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mircea_popescu: and in further romanian traditional "fuck everyone's words" : "beata lei" is the typical italian "good for you". in romanian, "biata de ea", poor her.
mircea_popescu: i don't think anyone seriously believes this dude's stuff is not already held by everyone interested in triplicate.
mircea_popescu: this bizarre nonsense where it's enough to state something
mircea_popescu: the "holds in pocket keys to own cell" doctrine (that, if you recall, superseded habeas corpus in the us "legal" system) has meanwhile pushed through and it's "plea bargain!"
mircea_popescu: "respected" "trusted". why ? "because we say so" "but you only say so so as to have said so" "exactly"
mircea_popescu: well, they're helpfully writing their names down, can't hurt/
mircea_popescu: meta will kill you every time BECAUSE if your design is uncompelling people will btod.
mircea_popescu: "oh you won't be allowed to do that ?" "why not ?" "Ad hoc!" "congrats, you exported the job of designing your game to an os which was not designed to do this"
mircea_popescu: tomorrow i vote to give myself more salary than your platform can support. i mean this literally, 1024! shall be my salary. what then ?
mircea_popescu: yes but you need some sort of bounds for this to ripple back. otherwise it's just a free expanding system
mircea_popescu: that usually works when there's a solid underlying reality.
mircea_popescu: well, i dunno, this may be something you might enjoy but i have no advice about
mircea_popescu: when they do come from the central planning committee the country's broken, and collapsing.
mircea_popescu: salaries come from a social negotiation, not from the fucking white house.
mircea_popescu: not exactly. the point is that ~everything's balanced~.
mircea_popescu: what does size have to do with whether something works or doesn't ? a broken engine is broken at any scale.
mircea_popescu: which is why and how they ended up the equivalent of stripper joints.
mircea_popescu: just because a bunch of irrelevant games are utterly broken means jack. a) eulora isn't broken and will kill them ; and b) nobody wants to play them anyway
mircea_popescu: "it's a supermarket item like frozen chickens, where do those come from"
mircea_popescu: why is it not 0.984 or 1.1022 ? how do you knwo it isn't ?
mircea_popescu: consider all the rest of your magic numbers. where does the one in "they can veto the outcome of one national ballot per round." come from ?
mircea_popescu: A job influences what salary a player receives << where's the salary come from ?
mircea_popescu: to put it bluntly it's either that "people vote" or that "their nation". denied middle between these.
mircea_popescu: Reuel your description is badly phrased. for instance in the first paragraph : i encounter the symbol "the best outcome for their nation", but it's not defined nor obviously supported by the introduction. leaving aside that going from "x is defined" to "x is measurable in an algebraic group which permits ordering" which is what "best" implies -- your perspective is globalist and there's no fundamental solution for a national
mircea_popescu: conversely, the proposition that "the sum total of people that could possibly be worth knowing is equal my dunbar number" smacks a little of panglossism
mircea_popescu: mmm. deglobalization necessarily means more sane people.
mircea_popescu: if tomorrow we conquer the us and put it through the grinder, that'll result in 297mn bodies, yes
mircea_popescu: look, the problem is that as the empire grows, the army food supply goes from bushels to millions of bushels. "restrict legionnaire rations" is not a solution.
mircea_popescu: lol poor phuctor been bottling in the rage all day, now it's quiet can let loose
mircea_popescu: btw, anyone here who hasn't played knight;s bounty (the legend) ?
mircea_popescu: should be interesting to see what trump does re that only really important point.
mircea_popescu: working towards the ultimate tmsr goal. ben_vulpes does the miners, we got an autonomous noncorporeal state going
mircea_popescu: or you could add pedals to your desk and produce your own electricity.
mircea_popescu: drives teh wyminz nuts also, they work out till they drop, i never do, then i can you know, lift one in one arm and for some incomprehensible reason i got biceps the thickenss of their thighs. "BRO!!!" "hey, i got testosterone, it's great."
☟︎ mircea_popescu: get up an' down an' layup all' around, move your ass to the left move your ass to the right...