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Fri Mar 04 18:22:11 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> right. so am i.
Fri Mar 04 18:21:43 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> (but now we know what the "protests" were for. softening - in preparation of this.)
Fri Mar 04 18:21:31 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> curious if any of the loser satellites will succeed, or for that matter try, something similar.
Fri Mar 04 18:21:17 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> notably enough : romania told the soviets to shut it, and as a result the policy was updated to allow people (ie, romania) to do w/e it pleases.
Fri Mar 04 18:20:51 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> specifically : while the universities may well be pushing costs down as you describe, they're sure as fuck noty passing the savings up the chain to comecon.
Fri Mar 04 18:20:18 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> asciilifeform afaik this isn't true.
Fri Mar 04 18:20:05 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> that's 100 trn in air bubble to breathe while the dod keeps losing trucks nominally full of trucks that were fully loaded with trucks.
Fri Mar 04 18:19:28 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> you can replace the ~100 trn worth ivy league & friends that do a 10-20 bn spending on actual hardware each year and otherwise shuffle paper on the exchanges with a new-and-improved thing worth ~1-2 bn that spends 50 bucks on mcdonalsa a year.
Fri Mar 04 18:18:16 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> the "studies" whores cost paper dollars.
Fri Mar 04 18:18:11 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> oh, this isn't about math. this is about stem. stem costs TURKEY dollars.
Fri Mar 04 18:17:50 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> why ? currently the harvard/mit/etc hedge funds masquerading as universities are pretty much the largest problem on fed's map.
Fri Mar 04 18:16:51 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> asciilifeform much like soviet economy endgame, stuff isn't being replaced. simply removed.
Fri Mar 04 18:16:33 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> cuz yeah, the socialists here more or less ready to firebomb the socialists from there.
Fri Mar 04 18:16:14 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> oh in somewaht lulzy news : obama is going to be in argentina 23-24th. he (and his 850 camp followers) is however not going to stay in buenos aires, but some far flung provincial shithole. either because afraid of running into me on corrientes, or else because petrified of LEFT WING PROTESTS.
Fri Mar 04 18:15:12 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> something else other than the uni-money pump can't be sustained anymore ? why ?
Fri Mar 04 18:12:17 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> new party line i guess. proactively closing the uni financing gap and all that.
Fri Mar 04 17:35:43 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> you gotta re-doi the overlay on the header tho, i can see the edges and a nose/hairline of a guy in the irght
Fri Mar 04 17:34:32 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> check out the drinks guy!
Fri Mar 04 17:32:40 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> not a comment on the language - a comment on the mentality. "oh this box is not good". fine. "oh this other box is not yet ready". fine. whatever all this may mean in the ideal world of ideals, what it means in practice is that - never happened.
Fri Mar 04 17:30:44 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> this has been a perfect case of typically lispian self-sabotage, for the record.