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mircea_popescu: decimation and who's paying for the divergence from thermodynamics ?
mircea_popescu: or just some of these clock punchers didn't get money for their mortgage.
mircea_popescu: this bias is, incidentally, why "stifling science" is such a suspect cry de guerre. one never nows if it's genuine science being supressed,
mircea_popescu: but in general, given the choice between "a flawed study few can recognise as flawed" and "no study", pseudo-scientists readily (and understandably, from a gt perspective) go for the former.
mircea_popescu: lottery is just a very bad model for this sort of research
mircea_popescu: lottery has nothing to do with either income or wealth.
mircea_popescu: <BingoBoingo> <asciilifeform> does s ever -mention- pgp? << Snowden mentions GPG all of the time, Greenwald mentions tor all of the time << exactly apt description.
mircea_popescu: us sec could register its wot key with mpex, us fed could announce plans for bitcoin-convertibility of usg,
mircea_popescu: wife could stop being a fat bitch and husband could stop ejaculating early and watching the game.
mircea_popescu: well sure, in the sense someone raping himself with a cactus is "self-imposedly damaging his anus"
mircea_popescu: decimation let me guess, he tried to wreck by having the trains overloaded so they will run the tracks down faster ?
mircea_popescu: yeah, because everyone likes to say "present company excluded".
mircea_popescu: maddox's "dancing party" thing much more adequate for the demo.
mircea_popescu: decimation not sure if discredit per se, but it does illustrate its (long suspected) limitations.
mircea_popescu: decimation one being inept is almost a requirement for usg payroll.
mircea_popescu: (now, that guardian has all through had a very strong "dope it" agenda is true, and quite visible
mircea_popescu: and most of that is guardian rewriting what he actually said.
mircea_popescu: THIS is the best angle for him being a conspiraci, a sort of mike hearn of the cia.
mircea_popescu: decimation if nothing else, he has done A LOT to measure the power of the entire "crowd source" "power of the people" etc thing.
mircea_popescu: prolly stuff in his manual as is closest to what you want
mircea_popescu: TomServo sorta in the middle here, we're just about to have danielpbarron write a noobs manual
mircea_popescu: to my head, the phrase aptly describes that piece which goes "contains ad admixture of true and trite, but what isn't trite also isn't true"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform let me put it this way : given a collection of dots, why would anyone care on the graphs built upon them by anyone not in their wot ? you know this guy ?
mircea_popescu: the us has no friends today, principally, because of snowden.
mircea_popescu: and for all the "no lizard interest" high horse : take the cisco collapse.
mircea_popescu: i've not seen anything this damaging to the us foreign interests in the history of the us.
mircea_popescu: this by definition : the same thing that'd make you buy hisass (ie, his "personal brand") ensures he has an alternative, however minimal.
mircea_popescu: an old man is not going to be a subsistence prostitute. ever.
mircea_popescu: sure, we could even argue the collapse was inevitable, and while the particular incident gives it flavour, the us was going to soviet union all over itself anyway.
mircea_popescu: "this bomb did nothing, inasmuch as it didn't bring down any of the currently standing buildings"
mircea_popescu: heck, kakobrekla heard a mouthful over his "leading derps into trying to steal from other bettors" or what was it, the bitbet scam thing.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform at some point a decent argument will be constructable that you "led" some idiot to his death, too. because you know, used cardano after toasting it in pizza oven.
mircea_popescu: maybe the real snowden is actually idiosyncratic. ya think this is possible ? "nobody did this, except this one guy, but he couldn't have done it because his behaviour is inconsistent"
mircea_popescu: "asciilifeform: 'Assange and Snowden are cold or actively insulting and hostile << mp has insulted women, gays, black people and social workers. clearly he's a fake cia mp pretending to be the real mp.
mircea_popescu: a claim that's tested in a restated from should be divorced from the original.
mircea_popescu: "those jews are so obvious! after killing christ, they're now blabla"
mircea_popescu: you know that accent mobsters / kids in poor neighbourhood have in 30s, 40s and some 50s movies ?
mircea_popescu: also coca-cola sues diageo over patent-infringing side effects.
mircea_popescu: jurov notice the very heavy bias for she-stuff in b-a ? womanly job gets shares, manly job gets bupkiss
mircea_popescu: not because she went to a club and got herself stiff drunk to be fucked.
mircea_popescu: these all are the why in the exact sense girl you picked up in a club stiff drunk is havin sex with you because she liked your record collection and loves your hair
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you don't see the fear component ? recall teh discussion re buses and the fate of war in afghanistan ?
mircea_popescu: or in another approach, "asciilifeform:'The laughable CIA story we are asked to swallow, is that the US regime is doing zero against Omidyar, " << we are similarly asked to believe the cia story that the us is doing zero against saudi arabia, which... you know ? or whoever else off a long list. they're not doing zero, they're doing "their best", which is what it is.
mircea_popescu: that the enemy starts suddenly firing like mad is not indicative of his strength. for one thing, bullets are scarce. for the other thing, fear is the end of this game.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform let's approach this in perhaps a more comprehensible set of terms. end of the world situation, you're behind a wall of sand sacks, enemy behind another. you got two guys left with you, was a full regiment at some point. enemy, unknown.