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mircea_popescu: yes. when you design "a parachute" you design it for "every".
mircea_popescu: think is "all". wank is "some". "certain" is iffy and should be resolved to either.
mircea_popescu: actually, i would propose that's the difference between think and wank in the space in question.
mircea_popescu: see, that's the difference. i don't think we ca do a "like to think" if the premise is not an "all" or "every"
mircea_popescu: ascii_field "providing punctual technical solutions for poorly understood future situations".
mircea_popescu: but then again gold is a very low bar. almost anything makes more sense to hoard.
mircea_popescu: the consensus is, it makes more sense to hoard NRFB smartphones than gold.
mircea_popescu: "to ensure world happiness, you buy some people girlfriends and some people's girlfriends"
mircea_popescu: no, it does not work. it merely appears to have worked
mircea_popescu: the soviets tried the inflatatron, but by making shitstick cellphgone. it blew in their face)
mircea_popescu: (incidentally -0 this is how the russians ruined their at some point fledging industrial reputation
mircea_popescu: yeah but i don't see how the smartphone made out of shit and sticks will cut it
mircea_popescu: price doubled. (price doubled specifically bnecause it wasn't all the way, incidentally)
mircea_popescu: but yes : goods there moved from pipeline to storage like... halfway. 1/3 of a way really
mircea_popescu: jurov nah it was like 3, and in any case the weather stayed bad and 90% of production was in the same area.
mircea_popescu: this is the star line of goods. just like normal stars.
mircea_popescu: that 1% total sale volume is the last sustainable place for it, after price increases past 100x demand collapses entirely and the good either becomes monetized or disappears outright, in the hands of collectors.
mircea_popescu: so, sales of 100 units/day, at 100x what they cost a day, some point at t5.
mircea_popescu: the good now moves from pipeline to sotrage pricing, and as a result it will slowly dwindle as price goes exponential and demand collapses.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field here's the model i propose to you : current debit is 1mn units/day, say, call this t0. "world ends" event, t1. prices spike 40-50% and social support wanes. demand drops 80%. this is t2. production stops, and the pipeline gets diverted to storage, this is t3.
mircea_popescu: jus' dreamin' its dreams of "intellectual property" and whatnot
mircea_popescu: not for a moment was i proposing user-owned shit to make it. but there's boxes.
mircea_popescu: that's what drives the price : as the stored stuff gets delivered
mircea_popescu: and for the record, that guardian article is a horrible hack job. it looks like someone took a camera and went to a coupla yard sales. wtf guardian, seriously ? you ever seen new jersey ?
mircea_popescu: "if you have any option besides paying in bitcoin, USE THAT. wtf is wrong with you anyway."
mircea_popescu: yea. and in 2020 a phone that has 32 gb card will cost 100x what the phone with the 64 gb card cost in 2015.
mircea_popescu: a more pointed example of how the entire thing just ground to a halt could not be devised if one tried. and yet the derp figures this bolsters his case. because he went to a school in the united states.
mircea_popescu is kinda tooi lazy to dig up that article with the oglaf cartoon re the electoral debater.
mircea_popescu: why is astroturfing so fundamental to usg political thought is beyond me.
mircea_popescu: i guess they did get something from the early mpoe-pr adversative marketing techniques. so in that sense less dumb than most forum derps.
mircea_popescu: "nah man, she does this trick where she grabls her knees and spits in her own snatch afterwards, i've never seen anything like it."
mircea_popescu: but if she's a milf she has kids, which makes her cocksucking dedication questionable at best.
mircea_popescu: but i did order mcdonalds icecream cones be purchased and sampled, because wtf already, when i came here first i was shocked at how good the icecream was. then i found a place which shocked me again, at how good their icecreeam was over argentine icecream. and recentyly found a second, which YET AGAIN
mircea_popescu: trinque dun hurt telling these things out plain, in general.
mircea_popescu: trinque see ? that's your spv. "you're my thing, and if you shut up and suck it you may one day be smart enough to do all the things you don't like toi think about now because you're unsure"
mircea_popescu: ascii_field if you enforce looks and a fuckable muscle tone, they drop the mcd on their own.
mircea_popescu: punkman i don't care either way, they can vote if they want to, what.
mircea_popescu: that question divides the abstract world in two. not even that one or the other of the two kinds is better. merely the distinction is useful in and of itself.
mircea_popescu: one of the most useful conceptual tools at your disposal. "am i doing this because i'm not sure i'm the king-emperor, or because it's what the king-emperor does ?"
mircea_popescu: and i mean... girls who'd lovingly, readily lick your asshole if you don't feel like using toilet paper, devoted.
mircea_popescu: lemme ask you this. if you were the well bearded patriarch of a most devouted harem