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mircea_popescu: he doesn't have to starve at all. he just has to not expect to suport self by singing-songwriting.
mircea_popescu: all the schmuckodon in "bitcoin business" comes from the completely irrational expectations of all these schmucks that they can earn a living "being" "ceo"s.
mircea_popescu: the moment creation is +EV, all the narcisists flood in and destroy thinking.
mircea_popescu: they ALL stem from the mistaken idea that creators should be able to eat, and the typiocally american (ie, fucktarded and grossly ignorant) solutions attempted.
mircea_popescu: looky here : ALL the problems of modern academia, from faux psychiatry used to cover up for govt failure to faux "earth sciences" used to cover up for govt failure to the diploma mill etc
mircea_popescu: but i can envisage the day when a) all science is published via b-a, and to read... get in wot
mircea_popescu: or to any approach that includes anyone but apple making money.
mircea_popescu: i briefly considered adding an apple apps thing for s.mg
mircea_popescu: how are silk road copycats supposed to make enough to run away with if you won't give the pillheads "loans" yo ?
mircea_popescu: apple "open" : we'll give you some fiction to read while the thing boots ?
mircea_popescu: lots of "unthinkables" needed to keep the soviets going.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no, because they stick to the touristy traps anywhere. stopped for coffee earlier at whorehouse cafe, table across two lost derps with ipad propped on "south america on a shoestring". muy confused.
mircea_popescu: for a good chunk of the audience, this is actually so. it's not even a real country.
mircea_popescu: which is why stuff like "putin doesn't understand how thw world works" can be said with a straight face
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the problem with jurisdictions discussed recentlier is deeper than it seems. plenty of usians do not think other places are "real places".
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: really it should be "leave the states and eat ... to your fill".
mircea_popescu: people still stuck in the soup get at the margins various such desperate cries from body.
mircea_popescu: im 100% sure this is where all the "Fad diet" stuff comes from too.
mircea_popescu: sadly i don't have the patience or the tools to actually get into the microchemistry of it
mircea_popescu: i think it was either a protein or fat that was needed for god knows what. because phase passed.
mircea_popescu: one chick went through a chickpea phase where she ate > 100 cans over about a year. half of it within the first season.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes i dunno dood. milk's a big thing. various fats, various vegetals.
mircea_popescu: then after a year or two as the body re-learns to associate food with micronutrients - all sorts of urges, as it approaches various layers of problems
mircea_popescu: in general, you gotta overfeed to lose weight. because the only way the body is even touching some of that stuff is if the liver is full of all sorts of micronutrients to render it with
mircea_popescu: but you can readily notice the pure chemical osmotic source of "weight gain" when the woman eats 50% more calories and loses weight.
mircea_popescu: "us "food"" technically. first set because answer to q, 2nd set because well...
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform all the classical symptoms of light poisoning.
mircea_popescu: not even malnutrition. simple sane diet will make the woman sick, anemic, the works.
mircea_popescu: everything the liver culdn't cope with, got stored on the thighs
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that's exactly it. american fat is more like, chemdump
mircea_popescu: contrary to what they claim in fight club, best fat base is like, various nut oils etc.
mircea_popescu: i know a girl that makes soaps and stuff. she wouldn't touch the coarse stuff.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: i'll build for apple shortly after i build for 'super nintendo' << ahahaha. nintendo!
mircea_popescu: ie, macos too stupid to run software ? or, not enough people actually running it to bother with ? or what ?
mircea_popescu: the reason you're not seeing "anything very objective" is because you don't know all sorts of things you don't know, and so they don't trigger for you. for instance : in a village where there's no bank, someone offering loans is one thing. in a town where banks exists and works, someone offering "loans" is called a loanshark.
mircea_popescu: it "seems to be working" because placebo effect, a sugar pill "seems to be working", and then six months later guy with tb is dead of iodine poisoning or w/e.