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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.
mircea_popescu: the only similar situation i can imagine is self medication in medicine, where person goes to pharmacy swallows random pill for random ailment.
mircea_popescu: the fact that it's not intuitively obvious is not accidental, but part of the problem.
mircea_popescu: so you know, "it seems to be working" is a very bad heuristic for stuff like this.
mircea_popescu: the main problem in commerce is that the most dangerous of these is the last, and the most readily identified by the consumer is the first.
mircea_popescu: felipelalli there's a difference between making cars as in, making a trabant, making cars as in, making a cardboard cut-out of a car, and making cars as in, making ford pintos, which explode killing their passengers.
mircea_popescu: "The LightEater attack would take an unskilled attacker such as a maid or border guard two minutes of physical access to a target laptop."
mircea_popescu: "The point is less about how vendors don't fix the problems, and more how the vendors' fixes are going un-applied by users, corporations, and governments." << orly. how about the point is all about how "vendors" create bugs.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there's no relation between addresses and identities.
mircea_popescu: not that any of these are critical, but yes, some hopes are fun to ruin.
mircea_popescu: hence the bitbet model, hence the reusing of addresses etc etc, numerous specific measures to hinder the little solace idiots a la power rangers etc are trying to give the "defungibilize bitcoin" party.
mircea_popescu: im pretty sure no-ones making life easier for idiots, here.
mircea_popescu: what you're describing is the exact avenue to encourage terrorism.
mircea_popescu: i guess it's "good for the economy". heck, they're tracking "uniques", for all the good that did anyone. we still have to see the extra ounce of soap or w/e that was sold because of it, but hey.
mircea_popescu: Adlai never interrupt the enemy while he's making a mistake.
mircea_popescu: obviously whatever random thug is going to make randomly unsubstantiated claims and pretend like they hold water. so what of it ?
mircea_popescu: cause i am really not interested in persuading thugs of anything through any method other than clubbing to death.
mircea_popescu: Adlai are you discussing rule of law or rule of thugs ?
mircea_popescu: fucking hell, "unwelcome money" is about as self-consistent as "human dignity" or "representative democracy"
mircea_popescu: (pls do not lalala-ignore my celestial teapot, it triggers me)
mircea_popescu: i very much doubt that after he ignored the "if one wins now you've gotta taint 2x as manby btc, if the other wins you lost track." bit he's in a position to grok this one, but hey.
mircea_popescu: i understand what you are saying, and i also understand why it's stupid. you have the option to pretend like you don't see it, or not. nothing i can do thar.
mircea_popescu: the "signing history" is entirely meaningless. the TOTAL information it conveys is already conveyed, and spent. there is NO MORE in there, at all, nothing whatsoever.