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mircea_popescu: That's the thing. It looks like it should work, on the surface. If you don't dig too deeply, you may even come to the mistaken belief it worked for others. Meanwhile... Social Studies Do Not Work."
mircea_popescu: goes with my "Remember the inept newsweek goon, Leah McGrath Goodman ? The chick with the mortgage she can't pay on her own ? Like that other chick, like each and every other chick in this quagmire of chickdom ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "Gigaom is winding down and its assets are now controlled by the company’s lenders. It is not how you want the story of a company you founded to end. " << ahaha. this is so fucking convenient.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> hoster? << gigaom was a ms shill back when ballmer was new and ms thought blogs might matter.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: anything damning we ought to know about 'Aerolineas Argentinas' ? << i think they've notlost a plane yet.
mircea_popescu: <mod6> mp: you run .ar now right? just tell 'em im comin and it's all good. < haha nah.
mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> i have to pay the reciprocity fee again don't i << reciprocisquat all the names!
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> the ar entry fee gizmo, that is << i don't think you can readily imagine how tech retarded the argentines actually are.
mircea_popescu: "no audio, no video, if you can't write it so i feel like reading it you never happened."
mircea_popescu: you will not behehehelieve the improvements of productivity once you simply do not any longer support the methods of timewasters.
mircea_popescu: if anyone claims something beats text he means that a) he's stupid and b) given a it's easier for him. fuck that person with old transformer cores.
mircea_popescu: i can accept that SOME PEOPLE actually need their monitor to graphics. so make a gamestation. otherwise, we're fucking literate, we're not women, nothing beats text. ever.
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: in the 70s, the occasional girl that went "i prefer older men" was kind of a freak. in the 90s, it was common enough. by now... i don't think any girl with options goes for boys her age. and so... there's your overclocking.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that was a different generation of kids. that weren't mentally retarded.
mircea_popescu: i don't think the average smartphone user is smart enough to know what the cpu does.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so is this sheer incompetence, or is china ever so delicately strangling them ? "first, you get them made for free. then, you get them made for ten dolla, but you have to give us the blueprints. then, we only make them for you out of 2nd best items. and then... wait, you're still here ?!"
mircea_popescu: they WERE in soviet russia after all, kulak's diseases.
mircea_popescu: i wonder if diabethes and gout will become punishable offenses in the us the way all sorts of "psychological" imagined stuff is.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and unlike the nkvd, they didn't even have to twist anyone's arm to keep quiet.
mircea_popescu: saifedean people generally have an inborn, deeply selected ability to only hear parts. so, through this approach "we pay you 10k in salary on the condition you spend no less than 11k a month" sounds like a good deal.
mircea_popescu: i dunno... the "i'm not a snitch" thing floats to the point of "what is an american' in my head.
mircea_popescu: saifedean incidentally, being a snitch is a legal obligaiton for usians now.
mircea_popescu: and 10bn in remittances. lebanon is absolutely romania cca 1995.
mircea_popescu: imagine all the stupid of wash dc done louder by stupider people. also in a swamp.
mircea_popescu: punkman actually exports are funnay 20% gold 5% jewelry 5% diamonds. total jew country.
mircea_popescu: saifedean sounds a lot like very early romanian. what do they speak even, misr ?
mircea_popescu: saifedean yes, but they support "ideas", and then soon enough vote, and riot.
mircea_popescu: saifedean from where i sit the only sane reason to go to lebanon would be the same as 1k years ago : to start a crusade.
mircea_popescu: o look, most recent political assasination fifteen months ago.
mircea_popescu: no but seriously, there's what, half a million muslims refugeed there now ?
mircea_popescu: yeah, but they have to compete with ohio's 150 a month or w/e it was.
mircea_popescu: so if i want to rent a flat in beirut, what'd it run me ?
mircea_popescu: this exact thing was a problem, written down as such, exact words, in 1914. and since forever : central government attracts town loafers, who then derp about.
mircea_popescu: in lebanon ? nothing really, srsly nao. buncha town dwelling wasters get ot be all excited for a summer.
mircea_popescu: saifedean lebanon sounds more and more like romania - 10 years.
mircea_popescu: what will the kids figure out later ? oh, that - to go no further than latest trilema - jared son of charles got 40mn "investment" from x and y while charles was in jale because campaign donations and other issues related to x and y.
mircea_popescu: anyway, re the "questions asked" : in a total nod to asciilifeform's "merit washing" ideas, by now the point isn't even to have any sort of product, as it hasn't been for decades, noreven any sort of plan. they "invest" in "great teams", nao. "kids will figure it out later".
mircea_popescu: otherwise, the pension funds end up hodling anyway, and the fed rescues them, and here we are.
mircea_popescu: anyway, "society" is broad. the vc game is just to flip the ponzi to larger fools. they succeed 55% of the time or so.
mircea_popescu: mike_c in all probability the last pitch meeting where the investors asked something sensible was cca 2002.
mircea_popescu: seems a decent gameplan. if you're a stanford/harvard business major, or similar scum.
mircea_popescu: or else 4b) if society doesn't bite the bait, they "street cred" because were going to 4evar totally do it.
mircea_popescu: then 4a) if society bites the bait, they "change their mind" "learn better" "unfortunately..." "they were just kids" etc, the circle / dwolla /etc playbook
mircea_popescu: mike_c see, the way i've observed this to work is like this : 1) usg makes imbecile law ; 2) society is aghast ; 3) teenaged muppets make bold claim that jives with societal expectation, blatantly in contradiction with usg policy.
mircea_popescu: knocked out retired boxers should look like knocked out retired boxers.
mircea_popescu: well, that's what chrome does too : simple rather than correct and easy rather than useful.
mircea_popescu: but hey, why confront and resolve the hard problems ? inheritance systems for the user input, explicitly set bvy the user etc ? o noes, gotta be simple