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mircea_popescu: which makes them ever so slightly better than blindfold darts
mircea_popescu: he means the accountant will shrug at their projections and go "i guess"
mircea_popescu: decimation : to quote the original variety speak, "the budget goes crunch, but the names pack punch, so they called over the accountants and they're gonna do lunch"
mircea_popescu: principally because the female viewpoint is retardedly infantile.
mircea_popescu: because human culture is an exercise in opressing the female viewpoint
mircea_popescu: women plan like thus : i would like for X to happen. men plan like thus : X is probably going to happen want it or not.
mircea_popescu: the thought of your average joe when confronted with a vacuum is never "holy shit ima make SUCH A fucking earthquake here..."
mircea_popescu: the problem with people, generally, is that they never aim to destroy.
mircea_popescu: heck, at some point graham was a very respectable lisp hacker, and buffett a supremely wise capital allocator.
mircea_popescu: (but i do recall a kid who, whenever asked what he aims to become in lyf, would answer "pensioneer")
mircea_popescu: "everyone can drive a car" results sooner or later in the "nobody could have foreseen that curve" soccer mom and old person automotive club
mircea_popescu: there's an entire subculture of these asinine imbeciles, from altman to fetlife to automattic to you name it.
mircea_popescu: because gravatar, which is a subsidiary of automattic, which exists in order to shit on the internet.
mircea_popescu: im going through ~100/s, fished out a few dozen already.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah. this is going the other way tho : make emails, hash, test.
mircea_popescu: oh i recall this identi.fi thing being discussed at some point cuz anduck was in it. maybe a year ago ?
mircea_popescu: i'm "hacking" gravtar, been exposing gmail emails all day.
mircea_popescu: there was a great pic of a loaded train yest, where was it
mircea_popescu: and i suspect (the math on this is fuzzy and still bneing worked out) that the critical mass for wot is exponentially more expensive than the critical mass for bitocin.
mircea_popescu: kind-of what i'm trying to build too, kind-of what's utterly required : until critical mass, danger will robinson!
mircea_popescu: yeah. but even if construed favorably, the point remains : you will have some hierarchies of trust.
mircea_popescu: anyway, it's my experience that the unconcerned asker usually does fine. it's the hedger that ends up in the soup.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you think just erryone gets to be a pet ?
mircea_popescu: you know women are possessed of speech. you can talk to them.
mircea_popescu: you don't have to pay anyone for leads that way, don't have to commute to work... with a little luck can do a dozen numbers and make more than the manager makes per month
mircea_popescu: perfect spot. guy alone ? take off clothes, do the work naked, see what he says.
mircea_popescu: afaik sirius had been working at a web-ish sort of wot for ages now.
mircea_popescu: yeah right. these chicks looked like they haven't even mastered the blowjob yet. what weed.
mircea_popescu: "oh, better keep this in the purse ever as i pretend smoking disgusts me, who knows, maybe hott gringo asks
mircea_popescu: who the fuck carries matches/lighters around if they don't fucking smoke.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform speaking of penalties and actual deterrence : it's as you may know rauchen verboten here. so i pull out a cigarillo and head to a table where three girlies are derping (at starbucks). ask for a light. they... all have it.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform o i know. was very amused at some incredibly hamhanded esl scam-pushing linked earlier.
mircea_popescu: the sad truth is that "quantitative easing" essentially ends up as a real estate bubble.
mircea_popescu: "Salaries and bonuses and stock grants may be jumping higher in our current boom cycle, but a lot of it is recaptured in real estate." heh
mircea_popescu: A car is pretty much a requirement in the suburbs. Even without accounting for car payments, gas and insurance and tolls will eat up $200-300 per month easily. << i thought tesla is free!
mircea_popescu: "Let’s assume we want a $1.0M, below-median house in Redwood City. You’d have to start by coming up with ~$220k in savings for the down payment + closing costs, and then take out a mortgage for the remaining $800k"
mircea_popescu places sam altman's "mp killed our business model, sadly, as he said he would" quote under "unexpected honesty" in his own personal disectionary.
mircea_popescu: mod6 iof the hashes don't match you shouldn't generall merge
mircea_popescu: should be a very interesting world once the us is poor and east/central asia ric
mircea_popescu: i dunno, he's working on it. but basically yeah, should be a web/bitcoin interface for accounting'
mircea_popescu: i imagine Pierre_Rochard 's thing is actulaly very close to that. prolly bestwork as a wrapper on it
mircea_popescu: trinque that's the "innovation" << exactly. and inasmuch as the us tort system is insane, this is both unavoidable and in a sense useful. but this doesn't mean uber makes any sense, anymore than shaving head in women makes sense. "but she's got lice" "well in THAT case"
mircea_popescu: mod6> So anyway, maybe I can somehow graph these things. Meanwhile, I'm still wrestling with gentoo. << you hear that alf ?