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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, honestly, i still suspect there's a clean way to flash-in via the factory pads. however...
mircea_popescu: apparently we'll end up having to organize a defanging lab.
mircea_popescu: cnomad, outsourcing, rather than buying capital goods.
mircea_popescu: douchebag, "parasite" isn't a class. but yes, arachnids.
mircea_popescu: let's not repeat the mistake that sunk america ; we don't even have an america to sink.
mircea_popescu: also, i can say it is extremely unlikely your preliminary "thousands" figure is correct.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: afaik alphabet all lives there, notwisthanding "tech corp" pretense.
mircea_popescu: well, you live in dc, send a few girls over to talk to the dweebs.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, nice. like in one hand, and piss in the other...
mircea_popescu: saying "jahveh will clear if sacrifice correct ox" is insanity.
mircea_popescu: as far as i'm concerned, two things remain : republicans and slavegirls.
mircea_popescu: "i don't believe in factuality of anything besides usg" is the cheapest brand of shit to eat.
mircea_popescu: and this is not anglotardation ; at some point a decade ago i actually offered a full scholarship. NOBODY claimed it.
mircea_popescu: recall how it never took less than a year for the fucktarded public to even catch on ?
mircea_popescu: you know, i did this on trilema what ? a dozen times ? two ?
mircea_popescu: and somehow, all these inept fucktards sit somewhere "online" on the world wide dweeb, and manage to not notice that "hey, there's some people somewhere , can burn 10s of ks of this shitty green crap just out of boredom. when's the last time our "respectable" "employer" ok'd a $100 expense account ?!?!?!"
mircea_popescu: sure. but anyways, to circle back : i'll match. but i also expect exactly nothing to come of it.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, and ? they ever won a confrontation with us navy ? they ever won without even needing to confront, like the chinese ?
mircea_popescu: if he's a tradesman. if he's a kid getting in the way of adults, nothing will EVER be worth anything. not ever, no matter what you do.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, a tool is worth to the tradesman his life.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, if "worked" then where are these things it worked for ?
mircea_popescu: recall the time i bought that dork a ranked reddit account ? recall the time anything came of it ?
mircea_popescu: and you know, like shinohai -- if you prod him he'll do some movements, like electrocuted, disembodied frog legs. and if you don't he'll sit. and then wonder why it didn't work out and why he's being so badly persecuted.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile nothing's happening, and time goes by, and trinque in the end had a point, no door's open forever.
mircea_popescu: my bet would be, he's working a shitty job in some shitty company and dreams of the day "things will happen".
mircea_popescu: nevermind the referee. explain the incentive structure.
mircea_popescu: nothing. there's not going to be any work encouragement through payment, because the inca has expertly stuffed this channel full of nonsense on both ends. "Free money" from one "nothing to buy for it" from the other, the zek has no use and no need and consequently no conception of money at all.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, consider what the previous bitcoins bought, shall we ?
mircea_popescu: there's no way to cut this : either they do or they don't.
mircea_popescu: notion was you working to self-pacify yourself, really.
mircea_popescu: they won't work ; and paying them is counter-productive : it encourages them to not work.
mircea_popescu: recall the days kakobrekla honestly imagined b-a actually has some sort of future ?
mircea_popescu: where are they ? even fucking today ? a year later, and all the "make mp eat crow" one could conjure up, where is it ?
mircea_popescu: recall ? "put your pdf reader in a bot" "where are your microscopy shots" etc.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, i'm just saying, the thing you discuss, with "has costs", works a ~certain~ way. and if you recall how NOPENOPE NOPE!!! kanzure was wrt getting his inept bs in functional shape, you realise that they will NEVER do any work.
mircea_popescu: cuz im supposed to be just as retarded as any other usg-produced neet.
mircea_popescu: where, of course, "the internet" is really just how he whitewashes satan himself for my benefit\.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, yes, and if zeptobars weren't fucked in the head, they'd have a !Z service here.
mircea_popescu: howsoever indignant my stepping on their faces in the dungeon may make your tingly sense.
mircea_popescu: you're not going to reproduce the former by the latter ; just like you're not going to lure my slavegirls away by promising to be "a good sensitive guy with a great sense of humor".
☟︎ mircea_popescu: but this is not what you ask. what you ask is, "what does the $x mn do". well ? what does it ?
mircea_popescu: whereas their mothers were happy to appear in whistler's mother all decked in black.
mircea_popescu: it does the thing where it's put in front of every soda joint, and before you know it 17 yos are willing to throw their panties at rolling stones and star in cocksucker blues.
mircea_popescu: the item where they ship pre-printed cutouts with the silouette of a girl, and a hole for the head, holding a $x mn check, DOES SOMETHING.
mircea_popescu: ok. let's go back to the original tournament market, the hollywood studio.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: it's the ~advertising~ that does something. you understand this, do you ?
mircea_popescu: but if their brain dun work enough for them to get thjemselves interested on their own, then what's your btc gonna do ?
mircea_popescu: certainly consists of list of miserable overgrown avortons whose mothers should be really, really ashamed they waited.
mircea_popescu: i'm not convinced of anything, but i'd rather discuss it than not.
mircea_popescu: ie, a) if indeed this guy exists that'd give tyou whatever for the whatever prize, and b) i know for certain that he wouldn;'t have otherwise, somehow then c) i'll send a gal over to tie him to a post, slice an inch of his abdomen, and slowly roll his inrtestine on a cat scratch pad.
mircea_popescu: if they can't do this, measured as "don't do this", a) the argument they were intelligent is tenuous and b) paying them is exacrtly thr wrong thing to do.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, folks who can think are cordially invited to extract their head out of their ass, stop cohabiting with monkeys, join the republic.
mircea_popescu: "it doesn't cost me anything" is how filthy person ends up with bug infestation, "oh, the jam they eat cost me nothing".
mircea_popescu: now you want to pay for cr-whatever. why ? do you expect it'll go any differently ? why ? and so on.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, think : paying for tits resulted, before your very eyes, in ever increasing levels of exam taking. yes ? you noticed this, yourself, i said nothing, you complained about it.
mircea_popescu: there wasn't a single noteworthy one in the whole bunch, yes ?
mircea_popescu: the idea is to work things so we make more than they do.
mircea_popescu: yes, but you're making less than alphabet is from this deal.