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mircea_popescu: entropy and bias are not exactly orthogonal concerns, but they're still at an angle here
mircea_popescu: benkay: assbot's an interesting focal point for the WoT << didja graph it ?
mircea_popescu: but even so, 10 bits a throw, a 4k rsa key needs what, 7-800 ?
mircea_popescu: fortunately, they're well isolated from the wot that actually matters.
mircea_popescu: what's fucking spurious are all the idiots rating on the basis of a 20 bux moneypack
mircea_popescu: dub: hardly surprising now its full of spurious 'is on irc' entries << spurious on what grounds ?
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves ahahaha seriously ? economic patriotism ?
mircea_popescu: benkay: ;;later tell mircea_popescu benkay eh what, you can tell. // this is to imply that actually discerning females on internet is hard? << yea.
mircea_popescu: decimation: and rolling dice would take days << dice is iirc just about 6/8 of a byte per dice per throw.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves: it'd be cool to see namecoin get better play << yea
mircea_popescu: this is a country where prostitution is legal but abortion illegal.
mircea_popescu: runaway slave must at some point be confronted with the reality that no matter how he's pretending, there's a plantation somewhere missing his dumb ass,
mircea_popescu: i'm gonna start asking "aren't you supposed to be cutting some sugar cane or something ? what are you doing here boy ?"
mircea_popescu: as for the kids that keep going to airports pretending like they belong there.
mircea_popescu: not so much for the people who've not had a shower in a week plus and are being pushed outof the tenderloin
mircea_popescu: this is starting to sound like a psychopath act, "i am now Maria and Maria doesn't want to pay you"
mircea_popescu: you just picked the other part because you mismanaged your book and are now overexposed to the pits. just like any other young, bright, ambitious GS fundboy.
mircea_popescu: translated in normal speak that's "omfg we're losing it across the board here."
mircea_popescu: anyway, for that matter, the big part in there is "didn’t generally view asset prices as excessive".
mircea_popescu: of fucking course. they have no tools and the job alloted is in principle not doable anyway.
mircea_popescu: how the fuck was the army supposed to win vietnam ? start there.
mircea_popescu: what, you're telling me because the us as a whole is in freefall because pretty much any field you look at consists of people given tasks they can't do with tools that can't do them ?!
mircea_popescu: but anyway, this was the fundamental argument of the euroskeptics as to wtf is wrong with the euro : replacing twenty cbs with just one merely further exacerbates the centralisation problem
mircea_popescu: when people were bitching that greenspan was "asleep on the job", da fuck do you think they meant ? housing overheated without him realising it.
mircea_popescu: it does work exceedingly well in small countries with exceptionally gifted cbs, as romania will attest (and before that, azn minor players)
mircea_popescu: this is pretty much the #1 job of the central banker : to evaluate which sectors are overheating and which are underheating, and to try and bring equal heat somehow.
mircea_popescu: mike_c it's the central bank, kinda its job to broadly value all sectors.
mircea_popescu: shit i'm good at this, i should make my own shanonizer.
mircea_popescu: a dudebro is the comutative equivalent of the feminist, in any nonsexual operation.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform given the comutative body made out of popkids and 30yo unemployed postdocs,
mircea_popescu: the feminist is not interested in any positive goal as much as she's interested in "fucking up" the dudebro.
mircea_popescu: people, in general, alone as well as in groups, have one thing on their mind : how to fuck other people in the ass.
mircea_popescu: i thought the campyness was the distinguishing factor.
mircea_popescu: but by now i just can't summon teh interest on the basis of looks for crying out loud.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` i used to, when i was younger and less experienced, i'd see a pretty thing in the street, send the guard to tail her find out where she lives. this resulted in lulziness on more than one occasion.
mircea_popescu: then again i guess sexual deviancy is born out of psychological issues, not a disregard for social norms in the quest for personal enjoyment. nttawwt
mircea_popescu: it'd seem if you go to all the trouble to dress up like a circus freak, except permanently, you'd better be very very much INTO circus.,
mircea_popescu: so fucxking weird, because in my heteronormative cisscum patriarchical view of the world,
mircea_popescu: actually, my next door neighbour is a drag queen. incredibly, doesn't like to go out much, orders in pretty much every day.
mircea_popescu: ahgahahah oh help me rwanda. hardcore street gang from... plymouth, mn ?!
mircea_popescu: like a blog where lulzy stuff is detailed. "The Shirts Story". "How BFL Delivered and BitBet ripped off its users"