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mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo fwiw, a ro corp is about 80 bux or such. wtf 800 dollars to open a corp in brazil, what do they take themselves for ?
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-26#1729594 << "we don't at this point have a sufficiently palatable whitewash of inflation ; or for that matter even any statement that doesn't reduce to how the best course would be for us to eat shit and die. so in preference of that, we'll just pretend ignorance, because such a course totally works and everything".
☝︎ mircea_popescu: the bucharest "bourgeois economic studies" thing, there's a dozen or so.
mircea_popescu: yes. there were strong attractors, the kalash factory, the cluj/bucharest/brasov/iassi ITCs etc.
mircea_popescu: (they also got dar-al-salaam and so on, of course, tirgoviste ended up shipped there as engineers much in the way rahovei got exported to afghanistan a coupla decades later)
mircea_popescu: diana_coman amusingly, they rarely got them, either. they got rural shitholes a la you know, georghe-gheorghiu-dej or vulcan or w/e the fuck jewels of socialism that no longer exist.
mircea_popescu: 90s brought a lot of georgians into moscwo, but this very unrelatedly to stalin's patrilinearity, i suspect.
mircea_popescu: not so in southern moldavia ; rural dobrogea ; eastern old kingdom (oltenia etc). which is how bucharest ended up massively overrepresenting the olteni (ceausescu himself was from a village there)
mircea_popescu: so in this sense there's a ready measure, in the proper-est term : the black market value of the country capital warrant was under the black market value of the local capital warrant in most places.
mircea_popescu: these were an important item therefore, and obviously urban such sought in preference of rural. except, in general people from cluj wanted one in cluj or else you know, turda, rather than the (nominally, at least) more valuable bucharest one.
mircea_popescu: during the communist time, the "repartitie" (approx, warrant) was a major instrument of social control. basically : to dwell anywhere, you had to get a job there. to get the job, you had to a) go to school and then, be ... sent to it, ie "destined", repartizat.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and the moldavians even put it in writing, "shit-eating faces like they eat nothing but fungus". also cca 1850.
mircea_popescu: this is not exactly so. the extremely snot-nosed transylvanians didn't want to move there in 1850, either.
mircea_popescu: contrary to the socialist delusions, papica is not the pill.
mircea_popescu: the chinese are also trying, what with their empty towns and whatnot.
mircea_popescu: diana_coman it is said the lord of the jews has a special foible for idiots. at least so discovered the current (jesuit) pope.
mircea_popescu: aaanyway. i hold that the situation is not similar in ru and ro ; neither the evolution / trends. but this will have to be as first hand word of god, because there's no better available.
mircea_popescu: then again, these are the same people who couldn't produce a count of suines in the country
mircea_popescu: well now ima have to look at the demographic geography of it.
mircea_popescu: the russian school of medicine is in moscow, see, not in kiev.
mircea_popescu: diana_coman depends how you count ; but in any meaningful sense bucharest is a minor player to cluj, brasov et co.
mircea_popescu: typical idiot can't get in here much like typical lamb can't eat tatched roofing.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah. there may never be, actually, seeing how the vast majority of those who stumble in are dumb in the classical sense, ie, mute.
mircea_popescu: but the similarity is there : we don't yet get that many rss links to need to build a more complicated pipe ; just as we don't yet get that many new speakers so as to need to build a skirt there either.
mircea_popescu: we have a similar problem in teh republic, at that. #trilema overgravity renders #castles impracticable yet.
mircea_popescu: romans used the more adequate neckchain. sorta-worked.
mircea_popescu: pay, as numerously discussed in teh forum, ain't the pill.
mircea_popescu: afaik only trotsky sorta-managed, but too dumb to realise what he was doing or capitalize on it.
mircea_popescu: heck, getting the precious cuntlets to move to kazakstan was a major problem for everyone, stalin, khruschev, etc.
mircea_popescu: this is a bigger problem for putin than anything else.
mircea_popescu: us had a similar dynamic, with the unwashed irish tards landing in ny to be shipped to fight against the south while the precious cuntlets were kept under wraps in boston.
mircea_popescu: russia has no "a road within walking distance anywhere you walk". it should, to survive.
mircea_popescu: argentina is like 2x the size of all europe. its internal development is comparable to the island of corfu.
mircea_popescu: in the sense of ending up with a humongous buenos aires full of lazy parasites expecting to live off govt handouts and an entirely undevelopped interior of humonmgous size.
mircea_popescu: basically, very strong signs of argentinization in the ex-soviet lands.
mircea_popescu: is this by the old definition, seculum "until everyone present dies off" ?
mircea_popescu: whereas the via aurelia and its derivations to this day the basis of "european union".
mircea_popescu: on cursory examination the item is actually well researched and correct.
mircea_popescu: i suppose for the same money i shall pretend russia is == gorky.
mircea_popescu: incidentally asciilifeform : there's a 50% chance native speaker fails to note that refrain. ITS FUCKING HARD.
mircea_popescu: i read it all about alphabet inventing ai, playing go, errythang.
mircea_popescu: well, not THE very place, but cluj had its own, "oser".
mircea_popescu: alex__c i expect he just ran into the badea cirtan ad hoc extension.
mircea_popescu: before "vintage" was a thing i used to buy girlies gifts from teh very place. there's something heartwarming about 90yo woman yielding whatever old clock to 16yo hussy for a pataca.
mircea_popescu: it's this fascinating "market of the world". great item to have nearby.
mircea_popescu: (the jewish ghetto is an older item than the german state, for the record)
mircea_popescu: yeah, actually, the flea market was a major component of ghetto jew identity.
mircea_popescu: well... poland tried not letting, ended up partitioned how many times ?
mircea_popescu: anyway. they also "let" russian army division occupy same. romania's very letty.
mircea_popescu: the entirety of the objection is that rogozin was nongrata in washington not in bucharest.
mircea_popescu: afaik the only one to ever get hassled by that was rogozin.
mircea_popescu: the only problem is that they kick out the threats to usg.
mircea_popescu: and in general -- the less protected the poor, the more useful and pleasant the poor. and vice-versa. the worst thing you can do for a place is "prosecute assault" on the non-elite.
mircea_popescu: the FACT that poor people are not protected from assault by the state means that poor people are pleasant and polite.