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mircea_popescu: "85% voted to implement a trivial change that was both needed and uncontroversial. they didn't implement it and bitcoin forked. lesson learned! 44% "vote" to implement a change that mp said he will attack. WHATCOULDGOWRONG!111"
mircea_popescu: <assbot> ~44% of Bitcoin mining hash power is currently voting to support 8 MB blocks. << jesus fuck look at these idiots, didn't skip a beat
mircea_popescu: not entirely inconceivable. and if you take the other half and pretend materials are free and you get billed for construction work at 50 an hour, that's about six weeks worth of a 12 man team's work.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony if it's half and half 350k over 4 months means
mircea_popescu: one must remember the fabled charge of the electorn measurements.
mircea_popescu: anwyay, lest we be too harsh on the social pseudoscientists that gotta eat,
mircea_popescu: like psychological school of moscow "uncontroversial". asshats.
mircea_popescu: like "global warming" flavour of "uncontroversial". like lysenko "uncontroversial"
mircea_popescu: or at least a story on my blog tends to support this theory.
mircea_popescu: and the people who actually have the whole story do not reaslly employ safes
mircea_popescu: they're petrified of "insecuridad" these folks. like they live with the vikings or something.
mircea_popescu: (if anyone is curious - yes the pharmacist tested me. he asked "what dosage ?" and i said uh... 100... maybe 50, no, not really. 80 ? turns out he had 60, 90 and 120. because 50 is not really quite enough and 100 is maybe a little too much, but if those are the options go for 100
mircea_popescu: meanwhile usians with the same sort of problem get substandard care in the shape of cox-1&2 inhibitors in massive dossage.
mircea_popescu: for their effectual purpose, good for a decade or more.
mircea_popescu: and this was produced by merck. for "export", ie, "to be sold in sane countries"
mircea_popescu: but still unparalleled for extemporaneous intervention.
mircea_popescu: msotly banned because the idiots prescribed them like they prescribe anything, "forever", and they don't work forever.
mircea_popescu: in this vein : went to pharmacy here, told pharmacist what i want, he went and fetched. cox-2 inhibitor, no prescription needed becasuse the criteria in argentina is "do you speak the language ? if not, get someone who does to write what you need down for you"
mircea_popescu: it makes no sense outside of "a collection of fetishes liable to drive a 60 yo protestant dude with money"
mircea_popescu: this has got to be some sort of very specialised praying on aging usian expats.
mircea_popescu: (housewife wants money to get sex change operation to earn money to start a business)
mircea_popescu: "hola nos quedamos sin trabajo mi esposo y yo y busco ayuda economica a cambio de sex para asi poder ahorrar algo y poner un negocio soy ama de casa no modelo ni profecional en esto soy bajita 36 años"
mircea_popescu: "More specifically, nobody wants a meritocracy based on actual accomplishment. What both camps really want is a meritocracy of values, that is, an aristocracy in which position is dictated by attitude and conduct."
mircea_popescu: Conservatives oppose abortion but are okay with war and capital punishment. (So am I - I think everyone in the capital deserves to be punished)
mircea_popescu: he'd better buzz out of range, if it knows what's good for its retirement plan.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah, but i care what he asks like i care what the mosquito buzzes.
mircea_popescu: no state ever created anything. it was another mircea that carried the fucking head of the turk pasha after that one failed crusade when all of europe ran off and the us wasn't invented yet.
mircea_popescu: so... take teh "oh you didn't create" talk an' dangle.
mircea_popescu: i am the proud result of an endless line that predates all states, and the fucking lake, the lake's bottom, and the core of the earth are mine.
mircea_popescu: i am not a person in the sense of this rootless, hopeless lotus floating on a sea that somehow is owned byu "the state".
mircea_popescu: i dunno, i kinda don't look at that part, because plenty of orthodox nuts otherwise very intelligent.
mircea_popescu: but i mean... sure, he's uppity. i have yet to see a sign of intelligence.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i rarely get to read folk who at the same time seem able to find their way out of a paper bag and actually believe obama similarly could.
mircea_popescu: "Hey, who wouldn't vote for Morgan Freeman? Obama is unabashedly liberal, intelligent, and acts like he knows it. He's "uppity." People who think they're superior run headlong into someone who is superior, and they don't like it."
mircea_popescu: strangely enough, the dsm-ud did not have a heading for "bush-reactive psychopathy"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform is the lemonade stand <=> dope slinging ?
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski i dun recall what the problem was with it, i think it mostly fell through the cracks for lack of pressing need. the server's up at any rate.
mircea_popescu: nm back now. i swear it was dead for a coupl;a minutes
mircea_popescu: not even a weapon. they also don't craft houses, or water pipes.
mircea_popescu: amusingly enough, for all the people who have all sorts of malformed opinions, cvasi-ideas and ready judgement about "how mp is!11" stemming out of some sort of emotional knee jerk over me not caring for whatever pet peeve of theirs, NONE to date has actually tried the "hey mp, what'd it take to convince you feminists are not retarded children and socialism is really the path to go!"
mircea_popescu: "Mostly it's laziness (or shallowness) and an attempt to seize the moral high ground. It's hard to defend specific issues when you're confronted by someone who simply rejects your basic premises. How do you find out what lines of argument they would find persuasive? (Hint: ask them. Say "what exactly would you accept as proof that I'm right?" Most of the time they don't have a clue, because most people only think about
mircea_popescu: "In fact, most people are out of their depth in a mud puddle."
mircea_popescu: "Ultimately it's undergirded by one of the great intellectual fallacies of modern times, the obsession with structure as opposed to content. If structure is all important, then if two conflicts have similar structure, they are similar."
mircea_popescu: and .HTM like it's 1993 and microsoft dreamweaver, and "Failed to connect to server. The reason may be that the encryption methods supported by the server are not enabled in the security preferences." and aww.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the magic moment is the part where you go "and yet unlike every other bucket of lick-a-squid shit, the maker of this one was clearly aware. wtf ?!?!"
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski i saw it, and i think it's great. just... writing's not automatic!
mircea_popescu: actual argument, in actual debate, at the time of diderot & co
mircea_popescu: i suppose the theory is that "italians have forgotten how to sing and only french royal comedy institute knows anymore"
mircea_popescu: more like making them come out to him being a parasite.
mircea_popescu: poor star had no fucking idea how many women it had impregnated, from paris to shanghai