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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform cougars and cougarish types of housecats
mircea_popescu: or by the other side as "that desperate, harrowing last ditch effort"
mircea_popescu: nubbins` in some places the crag cat is a real danger to human life
mircea_popescu: no, for the inglischers is, "this is how normal debates work and everyone on reddit agrees."
mircea_popescu: подводная лодка в степях #украины погибла в неравном воздушном бою.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves i wonder if old married couples get that same way, guy hears the condom drawer screech and gets an errection.
mircea_popescu: it's not a chasing predator. it lies in wait normally.
mircea_popescu: same exact thing here. monopoly money is not the same because it's not "in their space"
mircea_popescu: the cat is driven by an attempt to reduce the cognitive load. things that move impredictably draw its attention and require it to spend brainpower. better if they stop moving.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves exactly like the cat's reaction to "unapprovable movement"
mircea_popescu: speaking oif such instinct. i dunno if you've ever had dogs, but they're beyond funny when virgin. because while the dog's instinct absolutely drives him to try and mount the bitch, the dog's brain itself doesn't comprehend wtf is happening
mircea_popescu: course they do. how do you think all the drunk conceptions happen.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves ever seen a cat when something moves irregularly ?
mircea_popescu: once you fix the coins to 21mn tops, everything else can exist in immoderate, endless supply
mircea_popescu: in bitcoin ? you're kidding. there's been what, 6 or 7 jesuses ? at least 5 or so satoshis...
mircea_popescu: from what i hear from people trying such things, it rarely works in the sense of comprehension, but almost always works in the sense of making the op stfu.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` i do shoot emails to the more promising publishers.
mircea_popescu: fucktards don't understand rngs. took me all of 30 seconds to figure it out, too.
mircea_popescu: so im playing this tablet game. it has a slots implementation, giving some in game benefits. i turned 2k chips into 85150, and it will never end.
mircea_popescu: so... that way, bad capital. the money of idiots is not useful.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves had first hand experience, among many others.
mircea_popescu: everyone else tried to build businesses out of allowing idiots in. they all failed
mircea_popescu: lemme tell you how. i build a number of businesses in btc that relied on not dealing with idiots. they're still here, and worth whatever hundred million.
mircea_popescu: you're right. i recognize there's no power there, just noise.
mircea_popescu: let them say things about their business, making hamburgers or filling tyres or w/e it is.
mircea_popescu: BlueMeanie4 why should poor people have something to say about property and the dispositon thereof ?
mircea_popescu: nubbins` i think he pm'd everyone after being devoiced after being all territorial for some god-forsaken reason.
mircea_popescu: well no, it wasn't, because "chicago" as such dun exist.
mircea_popescu: and then we quibble about whether "it was really in chicago"
mircea_popescu: man. suppose you're the sort of klutz that thinks "chicago is cool". i then knowing you think this sell you a house in "chicago" fgor a price twhich reflects your expectation, but in a location that satisfies my cost structure.
mircea_popescu: and instead traverse the fucking wot according to some criteria that make sense to you and invest accordingly, IN PEOPLE ?
mircea_popescu: BlueMeanie4 like what ? like say, omg! like say you stop thinking in terms of "romania" wqhich doesn't exist anyway, and you oinly use because you gotta use something,
mircea_popescu: how would you "personally know". is this stock picking on steroids ?
mircea_popescu: but regardless of what really happened : there's no way forward. it died, and that's that. bury it and move on, you ain't fixing the corpse.
mircea_popescu: well we all got our stories as to "what really happened". i was merely illustrating the vastness of that area.
mircea_popescu: two decades later, the whole thing's ruined, as it will never get out of an ever increasing black hole of moral hazard
mircea_popescu: what happened is that clinton decided niggers will become whites if they get free houses. they drew up legislation to implement this nonsense.
mircea_popescu: bonus points if you mention "gaussian copulas" being calculated in excel spreadsheets by monkeys.
mircea_popescu: that's an important point for the da to digest, in his personal evolution from smarmy to useful.
mircea_popescu: every now and again a smarmy da walks into a smart judge's chambers with something about "a standard deal" and the judge tells him there's no such thing as "standard deals"
mircea_popescu: not the cheapo, dysfunctional ersatz the "financial markets" currently use.
mircea_popescu: it's fine for them to be marketable, provided they're financial contracts.
mircea_popescu: BlueMeanie4 he sells expensive artwork and shit. not a very good angle there.
mircea_popescu: it ruled an empire, and it was the way to rule an empire, before the very successful french revolution reorganised your mental space for you.