't.
mircea_popescu: but it is concerning asto the sanity of the would be "travellers"
mircea_popescu: obviously the fact that the road is observably long and the first steps haven't been made is somewhat concerning
mircea_popescu: and whenever a new ditz was hired to do paperwork, and she fucked this up, the bank rep would call me to fix it.
mircea_popescu: (which is chiefly why they give you a slot to put an intended name in)
mircea_popescu: but as it is, the payment won't clear (ie, won't leave sending bank to go to receiving bank) unless the name and number match.
mircea_popescu: in my entire busienss experience something of that description happened exactly once ; it was a customer of MY SAME BANK using the short form slips they have (not the full iban, just the acct #) and sent money to me instead of his intended recipient. the bank asked me if i am releasing it, which i did, and it was done the same day.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski that never fucking happens. it's rank nonsense.
mircea_popescu: contrary to the more or less agreement seems to be (video) i suspect raid may be a worse tarpit.
mircea_popescu: italy found america first, never told anyone, was rich
mircea_popescu: it's how you make yourself poor against god's patent will.
mircea_popescu: finding el dorado and RUNNING OFF with a chunk of gold you found in the street is NOT how you get rich.
mircea_popescu: " I readily understand the vanity involved, nevertheless let me point out to you that it's actually to your detriment to attempt to separate yourself from the source of things you like. "
mircea_popescu: and forgets to mention where he got the idea. and OF COURSE to no very constructive end.
mircea_popescu: heck, are the mls even still visible from this ever-so-useful www
mircea_popescu: but read the fucking old ml, nobody goes "here, try this binary", it's always "add this, recompile, say what happens"
mircea_popescu: at the time it looked like they might go somewhere with it.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski wouldn't go as far as watched, but it was immensely popular and i am culturally aware.
mircea_popescu: a bimbo is the sort of woman that will drop a hot cast iron pot on your foot sending you to hospital for six weeks because you offered her flowers.
mircea_popescu: a) sexually interesting ; b) sexually active ; c) very stupid. to life-threatening levels.
mircea_popescu: except of course if one's the sort of sexually frustrated guy that lives on a boat with a broken down engine
mircea_popescu: (if i actually lived there and was doing a dc business, 100% what i'd call it.)