mircea_popescu: probably a lot of performance art in unexpected places.

mircea_popescu: dentist = scam. not a scam AS SUCH, in the sense that it does fix your money but a) you have to make appointments and they charge if you cancel them without notice and b) it costs money.

mircea_popescu: not a scam AS SUCH.

mircea_popescu: "I suppose you're right. It's not a scam as such, because it's all out in the open and delivers exactly what it promises."

mircea_popescu: wait, azelphur got a gf nao ?

mircea_popescu: i once made a woman a sandwich.

mircea_popescu: for every dorky white kid idly discussing "sexism in IT" there are at least a hundred olive kids willing to eat their own right arm to be in it.

mircea_popescu: in some circumstances a certain proxy may end up misstating an order in that way.

mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic not really, what happens is that a whole shitload of 1s get tacked on to the actual order

mircea_popescu: for all i care, you can go through a specialist investment banker.

mircea_popescu: "Why would a stock want to list on mpex for 30btc vs another exchange for much less?"

mircea_popescu: Azelphur well there's a bet

mircea_popescu: the funny thing is that if a bunch of oldtimers whom we won't name didn't think themselves smarter than me back in 2011, and said no to teh pirate guy when i said no to teh pirate guy,

mircea_popescu: it's more a case of "am i going to say "honey wait just a second i need to jot some words down" and look like a dork or am i going to remember it when i'm done with her ?"

mircea_popescu: i had a brilliant idea yesterday

mircea_popescu: (generally, a ton of naturally occuring uranium is about 1/3 curie or so)

mircea_popescu: suppose the truck carrying these falls off a bridge.

mircea_popescu: seems it's about half a curie's worth

mircea_popescu: tech as an intellectual pursuit has nothing to do with tech as a job.

mircea_popescu: what's involved in becoming a pokemon ?

mircea_popescu: i recall they wanted a pic and so i licensed some at some point

mircea_popescu: coincidentally, i also blogged about what a pos it is, about on the same timeline

mircea_popescu: "Visits to Wikipedia had previously risen steadily year-on-year for a decade. Towards the end of the 2012 this trend not only stalled, but went into an unprecedented decline."

mircea_popescu: blg groupon is a scam in the manner the web start-up circus is a scam. make website with no utility, pretend huge customer base that doesn't exist or is bught, pretend huge growth that doesn't exist or is manufactured,

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah, but it's a little ridiculous that they seem to somehow have constructed a pretend-world where they don't even have to consider what they're doing.

mircea_popescu: well, they got a ways to go yet.

mircea_popescu: they argue a lot about flavour, instead of case.

mircea_popescu: how could one not be a progressive ?

mircea_popescu: " I prefer a society based in the rule of law to groups of eager people with bright ideas who ignore everything that has gone before them." << we now have the definition of the old fart.

mircea_popescu: " Each and every time someone in the Computer Science field has a Bright Idea, the world had better be prepared to adapt, because Here Comes Genius and everything everybody has done needs to be done differently from now on, because This Genius Knows Best."