Comments on: On owning things http://trilema.com/2015/on-owning-things/ Moving targets for a fast crowd. Wed, 13 May 2026 23:29:39 +0000 http://polimedia.us hourly 1 By: Localbitcoins cracked corn, and I don't care. « The Whet http://trilema.com/2015/on-owning-things/#comment-131137 Localbitcoins cracked corn, and I don't care. « The Whet Sun, 25 Aug 2019 14:48:33 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=60902#comment-131137 [...] What do I care how many trades some anonymous randos (for all we know, and likely so, bots, or as close to bots as humans get) say a trader under my consideration has done? Why would I take some website's word on the matter, [...] [...] What do I care how many trades some anonymous randos (for all we know, and likely so, bots, or as close to bots as humans get) say a trader under my consideration has done? Why would I take some website's word on the matter, [...]

]]> By: Mircea Popescu http://trilema.com/2015/on-owning-things/#comment-113507 Mircea Popescu Fri, 10 Apr 2015 03:21:33 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=60902#comment-113507 Sorta links into that <a href=http://trilema.com/2009/inchipuiti-va/ >older Romanian piece</a> about mind powered furniture. Sorta links into that older Romanian piece about mind powered furniture.

]]> By: pletzalcoatl http://trilema.com/2015/on-owning-things/#comment-113506 pletzalcoatl Fri, 10 Apr 2015 03:18:49 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=60902#comment-113506 I wonder how many people would choose to own their shit, were they to take your counsel and actually think about it first. I'm inclined to doubt there are many who desire but do not grasp, but I'm sure those in the overlap would be well served by this piece. I wonder how many people would choose to own their shit, were they to take your counsel and actually think about it first.

I'm inclined to doubt there are many who desire but do not grasp, but I'm sure those in the overlap would be well served by this piece.

]]> By: Mircea Popescu http://trilema.com/2015/on-owning-things/#comment-113504 Mircea Popescu Fri, 10 Apr 2015 02:05:14 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=60902#comment-113504 Nobody said it was easy... I am not the prophet of convenience, he's the other guy. Nobody said it was easy...

I am not the prophet of convenience, he's the other guy.

]]> By: Stanislav Datskovskiy http://trilema.com/2015/on-owning-things/#comment-113503 Stanislav Datskovskiy Fri, 10 Apr 2015 02:03:26 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=60902#comment-113503 > they give you the gift of taking your stuff. For free! You know, just like colleges work, you get to pay a trunkfull of money in exchange for the priviledge of assigning to them the fruits of the mental labours of your most fruitful years. Complicated. The most appealing bait is the chance to temporarily avoid being thrown into the hell of 'the real world', where a month's rent in the sticks could easily buy a used Toyota anywhere else on the planet; and if you can't come up with this money - you get to live and work in the company of ethnically-hostile criminally insane folks. Whereas a student lives on credit, in the company of his own kind. While the air in the tank lasts. > Hey, if you discover cold fusion while an undergrad at Stanford, what then ? Look up Matthew Cook while you're at it. If you discover it while working for Google - exactly the same thing. While a Cook who self-funds his own existence is theoretically possible, in practice it is not entirely unlike asking for a Bolshoi-theatre-grade ballerina who is also a Belisarius-grade strategist and a Gauss-level mathemagician in one bodily package. > they give you the gift of taking your stuff. For free! You know, just like colleges work, you get to pay a trunkfull of money in exchange for the priviledge of assigning to them the fruits of the mental labours of your most fruitful years.

Complicated. The most appealing bait is the chance to temporarily avoid being thrown into the hell of 'the real world', where a month's rent in the sticks could easily buy a used Toyota anywhere else on the planet; and if you can't come up with this money - you get to live and work in the company of ethnically-hostile criminally insane folks. Whereas a student lives on credit, in the company of his own kind. While the air in the tank lasts.

> Hey, if you discover cold fusion while an undergrad at Stanford, what then ? Look up Matthew Cook while you're at it.

If you discover it while working for Google - exactly the same thing.

While a Cook who self-funds his own existence is theoretically possible, in practice it is not entirely unlike asking for a Bolshoi-theatre-grade ballerina who is also a Belisarius-grade strategist and a Gauss-level mathemagician in one bodily package.

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