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mircea_popescu: not that it's false, but they're not women. so... how ?
mircea_popescu: if this is true, how did they come to the conclusion women dislike being raped ?
mircea_popescu: and i couldn't get out of bed without 5000 "hey mp, what do you think of this toaster" "is bitcoin going up i must know because of my 0.05 btcent investment!"
mircea_popescu: anyway, this is the best of all worlds, tbh. i'd get really pissy in short order if reddit actually knew what's what
mircea_popescu: myeah. and this matters, because the non-wot world is like, totally a world and anything, and what happens outside of b-a ctually happens, and non-notarized documents actually carry weight and everything
mircea_popescu: because why report, right, there's all these fucktards that need to wonder "what mainstream nobody agrees with mp", as if that's the fucking criteria nao, we vote for knowledge.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform something tells me i won't be getting the "mp's blog, first place to announce tor is shit, a year or so ago" all over the "tech" "press". just like i didn't get the "mp forces wikileaks to release unedited cables by publishing the romanian subset" a few years back
mircea_popescu: course, when i said so last year the derps went on derping, but why would the derps count here.
mircea_popescu: mats_cd03 it didn't take this long, that tor was routinely compromised was an open secret.
mircea_popescu: im not even sure whats more ridiculous, the rednecks or the mainstream.
mircea_popescu: dude, topless chicks being a big deal, you already know you must be in ameristan
mircea_popescu: some sort of insane clown o nm that's what icp means huh
mircea_popescu: in fact, the usg seems moreover its prey than anything.
mircea_popescu: i guess we could call it "marketing" for lack of terminology.
mircea_popescu: pretty much the only tech left that works in the english speaking world is the tech that manipulates this at first view pathological "one way belonging" thing.
mircea_popescu: xanthyos the bizarre part is that they somehow manage to seek it in imagination.
mircea_popescu: i mean, it used to be the case for children. but biological adults today are psychologically infantile, and this is by very far the most obvious effect.
mircea_popescu: the way people today construct their mental representations of groups and belonging is nothing short of mindblowing.
mircea_popescu: You don't know. If your dad needs money, go ask Mickey Mantle. See what happens. Mickey Mantle don't care about you. Why care about him? Nobody cares.
mircea_popescu: Mickey Mantle? That's what you're upset about? Mantle makes $ a year. How much does your father make?
mircea_popescu: Bill Mazeroski, I hate him. He made Mickey Mantle cry. The papers said the Mick cried.
mircea_popescu: Come over here. Sit next to me. You must be pretty upset after the Yankees lost.
mircea_popescu: yeah, but see that it actually "serves", depending how you put the goals on the table
mircea_popescu: it's almost like watching a cell react in an infection, all sorts of bizarro mechanisms that you don't even dare declare exist seem to work in werido ways.
mircea_popescu: i tell you, the anthropology of this thing has been an endless source of fascination to me
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform jeffidiocy manages to keep idiots with benefits away from bitcoin altogether.
mircea_popescu: in short, there's a very deep valley between "windows user who thinks himself into bitcoin because he recognises the term" and "bitcoin user".
mircea_popescu: 99% of bitcoin users, according to what people think, use windows.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> well the only remarkable thing is that, with the profusion of winblows users, coins are not yet wandering off into usg wallets en masse. <<< reddit is not, contrary to what it tells itself, relevant to bitcoin
mircea_popescu: back then it was a big deal, wallets being unencrypted.
mircea_popescu: iirc that's when the first windows wallet stealer trojan was reported.
mircea_popescu: got out in the night, put the boer flag on the local fort, filled a cannon with a blank shot and a long fuse and well...
mircea_popescu: lightoller, back during his time in the navy, was on a ship visiting south africa during the boer war
mircea_popescu: maybe they knew better, hard to know what individuals knew or thought. but imo, they honestl ybelieved ice is now butter, because forward britannia!
mircea_popescu: that means either i don't have kids or my kids don't do so well.
mircea_popescu: let me model why : if i'm in that situation and you ask me that, i'ma in typical style go "wel lfrankly, i didn't believe that ice can crush steel. sue me."
mircea_popescu: i don't think they understood ice will crush the ship, tbh.
mircea_popescu: when a ship is sinking, the officer is to do EXACTLY what's done.
mircea_popescu: the fundamntal understanding of this is illustrated by the case made for giving people tenure and shit. research is an activity of the safe, which is why prisons and other emperor of the flies situations aren't conducive to proving the fermat conjecture.
mircea_popescu: a ship is sinking is undisputably the worst time to be going out doing "research".
mircea_popescu: i can't imagine anyone'd manage to supress it if it could work.
mircea_popescu: it's the one card out that could save teh current usg / societal structure.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no, seriously, cold fusion would actually make the "local production" stuff that link earlier was harping about a reality.
mircea_popescu: ifsomeone wanted to manage a portofolio of ws shortness for btc, it'd prolly rock.
mircea_popescu: i dunno, maybe im unbecomingly naive, but to my eyes cold fusion working is an event of such magnitude, it'd trigger an Auld Lang Syne moment.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i diun get it, who would be opposed to cold fusion and why ?
mircea_popescu: i suppose this also wraps right back up into wavelets lol.
mircea_popescu: being a physicist doesn't make one immune, only diffusion makes one immune.
mircea_popescu: this is something a politician is keenly aware of, but since the expert's brain actually functions, he's no politician.
mircea_popescu: the #2 reason it is idiotic is that discussion has remanence, poker hands do not. expert 30 years in has a fucking string of noted down examples of having done this, people with an ideologic interest can use to strangle him with
mircea_popescu: the #1 reason it is idiotic is that the inept player may actually and usually does notice the loosening, and takes this as a honest signal that the expert is bluffing