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mircea_popescu: now she's 25 and it takes a shitload of beatings and tears to achieve the same effect.
mircea_popescu: she wouldn't be, ironically, if anyone had told her off when she was 12 and it was easy to change
mircea_popescu: wealth insulates from the perception of problems, which is how you end up with the jewish princess.
mircea_popescu: anyway : you can only solve problems you perceive as problems.
mircea_popescu: you haven't just said "by definition" without actually having a definition in mind have you ? tsk tsk.
mircea_popescu: myeah. i come from a place where irrigation is measured in added cm. crops requiring 20 or more are seen as uneconomical.
mircea_popescu: especially the most endearing part of it all, their deeply imprinted conviction that they're special, different, experiencing the world privately and personally.
mircea_popescu: check it out, next thing you know "hogwash" is going to turn into the sound of a cane, and "You, on the other hand, come to my classes fresh from a culture with different values, one that finds academic ways strange and hard to understand." is going to become "drop the stupid, this isn't the place for it".
mircea_popescu: (ftr, me went to a highschool that had a spa across the road. summertime, the better tail was across teh street)
mircea_popescu: <BingoBoingo> hotter tail, better parties, and less crushing pressure to be their own grandparents a few decades too early << the latter. yes. they're regressed to mean and expected to outperform exceptional talent selected by exceptional luck.
mircea_popescu: "This is not about creating an intellectual space! Do you get that ? It’s about creating a home here!"
mircea_popescu: in the recent missouri rebellion of the lazy and the stupid against work.
mircea_popescu: some orc screamed at some prof something to the effect of "this is not about intellectual freedom, this is about making a home, do you get that"
mircea_popescu: they got an eastern chick in salvari, a redhead which i dun recall what she was
mircea_popescu: that was originally one of the boring disney chicks neh ?
mircea_popescu: as the wise jew once noted, "there's a blessing for anything". ie, there's always a good something to say.
mircea_popescu: and continuig thing, "fuckurmommatron", which delivers gaoler's mother when idem, and so on.
mircea_popescu: davout the coke machine is this putative alf-proposed torturing device to extract bitcoin out of people. he's twisted like that.
mircea_popescu: poor davout is probably glaring down more and more little karpeleses
mircea_popescu: "In the United States where mass shootings are far more common knee jerk reactions typically consist of proposals for new restrictions on firearms, though in Paris, France, and much of the EU more stringent firearms regulations are practically impossible due to the existing draconian restrictions" loller
mircea_popescu: now i can't write the article i was gonna write because i gotta read the article he actually wrote
mircea_popescu: no, they give you a special plate for tears. don't have to cry straight in the cup like fucking savages.
mircea_popescu: ridoinculous. all the tears you can muster and five dollars buys you a cup of coffee
mircea_popescu: as if THAT is the relevant thing, that o mai gawd someone cried.
mircea_popescu: seems everyone's trying to get himself a spot in the consideration line by the quality and quantity of tears they dispensed, all of a sudden.
mircea_popescu: anyway, this is how it works. extend the franchise, import the poor, pretend it's just as much x as the real x, on it goes.
mircea_popescu: why do you need bitcoin anyway ? we're here in bitcoin to barnacle innovation into the same old soup! hear us roar!
mircea_popescu: <DianaComan> prolly it would be for the best to track those numbers down too , but really the list is already longer than my both arms :p
☟︎ mircea_popescu: almost like some baltic fishermen read a book of jokes (soory i mean joeks) and went "what the fuck is this platdeustch bs! HERE IS HOW REAL MEN SAY IT!"
mircea_popescu: afrikaans reads exactly like crazy fucking idish on pcp
mircea_popescu: punkman someone, never will, by definition of someone.
mircea_popescu: who the fuck told twentysomething derps that they can create pseudoscience out of their ass, i wish to know.
mircea_popescu: i do not seem to remember any name associated in a managerial capacity with any successful project ever.
mircea_popescu: what makes they believe they understand enough of anything to trust themselves to make a decent model of the thing they purport to study, so as to measure something meaningful and construct conclusions worth considering.
mircea_popescu: i wish to know, what qualifies Giuseppe Destefanis, Marco Ortu, Steve Counsell, Michele Marchesi or Roberto Tonelli to discuss the matter, at all.
mircea_popescu: "The more polite developers were, the less time it took to fix an issue. In the majority of the analysed cases, the more developers wanted to be part of a project, the more they were willing to continue working on the project over time."
☟︎ mircea_popescu: <punkman> the latest pill against malleability << no, the latest in "gotta serve the customer" because "customer has come to expect" that "he just wants to".
mircea_popescu: he has a certificate of unexpertise duly issued like last year.
mircea_popescu: but what difference does it make, right ? let the squaw chew her squaw candy thinking it's ambrosia, who cares what happens in the colonies and territories at the ends of the earth.
mircea_popescu: and don't even get me started on the topic of the spanish rohohoyals. they have magazines here, it's all the chickies read, they keep going on and on about the noblesse refinement and you know, bla bla of the juan carlos clan. and the pictures... my god, the pictures.
mircea_popescu: <punkman> looking forward to the day buzzfeed acquires AP and their "big stories" << won't be long now. then they can all sell to some derpy "we make money while sleeping" spam outfit that slashdot got sold to.