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mircea_popescu: "o no we must do the bio insert IT IS HOW WRITING IS DONE!11!"
mircea_popescu: "Phil Schiller, Apple's longtime senior vice president of worldwide marketing5, is waiting for me when I arrive at Building 3 at the company's Infinite Loop headquarters in Cupertino, California on an unusually warm fall day." motherfucker these idiots.
mircea_popescu: so here's something for alf : "Through much of their history US finishing schools emphasized education in the social graces and de-emphasized scholarship: society encouraged a polished young lady to hide her intellectual prowess for fear of frightening away suitors. For instance Miss Porter's School in 1843 advertised itself as Miss Porter's Finishing School for Young Ladies—even though its founder was a noted schola
☟︎ mircea_popescu: holy shit, check it out, mp's "you don't own your own sex bits" is older than europe!
mircea_popescu: if anyone was fucktarded enough to buy into the scam on its final phase, i would like to meet them.
mircea_popescu: Ethereum (ETH) $ 0.748576 (-24.18 %) 0.00152907 BTC (-39.43 %)
mircea_popescu: consultant @ nothing in particular, doesn't really look the right age range for this nuttery.
mircea_popescu: goldbug too lol. funny. "Consultant - Gold & Silver Analyst - Gold Standard, International Monetary System, Precious Metals, Currencies, Geopolitics, Macroeconomics"
mircea_popescu: shinohai popescu is like the most common romanian name.
mircea_popescu: so wait... i made a few hundred million while i was sleeping ?
mircea_popescu: trinque this is a gnarly thing that's been being worked on for a while.
mircea_popescu: solrodar the problem with precedent and rule based systems is that you don't know what will happen until it actually happens. i would guess what would happen here would be the bet gets cancelled and so the nos get their btc back too, and perhaps the ability of bet starter to create that clause gets curtailed.
mircea_popescu: god i hate bucharest. just looking at that picture... brrrrr. but unrelatedly, if you lived behind one of those front windows, and there was a protest at night like that, wouldn't you fuck the woman for the camera ?
mircea_popescu: sort-of like a dilbert reader going by "colombo" or some equally ridiculous shit.
mircea_popescu: shinohai here's the problem : explain to me that you are defending "traditional marriage" aka "between a man or a woman" ~for the principle of the thing~ but not at the same time "traditional marriage" aka "the husband can take it whenever he feels like". they're both the same thing.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: fluffypony mmyeah, some cattle got burned so now they want the mayor in prison. because logically, that's what matters. when teh politruks set the whole country on fire nobody gave a shit, but god help you if some moos get run over.
mircea_popescu: <assbot> Tennessee man charged with raping wife in church parking lot: ‘I am your husband, I can get it anytime I want’ << kinda what "the traditional marriage" institution means innit.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: soo, re mpex : the trouble has been identified, i'm pretty sure. will be fixed and then tested etc, i expect mpex back before the weekend.
mircea_popescu: "i have an idea", sez buterin, "let's print and sell eth! it's almost as good as tax and spend!"
mircea_popescu: who fucks them ? who feeds them ? and most importantly : why ?
mircea_popescu: "While that’s a big deal for the U.S. industry and the people it employs, it doesn’t mean much for global supplies. Alcoa’s decision to eliminate 503,000 metric tons of smelting capacity accounts for about 31 percent of the U.S. total for primary aluminum, but less than one percent of the global total, according to Harbor."
mircea_popescu: <robotnum1> so how many of you are short at this moment? << i would be surprised if anyone is short btc.
mircea_popescu: basically you need a pgp key (do you have one ?) and register it with assbot
mircea_popescu: yes, i'd much rather that this burning happens in the consciousness of the derps involved,
mircea_popescu: what i'd rather doesn't enter into it. i would rather the "civilised" world burn than continue.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the greeks weren't enough. that's the thing with them, from anabasis onwards : never fucking enough
mircea_popescu: the magical thing about societal collapse is that meh, whatever. women are still usable anyway.
mircea_popescu: they're different people. the people colonising england and the people beheading us "soldiers" are maybe born from the same mother,
mircea_popescu: like hell. this is your "usg matters" delusion speaking.
mircea_popescu: "isis" is a conveyor belt. it reduces tectonics by moving people west.
mircea_popescu: because much less shit to explain, they mostly get it.
mircea_popescu: they don't wanna live in rome, they wanna live in lebanon. they don't like your women, they like those.
mircea_popescu: who the fuck do you think flattened syria if not a bunch of hardcore dudes that have been training against the "coallition" scarecrows for a decade ?
mircea_popescu: how come the fucking rebels were in syria rather than in fucking japan ?
mircea_popescu: 100 man "special forces" teams are impressive on tv, owing to the poor quality of the camera as a perception mechanism.
mircea_popescu: god fucking help the lot if they do actually get a leader.
mircea_popescu: at least this time they don't have a leader. yet they are very well connected.
mircea_popescu: china is strongly centralizing again, the nomads are going west.
mircea_popescu: that's the deep driver here. the us isn't even on the map.