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bounce: bit of
a cop out. can't we do better?
mircea_popescu: bounce "no tax money spent on education" is
a solution.
bounce:
a reasonable solution for "publish or perish" would be useful
mircea_popescu: (i don't mean it never is, i mean the noun is outside the domain of availability of the adjective. like
a circle can't be heavy, 2d figures have no weight)
undata processes on that last bit for
a moment
mircea_popescu: meyer lanski famously told some older street thoughs, as
a 12 yo, "you get nuttin' for nuttin'". that's all it is. at 12 he's as rich as me telling the sec how to behave.
mircea_popescu: well, the problem with "discussing the art of living" is diogenes. as in, discussion requires common ground. which isn't
a given.
The20YearIRCloud: Oh
a good note about RentalStarter, our banking partner has really stepped up in terms of lending to us
mircea_popescu: yeah, guy famously got caught jacking off in the forum (roughly equivalent to putting pron tumblr pix in the serious #b-
a chan) and when confronted said that his only regret is that hunger doesn't also abate by rubbing the stomach.
undata: mircea_popescu: I would never force anyone to live
a certain way (provided it didn't encroach on my own) but I think it's essential to discuss ways to improve the art of living.
mircea_popescu: i mean, if your bar is that, then you'll never be happy. takes
a lot of dough, that project.
undata: mircea_popescu: why live if you're
a cheap copy of the "rich" guy next to you. Life is about projects, not piling up Hummers. Wealth fuels projects.
undata: asciilifeform: expressing
a value is distinct from insisting it be imposed.
undata: they gorge themselves on cheap "wealth" instead of generating actual wealth for the 'society' they're
a part of
bounce: isn't that like
a requirement for teenagers? whine, at least 50% of the time.
undata: the guy in
a black shirt going "you better not"
mircea_popescu: i doubt the truck's all that good, looked like
a guzzler.
undata: wouldn't break
a window; would swing for his dad. fascinating.
undata: coward wouldn't even go for
a window, not that he could break one the way he was swinging
wywialm: mircea_popescu, did you consider calculating
a stock index for MPEx?
wywialm: (of course i should have
a decent model to obtain reliable deltas)
wywialm: i could "sort-of-replicate" option payoff trading on
a spot market, each day buying/selling according to the delta (the difference being transaction costs and interest rate and noncontinuity)
mircea_popescu: really, it's
a field that can take
a lot more work, bitcoin financial synthesis.
kakobrekla: heh JS, i recall some sites killing
a core2 quad machine
mircea_popescu: well, you'll likely have to throw
a bond in there somewhere.
punkman: I left namecheap search open in
a tab and it crashed my browser, because javascript is awesome
wywialm: option out of
a future and underlying? could you explain futher?
mircea_popescu: you can make an option out of
a future and an underlying.
mircea_popescu: well, basically, if you have
a lot of volume you advertise it and you'll find someone. if you don't... well... you don't.
wywialm: is there
a way to change that status?
wywialm: speaking of
a plan, does anything happen on the options market in BTC? in particular, does the (possibly otc) option market happen?
Vexual: no that's
a juroc joje
mircea_popescu: i thought eucalyptus sucked, as
a five year old. and alcohol. and so on.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well you wouldn't go through life with your living decided by
a five year old's understanding of what's going on, neh ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform childhood may be
a poor experience of anything. freedom included.
mircea_popescu: but that there's
a world does not actually give the prisoner's notion of "freedom" any legs.
mircea_popescu: <chetty> kakobrekla, matter of how much you like the foot? or the shoe .. <<< she has
a point, i've seen women cut foot for prada heels.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> to abuse mathematical parlance, bumhood is
a 'degenerate case' << but inasmuch as your argument rests on the "mental space" of the user, then therefore my observation IS satisfied, and indeed it's not
a thing, but merely
a figment of imagination.
mircea_popescu: the bet says "to play". the guy... signed
a contract. to play. next year.
Vexual: not everyone with
a brain seeks residual income
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform rat owns
a rathole in the same sense she owns some sidewalk.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well ? kid does not want to live like
a rat., what now ?
mircea_popescu: "What do you get when you cross
a whore with
a systems engineer?
A fuckin know-it-all!"
Vexual: ben_vulpes: may i recommend
a wine?
mircea_popescu: undata: oh better yet, those who have yet to receive freedom bombs are the "unliberated" << this is already
a thing.
mircea_popescu: i hate how life is filled with double standards. If
a girl fucks
a bunch of guys she's
a whore. if I do, i'm gay. wtf?!
bounce: the pill against people establishing themselves as god-kings is you establishing yourself as
a god-king, while making fun of the others?
gribble: Error: "date" is not
a valid command.
Vexual: hey i don't give
a fuck, im impressed you strayed on for so long
Vexual: so on
a new chan you op everyone, and you were the las out
mircea_popescu: "i think lots of people confuse good hierarchy with bad hierarchy" to be followed by
a) i am the one to establish which is good and which is bad, b) it's okay for me to use "does it recognise me as god-king" as
a criteria of whether it's good or bad, c) the fact that i can and do argue against ANY hierarchy does not invalidate my methods.
nubbins`: that's
a difficult one to parse
mats_cd03: 10:50:27 <+Vexual> it might just be
a stereotype but chinese people process alcohol differently? << some asians lack the alcohol dehydrogenase enzyme
nubbins`: no hidden meaning here, literally just
a mildly interesting tx.
nubbins`:
a bunch of coins freshly minted 4 years ago, moving.
xinxi: OK, I will never buy
a BMW.
nubbins`: "I would like to cry in
a bmw instead of lau[g]hing on
a bike."