mircea_popescu: firing off some wartnings before actually shooting is considered the polite and civilised way where i come from.

mircea_popescu: maybe even something smooth and classic, like, I Can't Believe It's Not Bitcoin.

mircea_popescu: i really hope they go with "ultimate" next. it has this flavour of old Vivendi spunk and unemployed, failed "strategists" and "designers" of unplayable reboots of stale franchises.

mircea_popescu: i bet you at least four haplogroups are "subsaharan".

mircea_popescu: i have no idea what'd be "africa". there's a bunch of major ones. and they are mixed with stuff like the persians, which... invented civilisation.

mircea_popescu: i somehow doubt there is a good "africa" haplogroup.

mircea_popescu: i've yet to see actually good studies on this topic.

mircea_popescu: as i said - ask your representative why!

mircea_popescu: hey, don't ask me things. i linked you, link me.

mircea_popescu: PeterL i doubt it'd be practical to try and get the miner to subsidize the wot. i expect it to work the other way around.

mircea_popescu: unavoidable, yes, but i'd have liked it to come later.

mircea_popescu: yes yes, it's correct. and next thing you know the transactions are no longer publicly relayed (because why the fuck would i give the fee to random miners) and lo and behold we've split in the worst way.

mircea_popescu: "Pe Argeş în gios, pe un mal frumos, Negru-vodă trece cu tovarăşi zece: nouă meşteri mari, calfe şi zidari si Manoli - zece, care-i şi întrece."

mircea_popescu: this delusion of "i will build" so common in us "activists" and three year olds really needs the natural check of "go ahead".

mircea_popescu: i suppose this is how the pedestrian notion of "good" and "evil" is constructed even. let us arbitrarily divide a set of real objects into "only has height" and "only has width". thus therefore the first set are ~obviously~ good, for they allow you to build up! (how will you manage to allign things with no width on top of each other is a consideration best left to any masochistical engineers still stuck in your swampla

mircea_popescu: (that's a particularly poor illustration of what i said, if it tries to be. for one thing i dun think i ever said anything alike.)

mircea_popescu: and while i am not certain "masochists" can be separated from the general population, i am well certain that they are not a category to be, and that you're plenty one yourself.

mircea_popescu: laymen famously can not separate the entreatment from the threat in what i say to my slaves.

mircea_popescu: trinque no but he's asking me what he's doing when he's the one doing it. and in all honesty he expects me to answer. i suppose in the same honesty he expects a snippet of code somwhere exists which says "how to subdue women". god knows the PUA subculture's been working tediously at it.

mircea_popescu: so to get back to it : <ascii_butugychag> so if i offer a kid a candy, i am threatening him with hunger ? << are you ?

mircea_popescu: do it and i'll tell you.

mircea_popescu: how should i know what you're doing.

mircea_popescu: to which i say that if i were a bird also i wouldn't flap my wings, but merely float. because why not, tis a dream.

mircea_popescu: the fellow says "if i were to be a pimp [ie, the dream mode, because hey, that's what he understood of a discussion of technology, that "being an engineer" is a blessed state, to be obtained through divine grace and / or ordination] i wouldn't beat the women, for they'd be more productive thus. but also, if they piss me off, "dead" directly. you know, like puff daddy.

mircea_popescu: does it convey or should i translate ?

mircea_popescu: and i don't even think you mean thinking by "thinking". i think you mean "for daydreaming". like this fellow :

mircea_popescu: i don't think so.

mircea_popescu: i wonder how many people burned themselves trying to be me. perhaps i find out one day.

mircea_popescu: it's a semi-permeable membrane. i don't indiscriminately counsel everyone there to come out.

mircea_popescu: <jurov> i use ctrl to jump to next nonwhitespace if needed. << i do.

mircea_popescu: punkman yeah but if im going to bash i prefer pipes.