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mircea_popescu: stop wasting your time, do something useful, you'll have plenty o' money eventually.
mircea_popescu: RockHoster_ looky here : the REASON you don't have 1 btc to throw away is that you're spedning your time trying to manipulate an obscure wiki nobody gives a shit about.
mircea_popescu: RockHoster_ were you one of the participants in the "fight to be on the top" ?
mircea_popescu: williamdunne the two propositions are contradictory neh ?
mircea_popescu: o look at that, 50 changes this month. including tonal.
mircea_popescu: williamdunne afaik they restricted new accounts because nobody was giving a shit and there was too much spam
mircea_popescu: admin of what ? bitcoin ? the wiki you linked ? the dns system ?
mircea_popescu: africa doesn't suck because "black people suck". africa sucks because africa is the people who were left behind.
mircea_popescu: HOWEVER they also promised all sorts of shit. in exchange. where is it ?"
mircea_popescu: that's perhaps the true subtext there. "they told me not to grab womyn butt. okay, i don't. they told me not to hunt deer off the highway. ok, i don't. they told me not to make fire indoors. alright. and i don't smoke either, and apparently coke is bad. i liked coke but whatever.
mircea_popescu: apparently the double accounting thing is obvious by now.
mircea_popescu: "On the optimism bias, while I’ve known that these numbers have been consistently too optimistic, I always assumed that the senior leadership of the fed had access to the real data, and the numbers put out for the public were heavily, well, decorated."
mircea_popescu: decimation : all it takes is for the entire "law enforcement" thing to be broken once. its own manzikert moment.
mircea_popescu: prolly going to be an endless parade as we enter into the last phase. buffett started it.
mircea_popescu: language is not the result of a single force, but of two, driving it in that left-right manner of driving splits in wood.
mircea_popescu: srsly alf, shanonizing is a very old usage of language.
mircea_popescu: which is technically a step below on the literary scale. i await with bated breath the next step underwater.
mircea_popescu: of course contemporary usage is unpaid shanonizers (such as, reddit users), increasing the volume and decreasing the cost of their misrepresentations of their own social interactions.
mircea_popescu: so... it's only useful if you're making two cents a word writing "young adult fiction" or whatever other "genre" bullshit, and need shorthand to keep track of your "characters"
mircea_popescu: poorly-er done. meanly-er done, actually, in the classical sense of mean ("of mean extraction")
mircea_popescu: this exact process is at work here - it becomes much easier to write the sort of pulp cultureless usians call "novels" by proceeding on one of these accounting paradigms
mircea_popescu: harlan e has a piece where he explains how people like hubbard were optimizing their workflow by - for instance - typing on rolls of butcher paper so as to not waste time changing sheets in typewriter
mircea_popescu: anyway, i will say for the record that all this "typficiation" bullshit, from the ntjx to the mti to everything else is ~strictly~ the result of lazy writing.
mircea_popescu: it looks like the elephant three people found in a dark room.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron i can vouch for the fact that the classification's nonsensical by the plain observation that i'm all over the fucking map.
mircea_popescu: gtfo, reddit. you don't get to classify the things other people do.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> achtung, panzers: << dawg i thought you were going to PUT THE ARCHIVE THROUGH IT ALREADY!!!1eleventyeleven
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform or mike_c or anyone sane in the fucking head. or over the age of 30.
mircea_popescu: because they actually are a much larger damage than that. sort-of like insanity.
mircea_popescu: mike_c this, imo, sums up the general utility of "revolutionary websites". people don't want accounts on them even if given away with 200 dollars worth of credit attached.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes meanwhile i figured it out. you were quoting teh fox missus
mircea_popescu: guy's name is actually alp arslan, upon research. i misremembered.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform : at battle of manzikert, spy to ars aslan : "my sultan, the enemy army is approaching us". ars aslan : "then we are approaching them as well"
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