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mircea_popescu: but i mean... a collection of trivialities is not an encyclopedia
mircea_popescu: notrly, but they prolly don't know what words mean so ok
mircea_popescu: 97 (ninety-seven) is the natural number following 96 and preceding 98.
mircea_popescu: ~This article does not cite any references or sources.~
mircea_popescu: wikipedia has a page dedicated to the number 97 ? bouvard & pecuchet live!
mircea_popescu: at any rate, i tell you, this is why i'm in bitcoin. like once or even twice a month i have this "omfg i can not believe what i'm arguing" moment.
mircea_popescu: i will end up kidnapped by senior finance types and fucking burned at the stake for my numerous heresies.
mircea_popescu: so i've been having this weeklong discussion with this polish economist guy. the results are the most fucking improbable shit. for instance... i just comitted to the proposition that there's no such thing as "fixed income" and the whole class is nonsense.
mircea_popescu: ::rate fluffypony -1 has no inkling of a clue as to what time management is
mircea_popescu: wait, you are actually in the active miner thread arguing with people ?
mircea_popescu: don't take it so hard : maybe anyone whose head works must be me.
mircea_popescu: <fluffypony> I got accused of being MP *again* << and what's your point ?
mircea_popescu: you could like, take their money anbd then provide help in the ipo threa
mircea_popescu: * jurov starts IPO for dotcoin psychiatric examination << this
mircea_popescu: mike_c didja identify the event that lead to that 30% drop btw ?
mircea_popescu: did they have a battery explode and burn a bunch of 5 yo blonde white girls ? or what ?
mircea_popescu: i should bash the very valid gribble observation. "first" is indeed not a valid integer.
mircea_popescu: god help you if you live in a soviet revolutionary state and dare piss on the politburo's most recent taxidermy exhibit.
mircea_popescu: TomServo i don't have that many ideas, i just reuse a few.
mircea_popescu: also in many non-english places. i used to read la nacion in cr.
mircea_popescu: generally anything with a lot of marketing and advertising presence. retail stuff and so on.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform only select trades tho. as he said, it trade mags are a joke
mircea_popescu: pankkake divers industry publications are still run as if it were 1970
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not as much as used to be the case, the craft is slowly dieing.
mircea_popescu: except... joe blow politician prolly can't get in there anyway
mircea_popescu: pankkake old style, affluent, powerful people read newspapers. like moi.
mircea_popescu: benkay television is not bad a venue for a) detergent b) politics.
mircea_popescu: the flock goes the way the shepherd wants, not the way the sheeps bray.