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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 ?
mircea_popescu crafitly stops himself before saying something dumb like "about the same texture, too" and inadvertently giving the whole charade away
mircea_popescu: i am having the cutest avocado in the whole world. roughly the size of an ovary.
mircea_popescu: well aaactually that's part of what i was going to announce.
mircea_popescu: and actually speaking of it : making a collision for 4 byte short ids is not that hard. i hope you check against fingerprints ?
mircea_popescu: and add a fucking cr , im sick of fishing the otp out from 33ae4284-cdba-46a1-b0ae-8f94f23b74acmirce
mircea_popescu: because of ben_vulpes there's going to be a lot of extra ;;ident spam in here because fuck me if im going to type my keyid.
mircea_popescu: actually i was going to make some announcements but IVE BEEN TOO BUSY SLEEPING AND WITH PERSONAL MATTERS
mircea_popescu: i mean, so they're hipsters. we don't take them to bed. you won't even sell them liquour now ?
mircea_popescu: mp "what's wrong with using blogs.b-a for a news source ?" op "What’s wrong with it is that if you visit with an iOS device, you’re redirected to a page that says “no hipsters allowed.”"
mircea_popescu: a lot more thought will have to go into SPECIFYING B ITCOIN
mircea_popescu: it's just the current label for bitcoin and bitcoin-forks
mircea_popescu: right, because if i gotta kill some idiots on a hallway somewhere im going to take an anti tank missile launcher
mircea_popescu: "my name is ethel mormon and this is the raquetball trick"
mircea_popescu: i know i sometimes crack a tile to make a sharpener if in a pinch