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mircea_popescu: and by
trims i mean a list. civil judgements for accidents, including hunting! included.
mircea_popescu: locals fell over when saw. even at
the
time, my
thing beat
their 7k/year
thing.
mircea_popescu: yes, it was a nicety
thrown in because shipping insurance deals. whatevs.
mircea_popescu: and re
the fine print...
there's a lot of suckers and retail in
there. last i went
to
the states, i got full insurance, from lloyds of london no less. for, if memory serves, #159.
mircea_popescu: hey, plenty of people get degrees in history of feminist
theatre.
trinque: sorry, *there is a minimum expense involved in running a business and you can't get around
that fact.
mircea_popescu: there is nothing wrong with
this - people do it all
the
time. venice was entirely built out of
the fact
that a boat
took on average 3.5 merchants
mircea_popescu: there exists a hole in
this "single derpy consultant business".
mircea_popescu: if you ever drove clutch you gotta understand
this. you can not run car at ALL speeds and combos.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you have
to appreciate : in nature,
there exists such a
thing as a hole.
trinque: wtf is a business if you can't pay a few grand
to a lawyer per month?
mircea_popescu: you know you can generally get a basic package kinda similar
to insurance.
mircea_popescu: the notion
that you're going
to run a business, but not have counsel, not have
tax and accounting support, not have etc etc is like you'll cook a meal for a wedding without stove or pots or pans.
mircea_popescu: do you understand
this ? about a
third of my mail EACH DAY is various people in various jurisdictions
telling me "mr popescu how do we proceed in
the following situation : X. A does so and so B does so and so [C, D , E]"
mircea_popescu: could have
told him WHAT fucking each path would hold in future!
mircea_popescu: look,
the dilemma here isn't "either i be eunuch or else i go fight for odin as a berserker"
mircea_popescu: "i didn't expect solid items
to be where
the atmosphere goes"
mircea_popescu: how do you perceive what he did (hurr durr i'm going
to be a business) is different from average
tardstalk forumite (hurr durr i'm going
to be an exchange) ?
mircea_popescu: the
term "slap on
the wrist" is a business call. it stands correct as it is. your "pretty penny" is a housewife call. it's not relevant how much it is.
mircea_popescu: at
the very least would have warned him 2 years in advance.
mircea_popescu: he decided
to do
this incredibly idiotic
thing after which didn't want
to pay
the slap on
the wrist penalty
that attaches
to doing incredibly idiotic
thing ?
mircea_popescu: "man should not discharge rifle into boat". who
the fuck
told him he can run a consulting business without a
tax expert ? even accountant level.
mircea_popescu: "what should man
that discharged his rifle into his boat do ?"
mircea_popescu: this is how
this works : if it is your field of expertise, you have legal
team ready
to go. either you're a complete imbecile, or woe be upon whoever gets involved. if not your field of expertise, you're either prosecuting in which case generally you want
to assign
the matter ; or else you're in deep shit.
mircea_popescu: in general, if you're not working with retained counsel, but have
to purpose hire, you have no business going
to court.
mircea_popescu: i've so far netted more money
than
the average us citizen's net worth out of simply selling cases.
mircea_popescu: but in general - not
that i expect
this
to be practically useful
to anyone, as it isn't without
the rest of
the
tools involved -
the matter hinges on
that fine
thin line when liability can be personally attached. once you can start going after individuals rather
than
their precious "government" construct in
the abstract,
they pop like watermelons in august.
mircea_popescu: it's one
thing
to
try and run a marathon. it;s another
thing
to
try and run a marathon with pneumonia.
mircea_popescu: [yes, i've beaten
tax authorities into
the dirt on multiple occasions]
a111: Logged on 2016-04-22 00:49 phf: naggum
tried
to maintain his own versions of everything (i.e. burn it out with hot irons) and...
mircea_popescu: who
the fuck asked anybody, and why isn't
this just some
text config file somewhere.
a111: Logged on 2016-04-22 00:46 phf: oh i understand. it's like
the cl mode.
they've been fighting cl mode for years, without success, because it's hellof useful. not only has cl mode now been replaced with cl-lib which prefixes ~everything~ with cl- (cl-first, cl-defstruct, cl-fuck-your-mother) but
they also disabled highlight of all
the cl forms. so cl-defstruct highlights, defstruct doesn't.
to discourage
the sins of
the flesh, y'see.
a111: Logged on 2016-04-22 00:37 asciilifeform:
there is apparently nothing more alluring
to
the vermin
than a not-yet-verminized ecosystem
mircea_popescu: mats> anglos go rite
to hell, etc << but i'm not anglo ?!
phf: ok, i'm going
to sleep.
this was an entertaining conversation, even if a recap of many past
threads
phf: well, more like 8086 and cadr
today and proper lispm maybe in
the future if somebody designs one
phf: so what's
the advantage of fpga based architecture as opposed
to someone hypothetically investing quite a bit more
than 500k into a high density risc, etc.?
phf: so
the idea is what drop $500k on an pure documented fpga, hope
that maker crowd will help you recoup your costs, use fraction
to run
tmsr infrastructure? :)
☟︎