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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.
mircea_popescu: nubbins`, interrupting a performance to note my mostly irrelevant appreciation seems too out of character.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i want something between ignore and marry. like a pat on the butt or something you know ?
mircea_popescu: there's 13mn bit coins sloshing around, and these twerps with 10 btc between them dare speak ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, in wha tfucking world 30 btc is exorbitant ? srsly nao
mircea_popescu: i'm a professional shitter, with shits flushed in many different toilets over 5 continents
mircea_popescu: i guess the part where professional = being paid has kinda gone away past decade or so huh
mircea_popescu: "Brad Edwards is a professional blogger with work published on many different platforms. Writing on a wide range of topics, from digital marketing to new music to health and nutrition, Brad's interest in Bitcoin and monetary reform is part of what inspired the genesis of The CoinFront. W"
mircea_popescu: mixed batches same model is the way to go ya. and platter not ssd
mircea_popescu: that's a summary of 80% or so of what the power rangers have to say
mircea_popescu: "*shrug* Thanks for your opinion, but you don't know what you are talking about. Try designing a web wallet sometime. You need to keep what happened here in perspective. You are flying off the handle at me because someone spilled coffee on a raid "
mircea_popescu: he was being loled at by mpoe-pr and deprived FOR EXACTLY THE SAME REASONS 3 years ago
mircea_popescu: i guess usagi is the finest example that mere age in the space counts for nothing,