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mircea_popescu: yes. but some great empires have them through the heart, like austro-hungary
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ukrainian nation was born out of stalin' famine. it is distinct from the commonwealth.
mircea_popescu: the caucasus is its own thing, not a nation but a patchwork of nations, which are all factual nations, in the manner of the old "sick man of europe".
mircea_popescu: for one thing, china is extremely homogenous, with precious few exceptions. georgia and the ukraine however are both quite distinct nations from the muscovy 'rus
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that view is popular, but imo flawed, fwtw.
mircea_popescu: interesting how riot gear would be "humane". it looks rather dart-vader-esque really
mircea_popescu: someone still eats pressed duck, even if they have synthetic mayo now, and someone still hunts
mircea_popescu: i think pretty much everyone in the 20+ range active online is on yahoo here.
mircea_popescu: and is that payments processed or their own net revenue ?
mircea_popescu: for curiosity sake, other than renting cars for the day, did bitpay actually publish its figures finally ?
mircea_popescu: course, amusingly enough, if btctalk wasn't run by kids it could have become that yahoo.
mircea_popescu: pankkake a workstation only has value if you have people sitting there, working on something.
mircea_popescu: a year later, with 0 roi on all the "investment", yahoo is left as a behemoth without a business model.
mircea_popescu: revenue in yahoo fuels the impression there's a web revolution happening, which keeps the investors "investing"
mircea_popescu: TATdoesReno as graham i think summed it up, the dotcom bubble consisted of the following process : noob company bamboozles some backers for financing, goes and drops all that into yahoo's lap for advertising.
mircea_popescu: it never yet worked, but hey. we can't all be experienced ceos etc.
mircea_popescu: part of the entire "we'll make a joke of our legal system and then wonder why we get bombed" thing
mircea_popescu: they're actually at risk of losing their license if they fail to pay.
mircea_popescu: but it's a convenience thing. you give notice so they can get the cash in the right building
mircea_popescu: nubbins`> i was thinking about this, there's a stipulation at both of the banks i deal with here in canada that you must give your branch at least 24 hours notice before large withdrawals <<< this is true in romania too
mircea_popescu: this is why they do not in fact perceive they need a business plan. this is why the very sensible "ask mp's permission first" comes through as quite intolerable "before you may fuck youy must buy a bride from the elders of the tribe", a limit on the life of the young male.
mircea_popescu: they do not with anything else than to matter, to impose themselves in the world. there's no business there, just the desire that drives some poor third worlder to spam or beg or try and steal. the will to live.
mircea_popescu: this is incidentally quite clear proof that they are not businesses in any sense of the term, but mere extensions in the verbal space of the will to live of some twerps.
mircea_popescu: every "business" has to make its own a) altchain b) asic c) exchange.
mircea_popescu: so retarded this, speaking of "exactly the wrong thing"
mircea_popescu: how do you wound a pig with a knife from horseback ? do real women have 9 foot long arms ?
mircea_popescu: mno, just, there are specifiable behaviours which are both successful and also both statistically associated with females and conceptually derivable from the feminine. no good reason they shouldn't be specifically represented.
mircea_popescu: or perhaps a subgroup of tards posing as feminists make it really easy.
mircea_popescu: why not stamp collecting ? what's feminism got that stamp collecting ain't got to make it the cornerstone of random modern X ?
mircea_popescu: "Feminist software is a cornerstone of any modern free society. We build this foundation." derp lol.
mircea_popescu: so on the good news side of things, i just picked up some indescript bark shavings and crafted a coupla bark flasks in eulora
mircea_popescu: (partly because the daughters are sluts and keep fucking the underclass, partly because the sons are lazy and well... same deal)
mircea_popescu: the only way to get an "educated populace" is to constuct a hierarchy, where 90% are enforced into slavery, and then the 10% at the top have a good incentive to be educated