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mircea_popescu: yeah obv. just, imo better economics all around once that's on the table.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform here's one for you : suppose the stavka website sported a "Afghanistani cock -> Russian eager asshole plox ty. We love real men, we're all transvestitties over here!"
mircea_popescu: "WASHINGTON — The Twitter and YouTube accounts of the Pentagon's command for its forces in the Middle East have been hacked, according to a defense official Monday." lawl
mircea_popescu: a bum, like a total, street dwelling bum, accosts some random guy begging. and the random guy goes like "ain't got nothing now", and hands him his coke bottle.
mircea_popescu: soo... i go to see my private banker, her office's like four blocks down. and as i walk on the street, i see a thing that's still with me.
mircea_popescu: qntra has a link to webirc, iirc anyone following it shows up in here as qntranet
mircea_popescu: if i want to talk to preet, i can talk to preet directly.
mircea_popescu: what exactly do you imagine anyone may wish to have to do with you after that ?
mircea_popescu: heck, if i can stop reading shit online for five minutes maybe i do it this month. or whatever.
mircea_popescu: i have servers i shoud probably turn off that i was too lazy to turn off that cost more than that
mircea_popescu: fucking seriously ? 12 hour days to write that pulp ? for 2.3k a month ?!
mircea_popescu: "And as anyone in indie romance knows, the waters are getting crowded, the competition is getting fierce, and I have to hustle my ass off to move books that sold themselves a year ago. I work twelve hours a day with promo, writing, and ad planning--sometimes more."
mircea_popescu: no, merely the definition of rateless is "no rate can be computed" instead of "this constant divided by infinity"
mircea_popescu: otherwise it's like saying the halting problem doens't exist because no computer runs forever.
mircea_popescu: decimation infinite time's not needed, is it ? just as long as you're not done yet
mircea_popescu: y own problems. "It's not my fault that I didn't pursue a romantic relationship with her, she's just a friendzoning bitch." This projection would then just grow and grow to encompass all women.
mircea_popescu: ationships. I've had crushes, sure, but whenever the thought of actually forming a romantic relationship with that person would come up, I instantly shot myself down. Through shooting myself down, however, I also shot down that person. "She's shallow," I'd say, "she only wants hot jocks and douchebags. She's not worth my time." I would project all of my self-hatred onto this woman so I could avoid actually working on m
mircea_popescu: e a "fat fucking faggot" while I was walking home from the grocery store. I know he was probably drunk and not necessarily in the best state of mind, but fuck that shit hurts. Because of that bullying, I really don't have much confidence at all outside of my own work. The first thing I think of when I meet a new person is "I wonder how disgusted he is with me." And because of that self-hatred, I've never sought out rel
mircea_popescu: Up to probably three or four years ago, I would absolutely be that self-hating nerd Chu is talking about. Generally, I'm not that good looking. I'm fat in a bunch of weird places, tall, and pretty much just strange to look at. For most of my life, I was bullied, and even at 23 years old, I still experience a bit of bullying, and I internalize every insult I hear. Just a few days ago, a random guy in the street called m
mircea_popescu: Ooof, this article hit a bit too close to home for me.
mircea_popescu: he's the guy you immitate at the table, if you don't know how to eat at the table and were told "just do what they do"
mircea_popescu: no, actually, the hype man is an outgrowth of the shill in 3 card monte and such games, which is what all african entertainment is descended from. he's there to give an anchor to the viewer to identify with, and immitate.
mircea_popescu: Discussing the role of the hype man in the book How to Rap, Royce da 5'9" describes how a hype man can contribute to a live performance: "a lot of my verses be so constant with the flow [that] I'd need somebody to help me."[4] Lateef adds: "You're gonna have to have somebody say something somewhere to give you a breath... usually it's just a matter of getting somebody to hit some line or some word in a line - that's al
mircea_popescu: oh. i thought either one of those gold chains or else cocaine
mircea_popescu: forthat matter, bitcoin magazine is just as active as it always was
mircea_popescu: stuff like the original blockchain inspector is still around.
mircea_popescu: they missed december. apple can miss. once. maybe. bitpay can't miss.
mircea_popescu: well dare i ask what the fraction of startups NOT ON EXPONENTIAL GROWTH CURVE that fail is ?
mircea_popescu: you know those stats that keep going 9x% of start-ups fail in the first bla bla ?
mircea_popescu: there's a ton of bitpay exceptionalism / captn of industry-ism flooding out of reddit. in point of fact, bitpay is a struggling start-up that missed the boat.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: what's preventing you from doing it to start an antelope farm
mircea_popescu: "Gavin is, by and large, a mentally retarded doofus displaying a shocking amount of Dunning-Kruger syndrome in his assorted dabblings in economics and other hard fields."
mircea_popescu: sort-of like trying to calculate the path lightning will take
mircea_popescu: it's really hard to evaluate theoretically which is the practical avenue
mircea_popescu: course, the coinbase can't be spent for probably longer tha nthe chain will survive
mircea_popescu: "I thought the Bitrush team was crazy for offering free bitcoins... until they actually showed up in my Blockchain wallet. These guys are nuts. Take advantage of it before they come to their senses!"
mircea_popescu: "A friend told me Bitrush was giving away bitcoins and I thought, "What the hell!" I gave them my email and verified my account. Within 12 hours I received my first payout and have received many more since. Pretty nice of them and they even called me to make sure everything was going good for me. No one from any Bitcoin related company has ever called me before and I was amazed at the level of service for spending noth
mircea_popescu: you clever boy you thestringpuller. i was just writing as to the stupidity of that.
mircea_popescu: you know, doge dieing sucks because all these fucktards are now misrepresenting themsleves as involved with bitcoin
mircea_popescu: "Bitcoin Needs a Viral Positive "Pay-it-forward" Campaign"
mircea_popescu: "o noes, bitcoin-assets didn't care, let's see if there's barely stable aspie boys somewhere else"