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mircea_popescu: ok, sorry everyone! the order shall fire at, lemme see here
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves it's like, "tvs from 59.99". doesn't mean any tv in the shop is 60 bux
mircea_popescu: other than not doing what i had intended / you thought i said! what i actually said however, is starting on.
mircea_popescu: i see no real downside in holding it back a day or w/e
mircea_popescu: anyway, the story is, was gonna do it yest but wanted to have bitcoin active so waiting a little for mike.
mircea_popescu: i must be a native asshole the way i phrase these things, i had fully intended it be done yest, but look that it actually supports eventual reality.
mircea_popescu: well it's not done it before the 25th, so there we go :D
mircea_popescu: pankkake: wait you can buy F.DERP too? << yeah, next month
mircea_popescu: hm, i dun has a vision. what am i, some sort of reformer ?
mircea_popescu: the problem with being hitler is that you can actually reach this point where you've read too much to be one.
mircea_popescu: fundamentally, it used to be cheaper to surrender, now it's cheaper to not. fundamental change of paradigm
mircea_popescu: where's that hobbes quote about how everyone's life is basically the result of surrender to the state, which may at its option dispose of it ? thus everyone's a slave ?
mircea_popescu: a free man is exactly NOT the guy who has to make a deal as to anything with anyone. none of this "to fly on the plane you must turn off your portable perfume dispenser" bs.
mircea_popescu: just like an artisan is exactly NOT the guy who has a three ring binder telling him how to move and what shovel to use when, as per company policy
mircea_popescu: anyway. it's my understanding that it's that apportioning that's the cause of evil.
mircea_popescu: famously plato tried to bribe the jury with 30 minae in socrates' case
mircea_popescu: whereas in english law you had a billion different causes for action. you can sue saying "this is a nice guy that has my cow"
mircea_popescu: either you sue this guy under the title that he's basiclaly human waste,
mircea_popescu: the greeks didn't have it. it was an all or nothing affair.
mircea_popescu: there's this constant negotiation and apportioning of things.
mircea_popescu: now contrast this with the very invasive modern style, as epitomised by the us system : you're allowed out of prison as long as you promise to not x y z
mircea_popescu: well basically, anyone having a problem with someone could sue before the city. the arguments reduced to "the other party sucks". if the suit was successful the other party was banished (killed, originally, but then they softened).
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves to round out this point, do you know how justice worked in classical greece ?
mircea_popescu: and so irrespective of anyone's wish, that's what we'll do.
mircea_popescu: im pointing out that now it just became cheaper to have actual freedom
mircea_popescu: the collision was, some guy made an order, trilema came back "pay x". he didn't. months later, other guy made order, trilema said "pay x" same x.
mircea_popescu: o look, pantera and silbert are actually making sane investments.
mircea_popescu: need something that doesn't end in a thus tickling my expectation it's a feminine romanian noun.
mircea_popescu: works incredibly well you know ? schmuck comes in here to mouth off xmj style crap, "replica, please!"
mircea_popescu: start calling stupid bitches "replicas". like you know, knockoff watches.
mircea_popescu: pankkake maybe we should start doing this preemptively.
mircea_popescu: Azelphur i beg your pardon ? they have changed the world!
mircea_popescu: "at this company we have a strict insulting variablespace policy. all functions are to be named in reference of parts of female anatomy. all variables are to be named in reference of parts of male anatomy."
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves "how to select a losing strategy out of an array of moves made by people who opveral made money"
mircea_popescu: it's almost as if they regret 1984 isn't a thing. either as depicted in fiction or as enacted by the soviets, they want the dull gray concrete damn it
mircea_popescu: is actually also one of the most rabidly conservative.
mircea_popescu: i find it very amusing that france, one of the most socialist places in the history of the world,
mircea_popescu: <pankkake> I wonder if community manager is ever a real job. I've only seen interns do it << it's generally what you hire slaves under training collars to do as their first thing.
mircea_popescu: dar da, poti haza o whoala limba din aplicarea grammarei romane pe lexeme englezesti.
mircea_popescu: but yeah, you can have a whole language out of applying romanian grammar to english lexemes
mircea_popescu: troll in english taken as is by romanian (because romanian considers all languages merely badly spoken, more retarded cases of using romanian) and then flexion applied
mircea_popescu: <pankkake> indeed apparently, the less a manufacturer advertises the more it delivers <<< not just in mining.
mircea_popescu: yeah the woman sounds like she's had a lot of fun in her youth.
mircea_popescu: Naphex a ok. so what's this for ? tv doesn't take 143 second clips now does it ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, what's next. real estate shock and possibly another currency