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mircea_popescu: if you are not fighting with the smart people to opress the stupid,
mircea_popescu: i dun know how to put it plainer than : the war is between smart people and stupid people.
mircea_popescu: i'm going to donate to him right after i'm done donating to vessenes.
mircea_popescu: idiots aren't truly idiots unless they stay unaware of their idiocy throughout.
mircea_popescu: and now ? where's the letter going "i was a fucking imbecile to sign with the usg!!11"
mircea_popescu: oh he knew so much better then, and "of course" this and that.
mircea_popescu: derp made a deal, sold out the thing, a decade later is out on his ass.
mircea_popescu: just in case any of the friends of scammer&idiot club need to know after a few years why they're blacklisted.
mircea_popescu: ftr pantera capital = Ron Glantz Director of Research ; Matt Gorham Trader ; Jed McCaleb Venture Partner ; Dan Morehead CEO ; Paul Veradittakit Vice President ; Steve Waterhouse Partner
mircea_popescu: dude check it out lmao. the hamplanet transgenderderpatron is investing in bitcoin nao
mircea_popescu: and we want the fed to change regulations because they're getting in the way of paying our employee
mircea_popescu: you don't see "diversity is inherently good so we've hired a fbi most wanted guy"
mircea_popescu: what's never going to be good is hiring some inept crowd followrs. they're gay, don't you know, because they saw it on tv.
mircea_popescu: trinque ironically enough, ACTUAL diversity WOULD be inherently good.
mircea_popescu: but yers, for as long as you delude yourself into needing permission, guess what.
mircea_popescu: this is an essenmtial ingredient of all action. you have to, in some degree, in some shape, somewhere, not give a fuck.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the end of social media will come exactly like how nobody could have predicted it by reading a 2014 trilema article.
mircea_popescu: "I want the average redditor to understand that when he interacts with a screen name, he is not interracting with a person."
mircea_popescu: so now we're going to spin as "it's not rape if we wilfully spread for mp's will" ? mmmmkay.
mircea_popescu: he could have just accepted it then. but no, idiots gotta derp first.
mircea_popescu: This will be useful for the Bitcoin network first and foremost, because Gavin is, by and large, a mentally retarded doofus displaying a shocking amount of Dunning-Kruger syndrome in his assorted dabblings in economics and other hard fields."
mircea_popescu: maybe if they lay traps or something. otherwise it's like turkeys chasing coughars.
mircea_popescu: i dun know how exactly a buncha pakistani would catch up to a russian she-hound.
mircea_popescu: they also don't have much the pakistani couldn't get at home.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform right, because they'd have gone to russia instead.
mircea_popescu: now europe gotta pay for 1-2mn refugees that came out of all that.
mircea_popescu: re the "refugee problem" : so the us has been derping about "being a regional power" and sheriffing things and places for reasons.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform amusingly, do you know what other field pretends like "career" exists while people mostly hiring teenagers ?
mircea_popescu: mats for the same money, there's still a sense of "t bills are worth something" still in place for a lot of americans.
mircea_popescu: about how somewhere there are real programmers for real
mircea_popescu: amusingly enough, THIS blows a heck of a hole in asciilifeform's fairy tale hopes and dreams
mircea_popescu: !v assbot:mircea_popescu.rate.kdomanski.1:54667e89207aaf19e414f5a288e53d6e45deca72b848de2d9c1989f508df90cb
mircea_popescu: which is why everyone's idea of "career in software" are ridoinculous derps like ers, who do have a career alright
mircea_popescu: when that happens in a field, a career's in principle impossible.
mircea_popescu: but nobody goes "hey, let's hire this guy, he's in 3rd year medical school"
mircea_popescu: it takes 30 years' worth of looking at fucking probes to spot the cells.
mircea_popescu: there are fields where careers exist. you can have a career as a surgeon. oncologist diagnosticians in particular are the fathers of all careerdom,
mircea_popescu has had his fill of retarded teenagers sitting around crediting each other's socioeconomicosexual-and-otherwise wholly imagined accomplishments sometime around the age of 15.
mircea_popescu: i mean time warner paid a billion for myspace which was worth ~0, sure, turner's old and stupid.
mircea_popescu: iirc ballas said if you were ever employed, you're fucked.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no middle ground. either be them or don't need to bitch about it!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the last us citizen that actually took out less than what he put in died sometime in the 80s.
mircea_popescu: better to explain what's to be done, let people work their own script
mircea_popescu: that they try to pretend like "thgey did it", sure, the scum that they are would.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that happens because THEY HAVE NO CHOICE
mircea_popescu: trinque that part's not going away. but a faq page explaining how to construct the payout address would be helpful.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes, but they have no contribution in that.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform all reichs always collapse because of the reich, and the outside enemies. never was it the case "the people" did anything relevant.
mircea_popescu: midnightmagic a valid point, i don't think the whole thing's properly packaged for public consumption.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if you think the reich collapses "because the people"...