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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: exponentially difficult << 'learn' for translating a diplomat - perhaps hard; reading articles in your armchair slowly - not so hard << the diplomat in question doth protest.
mircea_popescu: the point being that while you're welcome to disagree in practice, your doing so is arbitrariety not reason.
mircea_popescu: so, "the ideal treatment of one does not differ from the other for reasons that are derived from prime principles".
mircea_popescu: "nu exista in principiu" means there doesnt exist (nu exista) for absolute reasons (in principiu, roughly, following from principle, for reasons derived from prime principles)
mircea_popescu: Nu exista in principiu o diferenta de tratament ideal < tratament ideal is, "ideal treatment", in the sense of normative, prescriptive treatment.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo you got most of it flawlessly, but the intro is a bitch
mircea_popescu: o wow look at this poor bluemeanie dude, he loves me all over the log then i come in and am like all mean to him.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: re: nail polish poison detector << how many cases of dysentery from the finger dips. << i would imagine you dribble rather than dip.
mircea_popescu: the best construction i can put on it is, "hey, the whiteknighting virgin geeks have finally found a way to express their usual "a guy that really loves and respects you and cares" derpage into bitcoin form"
mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic: I'm amazed at the trust people put into PoS, but then again after seeing the investment section of bitcointalk it isn't that surprising << makes two of us.
mircea_popescu: sadly the guy has a bitcoin address as a coinbase wallet and a pgp but no wot. wtf.
mircea_popescu: collect money from well to do white people, trick aspirational hispanos into working for free to "prove themselves", show a profit.
mircea_popescu: abathingape someone should make a "fuck your girlfriend" service.
mircea_popescu: Thus, the altcoin communities are not just embarrassing, but dangerous. Desperately wishing to be taken seriously despite having nothing worthwhile to offer, they will say absolutely anything to convince other people to join them. They persist in saying things easily refuted by economic logic, common sense, or verifiable facts.
mircea_popescu: hey have developed a series of fallacies capable of fooling newcomers into joining them, but they are all disingenuous.
mircea_popescu: more a function of what had been on tv that week / what the person picked up from google finance.
mircea_popescu: well obviously everything will be surrounded by a bunch of tims.
mircea_popescu: "The Bitcoin community is not just overwhelmingly larger but of overwhelmingly better quality as well. Bitcoin is surrounded by real entrepreneurs working hard to create new and useful services for Bitcoin. Altcoins are surrounded by loud-mouthed pretenders with irrational hopes of duplicating Nakamoto's success."
mircea_popescu: what did he defraud his "numerous investors" with ? some sort of mining farm was it
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo lol the past! "Sep 04 22:37:31 * ciuciu (~chatzilla@96.127.204.194) has joined #bitcoin-assets"
mircea_popescu: fluffypony i'm curious what you'd be like if there was no coffee for a week or two.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes re your article, there was at least another scam derpopoulous pushed. can't seem to recall wtf it was tho.
mircea_popescu: "Your content isn't worth much to begin with if it goes down in value as it gets shared." this is an interesting concept.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform btw, left handle a comment blasting him about his "baseline expectation" bs.
mircea_popescu: "This was well-crafted malware that antivirus programs couldn't detect. It was a very sophisticated attack," Wahab added. << "it didn't come with a warning box to click on"
mircea_popescu: <xanthyos> because he's a cunt and he likes to keep a facade in here to impress mp << all teh dramaz ?
mircea_popescu: decimation i bet you he had this microscope nails thing in his head.
mircea_popescu: and curiosity is a cognate of intelligence. especially in women
mircea_popescu: because if it's not illegal, they'll all get impregnated aged 16
mircea_popescu: exactly. making conception illegal for young women is fundamental if you want an educated set of women
mircea_popescu: but whether it's legal or illegal doesn't decide whether they queue up for it
mircea_popescu: but i don't believe you'll ever be able to run a place where drugs (the actual sort) are legal, for purely economic reasons.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not saying this is grounds to make anything legal or illegal, obviously.
mircea_popescu: somehow it's conveniently forgotten that einstein's general revolution was based on laboratory data
mircea_popescu: decimation the point is valid, there's relatively little useful stuff these singers/songwriters can do.
mircea_popescu: so now all one can still do with his mind is "generalize"
mircea_popescu: because somehow they've decided "data" is a substance, it's no longer fit for the thinking man to generate data, and so no more of things like the excellent field reports people like saussure and levi-strauss dedicated their lives to
mircea_popescu: decimation people got hacked lately with this "only the general is important" rootkit. it meshes well with the divinsation of data-in-se
mircea_popescu: just like acid isn't a good adjuvant to latent paranoia.
mircea_popescu: it's part of that undiscrimination mentioned earlier. it seems to particularly empower any ocd streak you may have.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's valid. a) erdos doesn't get his guidance from youtube ; b) most people taking it will scrub.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves there are guys that thing all ages should be legal.
mircea_popescu: decimation so taleb's mistake is that he's being a BANAL asshole ?
mircea_popescu: wasn't this the poster for medical pot ? it helps fibromyalgia ?
mircea_popescu: who, notably, has a lot more grounds than me to be all "fu world y u don't respek!"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform cause i was thinking, i prolly do more of it than poor taleb.
mircea_popescu: looks like genetic on that basis. you gotta be really unlucky as a guy
mircea_popescu: <decimation> asciilifeform: "it pattern-matches 'derp' and throws my concentration" << yeah I have the same experience. << does this happen with my stuff too ?
mircea_popescu: decimation they're self prescribed by doctors working the us meatgrinder for sure.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform because pure amphetamine is undiscriminatory.