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mircea_popescu: justusranvier: So Economic decisions have consequences after all? << who knew it! and the world is run by reason not by desire! and money talks and bullshit redditards suck it! And omfg what happened Obama had promised to fix all this!!1
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well obviously all deaths have physical causes.
mircea_popescu: funny how all the derps that derp about how mp is so and so and back and forth don't go "yep... he killed it. sorry for your loss."
mircea_popescu: punkman: "I've tried to comfort myself with examples of Bitcoin's drops from $30 to $1 before but this doesn't mean it's going to happen again especially because of Doge's very different properties" << ahahah.
mircea_popescu: ;;google site:trilema.com the market advantages of the delivery bet
mircea_popescu: ;;google trilema the market advantages of the delivery bet
mircea_popescu: im just being snarky. it's a failed attempt at a sig verify
mircea_popescu: it's like watching an urbana women studies postdoc battle it out with a 65 year old ex-boxer champ
mircea_popescu: Dekker3D i kinda enjoy the interaction between the hilariously pompous asses over at sa and unsuccessful real world efforts.
mircea_popescu: <benkay> that is an impressive display of humility for these parts. << ikr?
mircea_popescu: Dekker3D you know there's a a job waiting for c++ / windoze ppl ?
mircea_popescu: just you know, put up a page, with 20 questions or so. have people verify a string in here to allow their results.
mircea_popescu: who's with who. then just see what techs get the best votes
mircea_popescu: artifexd one day we shall have to make a wot backed tech map
mircea_popescu: except for the weirdo frenchies into ruby and other appalling shit.
mircea_popescu: i think most everyone here loves python and loathes perl
mircea_popescu: basically, the boxen that are people... not many know what's inside, and especially not the people in question.
mircea_popescu: if she doesn't buy it... well, whatever. curious kid getting bored.
mircea_popescu: she's curious like any kid. so she... actually let me get it, i have a reference.
mircea_popescu: let's try it with women. it always works easier with women.
mircea_popescu: yes. but also metaphorically, "the content of this box"
mircea_popescu: i'm part owner in s.mg which is a game maker which is why i know more than the average chap about indie games.
mircea_popescu: isolated, as in, not part of a complex structure of language and relationship
mircea_popescu: there's this "look what you can learn about yourself on the internet" thing that happens to people. albeit rarely this clearly isolated as we have it here.
mircea_popescu: Dekker3D anyway, now you know why a bunch of people don't like me.
mircea_popescu: ll out a knife, place it calmly on the table, and say, "listen lung transplant, I'm not on SSI, I'm on SSDI. I worked.""
mircea_popescu: "The Post is making a bet that you won't know the difference between SSDI and SSI, and you wouldn't, no one does, it's deliberately obfuscated and frequently conflated. They are totally different in terms of origin, budget and consequence, but both rely on "disability." The only person who does know the difference is a guy actually on SSDI, so that when you ask him, "how long have you been on SSI?" he will freeze, pu
mircea_popescu: so no. my money is on "if you were beaten every day until you became happy, you wouldn't have died, you'd have become happy
mircea_popescu: humanity exists because nobody gave a shit about this impression, historically.
mircea_popescu: the problem with this perspective is that on the strength of such apparence, you'd think squeezing a watermelon through your thighs will kill you