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mircea_popescu: and so i tried to read that thing with the eyes of a stranger
mircea_popescu: every single snail leaves a fossil. few cephalopodes do. etc.
mircea_popescu: dude this playboy interview is one of the stupidest things i ever read.
mircea_popescu: it's a worhtwhile argument that the only reason blacks aren't chimps is that some middle links died off ?!
mircea_popescu: ve chimpanzees none. But I think it’s a worthwhile argument."
mircea_popescu: "DAWKINS: No, never. But suppose an intermediate species hadn’t gone extinct. Suppose relict populations are discovered in the African jungle. In order to deny chimpanzees rights, you would have to set up apartheid-like courts to decide whether this individual counts as human. Because it’s a continuum. As a practical matter, the intermediates haven’t survived, so it’s possible to give humans basic rights and gi
mircea_popescu: why history repeats itself so much! boring history! bad history!
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo omfg check this out, pravda lying about what the un said.
mircea_popescu: 5ph = ~ 10k antiminers. they never made that many did they ?
mircea_popescu: "In investigating these claims, BitBeat viewed a bitcoin address at Blockchain.info that was cryptographically proven to belong to GAW and in which almost 28,000 bitcoins"
mircea_popescu: anyway, i need someone to go there and bring me a coupla affiliate managers.
mircea_popescu: anyway, who here wants to go to the next porn conference ?
mircea_popescu: i'm sure anyone who cares enough could as well have folloed the gpg sig ?
mircea_popescu: the small players always benefit more from the big players than the reverse.
mircea_popescu: also kinda why any kind of non-regressive taxation is bullshit.
mircea_popescu: yeah, it cost me some money, but it also established a point. to my benefit, and of course to anyone else's who's paying attention, but that's a freebie for small fish.
mircea_popescu: adlai not what it was. more of a "couldn't really refuse" sort of thing.
mircea_popescu: money well spent, because it resolved a particular set of otherwise very pernicious claims.
mircea_popescu: cazalla : the problem is that wordpress fucks up the dashes
mircea_popescu: as in, you know, rather than book a loss, pretend like it never happened. because if you don't agree it happened, it didn't really happen.
mircea_popescu: kinda shocking for the idiots at the time, because before i did that, everyone just schmoozied with the scamers
mircea_popescu: then i lent him some btc he couldn't repay, specifically for this purpose
mircea_popescu: kept making all sorts of idiotic claims, giving "ratings" and the whole shebang
mircea_popescu: adlai you ever heard of patrick harnett's bitcoin bank etc ?
mircea_popescu: where did they find a pretentious noob blogger to write this typical sort of pretentious noob blogger shit
mircea_popescu: "Over the past few days we have noticed a significant uptick in complaints directed at our help desk about a fraud being perpetrated upon innocent Bitcoin users."
mircea_popescu: mike_c fortunately total interest is like a quarter, so nobodu's losing any sleep over it.
mircea_popescu: and ima put a hold on it because srsly it does not seem to exist anymore.
mircea_popescu: <adlai> oooh why was I never pointed at << no actually i think you were, like eartly on
mircea_popescu: <kakobrekla> love it or hate it ? make up your goddamn mind. << what mind ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, the "no black people" thing was funny. i guess cazalla's putting something in the water.
mircea_popescu: like, if out of the 1bn people on the internet 100mn have kids, and out of the 1000 people on qntra 103 have kids.
mircea_popescu: according to whatever indexes they keep, qntra is above average is all.
mircea_popescu: and that's taking a very lax view of "line" and "logic".
mircea_popescu: it's a perpetual and uphill battle to keep them more or less in line with logic
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform << elaborate plz << what's to say really ? brains aren't made for thinking specifically anymore than html is made for the web. they just got pressed into this service.
mircea_popescu: "tell your friends about budweiser's greatness in narrative form for a chance to win a can of beer"
mircea_popescu: adlai anyway, it's bnot going to be run as an actual market, because cattle. so it will be run as a star market.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski lulzy the confused reaction of a social media dude taken out of the eco chamber.
mircea_popescu: the arabs have an equivalent of the serenissima tax tho