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mircea_popescu: anyway, my takeaway is that firmness is a quality, but rigidity a sin. the boob rule : good if made out of young woman, bad if made out of bone.
mircea_popescu: which is why distinction is so important and processes that enact it so useful.
mircea_popescu: i can also understand how half the heads populating pikes around the stronghold used to be attached to people who didn't mean to.
mircea_popescu: but no, because conservative mindset depends on random derp being the king of all creation. which works about as well as you'd expect, boring in the bedroom, offensive in the forum, etc.
mircea_popescu: fuck, maybe the people throwing away quarters know all about n answers you can't find on your own.
mircea_popescu: plenty of people manage to juggle a wife and a job and an insane government and still be here. i'm not one of them, as it happens, but that's neither here nor there : to condone jeffidiocy would be more of an insult to their otherwise unguilty face than i can stomach.
mircea_popescu: somehow you're of worse human quality than jeff is the argument here ?
mircea_popescu: the fact that the spots go on the cheetah as part of what it is saved no cheetah to date.
mircea_popescu: this is a major blindspot of the conservative mindset : rigidity.
mircea_popescu: rather than try to conjure up imaginary molehils of secure superiority to take refuge upon.
mircea_popescu: and in any effect, i most motherfucking DEFINITELY did what told, by the people who knew
mircea_popescu: cue me in 2011 going "sorry, but unless you folks do my homework for me bitcoin sucks. i got math and rom lit."
mircea_popescu: my reaction was subtly but essentialy different. it was "how do you expect this to work ?"
mircea_popescu: "thought bitcoin is some sort of optional thing like widescreen tvs or some shit"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform either take the hundred offer or go to war.
mircea_popescu: jesus, who was the electrician turned expert in physics again ?
mircea_popescu: many smart people suffer from the what's his face mental issues
mircea_popescu: so in a sense, i'm the one thing supporting this here bitcoin economy.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller actually, here's a fun notion : outside of trilema credits, pretty much everything is really just facelifted paypal.
mircea_popescu: im sure the mango is going to want to talk to the upstream enzymes about matters too ?
mircea_popescu: bitcoin is not here asking random derp some favours. no matter who the derp thinks he is.
mircea_popescu: no emotion. i am telling the sad truth just as much : adapt or die.
mircea_popescu: as a matter of policy, it will now cost these guys 10k to get any of my business, and if they ever get into the wot i'll negrate them right off.
mircea_popescu: but i'll make sure to charge a mango my digestion fees next i run into one.
mircea_popescu: cazalla did you mean to say "the article is trying to push the humorous theory" instead of "concludes" ?
mircea_popescu: i guess my idea reduces to "paint a brick black and pray to it" huh.
mircea_popescu: "public access" is a myth, of the same substance as the man-month.
mircea_popescu: as long as it's an anon expert access gizmo, it should qualify neh ?
mircea_popescu: but speaking of which... it does sort-of tie into yest discussion asciilifeform
mircea_popescu: greatly simplifies the process and saves me a bundle of moneyz this.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i must say i am thankful to the "experts". they've got the rot so advanced by now it's sufficient to look at a site and know you're dealing with actual experts.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform write to the owner/admin/whatever ticket system you use, tell him that i am offering $100 in bitcoin if they as much as show up here, to claim it.
mircea_popescu: a) do you know them ? and b) can they be lured or strongarmed into taking bitcoin ?
mircea_popescu: vaguely related, how long you been using these guys ? do you know em ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform in its defense, email hasn't really worked for ~40 years now.
mircea_popescu: he has a point here. asciilifeform so where are they again ?
mircea_popescu: who could pass up on some liver damage for the holy cause of keeping the insides of one's body away from themselves.
mircea_popescu: the parts "cheap" "can be self administered" somehow override "safer" in this construction.
mircea_popescu: and since we're on it, methotrexate is used as an abortifacent, notwithstanding that ethacridine lactate is cheaper, can be used without needing a hospital visit and much safer.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes, which is why i'm writing it out. easily verified, completely unfamiliar to the general public.
mircea_popescu: and the people in the game are really amazed by the reaction. "what's the big deal ? we've been doing this forever nobody complained ?"
mircea_popescu: so then you know, your average thinking person gets really upset once they hear about the entire "global warming" scam,
mircea_popescu: as the patents are starting to expire now, the secret everyone know "is being investigated" : aminopterin is actually more effectual in the role of folate synthesis blocker, perhaps not just in the case of leukemia.
mircea_popescu: soon enough the production of the former was judged too expensive, the latter was rebranded as methotrexate, and a history of "bad side effects" and other fud was created retroactively for aminopterin.
mircea_popescu: the company that marketed it also marketed amethopterin, which is in many ways similar.
mircea_popescu: back in the 50s, aminopterin was discovered, which does exactly that, and was used to treat leukemia
mircea_popescu: this thing works as a highly afine for folate that locks out dfhr, impeding tetrahydrofolic acid synthesis, without which you can't have a nucleus, or many proteins.
mircea_popescu: by the way, since BingoBoingo brought up methotrexate earlier :
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform speaking of nobel prizes, god help us if satoshi ends up awarded the nobel for chemistry and gavin dressed up as princess leila
mircea_popescu: it passed in 2001, it would allow sane biteshifts etc.