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chetty: nothing all
that creepy about it, except maybe a certain lack of windows :P
mircea_popescu: yeah. as fiat becomes worth less and less in actual money,
that problem will slowly melt.
mircea_popescu: why exactly is
the state and its corporations allowed any protection ? worst
thing
to aid and abet.
mircea_popescu: it's about plainest morals : please consider if your duty
to yourself, as a free man worth
two shits doesn't require you
to publish all
the shit you know.
mircea_popescu: except it's not about
the fucktard museum
that's
the nsa, nor about
the long dead us generally.
mircea_popescu: to quote rms, "To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider whether defending
the US Constitution against all enemies, foreign or domestic, requires you
to follow Snowden's example."
hegemoOn: i agree about
the natural selection process
mircea_popescu: bitcoin will be fine.
there will be carnage in its wake, but
that in itself is a positive outcome.
mircea_popescu: gavincoin will, because gavincoin is fundamentally predicated on
the broken proposition of adjusting
to
the world.
hegemoOn: and bitcoin will face
the same
trouble when going
to retail world
hegemoOn: on protocol level and
transaction life
mircea_popescu: if you don't hurt
the
things you don't like, you're not really a man.
mircea_popescu: hegemoOn if you feel like writing out
the details, qntra is looking for more "fiat sucks" failure stories.
hegemoOn: im just saying
that outsourcing/low cost profile lead
to failure
hegemoOn: asciilifeform: im not saying
that i should earn more from
that :)
hegemoOn: 120 peoples working on
this platform and only 10% skilled enough
to understand what
they do
hegemoOn: guess who worked
to parse all
the log and worked with bank
to recoved
the money from auth message during 3 weeks ?
hegemoOn: imagine
this situation during 9hours of
transaction history of main reteller in uk !
hegemoOn: so plateform considers
transaction is archived on database
hegemoOn: exemple of failure :
transaction processor which doesn't listen
to commit acknowledgment of
the sql database
hegemoOn: and communication
towards customer which loose money
hegemoOn: and i can really state
that lowcost hiring leads
to poor result
hegemoOn: i worked
two years and half on
transactionnal platform of Ingenico
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i actually have a post scheduled (for like 6 months now) for day after
tomorrow.
mircea_popescu: they pose no
threat, because
their capital can always be confiscated.
decimation: in
the usa, 'freelance computer guys' are
treated by
the
tax authorities as
tax cheats
hegemoOn: who
tends
to seduce more
those service company
hegemoOn: and
the golden era of computer guy was gone
hegemoOn: which sells
them back legion of low cost computer guy
hegemoOn: and
then bank/insurance create service company
hegemoOn: in
the 90 most computer guy were freelancer
hegemoOn: exactly
the same happened in computer land
hegemoOn: and even getting money back as far as
they were paying for a service
to a company
they owns
hegemoOn: thhis is how
they break
the average cost of security operator
hegemoOn: and use
those instead of freelancer
mircea_popescu: just like whores are only allowed
to work "on
their own" in
those situations where
there's not enough food
to go around.
mircea_popescu: hegemoOn but you understand
there's something fundamental about
the occupation
that makes
them servants
to
the club, right ?
decimation: mircea_popescu: yeah, if individuals had direct control of
their wealth, accounting would get quite complex
mircea_popescu: similarly, it'd simplify accounting if
the
theatre just closed down. but
then...
hegemoOn: but owner of club decided
to unit and
mircea_popescu: decimation
the point for
the accounting is
to not be simplified. it would also simplify accounting if
the
two jews "selling" each other
the same painting just wrote random numbers of paper.
decimation: decimation: it would simplify accounting if your salary just went directly
to
the local land baron
assbot: What
the actual
threat of
the medicalisation of individuality looks like pe
Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu. ... (
http://bit.ly/1AFxuaD )
hegemoOn: in
the 90 most bouncer were freelance
decimation: asciilifeform: yeah, it goes
to
the
thread a few weeks ago about why does usg even bother
to
tax at all
decimation: because
the chumps
to
the right and left were also so willing apparently
mircea_popescu: why were romanians willing
to shiver in
the winter in 88 ?
decimation: if
that's
true,
then why are
the chumpers willing
to work for $60k (and pay $60k
to live)
mircea_popescu: <decimation> replacement by an indian, either on or off shore <<
this is like saying your
trophy wife
that if she quits you, you'll replace her with a masturbation aid.
decimation: asciilifeform, all
these high salaries 'create jobs', you see
decimation: if by 'detroit' you mean anywhere where you could buy a house for less
than 100k, you are probably correct
decimation: asciilifeform: most of
them would agree with moldbug's analysis
that
they believe paying
tax is 'i gave at
the office'
decimation: "If your gut (or someone you
trust)
tells you
that ANY ONE of
the Founders is a bozo, forget it and walk away.
They will
take you and
the company down."
decimation: got nothing because of liquidation preferences and other
things. "
decimation: apparently in new york
the situation is a little more harsh: "In New York, people have given up on equity. I hear
this
time and again in
the NYC
tech scene - building a company is hard in NYC because people don't believe equity is worth anything because of
the bullshit
that happened in
the first bubble. In New York especially,
there were a lot of shenanigans with equity in 99/00 bubble/crash era where companies got sold and employees
mircea_popescu: imagine
the market chilling effects of
these derps having
to actually ask
the girl from her father.
decimation: "Don't you have faith
that we'll be successful?"
mircea_popescu: so it's "about 3% out of
the first 100k
that self identify as female and self identify as under 30yo". for all we know
two
thirds of
that are all labrador retrievers.
mircea_popescu: there is no way
to list it but not list it.
they could in principle not list it at all -
the problem
then becomes
that, for our needs,
they actually ARENT female.
mircea_popescu: "sure he can piss everyone off - but he can't actually pay dividends correctly
to save his life"