cads: the _only_ argument I ever 'won', that girl was stubborn

cads: I once spent 5 hours arguing with her that transfinite ordinals are no obviously inconsistent, against her objections

cads: hehe, lovely girl, and a smart mathematician, the best tit's I've ever... kakobrekla yes

cads: hehe, I dunno if that constituted rape though

cads: mircea_popescu: I would be forced to agree, though in your writeup consider that you are a parent with a daughter. You live in a world where the collapse of the viability of marketing strategies has lead to an unprecedented increase in the productivity and quality of life, on average. And all that you've had to pay is that your daughter got raped 6 times while she was growing up, starting at the age of 6, with her teacher, 9 with a boy

cads: thestringpuller: remember when pinkman is in rehab, convincing others to go back out and use? Yeah, I don't think I was ever that bad off, lol

cads: haha, you're going to think me a philistine, but I've not seen the film, despite being a pitt fan

cads: mircea_popescu: I wasn't in a mental state to attempt to compute rational expectations at the time.

cads: mircea_popescu: worse, I was a customer. He was a pot dealer, nothing serious, but he had a high profile.

cads: but then I realized that my new found hate of hipsters was just as bad!

cads: I despise rascism as a form of extreme mental weakness

cads: so I decided to hate hipsters instead

cads: thestringpuller: one time some black dudes came into my house and beat me and robbed me at gun point. The interrogated me for an hour about where the drugs were (my roommate at the time was a drug dealer - bad fucking choice on my part). In the months after that I found rascist sentiment from around me was taking root in my mind very easily.

cads: actually, there's a lot of that 'white privilege' sentiment going on it Atlanta. That, and the narrow religious views, those are the only things I really dislike about my city.

cads: still, there is something rough, vulgar, and thriving about this city that I don't feel when in, say, pittsburg, or saint louis, or miami

cads: thestringpuller: haha, as a recent college dropout, I can attest to the lame college. As a daily marta rider for the last two years, I can attest to the failing infrastructure.

cads: at least so I tell myself, lol

cads: mircea_popescu, ThickAsThieves, ty. I love my city, and really, economically, architecturally, culturally, there are only a handful of other american cities that match or exceed it.

cads: I'm amazed with the care and attention that romanian schools give to the smart kids - here in america, being bright means being ridiculed

cads: mircea_popescu, I read your story - quite the adventure, I see. I admire your tenacity and natural talent, while being relieved to see that you do not yet have it "all figured out", which I feel would be boring for you. I wish you continued prosperity and a future that does not cease to provide interesting situations!

cads: truff1es: good deal. as long as we remain teachable, life is pretty good, I find

cads: I guess maybe the only claim to legitimacy I have is that I'm genuinely interested in understanding assets

cads: haha, mircea_popescu, and what assets have I? Besides my charming good looks, which are hardly fungible ;)

cads: I would argue that I have used ignore judiciously many times... but I'd also admit that I've used it a few times in a mean spirit.

cads: truff1es: If I ignore someone in a chat, they can still see what I'm saying. So it's not the same thing as leaving the chat. Ignore can be used to assert a sort of dominance.

cads: nah, I think I may have made a red herring there

cads: I would agree there

cads: I believe that you simply assign a negative emotional connotation towards it because you've been at the blunt end of an ignore or two, and you know how much that stings

cads: that was uncharitable, but I hope you get my drift - ignoring someone is just one of the many ways of filtering your information input

cads: hehe, truff1es I hear what you're saying, but surely even you draw limits at a certain point: consider, one may choose not hang out on 4chan. This is the same as ignoring every single member of 4chan. If you believe you have the capacity to filter out all information by directly reading it, then why aren't you plugged into every chat in the world, filtering?

cads: oh what have I done :D

cads: truff1es: I mean, some people are so incoherent in their opinions that I get the distinct feeling that I'm _stupider_ after arguing with them, and if these people consistently attack my positions with poor argument tactics, then I have little to gain from them in way of exchange of ideas, and I ignore them.

cads: mircea_popescu: this is common here in upper management in mid to large scale businesses. My understanding is that when the amounts of money are that large, it becomes profitable to remain private about them. People say "I got the raise!" but don't say how much the raise was.

cads: Say I receive $100K a year, and I suspect that this is $20K more than the rest of my coworkers in the same position as me, because I'm more skilled. Would it be something I'd brag about?

cads: I'm romanian, hah

cads: mircea_popescu: re. the showing off, I've often wondered about that myself.