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mircea_popescu: well sure, i guess in the sense of, "good dentistry" is what happens at the dentist's office, and plain dentistry is what happens at the bare
mircea_popescu: now, lotteries fail on b. and if you're not aware of this, it fails on a.
mircea_popescu: BohemianHacks you can't, for the following reason : in order for something t obe an investment, it requires two things. a) that you've done research and b) that the research indicates +EV.
mircea_popescu: this poor word invest. it happens to be a term of art in finance, of course, but it's been (recently, since the internet) been coopted as a colloquialism
mircea_popescu: BohemianHacks so i'm very curious, how did you proceed to come to the idea that mpex and cryptostocks are in any sense tyhe same thing, or in any way comparable ?
mircea_popescu: good cause i think many people don't. to judge by the banks etc at least.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony but that is the github of someone named thus.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony nickserv is not authoritative. freenode gives away names and chans that were abandoined.
mircea_popescu: BohemianHacks: So you like mpex over cryptostocks? << lol ok this shit's epic.
mircea_popescu: BohemianHacks: Pretty much, I tend to switch distros and clean up my harddrive tons << either that, or tend to try and social engineer off old dormant cool sounding nicks.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: that's bizarre << now you understand romania.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: but lots of people are obviously still on slow connections, which drags the average down << nope. you can't currently get anything under 100mbps even if you want to pay specifically for it. it's just not economical to maintain the old stuff.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: that makes me a sad panda << you can take solace in the knowledge that the thing is complete bs.
mircea_popescu: see who gets the furthest. "bob is so much further ahead of me" finally means something, geographically. etc.
mircea_popescu: you could have a million acres dedicated to this, like a sort of modern silicon valley / smarts farm. each accepted person gets his own line.
mircea_popescu: there's probably a yurting period one could observe over the duration of his life, if he had the freedom do live in a manner adequate to his own manner.
mircea_popescu: keep doing this. at any point you want something from the oild yurts, just go drag it to the current one. (never ever move stuff back tho, only forward)
mircea_popescu: when full, build a new one a little off, carry whatever pieces of the old one you wish.
mircea_popescu: i suspect this would be the ideal living arrangement for the true hardware engineer : much like a silkworm's. built a yurt roughly 10 body lengths in diameter, fill it with material slower.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: decimation: no oven. space constraints. perhaps in new flat. << you know stan, i hear 500 bucks buys one quite a few acres of open land in patagonia. and since it never rains... don't even really need a roof.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: folks expecting to play 'doom' on cardano will be disappointed. << you know back i nthe day one way to make the old impossible amiga games playable was to downclock the damned things
mircea_popescu: decimation: sounds like bureau-speak for "we hire idiots and they produce nothing" << bounce disagrees, argue with him, i'd like to watch. ty both :)
mircea_popescu: "unrealized damages" that is to say 'my eyesight was worth 100B, but now i have no eyes, therefore pay me 100B'? << exactly.
mircea_popescu: (this is a joke. based on "urbi et orbi", literally "to the town and to the globe")
mircea_popescu: well it does salut in it, which is pretty universal. and orbiversal.
mircea_popescu: i doubt the web has reached that deep into the classical antiquity yet/
mircea_popescu: is this supposed to be some sort of dirty secret or something ?
mircea_popescu: "To be perfectly honest, those jobs are reserved for my children, but yours might still be able to find work as their personal bathroom assistants, if they are docile and pretty... let's pretend you didn't hear that."
mircea_popescu: why expose yourself so. i'd have never ok'd that stupid shit.
mircea_popescu: such a stupid name, too. where were all the branding experts ?
mircea_popescu: if the us were a program, it'd be discarded as unmaintainable.
mircea_popescu: which is why the entire mess is so difficult to fix : like one of those old products of mad artisanry, nothing works as intended, everything's tied up in unrelated parts.
mircea_popescu: amusingly, it has exactly zero to do with doctors, hospitals or budgets.
mircea_popescu: unless you can bring a bill of sale showing your eye is worth $100, you can't get $100 for your eye. and that's that.
mircea_popescu: romania does not admit tort proceedings for unrealised damages.
mircea_popescu: i actually talked it over with a couple of people over lunch. it's our considered opinion that the difference between the us and the ro health care systems can be distilled in one very simple point :
mircea_popescu: decimation yes. actual necessities. such as food, as opposed to fast food.
mircea_popescu: yeah i was thinking, they want aplenty, it's just they never actually confront it.
mircea_popescu: in short, things are going well, for any natural definition of "well".
mircea_popescu: humans are supposed to watch half their litter impaled before their very eyes, not to pester them to death with vaporub.
mircea_popescu: but hey. life's supposed to be interesting not satisfactory.
mircea_popescu: course, this may be a bitch for anyone trying to raise children or you know, live the life of X.
mircea_popescu: generally, devils are a lot more fun than the pompous idiots cutting them free.
mircea_popescu: i kinda appreciate the sentiment tbh. let the devil be free.
mircea_popescu: in general by examining the reality in the field, rather than whatever naive theories of the eager teenagers, one dicovers the opressed generally deserve it.
mircea_popescu: <decimation> as you have found, moldbug himself is extremely reluctant to take any action that might have second or third-order effects that displease USG <<< that sorta thing.
mircea_popescu: guy's simply managed to persuade me that he should indeed be lynched.
mircea_popescu: "I think that this agreement, were it feasible, would benefit all concerned."
mircea_popescu: ah, to be rich, and powerful, and say nigger faggot whenever one feels like.
mircea_popescu feels so nice and cozy in his nicely built brick housy. just like a piggy
mircea_popescu: he means, of course, "It’s not going to happen, and when it does, you people will have deserved it."
mircea_popescu: "It’s not going to happen, and when it does, you people will deserve it."
mircea_popescu: balanced ternary. because lezzies are 10x more likely to live threesomes than heterosexual scum
mircea_popescu: by the way, did you hear about the renaming of semesters at mit ?