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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 ?
mircea_popescu: williamdunne << wikipedia may not be the best source of information
mircea_popescu: <mats> why would you possibly want to use airbnb << it's really a sort of swinger's club for people that are not really into swinging.
mircea_popescu: unlike musk, they're not actually somebody. hard to put up a fight. even with graham's efforts.
mircea_popescu: trinque from what i hear they're about to get litigated into the ground.
mircea_popescu: nobody could have foreseen a blow-up, we're success-oriented these days
mircea_popescu: sort-of like impromptu dentistry and hobbist airplane piloting, this.
mircea_popescu: mkay. it's nonsensical to rent rooms in places not dedicated for this purpose.
mircea_popescu: it's not legal to rent rooms in places not deidcated for this purpose.
mircea_popescu: i also had nice experiences with crack whores. still not much of a business model.
mircea_popescu: i fail to see the difference between "here's how to cook if you have hardwood floors" and "here's how to make 30 bux (out of which we take half) by taking on 5k liability"
mircea_popescu: airbnb is even funnier, the fine for being part of it is what, 4-5k in ny ?
mircea_popescu: (there's a passive gossip-y sort of sorting that occurs as time goes by, because new clients join and so the "overall" blockchain is ever more sorted in early blocks as time goes by)
mircea_popescu: which is why the piece howls like so. "india should be concerned about how we pooped our pants"
mircea_popescu: anyway, i don't perceive what the great danger is here.
mircea_popescu: seems pretty clear. plus as davout would say, it's quicker.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field would help if you can also measure bw used/block
mircea_popescu: ascii_field didja put instrumentation in place to measure speed or bw ?
mircea_popescu: mats meh, the entire china pakistan thing seems overstated.
mircea_popescu: computers are for humans not for whatever the fuck special needs monkeys use "diacritics"
mircea_popescu: fuck you, everyone. 27 letters or go back to your fucking yurt.
mircea_popescu: and all this so that idiots can use their idiot alphabets.
mircea_popescu: "The drawback of using loadable objects is not a problem in the GNU C Library, at least on ELF systems. Since the library is able to load shared objects even in statically linked binaries, static linking need not be forbidden in case one wants to use iconv."
mircea_popescu: maybe once we get 100k pounds a year to study our memories of collegiate dentistry.
mircea_popescu: anyway, what would it be doing in bitcoin. waiting for when libnss is yanked out, to kick in.
mircea_popescu: "All the benefits of loadable modules are available in the GNU C Library implementation. This is especially appealing since the interface is well documented (see below), and it, therefore, is easy to write new conversion modules."
mircea_popescu: ascii_field it occurs to me that the word funkenstein_ was looking for, to describe the economy of chumps (whose coin is the bezzlar) would be... echonomy.
mircea_popescu: "they're invigorating, to the people who can walk ; selling alcohol helps the echonomy".