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mircea_popescu: i dun see it's imposed by anything but the dubious quality of code writing employed throughout this project.
mircea_popescu: but the reaosn they weren't is specifically that we knew that it's early.
mircea_popescu: the idea is, at no point should it have made anything else anyway, at least as far as anyone knew.
mircea_popescu: i doubt enforcing low-s encoding of ecdsa is avoidable.
mircea_popescu: i think this is how it works with women and ass grabbing too.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile righyt here, expert C in field p says something so outrageously stupid (and it's not just one thing - all his forays into finance and investing read like he's a vocational school most likely to succeed from kharkov) in e that it's actually...endearing.
mircea_popescu: here's a puzzling fact. in some cases, expert A in field a saying something stupid in field b not only turns me off on A, but sometimes even makes me reevaluate his expertise of field a.
mircea_popescu: there is no inflation, if there it is two, maybe three years out at the earliest. This is massive deflation before your eyes, not even including the outstanding credit card balances and other personal loans which will never get paid, especially when the jobs start evaporating."
mircea_popescu: "I'm putting myself on the record (not that I haven't a dozen other times on this site):
mircea_popescu: they make like 500bux for the journalistic integritits.
mircea_popescu: it probably served half the teens in romania by now, if numbers have any meaning.
mircea_popescu: that article is lulzy - it was the 2nd most read article each month since pretty much its publishing
mircea_popescu: now, if only they had sane people in charge, doling out those missed paycheques.
mircea_popescu: because near-everybody there, like everywhere, is also an imbecile.
mircea_popescu: people love to assume that means "for the better", because it briefly did and people are idiots.
mircea_popescu: you entertain the delusion that your child is like you, which is true in unmobile societies.
mircea_popescu: incidentally : given that ~30 million americans are homeless AT ANY GIVEN POINT, and given that the life expectancy of the homeless is not terribly good, say 5-10 years, do compute the odds of your child being homeless during his lifetime kthx.
mircea_popescu: the executive difference being that you get sent to prison, but go to teh street.
mircea_popescu: ah man i've been waiting to hit someone with that for like two weeks.
mircea_popescu: that's why it's so deeply beloved, like no other thing. ultimate mother.
mircea_popescu: until the septum ruptures you can't really spot the snorter. you really can't miss the crackhead.
mircea_popescu: which is why the derrogatory is crack whore, not snortwhore
mircea_popescu: most whores do cocaine. just, the 20somethings that do lines go for about 5x the money of the 30somethings that do crack.
mircea_popescu: punkman i can tell you the difference. it's about $1k for half-and-half.
mircea_popescu: at some point the argument was that pot is a "gateway drug" for that matter. a sort of kindled theory of chem addiction i guess.
mircea_popescu: ok, you've seen it, but chipping heroin is one thing ; cocaine as powder and as crack is a rather different thing.
mircea_popescu: is this something you know from some sort of direct experience ?
mircea_popescu: "there's one so-called identified pathway and 500 non miscible so-called addictions. because this is Fantasia."
mircea_popescu: "Ask a 20 year crack addict when was the last time they used powder cocaine. Do they miss it? Are they in withdrawal? "But crack is cocaine." No, it isn't, or else they would be using both, wouldn't they? "But crack is more potent and addictive." Then why don't cocaine adicts move over to crack? "
mircea_popescu: and speaking of "addiction", and pathways and whatnot :
mircea_popescu: those guys srsly don't get enough credit, everyone stole all their shit.
mircea_popescu: "I've never signed payroll, I never held a paycheck, I've never seen the various small item salesmen visit the office on pay day nor have I ever asked for a payday loan. Wider, and more importantly, I never worked against my will. Not even as a kid, doing homework."
mircea_popescu: "Eu nu am fost angajat niciodata, nicaieri." i can appreciate why you went "I've never been an employee, not to anybody, not anywhere." but really english is hemingwayan. "I've never been employed." is the way to go. less is more for the saxons.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: they understandably don't wanna be on the hook for every fucktard with a plane ticket.
mircea_popescu: yesterday i accidentallied a router. it only took on the third stomp tho.