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mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes btw, daniela rus should be right up your alley.
mircea_popescu: MUCH better than the buffett out. "i leave my money to bil lgates"
mircea_popescu: but now that i did look, it seems clearly that the thing works.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yup. which is why i had a vague positive idea about it. never bothered looking.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform btw, what's the objection to macarthur prizes ?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes nah merely reference to a discussion in logs a few days ago
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you didn't end up beaten as a result of this ?
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel thgat the adults are not going ot be happy.
mircea_popescu: da fuck are some kids gonna suffer from talking to adults ?
mircea_popescu: omg you buncha antisocial haters. you can't have a mentor or anything ?
mircea_popescu: best way to get a bright kid killed is by giving him ten bricks of benjamins.
mircea_popescu: ah, i a) didn't actually need the money ; b) wasn't really about the money per se anyway
mircea_popescu was a recipient of something vaguely similar at a similar age.
mircea_popescu: "Fifty-eight organizations and startups have been founded by fellows, employing over 200 people, and creating new technologies that are being deployed around the world."
mircea_popescu: "Alum and current fellows have produced more than $100 million in economic activity including investments, exits, revenue, and grants. "
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel i sent her an email. iron a shirt in case shows up.
mircea_popescu half expects to find some bad retailer on the other end
mircea_popescu: incidentally : this would be a great prison. judge doesn't give you a term. judge gives you a frequency count.
mircea_popescu: decimation in fairness, most do. these are the rare exceptions not the bulk. recall orwell's "jew makes a dollar a day" thing
mircea_popescu: but point remains : what man HAS TO do is never clear.
mircea_popescu: decimation well, some of those were built out of begging, some out of scrap metal theft, some out of who knows what.
mircea_popescu: always good for a culture shock for usians, because somehow they think starbucks is luxury.
mircea_popescu: yes. and you should see the insides, furs and shit. it's really very azn
mircea_popescu: decimation would it now ? seems more a function of where htey were born, if they heard of plumbing or not.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform a long array of things, all more or less coney.
mircea_popescu: but barefoot girl in the mud aside : she probably had parents, who similarly had to work to keep the lights on.
mircea_popescu: took a wroing turn, ended up on mud street from 1750. down towards us, completely naked 9yo girl, rope tied around her waist. literally rope.
mircea_popescu: took some ppls to see the enchanted gypsy palaces in turda (romania). which, you know, are pretty elaborate.
mircea_popescu: if facts were facts debates would be silent observances.
mircea_popescu: for all i care the wot world can result in the sky combusing.