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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
mircea_popescu: if you recall, they failed for years before it even could be powered on
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform re the cern cabling : part of it is that they know it's gonna fail.
mircea_popescu: The20YearIRCloud better stock up on antimattercoin then
mircea_popescu: decimation no, actually, that's a requirement for numbers to work.
mircea_popescu: make sure you ecologically dispose of the old interwebs
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal of course not. govt can't compete with free market.
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal a teenager could have done the obamacare site, too
mircea_popescu: SubCreative podcasts are a horrible medium. got the transcript somewhere ?
mircea_popescu: just because they're after you doesn't mean you're not paranoid.
mircea_popescu: cazalla what'd you have it be, iron plows ? this ain't 2011 bc anymore.
mircea_popescu: SubCreative simmer down lol, people just hate new ideas.