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mircea_popescu: letters used to come with latin in a package for this reason
mircea_popescu: doesn't really matter anyway, a kid that's not bilingual is not literate anyway
mircea_popescu: what's their burn rate, or alternatively how long they got.
mircea_popescu: or invest your intelligence with the bezzle, 4% left in thirty years ?
mircea_popescu: so, the argument goes, invest your btc with rsm, 4% left in three years
mircea_popescu: no. i am pointing out that someone whose brain works quite well but who wastes his time THERE rather than hire makes piddly squat.
mircea_popescu: tlp makes less than trilema. that's my proof sachs = rsm.
mircea_popescu: interestingly, it's his donation address. with 6 bitcents in it.
mircea_popescu: actually, i will readily PROVE to you he's exactly in the same category.
mircea_popescu: notrly. they don't run any risk if they can help it. and besides, he was young once, he ran the risk of no tenure.
mircea_popescu: i mean other than running the markov chain apparatus of opinion.
mircea_popescu: in those same other states it's illegal to present yourself as a "leading international adviser" while you're a sort of rsm.
mircea_popescu: "Here's a transcript of an illegal recording not done by the NSA that therefore everyone is ok with, consistent with our new standard of conduct: it is not illegal to make an illegal recording as long as it is given to the media and they profit from it and we can use it to rationalize our lives. Got it." lulzy
mircea_popescu: that thing doesn't look appealing to decisive action, but it does look insidiously like brain hacking.
mircea_popescu: (the better ones get hacked by better guys thus make offspring that suvives better)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform males got selected for decisive action, females for an ability to withstand brainhacking.
mircea_popescu: the notion that you can somehow be rich without being powerful is perhaps the lulziest part of the bezzle system.
mircea_popescu: ok, quite splendid. the us is chock full of supposedly rich people who are about as powerless as a random south american whore
mircea_popescu: d NOT being able to do anything with it except spend it on the system-wide approved gimmicks: Trading Up, college educations, the National Bank of S&P 500.
mircea_popescu: Why would the The Economist's rich and powerful demo want to be ruled? Because they aren't powerful, only rich, all that time getting rich did not translate to any power, only the trappings of power. So they've postulated a fantasy power structure/NBA owners that explains why they can't enjoy their lives as they think they should-- to absolve themselves of the guilt they feel for having money/intellect/opportunities an
mircea_popescu: you don't fuck with people with bachelor pads and open relationships.
mircea_popescu: "If I had to put my chips and my children against an 8 year rotation of civil service nincompoops vs. some nerd with an open marriage who spent $15M on a "bachelor pad" so he could score chicks of questionable emotional stability, I'm going with the group my private sector lawyers have an outside chance of pwoning."
mircea_popescu: at least from the supposedly secret usg employment rolls i've seen to date.
mircea_popescu: im pretty certain fewer women work for the nsa and generally for the us secret service community than for silicon valley firms
mircea_popescu: tlb brings a good point. how come in the war between spooks and techs, it's the TECHS that get accused of being mysogynistic ?
mircea_popescu: actually it was more like "where's your books" and "why are you -96%"
mircea_popescu: if this club is littel i shudder to think what bigness looks like.
mircea_popescu: that it can't be, as the charge was levied back in 2012.
mircea_popescu: greencabbige so is it true that nefario used you to launder all the fraudulent claims he made for various holdings on his own exchange after he closed it down ?
mircea_popescu: also i am noticing in disbelief i missed out a 0. it's not 0.015 to 0.006 but to 0.0006
mircea_popescu: this would be the epitome of do it yourself finance / citizen dentistry.
mircea_popescu: greencabbige so you started a mining security in jan 2012 at 0.015, now trading at 0.006 and don't have any books.
mircea_popescu: greencabbige you got your 2012 books published anywhere ?
mircea_popescu: greencabbige so your 12 months dividends are going to be 5.5 btc in the future ?
mircea_popescu: "We have dividends already covered for at least the next twelbve months." << what sense does this make ?
mircea_popescu: his spelling's not much improved over the years either.
mircea_popescu: <mike_c> ;;ident RSM << guy's like nefario's oldest chav friend.
mircea_popescu: and anyone that does a lot of camsites or whatever - spread it wouldja.
mircea_popescu: look at that, guy groks things enough to know pgp is the correct reference ?
mircea_popescu: can senator trying to curb anonymity there's going to be a Scandinavian cyberpirate who will come up with a workaround, and only one of them knows how to code. Besides, there's no power in abolishing anonymity, the power is in giving everyone the pretense of anonymity while secretly retaining the PGP keys to the kingdom.
mircea_popescu: You may at this point roll your eyes epileptically and retort, "well, who cares 'what the system wants', the fact is anonymity does embolden the lunatics, shouldn't we try to restrict it?" Great question, too bad it's irrelevant. You've taken the bait and put all your energy into accepting the form of the argument. The issue isn't whether we should abolish online anonymity, since this will never happen. For every Ameri
mircea_popescu: oh boy, am i ever so grandiosely positioned for that one. can't wait.
mircea_popescu: "Anonymity makes the internet mean and gives trolls= men too much power."
mircea_popescu: "This cover story details #young #vulnerable #feminist writer Amanda Hess's frustration with disinterested male law enforcement when, after writing an article about receiving rape threats from a troll, she received rape threats from a troll."
mircea_popescu: only people can hide, starting with the salami and ending where you please.