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mircea_popescu: i can't believe half the fucking log is keyboards. you people are nuts you know that ?
mircea_popescu: i won't buy something high tech today that has no use, because guess what ? time flows against it.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` imo all this "tech" stuff is a waste of time. i might buy a computer today because i want to use it.
mircea_popescu: "A requirement that all transactions go through regulated and transparent administrators subject to supervision by Australia authorities (rather than just the current block chain process);"
mircea_popescu: "As we have learned from the experiences emanating from the Mt. Gox Bitcoin exchange collapse, the existence of a "block chain" does nothing to allow law enforcement, other government authorities or the public to identify the real identity of the parties to a digital currency transaction."
mircea_popescu: nubbins` did you kick out violent times out of clocks by suggesting they space out, too ?
mircea_popescu: Naphex yes, time does have intrinsic value, but backwards.
mircea_popescu: badon im not into metals anyway, but i'd definitely buy metal rather than you know, fashion, hype, whatever. "the sizzle"
mircea_popescu: modern coins are worth whatever any modern item is worth.
mircea_popescu: nothwithstanding anecdotal success getting retarded kids to give you their lunch,
mircea_popescu: badon as long as you never pay more for a coin than the metal value you're safe enough.
mircea_popescu: i still don't see why some coins nobody gives a shit about would be intrinsically valuable.
mircea_popescu: i don't pay for krugerands, and those at least are historically relevant.
mircea_popescu: i wouldn't pay above the metal for any of them either.
mircea_popescu: it's not unlike calling "literature" the huge pile of us produced pulp.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` that's at least in my disinterested and ignorant view, the bane of "numismatics" applied to things made after ww2.
mircea_popescu: gernika: What aggravates me more and more recently is the claim that mac products are well designed, when in fact they will destroy your hands. << mactardism is a very visual field. it doesn't account much for function.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: not interested in such experiments. << try have the girl go naked for a day, srsly.
mircea_popescu: kinda shows that stupidity is unpatriotic by its nature. only has one country.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: but that 'removes moral dimension!' << eerily similar to fundamentalist xtians objections to hymenoplasty.
mircea_popescu: NOW, the faster she runs, the less of a woman she is. objectively. how do you get out of that shit.
mircea_popescu: adlai no but see, even in your running and geneder example, you diverge. to my eyes, womanhood has to do with a nice layer of fat on he ass, as exemplified by kim say.
mircea_popescu: the median of an undefined attribute you don't even have a measure of,
mircea_popescu: there's no fucking usable definition of intelligence, we've yet to build a computer model of intelligence, yet these people talk of some sort of statistical intelligence as if it were a thing.
mircea_popescu: given that clams are somewhat intelligent, is a large enough collection of clams more intelligent than victoria nuland ?
mircea_popescu: i mean seriously, the intelligence ~of groups~ ? wtf does that even mean.
mircea_popescu: such a ridiculous point the soviets have chosen to center their purges around.
mircea_popescu: anyone willing to argue against that has my full attention.
mircea_popescu: His views are also reflected in a book published next week, in which he writes: "There is no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capacities of peoples geographically separated in their evolution should prove to have evolved identically. Our wanting to reserve equal powers of reason as some universal heritage of humanity will not be enough to make it so."
mircea_popescu: quite instructive piece on the mechanics of us socialism, all the various bits in full view.
mircea_popescu: "In order that the unfortunate views not overshadow the big scientific contribution, some of these folks would rather we stop talking about Watson’s having made the claims he has made about racial difference (although Watson shows no apparent regret for holding these views, only for having voiced them to reporters)." << and the mechanics of "regret", ie, we won't stop being stupid, the victim has to abjure!
mircea_popescu: anyway, basically this entire thing is a "you don't get to have any ~intellectual~ capital either, it all belongs to the state, to be used as slate anon editor directs it to be used".
mircea_popescu: but that's utter nonsense. objectivity is exactly heroic.
mircea_popescu: i find this quite scandalous. the "everything of value comes from socialism" narrative is pernicious enoughm
mircea_popescu: "Indeed, part of the danger of the hero narrative is that scientists themselves may start to believe it. They can come to see themselves as individuals possessing more powers of objectivity than other humans (thus fundamentally misunderstanding where objectivity comes from)"
mircea_popescu: "knowledge-building team" is it now. a hunter^H^H^H^H^H^H-gatherer perspective on science! there's no hunters, just a buncha women sitting around by a bush doing knowledge-building.
mircea_popescu: IF YOU MAKE A DISCOVERY YOU DIDN'T MAKE THAT DISCOVERY
mircea_popescu: nt of great men (and yes, in this narrative, it is usually great men who are recognized). This narrative ignores the fundamentally social nature of scientific knowledge-building and the fact that objectivity is the result of teamwork."
mircea_popescu: "It is a fundamental misunderstanding of how science works for him to think that his expertise at one level of analysis—a molecular level—predicts anything at a higher level of analysis. The structure of DNA does not predict the workings of a cell, which does not predict the shape of a body, which does not predict the characteristics of a culture."
mircea_popescu: jurov why is it supposed to be anything i nparticular ?
mircea_popescu: decimation:cazalla: I use 'generic' rewards card << but... why ?
mircea_popescu: cutting out like 2/3 of the value of all that collection (the actual guy wanting receipt copies etc) because well... they gotta be weird teenagers about it and do it voyeuristically. not the same thing if you know about it. except of course you know. but wait, suspension of dsibelief!
mircea_popescu: decimation: like, you know, so you can share in the bounty of their information? << good point this.
mircea_popescu: "for your safety, please suck my cock" is what all those things reduce to.
mircea_popescu: mike_c: for "my" safety. except i'm not liable for fraud. so actually they are being a pain in my ass for their safety. fucking home depot. << haha EXACTLY.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: decimation: and aha, these aren't piss-ant led lights either. ccfl tubes - which means they can't be cranked down all the much (and stay lit) <<< this is the deal breaker for me. i actually run the monitors at about 50% gamma.
mircea_popescu: it's how the entire "do-ocracy" nonsense got its cognitive start. the rebellion of the cleaning ladies, basically.
mircea_popescu: decimation: why should I trust some derp who 'volunteers' for arch over the upstream creator? <<< so very much this, o lordy.
mircea_popescu: mike_c: assbot plz send donation to b-a donation address. << lol troll!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: it wasn't the vendor. <<< maybe it was the vendor's useless bf.