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mircea_popescu: let alone all
the wanna-bes looking in
through
the front window.
mircea_popescu: it's not nearly as unilateral as all
that. 20yo afghani female is actually competent and appreciated for her competence.
this is a damn sight more
than anything hilary clinton ever achieved in her sad, contorted stump of a life
ben_vulpes: "fucking what? you need your own leagues
to even
take a podium spot."
ben_vulpes: i saw
this poster with some female athlete's face and burst out laughing
the other day
ben_vulpes: may quite well be
the case
that babe who lives
to obey and satisfy her man is far happier
than careerist, independent, "i'll buy whatever dumb vehicle my emotions push me
to!", but have fun making
that sale
to
the americans attached
to equality-at-any-cost
mircea_popescu: pretty sure average afghani woman happier
than anything watching "friends"
ben_vulpes: nah, he's been drinking progesterone from
the recycled water for so long he's practically a woman
mircea_popescu: honestly i'd be muych surprised if
the average bloke in
the us wouldn't actually prefer living as 1997 average afghanistani instead.
mircea_popescu: why use
the mechanisms
that work (but
they work! which is unfair!11) when you could use no mechanisms at all and dream a little dream of
things.
ben_vulpes: and entirely unsurprisingly,
the slippage on
the country-wide market-clearing buy order doesn't show up in price (no,
that'd hose
the inflation numbers) but in crapflation
ben_vulpes: which is right in line with other
threads elsewhere about how we got cvasi-marxism, where we vote ourselves more stuff every year but what gets delivered is a plastic sham of what was ordered. looks like everything is going
to be free, but
that 'everything' just serves
to keep us anchored
to our pocketscreens
ben_vulpes: ofc what
that 1.2k per annum buys is depressingly further downmarket from
the
traditional afghani lifestyle
mircea_popescu: afghanistan fambly lived happily for 1k/year pre usg
tardation, for instance.
☟︎ ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: had a few amusing scenarios for how 'ubi' might play out: "massive army", "un camps, did you know
they've got refugee camps down
to
the point where it costs 1200 us/year
to mostly keep
them from killing each other?", "genocide" etc
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform eventually
the kingdom of brazil defeated
them and he left yea.
mircea_popescu: anyway. strong law-and-order
ticket, repressed
the bums (social group
that
today in
the us masquerades as "students") and so on.
mircea_popescu: pretty much
throughout, actually. dude was like 80 when he died.
mircea_popescu: to
this day it burns
the libertard,
the fact
that no, democracy is NOT popular. rosas is.
mircea_popescu: but, notably, he was unanimously voted in power. something stalin ever
tried
to pretend
to and emulate. guy had it naturally, people fucking loved him.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile
the only point of argentine history worth even casual inspection is de rosas. who -- very pointedly NOT democracia.
the contrary of democracia.
mircea_popescu: in related lulz : girl here got invited
to a 5 day "history of argentina" "workshop".
the schedule ? 4 days discussing "democracia".
mircea_popescu: and last i checked you had
to be in
their party presidium whatever
to qualify for deed issuance in colonies.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes, but part and parcel of
that algo is
that... real estate in
the us... is not worth money.
mircea_popescu: the us peons, much like
the argentines (and every passing month more like
the argentines) are not actually worth quartering
the carcass.
mircea_popescu: you know, chumpatrons are a
thing, yes, but
there's no 0 cost extraction.
there's plenty of chumps who, while carrying nonzero chumpatronium, are also worth below 0 on
the chumpatron raw materials market.
mircea_popescu: bout a
third of which goes
towards supporting
the nonsensical notion
that real estate in
the us is actually worth money.
mircea_popescu: of course it would. currently
they dispose of about 1.5k a month.
a111: Logged on 2017-03-24 13:48 mircea_popescu: yeah, last ditch desperate attempt
to keep
the "real estate values" from going
to
the ~1 yuan / sqft reality sees
them at.
shinohai remembers when reddit did a ubi "experiment"
that gave PENNIES in Bitcoin
to schmucks, was shut down by Ellen Pao
mircea_popescu: yeah, last ditch desperate attempt
to keep
the "real estate values" from going
to
the ~1 yuan / sqft reality sees
them at.
☟︎ a111: Logged on 2017-03-24 06:21 ben_vulpes: (paraphrasing) "ubi is great. pay off
the
taker class, and let
the rich white guys who control all
the capital and wrote
the deep learning shit
that
took
the bottom out of
the commodity labor market make all
the resource allocation decisions."
mircea_popescu submits qntra story, "terrorist going by Framedragger on deep web nicked by vigilant state agentura over DRUGS and CHILD PRONZ SHIPPED
THROUGH STATE MAIL!!11 HONEST HE DID!"
Framedragger: (i
think it's just because
there's a customs fee
to be paid but will see - lulzy)
Framedragger: never happened before, will be fun
to inquire why
ben_vulpes: (paraphrasing) "ubi is great. pay off
the
taker class, and let
the rich white guys who control all
the capital and wrote
the deep learning shit
that
took
the bottom out of
the commodity labor market make all
the resource allocation decisions."
☟︎ ben_vulpes: jeeeesus
the bruce sterling sxsw
talk is fun
BingoBoingo: In other news
thermoplastic hose clamps on plasticar are still holding 100% of fluid one day and ~1/4
tank of gas later
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Well, other
than danielpbarron
phf: on recommendation of qntra i bought a copy of "The Camp of
The Saints". i'm hoping it'll
teach me about
the great again
ben_vulpes: do forgive
the relentless agw drum-beatin',
the photos are awesome
BingoBoingo: Also
ty asciilifeform and mircea_popescu for getting a pretty little FUCKGOAT
to my mailing address
trinque: so we're doing
this
thing where we're extras, while he convinces himself he's doing fine?
gabriel_laddel_p: and
to be clear -
the only reason I had
that LSD is because someone I've never met gave it
to me. for free.
gabriel_laddel_p: BingoBoingo: and what, pray
tell does "drug like a gentleman" look like?
BingoBoingo: <gabriel_laddel_p> BingoBoingo: "I should study more" isn't a winning idea. GTFO. << Please study more drugs. Gain experience. Maybe
things work out for you and can do
the right about face learning
to drug like a gentleman.
ben_vulpes: yeah
that's not a particularly good pose
gabriel_laddel_p: ben_vulpes: exactly. You said "shame she can't pose", I started
to hunt for _that exact photo_ and
then you dropped it into
the logs
ben_vulpes: gabriel_laddel_p: hm?
that's from your link
gabriel_laddel_p: asciilifeform: I never wanted
to be a great inventor. Still don't.
trinque: yeah I worked for
the alcoholic waiting for meaning in his life long enough
gabriel_laddel_p: trinque: making money is easy. making money doing something _meaningful_ is
the difficult part.
trinque: gabriel_laddel_p: you do realize
that
there are several folks here
that have made money doing exactly
the kind of consulting I described?
trinque: the chorus of "when will you learn" is part of
the masturbation
trinque: the
thing about addicts is
that it's
their *entire* pattern of behaving, defines
the whole
thing
trinque: he's just here
to argue with himself
to charge up
the courage
to I dunno, do a bump of meth, or not do a bump of meth, or w/e
trinque: gabriel_laddel_p: your "I will sell computers" is never going
to happen.
phf: my solutions
to problems like
that don't usually involve "bring in a 40mb package". i'd write a
top level handler,
that shows a modal x11 based repl/restart machinery. sort of poor man's genera
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i like how he keeps picking random people
to be aggressive with.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: From what I understand "Acid
Trip Jackpot Ideas" are like Elliot's powerball
tickets...
gabriel_laddel_p: phf: if you have ideas of what is
to be done when
the whole CLIM process freezes, please, do let me know.
gabriel_laddel_p: phf: nobody is going
to drop all of
their emacs packages & workflow overnight
to learn a new system. Emacs is going
to stick around until new hardware is made.
BingoBoingo: Well if you aren't sure drugs aren't part of problem keeping you from a mailing address feel free
to keep
trying
them.
phf: well, i wouldn't go as far as playing nicely either. you have a clim editor,
that you can
theoretically extend in all kinds of interesting ways, yet you're still using it in combination with
the emacs, etc.
BingoBoingo: And some of
those GIRLS at NA meetings might have places for sleeping!
gabriel_laddel_p: phf: even if I gave you a list of all
the packages, it would
take ~6months
to get everything playing nicely.
phf: but
there was none of
that, because
there wasn't actually anything being done. i
think it would be a lot more impressive if you setup a non
trivial
task and showed how masamune makes
that
task easier
to perform
☟︎ gabriel_laddel_p: asciilifeform: it remains. Eg, presently reading - Brousentsov's
Ternary Principle, Bergman's Number System and
Ternary Mirror-symmetrical Arithmetic