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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".
mircea_popescu: As of April 30, 2015, the new price for .ws domains has been increased to
mircea_popescu: "a novel method to live. not previously described in art."
mircea_popescu: "Blanton, Brad 1996, Radical Honesty: How To Transform Your Life By Telling The Truth"
mircea_popescu: much more keenly aware of how retarded engineers are than the contrary.
mircea_popescu: imagine a programming language in which bubblesort was periodically rediscovered with awe.
mircea_popescu: i mean think about it, dialectics was a novel device early 1900s, impressive and all.
mircea_popescu: to this day the principal value of latin america literature is its patent insanity in this sense.
mircea_popescu: new world did exactly the same thing, dressed its solipsism to look like euro truth. but it's still solipsism
mircea_popescu: judea bastardized it into some sort of idiotic mysticism, which is really just rehashing their pre-existing idiocies
mircea_popescu: ascii_field tbh, i suspect the euro notion of truth never really caught on, even in its own colonies.
mircea_popescu: contemporary records are just as unreliable, it's just that meanwhile our friends in the us inhabituated us with this barbarism
mircea_popescu: fortunately the us is not large enough to retardify china, but i think we're gonna see some pretty spectacular purges down the road.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field ftr, that's pretty much how eastern europe ran throughout the 90s too.
mircea_popescu: confucianism IS very good at a well specified set of tasks.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field kinda what makes people unhappy. any slave'll tell you, there's monumental fulfillment in submission.
mircea_popescu: whereas the western folk, while broadly useless, can at least be selected for sanity.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the general idea of people who did intellectual work with/in china is that the chinese folk, while broadly very servile, are utterly uncreative.
mircea_popescu: moreover, didn't japanese employees have to pass physicals at work ?
mircea_popescu: the problem, of course, being that with globalization you really can't get options. it'll have to be pret a porter, one thing universally.
mircea_popescu: this is the inescapable human condition : most people are exactly rubbish
mircea_popescu: course the model worked historically about as well as welfarism (aka popular democracy)
mircea_popescu: it seems altogether probable that's what the chinese communist party envisages as ideal, and acts as if were the case.
mircea_popescu: well certainly not anymore than japan can afford samurais.
mircea_popescu: some ills are apparently unavoidable, sure. but the "better folks" got raped meanwhile.
mircea_popescu: suppose chinese monarch had refused... windows. apple. whatever.
mircea_popescu: alternatively : cixi's refusal of railroads did have the end effect of no railroads. but also, of silence.
mircea_popescu: only by sheer luck is there such a thing as the us, too.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field my question remains tho. so they fucked up science. indisputable. to whose detriment ?