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mircea_popescu: so basically... either water the plantville farm all day, or else go talk to tlp's intensive pilling unit, or worse!
mircea_popescu: i used to know poor people like that. all the things they couldn't afford, they didn't do not because they couldn't afford them
mircea_popescu: tbh, that is the only logical end game : US of Best Korea, where everything is banned not because they can't afford anything, but for Ideological Reasons. Honest.
mircea_popescu: isn't cody wilson the guy with that blog, what was it called
mircea_popescu: <decimation> it's all a game of who can pass the liability to usg the most directly <<< quite.
mircea_popescu: you know i suspect potapov is like the ru mil pythagoras.
mircea_popescu: by the time you're shooting policemen you're not going to save on the rifle. those suckers cost thje enemy like 1.5-3 mn a pop.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo nah, much better barrel. accuracy is a thing.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo it's all in the filling. they make dup double strength cartridges now.
mircea_popescu has never actually seen a mosin used in practice. ever. anywhere.
mircea_popescu: more like a "tough as nails, swiss made SKS". like the mac10 maybe.
mircea_popescu: in any case im notsure you'd want a plain bolt action for that purpose.
mircea_popescu: just say how many lengths of chord you want to hang yourself with.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, on that score : as mike_c correctly pointed out a week or so ago, headsup is actually a broken game now, courtesy of teh damned computers.
mircea_popescu: dragosb i play very little these days. i mostly played live, and mostly pre-consumer internet.
mircea_popescu: there's a lot of similarity between how prokaryotes ended up with mitochondria and how commerce ended up with the mortgage.
mircea_popescu: which is the very definition of mortgage (a topic of not little historical interest, because it's one of the rare cases where we can observe biological evolution at work in what's supposed to be fleshless abstractions)
mircea_popescu: and as to limited recourse, it can be limited whatever way. generally it is, "lend me this money to buy this house, i pay you so and so, and if i don't you keep the house."
mircea_popescu: the idea being that contracts (of the old sort) are flexible and useful, just as long as the chumps grok that there is no such thing as "a standard contract".
mircea_popescu: belly dancer expert walks and i'm more than welcome to repay myself.
mircea_popescu: if not, fuck me and my stupid "palace" with no running water up on a mountain in the desert.
mircea_popescu: now, if the school goes well and makes money im getting my pistoons back.
mircea_popescu: this is the sort of thing. the professional has no interest in leaving their current place just because i want to relocate them, and the situation isn't feudal, where i just order them moved.
mircea_popescu: let's work a model. suppose i own 85`000 square footage of marble flooring, used for running a harem. suppose i come to the conclusion my harem doesn't attract good / numerous enough cuntage. suppose i decide this is because there's no belly dancing happening. suppose i go to a belly dancer in city and say, listen, i'll loan you 10k golden pistoons if you start a belly dancing school on my marlbe acreage.
mircea_popescu: dude it's so great to come to logs after a nice meal and find all sorts of gems like these.
mircea_popescu: yeah, inasmuch as gavin tiptoes around my lunch hour, i would propose they're painfully aware of it, yes.
mircea_popescu: both of these are becoming obsolete as ram is cheap and 64 bits plentiful. so in the future, int will just mean "integer number" and that's that,
mircea_popescu: y usage, the notion of short int was created, sometimes as small as a byte (8 bits).
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=04-03-2015#1041414 << here's the long story : traditionally, "int" means a word, and word means a register size, which is machine dependent (was 8 bit, then 16, then 32 and now is 64). because historically the register was inconvenient for human use, the notion of "long int" was born, as a dword (two words) or qword (four). because historically the register was inconvenient for memor
☝︎ mircea_popescu: so nice to see qntra redo the bitbet history with this gaw scam
mircea_popescu: like, give a million no recourse loan to the nude girlies show to produce itself on your new fairgrounds
mircea_popescu: no recourse real estate deals are in the vast majority of the time attempts by some crown or other to hike the land values.
mircea_popescu: the former are mortgages proper (if the payer goes bust you get the item and that is all) , the latter are commercial paper (if the payer goes bust you suck it).
mircea_popescu: the trick is to not write that many donations while alive