mircea_popescu: anyway. i'm kinda up to here with the smoking addiction thing. i've been smoking since ~16. that's two decades ago. i still smoke, i average a pack a month. prolly less these days. it takes all the willpower of a tomato as far as i can tell, it's never bothered me.

mircea_popescu: simple programme of... load crates 16 hours a day. every day.

mircea_popescu: or forget that even. just a sm

mircea_popescu: get a special bed rigged where you get pricked with a pin. all the time. somewhere.

mircea_popescu: do an experiment where you get shocked at a modest 48 volts at random intervals on average 8 times a second.

mircea_popescu: no he has a point, calling it cholinergic is a ridiculous approximation.

mircea_popescu: "If you /are/ the majority and I am in the minority, how could you possibly believe that I have not already and many years ago figured out exactly how you guys work? If you had the brain to do it, this would be a grave insult, but you do not think ahead. You do in fact not think at all, because the things you say can only be uttered by a mind closed shut long ago."

mircea_popescu: afterburners are a pain in most situations tho. much less precision

mircea_popescu: cazalla well, if he had or hadn't, still has to be in bet interval. wasn't like a "first time" or anything

mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves maybe. was there a bubble last summer ?

mircea_popescu: This also gives some credibility to the thesis that was popping up in the 19th century that the North African Jews had a Phoenician origin (or that the difference between Canaanite and Jew before the rabbinical period was not very pronounced for p

mircea_popescu: is wasy for a Punic speaker to progressively become an Arabic speaker, since he already knows 80-90% of the vocabulary.

mircea_popescu: This explains the mystery of the effortless Arab invasion of the Southern and Western Mediterranean, all the way to Spain (and, less advertised, the Portuguese Algarve). They had to be welcomed by the local population along the coast. Canaanite and Arabic are easily mutually comprehensible (the distance between Semitic languages is very short, a corrollary of the stability thanks to the triplet of consonnants). And it

mircea_popescu: e Romans did not make names, but transcribed them). I estimate that the third of the coastal villages spoke Semitic dialects. The modus of the Phoenicians was network, hence a system of trade links built on trust (you send merchandise to a relative who pays you back; you needed a certain amount of trust before the letter of credit). The region is large: it extends all the way to Mogador on the Atlantic coast.

mircea_popescu: This stickiness of the Semitic languages supports a speculation: by the 7th Century there had to be many pockets in the Western Mediterranean of Punic-Canaanite speakers, about a thousand years after the fall of Carthage. Falling under Roman rule did not turn the population into Latin speakers (only for scholarly purposes, say Saint Augustine of Hyppo; we have much evidence of diglossia in the Levant, of the use of a l

mircea_popescu: let me interject something related i was just happening to read. a bit of a paste :

mircea_popescu: just you know, sink all its cruisers and impose a massive war reparations programme.

mircea_popescu: They has a fit while I commit my social suicide,

mircea_popescu: I hear that beat; I jump outa my seat but I can't compete, cause I'm a dancin' fool, I'm a dancin' fool

mircea_popescu: it looks like they're announcing a new bitcoin credit card

mircea_popescu: mike_c you now get a link off "cookie". good enuff ?

mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo it wasn't ever a very high amt or anything.

mircea_popescu: i'm exactly the opposite of a bureaucracy, fucking impredictible by design

mircea_popescu: this fucking article explains both why ycombinator is such a shitpile

mircea_popescu: "This suggests focusing on robustness, as opposed to prediction, because the system works against rational expectations, especially those consensus ideas that come out of large bureaucracies. After all, what better sufficient statistic for a mimic to exploit than some well-known regulatory bullet point that supposedly ensures trivial risk? Recessions are not going away; they are endogenous because zero mimicry is not a

mircea_popescu: so built a wall along street to restrict walking...

mircea_popescu: seven days w/o a pun make one week

mircea_popescu: also! what's seven days without a pun make one ?

mircea_popescu: A bedouin lost in the desert stumbled on the lawn / Obama assured him that if he likes his water,

mircea_popescu: There was once a great storm / Which moved the White House to the desert of Sahara

mircea_popescu: i fell for hruschev and married him / turned out his cock was a cobb

mircea_popescu: you call at last / alas a rhyme ?

mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo dude, at the time you were atc trading already for a day or two

mircea_popescu: "And a couple days later I became MP's ATC trader."

mircea_popescu: poor herbi, he had a good idea but not so good carry through

mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo "And that's pretty much the thing in a nutshell." "Generally..." "Basically..." dude you sound moonstruck.

mircea_popescu: kako lemme show you a magic :

mircea_popescu: moiety want a pea ?

mircea_popescu: ;;rate nextime 1 is a stahanovist!