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liquidassets: HE'S IN A JOKING MOOD TODAY ISN'
T HE SUPER READERS?
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: 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: but this notwithstanding, you don'
t need any sort of conspiracy to explain linux drift, or foss decay.
liquidassets: Because it doesn'
t make sense; we are in such a unique position
trinque: don'
t worry about what is going to happen. you're not in a position to predict that.
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: 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
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: and no, there isn'
t a local equivalent. they're just primitive souls, computers = windows ; internet = facebook ; world = argentina etc scl.
☟︎ trinque: and if not, he'll still want it as he'd still want sex, even if he couldn'
t get any.
liquidassets: Birdman and this is where I think there's an actual generational difference, the younger doesn'
t just automatically give it
liquidassets: Don'
t care really, I'd be impressed. Looking around I'd usually prefer most of them to just die already
☟︎ mircea_popescu: soviet soap (like cheap usian soap, for that matter) is a kind of detergent. this isn'
t what good soap is.
mircea_popescu: g anything but begging you to take their money ? here's a simple rule of thumb : if your start-up is not in this position where someone somewhere perceives he can'
t afford NOT to pay you, it's not a start-up. it might be a business idea, perhaps, but it can not be a start-up.
mircea_popescu: so the shaman isn'
t ordering the clouds to cover the sun and sprout forth rain, but instead is commanding the crows to stop eating the cloud seeds so the clouds may spring forth etc ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the goal in that line wouldn'
t be the same "make better code", just, find any holes.
mircea_popescu: some of which aren'
t even permanent (ie, subtle sorts of bugs, that only leak 100kb every other six hours once maybe, sorta thing)
mircea_popescu: jurov there's clearly something there, just, we aren'
t finding it is all.
assbot: Logged on 18-12-2015 13:31:51; mircea_popescu: the same exact process used in "policing" the ghetto, at the taxpayer's expense but in the usg's own private benefit is also what the us military does abroad. the point isn'
t for iraq to functyion or not, the point is for there to not exist any gaddafi's. let the euros deal with the fallout, what, that's what the castrated suckers are there for anyway.
liquidassets: But exactly was my point with her. She wanted it 'just in the bedroom' and eventually it got to be, well, what's this thought that your life DOESN"
T reflect it...
liquidassets: Not sure where I first found it/read it, it wasn'
t on the internet, but wasn'
t a book either...
mircea_popescu: the same exact process used in "policing" the ghetto, at the taxpayer's expense but in the usg's own private benefit is also what the us military does abroad. the point isn'
t for iraq to functyion or not, the point is for there to not exist any gaddafi's. let the euros deal with the fallout, what, that's what the castrated suckers are there for anyway.
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 18-12-2015 05:23:35; asciilifeform: see, everybody who expected that it'd be simply commissioned from 'lockheed' or similar, doesn'
t understand Phreeeeedom !1
assbot: Logged on 18-12-2015 05:24:47; asciilifeform: btw, mircea_popescu, ever ask torvalds why he doesn'
t shutter 'linux foundation' for pissing on ~his~ trademark ?
mircea_popescu: the real driver isn'
t that USG wants to favour women over men.
mircea_popescu: now we finally understand the deep driver behind the "it's ok to be fat in the subway, it's not ok to sit comfortably. eating doesn'
t cause obesity, it's genetic, notwithstanding no single "genetic" obese dude in all those auschwitz pics ; meanwhile smoking causes cancer, it's not genetic and it's especially not the sad result of all the crap industry puts in the tobacco and also mark twain didn'
t smoke two railcars' w
punkman: but they didn'
t have "blockchain"
danielpbarron: "There is no one blockchain to rule them all. There will be multiple implementations of the blockchain. And it will be a sin if they don'
t interoperate and work together."
trinque: "I’m blockchain agnostic." << Bitcoin doesn'
t know (or care) whether you exist either.
mircea_popescu: i guess it boggles his mind because it makes a point he doesn'
t wish to hear. anyway, race has exactrly nothing to do with it : woman can either be my slave, out to carve your empire into the dust, or one of the empire's own aspirationally-vacuous wastes of flesh, brigading social media so that maybe it has some effect on reality.
mircea_popescu: "Women, white and black, who do not qualify for management, are usually not worth anything on the staff, and generally steal at about 20%, with lower paid working black girls less than half as likely to steal as their management counterparts, and white girls on staff infinitely more larcenous than the white girls in management. I won’
t even try and explain this, as it boggles my mind." it doesn'
t boggle my mind any.
mircea_popescu: and yes asciilifeform, part of why mp is not hiring is that mp despises how stupid people actually are, and can'
t seriously work with the sort of idiots.
mircea_popescu: "Supermarkets cannot stay open in extensive urban ghettos for multiple reasons. It might also surprise you to know that supermarkets that do not embrace a catering/restaurant program [which is expensive] do not thrive in upscale locales. You might be able to keep the doors open—but forget a profit. People with money make their food purchases at restaurants. You didn'
t buy that stunning piece of plastic surgery to hav
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> but i don'
t get how living there gives you an edge << obviously you never lived in new york. ask mike_c
mircea_popescu: but when they discover they can'
t afford both underwear AND stockings, THAT is wqhen the stupid women running the show start getting open plam slapped across the diner table.
mircea_popescu: except they won'
t starve. nor would it do anything, it doesn'
t help the proud
mircea_popescu: it wouldn'
t do anything. the glut that has to unwind is rela estate, not cash.
mircea_popescu: specifically : if say peasants sell 1bn dollars worth of soy, and get 9bn pesos for it ; whereas dumbass middle aged women spend 100mn dollars on shoes and perfumes because they don'
t wish to admit to me they're subhuman, for which they pay 1.5bn pesos,
mircea_popescu: new government decided this nonsense can'
t caqrry on, and wants to liberalize the dollar. this, logically, would make the price drop.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, the contact points with the outside economy are controlled as well as they can be (they can'
t be - most of the local trade is in the hands of the chinese, who own the proud but stupid argentine. whenever i want to move dollars, or to dispose of any other actyual economic or poltiical matters, i talk to an asian person. no exceptions. i wouldn'
t break a date with han because macri called, sort of thing)
mircea_popescu: what is this, socialism ? need ain'
t a consideration comrade.
mircea_popescu: at any rate, the idea isn'
t to " attempts to prevent the foreclosure of people's homes". for one thing, you don'
t try, you do. for the other thing, you take every bit of real property the bank "owns" away from the bank.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: But don'
t we need to track how many pinecones to plant in order to grow stakes?
BingoBoingo: Oh, yeah. We don'
t cunt clicks either. We click cunts.
assbot: Logged on 17-12-2015 23:45:23; pete_dushenski: based on alf's repeated references to gsm as 'toy crypto', i don'
t think he maintains any delusions about cell phone security
pete_dushenski: politicians don'
t think in terms of delivery, they think in terms of re-election and passing-the-buck
pete_dushenski: based on alf's repeated references to gsm as 'toy crypto', i don'
t think he maintains any delusions about cell phone security
☟︎ BingoBoingo: China can'
t afford to have vegetables floated in. They gotta have rice and clenbuterol pork
adlai: it's all about fuel economies of scale, haven'
t you read your grukman?
ascii_field doesn'
t spend much time in d.c. city limits proper
pete_dushenski: i can see hong kong being 'landlocked' but unless dc is surrounded by mountain ranges that i don'
t know about, i'm not sure i see it either
BingoBoingo: ascii_field: Of course that fraud doesn'
t rise to Qntra levels until it issues an Altcoin to buy a scooty puff, or it can get a nickname like COD (short for cock and dog) mongler.
BingoBoingo: punkman: Haven'
t paid that much attention, but he's the one who tried to extort cazalla
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> curious how long they take to BAN ME!111 omaigawds << You aren'
t looking in Missouri or Ohio? I though you were doing Anthropology, or Whaleology.
mircea_popescu: i mean don'
t get me wrong, it's a theory, but that's about it.
mircea_popescu: i saw it but i'm not persuaded it explains anything. what, exactly, someone can'
t just walk into the dc copy the server ?
mircea_popescu: oh look at that, from back in the days ben_vulpes wasn'
t too ashamed of random mishap to show up in b-a ? :D
mircea_popescu: you can'
t run a bar by giving out free drinks. you CAN however, and if you have any sense you DO run a bar by giving away free tits.
mircea_popescu: there isn'
t really that much difference. all this mentally deranged "we are changing the world" third reiteration of the quaker/puritan insanities tries hard and in selected idiots manages to cover up the simple fact that every situation where "our saviour the entrepreneur created value" can always be described in terms of "this leech is arbitraging the roof against the wall, either wayy we'll end up under rubble."
ascii_field: (idiot can get money, in 1,001 ways; and didn'
t we do 'inferior brit stock' untermenschen last night ?)
mircea_popescu: i don'
t like the idea because i send the girls. picking good stuff is complex. but yes, if they could be trusted to do something other than the usual anglosphere "this is how supermarket gets rid of all the imminetly-rotten junk", then yeah.
mircea_popescu: There never was a need for a service like ours in the UK in the segment that we picked (urban professionals, couples without kids or with one baby max). << ironically, the need does exist. argentina does one thing right, and that is they are FANATIC with deliveries. you can have ANYTHING delivered. i don'
t mean, walk into supermarket, order two pellets of mineral water and have the supermarket deliver it - you can do
t mircea_popescu: "what do you mean the great equations don'
t apply to me ?! what, i'm like, not good enough to matter in this sense ?!?!?!"
mircea_popescu: at any rate, the notion that people are actively interested in oppressing his dumb ass so that their world isn'
t littered with the byproducts of a trillion adam zerners running around does not even begin to occur.
mircea_popescu: something like "why wouldn'
t mom go turn tricks for an hour each weekend, it only costs her an hour's worth of tricks, like 50 bucks or so, and she could buy me WoW from the proceeds, at a value to me of OVER NINE THOUSAND DOLLARS!11". supposedly this is how it worked with that dumb whore of Adam Zerner's mother. shame on you mrs zerner, really. being ugly is no excuse to fuck drunks. behold the unfortunate results in
mircea_popescu:
https://archive.is/u5LjB << the butttears piece in question (obviously what he links is his own verbiage, because what, we can'
t all be mp ?! why the hell not!). his idea is that people are assholes because they don'
t front what [appears to him as] a small cost to them in order to get him [what appears to him as] a larger benefit.
mircea_popescu: don'
t ever hire one of those schmucks, it's as good as signing a blank confession.