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Fri Mar 04 18:30:26 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> asciilifeform only works if you're alone. the us is quite behind in tech fixed goods atm.
Fri Mar 04 18:30:12 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> PeterL see what i mean ?
Fri Mar 04 18:30:03 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> asciilifeform no, beause the euros and the chinese are building actual working things.
Fri Mar 04 18:29:46 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> not that. "National superconducting cyclotron" < that.
Fri Mar 04 18:29:39 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> nonononon
Fri Mar 04 18:29:35 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> because the cyclotron building either works or does not. and they can't lie about the latter.
Fri Mar 04 18:28:25 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> nah, the thing with money flow.
Fri Mar 04 18:28:04 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> asciilifeform is what i'm saying here making sense to you ?
Fri Mar 04 18:27:50 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> PeterL how much does that sorta thing cost ? you know ?
Fri Mar 04 18:27:03 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> anywya.
Fri Mar 04 18:26:49 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> ironically, sultans and other practitioners of "man-slavegirls-theirlitter family" did and regularly do hear such, for reasons that should be obvious and for which reason they're never discussed in idiocy-land.
Fri Mar 04 18:25:19 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> i don't think any human being in the history of this "man-woman family" idiocy has EVER heard "sure dad, go ahead, it's your money anyway"
Fri Mar 04 18:24:34 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> try having children sometime, and then give them money, and then see what happens.
Fri Mar 04 18:24:25 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> yep, it is.
Fri Mar 04 18:24:19 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> it has its own head. and this is a serious problem for the pretense of central planning, because they effectively suck down resources.
Fri Mar 04 18:23:57 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> it is NOT a usg crown hedgefund anymore than romania was a soviet property.
Fri Mar 04 18:23:30 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> the savings show in mit's bottom line, not in the fed's.
Fri Mar 04 18:23:17 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> asciilifeform it looks like, mit still is the hedge fund it was, whether it spends x on wage and y on fixed/capital goods or just x/2 on wage and epsilon on f/c
Fri Mar 04 18:22:34 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> you know what the eu cyclotron cost ? you know, that thing the us could never afford ?
Fri Mar 04 18:22:20 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> PeterL only marginally.