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mircea_popescu: "Dear Hearts and Gentle People" is a thing for a fucking reason.
mircea_popescu: the more annoying you are to larger groups of people, the less advisable it is to go into a fucking ravine. stick to the town, everyone's annoying there.
mircea_popescu: why the fuck do you think feminists don't go to hide in utah on a farm ? perhaps because they don't want to end up on the receiving end of the stick, like the mormons ?
mircea_popescu: but for people to try and create a "bitcoin" or "ayn rnd" or w/e community.... this is so idiotic it defies description.
mircea_popescu: but these are all practical considerations. i wouldn't do this even as a banal every day person.
mircea_popescu: settlement is dubious even when you're settling VETERANS.
mircea_popescu: decimation i was just wtf'ing now, looking at it. really, pictures of one jar of honey, a bunch of SIGNS and a bunch of mountain range ? THAT ?
mircea_popescu: for the record, i agree with both negative estimates. it is incredibly stupid to go out in the fucking sticks, if you're on a budget.
mircea_popescu: goes with the argentina bashing some other guy was doing linked earlier.
mircea_popescu: maybe that's th estory here : bets more than 6 mo out are too far out.
mircea_popescu: it just occured to me : the berkshire bets happen just as it crossed the 6 months threshold.
mircea_popescu: all it needs is some neoprotestant varnish and it could start its own gulch.
mircea_popescu: would you use it to defend your house or get a different guard for it ?
mircea_popescu: well that's that, you've got an aesthetic preference :)
mircea_popescu: now, would you buy your own house or just use one your company already owns ?
mircea_popescu: suppose you were a billionaire, and owned a real estate company that owned about ten thousand units on average in each state.
mircea_popescu: well, maybe. i dun see it, but then again, each his own castl.e
mircea_popescu: the magical "just one house" position is fiction, nonsensical etc.
mircea_popescu: The20YearIRCloud that's not the mindset. merely that owning one house is more hassle than its worth
mircea_popescu: or at least made, da fuck knows what's it like there anymore.
mircea_popescu: sure, i could. what diff does that make! i'll just buy the living separately from investment
mircea_popescu: the fact that i can live in it is about as much a consideration as the notion i could fuck my bonds.
mircea_popescu: so you make a commitment to a house that exceeds the commitment you make to the woman in question.
mircea_popescu: well he keeps bringing the "we don't have X here". something he's gotta have, what is this, ohiostan ?
mircea_popescu: cuz you know, i can't be bothered to know in that level of detail, cuz my head is otherwise full.
mircea_popescu: to this point there may be exceptions, but i'm not discussiong 1988 elm street, akron, ohio.
mircea_popescu: The20YearIRCloud but my point isn't to any one specific thing. my point is, there's so much nuttery, and so much complexity involved, that in general you're better off letting someone else eat it.
mircea_popescu: The20YearIRCloud what happens if you don't get your triannual inspection for electric wires ?
mircea_popescu: thw work is still there, even if you piecemeal it away.
mircea_popescu: just because you can "buy umbrella insurance" doesn't mean it's not there.
mircea_popescu: by th time you're done with that, it should be clear why it's not the headache you want.
mircea_popescu: simple question for "homeowners". calculate your per-passerby liability for injury happening on "your" sidewalk. just as a curio.
mircea_popescu: decimation there used to be this thing that you're not a real woman if you give good head
mircea_popescu: sure, some people enjoy, either, as a hobby. some people do their own tattoos.
mircea_popescu: there's this... can't be your own car mechanic. it's just not worth it.
mircea_popescu: re the houseowning discussion : house market is commodified. carrying the cost of inventory makes no sense whatsoever, unless it does. and if it does you want the economies of scale and 100s of unit.s
mircea_popescu: decimation kinda what i meant. depends on your crowd. can conceivably be awful, can be pretty fun
mircea_popescu: gernika: I made more consulting for a firm based out of Minnesota than I was working at the big name tech company that acquired a startup I had worked for. So yeah. Fuck startups. << acquihires are usually pitiful affairs that rarely work
mircea_popescu: decimation well that all depends. they're exactly what advertised on tin
mircea_popescu: not unless you're the sort of guy that makes them pay rent.
mircea_popescu: The20YearIRCloud: zeks? Are those like zergs? << gulag prisoner labor in soviet research.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla i was going to give it to him slowly, but danielpbarron had to go all teenager hormonal on the nice ppls.
mircea_popescu: gernika: I am a consultant in silly-con valley << win.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes my ll is broken cause spanish. talk to ascillifeform