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mircea_popescu: im sure they'll send the late night circuit comedians. what could anyone do to that.
mircea_popescu: they're a lot tougher than the us counterparts by now.
mircea_popescu: trinque the mexican "deep state" has been living in this situation where beheaded chief of police weekly.
mircea_popescu: good to periodically fight the same neighbour, keeps the spirit stimulated.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the problem is they never got lucky with that hole.
mircea_popescu: other part of the problem is that it's too large a corp. their kernel ppl and their directx people were pretty much as related as samsung and apple.
mircea_popescu: course opengl also owned it the next decade, and did even less with it.
mircea_popescu: but they did fucking get it, and used it, and for a decade they owned gfx.
mircea_popescu: he has a point in that they leveraged horizonals in the market to get data.
mircea_popescu: i'm not saying "x is y because bitcoin" i'm saying "x is y and btw, check out bitcoin lulz."
mircea_popescu: interestinf approach, but twas merely an example, not an argument as such.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform give an example of this original technology and i'll just say "no pcdos" at it.
mircea_popescu: and it's original throughout. check out those novel data structures~!
mircea_popescu: bitcoin is morerover a fine example in this vein. it's pretty fucking original.
mircea_popescu: i suppose we can add 3, "once 1 and 2 are on the table, take refuge in contradictory schemes". there is no such thing as original technology. for something to be a technology it must be unoriginal. original shit is called literature.
mircea_popescu: 1. you asked for an item by stated criteria, were provided the item, pretended the item fails a criterion that is actually the opposite of your stated criteria ; 2. when confronted with your ridiculous misbehaviour, you attempted to replace the item with a different item and show you can defeat the different item.
mircea_popescu: not a matter of "oh, mp has allergies" ; not a matter of "check me out, i invented rhetorics and also i'm so smooth ima strawman all over! fat16!11" ; not a matter of anything else, there's no way out of it.
mircea_popescu: look, turn it how you will. you got a serious hole in your brain. dun wanna fix it, fine, but that dun mean you don't have it. you do.
mircea_popescu: who cares where it came from ? you did lift from them eh.
mircea_popescu: a house technially is a city block. though they're generally called lots because not usually right in city. but anyway.
mircea_popescu: i think the only place where you can properly speaking rent a house is ~europe
mircea_popescu: thishappens sometimes even in 10% occupied real estate cases.
mircea_popescu: i dunno there exista a place inthis world with 90% occupation. maybe beijing.
mircea_popescu: well yeah, it's all in there in de "damage property", a very general understanding of "shit that makes my economic position worse"
mircea_popescu: depends. irl good tenant is one who doesn't damage the property more than what he pays in rent.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform peons don't enter into it. the sort of captives in the consolidated shit of their own head who ask for a "solid, useful knowhow item" and then IMMEDIATELY retort "it isn't innovative" when such is presented, however... those doods have problems.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i've yet to meet someone who lets as a living, even if part time, who wouldn't kill for a good tenant.
mircea_popescu: o, wait, you have "corporation" landlords over there donntcha.
mircea_popescu: i dun see the problem, i do this with some regularity. get the landlord to eat > then your actual residual post amortisation you're golden.
mircea_popescu: you might well be right. i still wanna see them. there is no possibility to waste time by looking around.
mircea_popescu: hey, it works for the "domain name real estate" "investors" !!
mircea_popescu: seems a great idea until you're 40 and 10-15-20 years in.
mircea_popescu: there's a lot of dumb shit young men do because their parents are woodland creatures / barn animals, buyt this is by far the most common, "building a career" on government crap.
mircea_popescu: yeah, that's the problem with "sweet" setups of the religious persuasion : no real barrier to entry, it's all blowing smoke. so you sooner or later find yourself eyeball deep in the shitswamp and wonder how the "sweet" thing ended up fulla flies.
mircea_popescu: except the essay is not for schoolboy consumption but for bureauctat consumption. he gives it to his boss / superviser / inquiry committee and walks
mircea_popescu: but yes, it's one step above trying to make money out of "guaranteed A essay" depository websites.
mircea_popescu: o wait, lockheed martin thing doesn't actually fly either
mircea_popescu: that's the game in "owning" public infrastructure : you pretend to be the owner, offer the bureaucrats all the convenient excuses you can while sucking all the tax money possible. it's like lockheed martin without the wings
mircea_popescu: moreover fuck the "it's going to take". you want me to own an item i can't price to market ? hurr.
mircea_popescu: buy a subway holy shit. why the fuck would you buy an item the dorks expect to be provided "as a publicgood". fuck them.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes yeah, and guess why ? because outside of the owner, the paper's not worth jack.
mircea_popescu: and especially these days, when they don't even own the capital goods in any sense whatsoever.
mircea_popescu: nobody gives a shit about that, nor can a model based on such examples be THE MODEL.
mircea_popescu: this works ok if the corporation does stuff buffett understands, like fishing, or manufacturing chewing gum
mircea_popescu: the delusion of a corporation has at its core the notion that "what to do" is a well explored space, and that "anyone" could and moreover in that position would be doing it.
mircea_popescu: so much so that it seems to me the whole model is fundamentally flawed. what "corporation" ? bs. wot-style, one man.
mircea_popescu: i don't think there's a case in history where the shareholders got their money's worth.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes yes, from an individual perspective. but in aggregate, worst case of confederate dollars ever. "we'll take these 5bn shares of apple and replace them with 5bn shjares of crapple. because it's ok hurr."
mircea_popescu: "well... the other guy died" aaaand this is my problem how! i bought jobs stock not fucking wtf this is.
mircea_popescu: "hey, it's still apple". bitch... that is SO not apple...
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes it occurs to me, btw, that the scam whereby people who were holding jobs shares were converted to cook shares is one of the cruelest things in nature.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: imagine if in a few years the actual fucking chunks of metal are the point of worship. "oh man, that's tech! who can make straight angles anymore!"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: in other lulz : there's this matte window to the side of my chicken. and there's a gecko who now lives there. but i mean totally, its his window.
mircea_popescu: i understand you though. they're so boneheadedly retarded they're offensive to the very concepts.
mircea_popescu: that's why science is based on research, yes, but not random research. paradigm-supported research.
mircea_popescu: "exothermic oxidation is productive". sure it is, if it happens in the combustion chamber.