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mircea_popescu used to have a very poor reaction / low tolerance to ineptitude in that vein "oh i shouldnt end up naked on the first date" from chicks who saw stupid americana on tv and imagined it's an example to follow back when he was 16. it deteriorated over time.
mircea_popescu: and in other random, apparently the proper way to say chocolate in cr is xocolata.
mircea_popescu: "oh but mp, you wouldn't be linking to me anyway" "and this says what about you ?"
mircea_popescu: "oh, it has advantages!11". i'm sure it does. you also miss out on trilema links. let me know when those advantages even it out.
mircea_popescu: and in general -- if curl -k can't get you, you really don't exist.
mircea_popescu: dude, archive.is can't load his dumbass site. what do you want from me.
mircea_popescu: i have no idea why the specifics need even be discussed. who cares WHAT was in the dumpster girly put on her head ? point remains, FREE!!11 is a garbage heuristic.
mircea_popescu: something something wife something something fambly, something something alt-universe at home where water flows uphill.
mircea_popescu: apparently, for same reason they buy real estate above list price.
mircea_popescu: so is visa paying oleg enough to compensate him for the loss of trilema link ?
mircea_popescu: "girl missed out on date because someone gave out garbage for free and she rubbed it all over. FREE!!111"
mircea_popescu: well, i can only hope they're paying him enough to compensate.
mircea_popescu: he missed out on getting a trilema link because of the letsencrypt bs ?
mircea_popescu: why should they know. they just want to wifechildrenhome amirite.
mircea_popescu: back in the old days, all the successes used to be per hectare ;/
mircea_popescu: i learned c at some point, but this left no trace somehow.
mircea_popescu: apparently i lived a whole life without doing these strange conversions.
mircea_popescu: heck, might've lifted whole language from this paradigm.
mircea_popescu: i have nfi what this is. so what does it do, changes the string 9 to the numeral 9 ?
mircea_popescu: the core is the simple observation that if your trade value of whatever item is above book value, you should continue to manage it, not me.
mircea_popescu: the discussion was re buying at list / retail is for suckers / buying assets implicitly means they are discounted / stuff like that.
mircea_popescu: it's utterly unclear waht your chosen straw man has to do with the discussion, but anyway.
mircea_popescu: and i have like a suspicion north korea would take dollars if available.
mircea_popescu: you'd go and see the square metre in wash swamp, if you were to buy it, yes ?
mircea_popescu: even leaving bitcoin aside, there's obviously bangladesh.
mircea_popescu: and from this it follows asciilifeform will go and donate $1k to "real estate quantizer" ?
mircea_popescu: you want to lift a gram, you need a mN just like if you want to move a ton you need 1kN. there's no tiny discounts.
mircea_popescu: i don't see it. piece of orbital rubbish 1/10^9 of planet doesn't go "you know what, your force isn't enough to move planet a meter, but i'll move 2*10^9 meters because hey, i'm just piece of rubbish not planet!
mircea_popescu: this'd seem to explain why the redditards are single, as opposed to harem'd. not why they're poor.
mircea_popescu: seems to me same old thermodynamics applies at "work" and at "home". maybe i've just not had the right wife yet ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i don't comprehend this logic. how exactly is economy supposed to cease functioning once you enter your own door ? does water, strictly flowing downhill at the office, change its mind at home ? do you see it jump out of the sink, against gravity, and figure "oh, but of course, i'm not at work anymore duh!"
mircea_popescu: Framedragger "imo the lang is fine, the unicode is bullshit, ~in this case~. numbers, diff story."
mircea_popescu: maybe your 5+4 = 9.0000001, maybe .99999997, depends on arch
mircea_popescu: heh, nevermind fixed time -- no question of fixed result ops.
mircea_popescu: imo the lang is fine, the unicode is bullshit, in this case.
mircea_popescu: i had to talk of javascript. who the fuck thinks like this, i wish to know, "oh, i'll htmlencode a string and then replace some of the escaped items".
mircea_popescu suspects this may well be alf's favourite passtime. the endless field of register-clever, like a sort of chess.
mircea_popescu: ave1 you can self-voice now, say !!up to deedbot whenever.
mircea_popescu: how to ensure a rating ? make it fucking irresistible lol.
mircea_popescu: it's a cannonical example of what gui is/needs to be, obviously command line works but fuck me, really, i will type select so and so by hand each time all the time ?
mircea_popescu: also loads various infos on screen so you don't keep having to go "explain x" to see what x.table is ACTUYALLY named
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform web interface, prepopulates selects and etc so you don't have to type them.
mircea_popescu: which makes no sense, except NEITHER DOES ANYTHING ELSE THEY DO
mircea_popescu: i spent five whole minutes belabouring under the misapprehension that it's metasyntactic reference, some sort of prototype and you gotta replace the a and b.
mircea_popescu: javascript idiots actually implemented base64 as "btoa" and "atob".
mircea_popescu: i don't imagine these people are all trillionaires and so couldn't possibly care less about a million-ish item, chiefly because the us has no trillionaires.
mircea_popescu: who the fuck buys large or repeating items at list and why the everfucking love would they.
mircea_popescu: but i do occasionally buy at list price, for small occasionals like say when going out to a restaurant. i could have the slavegirls replicate anything on the menu, and it would come out even better half the time, but unless i care it's not worth the hassle.
mircea_popescu: otherwise it's an investment in the other guy and his fambly.
mircea_popescu: or what, you're going to tell me these prices aren't based on discounted cash flows and other such actuarial judgements ? in the world's greatest economy the world's smartest people acting like a bunch of nation of africa retards ? unthinkabru!
mircea_popescu: seems to go against the most basic logic -- if the asset is worth more than its list in your hands, why should i take over management ? clearly you know what you';re doing and should keep doing it.
mircea_popescu: why the fuck would anyone buy if they're not getting a discount from list.