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mircea_popescu: "stereotypes are wrong mkay, unless the government's doing it."
mircea_popescu: h people as individuals, so it deals with them as groups, types, diagnoses and organ banks."
mircea_popescu: "Just a piece of advice. If you are ever arrested, make sure to ask for a jury. As for two juries. If your lawyer says the words "bench" and "trial" at any point in the same paragraph, flee to Argentina. Those 12 idiots, imperfect as they are, are one of the only things protecting you from a top down, hierarchical, classist, flow chart wielding government clusterfuck that has no time, interest, or money to deal wit
mircea_popescu: also, they shed what, 5% ? sport is going to shit everywhere, the world is sick of it.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski espn was never a start-up. it was rassmunsen backed by getty.
mircea_popescu: nevertheless... a pile of rifles doth not give you even the beginning of force. it's just scrap metal.
mircea_popescu: what the derps are doing, roughly speaking, is "Becoming powerful" out of robbing monkeys of their rifles.
mircea_popescu: than there is in a satchel of a hundred gold pieces collected from the necks of a hundred dizzy cows in the field.
mircea_popescu: yes there is some value in money, for sure. but there is A LOT MORE value in a hundred gold pieces resting in a hundred pockets of men that made those pieces
mircea_popescu: now, what the scammer wants is to collect the sort of people who are dumber than him, and separate them from their money.
mircea_popescu: compare b-a and random scammer circle, "dollar vigilante" thing or the keiser radio show (hey, check it out, "Auroracoin is a cryptocurrency launched in February 2014 as an Icelandic alternative to bitcoin and the Icelandic króna. Its unknown creator or creators" < hard at work deleting the internet history of previous scams, as if THAT is how it works now)
mircea_popescu: yes. and it ended up negative roi for 'em with very little effort.
mircea_popescu: understandably, it's not clear the us fed is worth that much atm,
mircea_popescu: it went to all shit (15 iirc last, 50% over the cutoff of the bitbet), only to get a dead cat's jump yest.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field apparently they can't afford to lose 150 BTC THIS BAD. thinkaboutit.
mircea_popescu: fuyck that shit. the world women's organisation is gonna publish studies about the CAUSAL relationship between domestic beatings and happiness.
mircea_popescu: this is what has to be uprooted, fucking WHO making studies about the impact of inequality ?
mircea_popescu: but yes : do you think sumner rothstein gives a flying fuck that his car producing subsidiary paid his tv producing subsidiary a billion in advertising with no roi, when the result of this expense is that china now THINKS the truth about china is on viacom released movies and argentines think citibank is a thing that may exist in buenos aires ?
mircea_popescu: ""The evidence we have from these academic studies is that quite often [soap opera viewers in developing countries] take away different attitudes toward things like how many children they want, what is acceptable behavior for a husband toward his wife, what is the breakdown in a household of responsibilities over things like finances, should we be sending girls to school," says Charles Kenny, an economist at the World
mircea_popescu: anyway, he explained somewhere that ads aren't designed to sell the avertised product, but the SYSTEM that produces the product in question.
mircea_popescu: it destroys the "notion of payment" = all payments are grocery, bitcoin should be visa, all peopel are equal and mp should be nicer to fucktard x.
mircea_popescu: what does the queen's mineral water cost ? "it would be an honor if you drank our water!"
mircea_popescu: the financial notion of monetary commitment is DIFFERENT from the grocery notion of monetary commitment.
mircea_popescu: govt comes out announcing it's "commitment" to so and so.
mircea_popescu: suppose instead the streetwalker is a bank in distress, and you decide to prop it up. you don't do jack, all you do is SAY you're going to do it.
mircea_popescu: this is usually a transaction between you and her holder, involving one or more crumpled up pieces of paper.
mircea_popescu: suppose you desire the use of a streetwalker for half an hour.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field i suspect the very notion of PAYMENT is going to be destroyed by btc. let me illustrate what i mean.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller well, it's all the media of the new republic.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller successful webcomics also aren't usually attached to behemoths set on destroying the entire world. note that qntra is NEVER going to be successful, because it's not here to obtain praise from daddy.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field and yet, as much they dislike paywalls, they love paying for ipads.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field the point i'm coming to is that it's, unlike something you/those thinking people have actually thought about, merely an aculturation. ie, "this is how we dress". and i know where it comes from too, and so forth. nothing wrong with it, but it is what it is.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field not even about me. why would ~you~ argue it like that ? you don't argue like that for anything else, certainly not anything else you know well / understand in depth.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: ascii_field besides the point what you were tryingt to say. the important thing to notice is how your mental flow went. and it went to "i am not alone". why would it ?
mircea_popescu: moreover she didn't want to / understand she has to make a gpg, and i dun wanna encourage the demuring damsels.
mircea_popescu: she'd prolly go for it, but she'd still have to be paid, and so far qntra is not so keen to spend cash.
mircea_popescu: yeah pete_dushenski but i recall we briefly interviewing a moderately talented fellow in this very chan and he wanted a billion euros or some shit.
mircea_popescu: you're alone among thinking people thinking computing sucks. what now ? it doesn't suck ?
mircea_popescu: ascii_field whether you're alone or not should make no fucking difference. more importantly, it shouldn't be a point of consideration. why is it ?
mircea_popescu: you can paint the box whatever color you want. what do you think elen degeneres says, "degenerates" ?
mircea_popescu: you don't wanna go to the fuckfest because fucking is by its nature public, but you wanna be thinking in a herd because thinking by its nature is private ?
mircea_popescu: who the fuck cares and when did you start giving a shit if you're alone or not. what's this nonsense!
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-10-2015#1306332 << and if you were to be against gpg, or against signed commits, or against "not everyone is/can be a contriobutor" or for "women in tech" in the sense of lipstick in the optic drive or a bunch of other equally nutty notionms, you could equally say "i don't think i am alone" and more importantly, FIND YOURSELF INCLINED TO SAY IT
☝︎ mircea_popescu: i just gave you some lsd (by permission) in the shape of serotonin or whatever you fired in your own brain.
mircea_popescu: how much money does the pet earn you ascii_field ? and what P/E do i need to pay to buy her ?
mircea_popescu: so far, gutting the pretense of "press" of the oposition, that DOES advertise, is good enough.
mircea_popescu: i don't explain 'em mr seinfeld, i just exterminate 'em.
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-10-2015#1306325 << trilema is for instance making decent money on subscription model. this is not to be discounted. also, no press IN THE HISTORY of press has EVER made money. not ever. it didn't happen (yes there are exceptions, in particular, temporary, self limited nooks). this never stopped the press from being WORTH money, which it always was.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: "Shocked, and also frightened for his safety due to the fact that Johnson is a “big girl,” the 140 pound security guard said he ran out until police arrived. When they did, female officers entered the restroom with Johnson still “putting in work with the sausage.”"
mircea_popescu: sex is by its design the one, the first, the best public matter.
mircea_popescu: they also don't put chunks of mango in the mango icecream i bet. you knolw ?
mircea_popescu: (tru story : doctor's visit. "why do my knees hurt me doc ?" "oxalates" "what do i do ?" "no more chocolate" "OMGWTFBBQ".)
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski just saying, a dossier on all the ways alphabet mitigates tax is definitely a qntra worthy research project for the actuarialy inclined.