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mircea_popescu: re. When it decides otherwise, look out. The US will go Lehman Brothers faster than you can say Bear Stearns."
mircea_popescu: "There is a terrible, terrible, ugly truth underlying all of this, and that is that taxes don't matter to a government that can print money. The government collected $2.4T and spent $3.6T. They'll take what they get, of course, but if they had collected $2T or $3T you/they would not have noticed. The country isn't a household, it is a bank, and as long as the rest of the world believes "we're good for it," then we a
mircea_popescu: it is certainly a valid, heavy duty phd. "1915-2015, a century of "oil quality"". THAT is something i'd respect.
mircea_popescu: for sure more male time / money went into the former to date.
mircea_popescu: oil quality is, i daresay, something like beauty in adolescent human females.
mircea_popescu: guaranteed entertainment for a year's time in smart go-getter types.
mircea_popescu: did you get to the entire crazy that is "oil quality", how it relates to its density, and what "a barrle" ACTUALLY means ?
mircea_popescu: Why oh why would they do this?! It's so wrong! It's so stupid!"
mircea_popescu: "I still can't believe this! All this hype for something so ridiculous! Who cares about an MP3 player? I want something new! I want them to think differently!
mircea_popescu: or are you really aiming to become a glorified consumer gimmicks firm?"
mircea_popescu: "|hey - heres an idea Apple - rather than enter the world of gimmicks and toys, why dont you spend a little more time sorting out your pathetically expensive and crap server line up?
mircea_popescu: no. the irony is, they think "there was nothing [else] i could do."
mircea_popescu: so asciilifeform : a) the iron because they're broken (ie, not equal to the design) ; the bc is, TECHNICALLY, part of the car. aftermarket shocks.
mircea_popescu: i will now attempt to mout a defense with my disembodied, bloody remains!
mircea_popescu: "grsec has had much lower burn rate than the other packages because there has been less independent research put into it"
mircea_popescu: i mean, your data is your data, ok, but what does it say ?
mircea_popescu: they're not models. and once they try to become models they quit promising.
mircea_popescu: no. they are promising for the same reason 15yo hos "are" promising.
mircea_popescu: or should i say "unmodelable" ? obscurantist perhaps ? :D
mircea_popescu: aha. the effect is not exactly unknown, in all its batshit crazy splendour.
mircea_popescu: kinda the point of that entire thing with trinque yest. "oh, 100% placebo works for me when i tihnk it's 75% drug". good for you, continue.
mircea_popescu: all myths have a kernel of truth in em. the idea is to select a set that works.
mircea_popescu: well tlp in this case. but the mechanism of pissing on X myth is parenting.
mircea_popescu: your parents aren't supposed to understand YOU. they're supposed to understand the world.
mircea_popescu: and to grok the true sign of luxury : i have an auction in eulora in 20 minutes. which i woke naturally for.
mircea_popescu: "Asrar al-Mujahideen, Asrar al-Dardashah" aaaahahahah.
mircea_popescu: lest i get lost in a pile of awesome and do no work but grin for the rest of the sunday.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform must be bought same day because poor impulse control (must have) and poor social skills (this is the only time you'll meet people you can talk to this year)
mircea_popescu: way to go. ps : it isn't abuse just because it leaves you outside, feeling inadequate.
mircea_popescu: well, alcohol is a downer. kids are overexcitable. it's a toss-up.
mircea_popescu: in operational terms, i was as excited as you were, apparently.
mircea_popescu: wait, you were gonna go weaboo all over the xbox line but then slept through the opening ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: you do whatevs you feel like. if you're happy with it carry on, eventually you'll either die or have enough of it.
mircea_popescu: he had diabethes. according to him, he could not take the medicine. except with honey.
mircea_popescu: there's somewhere in the log this observation, you can't learn medicine on yourself.