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BingoBoingo: greenspan
_fan: I'm guessing you are 'Murican
mircea_popescu: greenspan
_fan what are you talking about, not on a blog.
greenspan_fan: mircea
_popescu the lyrics are addressed to the stereotypical college leftist
BingoBoingo: greenspan
_fan: Transnistria is the last surviving Soviet Socialist Republic
mircea_popescu: greenspan
_fan theoreticians often get overexcited which makes them be stupid.
mircea_popescu: greenspan
_fan "it is forbidden to have a course in nonsense. But the history of nonsense, that is scholarship."
BingoBoingo: greenspan
_fan: Are you familiar with Transnistria?
BingoBoingo: mircea
_popescu: I just going off of what I see. Zizek dislike the communism he grew up with, but instead prefered the still stupider communism advanced by Hulkamania
greenspan_fan: mircea
_popescu I don't really get the "infinite hitpoints" thing
mircea_popescu: greenspan
_fan infinite hitpoints. the evisceration of each individual head of cattle is its own, private and special event.
Vexual: mircea
_popescu, it stikes me that the collected works of this taleb fellow might cost less to buy than 1bc, have you tried his publisher(s)?
BingoBoingo: greenspan
_fan: That day you will ency BFL customers or what?
B007: greenspan
_fan: I mean I don't know exactly how much he makes
BingoBoingo: mircea
_popescu: Do you need someone to talk to 'Muricans?
ozbot: Twitter / Mircea
_Popescu: @nntaleb Hey, I wanna give ...
BingoBoingo: greenspan
_fan: People have things to say. Scammers though prefer to say less.
BingoBoingo: greenspan
_fan: Protesters are worthless unless they go as far as Ukraine.
BingoBoingo: greenspan
_fan: I suspect more just Mark has a touch of downs and imagines he can hug away his scams
BingoBoingo: greenspan
_fan: There is a lot to learn from Vexual
Vexual: thats prolly exactly what they're thinking greenspan
_fan
BingoBoingo: mircea
_popescu: There is a huge gulf between an Officer and a Soldier though.
mircea_popescu: so yarvin delivers. there, greenspan
_fan is a short and sweet explanation of the concept.
mircea_popescu: greenspan
_fan i thought we were discussing projection of power.
mircea_popescu: greenspan
_fan go into detail re: well run. use examples.
mircea_popescu: greenspan
_fan it could project more power at the risk of having its arms broken off and used to beat it over the head.
greenspan_fan: mircea
_popescu: yes, but if they decided to actually get their money's worth it would be spectacular
mircea_popescu: greenspan
_fan generally, the third world or your dreams.
mircea_popescu: greenspan
_fan well how could it play out ? teh fifth that matters tried to voice till they got bored, now they're mostly exiting
greenspan_fan: mircea
_popescu: they move on to a new fandom (catharsis!) or get a clue; new people are attracted by the same mechanisms as the previous cohort
mircea_popescu: greenspan
_fan it's unsustainable because it creates frustration in the stupid.
greenspan_fan: mircea
_popescu: read it; still unsure why it's unsustainable-- 0->1 SD is always going to be about 18%
greenspan_fan: mircea
_popescu: I don't understand-- why more benefits? why unsustainable?
mircea_popescu: greenspan
_fan they all have equally the same to lose : their place in the world.
BingoBoingo: mircea
_popescu: No, that may be before my time.
BingoBoingo: greenspan
_fan: That is what your staff is for.
BingoBoingo: mircea
_popescu: Well, I think when herbi was trying to sculpt an orderbook I pointed out that in fiat world the cheapest part is the money. Maybe this week a trailer park sells for $200, maybe next for $200,000
BingoBoingo: mircea
_popescu: American handegg has the same problem as boxing. Amazing where ad revenue goes when fiat backs the ads.
BingoBoingo: mircea
_popescu: In a tournament she may have no choice.
BingoBoingo: mircea
_popescu: If she matches up against WIlliam soon I'm going to make so much money and maybe kill a sportsbook.
BingoBoingo: mircea
_popescu: Well he started with two other noobs. One had sense to quit hours after my blog post. The other didn't quit until a few weeks ago. The one unfortunately stuck with the forum handle has sent me so much angry correspondence.
greenspan_fan: mircea
_popescu hi, I've been reading your blog and thought I'd check out the chat
BingoBoingo: mircea
_popescu: I'm juggling 8 tasks, but is there a bounty on the post key apocolypse novel?
BingoBoingo: mircea
_popescu: I imagine Breaking Bad takes place in an Alternate universe where Erdos had to cook his own amphetamines.
BingoBoingo: mircea
_popescu: I might lean towards thinking the proof is valid, but could come in at hundreds of KB if only enough Aspies were locked in an attic with some meth.
BingoBoingo: mircea
_popescu: You wrote before on the subject of stolen credentials like credit card numbers making a poor currency due to their short lifespan.
nubbins`: ;;later tell mircea
_popescu re: S.POT, canada is outlawing personal growing for medical marijuana patients in april, and the entire system will move over to private growers. legal at federal level. country full of world-renowned growers. number of licensed users expected to grow tenfold over next decade. nice business to have established when across-the-board legalization eventually comes around.
jurov: mircea
_popescu: yes, but i enjoy how clearly it's laid out there
Jere_Jones: mircea
_popescu Maybe add a part at the end of your latest post about not being a tard. "Steer clear of all tards. Don't be a tard. That is all."
mircea_popescu: Jere
_Jones omg noob. ~= is an operator and === is another operator.
gribble: You are now authenticated for user mircea
_popescu with key 8A736F0E2FB7B452
KRS-One: mircea
_popescu: there sure isnt any I.T. here in Florida..I've got to get my ass to California at some point.
deadweasel: KRS-One: The gulf is a cesspool, yes. but it's MY cesspool ^
_^
mircea_popescu: Jere
_Jones except if people want different proportions.
deadweasel: Jere
_Jones: it's best to always think you're totally incompetent, until you are the expert in a field.
bones`: Jere
_Jones, reducing the number of unknown unknowns is a good thing, but takes time
deadweasel: Jere
_Jones: you're doing it right then
pankkake: mircea
_popescu: some programmers check twice, or allocate a variable twice, to be sure. I'm not kidding.
mircea_popescu: Jere
_Jones this revolves around the concept of meaningful difference.
benkay: mircea
_popescu you gotta fuck with dwarf fortress
mircea_popescu: Jere
_Jones no. there is no way to reclaim anything once you lose keys. never ever EVER lose any keys ever.