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mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski not the same link, just the same title.
mircea_popescu: the only correct response to one that wishes to impress you with meaningless bloodletting is MORE bloodletting, better directed.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> is the answer for king to decree 'anyone may call himself a man of medicine' ? << yes, actually.
mircea_popescu: i'm talking about things that are fundamental, not mere convention built atop and supported on nothing really.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no, see, those are circumstantial. it's not about the press. if the chinese took over tomorrow it'd be all over the washington post.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, the pua people DO have things they'll never print.
mircea_popescu: consider what that "unfit to print" was in 1950, and in 1975, and in 2000.
mircea_popescu: the investment of hate results in online success, the failure to invest it results in online failure.
mircea_popescu: the press meanwhile knows no greater enemy than... another press outlet, especially in the same market
mircea_popescu: my own pet theory, which you may laugh at as you will, is that the difference is the investment of hate. these people hate women, fundamentally, and as such they no longer need to look out for enemies, and so everyone else is a friend.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform is what i thought too, 2011ish. but here's the thing : these people now do book deals,
mircea_popescu: meanwhile "the press" avoids linking to people like the plague, as the quoted piece from maddox yest showed. and i suspect this has a lot to do with their collapse, it's not the internet, is that they misunderstood the importance of reference.
mircea_popescu: i suspect it's exactly the only reason they eked into a modicum of relevancy for the social discourse
mircea_popescu: no, they link to nobodies, to beginners, to people in their comments, they link like their fucking life depends on it
mircea_popescu: it's not even a matter of, some people in a conclave circle jerking
mircea_popescu: and since we're on the topic, it's fucking incredible to me how abandonedly they link to each other.
mircea_popescu: there's this group of people, who figure they've figured out women. they're not entirely correct, but they do have some good points.
mircea_popescu: nah, just some keywords in a specific set of... philosophy is muchly said, but anyway. worldview
mircea_popescu: well if i could condense it in 500 words i would have already.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla not really, cause small kid tends to paw, and clustered keys is one of the main enemies of entropy
mircea_popescu: respec, attention, the feeling of doing the right thing, we
mircea_popescu: in fairness, she's probably getting more for her buck there than in any possible alternative.
mircea_popescu: yeah srsly, what do you want from me. im not hiding any kidnapped us chicks for you folks.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves well sadly they're pua concepts, but they already wrote fiddy billion words on the topic since 2010 and im too lazy to re-write the shit in 100k. especially since in the 5bn words they actually did cover 90% of the 100k, and you should be able to filter.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves time to go read up on game, frame, hand and all that.
mircea_popescu: <ThickAsThieves> my wife is all 'maybe this bitcoin thing isnt such a good idea' << if i had to take a bet on the matter, it'd go like so : it has exactly zero to do with any rationalisation she comes up with and everything to do with how annoyingly you've changed since getting involved with these loser geeks.
mircea_popescu: * xmj would love to work for Bitcoin, btw <<< sure, but doing what.
mircea_popescu: <punkman> why is anyone buying at .0075 instead of waiting until after IPO? << or even having waited for a day BEFORE the ipo ?
mircea_popescu: peterl> would letting a 2-yo type be a good random generator? << nah.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> vinyl record wallet << good art project, << tis the art project that caught my eye
mircea_popescu: <ThickAsThieves> "VC's will write $10M checks after 3 weeks of knowing someone, and there is 0% legit fraud there." << what's ilegit fraud ? fraudy-fraud ?
mircea_popescu: <ThickAsThieves> buttcoin isnt even insulting you properly <<
mircea_popescu: but yes, the reviewer's comment about "sharp around the edges" suggests it's number-powered
mircea_popescu: it's really badly titled which is what threw me off originally. it's really the counterpart to my economic theory piece, it should be "a complete theory of sociology"
mircea_popescu: fluffypony i was thinking, "prolly fluff, he uses all the weird things" but then i was like, give the guy a break, don't say anything
mircea_popescu: someone with a forum account please to tell klech guy he's cool and to drop by.
mircea_popescu: “This record was hand shaped and individually cut in real time using a vintage 1940s Presto 75A recording lathe. It is a unique piece. It is not the same as a traditional pressed record. It was not made in a factory. It was hand carved from an 8ft sheet of polycarbonate plastic, shaped, sanded, waxed and cut in real time by one person.”
mircea_popescu: anyway i recall something more like 200k or w/e, back in spring.
mircea_popescu: someone should figure out how that projector works lol
mircea_popescu: i vaguely recall their published btc sales figures were piddly, but w/e
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves what do you mean weathered the selloff ? you mean they had a stock selloff or what ?
mircea_popescu: kids, just won't stay out of the fire for the life of them.
mircea_popescu: ouch. well this chick's overbite... here's the problem : before now when her pretentiousness flopped, it would have been just a young woman being naive. but now, with 4% of overstock REVENUE, if the thing flops she's just a failure.
mircea_popescu: punkman sure, but no guarantee is made both their mother and grandmother was heavy bosomed.
mircea_popescu: this is pretty much the only good way to pander to your readership, and yes they can tell.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo "I've at this point given up at editing any of the text at all. " << this is often a clue the whole thing is not worth publishing, as painful as may be. ie, if one guy can't be bothered to spend an extra minute on the strength of the material, there's cause to believe a thousand readers shouldn't be asked to spend that one second it takes them to decide they don't want it.
mircea_popescu: course the sub should qualify the homo not the preposition. subhominem addack or something.
mircea_popescu: punkman: some quotes I saved: "actually tbh i would make people money except i cant be bothered, i dont really wanna make anyone rich to get more money myself, id rather just chill in my room and drink cider and think up new ideas" <<< i'm saving this one for the next time some derp comes up with "a billionaire dude would never hang out in irc with us rubes"