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mircea_popescu: im wondering if they have a pedo story in the drawer about him too. i wasn't able to find one.
mircea_popescu: it's an evil empire, chiefly because it's made by stupid people to promote wrongness and error.
mircea_popescu: i'll tell you, it's your emotional investment in said media, and more generally the notion that the whole establishment is a positive thing "taken together" that irks you.
mircea_popescu: i mean think about it. so many sorts of wrong in so little space...
mircea_popescu: "Bitreserve is Minor’s way to address the problems and opportunities he sees with Bitcoin. He says most people will never be comfortable holding the volatile digital currency"
mircea_popescu: now he thinks himself a bitcoin expert, without having spent his year humbly reading here.
mircea_popescu: then went on a spending spree, which left him bankrupt last year.
mircea_popescu: well basically guy sold out for about half a bn (back when us dollars were still worth something)
mircea_popescu: read the guy's personal history sometime btw. it's quite instructive.
mircea_popescu: no, generally it's not. goebbels didn't go "please write me a bullshit anti-jew speech again"
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves probably. turing test mostly verifies predictability.
mircea_popescu: someone actually believed that us born womenz were going to be teh prettiest, a century ago.
mircea_popescu: "They are beyond question the loveliest of all their sex...In the United States, of course, where natural selection has been going on, as elsewhere, and where, much more than elsewhere, that has been a great variety to choose from. The eventual American woman will be even more beautiful than the woman of to-day. Her claims to that distinction will result from a fine combination of the best points of all those many race
mircea_popescu: not like there's any women in these solid teams anyway
mircea_popescu: "Over time, as finance and commerce became more sophisticated, the concept of a unit of account emerge and gold generally became the default unit. Much has been written regarding why gold fell into this role, but for our purposes here it’s sufficient to note that it did." << seriously ?! what is this, insult the reader's intelligence club ?
mircea_popescu: "The origins of modern currencies started with gold and other precious metals." modern has an actual meaning. modern currencies start with the paper receipts used in england and then spread all over. premodern money starts with bronze and shells.
mircea_popescu: justusranvier you know if you made a point of cutting out tired cliches such as "By now everyone has heard of" your writing'd benefit immensely.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell rithm hey you got old -assets logs ? dump em on mthreat
mircea_popescu: Aug 10 08:04:15 *patrickharnett (cb4f5ec0@gateway/web/freenode/ip.203.79.94.192) has joined #bitcoin-assets
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell pigeons hey you got old -assets logs ? 2012 to 2013 ?
mircea_popescu: Azelphur FabianB mod6 punkman mind sendinmg your early logs to mthreat too ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you familiar with this supposed siberian torture technique, give naked victim gasoline and a book of matches and let them be ?
mircea_popescu: benkay you have no idea how far the female threshold is.
mircea_popescu: " the spark of static one sometimes gets when touching grounded objects in winter time" << he means, when wearing mixed wool and plastic clothing
mircea_popescu: if not in derma clinic (which is still done btw, high end spas and whatnot)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform actually it's jolting if inserted up the cunt
mircea_popescu: and to push a point, im pretty sure the mosfets are unchanged
mircea_popescu: "when you write manuals for naval or air force vessels, you don't use MS Word and hope Microsoft doesn't come out with yet another incompatible disservice pack and/or upgrade, you use CALS and enterprise-wide publishing systems."