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mircea_popescu: i'd gladly pay them nothing at all while they worked at overturning their own hierarchy.
mircea_popescu: validating these twerps is worse than giving them a salary.
mircea_popescu: decimation aka the schmukette in the previous image. noty.
mircea_popescu: <ThickAsThieves> <+Vexual> incidetally, whats a satoshi called in atc? a tat? /// altoshi << quit being so modest << a tit ?
mircea_popescu: Shakespeare: Rudder’s response: “To wring his hands all day for a hundred thousand dollars a year?”" << happens to be the exactly correct response.
mircea_popescu: the despicable vulgus considers itself whatever it is that pays. being rich doesn't pay anymore, it's much better to "have needs"
mircea_popescu: no. they consider themselves to be sick, discriminated against and rape survivors.
mircea_popescu: it was probably "affordable housing" as part of some development or w/e
mircea_popescu: decimation some woman parlayed a shoplifted pair of heels into a trip to ibiza. what of it ?
mircea_popescu: re:mount on roof : the house is the shitty vinyl siding crap they do in the us. there was no place to attach it to the wall, as the thing has no walls.
mircea_popescu: <decimation> re: kickstarter : I think the real product is an illusionist's trick: I'm a somebody because I'm an investor, even though I'm investing chump change for the chumpatron << you're quite correct, in that. it's reddit except expensive.
mircea_popescu: decimation nah, the king's power derives from not substantially and unprofitably moving outside of the joint interest of the barons.
mircea_popescu: you know, the way... wait for it.. the way bitcoin works.,
mircea_popescu: decimation pretty much. pick a baron you like for a place to do business
mircea_popescu: decimation the way it's supposed to work is that you can do it always if you have enough money.
mircea_popescu: "At the beginning of May, my team and I were assigned to an exploratory project. Typically summer is the off-season and most of the projects are time fillers that result in a few papers/presentations and are then archived and never heard of again. This project was different. We were given a direct research assignment from the Board of Governors a few hours after the conclusion of their May 29th closed meeting."
mircea_popescu: besides, i miss being able to answer teh "occupation" query with "student"
mircea_popescu: i already live five blocks down from it, im already taking the sophomores out for a ride... mgith as well. pretty much everyone's a lawyer here anyway.
mircea_popescu: so what does the group think, should i go to argentine law school ?
mircea_popescu: no you fuckwits, it hasn't. it yielded a lot of ridicule for how kickstarter fails on both ends : it's not a way to get financed and it's not a way to allocate capital. well done.
mircea_popescu: "Zack’s project inspired some handwringing about What It All Means. Here’s one take: Kickstarter is a good place to aim high and go big, but small projects are great too"
mircea_popescu: thickasthieves what solution does it offer ? essay competition ?
mircea_popescu: "Jacqueline Boubion, 30, Diamond Bar, California. Degree: B.A. communications, California State University, Fullerton. Career goal: film director. Current job: production assisting in commercials and music videos. Student Loans: none, but $22,000 in credit card debt." << right. she's got problems.
mircea_popescu: "Eric Curran, 23, Wahoo, Nebraska. Degree: B.A., history and religion, Midland University. Career goal: professor of Lutheran theology or history professor. Current job: education assistant at local public schools. Student Loans: $11,000."
mircea_popescu: it's as if they somehow inhabit some imaginary sort of world where they're somehow important or something.
mircea_popescu: <thickasthieves> sry mp, looks like you have to move! << you know the derps haven't even come to pay homage ?
mircea_popescu: not necessarily a "what's on the shelf right now" mentality.
mircea_popescu: <thickasthieves> they are making accounts to buy what? << i think most people involved with mpex have a different outlook than most people involved with costco.
mircea_popescu: moreover, you gotta read the article in question, i'm not going to do random interpretations off the cuff at any random point it may happen to be discussed. at no point in there is it said "closing options because of mtgox's poor repute".
mircea_popescu: TomServo well it's a complex matter, like all history. for one thing, mtgox was a (diminishing, constantly diminishing) part of the total pool. it looked for a while like the problem may solve itself.
mircea_popescu: right, because people who can't afford a piddly 100k are totally entitled to pursue their dreams now. and because people can learn how to make films. in school.
mircea_popescu: "Mikey Billings, 29, Statesville, North Carolina. Degree: B.A., film studies, Full Sail University. Career Goal: film or music industry. Current Job: working part time at a malt shop. Student Loans: $80,000."
mircea_popescu: assbot: Damon Casarez photographs young adults who’ve moved back in with their parents. << i hope he photographs them with their clothes on in their own house. which is to say naked in the yard.
mircea_popescu: let me tell you something : 1950s romanian fiction about the life of romanian peastants cca 1900 includes malaria as a common disease.
mircea_popescu: yet they never fucking bother to do anything with it, just rehash the same crap.
mircea_popescu: i mean, the trope itself, "eschatological contagion" is like what, 1/3 of all of it ?
mircea_popescu: newton got hit in the head by a falling apple... "hmm how could i turn this bump into a research grant"
mircea_popescu: that's the halmark of speculative fiction. it asks science "and why not" an' science dunno.
mircea_popescu: in fact, it COULD be that aids-as part of genome is what makes niggers niggers. as unpleasant at that sounds, it's at least possible, scientifically. yet none of the speculative fiction folk with an axe to grind are using it.
mircea_popescu: for all you know it was part of the ancient egyptian genome, now extinct.
mircea_popescu: think of it : monkeys don't suffer much from it, so it's been around for a while. sure yurpeans "discovered it" but it can't possibly be the first case of interaction.
mircea_popescu: who's in charge of the lab that raises the tobacco growing it ?
mircea_popescu: who the fuck led the research effort that made ebola strain '#2 ?
mircea_popescu: yet i have no idea who even came up with those things.
mircea_popescu: i think the biggest problem bar none of modern society is that average derp can name a dozen "puas" or "important feminists" or whatever th fuck
mircea_popescu: and like last year something that works as a pre-emptor.
mircea_popescu: recently a 3rd one was found, which actually clears it
mircea_popescu: basically making it a case of "fu for having taken our medicine".
mircea_popescu: however, the people that had taken pill 1, then a cockail of 1+2 would be significantly less effecual.
mircea_popescu: if one had never taken pill 1, then a cocktail of 1+2 would stop the virus for them, pretty much resolving the problem. it'd never clear, but it'd never advance.
mircea_popescu: only years later a 2nd thing was found. the magic involved was pretty evil, however :
mircea_popescu: so, aids "had no cure" for a while in the disco era. but then, late 80s/early 90s a certain thing was found that'd slow down its rate, adding 5 maybe 10 years le if well managed. after much hand wringing this was released to the public,
mircea_popescu: actually, im glad i got you pinned here bb, cause i wanna run this by you see what you think.
mircea_popescu: it's vanishingly improbable for an antibody to not exist. thus finding it becomes a matter of... well... how much hashing you're doing
mircea_popescu: tbh i think this throws a monkey wrench in the future viability of "big pandemic" scenarios.
mircea_popescu: this is sick, so basically they're inserting the missing antibodies thus allowing macrophages and whatnot to clear it ?