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mircea_popescu: i have no idea why they're not yet extinct, but it's right there on my list after mosquitoes.
mircea_popescu: there is little in nature more objectionable than a live monkey of any kind
mircea_popescu: nubbins` you know i don't get this general conspiracy to stuff monkeys down kids' throats
mircea_popescu: and he's going to run a budget without taxation or inflation too
mircea_popescu: siberia or sahara, best is in the butt of the bestholder.
mircea_popescu: by the principle "for every incredibly hot woman there's at least one guy totally sick of her ass"
mircea_popescu: it's quite lovely, especially if you feel like ruining spring for yourself.
mircea_popescu: there's a difference between the babies dead of neglect in 1905 and the baby dieing of neglect right now.
mircea_popescu: decimation it's not really worth it. plenty of places where there's no winter. go to san jose, cr, problem solved.
mircea_popescu: the winter rarely frosts, so really everything's in season.
mircea_popescu: boolrap well obviously, i mean, no kitchen robots and the like.
mircea_popescu: boolrap depends. but in general, unless you're making something like strudel it doesn't take that long to fix a meal.
mircea_popescu: even bob florida will eventually grow out of it, mostly by being dead.
mircea_popescu: and as far as womenz are concerned, they generally wish they had no mom at all anyway.
mircea_popescu: either for not having one at all, or for having had one that was too close to a mom
mircea_popescu: i seriously never met anyone who regretted not having more mom.
mircea_popescu: decimation looking forward to the special cosplay division of the nypd
mircea_popescu: "With the rise of Google, the gurus of Web 2.0, and the call from business leaders (often seen in publications such as Business 2.0) for a more creative, as well as skilled, workforce, Florida asserts that the contemporary relevance of his research is easy to see."
mircea_popescu: boolrap well, you could export all the pronz the chinese could ever want
mircea_popescu: it's not that the lesbians flock to the places where rich people live, because they need that trickle down effect to survive in their incredibly inefficient lifestyle.
mircea_popescu: "Florida's theory asserts that metropolitan regions with high concentrations of technology workers, artists, musicians, lesbians and gay men, and a group he describes as "high bohemians", exhibit a higher level of economic development."
mircea_popescu: that spring water has complaints does not mean sprite doesn't have 500x that many complaints.
mircea_popescu: takes you 20 minutes, helps the network, all further thinking is not needed.
mircea_popescu: after your first payment fails for whatever reason, you get a full node client, pre 0.7 and run that.
mircea_popescu: then you need to write support in the 50% of cases it did not go throught
mircea_popescu: with cb/bp you need the address, then you need to watch it make sure it went through
mircea_popescu: with bb, you need the address, send the payment, are done.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla acting as if this is a thing makes it a thing. not a good idea.
mircea_popescu: you've stumbled on the very heart of the somethingawful forums over there.
mircea_popescu: wasn;t that lead by the very picturesque Richard Florida ?!
mircea_popescu: i remember a time when newspapers were worth reading, they came in wet ink and you knew the names of the editors.
mircea_popescu: the fuck do people know what their needs are, you might as well be the veterinarian that offers pet-managed pet care.
mircea_popescu: not just one man. the man with something to say. there was never anything of any value or utility come from listening "to people" and "their needs"
mircea_popescu: it narrowly maps the makeover from "a good place to invest" to "a good thing to short"
mircea_popescu: decimation note the change of apple, from the ipad 1 "fuck you, it's not going to come in white" to the ipad 6 "we're doing what the customers think they want"
mircea_popescu: the bitpay/coinbase invoice model is basically doing everything from the perspective of "what's the most we could do so bitcoin never works"
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla yes. if one's goal is not to shit where one eats, then there's no incentive to cater to idiocy. if on the contrary, then on the contrary.
mircea_popescu: the only reason "people demand" pop music and buzzfeed derpage is because that's what mtv and buzzfeed want to sell.
mircea_popescu: there's no intrinsic reason to buy soap, nor any good reason not to eat the soap you bought, on the strength of this approach.
mircea_popescu: people would still demand huts and saddles if anyone asked them.