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mircea_popescu: as
a matter of policy, it will now cost these guys 10k to get any of my business, and if they ever get into the wot i'll negrate them right off.
mircea_popescu: but i'll make sure to charge
a mango my digestion fees next i run into one.
Apocalyptic: mircea_popescu, that's
a much better formulation
Apocalyptic: cazalla, re your article, "once regulators and politicians control and enable the continued development of Bitcoin", they can't be that clueless, how the hell do they hope to "control the continued development" ? by sending
a gavin-bis ?
mircea_popescu: i guess my idea reduces to "paint
a brick black and pray to it" huh.
mircea_popescu: "public access" is
a myth, of the same substance as the man-month.
mircea_popescu: greatly simplifies the process and saves me
a bundle of moneyz this.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i must say i am thankful to the "experts". they've got the rot so advanced by now it's sufficient to look at
a site and know you're dealing with actual experts.
mircea_popescu:
a) do you know them ? and b) can they be lured or strongarmed into taking bitcoin ?
jborkl_: i tries adsense for
a week, did not like that. So the idea ben vulpes had was right on target but I am not sure if that is ongoing? ok, thankd mike_c
mike_c: jborkl_: throw up
a bitbet ad with your referral address.
mircea_popescu: he has
a point here. asciilifeform so where are they again ?
mircea_popescu: and since we're on it, methotrexate is used as an abortifacent, notwithstanding that ethacridine lactate is cheaper, can be used without needing
a hospital visit and much safer.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: soon enough the production of the former was judged too expensive, the latter was rebranded as methotrexate, and
a history of "bad side effects" and other fud was created retroactively for aminopterin.
mircea_popescu: this thing works as
a highly afine for folate that locks out dfhr, impeding tetrahydrofolic acid synthesis, without which you can't have
a nucleus, or many proteins.
thestringpuller: i just find it fascinating that the percent of redditards against any hard fork is going up by
a lot.
mircea_popescu: anyway, they want
a hardfork or five hundred, they can get it any time they feel ready.
assbot: optimists comments on Peter Todd's CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY Means Bitcoin Escrow, Refunds and
a Fork
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller i have had
a spyring from before satoshi had
a clue on c
mircea_popescu: it sounds impressive, but once the dust settled it became obvious what they got was something that everyone thought
a scam and
a cvouple of tiny ops
mircea_popescu: main united. Those caught tonight in violation of curfew will be considered in league with our enemy and prosecuted as
a terrorist without leniency or exception. Tonight, I give you my most solemn vow: that justice will be swift, it will be righteous, and it will be without mercy.
mircea_popescu: Sutler: My fellow Englishmen: tonight our country, that which we stand for, and all we hold dear, faces
a grave and terrible threat. This violent and unparalleled assault on our security will not go undefended... or unpunished. Our enemy is an insidious one, seeking to divide us and destroy the very foundation of our great nation. Tonight, we must remain steadfast. We must remain determined. But most of all, we must re
mircea_popescu: what happened here is exactly the equivalent of, "sniper got obama between the eyes with
a shitbullet, while on conference with the security staff"
mircea_popescu: anyway, news at 11. it's not just bitcoin the shitgnomes are after, but the entire stack of software guaranteeing
a free world.
hanbot:
a far worthier prize then than that 5 btc!
thestringpuller: i would assume that is just
a box that leads to
a shredder
nubbins`: two days ago i realized i'd been waiting
a month and
a half for 18 unfiltered uv tubes from acklands-grainger
thestringpuller: they were late to facebook and are now late to bitcoin (even thought they bought
a ton early on)
BingoBoingo: Cisplatin and Methotrexate make the list because maybe they clear
a cancer, maybe they don't. Those are the two biggish oncology discoveries though...
mircea_popescu: the notion of taking
a pill
a day for the rest of your life however ...
mircea_popescu: that's
a third of the us economy, and about 30% of the eu.
mircea_popescu: people that derp about "bitcoin changing the world" have very little idea of the changes incumbent. it's things like these. mp will never permit the pharma "economic growth engine", as
a for instance.
mircea_popescu: i mean, it's just
a replay of the "we have all this fluoridated sludge from aluminum processing and other industrial processes, getting rid of it is expensive, how about getting the city to pay us to add it to the water ?"
BingoBoingo: Well cholesterol controlling medication has gone through this for
a few generations already.
mircea_popescu: "want to destroy your kidneys over 3 or so decades while curing yourself from something that's allegedly bad ? pay us 1k
a year!"
BingoBoingo: Well, that's why
a family of drugs gets popular all at once and then it falls out of fashion when the long term side effects get noticed only to be replace with something that trades out the last generation's deteriment for another.
mircea_popescu: basically stuff is selected for that "does no harm" in
a particularly short sighted definition of "no".
mircea_popescu: more generally : the pharma industry, which works essentially on the "let's make random molecules and then see what happens" coupled with the fda pseudoverification theatre has managed to produce
a lengthy list of very slow acting poisons.
assbot: Let’s Cut To The Chase, Is La Serenissima
A Cult? | Contravex:
A blog by Pete Dushenski
mircea_popescu: "On behalf of Universal Studios, The project was to examine and estimate the impact of piracy on box-office revenues for Universal’s 2003 release of the motion picture The Hulk. Modeled the dynamics of box office revenue and its relation to the number of sites and downloads of
a pirated copy."
mircea_popescu: (to be fair, in english the butt is
a half tun anyway)
mircea_popescu: dollar took
a nosedive to like 11s, almost what it was in spring.
mircea_popescu: it cut the printing short for like
a week, and then launched some gossip that "it paid the debt"
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes oh it was
a riot, the government raped the (apparently very flimsy) black market ops.
saifedean: that's
a prerequisite for going paleo
saifedean: well, my personal experience is that it does make
a big difference to one's sex life... it raises testosterone levels beyond what is considered 'normal' levels today
nubbins`: ben_vulpes canadian television, it's uh,
a thing
mircea_popescu: what i meant is, do you fuck like
a paleo guy, if you try to eat like one.
saifedean: finally, "speaking of which, do paleo guys also fuck paleo ?" < Absolutely, once you've tried
a carbs-free girl, you'll never go back!
mircea_popescu: i bought i dunno, 100 or so pairs of underwear about
a decade ago. got the same things i always got ever since i was
a kid. eventually they run out and holy shit has the underwear business gone nuts in the meanwhile. what the fuck are all these things even!
saifedean: that's
a good start, but you need to also eat lots of animal fat, which is absolutely very good for you.. and you need to view doing carbs like an addiction, not
a healthy food.
nubbins`: i think i'm fat because i lead
a sedentary lifestyle
mircea_popescu: but it'd be
a challenge! and you're like,
a 15 yo male.
mircea_popescu: saifedean most of the negative reaction comes from the very marketing heavy approach. "you should challenge yourself" ? dude, this is the lordship here. you think anyone gives
a shit about such puny attempts ?
nubbins`: you know there was
a time when cheese would make any human who consumed it ill?
mircea_popescu: otherwise you ACTUALLY get
a cult. "thios is the law and only i may know what it says"
mircea_popescu: saifedean but you understand why when one proposes action on the basis of
a theory, critical examination involves reviewing what would happen if that theory were applied by someone else than the proponent.
nubbins`: saifedean see the thing is, you're treating "our bodies" as
a homogenous group, when nothing could be further form the truth
saifedean: nubbins, you have no idea how many times i have heard these non-sequiturs of arguments. briefly, no, you do NOT need to emulate
a caveman's life to down to its little details. The idea is to eliminate from your diet as much as possibel all the things that are relatively recent additions to our diet, to which our bodies have not adjusted very well, and which are proven to cause most of our modern illnesses. it fucking works
nubbins`: so really,
a paleo diet is raw squirrel meat, berries, occasional leaves for roughage
saifedean: hmmm.. de vany is
a friend of taleb, we should invite the two of them here and have them chill with your assassin cult
nubbins`: if god wanted you to eat cooked meat, he woulda installed
a furnace in your throat
mircea_popescu: saifedean if i add mah assassin cult to nubbins`'s here powerlifter chick, art vandalay guy is in
a world of trouble.
nubbins`: by eating like
a normal person and not "paleo" (wtf!) she lost weight
nubbins`: (
a) in awe, yep (b) not even close
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: i'd never suggest sharing
a blockchain for use anger!
mircea_popescu: nubbins` i wouldn't do that because i dun have the techniques and am tall. prolly spring my back / give myself
a hernia.
saifedean: though
a swedish friend tells me reindeer meat is the best of all
nubbins`: anyway, try deadlifting your own weight on
a barbell some time