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mircea_popescu: (at the time the 60k acres were perhaps worth a few k ounces of gold. maybe. for instance.)
mircea_popescu: acreage was ~1 dollar per. ONE YEAR of govt sales produced in excess of 1mn dollars during "normal" times and well over 10 mn during speculative bubbles.
mircea_popescu: "Washington was a land developer, often described as the richest of his generation. By the end of the American Revolution, General Washington controlled about sixty thousand acres of land" << and there lies the debunk. it's true that george washington was well off. it's true he controlled some tens of k's of acres. it is UNTRUE that made him "richest in his generation".
☟︎ mircea_popescu: like hell! real sports fans think the sport outcomes OBVIOUSLY MATTER. they just don't think they matter to anything in particular, but that's fine, neither does the punditry fan.
mircea_popescu: Political TV punditry is like sports for the intellectual set. You get to keep track of who's on which team, who gets traded, who made what play last night...and none of it could possibly matter less to what actually makes the world go 'round. At least sports fans don't have the same delusion of their choice of entertainment "mattering".
mircea_popescu: right it's exactly the opposite of "literary" english.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo there's this growing trend where "is better with images", derp media ends up with the most ridiculous images published
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo well to discourage derps from plundering google images.
mircea_popescu: Send code snippets and GPG signed material in separate GPG encrypted blocks. This protects them from painful mutilation. < ? !
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo "without further modifiers such as where the link ought to open." << what's this mean ?
mircea_popescu: at least for the "nude women and whips" thing the excuse may be had that it does not interest the general public.
mircea_popescu: these fucktards. how fucking hard it is to vacate a car garage throw a party.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo " The submission may be, usually ought to be GPG encrypted" no lassitudo. pick one, stick with it.
mircea_popescu: so refreshing to see residents misuse pannus to discuss panniculus.
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-10-2015#1305692 <<< meanwhile i xreferenced, he's the guy that wanted to do some hairbrained rent deposit insurance thing. i don't see anything actually negratable in there, so he's young and doesn't know all sorts of things. big whoop. everyone's born young. i don't see he did anything offensive past that.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: if i wanted to see 1-2 weird girls next door being self conscious in briefs i'd go to a lame beach.
mircea_popescu: or for that matter that if you advertise "buenos aires exxotica" you'd better ACTUALLY GET NUDE MODELS ; that are actually over five feet five inches tall and that ARE NUDE ffs.
mircea_popescu: these fucktards have yet to understand that no, you don't allow access to dirt poor, solo/pack young males.
mircea_popescu: worst fucking party ever, i've been to better fraternity parties at state universities for crying out loud
mircea_popescu: they had some women there. that sucked. the entire thing was jam-packed with derpy cocks.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: holy fucksticks! the ENTIRE THING took place in a space that's smaller than any apartment i keep girls in.
mircea_popescu: if you invented the cure for cancer, the government invented the cure for cancer. if you got cancer ... well you shouldn't have been smoking now should you have!
mircea_popescu: this obviously gives way to a very interesting twist : if you ever were in prison, it is the gov't's option to CLAIM that if you build a business, you didn't build a business - because you had come up with it during your stay and well, hid it from them. which should bring a fine, right ? on top of restitution, correct ?
mircea_popescu: inmates can't own copyrights of their own ideas while imprisoned because "they are in service of the state".
mircea_popescu: he reasons "people matter", and since "people are ignorant louts" ERGO "tv matters".
mircea_popescu: "Because the only truth you know is what you get over this tube. Right now, there is a whole, entire generation that never knew anything that didn't come out of this tube. This tube is the gospel, the ultimate revelation. This tube can make or break presidents, popes, prime ministers. This tube is the most awesome goddamn force in the whole godless world. And woe is us if it ever falls into the hands of the wrong peopl
mircea_popescu: im sure it is. this is actually a correct result. in other news, you wanna know how adictive "drugs" are ? CHEESE!
mircea_popescu: ice system does work,” said Judge Russell Healey at the sentencing.
mircea_popescu: Michael Dunn, 47, was convicted of killing Jordan Davis, 17, in November 2012 after he shot into a SUV of four teenagers 10 times when an argument broke out over loud music coming from the teens' vehicle. Dunn was sentenced to an additional 90 years in prison for three attempted murder convictions and another 15 years for firing into an occupied vehicle. “Our justice system works. This case demonstrates that our just
mircea_popescu: "My take on the ICO is that Lyford recognised multiple opportunities in Bitcoi" whose own take ? what the bloody hell|!
mircea_popescu: this is not news, and it's not even bad. it is terrible.
mircea_popescu: "BANX represents a thus far dividend-paying investment in BanxCapital," << dividends out of what ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: if i wanted to have more gawker fluffl i'd have bought fucking gawker.
mircea_popescu: "And yes, it'll be a damn shame if this backfires on BitShares. Their technology is extremely scalable, blazingly fast and impressively flexible on the backend."
☟︎ mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo ok this is by very far the worst thing i have ever see qntra publish.
mircea_popescu: i can't from that piece discern what is supposed to be the revenue model of the banx thing.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: wanna bet some random conclave of derpy 40yo pencildick assistants do all the "being" sumner redstone ?
mircea_popescu: in other news, Sumner Redstone still fucking exists. and nominally is in charge of things. (Chairman of National Amusements Executive Chairman of the Board of Viacom and CBS Corporation).
mircea_popescu: then one wonders why you can't buy milk chocolate in the us.
mircea_popescu: To emphasize: not simply change the ingredients, but to change the definition of the word."
mircea_popescu: "(1) Hershey's, et al, petitioned the FDA and EU to allow them to change the definition of "milk chocolate" to allow for the substitution of vegetable oil for cocoa butter. The FDA said no, but the EU thought it would be awesome idea.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: by which what they mean, of course, is "swedish government on course to be the first cashless government".
mircea_popescu: by definition : that which favours the proclivities of many with no consideration given to effects.
mircea_popescu: were THAT true, it would ironically make a move away from pervasive, entrenched gender inequality in favour of the males a deeply populist move.
mircea_popescu: how about the alternative explanation being "society as a whole thinks young males should die horribly in droves and fuck you already."
mircea_popescu: But perhaps there's a different explanation: there may be an assumption that if a guy asks such a basic/stupid question, then he's an idiot and not worth bothering with; but if a girl asks it, well, a college girl isn't held to the same standard/ expected to know as much."
mircea_popescu: The conclusion I went to first was that there is some unconscious sexual element; not that the academics thought they were going to seduce me, of course, but that they derived some greater pleasure in answering the women than the men.
mircea_popescu: "I'll add that the majority of the people I email are male; the few women I've emailed haven't been any different. I've confirmed this by waiting a long time (month) and re-emailing a different (but still simple) version as a woman.
mircea_popescu: "My observation having done this several dozen times: If I use a (fake) male email address, e.g. "petermiller@" no one ever responds. If I use a (fake) female email address, e.g. "melissamiller@" I get answers almost every single time."
mircea_popescu: i don't see the difference. obama 3rd term is probably a better outcome than trump vs hilary or w/e.,
mircea_popescu: there's a great scene in donnie brasco where newell depicts the death of john wayne as transformative for those schmucks.
mircea_popescu: arabs winning the only engagement on us soil since the brits left
mircea_popescu: that one song from that one band with the chick with the hair
mircea_popescu: uy for whom X was transformative? The only guy with an iphone?"
mircea_popescu: "You can't imagine how you, one guy, can be the problem-- the government is much bigger than you, isn't it? But there are millions of people exactly like you. One byproduct of modern narcissism's reliance on finite media is that countless other people are modeling their lives on the same template you are. You think you are unique in your thoughts and identity, turns out you are a clone. You think you're the only g