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mircea_popescu: In 376 the East faced an enormous barbarian influx across the Danube, mostly Goths who were refugees from the Huns. They were exploited by corrupt officials rather than effectively resettled, and they took up arms, joined by more Goths and by some Alans and Huns. Valens was in Asia with his main field army, preparing for an assault on the Persians
mircea_popescu: yes. for that matter depleted uranium is basically free
mircea_popescu: the internet is this fascinating window into the endless wtf that other people's ideas of their own accomplishments are.
mircea_popescu: "How would you go about handling a friend whose secretly jealous off my success with women. He’s always trying his luck with women i had or currently involved with. But he didn’t bang any of the sluts in my harlem yet."
mircea_popescu: buncha dorks get together to reenact ayn rand. it's not just jousts anymore.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell benkay definitely not, my staff reads it.
mircea_popescu: the place where you can manufacture fucks when you don't have any to give ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i doubt fast neutrons would work for the purpose
mircea_popescu: the process is that an extra proton eats a low electron to create an energetic neutron and spits it out as a neutrino
mircea_popescu: whoa fuck, mercury ghuh ? the alchemists had it right ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform pls to make the math visible for this, is important.
mircea_popescu: you can filter those out the same way and on the same machines you make dup.
mircea_popescu: dude wtf no wonder the price of gold is "depressed". it's not lol.
mircea_popescu: o fuck me. well what the fucking fuck, how sure are you of this ? math me up.
mircea_popescu: ima put this in a n article just to have what to link later.
mircea_popescu: this is the entire silkroad nonsense all over again. nobody cares you have 1mn little dribblets of sugar all over your kitchen floor.
mircea_popescu: people insist to not understand that the value of 1gw you can peel into 1kw consumers is not the same as the value of 1mn 1kw producers you ahve to link to 1mn 1kw consumers.
mircea_popescu: mod6 also they get the units for free don't they ? just sign some paperwork.
mircea_popescu: mod6 independant households are only good if they're inhabited by independent people.
mircea_popescu: mod6 probably the idea is that they're the troublemakers and so they should pay.
mircea_popescu: that's why economic growth has been by now baked into the system at statal level. it's actually bad for corps when income dwindles because it exposes fixed costs
mircea_popescu: anything else can be borne, but less income is bad for any corp.
mircea_popescu: i suppose the moral is, "don't be on the shit end of the stick"
mircea_popescu: i guess by now about half gay pron scenes are shot 100% by actors who aren't gay.
mircea_popescu: certainly gay porn sets are innundated with gay for pay actors shooting stuff in their cocks to get erections.
mircea_popescu: probably goes the same way on the other half of the town too.
mircea_popescu: some will get down to business and explore what "anything" means in that "do anything" bit.
mircea_popescu: i guess it's been moving that way for a decade or two already. not everyone is going to sit and whine with horseface-whatshername that men are "impossible to find"
mircea_popescu: mod6 the adsites for such weirdos are already awash in women that identify as "slaves" and will "do anything" but are looking for a monogamous, husbandy relationship.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i have trouble seeing this bloomberg article as anything other than "we're nice, give us free shit"
mircea_popescu: arizona would probably end up in the future as a whole state's worth of solar farms + datacenters here and there.
mircea_popescu: the us is so far from a naturally regulating market economy it's scary.
mircea_popescu: i suppose that's federally mandated or some retarded shit.
mircea_popescu: “Its totally unfair to put any charge on customers that are simply reducing demand,” said Court Rich
mircea_popescu: something would have to be charged just to maintain the grid + meters + etc.
mircea_popescu: so why are they so pissed that there's a ~ 0.1 cent fee per kwh ?
mircea_popescu: and unrelated : if anyone was waiting to try eulora, server is up and more or less stable
mircea_popescu: once i switched to english this temporarily went away, but it's slowly returning.
mircea_popescu: historically trilema was actually better for the comments rthan the articles.