mircea_popescu: and as a result, they actually had a famine, in the 90s

mircea_popescu: about thirty years ago, some countries in the waszaw pact were a lot more zealous than romania in implementing the glorious directives of the eastern socialist brother.

mircea_popescu: denmark, struggling to be even more of a joke.

mircea_popescu: the [-] has the meaning that the current trade is at a lower price than the previous trade

mircea_popescu: that sad moment when your favorite read of the day is a year old articlke of your own

mircea_popescu: To be buggered sore like a hobo’s whore in the Big Rock Candy Mountains.”

mircea_popescu: basically, all the fuckwits doing the retweeting, redditing etc are people with "liberal" educations and a ton of debt, no means of sustenance and a desire to live in manhattan

mircea_popescu: Duffer1 it's a fine example of the us socialism. guy's an (unpaid) propaganda agent of stupidity.

mircea_popescu: i don't think there's a price.

mircea_popescu: i don't get why that's supposed to be a problem anyway. so he retweeted only women. i fuck only women. seems about even.

mircea_popescu: donated to a kitten shelter or w/e it is they do.

mircea_popescu: wasn't inclined to give some VC the nod on this. On reflection, I'll be explicit: If you're a venture capitalist, and you invest in Pax's startup without a profound, meaningful and years-long demonstration of responsibility from Pax beforehand, you're complicit in extending the tech industry's awful track record of exclusion, and it's unacceptable."

mircea_popescu: "There was also a pretty dogged pitch for his startup, which will get all kinds of warm huzzahs from the intersection of MRAs, Bitcoin fans, NSA critics and Redditors. I was pretty amazed that he went for it. He flat out said that he wants his startup to be funded and wasn't sure if it'd be possible after all of his, and I replied that it realistically wasn't going to happen without the say-so of someone like me, and I

mircea_popescu: this guy is a sort of chewed gum attached to someone's boot.

mircea_popescu: i don't recall such insolence in quite a while.

mircea_popescu: http://davegooden.com/2011/05/how-airbnb-became-a-billion-dollar-company/

mircea_popescu: so basically if people who predicate their lives on twitter followers consistently act like anyone gives a shit about their twitter followers, somehow ??? the twitter followers will matter ?

mircea_popescu: which actually came to be because of a discussion with asciilifeform

mircea_popescu: which happens to be a re-write of http://trilema.com/2013/some-basic-discussion-of-charity/

mircea_popescu: right. kind-of a poor excuse.

mircea_popescu: theirs does not in fact work as implemented, like a lawn mower that doesn't cut, you just follow after it with clippers.

mircea_popescu: it was a purely technical discussion.

mircea_popescu: "i suppose this is what should be on my business card : i'm the guy who came up on his own with a better system than what the nyt came up with, six i mean eight months later"

mircea_popescu: "Cred ca asta ar trebui sa-mi scriu pe cartea de vizita : eu sunt un tip care-a conceput asa, de unul singur, un sistem mai eficient decit chestia implementata de New York Times, sase opt luni mai tirziu."

mircea_popescu: the pedestrian explanation, of course, being that he had a much softer crowd to work with.

mircea_popescu: i never draft. i publish then i have editors edit my shit. maybe once in a blue moon i decide midway that what i'm writing is stupid and drop it altogether.

mircea_popescu: not much of any value or import can be found outside of a blog these days, nor will be for a while.

mircea_popescu: but this is merely a side effect of them having the absolute monopoly on all peaks of human production.

mircea_popescu: greenspan_fan what are you talking about, not on a blog.

mircea_popescu: and no, the original is a classical romanian poem, for which asciilifeform ferreted out the old soviet translations. http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-02-2014#509201 ☝︎

mircea_popescu: you should check it out. cagney in west berlin, fixing up the slutty daughter of his us boss with a local nutty kid.

mircea_popescu: yeah but what is excusable in the 1800s back when nobody could or did read and so you were able to count on a certain audience

mircea_popescu: some bovine being a communist is not marx, but some bovine.

mircea_popescu: greenspan_fan "it is forbidden to have a course in nonsense. But the history of nonsense, that is scholarship."

mircea_popescu: a jesuit, a pedophile, a wrestling fan, whatever.

mircea_popescu: but no one goes there willingly. one is a communist that is too stupid, too lazy, or too stupid and lazy to be anything else.

mircea_popescu: it only goes the same way if you're not yourself a cow.

mircea_popescu: it takes a lot of acid.

mircea_popescu: this would be a fine example of why i hold the guy for a complete ignoramus.

mircea_popescu: i am not interested in a) enriching foreign third parties or b) participating in relationships of any kind on any other structure than as designed by me.