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mircea_popescu: DrewHorne anyway, a good step forward, now people could rate you.
mircea_popescu: DrewHorne im really not interested in carrying private conversations. we don't know each other, we have nothing private to discuss.
mircea_popescu: at the very most tyhe management could solicit nonbinding opinions from holders, there's a mpex mechanism for doing this embedded in some listing agreements,
mircea_popescu: because you couldn't afford to let a physical tractor go to waste, as a society.
mircea_popescu: chetty exactly. but in the old days of imperfect economy, people actually had to have a backchannel, and take over the tractor or whatever it was
mircea_popescu: history has shown that their opinions weren't worth holding.
mircea_popescu: anyway, if you read the original thread of the sdice listing, the same sort of derpage was raised by the losers vocal there. amoing a pile of other "good and considered" reasons not to invest.
mircea_popescu: immaterial means of production and geographically dispersed agents reduces the corporate voting to meaninglessness. not that it worked too well pre bitcoin, either.
mircea_popescu: voting rights made sense in the old days of geographically fixed agents and material means of production. that situation changed.
mircea_popescu: voting rights are nonsense in bitcoin anyway. what the fuck are they going to do, get a confederatied majority and... what, oust you ? take over ?
mircea_popescu: at any rate it'd be proper scholarship, rather than the current courtois-type nonsense.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, if any of you is fucking a history major on the side... maybe it's time for her phd.
mircea_popescu: i dunno that there could be a better one, should get magna.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, this could be a phd thesis for a history student in a good uni.
mircea_popescu: the lack of which is the worst problem of history, because you never quite know for sure just how important this particular bit of nonsense really is
mircea_popescu: yeah. unlike a historian, it has the invaluable advantage that people present in the deepest strata of history are still around today, and they can say either "ah, that one point is fucking stupid, forget it" or the contrary.
mircea_popescu: it's speaking to contemporaries not to people long gone
mircea_popescu: cool. so then it should build context from present day through archeological remains,
mircea_popescu: you're not trying tro get me to pay for access in order to shake my head
mircea_popescu: this thing you're making, it's intended to satisfy the needs of noobs, right ?
mircea_popescu: they would be building context in the way of the noob, rather than i nthe way of the sacred cow.
mircea_popescu: well so in that case don't oppose what he said to me eh!
mircea_popescu: fluffypony you didn't get shot down ? i supported it, what did you think "fluffypony on the topic of how good design begets business." meant ?
mircea_popescu: i tell you it's not my mood, that'd be like saying the girl was horny. no, no, it was in your approach, not in her horniness i tell you! he somehow, improbably, managed to whistle into the modem.
mircea_popescu: bitcoinpete: just readin logs atm, looks like drew came by with quite the edm business proposal. mp's flowers must have put him in a fabulous mood because he's !downed newcomers for less << someone should sometime do a comparative study of how noobs fare in here.
mircea_popescu: the magnificent assets have any suggestion as to what i should say to the redditard next ?
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal: how does it get executed << euro future, settles 15th of each month, can be delivered as euros on bitcoin central.
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal: mpex drop? << yeah it like, plunged a few days ago. it actually does this, probably to mess with mike trying to understand the news impact.
mircea_popescu: course, it used to be made by the girl in question, but hey. "if the cake is tasty, maybe we should come to this place more often"
mircea_popescu: "if the cake is tasty we should be together", prolly older than the wheel.
mircea_popescu: by the way, that's actually quite ancient chinese stuff.
mircea_popescu: i don't think there ever existed or could ever exist a functioning society in which nursing jobs are to be discounted because too little demand and too many people wanting to do it.
mircea_popescu: now granted, if the thing they want to do is i dunno, watch tv, then one could say "how about you do this instead".
mircea_popescu: and you know, soime people want to do a certain thing.
mircea_popescu: well yes she speaks english, she was born in texas or something, i forget.
mircea_popescu: the curse of being born in the best country in the world, a few decades before it became the best country in the world.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell benkay "Adding a picture" ? that article is kinda silly.
mircea_popescu: this is probably also the fault of the rentiers and savers.
mircea_popescu: couldn't pay for my fucking coffee. not all the coffee i drink in a week, either, just, one time.
mircea_popescu: the best she could find was this deal where she took ~12 hours' worth of examinations, and they got her a thing for 3 hours / week.
mircea_popescu: because "the recession is over", yet people with valuable experience and qualifications are looking for work. this somehow makes sense.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, listen to this sad story : the mother of a friend, who has been a nurse all her life, 20+ years, and who is actually a very good nurse, and who's got a back injury from lifting people in wheelchair up to busses and so on, has been trying for the past 6 months to get a job.
mircea_popescu: amusingly enough, venezuela is also a federal republic. only... 30ish years more advanced than the us
mircea_popescu: in spite of the government having clearly made a rule that there should be toilet paper!
mircea_popescu: the burgeoisie, god damned them, keep making it impossible for the working man to find toilet paper in the store.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony the socialist state in its final decomposition stages has identified the enemies of the people : savers and owners.
mircea_popescu: anyway, this is all for me. see you ~guys~ in the morning.
mircea_popescu: Drew alright. see, now you're sounding a lot less like dank.
mircea_popescu: anyway. this actually looks like a sane budget. who made it ?
mircea_popescu: can you believe, dear assets, that the ticket mafia gypped him for almost 40% of the rent of the venue ?
mircea_popescu: already working on it in the us to a distasteful degree.
mircea_popescu: maybe with too many incentives stacked up, they'll figure out a way to do it, and that'll be a horror worse than any other.
mircea_popescu: "Let the trolls try to collect danegeld from a hundred million consumers!" << this may be dangerous, in that putting too much weight on something "that will hold anything" never works. like you know, 19th century poliution and the ideas of "send fumes in the air, it can take anything" or "water will wash anyhing away"
mircea_popescu: benkay i dunno, that's why the producers hire research depts yo uknow ? not my jobsworth :D
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform now as far as programmable gpus go, o boy would computer games love thids
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal no im just saying switching nicks is a very expensive operation for everyone else