mircea_popescu: on turns into grabbing a stranger’s face in a club and trying to plant one on them, totally uninvited. In speaking with foreign-born male friends, the ambiguity of “no” comes up as the most oft-repeated frustration, as most have spent their lives understanding, rightly so, that “no” means to retreat."

mircea_popescu: "Here, when attempting to pick someone up or take someone out, “no” is not actually always a true rejection. Girls, perhaps as a shield against the chamuyo fired from all directions, are conditioned to almost invariably turn down guys at first and second, and maybe third approach. And for the other half of this symbiotic relationship, guys are conditioned to pursue with total abandon, which on (unacceptable) occasi

mircea_popescu: you want to wank it to teenage pov poon, get a fucking degree.

mircea_popescu: apparently they've been discussing it in their dedicated forum (50+ ppl mentioned it, NOT ONE thought to link the fucking discussions, because they're on the internet ,right ? what is a linlk ?)

mircea_popescu: i wouldn't be surprised to find that something like a computer in three was actually raped

mircea_popescu: half of them clearly have no fucking idea wqhat a computer even is. at all.

mircea_popescu: how about a coupla days off.

mircea_popescu: thickasthieves: i'm developing pains though, need better chair << you sound just like a kid that's overexicted about "being a trader" and about to do very dumb shit.

mircea_popescu: thickasthieves: nsa doesnt let you tell when they tell you what to do << nah it wasn't a mole, it was an exploit. either the bash thing or something else not yet announced.

mircea_popescu: funny how mp has the news a week early and errrything.

mircea_popescu: xinxi: cheap? << it's a scam. you're better off paying 1btc for facebook ads.

mircea_popescu: and if you know any chinese people who would be interested in covering btc in china, from mining to anything else, there's prbably a job opening there

mircea_popescu: <xinxi> I am from a country without racism, so I am not very sensititve to that. << a) are you kidding ?! b) why'd you care ?!

mircea_popescu: mats_cd03 the proper avenue would be to put all this into a large file and then grep the hell out of it ?

mircea_popescu: mats_cd03 and i got a meeting now, so we'll resume in a few hours.

mircea_popescu: nubbins` yes, but a gullible public is scarcely an excuse.

mircea_popescu: suppose i have a car factory, and you came by and proposed to sell me a patented mechanism which when added to the factory, "increased yielkds' by 50%.

mircea_popescu: no but i mean... "joe thinks 3x4 = 12, moe thins 3x4=13" this isn't a difference of opinions, inasmuch moe's thing isn't an opinion.

mircea_popescu: seems a recipe for disaster.

mircea_popescu: vegetarianism as a chosen lifestyle != vegetarianism as a path towards untimely death.

mircea_popescu: mats_cd03 i thought vegetarians had more needs on a distribution network than normal people

mircea_popescu: shit, someone should make a restaurant like that.

mircea_popescu: it's a great rug replacement, too!

mircea_popescu: how their digestion works in humans is mostly a matter of chance

mircea_popescu: but becauise the process is random, a good chunk of them are innovative, which is to say, not found in nature

mircea_popescu: argentine govt came up with a "buy anything on 12 months' time without interest, using your cc" plan

mircea_popescu: speaking of worse deals : to counteract what they call "inflation" but is moreover a very drastic "batten down the hatches" middle class response, which sent durable goods tumbling 70%!!!!