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mircea_popescu: well, fuck the world, trilema will survive. i guess the idea being that "winners write history".
mircea_popescu: so it pleases me to report that virtually all links from tlp to various learned repositories of articles are dead.
mircea_popescu: if this satellite is a ton of iron, a megawatt OVER A MINUTE will vaporize it.
mircea_popescu: there's a monty python sketch about missile hunting mosquitoes.
mircea_popescu: moreover, iuf you need 1mw to kill a sat chip you have serious mental issues.
mircea_popescu: how do the intended audience of these articles imagine stuff like plasma is made
mircea_popescu: gtfo, do you have ANY IDEA what the air looks like around your megawatt continuous laser ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you mean, "the angular projection of a 10 metre target 150 km away" ?
mircea_popescu: 10 yo laptops are basically the value of the rare metals in them. 20 bux.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if nubbins` weren't such a noob, he'd have laser etched a mechanical rsa by now
mircea_popescu: herbijudlestoids there's tons of quick and dirty cardanos out there already.
mircea_popescu: decimation that'd be cvounterproductive. more like, give everything, maybe then they'll finally take out the whip.
mircea_popescu: i think it was more like the first. 6.something prolly.
mircea_popescu: decimation i think it's just perverse masochism. self hating liberal white people finally found an empire of nationalistic chinese froggies that despise foreigners.
mircea_popescu: but i mean this quite literally. scam foundation tried to push a bitcoin fork.
mircea_popescu: his name's china, and the us can't even mention what he asks of her. let alone consider what to say.
mircea_popescu: decimation if you review the us foreign policy, it can't escape your notice that the us is playing exactly the role of one of the classical woman in love : will pretend like she's a priss to all comers, except there's one she will literally eat the shit from.
mircea_popescu: herbijudlestoids tons of things. qntra.net took over the business of bitcoin news. gavin has been shot in the head, foundation's over, bitcoin "development" past 0.5.x is being considered for deletion
mircea_popescu: yeah, so what's the plan, sell to microshit for 100mn in a year or two once they decide to beef up that biz ?
mircea_popescu: herbijudlestoids that part i can see. so more like ops consulting for iaas ppl ?
mircea_popescu: this is a noble goal, but a little like pron studios claiming the same.
mircea_popescu: you telling me you can actually eke a living in such a market ?
mircea_popescu: i don't get it, there's literally an ocean of providers of this stuff.
mircea_popescu: did your burn rate finally catch up with the funding ?
mircea_popescu: this is about me going "gtfo" to tim swanson while he derps about how "normal debates work".
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not particularly sad. the point ios for us to know syphilitic whore is syphilitic, not for her to not get laid anymore.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the "trading" fo shitty altcoins for inexisting bitcoin is the most important part of the altcoin pumping scams.
mircea_popescu: can't be arsed to fix the thing, can be arsed to ban evade. very fucking smart.
mircea_popescu: this includes the IETF as well as it includes the AMA.
mircea_popescu: this, incidentally, is why no us pseudoscientific body can be taken seriously to any purpose. especially not to the purpose it supposedly serves.
mircea_popescu: Medicine, or the APA, can legitimately express a policy only if the policy was grounded in science or logic. Perhaps the APA cares to release this intriguing scientific data? (While it is at it, perhaps it can also release the data supporting the use of half of the medications currently favored by APA Guidelines?) But this seems pretty much business as usual for the APA. Rather than work on its own serious failings,
mircea_popescu: What if the NFL came out against antidepressants in children? This is a perfectly valid analogy, because neither the NFL nor psychiatry have special knowledge that make their statements anything more than opinions. What do psychiatrists know about same-sex marriage that the quarterback for the Patriots doesn’t? Don’t laugh—I’m serious. What’s the answer?
mircea_popescu: suited to answering these questions than, say, the NFL.
mircea_popescu: And no, there isn't a difference between bankruptcy and gay marriage-- not to psychiatry. That's the point. These are social problems about which modern psychiatry is definitionally ignorant. The APA did not endorse polygamy. What's the difference? If homosexuality is not a psychiatric disorder, than there is no more reason to be more for or against it than there is for any other kind of marriage. The APA is no better
mircea_popescu: You can't get away with pat answers, such as psychiatrists see the psychiatric ramifications of discrimination or being unable to marry. There are psychiatric ramifications of bankruptcy, and war, but no one felt compelled to write a policy statement on it (and thank God.)
mircea_popescu: "Remember how in May, 2005, the American Psychiatric Association endorsed same sex marriage? And you applauded the moral fortitude and progressive instinct of this august body? Well, instead of debating whether there should or should not be same-sex marriage, perhaps we should ask what modern psychiatry could possibly contribute to this discussion. The answer is nothing.
mircea_popescu: this is insanity. you want a girl that can be smart, not a girl that can't be stupid, for some arbitrary levels of either. just like you seek a horse that can run quickly, not a horse that is never still.
mircea_popescu: <mircea_popescu> let's indulge this fiction for the sake of potential literature. << I PREDICTED!
mircea_popescu: why the fuck disguise it. the mentality that cunt's the enemy is principally what keeps geeks in an onansitic state.
mircea_popescu: if you end up in a divorce ten years later, do you take the machine to court ?
mircea_popescu: do you skip to where the machine got abandoned and read her again ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: let's indulge this fiction for the sake of potential literature. so you pick a target this way, and somehow it works out and now it's morning and she's in bed.
mircea_popescu: not exactly, more like, "if god had meant me to gamble 10k dollars in this casino, he'd have given me 10k dollars"
mircea_popescu: snail with glider just set itserlf up for trauimatic failure.