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BingoBoingo: I tried doing some digging and also found
a still smaller 7" version
BingoBoingo: Dell made
a 10" Latitude 'business netbook' which appears to be common in the online listings here (Marketing point was it is the robust netbook). I wonder if it will eat the Qi.
BingoBoingo: Except now it has
a sweet screen and the ones in the market have mega sad screens
a111: Logged on 2018-10-18 20:16 asciilifeform: this will be
a cuntoo box, when i get around to redisking it
Mocky: it's hard to understand people here, randomly selected thick accent each time. it's
a relief to run into brit or irish
Mocky: white man is on
a pedestal here. americans the most
Mocky: "hello sir, i'm
a nigerian prince with excellent business opportunities"
mircea_popescu: and don't be ashamed/shy away from saying things like "i'm
a representative of the most serene republic of bitcoin, we're looking to build etc".
Mocky: I talk to people about what I'm doing here and I'm not really all that good at talking to people and I only half know wtf i'm doing here. i mean in
a way that I can explain to randos and have it make sense
mircea_popescu: anyway, make it
a point of conversation. prolly will help dredge for you.
Mocky: i'm meeting 25 more people tomorrow at some meetup thing at
a mall with gondola rides thru an interior canal
Mocky: localbitcoins shows one dude in country. and
a couple nearby in SA, dubai etc.
Mocky: here, civilized person can't walk more than 3 blocks outside during midday. would be drenched in sweat. likewise can't stand for 15 minutes waiting for bus. it's get into
a car with AC or smell like the riff raff
BingoBoingo: But when living 3-5 generations to
a household...
BingoBoingo: I am sure there would be
a lot less cars in Uruguay if motherfuckers weren't spending all day doing the Uber to pay for their cars
Mocky: "now you are officially
a limo driver also" "wtf!?"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform also
a good idea. the girls know how many times i went "car license - 100k!"
mircea_popescu: people's problems -- in their heads. it's the 3rd millenium after
a ll.
mircea_popescu: which reminds me of
a bon mot i put out 20 years ago. "rich dude" of the warren buffett/alexander abramov was building house. very large, somerwaht brutalistic, remarkably small windows. "why are the windows so small ?!" "he's trying to re-create his prison experience".
Mocky: i get it now why ubers swarm like piranha, most need
a taxi to get around
Mocky: even in the grocery,
a dozen security guards on duty at once. some walking some guarding
a111: Logged on 2018-10-19 09:49 Mocky: next to bottom class is cheap workers who aren't permitted to get
a drivers license:
http://archive.is/Cg7uU Mocky: i see
a resemblance
a111: Logged on 2018-10-19 09:38 diana_coman: failing that, I guess 20 somethings partying at least have
a local father, for whatever good that might be
Mocky: that reminds me how overstaffed everything is here. jewelry store in side
a hypermarket, 7 dudes behind the counter. not enough room to all stretch arms out. 3 guards. zero customers. in the mall no matter where you go, will be in sight of 2 security guards
mircea_popescu: i have
a feeling all these discussions will be referenced lots and lots in future, i'd rather not have anything trashed later "for lack of evidence".
a111: Logged on 2018-10-19 09:33 Mocky: but there's exactly no one here who would use
a coworks. you either came here for
a job, or your dad can get you
a job
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-19#1863981 << one idea is, most of these4 people prolly have
a gf, who is possibly attempting to "live independently". talk to whatever aspirational class girlies do there ? "real estate agent" is it in latam ; maybe "expensive shop 5th avenue of doha" ? thjat was ~it in bucharest.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: huge north-south difference in earth.
a little like -- will find more bug residue on car windshield than back-facing spoilers.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-28 14:27 mircea_popescu: there is no, strictly speaking, reason that iron MUST be provided on the surface of
a planet just like the earth. it ~could~, very well, have simply gone through
a place poor in planetoids and ended up entirely iron free on the surface. but it did not.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> i think the problem was they permitted buenos aires agglomeration << The more time I spend here the more horrifying the idea of
a Buenos Aires is.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo so sad all the 70s dictatorships failed. argentina'd have been
a way better place if the junta shot 10x more students and beat ~all of them.
BingoBoingo: Anyways, Uruguay has one jailbreak story. Back in the dictatorship years
a bunch of Commie scum (~150 NPCs) locked up in the future Punta Carretas Shopping tunneled their way out.
mircea_popescu: anyway, what the dudes did have was
a very strangely nordic, respectful and ellaborate ritual dealing with homosexuality.
mircea_popescu: ie, guy who was gonna steal
a cookie was gonna steal
a cookie ; that in the one case where he stole it he saw some guy stealing from
a jar in miami so "he was emboldened by the sight" is entirely uncausative. he'd have stolen it because
a spider climbed the wall and similarily "inspired" his dumb ass.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: And it is inept in
a way that is alienating the labor folk who "support" them
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo so they went to all this trouble to vote themselves
a ~1mn annuity ?
mircea_popescu: "he'll pick
a lock and you'll be shot" "oh... i know ;(".
mircea_popescu: or to use yest's terminology, after years of being maintained and populated by intelligent people, carcel central suddenly ran into
a smart guy.
mircea_popescu: then runs into actual human, suddenly the whole thing's closer to
a drawing than anyone realised.
mircea_popescu: ioned tend to apply. "did that fix things ?" "i did what was in the book" "but did it work ?" "what do you want from me! what i do is just
a gig! it's not my life!!!".
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not necessarily that it happened ; but you gotta understand the interaction between massively multiplayer ineptitude and internalized castration. prison sits there for years at
a stretch without encountering an actual human being, 100% redditards spinning in their own internalized mental narratives, incapable of finding way out of paper bag. slowly decays, under imaginary maintenance, the sort that the aforement
mircea_popescu: who was that guy that had
a number of children with the assortment of strippers hired to "guard" him back in the zone ?
mircea_popescu: much like EVEN NOW the cost of disease still fails to exceed the benefit from sexuate reproduction, i suspect the same applies there : any other drawbacks
a social system may have, the fact it dun force you to put woman's children in your wot is still enough to bring it above water.
mircea_popescu talking to "party girl" at some point (ukr chick, too) about it : "don't you find it intolerable ?" "well... i think of it as
a perpetual costume party in the street."
BingoBoingo: Anyway, fishing locals by social class is
a thing.
mircea_popescu: "must be in right time at right place" sorta deal ; otherwise LOTS of people (and
a LOT more than care to admit) spent 60s in california looking for the party.
mircea_popescu: Mocky it's possible they may have
a prequal system, if not necessarily what BingoBoingo describes.
BingoBoingo: Mocky: Well, do the locals go there? Take four of the girls you met and lounge around with the for
a weekday evening. Good chance that might be how you meet locals.
Mocky: there are
a bunch of beaches. some closes during turtle nesting season. spread around qatar. not sure how many close to Doha, but not like it's
a big country
BingoBoingo: <Mocky> the downtown area wraps the bay and is maybe 10 blocks deep. I guess you could call this '
a ring'. the rest of the city is basically concentric circles of rings b - f (actual street names) between which are neighborhoods of predominantly residential villas but with huge retail areas interspersed. << The rings sounds rather like 1900's-1950's Montevideo
mircea_popescu: and then when i say there's
a lot of supernumerary bodies...
mircea_popescu: "so... what do you do ?" "uhm i dunno man... we just live here. it's just
a gig, it's not our life. wanna toke ?"
a111: Logged on 2018-10-19 09:26 Mocky: week two has been wheel spinning so far like most of week 1. I've had in person conversations with 30+ people in the last week about business and finding
a local business sponsor. None of these people are locals, none of them knows
a local in business, or even an expat in business, or had any idea what they would do if needed to find.
mircea_popescu: it's
a sad testament to the age of "enlightment" that we went from 1600s manor house to 1800s brownstone tenement and now to 2000s tallwall. dark ages ftw.
a111: Logged on 2018-10-19 08:25 Mocky: in the 'burbs there are sort of ticky tack housing communities where
a couple dozen villas will share one big wall, with guard on duty at the gate.
Mocky: gotta pass
a medical exam that says if you'd survive. can keep shirt on. reportedly brusing not bleeding
Mocky: finger / hand / arm chopping ... not
a thing anymore here
Mocky: it's still on the books, 40 lashes for sex outside marriage for
a muslim. i think they did it as recently as
a few years ago
Mocky: flogging is still
a thing here
Mocky: evidently they no longer care unless you force them to care. like having
a domestic dispute where police are called while living together unwed
Mocky: can't build
a pittsburg out of the sand in 35 years without grunts
Mocky: actually i'm pretty sure everyone is getting
a better deal than back home come to think of it
Mocky: but the upper class of foreign workers has
a better deal than they'd get back home. comparable pay, dozen weeks of holiday per year, no taxes, housing provided
diana_coman: ah well, if not
a camel, then can't camel I suppose
diana_coman: wait what, drivers aren't permitted to get
a drivers' license?
Mocky: one of them claims on their website that certain IT and consulting busniesses don't require
a local sponsor. if they actually have experience with these things I expect it to be helpful
diana_coman: my limited experience with
a business incubator in south tyrol was that there were also people from local businesses + local government, but I have no idea to what extent this experience means anything for qatar-incubator
Mocky: i'm about to implement plan b, and talk to the local companies that advertise to help you get your business started and help find you
a sponsor
diana_coman: failing that, I guess 20 somethings partying at least have
a local father, for whatever good that might be
☟︎ Mocky: but there's exactly no one here who would use
a coworks. you either came here for
a job, or your dad can get you
a job
☟︎ Mocky: i went to both coworks. well, "coworks" one is 15th floor of
a bank highrise that was empty and expensive. the other is trying to be
a startup incubator run by the ministry of communications
Mocky: week two has been wheel spinning so far like most of week 1. I've had in person conversations with 30+ people in the last week about business and finding
a local business sponsor. None of these people are locals, none of them knows
a local in business, or even an expat in business, or had any idea what they would do if needed to find.
☟︎ Mocky: the downtown area wraps the bay and is maybe 10 blocks deep. I guess you could call this '
a ring'. the rest of the city is basically concentric circles of rings b - f (actual street names) between which are neighborhoods of predominantly residential villas but with huge retail areas interspersed.
diana_coman: are all houses at the edge of the city or where? not that I'm even sure I see
a difference if ~all desert anyway
Mocky: one result is that there isn't
a single unsightly yard anywhere, from external pov. from inside pov, it seems like most have
a junk pile their back 'yard'
Mocky: in the 'burbs there are sort of ticky tack housing communities where
a couple dozen villas will share one big wall, with guard on duty at the gate.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the very verbiafge, you know ? "crackdown" ? as fucking if what, the pantsuit isn't
a party favour, passed around for anal freely ?