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mircea_popescu: wao hey, can you send me a shipment of those copper rounds ?
mircea_popescu: kinda why the male gyns are better, too. they don't have one so it's scary on some level.
mircea_popescu: i know women who won't use a male gyn, to their detriment, as male gyns are usually better. but hey, her lyf, her call.
mircea_popescu: ends up generally misrepresented as "well the problem is he propositioned her". nonsense. the problem is he apparently has the discernment of a five year old.
mircea_popescu: a doctor shouldn't have to follow some ultimately absurd behaviour guidelines, because he's an adult, and a patient should not have to depend that the doctor does follow such, or that they're adequate, because he has no options.
mircea_popescu: you should be able to trust your doctor not to be unpleasant, of which you are the only judge. and if you don't like him go to another. which is why the free market is important.
mircea_popescu: curious if he'll go the "o mp is not an institutional investor, because breaking the back of everyone else does not qualify one" or "he said fucktard so i no longer have to listen nao lalalala"
mircea_popescu: tell him my concerns are that he's a fucktard, and ask him to please address them.
mircea_popescu: but you're always in a position of trust. this "position of trust" analysis is bollocks. at the very least you trust the random passerby not to mug you.
mircea_popescu: if a society isn't willing to put up with "inappropriate" propositioning, that society will have to put up with specially designated "proposition pens" where everyone's fcking awkward and the whole thing's unpleasant.
mircea_popescu: otherwise, i've hit on doctors/nurses/people in the street/whoever the fuck. what's the big deal.
mircea_popescu: it's just that he sucks, ie, the substance of that proposition.
mircea_popescu: moiety there's this confusion being peddled, in classic libertard manner, that it's the form rather than the substance. however, in my experience it's absolutely never THE FACT that he propositioned her that is the issue.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony yeah but she was paying so she doesn't have to.
mircea_popescu: it's a common mistake of the pompously clueless, and good sister of the entire "trolls are bad for society" mtyh
mircea_popescu: fluffypony early internet people held the idiotic belief that "meeting irl" is some sortt of gold standard.
mircea_popescu: moiety wait. stripper complained about customer asking for her by name ?!
mircea_popescu: anyway, the gpg wot is imo a broken beyond belief implementaiton
mircea_popescu: "A doctor charged with sexually assaulting a patient at Dapto Medical Centre has told a court he took the unusual step of stimulating the woman on his clinic couch after she clamped down on his finger with her private parts, aggravating an injury to his shoulder."
mircea_popescu: HeySteve lol that korea customs form rules. "please say if you have any magicks kthx"
mircea_popescu: so anyways i ask the guy what he doing in/with bitcoin and he says he "just left a start-up and wants to be a core dev" << so send him here.
mircea_popescu: and i would argue healthcare, tho not stellar, is better here than there.
mircea_popescu: somehow a country larger than the entire fucking cascadia can function on 1/10 to 1/100 of the us costs.
mircea_popescu: average doctor makes 20x minimum wage, 3x average wage.
mircea_popescu: typical office overhead for a doctor's office is in the 10 to 15k a year, all inclusive, typical doctor visit is $100 or less (depending, GP is like $10)
☟︎ mircea_popescu: anyway, they do the office practice here too. most romanians are insured by virtue of going to work, the cost is about $100 per month. most rich romanians don't bother with the state insurance and just pay out of pocket.
mircea_popescu: dude srsly ? 15 bux for a bottle of carbonated pisswater ?
mircea_popescu: Price. $3.00 for drink plus shipping. Shipping International: 1-2 = $23.95 - Small Flat Rate 4-8 = $77.95 - Large Flat Rate
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo old cranky doctors are some of my favourite party people.
mircea_popescu: "3. CEO at my hospital laid off 10% of the nurses last year and got a $7M bonus."
mircea_popescu: someone's in business with a partner known as... pissy ?!
mircea_popescu: "Office space alone can eat you alive. Between Pissy and I we have 2100 square feet. And we're paying $5100 a month for that. "
mircea_popescu: "this guy is giving me the timmy-jimmies", voted most likely to succeed coinage of 2014.
mircea_popescu: anyway, best make it a full year, so wait a few days to include apr too
mircea_popescu: HeySteve exactly. letting people know about how their lives depend on bitcoin-ability is a charitable deed.
mircea_popescu: like you know, there's this lion in an african village, and the local peasants are... not recognizing it.
mircea_popescu: HeySteve it... is. it has been, for a while. hence the serenissima.
mircea_popescu: HeySteve yes, there is such a science. what do you think we're doing here.
mircea_popescu: whereas everyone else reported by the 5th of next calendar month, so it always was later
mircea_popescu: this because for most of its life mpoe reported on a "last week of month" period, and reports came in within hours of exercise closure, so it almost always was within the month.
mircea_popescu: and had it been paid 3-06-2012 it'd still have been the may dividend
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell decimation you left out the best part : "Without a hierarchical structure it is not possible to transform freedom from a fable into a fact."
mircea_popescu: mod6: I just stopped my trades bot, so you can display yours. << hows that work ?
mircea_popescu: schizopathically & antisocially i seem to count myself as an institution.
mircea_popescu: well to the degree betting on any fiat stock being delisted is, i guess.
mircea_popescu: Instead, this week we found out the Most Transparent Administration in American History™ has implemented a new anti-press policy that would make Richard Nixon blush. National intelligence director James Clapper, the man caught lying to Congress from an "unauthorized" leak by Snowden, issued a directive to the employees of all 17 intelligence agencies barring all employees from any "unauthorized" contact with the pres
mircea_popescu: lmao no fucking way, that's the actual site of the moldavian bishopric