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mircea_popescu: when confronted with an inept player they loosen up their game
mircea_popescu: the most significant error of judgement made by experts as far as i've seen yet is
mircea_popescu: persuasion, however, is exactly that, poker reskinned.
mircea_popescu: do you know what meta coincepts are, like "playing loose" or "tight" ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this is true tho. you familiar witrh playing pokler at all ?
mircea_popescu: once people crash their system trying to load 1mn cells for the 1kth time
mircea_popescu: as far as i can see, it's the common step away from excel
mircea_popescu: you think coders are bad, just wait till you see mathematicians apply automated processes to statistical samples.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform just between you and me and nobody else : i very much doubt the average j user actually has the mental acumen to correctly understand the actual effects of recursive transforms available to them, wavelets or no wavelets.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform just about, as one gets tired stuff starts to mutate.
mircea_popescu: most mobile platforms have spent more money on making their thing work on unstyled websites than we ever will on qntra.
mircea_popescu: davout: disabling all CSS would be fine << he has a point there, just de-css-ify it for mobile, will be fine.
mircea_popescu: i've not commonly seen it outside of ro hack-kiddies speaking english
mircea_popescu: Bitcoin software does not appear to be vetted to such an extend. << the english-t to d migration is soooo indicative of a native romanian speaker you can't imagine.
mircea_popescu: jurov: what does he want from aussies? <<< russia needs military bases overseas like kim kardashian needs horsecock.
mircea_popescu: cazalla: so.. is qntra down for others? << uh i just looked at it.
mircea_popescu: much better than europe's highest per capita gold reserve country o.O
mircea_popescu: yeah, see, you should have had "real brick and mortar stores" in cyprus.
mircea_popescu: they tend to read and understand, it's what they do. not like "why should i even bother with the wot" an' stuff.
mircea_popescu: Naphex im sure "customers" and "experts" will both listen to your #1 and #2 above, yeah.
mircea_popescu: i wrote a little about the nuttery of it, back in romanian days. lemme see if i can find it.
mircea_popescu: something on the magnitude order of getting fusion to work is pretty much the only way out of the slump for teh west.
mircea_popescu: how the fuck is a miniaturized version easier is beyond me.
mircea_popescu: he reduced size — just 10 feet by 7 feet — will allow Lockheed to “design, build, and test the CFR in less than a year.”
mircea_popescu: look at that, nif claims it actually went energy-positive last year
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: On the otherhand it isn't the slightest bit unbelievable for a dairy cow to drag its titties through cow shit <<< im pretty sure nobody milks unwashed anymore.
mircea_popescu: beef is safer than most meats, but still. you dun see the stuff.
mircea_popescu: trichinella is a fucking worm you still won't likely see it.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: RetroUpriser: Generally in a steak if there was a pathogen of conern you'd see/smell the abcess and wonder then the cow got into a knife fight << nah, most of the stuff youi can get that way you don't see.
mircea_popescu: anyway, romania is a few of the european states that never had it. along with, iirc, switzerland.
mircea_popescu: hadn't he done so, you'd probably have heard spineless gonzalez, bharara et all argue for the legitimacy of their use.
mircea_popescu: that's a thing nixon is never remembered for, ending the biological warfare stockpiles.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo they don't have endemic brucellosis in the us anymore do they ?!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: real reason: it is an extraordinarily expensive, multi-generational project to keep the entire field from developing. <<< what sense does that make ?
mircea_popescu: fuck them, move on, plenty of time left in the future to do important shit.
mircea_popescu: anyway, no point crying over the mud-like stupidity of our parents.
mircea_popescu: decimation that passion could have served a smarter man better you know ?
mircea_popescu: bitcoin + pgp + foss would have been a much better alternative past than fucktarded "flower power"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this millenium, nobody actually saw. perhaps an excusable oversight, but still ridoinculous.
mircea_popescu: prolly because only trolls and terrorists do that or something.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo larger problem : men don't generally get that they have the god fucking given right to say "fuck you and get lost"
mircea_popescu: stan's fork will win the bitcoin through the same interplay of the same cosmic forces.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo that's not happenstance. that shit will happen again and again because it happened for fundamental reasons.
mircea_popescu: well, except for terrorist me, of course, in a piece about romania's 80s generation. but that's besides the point.
mircea_popescu: nobody ever goes "you shitfaces, THIS opportunity you missed. all of you."
mircea_popescu: people tend to be very laudative of the people that were smart, at any juncture