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mircea_popescu: cool, i can take all these okcupid sluts to dinner now.
mircea_popescu: o hey, turns out i made like a btc betting on difficulty increasing.
mircea_popescu: "Operating largely out of public view — in tax court, through arcane legislative provisions and in private negotiations with the Internal Revenue Service — the wealthy have used their influence to steadily whittle away at the government’s ability to tax them. The effect has been to create a kind of private tax system, catering to only several thousand Americans."
mircea_popescu: main problem of online poker being, like for social media and everything else - bots.
mircea_popescu: <BingoBoingo> I'm assuming antifa is anti-fascism <<< it's this peculiar derpy teen thing, mostly in yurp. sort-of like being a metalhead, but with much shittier music.
mircea_popescu: which was moderately funny. hint : no dominant male thinks fucking betas makes him gay. and if you think otherwise, odds are it's because a) you're a beta and b) were never within range.
mircea_popescu: anywya, can't find the article now and too lazy to search for it, but it ended on a high note showing some black kids doing sexual domination games and mislabelling them with "gay" and other bullshit.
mircea_popescu: apparently unbeknownst to everyone, the humanity of white males is in a herd and a concern of the herd. and then the derp thinks he's fighting against the establishment. probably because they're not the right sort of socialists like he is or something.
mircea_popescu: punkman> the hateful eight, notbad out of 5 stars <<< someone from the ridiculous right was pretty well incensed, lengthy article about how tarantino's jew masters use him to push the dehumanization of white males.
mircea_popescu: market has its own definition of stupid and it's never socially palatable.
mircea_popescu: this is a common delusion of the young. you will notice, nevertheless, that in general funds underperform.
mircea_popescu: yes, there is also miscommunication. like you know, exactly how noise on the channel breaks the jitterbug.
mircea_popescu: anyway, perhaps because i've broken the stupid in too many slavegirls, or perhaps for whatever other reason, but the pattern's obvious to me. guy gets a shot at working on mpex, blows it, out of dedication to protecting a certain identity flaw. has shot at b-a voice, blows it, out of same. will continue to blow everything in same manner for same reason indefinitely.
mircea_popescu: that's the thing. education is mere power. stupidity is drive. the two have almost nothing in common.
mircea_popescu: guy gotta defend his bower, because totally, we're collecting blue items over here, that's what we're doing.
mircea_popescu: seems well structured to my eyes, in this cyclic pattern.
mircea_popescu: captive in this "let's go out" "omaigerd i have so many questions and stuff i gotta say about it and and" "nevermind" "WAIT WAIT HOW COULD YOU SAY THAT TO ME!11" bullshit 16yo females are supposed to have outgrown.
mircea_popescu: well he did get kicked out didn't he ? or what was the story ?
mircea_popescu: so much fucking packaging and meta-packaging for, in the end, ~ a hundred pounds of organic turd.
mircea_popescu: forget the stupid shit, you're just some nobody that'll soon die, just like everyone else. you have no intrinsic value or importance, just like everyone else. you have no opportunities, you have no chances, there's nothing to manage. go do something useful already.
mircea_popescu: you happen to be the sort of misfortunate fucktard that grew up among idiots rather than parents, and as a result are way too fixated on experimentally verifying this hierarchy thing and way too fascinated by the female "oh may gawd what if i sell myself short".
mircea_popescu: <adlai> notice how much mircea hates me... he scratches, he moans, he bleeds! but the thorn - remains. << dude stop being derpy. you're not the only or the first guy to have made or lost money on mpex. it has nothing to do with anything else.
mircea_popescu: which... if the chinese aren't doing it already, it's because they're kinda too slow for this world.
mircea_popescu: the only thing that'd be interesting there is discovering a supply chain attack.
mircea_popescu: afaik most folks copy/paste passwords, but that's besides the point.
mircea_popescu: i dunno who'd use password-based ssh. then again that paper is from a decade ago.
mircea_popescu: who the fuck sends passwords over the wire one character at a time is beyond the scope of this discussion/
mircea_popescu: it died over the kicking and screaming pile of the aforenamed and more, flying to japan to "Save it" and etc.
mircea_popescu: ascii_rear which is why mp keeps going Hey SEC... fuck you.
mircea_popescu: forget about looking where the scam troop tries to direct your gaze and instead look at the man pointing.
mircea_popescu: it's these scumbags that are the problem, the meni rosenfelds and etc of the world.
mircea_popescu: the actual crystal ball involved is just a bauble. could have been any random other item,
mircea_popescu: there's nothing remarkable about mtgox other than the facrt that merck, and vessenes, and gavin and theymos and ver and who have you kept pushing it.
mircea_popescu: there is nothing special about pirate other than the fact that theymos, and gigavps, and grubbles and EVERYONE ELSE kept pushing him.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller you hafta understand this "X is a scammer" bullshit is pretty much ALWAYS some sort of entrenched structure trying to wash its sins on the cheap. oh, "madoff" scammed ? Really ? HE diod it ? not the 1k+ "experts" that recommended him to his clients etc ? not all the various "supervisors" and "authorities" ? it was... maddof ? fuck that.
mircea_popescu: nevertheless - they're not young men, fated to one day be mature men. they're worms. not caterpillars. worms. fated to NEVER be anything but worms.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller> BitGo says: "My personal view at this point is that it's more important that we successfully accomplish an intentional hard fork" << yes, it would be important for their self-validaiton. just like every pimply teenager is right in suspecting that the most important thing they could be doing for their own maturity is actually bedding a woman already.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well sure. i was discussing the "what is taxpayer billed" angle.
mircea_popescu: i guess technically speaking there is no such thing as "downward volatility".
mircea_popescu: o look, BingoBoingo and shinohai found some chicks too tall to be on okcupid!
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes asciilifeform jurov if you'd kindly consider whether the noise is worth it i'd be grateful kthx.
mircea_popescu: !v assbot:mircea_popescu.rate.adlai.-1:0fa48cb748629fa46745f8cd9b2972541cc1408dde31d976415bca5b1869b678
mircea_popescu: anyway. lo and behold, most of the womenz trying to date online have a god damned reason for it! behind a monitor, nobody knows you're short!
mircea_popescu: once some chick fucks an octopus AND CONCEIVES we're in mule territory.
mircea_popescu: an ox is not a "transitioning" cow. it's an injured bull.
mircea_popescu: anyway, "transitioning" means you're an injured-whatever you were born.
mircea_popescu: the intersection between "suprmodel" and "okcupid" turns out to be nil.
mircea_popescu: here's a fun tidbit i forgot to mention in the dedicated article : out of ~278k female profiles (which really seem to be the total of the meat of okcupid, ie, women under 30) there is exactly NO actual female 180 cm or over. a buncha trannies but those obviously are not female.