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pete_dushenski: in other sanities, having a business dispute ? don't look
to
the fiat bureacracy for help
http://archive.is/AHtKB ("In Brooklyn’s Kosher Pizza War, Modern
Tastes Battle Ancient Law")
a111: Logged on 2017-03-29 06:33 mircea_popescu: "we represent
the whole world*!!!" * as understood by whatever 3rd echelon bureaucrat in
the us dept of our democracy
that "handles" "canada".
pete_dushenski:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-29#1634483 << ubercheap lease rates are actually predicated on absurdly high residuals and so are resulting in cars
that are losing only 40% after 3 years.
this is a bigger problem in
the states
than, say, uk. but still an increasingly noticeable phenomenon for manufacturers and dealers
to prop up new sales figures in
the face of a secular decline in interest.
☝︎ pete_dushenski: not for sale in north america but you probably already guessed
that it's a shithole anyways
a111: Logged on 2017-03-29 23:05 asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: speaking of which,
tell me, how come i can't buy a car where if it dents, i can just
take off a panel and put in new one ?
mod6: ima have
to dig in a bit
tomorrow.
BingoBoingo probably ought
to update section in his copy of L-Series Haynes manual on "special connectors" with up
to date "special connectors.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> and
then re-flatten old one - with hammer, on anvil. << Oh,
there's
the catch
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> ben_vulpes: speaking of which,
tell me, how come i can't buy a car where if it dents, i can just
take off a panel and put in new one ? << I have exactly
this fucking
thing. Also most incidents
that would dent metal don't dent.
a111: Logged on 2017-03-30 00:08 phf: i
think i should go back
to just pasting
titles
tho
a111: Logged on 2017-03-29 23:38 CompanionCube: why would you want
to
to
the *UK* for
that
a111: Logged on 2016-01-12 19:24 mircea_popescu: as someone once said, "their
tricks work for
them only a short distance of
their run, and for us
the whole run."
a111: Logged on 2017-03-29 23:13 asciilifeform: ( speaking even strictly of
technologies, not even
touching on subjs such as children free
to walk around on
their own,
to make explosives, etc )
a111: Logged on 2017-03-29 23:05 asciilifeform: and
then re-flatten old one - with hammer, on anvil.
a111: Logged on 2017-03-29 22:15 asciilifeform: but
there was
that old mircea_popescu
thread. where, approx, 'a dollar usg collects from mr.pleb in
tax isn't so
that usg can spend a dollar, it can spend $trillion, or
ten, without collecting anything; it collects
the dollar because otherwise mr.pleb will use it
to bid up
turkeys'
a111: Logged on 2017-03-29 22:02 ben_vulpes: phf: not ideological, financial! you can hedge against devaluation. what is
the hedge against moar
taxes?
trinque: I'd
thought
that perhaps coke machines are what patrol looking for folks outside
their VR wombs.
phf: i
think i should go back
to just pasting
titles
tho
☟︎ a111: Logged on 2017-03-29 23:42 asciilifeform: less
time
than many folx in, e.g., ru, do for murder.
phf: coke machine story should be set in
the same universe/time as
the pgp key story
a111: Logged on 2015-09-25 20:10 ascii_field:
this is precisely
the condition needed for
the coke machine
CompanionCube: fuck, even
the US'd be a better place.
There
there isn't a law
that literally states you must disclose encryption keys on-demand.
CompanionCube: it has pretty shitty laws for
that kind of
thing. See: RIPA.
a111: Logged on 2016-01-26 17:20 ascii_butugychag: (there was a spiffy
talk at shmoo, which mentioned how nn used in image recognition usually imprints on what -
to a human - would be an entirely accidental cluster of pixels, and if you flip'em, it will recognize an obvious, e.g,. cat, as a refrigerator, etc)
ben_vulpes: girl who said she'd get him reassigned bought
the farm
phf: aka where
the white women at
ben_vulpes: definitely some amount of "no leaving
the states, pleb" in action, sure
ben_vulpes: oh god i know conde nasty is persona non grata but
this is gold
ben_vulpes: "When
Taaki reached
the camp on
the Syrian side of
the border, he says, he
tried
to explain
to
the elderly officer in charge
that he’d come
to Rojava
to offer his
tech skills in one of Rojava’s cities, not
to fight. But as
Taaki
tells it,
the man waved away his protests and conscripted him into a unit with
the other foreigners."
ben_vulpes: lol
taaki got locked up for fighting in syria?
ben_vulpes: silly me, i
thought
the movie was called "nostalgatron from home planet"
phf: everything down
to
the engine
phf: ben_vulpes:
that was my zaporozhets comment. ultimate piece of shit car, with
the main perk: can be repaired in a shortages economy
ben_vulpes: phf: some days i dream of making a car like
that
phf: ben_vulpes: nah it was a piece of shit. i got one from walmart and it's pretty good. advantage
though was
that you could repair it for years, and since
there was only ~one~
type, you could also replace parts for years, etc.
ben_vulpes: i imagine
there's some "oh no, you couldn't possibly imagine
the superiority of
the su raskladushka" inbound
ben_vulpes: army surplus
thing, was amazing until i handled it roughly packing up from a burn and bent one of
the struts.
a111: Logged on 2013-12-22 16:56 asciilifeform: 'what people “want” is a function of what
they learn is available. e.g., do Americans want
three-ring binders, and Europeans four-ring binders? or do
they want binders and
take whatever number of holes
they come with? or do
they want something
that can help
them organize
their papers and
take whatever is available? or do
they really want a less cluttered office and ease of storage and retrieval of
the infor
phf: imo
the problem is not
the chosen product, but
the mechanism by which
the choice was made (and is continously remade in many micro instances)
ben_vulpes: are y'all going
to just skip right over
the anti-combustible chemicals with which nearly every new
thing is impregnated
these days?
phf: correct,
that's
the 80s "choice"
that was made, you either get zvezdniy gorodok or jeens
phf: well, "a man might give half a shit about". you're
talking about GOST style global optimization "plant makes same material for parachutes and fasihonable summer dresses"
phf: i still
think
that
the reason is
that
there are no lizards in a recognizable form (i.e.
the 1984, hugo boss clad), it's all a chomsky style dependency graph, and
the complexity so high, micro level so varied,
that nobody can make sense of it
phf: i don't
think aspirin
though is a good example, because "obviously"
there aren't any aspirin shortages. likewise
there are obviously no housing shortages, doctor shortages, etc. etc.