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punkman: they aren't printing a lot of 500eur notes yet, I wonder if people are paying a premium
to acquire
them
phf: i
thought
they used
to have it, but discontinued once bezzle started settling in
mircea_popescu: i
think it's ridiculous
that
there's no $1500 bill
to go with
the $1000 euro / $5000 ron etc.
mircea_popescu: ok but more's
the point, how controversial is it ? i never heard about it.
mats: some back story, jackson was a slave owner and killed a buncha savages -
tubman, was an abolitionist
mats: new $20 has
tubman and jackson on it
mats: is
this what white guilt looks like
mats: am confuse why
the new $20 is so controversial
mircea_popescu: (ref: "[Announcer] Eric Seidel cannot win
this hand, and yet he doesn't know it. Chan is
trying
to sucker him in by
taking his
time. Oh, look at
that look of
the defending champ.")
mircea_popescu: such a great
time, clinton was president,
the "indomitable" deficit reigned in,
the wall down, floods of prime eeuro pussy everwhere...
mircea_popescu: the pinnacle of
this being
that scene immortalized by rounders, possibly
the forever best scene of all poker since it's going out as someone was pointing out here recently.
mircea_popescu: then
the actual experts feed
them patterns and reel
them in - which is why expert can play for
twenty hours and slowly rake a room 5% at a
time.
mircea_popescu: yeah.
that's
the whole
thing with poker,
the lowest level play "for fun".
then
the "experts" in
their own narrow social circle read up on statistics once and vaguely recall
the probabilities.
mircea_popescu: [which
ties neatly into rng discussion yest and structured-behaviour-and-the-wot perennially]
mircea_popescu: guy's intelligent but old.
this means he lacks
the flexibility
to see past
the mental construction. he's
the
target.
mircea_popescu: "But fine, we are discussing arbitrary
things so why not arbitrarily eliminate key US advantages? It goes with
the
theme of
the conversation."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes yes, exceptions.
think of what
the advertisers [are supposed
to]
think when
they imagine
this process.
mircea_popescu: i mean seriously, imagine it... "hurr durr i heard a new word
today, bitocin. let me google b-i-t-o-c-i-n click hmmm... apparently it's Bit-Coin. o look it's a dashed histributed layer of
tips! NEAT! i'ma
tell all my friends, which just happen
to be plushies cut like japanese girls!"
phf: i remember
that
thread
mircea_popescu: back in 2000,
there was no fucking way
to know shit existed.
today, not knowing shit exists means you're from india or
tardstalk or something.
mircea_popescu: if i want
to know who
the president is, by
that
token i'm retarded. if i actually need
to google "funny pics"
to have a laugh, idem.
mircea_popescu: the simple fact is
that
the sphere has shattered into shattered shards. i go into detail somewhere, but
too lazy
to dig it up, so let's rehash briefly : who
the fuck would need google
to find his way
to something of interest
today, and what's it say about
them if
they found it by google ?
mircea_popescu: either
that or
the cowsies no longer congregate
there.
phf: mircea_popescu:
those were anecdotes from early facebook days along
the lines of "everyone i knew was doing google in ~2005~".
the feature necessary
to make it useful for milking were locked down way back
mircea_popescu: you have gotta be kidding me, what could possibly
take 12 hours
to "compile" in a flat list of 20 elements ?1
mats: 'the above dictionary literal code
takes at least 12 hours
to compile.
The compilation
time grows roughly exponentially with each employee that is added.'
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah, but soviets were also retarded. at some point half of leningrad got
the order
to kill
the other half - and
they did!
mircea_popescu: precisely and exactly like "whatcha waitin' for ho,
this cock
to suck itself ?" "hey, i'm
the Queen of De Nile!" "Mno, you're just some ho in
the ho-bar. Get busy."
mircea_popescu: period and full fucking stop,
theorethicology proposes but ontology disposes.
mircea_popescu: from
the purpose of "50 policement with grenades show up",
there DOES NOT EXIST such a
thing as "salesman" or "charlatan".
mircea_popescu: while
their
tummy hasn't seen
two simultanerous empanadas
to rub
together since 1992
mircea_popescu: much like
the argentine pretending
to be whatever
the fuck
they pretend
to be, real estate agents
mircea_popescu: pretending like he is "a professorial
type" when no such
thing exists.
mircea_popescu: also, hence "white professorial"
type entirely spurious pretense on part of obvious monkeyman.
mircea_popescu: in my case,
there was a sudden scent of nice pot roast, and
then ohshit.jpg
mircea_popescu: there's no "had
to". when i accidentally ran my lawn mower over one of my
thyme bushes, it wasn't
that I HAD
TO cut
the
thyme with large rapidly rotating blades.
mircea_popescu: ftr, we know of
the rabbit's misbehaviour from
the fox's pretense. not even bothered
to go on
the record,
that fox.
mircea_popescu: well, good for you
then, careful not
to live where ian murdock used
to ?
mircea_popescu: and notice
the
trend, with stuff like obamacare, also :D
mircea_popescu: rich dun enter into it ; and by and of itself it reduces
to lottery winner / inheritor / etc.
mircea_popescu: phf if
this is hacking btw...
the girl i fucked
this morning is a space shuttle.
mircea_popescu: i guess
this reduces
to a version of
the marx sense, except exactly
the one he didn't like.
mircea_popescu: so you know, guy who no-one knows, who'd damned better fit in, because nothing's ever fitting
TO
them. which is why all
this spamolade in various flavours is so appealing
to
them.
mircea_popescu: (literally,
this, by
the way - many years ago back in cluj
the local suit factory ACTUALLY made
their suits after me.)