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mircea_popescu: "homelessness attracts an increasingly homogenuous population of social studies postdocs that simply couldn't afford a home"
mircea_popescu: they're not attracted, they just don't got money to go anywhere better.
mircea_popescu: the notion that cheap highway whores or mcdonalds "attract" anyone is kinda lulzy.
mircea_popescu: there's prolly still logs of me crying all over it back in 2012.
mircea_popescu: i so very much cared when my btc holdings "collapsed" from 15 per btc to 2 per btc.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: I'd be fucking ecstatic if I double'd my BTC regardless of what some shitty fiat market thinks a BTC is worth in 'Murka << duh.
mircea_popescu: he had a matress, and a cover, and a nice sleeping HAT
mircea_popescu: Mats_cd03: seasonal homeless exist everywhere its warm during the summer << i just walked by a guy who was sleeping on the sidewalk.
mircea_popescu: <ThickAsThieves> Facebook ads from BTCJam << i wonder if they fiat roi, those fb ads :D
mircea_popescu: i guess maybe he means "chuckle worthy reference" = joke
mircea_popescu: It's not adding more of the same drug, it is like adding a second drug. It's not more Effexor; it's taking a maxed out SSRI, and adding a NRI. It's like being with Princess Leia, but then adding Princess Ardala. And if you understood that joke, you should put down Yars' Revenge and kill yourself.
mircea_popescu: that's kinda what the reformation was, the rebellion of sausage makers against all this bs latin learning.
mircea_popescu: not exactly. more like you aspire to be godlike on the theory that the world's a sausage press.
mircea_popescu: i was asking yest for it. i thought moiety posted it ?
mircea_popescu: "One of the central themes of the postmodern critique of our values is that aesthetics must trump truth as long as aesthetics remains undefined. That’s the semiotic conundrum, why psychiatry is politics: the truth is demanded only when it supports a preset ideology."
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves: It's not a question to me, humans are not random, nor is a marketplace. Sure, anything CAN happen, but some things are more likely to happen than others and there are ways to approximate that. You could even go in another direction and consider that if traders believe this shit, it self-manifests to some degree. Is it better to know the script, with option to follow it, or not know it << this is like re
mircea_popescu: <mike_c> the wins would be enjoyable. not sure how the losses would affect my conviction. << precisely. producing overall a net gain.
mircea_popescu: in an economy of subjective utility, snake oil is economically relevant.
mircea_popescu: consider this : it's a scientific fact that you having sex does exactly 0 for your team. but what if you had sex during all the games, on the conviction that a good fuck will make your team win ?
mircea_popescu: mike_c: TaT, you know this technical crap is snake oil, right? << but he likes it.
mircea_popescu: nubbins`: USMS should liveblog the auction << sadly, the website to do that wouldcost the usg more than the auction's worth
mircea_popescu: so then we have no substantial disagreement on the table at all ?
mircea_popescu: but if you're not, you're stuck, there's no good translation.
mircea_popescu: i mean, if you're racist, ie, strictly intend to live within your subgroup, then yea, just look up the official subgroup table.
mircea_popescu: maybe you're just used to talking to people who speak the same language.
mircea_popescu: that's your response as to why you try not to touch people ?!
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: It hasn't been a good month for him, next should be worse << oddly, too. i kinda like the guy, but he's been acting erratically of late.
mircea_popescu: just saying, about 1/3 or more of ppl doing what you say don't do anything at all
mircea_popescu: SSH into it, and run “apt-get install bitcoind”. Forget about it. << they need to run it too no ?
mircea_popescu: pankkake "more than four times as much nodes" > as many. much works as a comparative for uncuntable items only. as much money, as much police. if the substance is discrete, more. more nodes, more tits.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves: I try not to do that, but mp loves it << why, incidentally ?
mircea_popescu: pankkake: (I haven't read the article yet, I'm 3 behind…) << peed on the test yet ?
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves: chetty think of it this way, do you believe that mp thinks women should literally be raped? I assume you'd answer No. In that case, what is he really trying to say? Or, at worst, what point can be extracted from the trolling. This is the nature of most mp rants and provocation. Each a test of your filters. << y u trolling me1
mircea_popescu: "Ratchet is If Ghetto and Hot Shitty Mess had a baby, and that baby had no father, and became a stripper, then made a sex tape with an athlete, then became a reality star!"
mircea_popescu: the florist shop where they only sell anus-renamed fruit