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mircea_popescu: bitcoinpete: "In essence, Beats aims to become Uber of music << this final stage cancer, where every bit of nonsense tends to be "that other bit of nonsense that got lucky" but "of somethingelse"
mircea_popescu: jurov: and they hoped for phat IPO, but mircea rejected it outright << scrat or w/e pushed too hard on the negotiation lever. those things break easily.
mircea_popescu: i guess i don't need coffee today, my bp will be back to normal levels after sundown
mircea_popescu: yes but when i reinstall it, presto, it has the old data
mircea_popescu: anyone here familiar with ipads know how the fuck to delete a game completely off the things ? i'm playing this retarded honorbound thing and no matter what i do, it still takes me to the original account i started with. where the fuck do they keep their files i wish to know
mircea_popescu: exactly. misunderstanding freedom is the most effectual limitation on actual freedom.
mircea_popescu: so there you have your answer : by their own misguided belief that they can make calls and don't need to obey strangers/
mircea_popescu: xmj, youll have to read the logs to unravel this mystery.
mircea_popescu: funny how people's lives are determined for them in ways they can never account for.
mircea_popescu: nothing quite like global warming/pinkeryeconomics/womens rights/reparations/social sciences and so on
mircea_popescu: " It's much better to learn all you need to know about the science of the biotech stock you just bought from other, more-educated true believers on Internet stock message boards."
mircea_popescu: take a trip, hire a lawyer, start a company like sane people.
mircea_popescu: ahhh that pleasant feeling of having just written a great piece.
mircea_popescu: i think this is a sympthom of decay, they've finally given up on trying to hire engineers and are now looking for webheads willing to work for free
mircea_popescu: hmm, was it quince they inserted a slice into the woman pre copulation as a very early spermicide ?
mircea_popescu: xmj, not really everything tho. just, the sort of stuff that ends up on late night shopping channels.
mircea_popescu: definitely possible. the objection isn't that it's not possible, the objection is gthat the person is allocating their work unjudiciously.
mircea_popescu: which is kind-of my point. we will definitely have magnetic suspension coffee cups one day
mircea_popescu: once those advances happen zippers (and velcro) are trivial.
mircea_popescu: try as he may, an inventor hopeful in 1700 could not make zippers. their existence is predicated on other advances.
mircea_popescu: chetty, except zippers are just technologically advanced clasps,
mircea_popescu: it;s almost as if there's this prion, that turns to itself anyone touching it. like a linguistic virus, even if you discuss the infected,
mircea_popescu: it's not that this is wrong. it's that this is wrong *exactly the same way* and for exactly the same reason as the thing he criticises
mircea_popescu: "No other part of the market seems to attract wildly devoted cultists like small biopharma stocks do;"
mircea_popescu: the most impressive part to me tho is the fractal quality of it! because the guy discussing the problem says later on
mircea_popescu: to anyone sane, it's quite clear that the coffee mug problem is a solved problem. but to this particular sort of touched in the head smart fellow, it's not.
mircea_popescu: im sure somewhere someone is working hard on inventing a "new type of coffee mug"
mircea_popescu: i suspect there's a particular neurosis that manifests as this fixation on "inventing" things in spaces that don't allow it.
mircea_popescu: THE META THING is a shitty knockoff of something from 2000 years ago in (multiple) dead languages
mircea_popescu: benkay: asciilifeform and mircea_popescu would probably say it's a shitty knockoff of something russian or from 2000 years ago in a dead language tho << lmao.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: if nobody says anything the bad actors will continue <<< not on the forum tho.
mircea_popescu: someone translate grenwich village speak for me, i keep losing track. what's ddf again ?
mircea_popescu: "I am DDF. Normally I don't do drugs because they are a symptom of a crumbling bourgeois society, but I am 420 friendly when it comes to this because I want to be corrupted by a hot ultra-leftist pot smoking degenerate pervert."
mircea_popescu: yeah, that's going to go over well, telling 20 something us fuckwits they're dumber than their luggage
mircea_popescu: "What the hell do you know about typical? You're 22 and you don't know anything"
mircea_popescu: <HeySteve> that guy is trying to patent certain types of smart contract, real dick move if you ask me << notrly. the thing is doomed anyway, adding lulz to it can';t possibly hurt anything
mircea_popescu: <punkman> "basically I'm building a more efficient financial system" <<< ahahaha epic.
mircea_popescu: <punkman> but that's too much, messes with the schedule << and the spare tyre.
mircea_popescu: <dub> I'm waiting for someone to build the bitcoin like consensus network for electoral systems << seems already built to me.
mircea_popescu: anyway, going to bother more locals and gorge on more sushi
mircea_popescu: they'll fuck up spectacularly and pretend like they didn't.
mircea_popescu: money tho. i mean i get it, they're discreet, they don't ask for it, they don't do it for the money etc. im fine with al lthat.