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mircea_popescu: not necessarily that far. merely pointing out that this car is worse than a horse is not necessarily a proposition to eschew all further use of fire.
mircea_popescu: "oppressed" and "violent" and whatnot sound bad on paper - but in practice all it means is that "you can walk into two bars, one of which has sensibly shittier people than the other". choice is more or less obvious.
mircea_popescu: which is part and parcel of why today's west utterly sucks : most of the walkers should have been dead before puberty.
mircea_popescu: however - it turns out high infant mortality is absolutely necessary for males to even consider starting a family. if there's 0 natural selection going on in the litter the task of extracting unworthy worms from the wailing woman's clutches to bang their head against a rock is just too damned demaning and ultimately not worth the hassle.
mircea_popescu: iirc this was discussed in the channel last time someone tried to use the "life expectancy" thing.
mircea_popescu: in unrelated news, "This is your XQJ-37 plasma cannon. The only trouble is that since the old model XQJ was cobbled together from junked Amiga motherboards, you can only have one shot on the screen at a time."
mircea_popescu: for one thing, there's the "we were younger then" thing.
mircea_popescu: well yeah, because happy people don't tend to make facebook pages
mircea_popescu: EVEN when bureaucrat run town consists of "give everyone foodstamps", ie, it's not even self-sustained.
mircea_popescu: and note that most people lived quite happily under same soapy smith. in fact, from experience a mob run town is a better place than a bureaucrat run town, without exceptions.
mircea_popescu: but this is no basis for any sort of discussion of the possibilities.
mircea_popescu: well of course as you are now you'd pick your poison. that's the problem.
mircea_popescu: except "civilisation" is what they had, not what you do. and your idea of "justice" is... welll. the sops.
mircea_popescu: your epithets are about as interesting as the miners calling you a confused youth with no real understanding of the world.
mircea_popescu: 100 ways to die in the west or no, mark twain died in his bed after smoking two carloads worth of cigars.
mircea_popescu: just because one style of lying is replaced by another style of lying doesn't mean we've reached any closer to "factual".
mircea_popescu: the people who went to klondike SOUGHT OUT the perilous life they lived. the people stuck in traffic sought out no traffic.
mircea_popescu: the notion that this sort of trade appeals to anyone but the patently insane is... well.. patently insane.
mircea_popescu: and then explains the importance of abortion for to increase the qty of quarts of icecream in the house.
mircea_popescu: instead, she gets a mother that forces a curetage on her that ends up with a hysterectomy,
mircea_popescu: consider as a simple example palindromes, a 2004 film by todd solondz. it tells the story of a plain, common girl aged 13 that wants to get pregnant. she is in this representative of a small but present throughout history minority. for living in any other time, she would have had a husband, children and a family and been perfectly happy. such as is amply recorded, as undesirious we might be to look at the records.
mircea_popescu: "a factual account" is an exercise in nonsense. should this "factual" be presented in ideological terms alligned with the present insanity, and should this "tabula rasa" item be somehow atuned to same ideological terms (which has exactly no chance of happening, but they invested in promoting and preserving said idiocy like to pretend it's somehow natural and universal, like all other ideological blind tunnels ever), then yes.
mircea_popescu: the only crapsack world is the present, in the sense that the only time most nobody, historical or contemporary actually would choose to live, is now.
mircea_popescu: ~nobody at any point in history was as sad a lot as the ~1bn dead souls captive in the said remains of "the western world"
mircea_popescu: the notion that the aforementioned 7 day cycle / daily cycle human was SAD is so much fan wank, to survive in the minds of the incredibly sad contemporary population mostly on the grounds that hey, panglossism is easy and where would they meet a german serf anyway, to find out first hand he was actually having a better life than they do.
mircea_popescu: hey, most humans historically lived on a 7 day cycle composed of a smaller 1 day cycle 85% of the time.
mircea_popescu: well if you actively observe a day every 12, you have a 94% chance of missing events.
mircea_popescu: ups really only get hard once one starts being loudly stupid
mircea_popescu: midnightmagic> oh. I thought anyone who could +v themselves could $up? << i'm not entirely sure how this even works by now. possibly only l1 ?
mircea_popescu: but anyway - you can self-voice for an indefinite period by pm-ing deedbot $up and then $v the otp it gives you
mircea_popescu: ahahah check out his hostmask asciilifeform ~copumpkin@haskell/developer/copumpkin :D
mircea_popescu: still there for collectors, ie, people just like you, who might want a screenshot\
mircea_popescu: oddly enough i don't even recognize my key in short form o.O
mircea_popescu: for one thing, seems to be way before the last mpex key update years ago ?
mircea_popescu: mod6> I'll have to discuss with ben on the IRC section, do we even allow people to use the webclient to connect here? <<< i thought so, no ?
mircea_popescu: wywialm yes but the offer's not clear. asked if you need money, turns out no ; asked if you need skill, turns out no. well...
mircea_popescu: honestly this just reduced in my head to basically "hey, i want to be mp, and for the year to be 2012". so i guess... good luck with it ?
mircea_popescu: so how does the exchange get its price signal (other than the obvious "what'd be most convenient for the market making project")
mircea_popescu: this is also the first time you mentioned the exchange is going to take positions too ?
mircea_popescu: so basically you're looking for a skilled market maker to market make your new exchange ?
mircea_popescu: shinohai i don't get it, what the fuck difference does it make that guy's dad used to be a chiropractor ?!
mircea_popescu: both are disciplines concerning thesmelves with the unseen unknown.
mircea_popescu: but finance, much like cryptography, is altogether a crapshoot in the dark.
mircea_popescu: these are the canonical objections to this sort of "web exchange, mutually-insured on user funds" things : that on one hand they're an algorithmic noise amplification machine with no dampener available other than the power of prayer ; and that the yessentially implement a lemon market, a sort of competition in deadbeat-ism among the users. which is why they're so popular on reddit, and nowhere else.
mircea_popescu: i am not open to receiving a short hairy jewish girl for my money, even if oksluts.com imagines "it was just an intermediary between parties"