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ben_vulpes: i'm not holding my breath for anyone associated with
the government
to fix shit.
mircea_popescu: watch how
there'll suddenly be money
to be made once
the shock
troopers are done scraping
the last "university student" off
the sidewalk.
mircea_popescu: trump can ban all imports into
the country,
tomorrow. and he can stick
to it, permanently.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes
takes all of five minutes for money
to be made. it's just a matter of how you structure
things.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: nobody here is laboring under
the illusion
that any money is
to be made.
there are social media
twits, and a small group of people
trading fermented
trash around.
mircea_popescu: the latter got beaten
to shit ; and
the former isn't worth
the farts it's spoken with.
mircea_popescu: any way you
turn it, it's not been long enough. us could get any item fabrication
thing going
tomorrow, and be good at it by 2020.
the oinly
thing keepign
this from happening atm is
the faint pretenses of kiddos who
think
they get
to have a say in
their future activity and
the misguided notions of old people
that somehow china eating
that and
the us being left
to make money out of doing each other's laundry is a practicable a
trinque: hell my
truck came from a factory in san antonio
ben_vulpes: dunno about 'make', but some places cast al, fe, weld racks
to rigs. saw it, drank with
the people involved, don't know what you want.
ben_vulpes: but yes, look
to
the overpaid and highly visible imperial offices and not
to
the sheep farmers on lopez.
trinque: are we doing
the "no but really some places on
the continent build
things"
thread again?
ben_vulpes: from 3 chuckles in a 3-hour rotation of minorities down
to barely 1 by accounts.
ben_vulpes: the performance-art-masquerading-as-commentary is growing shriller and less amusing by
the day.
mircea_popescu: should be fun
to watch
the leftys get caught on wrong side of history / fingers in door, but whatevers. who cares about some dumb shits anyway.
mircea_popescu: so politico being what he is, he'll do what he can. and
the bureaucracy being what it is, ie a spending machine, will sit its ass on its own mouth and adapt.
ben_vulpes: imperial regional offices are: intel, precision cast parts, flir and
the roboflugen boeing division up
the valley.
mircea_popescu: anyway.
there's a bunch of moneys for
the us
to build nuclear reactors and oil pipeline process ;
to lay
train
track ; some
to do dumb shit like walls with mexico, hospitals, etcetera. exactly none
to continue with
the present "derechos" bullshit.
ben_vulpes: this repositing every single
thing
that happens as a direct result of
the great inca in america is downright
tiring. inca gives zero shits about
this corner of its empire, leaves us
to fend for ourselves.
ben_vulpes: where small can be anything from 20
to 500 staff.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: come off it,
there are myriad small casting shops here.
ben_vulpes: it's a full-employment program,
the money is definitionally wasted.
ben_vulpes: "where will
the money come from?" "just borrow more, couldn't be easier."
ben_vulpes: "but why don't we spend
the wall money on fixing our infrastructure?" "were you even /listening/ during
the campaign? it's not an exclusive
thing, he's doing both."
mircea_popescu: no apple, no google. it's gonna be
trump's consturction co, bannon's whatever sidescam he makes,
that sort of
thing.
mircea_popescu: the companies worth money in
the future are not
these.
ben_vulpes: blue collar whites want
to set rebar and pour concrete while
the minority groups
they
think
themselves above mow
their lawn.
mircea_popescu: anyway, let's just say
that
the notion
that
the "blue chips" are worth anything just
took a serious bath.
mircea_popescu: butr yes, it's always better
to put
the poor
to work
than
to stroke
the illusions of
the rich.
ben_vulpes: "do kindly look
to your history books and see how
the last enormous welfare program worked out for its sponsors"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes but
those folks are weaker
than a website. 20 man firms ; and
those "men" are
too afraid
to grab an ass in
the elevator.
ben_vulpes: "wake up babe army,
the wall is not a racist
thing. it's
the largest works program since
the new deal."
mircea_popescu: the mccain adlaing in
the senate is entirely without
teeth.
mircea_popescu: anyway, it's not even
that gop split up under
trump shock. much worse
than
that :
the non-trump faction
took a hard look around, discovered it doesn't exist.
ben_vulpes: full employment is very cheap compared
to bank bailouts
though.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: yeah does matter quite a bit how great
the great again is
ben_vulpes: and i do not see
this "trump vs republicans"
thing. he saved
the party,
the old cripples are on
their way out and he'll be either vice president in 8 years or speaker of
the house.
mircea_popescu: eh,
they spent 20 years pumping up
the executive order
Framedragger: phf: if at it, may i have a copy of your logs
too, please? :)
mircea_popescu: and in other lulz, apparently
the us is preparing
to noriega nieto
mircea_popescu: speak, ye of little resources,
thinking self programmers and
thinking men, who couldn't even save a few lisp machines.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> (at one point amex co. flooded
the market with surplus, and
they were 'cheap enough
to
throw out', and
then suddenly worth weight in gold) << it's entirely what
the
trader lives off.
mircea_popescu: why
the fuck would you have
to power it down
to replace filters wtf.
mircea_popescu: im not even sure what factor is worst for
them. i
think being powercycled worse
than continuous use for one ;
time probably worse
than cpu utilization, unless poorly cooled. etc
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i don't
think it ever was 50% cpu no. but yes continuously.
a111: Logged on 2017-01-26 18:03 mircea_popescu: i'm satisfied
that if one keeps
the named hardware (
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-01-06#1597436 convo) or
their preferred equivalents
that one will have no serious problems for
the foreseable future.
mircea_popescu: kinda iffy
thing. i have boards still going
that i bought in 2002.