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mircea_popescu: it's kinda weird
they wenbt with "habarnam" rather
than "niznai" seeing how it's an actual bona fide ro world.
ascii_field: possibly
the lulziest children's economic-themed
tale of all
time
ascii_field: '90s ru capitalism was built seemingly using
that parody as a handbook
mircea_popescu: yup. great book
too. it might be
the best kids book ever written
mircea_popescu: i had never met someone up
to
that point who didn't longhand.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field my first
thought upon encountering my first usians, as a 10 yo boy, was
that "these people never went
to school, did
they ?"
ascii_field: though it is largely extinct in usa, pretty much nobody even dares
to arithmeticize by hand
mircea_popescu: middle aged woman
too, accomplished in fat (there's
this certain rotundness of
the respectable matron with prgeniture)
assbot: Logged on 18-12-2015 17:07:00; mircea_popescu:
the 18 so it's 180 now, comes
to 520. i point
this out. she proceeds
to add
them again correctly
this
time, and comes
to 488. i refuse
this alt-arithmetic
too. she does it once more, hands me 82 pesos in change for my 400. i refuse
this once again, hand 40 pesos back
to her and leave.
gribble: (gt <item1> <item2>) -- Does a string comparison on <item1> and <item2>. Returns
true if <item1> is greater
than <item2>.
assbot: Logged on 18-12-2015 16:28:25; mircea_popescu: and no,
there isn't a local equivalent.
they're just primitive souls, computers = windows ; internet = facebook ; world = argentina etc scl.
liquidassets: HE'S IN A JOKING MOOD
TODAY ISN'T HE SUPER READERS?
assbot: Logged on 18-12-2015 16:28:00; mircea_popescu: in unrelated news :
the grand
total okcupid offering for "women < 30 > 1.70cm within
the 15mn buenos aires conurbation active in
the past day" is... half a dozen people. clearly okcupid's not doing advertising correctly amirite nubbins ? :D
assbot: Logged on 18-12-2015 15:42:51; liquidassets: Don't care really, I'd be impressed. Looking around I'd usually prefer most of
them
to just die already
mircea_popescu: course, such a world will, by and large, suck
to live in. but, again,
the question is, suck FOR WHOM ?
mircea_popescu: the notion
that userbase is a metric has got
to go,
this is a not-negotiable prerequisite of a world
that doesn't suck.
mircea_popescu: just... people are dumb.
that's it.
that's all. you gonna make something
they can use or not ?
mircea_popescu: but
this notwithstanding, you don't need any sort of conspiracy
to explain linux drift, or foss decay.
mircea_popescu: a length of chain, a manger and
the occasional stallion visit is actually better for her.
mircea_popescu: is a proper fucking cash register better
than
this insanity ? well...
that all depends now, dun' it. better FOR WHOM ?
mircea_popescu:
the 18 so it's 180 now, comes
to 520. i point
this out. she proceeds
to add
them again correctly
this
time, and comes
to 488. i refuse
this alt-arithmetic
too. she does it once more, hands me 82 pesos in change for my 400. i refuse
this once again, hand 40 pesos back
to her and leave.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: in any case asciilifeform,
thius is
the primary driver for
the stupidification of everything, and it's genuine. people are stupid. either you build your cash register as
the mcdonals iconographic abomination, or
they stick
to doing it "by hand". like idiot argentine woman yest. i buy a carton of cigarettes, four litersd of milk and
two lighters. she does
the addition on paper. first she adds 80 + 260 + 18 but misplaces
Birdman: Ill
tell you
that for half
the price
mircea_popescu: s per group of users etc.). We should have sold a set of of lists with pictures, a few simplified maps and
targeted howtos rather
than an army-grade Web satellite radar with full control in your hands." <<
the conclusion we arrived at
through spending 1mn euro is
that people are stupid.
mircea_popescu: I mean, who in
the marketing industry is able
to decode a 15K€ Web graph even if it contains loads of useful informations? And
that was our number #1 feature. Now, I acknowledge
the graph data was essential. We should have delivered
them in an more effective and practical way: spreadsheets, data views (who are
the influencers, how can I contact
the websites owners, recommended keywords for Facebook/Twitter/newsletter
mircea_popescu: "I
think we had
too much hesitation in
the decisions about what we were able
to do and on
the delivered product as well.
liquidassets: Contemporary USAmerica, regardless of what it seems like we're going
towards. What needs
to happen is a little bit of pain
liquidassets: Look
the culture of 'government's place is
to stay OUT of
the way' runs deep within America
Birdman: Though by
the same logic, spending 20 USD would get me more bitcoin
than
the bezzle bag will ever in my lifetime
liquidassets: Birdman I say not in our lifetime because from my point of view, we win, we already won, it's just
the matter of convincing Alf of
this fact
mircea_popescu: i suppose on a 20
to 50 year
timeframe, it's drastically improbable anyone with a 1337 satoshi a day in income can possibly starve.
Birdman: These are interesting
times
to be alive,
that is for sure. And i have a bezzle bag so if i do somehow keep my imediate freedoms
through
the crash of fiat and rise of sound money my mouth will be fed.
☟︎ liquidassets: trinque
true, better not
to worry about what is or is not, did I really need
to put an IMO?
mircea_popescu: trinque in fairness, i only imagine
there's gonna be camps for black ppls.
Birdman: The implementation of
this central banking fiat debt cycle nonsense is so new
to
this world. What a century its been here? How long can it really last because we all know it cant.
trinque: don't worry about what is going
to happen. you're not in a position
to predict
that.
Birdman: Thing *seem*
to be pretty bad, but ive only been around 20 years so I i see it all with
that bias. Why do you say not in our lifetime?
Birdman: Im in no position
to get out either, ill see you at
the camps liquidassets
liquidassets: Actually
that's about a perfect answer as
they come
shinohai: "Hey guys, let's rake all
this shit into one pile."
mircea_popescu: liquidassets just being "acquihired" into
the other dying usgtron.
liquidassets: LOL shinohai
that cancer of dogecoin is in full blown metastasis
mircea_popescu: "They will most likely not eat out of your hand if
they can perceive you need
them at first." << bwahahaha.
they will not eat out of your hand if
they perceive you need
them ; and
they will spend every dime
they got
to ignore you outright if
they perceive you don't need
them. so it goes.
mircea_popescu: shinohai
they've been working doubletime
to keep
that
thing afloat. pretty lulzy.
mircea_popescu: atever exists is at best a paraeconomical concern surviving more on ideological fit
than in satisfying objective measures. what, if "customers" are dissatisfied with
the usg food or pills dispensaries
they'll do what exactly ?
mircea_popescu: However
these companies made
their life without you, most probably for years." <<
the fundamental delusion of start-up-ers is
that
the market is free and efficient, and
therefore
there exist objective measures of worth.
the sad reality of life in socialist states (ie, any state
that acquires
through any means any measure of control on 10% of
the production of
the citizens or more) is
that
the market's distorted, and wh
mircea_popescu: "The promise is
the following: a startup
thinks it has an innovative solution. A startup
thinks many other companies would pay for it.
mircea_popescu: who knew
that answering a bunch of pre-made questions nobody could care less about and
then
trying
to mechanically "datamine"
them isn't as good an approach as "hey, check out X, she's exactly right for you"
mircea_popescu: (in other news, okcupid's "ai" matching system is an utter useless pos. my own network creates usable hits with a 50% probability or better, by
the 100s/day - and i didn't even KNOW i know chicks on okcupid in
the first place.
their crapolade made me click no about five hundred
times in a row.)
liquidassets: Birdman females are OBSESSED with who gets
to sleep with who, it's one of
their shows of power
that some don't give up even after high school
trinque: Birdman: even
that is "pay attention
to me!"
mircea_popescu: well attention seeking behaviours are
the invisible glue
that keeps society
together n'est pas.
Birdman: I guess
the man hating isn't
there, but you know,
the crazy feminists who
think a guy eyeing a hot girl is somehow violent and un just.
They just know all
too well
that
their sexuality is empowering, so
those who lack it are intimidated. Sort of like
the beta male crying for fairness with socialism or communism, but really just knows his weaknesses and cant compete in
the
true fair system.
mircea_popescu: (the counter doth actually exist - men
that genuinely hate women. i suspect
the driver is
that men are, for some inexplicable reason, actually petrified of cunt. it seems innate.)
mircea_popescu: but
that unicorn,
the woman
that actually hates men, i've not encountered myself.
mircea_popescu: honestly, i've yet
to meet a woman (not mayo-gendered abominations, i've really not met any nor do i intend
to)
that actually hated men.
there's a very mean streak in women generally, but visible with
the naked eye in just some, where
they
truly and irationally haet beta boys, for some definition of beta
that may be at first confounding.
Birdman: Ehh maybe i mean misandrists
then, feminazis. Or
that you've accomplished an incredible feat.
mircea_popescu: and no,
there isn't a local equivalent.
they're just primitive souls, computers = windows ; internet = facebook ; world = argentina etc scl.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: in unrelated news :
the grand
total okcupid offering for "women < 30 > 1.70cm within
the 15mn buenos aires conurbation active in
the past day" is... half a dozen people. clearly okcupid's not doing advertising correctly amirite nubbins ? :D
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "any flaws were god-given ; any qualities are my own" is just another rewrapping of
that stale old jeder nach seinen fahigkeiten, jedem nach seinen Bedurfnissen cumbiscuit.
Birdman: Just as all
the feminists are on
the unattracive side of
the spectrum
Birdman: all
the pc sjws are
the people so repugnant
that
they need
to claim a moral ground against pointing out
their flaws.
liquidassets: health food grocery store by a college campus after graduation....most of my life has been about "PC" or at least
the prospect of it..
mircea_popescu knew a pimp
that actually had a day job - working in a mall shoe store.
liquidassets: For fun MP and because even
though it was menial it still was going
to be beneficial
mircea_popescu: if it's cuz you feel like it,
then minesotta richboy's rather funny. if he's not funny,
then wtf accomplishments were
they.
Birdman: Does it upset you some people have a better start in
the world?
mircea_popescu: more importantly, why
the fuck would you be working a menial job if you've ever accomplished anything fo real ?
liquidassets: LOL yeah probably...never felt
too proud about
them, even
though I "should" because of how
they look
Birdman: If you are proud of your accomplishments you wont be
threatened by anothers i guess.
mircea_popescu: liquidassets
there's something fundamentally wrong about
those accomplishments.
liquidassets: Birdman natural as in I felt it before when in a 'menial' job
taken AFTER accomplishments I was proud of and some surecock comes waltzing in
telling everyone how mommy and daddy OWN a grocery store back in Minnesota and so blah blah...And I let him get under my skin
mircea_popescu: Birdman yeah
they've been blaring it out of all horns for a coupla days now. it makes a stark contrast
to how quiet
they'll be about
the end results of
this yet-another GTO (glorious
tikrit offensive).
mircea_popescu: really puts into perspective all
the dumbass stevensons out
there, doing srs bzns on
teh interwebs.
trinque: on
the one side,
the moo-eyed demands of
the walmart customer, and on
the other, a male desire for power which - if he's worth a shit - will accumulate over his lifetime
trinque: you are both conflating at least
two
things.
Birdman: Natural as in most people will end up like
that? I dont intend
to grow into
that situation. I cant speak for anything outside of my own experiences, but as
the world with open arms accepts socialism, you can expect more unfounded entitlement.