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a111: Logged on 2017-09-14 23:43 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform why do you imagine shit that's dumb when pete_dushenski does it is any less dumb whewn you do it ?
deedbot: fromloper voiced for 30 minutes.
a111: Logged on 2017-10-25 22:20 asciilifeform: ( spoiler : it will never shuddup . which is why car dun come with co detector. and prolly explains something re usa via chronic anoxia )
a111: Logged on 2017-10-25 22:44 asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i dun just mean 'no scooties', but literally sparta grade, not a gram of excess mass on'em
a111: Logged on 2017-10-25 22:48 asciilifeform: this place is maybe the size of 4 typical u.s. university campuses
shinohai: !~later tell danielpbarron ping me when online plox
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a111: Logged on 2017-10-25 18:33 asciilifeform: btw didja know it is banned where i live ?
a111: Logged on 2017-10-25 20:42 BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> and nowhere in usa is there so much as a small town that's 100% people. << There's one of those nearby. Breese, Illinois. A bit further Pinkneyville, Illinois.
a111: Logged on 2017-05-07 22:41 phf`: give it another 6 months before "puerto ricans are unfit for living"
lobbes: surrounding yourself with 100% people; that is what tmsr is for!
BingoBoingo: Well, tmsr bar is still higher. It is the Republic of Smart people after all.
BingoBoingo: So, it looks like the next thing to come out of Hollywood is pedophile expose.
BingoBoingo: Suspects name explains it all: "Mahmoud A. Massoud, 34"
deedbot: erlehmann voiced for 30 minutes.
BingoBoingo: How were your travels? Have you considered doing a travel/entertainment gig with alf as a sorta first TMSR venture into "reality tv" over irc?
trinque: lol, travels were fine. got to shake ben_vulpes' hand in the flesh for first time in too long.
trinque: I would not rule out traveling with alf and yelling at things.
ben_vulpes: i ~cannot read AHA in caps like that without seeing alf gesture and say it anymore, even this far past c3
BingoBoingo: Well, that's a distinct hazard of meeting people and making friends
a111: Logged on 2016-07-06 15:53 mircea_popescu: incidentally : someone writing a tex processor for serenity (ex mp-wp) themes that shinohai can then just import as a standard would be pretty epic.
lobbes: mircea_popescu, it really is a wonderful tool in the serenity belt.
a111: Logged on 2015-12-24 19:04 mircea_popescu: "We hired a local operations manager in Denver (Sasha Juliard) and soon launched at Shotgun Willie’s (the highest-grossing strip club in CO) and two other bars. We made about $1,200 on each deal (50% went to DexOne, we spent $800 on each launch event and we had $500 in hardware costs), this was the only sales revenue Flowtab ever made. We were tightening up our sales process, but it was hard to market ourselves prope
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a111: Logged on 2017-10-26 02:40 lobbes:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-25#1728918 << 'Tis insanity, indeed. Some hobbyist cheese-makers / real-milk enthusists near Amish lands have been known to engage in 'black market' raw milk transactions. FDA regularly sets up sting operations to crack down on the 'contraband':
http://archive.is/nfrox a111: Logged on 2017-10-26 03:50 ben_vulpes: good walking shoes are in order
diana_coman: asciilifeform, I wouldn't say Fain was mechanised really, can't quite see how that would fit
diana_coman: people proposed blog posts they considered worthy (whatever measure they used for it) with link+short description; people could vote on previously proposed links
diana_coman: re barfing in the streets tbh that's in my books a very much western/northern thing
☟︎ diana_coman: I guess the "mechanised" part about Fain could be the automated grading of *people* based on their activity aka the "karma" points that had quite direct implications re what one could do (even whether they could comment at all)
diana_coman: asciilifeform, I'm not very knowledgeable on reddit but I thought it was something where people asked questions and then their comments were voted up/down ?
☟︎ diana_coman: hm; and does the system rate people/accounts basically? I think that was a crucial part of it like anywhere: if one is useful then one can do as much and what they like; if not,then ...no
diana_coman: well, approximations can make or kill a thing, but otherwise I guess you can call it that then (though by this token I'm not sure one won't be able to approximate almost any online thing to "a reddit")
diana_coman: as scope iirc fain was restricted to blogs in Romanian, might be worth adding
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-26#1729191 << something like that. a gameified blog weighing/commenting platform ; worked as the ~onyl source of bitcoin for romanians for a year or two back when if they had the sense, it'd have meant something. a few did have the sense, most are powered by the same broken rustbox as powers the strippers and other experts in hallucinary freedoms.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: it might be useful for the republic once there's enough publishing thoroughput we have to actually consider limiting access to deedbot rss ; that moment is many years away yet.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the truth of the matter however is that to a large degree fain was powered by the original web delusion, "oh, lowering barriers to human creativity is what economy is all about". it's not. there's no such thing as "human creativity" in the sense of the general mass, and the barriers are there to keep us from the female wail.
☟︎ a111: Logged on 2017-10-26 13:22 asciilifeform:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-26#1729131 << betcha you did it in own parking, or jungle road, lol. the gas comes from ~other~ people’s tailpipes! in traffic jam, in tunnel, etc !
a111: Logged on 2017-10-26 13:26 asciilifeform: tho i did finally see cops arresting a d00d. seemed as if for: double-parking
a111: Logged on 2017-10-26 13:31 diana_coman: re barfing in the streets tbh that's in my books a very much western/northern thing
diana_coman: mircea_popescu, what would be the link? my obs is that it's more whether drink is something that goes with meal and at any time or just something "special" aka binge idiocy
☟︎ mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-26#1729211 << reddit didn't exist at the time we're discussing in any practical sense above "this obscure website some pedos gathered on to exchange their trading cards". it was something in the vein of metafilter i guess, or else something in the vein of digg, or else you know, one of the first sites making the transition from myspace/tripod/facebook to the latter style reddit/facebook/etcetera.
☝︎ a111: Logged on 2017-10-26 13:47 asciilifeform: or possibly moar like ‘metafilter’ ( does that still exist..? )
diana_coman: and at the end of the day more of a measure of balance overall even
mircea_popescu: diana_coman i expect the reason drunks aren't as bothered by puke as the normal human is that they're so used to it. so a direct link might be that the women that habitually drink aren't nearly as likely to clean it up.
mircea_popescu: diana_coman ah, cvas as the rusian notion wasn't contemplated.
mircea_popescu: but perhaps one of the most striking things from my first visit in london, cca 1994, striking enough that i still remember them,
mircea_popescu: was the urine secent and the blind drunk hens. everywhere.
diana_coman: can say same just that blind drunk whatever-sex; the striking part was more how-and-where drunk than sex of idiots
mircea_popescu: prior to that, i think i had seen a drunk woman, in the sense of unable to stand, like twice ? if that. who the fuck drank like the brits, nfi.
mircea_popescu: diana_coman well i had seen numerous rural middle aged males unable to walk. heck, it was the principal activity in the communism's abandoned factories by 94.
mircea_popescu: those schmucks imagined they can just check out, europe's gonna provide. and boy has it provided.
diana_coman: uhm, I've seen rural all-sexes drunk unable to walk
mircea_popescu: at the time they still had the draft ; i was dodging it. people were like ... "hey, there's this special military unit, we get whores and liquor delivered by the truck weekly, you gotta come man."
diana_coman: just that women were usually (as they were at most times anyway) drunk *indoors*
mircea_popescu: well ok, our experience diverges then, or at least teh memory thereof.
diana_coman: sure, they weren't getting drunk at *same time* as males basically
diana_coman: when males away/snoring/whatever; I should have said not same place+time I guess
diana_coman: possibly same time, just ..separate places; if at same place then they would rather be sober yeah
mircea_popescu: man... where the hell was this ? not even in teh viseu have i seen drunk ladies, and those bitches drank.
diana_coman: as I said: they were gathering at one's home, women only and...drink
mircea_popescu: is female drunkedness culturally permitted in teh south ?
diana_coman: not encouraged in public I'd say, as such; fwiw I did not actually drink almost at all while I was in Ro ; possibly because I saw those, who knows
mircea_popescu: this is a large matter ; people don't generally realise it, but there's a large push, socially, towards things. for instance, in transylvania, my girls got REGULARILY approached, by EVERYONE, all the time. "not to sit on concrete -- won't be able to have children ; not to go barefoot -- won't be able to" and so on and so forth. woman gotta be henpecked!
diana_coman: but in any case: I've never seen barfing in the street until I got to the west
mircea_popescu: on the other hand, one of the main complaints of foreign girls was "wtf why do they spit in the street!!!"
diana_coman: eh, that was still everywhere; and yeah, I even got approached when with child: he's too cold! he's too hot! why is he /isn't he...
mircea_popescu: "omg he's going to fall" "bitch, go make one then you can worry about it. this one can fall."
diana_coman: when he was too little to talk I would just say he's fine, thank you or shrug mainly; now I can let him reply and usually he innocently floors them anyway so win
mircea_popescu: but anyway, if it's not female drinking, then what is it ?
diana_coman: so they don't drink AT ALL during the week
diana_coman: but then on Friday they drink anything and everything and FAST
mircea_popescu: ah. exactly how they go blind drunk at 21 because random magic nuymbers and crash into a pole ?
diana_coman: and well, they don't know how to drink either - no surprise since no practice with sane people
mircea_popescu: alternatively urban hostility i suppose could be the culprit. there's some trilema pointing out how "this projects dweller dude is taking time out of his time off to fix a bench in the little sandy park in front of his concrete matchbox ; baltimore projects dude would just sit by pole glaring at traffic".
mircea_popescu: diana_coman in this vein was lulzy thing at lesbian club, chick is "i have no idea why i'm getting so drunk ?!?" "you keep drinking" "what ?! it suddenly hit me like... wtf." "you keep drinking." "what do you mean ?"
☟︎ diana_coman: maybe; the other part of it (which I don't know if it's just my sample bias or what) is that in the north drink is a sort of crutch: southerners I know can act crazy without drinking ; northerners...can't ; so when want-to-crazy-need-to-drink
mircea_popescu: you know ? "what could it be". well doh. "even males will lose it if they pound shots. you're good for maybe a 100 per hour, if well trained."
diana_coman: theoretically emotional crutch, but not sure what exactly
mircea_popescu: if this were the case latin america would be one huge boozing.
mircea_popescu: these people REALLY need a crutch. they don't manage to ever lose it.
mircea_popescu: diana_coman how south ? argentina is shockingly script-following.
diana_coman: it's about decoupling rational more though this is already nonsense put as such
mircea_popescu: i dunno. in other counterexamples, all the finns i know are actually pacified by vodka. all fucking irritable otherwise.
diana_coman: again, pacified or violent has nothing to do with it!
diana_coman: basically the northerner can't hug you if he feels like it unless drunk
mircea_popescu: well not lose it, not pacified/violent... what's "out of character" mean ? becoming fairies ?
diana_coman: he can't probably stab you either for that matter
mircea_popescu: i have very much noticed they can't talk to girls at all these days, wherein a coupla decades ago couldn't without a coupla shots.
diana_coman: whether he hugs or stabs when drunk is a matter of what ails him; but whether he can do it whatever it is , is the point
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-26#1729212 << no that thing is experstsexchange. reddit originated as a sort of fark, "look at this cool pic" tho it originally was more like original wikipedia, "look at this cool pic of a 6 yo with her mother's toenail polish bottle up her snatch" ; migrated into a sort of livejournal "write lengthy pieces of nonsense so everyone's tulpas can pompously opine on it" sometime in the mid 2010s.
☝︎ a111: Logged on 2017-10-26 13:47 diana_coman: asciilifeform, I'm not very knowledgeable on reddit but I thought it was something where people asked questions and then their comments were voted up/down ?
mircea_popescu: kinda the perpetual bait and switch of "world changing" silicon valley "businesses" in the "industry" aka websites for the rest of the world, still vying for the supposedly valuable "UGC". except for the part where there's no ugc nor would it be valuable, all's well.
mircea_popescu: anyway, back to the bait and switch thing. reddit started life as a sort of 4chan with a jump, ie the little girl's not on the page, but you have to click. this wasn't accidental, because their phase 2 ("growth phase" eh) consisted of the exact value proposition : add your crap to reddit, watch people click on it. once growth stopped they dropped the bait, switched to "we will control the conversation in this ever-so-importan
☟︎ mircea_popescu: t space", in the hope they'll achieve usg agency status. which went nowhere, but then again there's no such thing as a buried corpse in socialism. it's not just craig wright that's still perambulating ; the original founder of webvan is still about. his business idea ? WEB POWERED DELIVERY OF GROCERIES! yes, 20 years later. no such thing as a burian in socialism.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile facebook started as a "put your crap on this alt-myspace and check out the large numeric values printed to GOOD THING". basically, facebook was one of those "webvisitors counters" except in a more skinner-y scheme. recently they dropped the bait and are essentially trying to capitalize on what's known in economy as stickiness, the exact same psychological tendency as discussed in
http://trilema.com/2014/the-battlefi mircea_popescu: eld-of-the-future/#footnote_3_53044 : "oh you used to get large values of GOOD ITEM freely ? well no more. would you like to pay us to get them again ?"
mircea_popescu: which they imagine is an "advertising model", but it's directly and quite evidently a burning of the couch.
mircea_popescu: and the examples could continue, SV has been trying to move away from "content generation" into "real world performance", with major blow-ups like groupon ("sign up for free meals and if we get a lot of you we'll try and parlay this into a sort of communist walmart"), or with slow-burning shitpiles like uber, airbnb etc. in the end, the same truth controls : you've no user-generated real world performance because the real wor
mircea_popescu: ld performers are not your users, and "your" users aren't either performers or yours.
mircea_popescu: the similar "technology! science!" gamification of the democrat party failed "surprisingly" to everyone in the "technology! science! mit is the foremost institution in the world without running water!" camp, but otherwise doh.
mircea_popescu innocently tried to comment on logline, ended up writing a book.
a111: Logged on 2017-10-26 15:53 mircea_popescu: it might be useful for the republic once there's enough publishing thoroughput we have to actually consider limiting access to deedbot rss ; that moment is many years away yet.
mircea_popescu: anyway, there's still an open thread god damned it. so re "in the hope they'll achieve usg agency status" above : the final socialism, usg's "ourdemocracy" came up with a gamified nationalization process : they naturally confiscate the domain leaders in all domains, under the guise of you know, "pension fund investments" and "consumer protection law enforcement". ie, there's a faux money and a faux legal prong which make sure
☟︎ mircea_popescu: that if your google is successful, your google belongs to usg. which it was, and does.
a111: Logged on 2017-10-26 15:57 mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-26#1729197 << imagine, you know. contraband cheese sting operations. this is what teh taxpayer wants his money spent on, and somehow no nubbins is on hand to explain better.
mircea_popescu: the process was apparently well received by "the society", which is to say poor people. exactly like in the original nazi and soviet implementations. except while in the first two the elite actually fled, in this last one the elite is playing the inept game of "i wonder if i can make a steelworks so successful hitler actually steals it from me".
mircea_popescu: which is shockingly dumb, and also what tmsr is intended to end.
mircea_popescu: but in any case, the process is wildly successful -- the whole "oh noes, corporate responsibility, banks stole our money" went exactly nowhere FOR THE EXACT REASON the usg "banks" play the role of the soviet planning committee. such can do no ill, by definition of state in socialism, and so... they WILL be rescued, with "money" freshly printed.
mircea_popescu: whenever the poor get a voice, the world goes to shit and socialism is what's left.
mircea_popescu: anyway. the situation is not stable, in the sense usg can't administer all this immense government with huge industrial interests in everything. which is why even china is giving it a run for its money.
mircea_popescu: problem is what you want and what you need are rarely the same.
mircea_popescu: myeah. anyway, so that's a round statement of the story, in that it's not missing anything but details.
a111: Logged on 2017-10-26 15:58 mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-26#1729201 << oh god almighty, if they only started arresting romanians for bad parking. this is like arresting indians for poor hygiene, or native americans for drunkedness.
a111: Logged on 2017-10-26 16:10 diana_coman: mircea_popescu, what would be the link? my obs is that it's more whether drink is something that goes with meal and at any time or just something "special" aka binge idiocy
mircea_popescu: the thing with romania is that essentially there isn't a penalty for anything. just please don't fucking do it.
mircea_popescu: now, this worked fine in the 90s, when the statal motherly "please don't do it" was backed by my "motherfucker if i see you again ima use you for fish bait".
mircea_popescu: these days... slowly decaying into the usual french fare.
mircea_popescu: well it wouldn't be visible to teh naked eye of civillian in a day.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, i do beleive that;'s the only way to run things. heck, romania has NO JAIL for vehicular manslaughter to this fucking day, iirc.
mircea_popescu: this sort of thing WORKS. and it did work. and it made for pleasant police and happy sluts everywhere.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform usg took opposite tack : instead of allying with underworld elite to keep underworld wanna-bes harmelss, it allied with underworld wannabes to "remove corruption" bla bla. as a result they got the orc cycle, as well explained by lafond and many others.
mircea_popescu: where the only incentive is to be an idiot, aged 16 to maybe 19, as you won't live to 30 anyway.
mircea_popescu: yes. the place you describe, btw, is prolly "bad curtain" mentioned afore.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform see, here's where pantsuit idiots a la "sam the more romanian than you" get it wrong. the REASON!!! there's nobody annoying, harassing, robbing etc is... guess ?
mircea_popescu: the FACT that poor people are not protected from assault by the state means that poor people are pleasant and polite.
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 only problem is that they kick out the threats to usg.
mircea_popescu: afaik the only one to ever get hassled by that was rogozin.
mircea_popescu: the entirety of the objection is that rogozin was nongrata in washington not in bucharest.
mircea_popescu: anyway. they also "let" russian army division occupy same. romania's very letty.
mircea_popescu: well... poland tried not letting, ended up partitioned how many times ?
mircea_popescu: yeah, actually, the flea market was a major component of ghetto jew identity.
mircea_popescu: (the jewish ghetto is an older item than the german state, for the record)
mircea_popescu: it's this fascinating "market of the world". great item to have nearby.
a111: Logged on 2016-06-21 01:18 mircea_popescu: "mult stimate ion caciula, om al muncii fara scula : cit ai degete si limba, legea tarii nu se schimba."
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.
alex__c: unsure if you're talking about Aurora/Flavia or some other flea market
mircea_popescu: alex__c i expect he just ran into the badea cirtan ad hoc extension.
mircea_popescu: well, not THE very place, but cluj had its own, "oser".
mircea_popescu: i read it all about alphabet inventing ai, playing go, errythang.
mircea_popescu: incidentally asciilifeform : there's a 50% chance native speaker fails to note that refrain. ITS FUCKING HARD.
mircea_popescu: i suppose for the same money i shall pretend russia is == gorky.
mircea_popescu: on cursory examination the item is actually well researched and correct.
a111: Logged on 2017-10-10 01:45 mircea_popescu: in other lulz : so us rail gauge is 1435 mm. why ? because the first us rail was built by english immigrants, who kept to the english style. but why was the english style 1435 mm ? because rail started as (horse drawn) trams, and that was the gauge they used. but why ? because when they made trams they just used the old horse carriage gauge, by reusing the same tools. but why did carriages use 1435 mm gauge ? because if they
mircea_popescu: whereas the via aurelia and its derivations to this day the basis of "european union".
mircea_popescu: is this by the old definition, seculum "until everyone present dies off" ?
mircea_popescu: basically, very strong signs of argentinization in the ex-soviet lands.
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: argentina is like 2x the size of all europe. its internal development is comparable to the island of corfu.
a111: Logged on 2017-10-23 17:41 mircea_popescu: AND throughout the egypt that i've seen, they to this day have clay pots with water in the shade every quarter mile or so on the road. notwithstanding that yes you can buy bottled water and did i share that pic of the desert dhl ?
mircea_popescu: russia has no "a road within walking distance anywhere you walk". it should, to survive.
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: this is a bigger problem for putin than anything else.
mircea_popescu: heck, getting the precious cuntlets to move to kazakstan was a major problem for everyone, stalin, khruschev, etc.
mircea_popescu: afaik only trotsky sorta-managed, but too dumb to realise what he was doing or capitalize on it.
mircea_popescu: pay, as numerously discussed in teh forum, ain't the pill.
mircea_popescu: romans used the more adequate neckchain. sorta-worked.
mircea_popescu: we have a similar problem in teh republic, at that. #trilema overgravity renders #castles impracticable yet.
a111: Logged on 2017-10-26 15:55 mircea_popescu: the truth of the matter however is that to a large degree fain was powered by the original web delusion, "oh, lowering barriers to human creativity is what economy is all about". it's not. there's no such thing as "human creativity" in the sense of the general mass, and the barriers are there to keep us from the female wail.
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: 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: typical idiot can't get in here much like typical lamb can't eat tatched roofing.
diana_coman: mircea_popescu Bucharest is also some 6 times if not more the size of next town in ro, isn't it? not sure if that says much though in itself
mircea_popescu: diana_coman depends how you count ; but in any meaningful sense bucharest is a minor player to cluj, brasov et co.
diana_coman: asciilifeform, typical idiot *runs* like crazy away from here even if he somehow stumbles in for a second (he'll try hard not to though as it's cheaper on his own self-esteem and whatnot)
mircea_popescu: the russian school of medicine is in moscow, see, not in kiev.
diana_coman: mircea_popescu, eh now; by the same token as the maps: population+growth in population
mircea_popescu: well now ima have to look at the demographic geography of it.
mircea_popescu: then again, these are the same people who couldn't produce a count of suines in the country
diana_coman: well, remember I had to scrap the bac data and then the ministry statisticians were getting it on the sly from my blog?
diana_coman: so then, official statistics in ro are worse than non-existant, what
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: diana_coman it is said the lord of the jews has a special foible for idiots. at least so discovered the current (jesuit) pope.
diana_coman: I don't know enough on RU to say much at that level really so...
diana_coman: in any case and fwiw since I happen to know this tidbit, gospodin Medvedev did open (and I don't mean cutting the red tape sort of open but rather pouring the money & bringing in people from abroad sort of open) tam-tam big uni and all that in Tatarstan some years ago already rather than next to Moscow and I seriously doubt it was *not* part of a wider-range development plan
mircea_popescu: the chinese are also trying, what with their empty towns and whatnot.
mircea_popescu: contrary to the socialist delusions, papica is not the pill.
mircea_popescu: this is not exactly so. the extremely snot-nosed transylvanians didn't want to move there in 1850, either.
mircea_popescu: and the moldavians even put it in writing, "shit-eating faces like they eat nothing but fungus". also cca 1850.
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: 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: 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: 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)
diana_coman: I don't really know of someone from Bucharest who wanted Cluj either
mircea_popescu: 90s brought a lot of georgians into moscwo, but this very unrelatedly to stalin's patrilinearity, i suspect.
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.
diana_coman: well, as far as I know from older people it was mainly either permanent rural shithole or otherwise shitty temporary mini-jobs in some town
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)
diana_coman: obv,unless pcr to move to town in max 2 years or something
diana_coman: onth there were pockets of "I'll hold onto whatever good engineers I get" a la IAR ghimbav
diana_coman: for as long as there was a person who did precisely that
mircea_popescu: yes. there were strong attractors, the kalash factory, the cluj/bucharest/brasov/iassi ITCs etc.
mircea_popescu: the bucharest "bourgeois economic studies" thing, there's a dozen or so.
BingoBoingo: Oh my, much lawgs and numbers to digest this evening
a111: Logged on 2017-10-26 19:34 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.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> the chinese are also trying, what with their empty towns and whatnot. << Oh, China just held a big presser on Sinicizing region and Make Asia China Again
BingoBoingo: and Making Asia China Again means those weird extremist gentile followers of the late Jew King are a national security threat
ben_vulpes: > the substantive point is that we do not, at present, have a theory of inflation dynamics that works sufficiently well to be of use for the business of real-time monetary policy-making
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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".
☝︎ a111: Logged on 2017-10-26 21:34 ben_vulpes: > the substantive point is that we do not, at present, have a theory of inflation dynamics that works sufficiently well to be of use for the business of real-time monetary policy-making
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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 ?
a111: Logged on 2017-10-26 16:24 mircea_popescu: diana_coman in this vein was lulzy thing at lesbian club, chick is "i have no idea why i'm getting so drunk ?!?" "you keep drinking" "what ?! it suddenly hit me like... wtf." "you keep drinking." "what do you mean ?"
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a111: Logged on 2017-10-26 22:08 BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Apparently rainforest and language protection.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Hey, gotta keep spanish language from absorbokilling Portugues language
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo 0 chances of that. off the entire continent, the only functional sovereign is brazil. the whole rest of spanish speaking dorks can barely sum together to 2/3 of ye olde kingdom
BingoBoingo: Well, it is an attraction. Lumped together with India, China, and Russia as BRIC. Seems a strong winner on the not NATO front.
mircea_popescu: anyway, who's your source for "company costs 800, visa costs 1200" etc ?
mircea_popescu: and in perhaps oldest pantsuit lulz : ludwig of bavaria was a king, who constructed most of what today attracts the tourists there. as he at some point decided to get rid of his inept cabinet, the ministers got together, bribed a bunch of servants, and came up with a lengthy list of gossip ; on the basis of which, a very "respectable" conclave of four "experts" from the stanford princeton and yale of the time (munich insane a
mircea_popescu: sylum director, that guy's son in law, etc) declared that the king has paranoia and "his freedom of action can no longer be allowed" and this is permanent, because they say so.
mircea_popescu: amusingly, the schmucks also had the audacity to go over to neuschwanstein, "inform" the king of their "document". because totally, that's how it works.
mircea_popescu: king had them sent off at gunpoint rather than you know, flayed alive and exposed on the south wall, as customary.
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mircea_popescu: anyway ; the adventure of ludwig otto friedrich wilhelm, king and duke of bavaria, duke of franconia and swabia, count palatine of teh rhine is well informative. popular monarch, unwilling to flay pantsuit alive, "died mysteriously".
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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform he failed to order the national guard to fire upon the parliament, in modern soviet terms.
mircea_popescu: impossible to defend king who doesn't order the death of the pantsuit. kinda how trump lost, by not having clinton kidnapped and jailed in afghanistan.
mircea_popescu: "oh, nyt wants to save her ? let them. let's see what wordcount is necessary per kilo."
mircea_popescu: sister question to "what qty of bishop-hour prayer is required to lift airplane per thousand feet".
mircea_popescu: i expect it's recurring universally, it being the universal clou.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> anyway, who's your source for "company costs 800, visa costs 1200" etc ? << "Valet" service for incorporate and move called "Establish Brazil"
BingoBoingo: Provides metric for evaluating lawyers and accountant quotes.
BingoBoingo: And so will rando lawyer when presented a gringo
mircea_popescu: plox to not employ "experts" not qualified beyond whoredom to anything else.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo gringoness dun enter into it. case linked -- me, ie romanian, in romania.
mircea_popescu: exactly like the busbrothel, containing whores who are willing for you to pay as much as they say for them to do what they think they should, the female herd contains all sorts of other busses. the bus-lawyer, the bus-wife, the whatever else.
mircea_popescu: efficient obedience does not come naturally to the peonry.
mircea_popescu: possibly the most annoying version in the usg lands is the bus-doctor. he'll tell you what to pay and he klnows what to do. and he's never heard the salutary "bitch, say what ?" in his lyf.
mircea_popescu: mno, they're resultant of female state. come at the other end.
mircea_popescu: yes, bovine clientele puts up with it ; but this because they don't beat their wife and her children into shape, so the neglected sfortunati end up building the cheloid in the first place.
mircea_popescu: extra obedientia nulla salus! origen tends to misspell things.
BingoBoingo: Anyways, the impression is that "Establish Brazil" exists to let the Roger Vers play at Rio beach by ordering from menu. Actual lawyer selection will require their presence in Paulista neighborhood and acting as lawyers.
mircea_popescu: anyway, back to the german lands lulz : the item in
http://trilema.com/2017/jud-suss/ can be identified specifically ; but is also a composite of many different historical personages. one of which is a certain Moritz von Haber, a jew & banker who "was accused" by the local pantsuits of "too much influence", ended up shooting a bunch of the tards in a series of duels, including jorge von lasollaye and various others.