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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you'd be surprised what % of
trumpeted "great soviet financial coups" are exactly of
the substance and consistency of forum investors' victories.
trinque: asciilifeform: don't worry, other half had
to get raped on stock options prior
to subsequent sale
trinque: (somehow... didn't can
trinque)
trinque: poor guy. I had
the good fortune
to watch half a hardware startup get laid off at 16.
mircea_popescu: kinda in
the manner windows-only interface gvies away
the george supran-style "scientists",
the kind
that researches community consensuses.
mircea_popescu: stuff
to do in
the "den" for
the sort of retard who can't figure out by looking whether charger cord reaches
the socket or not, gotta
try it out
a111: Logged on 2014-11-26 04:23 asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: at one point i needed some conductive cloth (the kind with silver strands) for an experiment.
to my great surprise, i discovered
that
there is a large manufacturer in usa, and
they do brisk business with folks suffering from precisely
the kind of phobia described in decimation's link.
mircea_popescu: if you
think of it as a potentials map, suddenly it becomes evident : large cancerous accretion mass drives all other
things closer
together
a111: Logged on 2016-02-15 17:58 asciilifeform: specifically how
there is no place in usa where one can 'i will pay double for non-monsanto but i don't give a fuck about 'gmo' and i sure as fuck don't want
to see homeopathic crud in
the shop'
a111: Logged on 2015-09-03 01:37 asciilifeform:
the other interesting
thing is
that
the market is segmented in such a way
that anyone who doesn't want mcfood ends up paying for ~all~
the alt-crackpotteries, not merely
the logical ones
a111: Logged on 2016-11-01 22:03 mircea_popescu: phf no,
they just didn't have fish at
the fish shop ;
the meat
they didn't have at
the meat shop.
mircea_popescu: it HAS
to be "strange" and "weird", otherwise can't make it in
the ocean of "woke" shit.
mircea_popescu: this is where "homeopathic" ended up : "want some
toothpaste without mint, sugar or fluoride ? aaaaaahahahah, here you go."
mircea_popescu: hence mormons, "we belive in weird shit, bless our underwear ~~~AND DON'T
TOLERATE ANNOYING WOMEN~~~".
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes
this is how
things go in lulzistan : "nutty" ideologies
that survive do so because pick up
the practical slack of soviet idiocy.
a111: Logged on 2018-08-20 20:03 asciilifeform:
the only reason i even use lulazon for anyffing, 'pay 80bux/y and
the rest of
the yr can order 3 m3 screws and
two metres of #10 copper shipped sameday for 0 extra' etc
ben_vulpes: eyy, anyone want
to guess what i found in
the
toothpaste?
mircea_popescu: then idiots wanna
talk about "what'd millionaires do with
their
time". certaintly, certainly not
this,
taking apart
the heart of one's enemies so not on
the list.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i get
to read, you realise,
the A papers of contemporary valedictorians and whatnot.
the incas' brightest and bravest, career women
to
the last soul and whatnot.
mircea_popescu: "why should anyone have
to notice 69's but a 7 under 70"
mircea_popescu: "if everything's uncomputably large
then
therefore i no longer have
to be able
to say 7 * 69 = 483 within a second or so"
a111: Logged on 2018-08-16 16:35 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
the probable "cause" for
there not being sane dict for living langs, you realise, is
that
there IS such a
thing as a cannonical body of greek, but "who is
to say what anglovomit does not make
the cut".
mircea_popescu: ye olde hope of
the "democratic" "paficist" panworldism : if nobody can as much as fart without involving ~everyone else, "world peace".
mircea_popescu: in fact
the us is pretty much
there, it's just you don't live in "midwest".
a111: Logged on 2018-08-04 14:14 asciilifeform: kurt
tank
tore out his hair, iirc 'they don't even know how
to make machine screws'
a111: Logged on 2018-05-11 21:01 asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: astronomical rents, i suspect, also play a part. it is ~impossible
to stay open if you stock anything
that doesn't move continuously. specialist shops are
the first
to die.
a111: Logged on 2018-05-11 20:37 asciilifeform: ( incidentally, if you
think m3 ~screw~ is impossible
to find in shops here --
try a ~tap~. one
time asciilifeform broke a m3
tap and wanted a replacement quickly, and like complete idiot
tried
to buy ~in shops~. result : wasted weekend )
mircea_popescu: in general, "sell
the policeman an apple for
twice what you'd sell it
to an orc" is sounder policy
than alternatives.
a111: Logged on 2018-08-18 22:49 mircea_popescu: anyway, ~this~ is
the "network effect" advantage :
that should amazon's cart fail for
three minutes, amazon would lose ~0 dollar value --
those schmucks will just come back.
this is
the niche
the empire ever hopes
to inhabit, and
that it works is directly evident in
the decrease of quality of life
the zeks permitted over
the past century. great-grandfather of ustard, ozlander or argentine lived A LOT better
than
the grandfath
a111: Logged on 2018-08-17 20:17 mircea_popescu: "you want diplomatic relations, first you pay 10x what we
think you broke should be valued at,
then maybe"
mircea_popescu: anyway, in
the general, a most important chore of
the republic is
to destroy
the economic basis of "paris", ie
the notional metropolis,
mircea_popescu: as it is,
the politics carefully (and secretly) constraining it, all
that's left visible is harmless nonsense, a la "saudis buyers of luxury cars"
mircea_popescu: but yes, it could be. if not specifically suppressed ~by policy~,
the major-est market for german machinery would have been russia, and
the biggest buyers of machineguns
the zulu etc.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no. notice how amazon carefully charges
the shipping separately.\
mircea_popescu: in any case, let it not be said economy is ~necessarily~ centralizing. if one uses
the strand of centralizing devices, it can be. one doesn't have
to.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform afaik. and mostly sold
to non-metropolitans, because
those are fucked in
the head and have "fashions"
to explain why
they suck.
mircea_popescu: ie, "all good
things flow ~away~ from
the
town", reversal of ye olde greek observation.
mircea_popescu: consequently,
this sort of auction actually favours
the shipping, especially of choice goods, AWAY from
the city.
mircea_popescu: obviously people bake in
the cost of
their peripheral-ness in
their price judgements, which is why i'm willing
to pay 10 bux a pound for cherries here, whereas in romania
they're ~free for
the picking.
mircea_popescu: because
the actual item delivered (something + ~shipping~) varies according
to who buys it,
there's actually a larger incentive for agents located ~at
the periphery~
to buy it. ie, if you live in paris and shipping is 1 ecu, a bit of 100 ecu means you're paying 99 ecu for
the item. if you live however in christchurch and shipping is 99 ecu, a 100 ecu bid means you're getting
the item for 1 ecu.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, for
they interested in "price
theory" :
the above is an exemplar of an interesting class of economic objects, anti-metropolitan let's call
them.
mircea_popescu: weren't you going
to do an inventory of your midden,
to finance something or
the other at some point ?
mircea_popescu: immaturity, if you will, most intelligent small children are consumed by a desire
to destroy
their
toys
to see what's inside.
mircea_popescu: but in any case, jacobin stands
today for "an immoderate search for
truth, more liable
to burn shit down
than discover any
truths".