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mircea_popescu: "nonprofit, nonpartisan" sounds like it's a clinton-for-president
thing
mircea_popescu: did
they decide
to make it about being nice
to fat women instead ?
mircea_popescu: " not one of
the every other countries
that likes cocaine
too" << "not one of
the other countries where
they like cocaine
too"
mircea_popescu: trinque hey seriously, no way
to deed ? since whenever ?
BingoBoingo: Was
that still
the missing other deedbot- job?
BingoBoingo: * adlai exaggerates slightly, but
this doc is not a pill pusher, which is why i sought him out - confirmation bias ftw! << Or he wants a baseline adlai without lsd...
phf: it up - oh and
the seat is leather - very classy so i want
to pick it up - anyway, maybe you should
think about it - nah i want
to pick it up - well give it a day or something - ... ok i'll pick it up
tomorrow" haven't heard anything from
the guy.
phf: my first attempted motorcycle purchase went exactly like
this. i show up, and
the bike's fucking spiffy, a honda cafe racer conversion. i saw it on craigslist, research all
the
things, etc. etc.
the conversation went something like "check out
this
thing
that i did
to
this bike – ooh yeah it's cool, so i want
to pick it up – yeah i replaced
the pipe from
this one
to
this other one - yeah i saw
the original
this is much better, so i want
to pick
mircea_popescu: if you DID have it, you wouldn't sell
the 3620. because great.
mats: work was not fun, i
think virtually everyone with 365 was unable
to send or receive external mail
mats: Microsoft's 'Office 365' choked
today
phf: mircea_popescu:
that's what i figured
adlai will get back on
this issue, unless phf's meatwot beats his meatwot
to
the meatpunch
adlai: they don't have
to visit your house, but i never said maryland
adlai has relatives close
to alf
phf: his objections are bogus, even
the
time/money
thing, and
they go
through
the usual asciilifeform escalations.
thing can be
taken of his hands within a week, for $5k or so, with no effort on his part, besides "take it
to
the front porch when a man gets
there"
adlai: would you be willing
to show a non-technical (but intelligent) visitor
that it works?
mircea_popescu: phf you laugh at him all you want, but his mental process is sensible, or at least common. if you
think about it, why exactly is it
that most wives aren't being
turned out as we speak ?
adlai: specifically, people liking
to pay usg
taxes
adlai reminds
that his plan fell
through
to
to problems on his own end
mircea_popescu: and if any redheads show signs of getting pregnant for
this purpose, it'll be no gingers.
mircea_popescu: the buyer also has
to shave her snatch and milk > 1 cup per
teat.
phf: adlai: i don't actually need it, i have an xl1201, which i bought after i realized asciilifeform is not going
to sell his one. but i know at least 3 people
that will pay recent ebay prices for it
adlai: phf outbids me and
that's how markets are born
mircea_popescu: nobody's saying
to eatr with
them, pray with
them, etc.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
trust, what
trust.
trade with 'em, fuck 'em , and so following.
phf: asciilifeform: last
time we
talked about i basically got an impression
that you don't want
to sell it, which has been reconfirmed by
this conversation, which is unfortunate since
there are people who would actually put it
to good use.
adlai: i don't
think you sell a lispm door-to-door
mircea_popescu: and as a general fucking principle : make girlfriends, yo, don't figure out how
to all be buttbudies.
mircea_popescu: it'd be better
to recruit a local
than
to make someone leave warm sunny canada!
adlai: last i checked,
tmsr has an ex-salesman? or at least a blogger who blogs a lot about how
to sell
☟︎ mircea_popescu: there is such a
thing as economic inefficiencies, yeah.
adlai: btw,
the way
to get something sold is
to pay a salesman commission.
mircea_popescu: yes, but you're mixing
things. (the item) is not = (the item) + (transport service for
the item). you can't want "the item"
to net you
top dollars
through sometyhing
that's not
the item.
phf: asciilifeform: if you're serious about selling it, i can make it happen. only reason i've not been pursuing
this line, is because you're preemptively sabotaging
the whole
thing
mircea_popescu: "free on board". come pick it up ; if you don't we
throw it in
the water.
phf: for example i bought an xl1201, it's been sitting at a friend's place in seattle for 8 months now, because it's waiting for me
to go
there in person and pick it up myself
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know
there is such a
thing in business as "FOB"
phf: asciilifeform: buyer will be very sad, recap it,
test it, etc.
mircea_popescu: gotta love
these boxes doing 7MB/s
tho. for srs. 3gb in 7 minutes ? sign me up
phf: you know
that people who do
these kind of
things understand
the issue :)
phf: yeah, nobody will expect you
to
phf: yeah, you're refusing
to sell it, is what it is :>
phf: fwiw she
threw out a rembrandt, since it could be sold for 10-20-30k?
phf: don't
tell me
things like
that
adlai: reading SoTRB, lemme get
this straight: it's impossible
to download openssl without... openssl?
a111: Logged on 2016-07-01 00:48 asciilifeform: 'linux is free if yer
time has 0 value!11' (tm) (r)
mircea_popescu: the only difference between actual people and
the us scumbags is
that someone apparently
told
the latter
they have a say.
mircea_popescu: salaries at
the
time 2-4k or so rol/mo ; rol
to usd ~100 ; machine cost like 1800 or so if memory serves.
mircea_popescu: but in other lulz, my first computer cost, in ppp, about 200k in
today's usd.
mircea_popescu: the correct model i
think is sex. sex is free,
to
the asker ; it goes for a song. but it depends which asker and what song.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-01 00:15
trinque: I don't lament
that
there isn't some opensource naggum editor out
there; I lament
that I can't spend 20k or w/e and buy an actual computer
mircea_popescu: of course, as
the legendary fool who's shown
the moon and looks at
the finger, people will
then debate "what did it", in
terms of, you know, if only we flavoured communism shit with
THIS vanilla bean!
mircea_popescu: the moment
the bs with "everyone" and "anyone" and so on starts,
the game's lost, all
that's
to be still established is
the exact manner in which
the fuck-up will manifest. but
the fuck-up is already baked in at
that early point.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-01 00:12
trinque: my reaction
to GPL earlier has
to do with
that. we're all lamenting
the wreckage, and wasn't it precisely
that
too many morons got involved in
the craft?